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> So you don't think that we can capture all of what you said in laws that protect the consumer?

I'm not saying it's impossible to picture a society where this happens, but it's not very reachable from where we are now. We're struggling to get down basics like repairing your own devices. Nor is it a particularly desirable society compared to a society where everyone owns and controls all their own stuff.

> how is using a service different than paying someone to do a job for you

I'm not sure what this question has to do with what I wrote. I don't want either one. I want to pay once for a quality washing machine that I can repair, use when, where, and how I want to. For another example, I want a bicycle that fits my exact size, style, speed, and safety preferences, that I can pay for once and keep repaired and in good condition and resell later on, rather than throwing money at some company year after year to ride awful one-size-fits-none rent-a-bikes. Those bikes are useful for many scenarios but a bad replacement for long-term ownership.

(edit) For example in the washing machine scenario, the service I employ to launder clothes can easily decide to hike their rates for all clothes not purchased from Banana Republic, or they can sell data about my clothes preferences to advertisers, or they can make me sign terms of service that give bad compensation for damaged clothes or delayed washing. Their incentives are often misaligned from mine; they aren't usually acting in my best interests. I guess you'll say "but competition will magically fix that", however, if we look at the real world, most markets don't have enough competition for that to be true.

> If that's causing problems with exploitation, isn't that a fundamental flaw in our economy, rather than with the idea of preferring services over products?

I don't understand what you're saying here. It sounds akin to arguments that roads should all be privatized, where the fact that nobody would build roads to rural homes gets written off as some problem with the economy rather than a flaw in the idea itself. Or similarly, sounds like you're advocating a system that you know clearly wouldn't work because you are able to picture some idealized version of society where it might.
I wrote a simple lambda function that takes in a payload and a step function arn. It then fires up a bunch of step function jobs and maps the execution identifier to the input and stores that in s3 for later access. This ends up being really nice for creating distributed cron like jobs by just connecting the lambda to cloudwatch events.
> we'll hit an equilibrium of fewer units at a higher price, with both less developer profits and less consumer surplus.

No we won't, because the limit of zoning and land doesn't allow us to get anywhere near that equilibrium. Your statement would only be correct in a world with infinite land in the Bay Area. But the equilibrium for "fewer" units in San Francisco might be (for example) 50,000 new housing units per year, but you're lucky to get permits and land for couple thousand.

> Things aren't built to the maximum of the zones - they're built to what's affordable by developers attempting to get permission to build.

This is missing the point. 100% of the land that can pass the community review process is profitable to build on. Even with "affordable housing" requirements. Even with reduced developer profits. If you can build on it, you're gonna make money. Therefore, the limiting factor is land; the effect of affordable housing requirements is to lower the windfall profits of any developer lucky enough to get by community review.

> It doesn't matter whether housing is affordable at market rates because we build things that are affordable, or through building so much luxury houses that there's so little demand for existing buildings that they now become affordable.

Right, everyone who understands math understands this. The issue is that if you don't have land you can build on, you can't build. And if you do have land you can build on, you're gonna make money. Affordable housing requirements do not decrease the amount of net construction, they just move windfall profits from the developer to a few lucky random people.
Take Finland, a country has free education. Entering a university from the total beginning in Finland requires taking a highly competitive entrance exam, and the exam is in Finnish. How many 18-year-old Americans do you think can manage that?
Relative to the value we add? Absolutely. The under-compensation is even worse elsewhere.
> nano is a terrible editor.

I came across LE[0] the other day. Played around with it a bit - not bad[1]. It could end up being my replacement "simple" editor. Lots of nice additional features too (binary, hex, line drawings, colors, etc).

Project seems dead since 2014 (based on Wikipedia) but there's a github page[2] setup for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LE_(text_editor)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOGPQY9LGKc

[2] https://github.com/lavv17/le
Link to the actual essay: http://narrative.ly/the-secret-life-of-a-crime-scene-cleaner...

The Guardian link is an interview with the author of the essay who talks about a cleaner that the author shadowed for a few years.
Sounds like a fascinating product, but customers are usually more impressed with what you are going to do for them as opposed to who funded you.
We banned it as well. The character is unrelentingly whiny, and my kids (two years old, at the time) started picking up the mannerisms very, very quickly.

For a while, Google's canonical answer to "Why is Caillou bald?" was "Caillou can't grow hair, not because he has cancer or progeria, but because he sucks, and even his own body recognizes that he does not deserve hair or food or love." https://www.sbnation.com/2014/3/26/5549908/arian-foster-cail...
The poorest quintile suffered disproportionately, particularly minority workers.
There are essentially no development projects in SF that don’t involve demolishing existing housing. While I grant you that some such projects have (ridiculous) community resistance, these still aren’t the norm.

In most places in SF, the resistance comes when housing is being replaced and/or the developer doesn’t want to build low-income units (instead preferring to donate to the low-income housing fund). It’s not a clean story.
This is the continuation of a back and forth between the city montainview and Google that goes back to 2015. The intial request was denied by city officials.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/05/07/why_mount...
Yes! This was an extremely enlightening listen.
WinForms will never die.
No, the bit that is different about Fanout is that the HTTP servers don’t need to necessarily know about the fact they’re coming from a persistent connection. The backend servers remain as stateless HTTP servers.
I'd also be interested
A lot of parents noticed children imitating poor behaviour. Banning Caillou is pretty common.
Those units would earn for more on the open market than they will at the regulated rate. The difference is the subsidy.

I really dislike the "affordable housing" model. The right solution for supply constraints in any market is to increase supply!
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Concerning the data duplication issue: look here http://steamtraen.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/some-instances-of-a... (section E). You have two completely different studies with almost identical tables of results.

If this is what it looks like, that ought to be a career-ending problem. It is very hard to imagine an accidental explanation, particularly since the lead author stated, in a post that he later deleted but which is archived here http://web.archive.org/web/20170316133823/http://foodpsychol..., that "a master’s thesis was intentionally expanded upon through a second study which offered more data that affirmed its findings with the same language, more participants and the same results". The same results. To two significant figures. In 17 out of 18 cases. Sure.

And if you still want to separate out data duplication as being in some way a less serious problem: as a minimum, it means one of those two studies is very likely completely wrong.

Concerning "they don't sound like groundbreaking science that's likely to lead to policy changes anywhere": I agree that this work mostly sounds like fluffy BS that you might expect to see in a science fair project. But on the back of his reputation acquired precisely through these studies, the principal author became the leading authority on food policy (especially for school-age children) in the United States.
Edge server is C/C++ (based on Mongrel2, libcurl, and Qt), most everything else is Python. API is Django. We use ZeroMQ for internal messaging between processes/servers.
There’s an Entirely New Way of Mapping the World
50 Billys. Why, where do you keep the rest of your books?
> What specific skills will a degreed applicant have that a high school grad won't?

For one thing, the "skill" of (probably) not being from that stratum of society that doesn't get their kids through university. Asking for degrees is a subtle way to perpetrate socio-economic discrimination. (In some cases, it has to be a degree from the right set of schools, not just anywhere.) It's so easy! You don't have to look at race, or what neighborhood someone grew up in. Just this: do they have a degree or not. Saves time and protects from litigation: it's brilliant!

Getting a degree demonstrates some measure of discipline and work, and the delaying of gratification for the sake of a longer term goal that is several years away, while completing various tasks, jumping through hoops and so on. It's like a job. You have to attend to certain things on time, like showing up for exams, and meet deadlines (term papers, etc).

If you have a degree, you probably pulled an "all nighter" or two to submit something on time or prepare for an exam, and that's just the sort of dedication that employers crave.
A puff piece but better than average.
This is not unavoidable, but a specific aspect of America's incarnation of the adversarial system. In plenty of other jurisdictions, prosecutors have a more neutral, quasi-judicial role, where – especially during the investigative phase of a case – they are required to act more like French examining magistrates. In some jurisdictions, prosecutors can even have an affirmative duty to act on the behalf of the defendant if they believe that the defendant is not receiving a fair trial.

There are also pragmatic issues; prosecutorial accountability matters even in adversarial systems (accountability not in the sense of dealing with prosecutorial misconduct, but to ensure that prosecutors act consistently and in the public interest). Prosecutors aren't or shouldn't be free agents.
Historically Korea had been a loyal vassal state of China for thousands of year. China had defended Korea against various barbarians from Mongolia plateau, Japan(multiple times) and America more recently.

The reason NK still exists is not USA's mercy or NK's nuke, it's because it's neighboring with China & Russia. Same thing applies to Vietnam.
It's 10MB uncompressed so at that point I'd hope Emacs would have finally become a "reliably available option" first (13MB on my system).

EDIT: why the downvote? Not trolling, just genuinely sad that with today's hard drive sizes it's not a given that Emacs is available virtually everywhere, like vi or nano are.
The first step to anonymity is learning how to spell it. Typos are inherently conspicuous.
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Tho, pointing out how they both are running rampant, ain't that disingenuous, it's merely stating the obvious.

Pretty much the whole world economy is built on debt and creating more of it, that's because there is no such thing as "money" without debt, especially not with the US$ as the de-facto world currency.

In that regard, it's disingenuous to claim the whole problem only boils down to a couple of kids living above their standards, it's way more systemic than that.
Start with $1000 for a couch, $500 for a mattress. You're already halfway there.
Interesting, I only knew about the "Theoretical Minimum" books, didn't know there was a website and a course behind them.
When a store offers the option of entering a phone number instead of using a physical "loyalty card", I've found that XXX-867-5309 nearly always works, where XXX is your local area code (for me, it's 206).
The language Apple uses indicates that your personal data that apple recieves is at least at some point in clear unencrypted form, and that they then choose to encrypt it for cloud storage. The language indicates they could decrypt it if they choose. All of their statements during the San Berdeno Apple vs Gov debate a year ago clarified they had complete access to all cloud based content. There are examples of cloud like services that are able to provide online syncronization and sharing services without being able to access your data, and the language they use is very different. Examples

https://send.firefox.com/

https://spideroak.com/

https://protonmail.com/
I'm sorry, I meant in absolute dollar terms (which is why I put 'suffered' in quotes for the rich). That's not meant to minimize the fact that the poorest had the most actual suffering. (and, likely, on average, the greatest % decrease in earned income due to unemployment).
I've been waiting for this service my whole life! What a great idea.
Dont know that particular one, but Janusz A. Zajdel (one of the best Polish sf writers, up there with Lem of Solaris fame) wrote a short story about total planned obsolescence society "...et in pulverem reverteri" (published in https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7539053-ogon-diab-a )

You can read it thru google translate if you are brave enough :) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&u=http://...

TLDR: Someone invents a catalyst able to revert any product back to dust after precisely set lifetime, every country adopts it to ensure steady employment across whole planet. Pants? 3 monts, wrist watch? 1 year, car? 2 years, etc. Can you guess what could and did go wrong? ;)
There will probably be more bad news from China this year. It seems very risky to do what they are doing.
On the other hand, the newt (Senior, anyway) was running Dylan on bare metal; you don't need to have fancy-pants LISP-accelerating hardware to do that. You just need to have the intestinal fortitude to write an OS and runtime in something not C :-)
I've been thinking recently that there is exists a completely unxplored market in tech. Local shops based around FOSS / open hardware where designers, hardware and software people work together to build custom projects for their clients. I would call this person a "technology artisan", because the closest analogue I can think of is a tailor or a carpinter.

So, for example, a family would go to their local technology artisan to put together a smart home system tailored specifically to their needs. Or perhaps a local band would commision some custom-made Raspberry Pi-based synthesizer with fancy lights for a show (https://youtu.be/_nBK8sAl9nw)

To the consumer, it would mean not only devices tailored to their needs, but also ones that are cheap and simple to get repaired and extended, because they would be based on open standards. No lock-ins, no secret surveilance.

What makes me think this is possible is how big the hobby space is around all these hackable technologies (raspberry pi / arduino, 3D printing, electronics)... people are already building home media centres and farm bots in their back yard just for fun. Hacker spaces are already a thing -- make them a service!
Not “subsidized”...affordable.

A landlord has 3 older units that rent for $x. She wishes to redevelop the property to create 6 new units that rent for $3x. Net result is that 3 units have been created, but 3 people have been displaced. Likely permanently.

This is the heart of the redevelopment debate in SF.
I've definitely heard that productivity isn't great, it's been growing very slowly for quite some time:

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/02/531173429/understanding-the-pr...

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/below-trend-the-us-pro...
I can recommend my HP Elite X2 1012 G1. Clunky name but user-replaceable SSD, battery, and screen, along with no moving parts, makes me a happy camper. They have a newer faster version now too.
Didn't know this, and I have one of these. They're expensive but worth it, and even more so know that I know this!
The Bay Area's housing problems arise largely from fragmentation and NIMBY-ism. The sum of the rationally self-interested being made in all of these tiny, fragmented municipality equals a giant mess that's getting worse every year and that's starting to seriously impair economic growth.

The entire Bay Area needs to be incorporated as one giant city all the way from the Presidio down to San Jose. It's already one giant city: we might we well recognize the fact. We'll reuse the name "San Francisco" for convenience.

Having had SF annex all its suburbs (like growing cities used to do back when we remembered what good government looked like), residents can switch the city to at-large representation and finally start planning the region's growth in a way that makes sense.
from their language and they said that they could give FBI access to all cloud content during FBI vs Apple San Berdino Terrorist debate. This implies they have root keys to decrypt and view any service that transverses their servers, exceppt for iMessage which is the only service they have explicetly said they cannot decrypt (due to end-to-end encryption)
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=social%20immigrants&sort=byDat...
The FDA approves a blood sugar monitor that doesn't require a finger prick
I cannot imagine a headline that would make me more interested in investing with Vanguard.
Attribution is critical. A salesperson who lands a big deal can claim it's their exclusive work. An engineer who is one of a dozen people working on a feature that customers like does not have a similarly clear number they can point to as value added.
You can just use your distribution's package manager for that.
I suppose I can understand this reasoning a bit, but it seems a little counter intuitive to me. There is literally no alternative. And without efforts like this it's unlikely there would ever be something that is RYF compliant. Accomplishing something like RYF certification requires work, money, and someone willing to try to accomplish it. There is someone that is willing to invest work to at least attempt to accomplish it, but they need money. Why not support them in their quest for this?
“Almost all new housing is built on warehouses, parking lots, gas stations, and so on.”

That may have been true, but the city’s own analysis shows it isn’t true anymore, and it certainly won’t be true by the time we’ve built enough to lower market rents (yet another reason why this “simulation” is nonsense).

San Francisco simply doesn’t have that many vacant parcels of land.
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> I have zero sympathy for junior who goes to some 150,000 a year liberal arts college and gets a degree that makes no money or requires another 2-4 years of school.

An 18 year old assured by their parents this is the "right" move deserves sympathy when it all blows up in their face 150k down the road.

My Mother told me she would throw me out of the house if I took a job rather than going to graduate school. She also said all the loans I took out for undergrad that she claimed she'd pay she'd stop paying if I got a job rather than going to grad school.

The reality is some parents are so damn convinced that education is the magical key to a good life they'll go to some pretty intense lengths to get you to sign on the dotted line.
> Sorting can be handled by putting the exponent before the mantissa.

Don't denormal numbers prevent simply sorting this way? I could use a diagram like the OP's to remind myself how they work...
What are the advantages/inconveniences compared to a standard topological sort algorithm ?
0.005% lower expense ratios is what shifted my stuff from Fidelity to vanguard. Idk how much exposure they're putting into crypto currency based on this.
When humans observe Event A precede Event B in the same orbit, we have an unshakable proclivity to believe A somehow must have led to B.

Turns out sometimes we're not even wrong.
I think you are confusing two different problems with repair (the article does not do a great job distinguishing them).

1) Difficulty to repair because of physical design, e.g. goods that are physically challenging to open and modify or require specialized tools. This is often a reasonable side-effect of making devices as small or light as possible. I.e. making it physically difficult to repair.

2) Erecting legal barriers to repair by asserting that people may not legally attempt to repair or modify things they "own", using DMCA or copyright laws. I.e., making it illegal even to try.

As far as I know, the right to repair movement is centered around #2 and does not address #1. If it does address #1, I would guess it's only for cases where a company purposely makes something physically more difficult to repair for a reason unrelated to functionality, e.g. invents a new fastener with no functional advantage over a screw but that requires a multi-thousand dollar device to open.

But again, right-to-repair is almost exclusively about #2 as far as I know.

(edit) actually, a lot of people in the thread are making the same conflation.
My sister did this. Not cheaper. Or at least St. Andrews wasn't :)
As a kid I also really loved Theodore the Tugboat. Similar kind of show, but with boats.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Tugboat
Yeah, I don't think the reporter needed to read some random Reddit thread to figure out that Thomas has some issues.
Pitmaster BBQ dashboard monitors your meat and veggies
We just need price controls. School expenses are insanely out of control. Handing them a blank check is folly.
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