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> I don't think capitalism has a good answer to this problem.

Let me put on my capitalist apologist hat.

It used to be the case that people bought light bulbs regularly. When I grew up, my parents had a cache of incandescent light bulbs - then they started buying fluorescent lights and we replaced bulbs much less often. Now, they're starting to buy LED lights and I don' think an LED has ever 'burned out' on them.

The revenues are down, but as people shift from buying disposable light bulbs to durable light bulbs, they're willing to pay more for better bulbs.

So now manufacturers are competing on building better bulbs / bulbs that are more valuable. It's a really good thing for the world, we're using fewer resources and making a better product.

I don't know much about guitars but I'd bet it's better to make high quality guitars than low quality guitars right now. And you're absolutely right that we're getting closer to the 'right amount' of guitars in the world. At some point, we'll really only need to build guitars to replace ones that we lose.

The capitalist answer to businesses who count on infinite growth is "market correction". Either guitar makers will find a way to stay in business or they'll go bankrupt and free up resources for better use.
Well, not being familiar with /r/atheism, I wasn't sure if you actually meant what you said and we're drawing an invalid conclusion based on the popular portrayal of libertarians (at least in the US) as anti-bear, or if you meant specifically right-libertarians.

Had I been familiar with /r/atheism, I might have been able to guess which of those was correct.
Is this easier for someone who was a "domain expert" in an obsolete domain than for a programming generalist? i.e. could a programming generalist also "own" a domain in a couple years?
> patents and them being based in the US

If I'm not mistaken, those patents are dead now. Even Fedora has the freeworld stuff now.

> Another issue are fonts themselves. If you have a document that uses Arial or Cambria or another proprietary font, and you don't have it installed, you are going to get something substituted, which may or may be not metrics-compatible. Do not expect pixel-identical results then.

Yeah, though the Chrome OS core fonts are good metric-compatible substitutes for Arial and friends (though lacking the stylistic variety of the core Windows fonts).
Music tastes run in cycles. If vinyl can make a comeback so might guitars.

That said, anecdotally, kids today don't do adversity; they want instant gratification. Learning to play guitar takes time, lots of it. In the current climate a comeback seems pretty unlikely.
This sounds very similar to the criteria used by the Go team as to whether to add compiler optimizations or not, namely the optimization should speed up the compiler by at least an amount that the extra computation of the optimization takes.

I don't think the go team worry about the size of the object as much though.
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And good naming is useful to others. So I think we shouldn't discourage useful debates on how article titles could be improved. That helps us improve our naming skills.
Hey, I also have one of my guitars tuned in fifth ~like a cello From low to high CGDAAe, with custom gauge strings to match the neck tension. One A is wound, the other is full...

How did you tune yours exactly?
People dislike "liberty for me but not for thee" hypocrites, especially those with the means and willpower to act on that impulse.

It's not complicated!
Maybe somebody is already using deep learning to train DNA with faces. Not sure how the architecture would look like but I think some form of unsupervised learning to find features mixed with GAN.
Bingo! I'd say it's similar to the craft beer movement.
But why are the aspect ratios based on popular smartphone screens? Notice how on the website, you select a smartphone model, and then the button on the right shows CSS code for creating an aspect ratio that matches that smartphone’s screen. What’s the use case of having an element whose aspect ratio mimics that of popular smartphone screens?
For future reference, when people say "libertarian" without further clarification, at least in American politics, they almost always mean right-libertarian.
> One would think a private system would be more efficient ... but it's probably just as bad in the US.

The US health care system is not a "private system". It's a mishmash of private and public which combines the worst features of both. The reason we have it in the US is that during WW II, the government controlled wages, so businesses trying to compete for employees had to offer something else as an incentive, and they mainly picked health care benefits. Then, when the war was over and the government stopped controlling wages, instead of going back to competing on wages and dropping employer-provided health benefits, the system of employer-provided health benefits kept on growing. Which now meant it had to be regulated by the government, and so on, and so on...
If I understand this right, they can guarantee fresh point reads. But an actual query needs a consistent snapshot of all entities (rows) under consideration for the query. ... for all of the "hundreds of queries a mature application might execute to fulfill a single request". You need a snapshot of the entire database (like git)

FTA "When mutating a resource in the system we’ll store the last committed log-sequence-number for the entity making the request"

This is what Datomic does by design, if you need infinity read scaling and perfect consistency just use that, and you get a host of other benefits (the replica is inside your application process, like a data structure, which has profound architectural consequences, for example you can query in a loop so N+1 problem is solved).
Oddly, there are some amazing young guitarists... though obviously, anyone who is already great has likely been at it for 10+ years, so there may be a significant shortage 10 years from now.
Yeah, I always associated your generation's music with hard work and discipline. Jimmy Hendrix and The Who and the like.
Well, OK, so this is one of those things that confuses me as a non-accountant. The problem is that you're conflating two things: Debt (as in the amount of money you have to repay) vs something like "value". Why call them the same thing?

> If we only account for the debt only, we are at some level asserting that opening the sauna in the desert was a better bet because the rent is lower

No no no. This is when you misread "debt" as "value". We're just saying that the desert situation is less debt. The ski resort situation is more debt. You can be in more debt but overall have a more profitable enterprise, right?

> If the business owner puts the upcoming lease payments on their books as a liability, then to keep the picture clear they should also be adding a productive asset to the books that represents their valuable location.

This again confuses me - the debt is a sure thing. You signed a contract, meaning you have to pay up no matter what. The productive asset is not a sure thing - there's a million ways you could mess up and make less money than you intended. So it is absolutely fair to say that the desert business is low-risk (you're going to lose $0 in the worst case), and the ski resort business is high-risk (you're going to lose a lot more in the worst case).

If guessing the future value of productive assets was simple, then investors of all kinds would have a super easy job. So how could we possibly put the productive asset in the books with a straight face? Isn't that borderline fraud? I can make my projections as optimistic or pessimistic as is advantageous to me. Who's to say?
I'm curious if showing a video to an unrelated pod of Orcas would be enough to teach them the skill.
> I own a few high-quality guitars. They have served me well for many a decade, and they are still in perfect condition. Why buy any more guitars?

This is the exact same question my wife asks. About bicycles, too.
Bullshit. They're already "activated" if they can hear the key phrase in the first place.

In only the absolute best case, the always-on microphone is backed by a local-only module that picks up the keyphrase, and sends only subsequent communications to the cloud.
True not just for software, but tbh any field.
Because "nobody plays them anymore", the inheritors of dad's property will just put the guitar collection on ebay or donate them.

You already have this in instrument markets for traditional music. Trad musicians are minorities in the general culture, but their market demand for once-mainstream mass produced instruments of yesteryear can still support prices. (Paolo Soprani B,C button accordion, anyone?) Sure, you still have the occasional find, where someone sells something for 1/10th the price they could have gotten out of ignorance.

I wonder if everyone is going to be satisfied with making music on a laptop? I also wonder if playing a guitar is ever going to stop getting people laid? If you have both of these conditions, then guitars might go the way of the Flageolett. Historically, "outdated" instruments flooding markets at bargain prices have tended to give rise to new musical opportunities in underprivileged communities. Occasionally, they give rise to new genres.
That is one of the examples why Richard Stallman was right and free software is the way to go.
Eh, get off my lawn with your generalizations about "kids today" =/

Maybe at least provide one of your anecdotes?
It may have been the case in the past but now, I would say the more senior you get as a Developer, the more valuable you are and more salary you will draw.

just do yourself and keep upgrading your skills and keep curious!
Brings to mind the quote "Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."

This was a music exec telling The Beatles' manager why he wouldn't sign them.
Exactly... I think my generation specifically (Gen Y) is 1) starting to come into having disposable income (hitting our 30's mostly), 2) skeptical of traditional marketing, big corporations (to some extent), etc, 3) learning to value craftsmen/women and quality goods over brand names.

It's an interesting shift to watch.
Sorry, but this is bullshit. You're only cheating the system if you don't pay what the law says you own. If you find a loophole, you will pay less, fine (and congrats) -- there are plenty. Now fix it so the next guy can't use it. Blame the politicians for making low quality laws. Seriously, the legislative work of so many politicians is shoddy at best, it is ridiculous.

Tax avoidance requires nothing more than creative thinking and an understanding of the law. Any decent engineer here on HN could easily understand and find ways to avoid the law legally, and pay less taxes (for themselves or for clients), if that is what what they want to do with their lives. Tax law is surprisingly similar to software engineering.

It might make me an asshole, but I would happily move to a low tax country and not pay any tax when I have the opportunity to book a massive gain. Hello Monaco? And that is how many people feel, because once you're past a certain point, you just don't get sufficient value back from the system.

As an example: if I make €1m, I would happily give back 100-200k to society. What I am unwilling to do however, is part with €400 or 500k. So one will try to find a way to bring down that tax bill. Life would be much better if all taxes would be reasonable -- as someone with wealthy friends, tax avoidance is a waste of effort and time, but necessary.

You act as if it's a divine right to be able to live in country X. It's not. Wealthy people will frequently and happily move if it makes sense to do so. And many developed countries will give them tax incentives to move! Find other ways to incentivize them to stay in a specific country. Taxes aren't everything, but push someone past a certain point, and they will look for alternatives.
Very interesting. I glanced at the code to see if there were obvious performance issues. All I noticed was a triple `map` invocation in https://github.com/YosaiProject/yosai_libauthz/blob/master/s...

Not sure what the compiler does with that, but I'd expect that it means you're running through those elements three times. I imagine it would be better to reduce this to one `map` call.
> Bitcoin has also not reached the critical mass to be considered a viable currency to invest in, UBS’s Mark Haefele said in an interview. The total sum of all cryptocurrencies is “not even the size of some of the smaller currencies" that UBS would allocate to, he said.

> “All it would take would be one terrorist incident in the U.S. funded by bitcoin for the U.S. regulator to much more seriously step in and take action, he said. “That’s a risk, an unquantifiable risk, bitcoin has that another currency doesn’t."

These two taken together seem to paint two very different pictures for bitcoin.

1) Bitcoin makes it past the point where a couple singular bad acts pushes governments to crush it. Bitcoin sheds almost all of the value that was there as speculation. Value potentially crashes all the way down to ~1USD, prices before mtgox trading really started. Bitcoin continues to run, more and more over encrypted channels or TOR. Mining is prosecuted and only done in some states, or clandestinely (see mining in Venezuela). Bitcoin continues to be used on the dark markets of the internet.

2) Bitcoin is adopted by wallstreet, action against bitcoin is prevented and tempered by lobbyists with deep pockets. Price increases dramatically.

Either future is amazing to me. Either gritty cyberpunk or vanilla sci-fi. Glad to see this happen in my lifetime.
I've only skimmed it so far, so I might be missing parts.

I think it depends a lot on what you're trying to achieve. In a lot of cases all the guarantee you need is read-your-own-write, and small delays for an individual connection aren't that bad. In that case it can be a reasonable approach to inquire the LSN of the commit you just made, and just have your reads, to whichever replica they go, wait for that LSN to be applied.

For a system that's very latency sensitive that'd not work, and you'd fall back to querying the master pretty much immediately. Or you'd use something like described in the article, although I'd probably implement it somewhat differently.
I am also interested in the answer to this question.
Personally, i am working on building a cryptocurrency trading platform, because the API's are easily accessible - but the markets entirely different in behavior. Still, rolling my own implementations of technical indicators has been pretty insightful, and backtesting has shown whats worked and what hasn't in given market conditions.

but i realize you're probably talking about more traditional markets like FOREX
Be careful:

> After comparing genetic information swabbed from the noses of smokers, vapers, and non-users of both, researchers found that smoking suppresses the activity of 53 genes involved in the immune system. Vaping also suppressed those 53 immune genes—along with 305 others.

and:

> This flavor has been found in some e-cig flavorings, but it's known to cause bronchiolitis obliterans, a severe disease caused by scar tissue and inflammation built up deep in the lungs. The link was discovered years ago in food manufacturing, particularly microwave popcorn factory employees who developed “popcorn worker’s lung.”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/e-cigs-shut-down-hun...
The carbonized examples are clearly fully sectioned instead of just being slashed.
Took me a bit to figure out you weren't talking about a guy with dozens of network devices.
That said, anecdotally, kids today don't do adversity; they want instant gratification

My experience:

In the 1990's, a kid given the video game "weapons station of a starship" probably starts pressing controls and blowing stuff up.

In 2014, a kid presented with the video game "weapons station of a starship" freezes and meekly waits for instruction from an adult.
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Link? [1] gives me no results for that price range and search keywords.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?minPrice=300&maxPrice=4...
Every ecosystem consisting of groups of people ends up in that mess. Even consensus-driven systems end up that way. As long as you're free to make your own ecosystem, is it really a problem?
Guitars (or any musical instrument) are essentially REPLs and therefore do provide instant feedback and often gratification.

Learning to do anything well takes a lot of time, so that statement is true == true. Learning to have fun with something often happens (and in the case of a guitar) quickly.

Lowering the barrier to accessing guitars, mixers, computers and software to get a recording up is the real challenge, because that takes cash.
No, they needed to do some modifications to the git suite of tools. Generally git expects all objects to be on disk and Microsoft wanted to have sparse checkouts of files in a specific revision.

Not really polluting but rather having some objects be fetched only on demand.

Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...

> In addition to the GVFS sources, we’ve also made some changes to Git to allow it to work well on a GVFS-backed repo, and those sources are available at https://github.com/Microsoft/git.

For the record as far as I understand GVFS the article is correctly using git vs Github.
It seems like the person was suggesting if all processes on your PC used a client/server model with message passing/RPC instead of the existing API model, the idle cores you speak about, would not be idle.

While you're right that productivity versus performance is a trade-off, and an editor is not necessarily a high performance application, its not clear to me whether future optimizations would reduce the gap, as much as optimizing compilers did vis-a-vis C and assembly.

In any case, that aside, the core guarantee of software stability with LSP remains to be seen.
Ever hear about the Eden pod? Notable because they recruited HUMANS to do the big prey killing for them.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_Austral...
It's interesting what words are not in the article. Words like heir, inheritance, profit, interest, rentier. The word rent is there, but assumed as a tenant, not landlord.

I assume the Forbes 400 richest are in the 1%. How did the Koch brothers get their $100 billion? Where did the Waltons get their $140 billion? Where did the Mars family get their $75 billion? The article makes it sound like these people became rich when they decided whether or not to go to law school.

It's important to note how in the US how FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) and health care affect the economy. But a lot of what puts people at the top is at which hospital they took their first breath.
Many people hated Thiel before Trump and the Gawker lawsuit. I strongly disliked him fifteen years before that. Since no one else has mentioned it, maybe we should talk about Palantir which is one of his most high profile companies. He co-founded it and is/was the largest shareholder so the ethics of that one fall squarely on him.

Its part of why he wants to be so friendly with Trump. Many more billion$$$$ of lucrative no-bid government contracts for Palantir and Thiel personally.

Here is an article from The Intercept that adds more detail: https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palanti...

Its titled "HOW PETER THIEL’S PALANTIR HELPED THE NSA SPY ON THE WHOLE WORLD". One excerpt:

In the demo, Palantir engineers showed how their software could be used to identify Wikipedia users who belonged to a fictional radical religious sect and graph their social relationships. In Palantir’s pitch, its approach to the VAST Challenge involved using software to enable “many analysts working together [to] truly leverage their collective mind.” The fake scenario’s target, a cartoonishly sinister religious sect called “the Paraiso Movement,” was suspected of a terrorist bombing, but the unmentioned and obvious subtext of the experiment was the fact that such techniques could be applied to de-anonymize and track members of any political or ideological group. Among a litany of other conclusions, Palantir determined the group was prone to violence because its “Manifesto’s intellectual influences include ‘Pancho Villa, Che Guevara, Leon Trotsky, [and] Cuban revolutionary Jose Martí,’ a list of military commanders and revolutionaries with a history of violent actions.”
If they retooled to maximize profitability now they would not be worth the multiple they are.
"Check email" is comfortably accomplished with dial up connection speeds.

Streaming video not so much, but there's always satellite service for that kind of thing.

Not to say that rural areas don't have a problem with good internet access, but they don't have good access to a lot of other services either. That's why they are called "rural"
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If we're dealing in stereotypes, guitar playing as an indicator of work ethic seems like an odd choice.
This seems to be a recurring problem in the IoT industry.

I've had dozens of lightbulbs affected by TCP Lighting and Homebrite choosing not to support them anymore. They can't be accessed from the internet anymore and their schedule can't be changed.

The worst, though, is TCP. Someone reverse engineered the API to the home hub, and shortly after TCP pushed a software update to everyone's hub encrypting the software. Then they terminated the service. So, they bricked the device in slow motion.

This is why when I buy new bulbs, I'm only going with HomeKit stuff. Apple's not going anywhere. And while it likes you to have the latest, greatest stuff it at least provides updates for its iOS devices for five years. Hopefully that's an indication of the longevity of HomeKit connectivity.
Serious question, if everyone was colourblind, what disadvantages would there be?
Pardon the editorial (I realize it's not very HN) but this type of fear mongering fluff does the public more harm than good.

The point being epigenetic is real. It does the general public more harm than good to perpetuate the myth that they (via lifestyle, diet, etc.) have no say in their genetic destiny.

No doubt sometimes some of these genes really matter. But often they are dormant notes of what might be if you don't take care of yourself.

p.s. I just finished reading "Grain Brain." Regardless of what you think about gluten, he makes very strong case for: where you take your body, your brain is going to follow. He mentions Alzheimer's often.
I just realized I have no idea if Dropbox uses UDP behind the scenes. And I love it.

From a larger "tragedy of the commons" point of view, using UDP to force maximum packets down the shared pipes is not fair towards everyone doing TCP. Congestion detection/prevention tries to make traffic more fair to everyone.
> is to consider it a "call option"

A lease is really closer to a set of futures contracts than a call option. You can't just walk away from a lease if you don't want it anymore.
some people may say you're kinda-of a jerk for pointing this out :)
> until now

I'm sorry to hear that.
Let alone watches :-)
The colonists were from and used to monarchy.

Democracy was nearly a foreign concept to them and it very gradually evolved in the US after the Bill of Rights passed.

"The Founding Fathers rejected 'democracy' as defined by the Greeks, preferring instead 'a natural aristocracy', whereby only the landed gentry were entitled to a place in Congress."
> Omegle

Too many people named Dan.
Totally generous. Don't feel bad for a second. They literally just told you they are not happy because they don't have enough time to not extend you an offer.
my theory is that the smarter you are, the more likely you are to try to justify behaviors that you are not necessarily aligned with
Any idea what the tech firms pay in London? I don't have many data points for them.
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