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I’m very happy with the 6s hardware, no desire for face scanning, and prefer my simple third-party headphones for now.

Not only that, ios11 is bad enough I’ve contemplated getting an android next time. Something I thought I’d never do.
Yeah, I had a brainfade with reading comprehension. The OP is of course correct.
old people prefer owning homes with lawns

That's fine, but why do old people need it legally mandated that everyone has to do that?
Pardon?

> Oh and Montana will vote Republican again next election as you well know

Montana's current governor, Steve Bullock[1], is a Democrat. He was the incumbent in the last election, but initially won his seat from the outgoing Brian Schweitzer[2], another Democrat.

Going by the gubernatorial seat, Montana's been a blue state since 2005.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bullock_(American_politi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Schweitzer
Your assertion - "China has brought European solar, steel and electronics production to its knees" via X,Y,Z is a very broad assertion. Your evidence for that is merely circumstantial. You expect the reader to connect the dots with the underlying subtext of "well, what else could this mean". Sorry, but this is not a serious way to put forth such an argument. Granted, I too, realistically cant expect a PhD dissertation in a HN comment, but then again, I'm not the one putting forth that argument.
I agree. Kodi boxes and transient streaming sites seem to be the way most people pirate now. It makes sense that people pirate in ways that match global trends. When BitTorrent started piracy and legal consumption both meant actually downloading files, possibly over days. Now people are used to it all just being there, right when they want it.

Plus most popular games are multiplayer, so piracy is unlikely or niche. A lot of software is on mobile devices, or licensed as a SaaS. A lot of the underlying machinery of media distribution has changed, and so has piracy.
http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
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>But to do it on such an industrial scale that you have to get a card printer involved is pretty brazen.

Going to Kinko's or some similar place isn't exactly "industrial scale."
Self-driving mine trucks have indicator lights for just this reason. Green indicates the truck is under the control of a human driver, flashing orange indicates the truck is under automatic control, and flashing red indicates the truck has a fault and will not move.
And that is why, after trying Netflix and Amazon Prime for few months, I renewed my seed-box VPS for another three years. Yes, I didn't want to do it but the alternative just reeks of 'same old, same old' and I am not willing to subscribe to 5 streaming services (or maybe more).

Music streaming services aren't this bad but even those are not an option for me. One service has all the new Western/English songs, another has all the new local songs, and yet another has all the old songs (but not local old songs).. this goes on. No, I am not subscribing to more than 1, thank you very much. Luckily, in my country one song usually costs $0.06 to $0.24 depending upon whether it's an old (local) song or a new song (or a western/English song) and I usually just buy the individual ones and keep it on my phone and laptop (synced by iTunes).
I feel like there's a void to be filled here. Something that allows people to build a sense of community without all the make-believe crap.
Why not everything? it's ok to have the Chinese make everything but not solar panels and washing machines?
This map covers the whole Kantō area and shows all the train lines you can use a Suica card on:

PDF: http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/routemaps/pdf/RouteMap_majorrailsu...
It's unnecessary and against the HN guidelines to comment on downvotes.

> "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That includes votes you're expecting. It distracts from the substance of what you're trying to say.

If you're concerned or thinking about downvotes when you're composing your comment, rethink how you can phrase it: if you think you're "speaking truth to power", "saying what must be said", or "pointing out hypocrisy", or something similar, you're already starting from a position of antagonism, real or imagined. People aren't going to respond to that well. Figure out — or at least attempt to find — a way to express what you're trying to get across in a way that'll be actually heard and understood by those you're trying to reach. What's actually going to make a difference?

If you think that they can't be reached or it's not worth the effort to try to do so, it's likely not worth the effort to comment at all. Given that you are participating on HN, please do make the effort. After all, that's one of the features HN members value: good, quality, constructive discussion.
Perhaps it would help if you could explain why it's wrong instead of calling it utter nonsense, because it matches my understanding of P/E ratio.

Here's the example from the same wikipedia link:

As an example, if stock A is trading at $24 and the earnings per share for the most recent 12-month period is $3, then stock A has a P/E ratio of 24/3 or 8. Put another way, the purchaser of the stock is investing $8 for every dollar of earnings.

Now say the company behind stock A is paying out 100% of its earnings as a yearly dividend of $3/share and is taking no additional investment, so it isn't growing. It's going to take 8 years (the P/E) to recoup the $24.
I had a slightly different experience. In high school my first job was corporate Mackers in a Walmart. At 15 I was somehow the second most responsible person working there.. After high school I did another stint at a franchise location. The owner had an ace manager in there to "turn around" the store. Everything was ship shape and above board; top rating on store review was the expectation.

As committed as everyone was the one thing I would have seriously cracked down on was... Wait for it... Pulling the fries out early. A couple of the managers didn't have the stomach for waiting the full time when cars were stacked up. They were mistakenly prioritizing the service time (which is usually sacred TBH!) over the quality of the french fries. This is a huge mistake and Mcdonalds has very tight lifetime limits on fries for a reason; aint nobody wants undercooked or stale fries.

I always dropped my own fries for my free meal, and would often invite people in to purchase fries while I was there so they could be done right. A 1/2, or ideally 1/4, basket cooks the best and most evenly at the McDonalds prescribed cooking times IMHO. Full baskets without a cooking time adjustment would result in fries that are not quite so cooked properly.
Are you implying they may not have been sober? (Which is a fair guess if they can afford a Tesla but want to avoid a medical examination, I guess.)
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>Go is rather performant

Go is slower than C++.
> or did it save us from a bunch of accidents?

I do not believe Tesla’s are equipped with the necessary hardware to scientifically show beyond a reasonable doubt they assisted in preventing accidents.
Facebook, Google, and Amazon all buy renewable energy for their computing operations through the use of power purchase agreements.
Dem stuns CNN anchor: We won potential for momentum
The application now comes in two parts: one for the "business" and one for each founder. I believe the "hack" question is now in the founder application.
Yes, but you or another relative could order the uber for her. Are you sure there isn’t county based medical transport? Also since she is 96 she might be able to get away with an ambulance! It may take someone advocating for her but it’s not disallowed de facto.
Facebook seeks to redefine time with 'flicks'
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Mattress stores cluster for the same reason automobile dealerships cluster. And just like automobile dealerships, many stores in the same area have the same owner.

There's a Freakonomics podcast episode about the mattress store industry at http://freakonomics.com/podcast/mattress-store-bubble/
266 Billion Miles are driven on US roadways each _month_. It's going to be a while before we have a predictive dataset.
Is there a way to check whether a given McD is corporate or franchise?

The McD by our house growing up was amazing. Even as a teen I remember it being well run. As an adult I moved to a different city and the local McD was the worst I’ve ever seen. That includes highway service area stores. Be curious to confirm my suspicions as to which is corporate.
Zoning codes in the US are mostly copies of zoning code templates published decades ago, so even though every single place has its own, it's a little-modified version of what everyone else has.

Even dense US towns are zoned against density. Somerville, Massachusetts had a rude awakening 5 years ago when they discovered the entire city is in violation of the zoning code. Every single home is out of compliance for one reason or another.
That makes sense. I wouldn't want to underrate the importance of ability to connect with the right people, which is a pretty complicated thing as it is, and there are only so many ways by which to evaluate it.
Not only pitch control but brakes as well
Bad month for the main thread
Pain can also make mess out of our ability to think clearly. Do we really need industrial robots running around and flailing manipulators randomly?

Then if robot doesn't run around randomly, but quickly and precisely removes the source of damage or stops operations if it cannot find the source of damage, signals damage condition, and proceeds to retrain the part of itself which led to the damage, we can ask "Does it feel the same overwhelming and impossible to ignore feeling, we call pain?"
I'm not saying you're wrong. I understand where you're coming from. You raise good points. I think we need to add to this list one simple idea: regulation.

Housing costs are terrible. They're getting bad even in small towns like mine. There is no way that my house is worth 172k. For many, especially in California and states that followed their lead, housing cost are largely, not solely, due to regulation on new house starts. Environmental impact and associated costs make a new housing community in California on average 1 million dollars more expensive. For many, they don't even put shovel to sod.

Health in the US has a lot of this too. Governmental regulations and the AMA drive up the cost of doctors. All of this is well documented. Interestingly, the free market is coming to a possible rescue on the price of generics: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/health/drug-prices-hospit...

A good chunk of student debt is due to the government printing money for loans that students can't escape. School saw this bottomless supply and acted accordingly.

Job exporting has some factors due to regulation too. As do the others in your list.

I'm not saying that regulation is bad. I believe in free markets, not unfettered markets. However, a lot of the regulation is old, duplicative, and contradictory. It makes being a business far more complex than it should be. Regulation hampers innovation. We need to remove regulatory cruft at all levels. We need to adopt evidence based regulations.
Is “Mackers” McDonalds? I’ve never heard that nickname before. We mainly use “Mickey Dees”.
The teenage sex joke used to be a C++ joke: https://simplesassim.wordpress.com/2004/01/07/c-is-like-teen...
One could structure it such that a single PoW is useless, yet multiple aren't? Like pieces of a puzzle that only make sense once you collect many of them.
'Serial stowaway' arrested for 10th time after slipping past airport security
Assets can appreciate for two reasons, inflation which will increase future cash flow, or interests rates dropping which will decrease the discount rate.

Judging from low and stable inflation it's obviously the second as opposed to the first.
Not sure why you were down voted since it's absolutely an example of why we can't have nice things.

There are properly trained support animals that their owners are absolutely justified in having.

But sadly, there are also definitely some folks taking advantage in order to bring their poorly behaved pets into places they wouldn't otherwise be allowed. It's pretty disgusting actually.

From the story – there's absolutely no excuse for this:

> In June, a 70-pound support dog mauled a passenger on a Delta flight in Atlanta, biting the man’s face multiple times.

Disclosure: dog owner for many years.
> How can law enforcement function

There are many critics that don't think it's possible. 40% of local city budgets go towards "law enforcement" (the aggregate of police, prosecutors, courts, and jails). Many rural sheriff departments are largely dependent upon speed traps and "Civil Asset Forfeiture" confiscations of people just driving through.

However, I don't consider the "get out of jail free" card as evidence of a pay-to-play. There is no legal mechanism to enforce this, and in fact it's probably illegal for a police officer to enforce it if the crime is sufficiently problematic (there is always a little wiggle room with "prosecutorial discretion").

Additionally, it's likely that any money raised goes towards a "charitable" organization, as opposed to the police department's budget or directly into the pockets of police officers.
See my edit: I don't want to continue this discussion as I have a fairly high up comment and I think this is just a bunch of clutter for the purpose of meta discussion. Talk about 'makes for boring reading'.
A Tesla slammed into the back of a stopped firetruck at 65mph and the driver walked away un-injured.

Why am I not already driving a Tesla?
I do not know of a commercial airline autopilot that does taxi / takeoff.
What show? I will find you torrent with seeders.
Aggressively cut in whenever they want with impunity and zero consequences? Self driving cars will always avoid obstacles where possible and never suffer road rage.

The only thing that keeps a check on the impulses of the most aggressive human drivers is the unpredictability of other human drivers.
Why is this person downvoted? That is a true, relevant, and dispassionate statement.
Baumol predicted this 50 years ago; it's called the "cost disease".

The inflation rate for a computer with a fixed set of specs is massively negative -- it gets cheaper every year. So it is for many technological devices.

But our whole economy is a mixture of technological stuff (that drops in cost over time, i.e. negative inflation) and non-technological stuff (burritos and health care).

The overall inflation rate is an average across the entire economy. Even if you believe the reporting is not distorted (which is dubious), then the fact that there are so many goods whose prices drop quickly over time, implies that there have to be many goods and services whose prices go up much faster than "inflation" would predict. Because something has to balance that average!

Baumol calls the technological stuff the "progressive sector" and the non-technological stuff the "stagnant sector". As time goes on, prices in the stagnant sector continue to rise until they consume almost all spending.

Baumol made specific predictions based on this model in 1960 that have turned out to be consistently true for 50 years ("the cost of healthcare will continue to rise to degrees that will seem scary" and so forth).

Furthermore, it's not like it is some weird complicated or hard-to-substantiate theory. It is just math, not much more complicated than the definition of the average. Given how big the consequences are, and how hard to argue with, it surprises me that this idea occupies so little of the public conversation.
The article mentions IBM trying to cash in on the AI hype with Watson, and towards the end wonders what the next overhyped trend will be. This ad might hold the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2CLoCxAWA
It's a messed up situation. The ADA requirements around inquiring about service animals have the good intention of preventing endless harassment, but they're too sloppy and subject to abuse. A targeted fix would solve the problem. But because many congresspeople would rather repeal the ADA in its entirety, it won't get patched.
Even with actual emotional support animals, I don't understand why anyone needs a seventy pound dog as an emotional support animal. Is a twenty pound dog insufficiently supportive? Are there a certain number of support units per pound?

In everything there's a balance between personal freedom to do whatever you want, and the accommodation of other humans who may have conflicting needs or preferences. When there are such conflicting needs and preferences, I feel it's incumbent on the party imposing unusual requirements on others to minimize their imposition. When it comes to selecting an animal to accompany you on flights, this entails choosing an animal that is likely to fit comfortably, not be unusually odorous or violent, and otherwise be relatively inoffensive to one's fellow passengers, at least to the extent one is able. (I understand that only certain breeds of dog are suitable as seeing eye dogs, and for that I will gladly make an exception, as these animals are usually exceptionally well-trained and are also almost necessary for their owners to function).
How did you accomplish this? Aggressive screening by gender at each phase of the hiring pipeline or just at the resume phase?
There's also those other issues:

Tesla has not been counting collisions caused by the driver having to brake hard because the autopilot was about to happily slam into another vehicle/object/person? Tesla's summation of those is that they were not a failing of Autopilot, because it was not active at the moment of impact. That's ... disingenuous ... at best.

And then:

"It would have avoided this accident [by braking, steering]", and studiously saying nothing about the future, "... but it would still have been in a collision 0.42 seconds later".

For all the collisions it would have avoided, there's another subset where it would only have "delayed" the collision. But that won't be mentioned. Because it doesn't fit the narrative.
And to think back in 2011 we couldn’t get an investor to back us with the $1M needed to produce just one BTC mining wafer.

How times have changed.
I've never done that, but it was clear from observation that it was true. Here's what amazes me, that people like Bezos exist. I mean, treating people that work at Amazon (especially the warehouses!) like the employees of I-N-O, Amazon could be an even more valuable company. Instead of being an employer of last resort (I would take any job before I worked there), they could be the "it" place to work. Instead, Bezos allows people to be treated like complete shit.
The creators of the project also wrote a book about their thinking [0]. I highlighted the hell out of this book.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Clock-Long-Now-Time-Responsibility-eb...
Data is insufficient. The most famous polling miss in history relied on 2.4 million responses (~1.8% of the population) to conclude in 1936 that the Republicans would win the presidential election. What matters is the quality of your data, and if it is sufficient to draw reasonable conclusions from.

I don't see any evidence that Tesla has more, or less for that matter, of the necessary high-quality data that is needed for self-driving cars. The fact that real people are driving those cars continuously, potentially generating reams of data, is pretty immaterial, since the majority of that data is going to be useless (let's face it, 10 million hours of driving in the same conditions isn't better than 1 million hours of driving).
Probation and the felony conviction also have little effect on someone that's independently wealthy. Where the same sentence on a middle class person would amount to financial ruin and unemployment.

It's very close to "completely getting away with it" for a rich person.
Related discussion on flicks implemented in C++:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207913
Rail has far better bandwidth. Buses will never be able to match it.

That doesn't mean that buses aren't useful too. You need both.
> what is the basis for the prohibition on selling shares? How are those prohibitions enforced? If the basis is contract law, then you can't necessarily prevent people from undertaking the prohibited action, can you? Just collect damages if they do.

The organizing documents will have language that specifies the right to injunctive relief. That clause can be used by the court as a basis to order you not to complete a contemplated sale. (Obviously, only works if they catch you before it happens.)

> If an employee sells their shares in violation of a company contract, what happens? Can the company repossess the shares? Or are the shares structured so that they can be made worthless?

The organizing document will specify that shares must be registered and all transfers must be done by filing appropriate paperwork with the company. The company will refuse to process transfers that don't comply with the rules, and refuse to recognize as shareholders anyone who claims to own shares but doesn't have them registered in their name.

> Can employees construct a security based on their shares and then sell that instead? ... an asset-backed security.

Agreements that prohibit transfers often also prohibit pledging the shares as collateral, which means it couldn't be used to secure a derivative contract (making it asset-backed). But it's difficult to prohibit every possible derivative contract, so if someone really wanted to sell some transfer-restricted stock, I believe it's somewhat doable via this route. If you're interested in learning more about it, look at what SharesPost is up to, from what I understand, they buy exposure to private companies in the form of unsecured derivatives contracts.
And yet when we get stuck in thought and don’t think about where we’re going and drive to our office on the weekend by accident we say “oh, I got stuck in autopilot”

These accidents are not people mistaking the purpose of autopilot, they are people slipping into false confidence that the car will handle the driving for them because it has in the past.
Developing a flash sale system
That is what I was implying - but people do act irrationally in the aftermath of a traumatic event like that
I have a pit bull who is amazingly well behaved, including having a CGC (Canine Good Citizen) training certificate. However, moving in to an apartment in San Francisco was damn near impossible. I was on the brink of leaving the bay area because of how hard it was to find someone willing to rent to me, until I found a private landlord who took pity on me.

Many times I had friends suggest I just lie and say my dog was an emotional support animal. It was quite tempting because of how awful it can be to find a place to rent in SF with a dog. If you think it's bad and you're not a pet owner, imagine it being 10x worse. The only reason I didn't do that was because I didn't want to contribute to rules like this which make it harder for people who really need the ESA.
Using Autopilot while not being alert and engaged would be "using it incorrectly".
I think what confuses me is that the distributed ledger is nice and all, but will never be faster or even necessarily more secure than a central one (yes yes, some trust in government regulation like the SEC is required but if we put our antiestablishment pitchforks aside and consider that random actors MAY be more malicious than the people that regulate the financial markets).

So what do you get? People trusting "centralized" front doors to something distributed. Like coinbase or any of the other exchanges. Now you have literally the worst of both worlds. Centralized but still slower and more expensive, + lack of regulation. I'm just not seeing it as ever being useful.