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OK, I can understand how it can be taken the wrong way but for the record it was a nod to the "white savior complex", rather than an attempt to insult Kenyans.
America? No. HN? Definitely yes.
Hm. Do cloud providers need to provide up to 30% more capacity for the same price, or do customers need to purchase up to 30% more capacity to get the same speed?
Uber then named UberCab was limited to just San Francisco at the start, they then did other US cities before going international over a year later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Uber

Even international by default aka pure internet companies like Facebook start as English only and tend to stay that way for a long time.
I think the parent's point is that, for example, having a nice car is going to attract a specific demographic of mate, while speaking at a conference on marine ecology might be highly desirable to a different demographic.
Living in the US and having to pay the high deductibles for health care, here is my idea:
- price transparency -
The problem is not easily being able to shop around for procedures and doctors. It is extremely difficult to know how much things will cost. If the prices have to be published in some way so the cost is known up front, the price will go down. Many people's insurance doesn't start paying until after the deductible. Most people just pay the price whatever it is because it is impossible to know how much something will cost until after. Of course, this means that hospitals can charge whatever they want with no recourse. When insurance companies pay, they fight back and get lower prices, but people can't do that. Voting with their feet will increase competition and drive down costs.
ok, but NL has like zero crime, so it doesn't seem like a big deal
If you believe that his claim was proven by a leak, I am not sure why it would be difficult to produce a citation. My understanding is that it is not a true claim.
>The reason why inefficiency is tied to equitability in the real world is because equitability is enforced, which means you spend resources to achieve it

Now you're switching around your causality. Earlier you said: "inefficiency tends to harm both equitability and value/cost"

So you don't believe that inefficiency causes equitability, just that equitability causes inefficiency?

>No..if it had, we wouldnt be talking about a problem of healthcare in the US. Its grown disproportionately here. But the whole point is that 50-60 years ago, healthcare was cheap and it was private.

So, in response to demographic changes across the western world (like an aging population) a bunch of countries made their systems more public and were able to keep costs down and the US has kept theirs more private and costs have ballooned. Maybe the answer is self-evident.

>I will be more practical then. What do you think are the top 3 issues that make healthcare expensive?

I think there is basically one cause: the existence of for-profit insurance companies. In a public system where government provided healthcare there would be a large monolithic body which could assert it's power to keep prices down. In a market with multiple insurance companies, they'll never have enough individual power to keep prices low. That's how the market is supposed to work by keeping power divided, it's just that healthcare is a terrible place for markets.

>Mine is that lightly regulated free healthcare markets will be efficient (though might not be equitable).

So to get you to change your mind that public systems are better than private equitability never comes into play? What is the point of efficiency if not to help people? If the point of efficiency is to help people then how is equitability not important?
I really enjoyed it. My first year fully remote. It's been quite the change and while I will leave this job at the end of the month I think it's been a great experience.
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> Surely, you can view Java dependency sources. It is just that most Java programmers don't care about the sources, they are just care about the jars (the default culture).

Not my experience. Actually getting to the source of your dependencies, in practice, is easier in Java - just one click in your IDE - than in any other language. Doesn't that suggest that Java programmers care more about sources than other language users, not less?

> In my honest opinion, cross-platform by bytecode has few advantages over cross-platform by source nowadays, on the other hand, cross-platform by bytecode has many inconveniences.

Well you're entitled to your opinion but you should probably back it up with something more specific if you want to convince anyone else.

> And, (in my taste), single central repository is bad. That's why I don't like Node also. The npm central repository is the source of many Trojans. Many Java and Node developers are not aware of and have no ideas on what they have downloaded through chain dependencies.

You don't have to use a central repository if you don't want to, and some people don't, but it's very convenient to have the option if you want it. Maven central requires PGP signatures on anything published there, so it's very easy to enforce that all the dependencies you depend on come from trusted people if you really want to - as far as I know there's no non-JVM language that does that, certainly not with anything like as large a base of signed libraries available.

> Normal != good.

Agreed, but you started out by claiming that Java's culture is very weird. It isn't.
Look at the rate of growth, not the current rate of manufacture.

How much further can they ramp up? That is the pertinent question.
A genuine and pure gender pay gap doesn't makes much of any economic sense. Imagine a company is able to hire women for x% less than men. And we assume these women are absolutely identically, if not superiorly, skilled. What would happen? Unless you think corporations are big into missing obvious opportunities to reduce labor costs, you'd suddenly have companies approaching near 100% women. Companies are already actively working to marginalize and cut the costs on labor as much as possible.

I think identity politics is getting somewhat out of control. Imagine you look at the pay balance between short and tall individuals, gender adjusted. It would be substantially in favor of the taller. Does this mean it's inherently discriminatory and that we need to start getting government to pass 'height gap' laws?

Perhaps the pretentiousness of social science is more at fault. The adjusted wage gap is supposed to compensate for every single factor in an employee's value and weight it perfectly fairly. That, I think, is beyond absurd. Even at the most fundamental level in that an individual's job title is rarely indicative of what they actually do. 'Senior Programmer A' and 'Senior Programmer B' are often going to be taking on vastly different responsibilities, even at the same company. Operations are not finely greased machines with each cog operating in its exact designated way. Individual differences are what result in one person starting at a low level and spending the rest of their life there, and another starting at a low level (with similar qualifications) and working at top level operations 8 years later. And at some snapshot in time you'd see our second person seemingly receiving disproportionate compensation. Well that's because they were doing a disproportionately better job.

This is not to say that there's no inefficiency in companies such that meritorious workers get left behind, or similarly that less capable workers get promoted. But, excepting cronyism, these tend to be inadvertent and undesirable inefficiencies. Horrible ideas like Ballmer's stack ranking are all just desperate efforts to try to resolve this inefficiency. It costs money and it hurts product - nobody wants it. If a company thought that filling every single position they have with transgender transracial dwarves would increase their longterm bottom line by even just a few percent compared to the status quo, our transgendered transracial dwarves would suddenly be the hottest hires on the market.
Not at all. My point is that it is disingenuous to treat laws as if they are mathematical equations.
I read somewhere that 70% of US intelligence spending these days was on private contracting companies anyway. I guess if you’re good you'll end up at one of them?
You're happy with the build quality? I have a w530 and, over a 2 year period, had several things on it physically break (headphones, bluetooth, wifi, lid latch). I vowed to never again buy lenovo. But, the 5th gen x1 just looks so nice. I might give it a try if Lenovo has fixed their build quality issues.
Tom Lendacky works at AMD, so yes... :)
That's not exactly how I would phrase it but basically.

I mean you would agree that a bunch of people could organize a boycott of Echo with ads and eventually Amazon would stop selling it and sell Echo without ads and that would be fine right? So why don't we just do that? It's because we lack a coordination mechanism, the incentive of individual boycotters is to cheat. Luckily humans have developed a great coordination mechanism called 'democracy' and we can use it when coordination in the market place has failed.
My parents had a Trinitron when I was a kid; now they have a Samsung Quantum Dot LED display. The Trinitron was nice, but I could spend hours watching videos on the QLED. It's sharper, motion is crisper, and the colors are deep and vibrant.

There's really no comparison in terms of picture quality. And the Samsung is light enough that it can be easily mounted from the ceiling.

There are reasons why the market has shifted to some of these other technologies. Apart from nostalgia and familiarity, you won't miss the Trinitron if you upgrade.
Ask HN: What is the best way to verify forms
To be honest, I hate GUI programming. You always have to verify the data a user enters and convert this data into your data structures.
You could do it the easy way and just make the GUI elements reflect the schema of your data structure, but often this approach is not very user-friendly.

E.g. it's easier for the user to enter a list of IP addresses separated by commas, but your data structure holds an array of IP addresses. If the user enters invalid data, this must be shown in the GUI as an error.

And anytime the user modifies something, the data structures have to be modified (or not, depending on whether you decide to save automatically or have a 'save' button) and certain parts of your GUI have to be updated, too.

Usually when I start writing something like this, it becomes incredibly complex code.

What is the best concept to handle serialize and de-serialize user input in a GUI?
Any good videos of talks about this?

I am not looking for a specific library in JS, C++ or what ever, but rather for a concept/programming pattern/whatever to deal with this situation.
wtf is an "extrajursidictional company"? Do you mean you are running a tax evasion scheme?
Why do bones need to decompose? What possible evolutionary pressures could be exerted for traits that aren't expressed until after death?

(See also the carboniferous period, before the evolution of wood-decomposing bacteria. 60 million years with no decomposition!)
The problem is not the pay, it is the pay grade. If you are a GS 11, you will get a GS11 pay regardless of your responsibility. And since this is union, you performance has nothing to do with what you will be paid.
You’ve confused the problem with solution.

The problem is government (as I will attempt to explain), so the solution can not be more government.

Healthcare started to go very wrong in this country when the government stepped in [1].

Because of tax laws, it became more economical for employers to provide healthcare insurance. This has all sorts of consequences.

1) I don’t pay the premiums, so it doesn’t matter how often I go to the doctor. It is essentially free to me.

2) I’m not price sensitive about the service the insurance pays for and I’m not price sensitive for the premiums paid by my employer.

3) Having customers who are not price sensitive reduces incentives to lower prices.

Then there are the government regulations that limit the supply of healthcare services[2].

Then there’s out out of control sue-happy society who are encouraged to sue everyone if they don’t like their outcome[3]. We need tort reform.

The problem with Europe is that you guys don’t seem to understand the difference in scale, culture, and demographics between our situations.

You guys have small nations with homogeneous cultures. So, you’ll have to excuse us for not taking your advice.

The closest you’ve come to rivaling the US government is the EU and look how well that’s going. It’s a hard problem and we’re actually doing pretty good.

1- http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/09/understandin...

2- https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

3- https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2010/09/07/the-true-c...
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Even if the current situation is a global optimum in the sense you propose, it would be purely coincidental, as evolution doesn't do global optimization or long-term planning, and prey does not adapt for the convenience of its predators.
I don't see how anyone could complain about this. Companies will simply create more titles and then better illustrate the skills needed to be promoted.
GPG has multiple uses.

1) it is now much easier to use with Mac mail. The GUI is simple to use once configured. Gpgtools.org has done a great job.

2) when you ‘sign’ email it appears visibly different than otherwise to the recipient and can be a good anti-phishing indicator.

3) I agree with Moxie that GPG encrypted mail is rare. S/MIME with its support from Microsoft, seems to be winning in that space.
This is a clusterf/big deal. Beyond the security implications, it means that all companies paying for computing resources will have to pay roughly 30% more overnight on cloud expenses for the same amount of CPU, assuming that they can just scale up their infrastructure.

I know that bugs happen and that there was nothing intentional on this one, but at times like this is hard to held at bay the temptation of claiming for a class lawsuit against Intel....
While many cultures are different, I think we can talk about average culture, especially given certain selections. Average culture of people who use a dating app is likely different than average culture of people who scorn dating apps, and we can talk about what happens in each. There will be exceptions, but this seems true of any psychological/sociological statements. When we are talking about cultural norms, we are talking about averages recognizing there are sub-cultures and counter-cultures which can be quite different.

Take doing interviews (since I think that will be less controversial of a median to talk in). There is general advice on what one should do for an interview. It may be that you will be interviewing with someone whose opinion of you will go up when the see you in a t-shirt and flip flops, but when asked advice on what to wear to an interview we still tend to give advice based on the averages of wearing somewhere between business casual to business formal. We even stereotype different types of business culture (mobile startup vs international bank), and rarely do people point out a lack of peer reviewed studies or that there will be exceptions (or if they point out exceptions, they do it in addition to, instead of as a counter of, the standard advice).

>Before it was paid very well, being a "computer science programming nerd" had a very low status in general society.

Being very stereotypical and based on anecdotal evidence, but it still seems pretty low status (in the overall culture) despite the money to be made.
I'll just pick on the low hanging fruit here:

>> Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed...

goes both ways depending on your "camp". it's funny though how this contradicts your point about US being "divided" since clearly this statement is as partisan as it gets.

>> The "American Dream" gives people the impression that working hard solves everything and that their country is the best in the world period

what's wrong with that exactly?
Didn’t the Intel CEO just sell half of his shares/options? If he knew about these issues isn’t that illegal?
If the gender paygap truly existed, a large amounts of money could be made.

Given the prevalence of wealthy left-wing, SJWs, male feministist types on HN and in Silicon Valley, one wonders why none of them leads by example and hires woman only.

Action speaks louder than words!
Yes, I absolutely include my phone, and most of the software I use, including FireFox.

I was actually feeling quite irritated this morning because I have to sign in to use Visual Studio - in order to have my settings. I don't know what stuff they collect, but it's not nothing because they can for sure track my sign ins.

You raise a great point about who we trust. I feel okay trusting Microsoft, but there's no way in hell I'd trust Google or Amazon.
True, we have no police either.
This bug doesn’t magically chop all CPU performance down by almost a third.
I came to post here about exactly that TV. That TV was a major pain. It was the last CRT I ever owned. It requires two people to move it.

While the image quality was good, I replaced with with a cheaper, larger LCD a decade later and haven't looked back.
> If you blindly click buttons you will not accidentally enable a kernel extension.

As someone who's gone poking around system internals for twenty-plus years... I can tell you that you're very wrong here. I've forgotten about more completely broken operating systems than I care to discuss, but many of them have ended with me poking around and blindly clicking buttons in a vain hope of getting the OS to do what I want it to do which is apparently frequently different from whatever OS producers want me to do.
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You're doing it wrong if you're day trading stocks... dollar cost averaging is your friend when it comes to volatility and well if you're investing you're doing so because of long term belief in the company so it should be easy to hold and not worry about it.
I agree, the correct defense for this (and many other things) is to not buy it.

It should however come with a severe warning about what it is doing in a way that my mother would understand. Otherwise she would just see it as a nice thing to tell her what to do.
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Anyone who works in intelligence is evil and should leave and find a career in the private sector, but I won't hire them because they're evil and previously worked in intelligence!

Thankfully resume sorting is effectively already an entirely random process, so I hope this comment doesn't bother anyone too much.
Unless demand is fully inelastic, if you up the price fewer people will buy.
As such, this should hit the cloud provider profits.
I will respect this moderation decision, but I think, in context, it seems to indicate an approach that is ultimately detrimental to the quality of discussion on HN.

If someone is using a personal story with blaming statements as a means to make commentary about a more general topic of discussion, either the appropriateness of the blaming statements given the narrative must be just as subject to challenge as it would be if the narrative were a third-party news story and the whole style of argument of using such stories in a discussion needs to be viewed as out of bounds, otherwise you've created a specially privileged argument style for which only silence or agreement is allowed.
I'd imagine there are only a few developer jobs in Harrogate, which would keep the salaries low. Glasgow is much bigger.
<< You'll never get me to install one of those telemetry devices in the OBD port on my car for any company. I don't care how much money it will save me on my phone or insurance plan.

Totally agree. I don't feel like it would be 'saving' money either.
dogmatic claims it itself cannot even support (your god isn't real we haven't observed it yet--would sound petty and absurd were the same argument made to counter theorized atomic particles).

The difference is that god is supposed to be observable, and isn't. You can look at religious texts and teachings and say "doing this should show that effect", and see that it doesn't.

For theorized particles, they come with "this is how to observe it, we just aren't able to do the experiment yet". And then when research technology reaches the point where we can, someone goes and does the experiment. And at that point, a lack of results absolutely is taken as evidence that whatever particle doesn't actually exist as predicted.
> Norwegian and Danish aa was finally officially replaced by the Swedish å — in 1917 and 1948, respectively.

I guess that explains why both Norwegian and Danish has "å" as the last letter in the alphabet, whereas in Swedish "å" is the third from the last letter (name sorting beware!).

Consequently the expression "the Alpha and the Omega" (from the beginning to the end) is "från A till Ö" in Swedish and "från A till Å" in Norwegian and Danish(?).
You are sort of getting into "we would be better off without the internet" territory, which is a very difficult argument to make for either side. Tesla and Space X engineers would not have been able to achieve what they have without Google. The Arab Spring might not have happened without Twitter. But yeah we can just throw FB in the trash...
Ok, sure, but later on the question is :

"So it seems that there are no fundamental reasons why animals could not evolve a metal skeleton"

The main reason is that most multicellular organisms (especially vertebrates) go through developmental stages where they grow in size. Mineral bones can be grown like this, while metal ones probably could not.
>I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful...

If you can train yourself to do the opposite you could make a lot off this stock. Buy fear, sell greed. Never panic.

Losses are never realized if you don't sell, and just wait it out until it is back near 15 again.
Congrats on your first year fully remote! I was thinking of switching remote as well.
Did you encounter any challenges that you normally wouldn't have? If I may ask, why are you leaving it?
Men with a higher social status tend to also have a relative high level of social exposure, meaning they meet many people either as a result of networking, sycophantry, etc.

The curious case would be attractive women with a low social status, and how technology has drastically changed the playing field for these women. A woman who previously couldn't afford to travel or mingle in higher status social circles often would find herself "settling" for a local mate.

In the Internet age, that same woman can gain exposure on the Internet via multiple mediums to orders of magnitude more potential mates, creating a huge shift in pairing for both high-status low-attractiveness women and low-status high-attractiveness women.