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I suspect you're right on the money here as we've seen this before, most notably with the dying cable TV model. Declining viewership, increasing viewer age (younger viewers are more highly valued by advertisers as a general rule) and the abundance of cord-cutting streaming options (ie Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO, etc) are all trending in the wrong direction (for cable companies and traditional broadcast outlets). The result? Rising prices to make up for the revenue shortfalls from selling less bundles.

With TV this will end badly unless something drastically changes because the rising prices will drive more and more people to cut-the-cord. I suspect as soon as you can get major sporting events in a convenient form outside of having a cable subscription it'll be game over.

Utilities have significant fixed costs. These are the capex costs of building plants and power infrastructure. These don't get any cheaper if consumers consume less power. The most likely response is simply to raise prices.

Solar in particular has been on a rapid decline in recent years. Utility price increases will only hasten adoption.

Here's another thing to consider: electricity tends to be more expensive during the day and cheaper at night. This is because industrial and commercial usage tends to be at peak during the day. Utilities typically need to maintain a base load on their infrastructure to cover peak usage so any usage at night is "free" for them essentially, hence the subsidized cost.

But consider this: in addition to residential usage of solar another response you'll see with increased utility prices is people installing batteries. This will not only store excess solar power but will allow customers to store power at night. Batteries too continue to get cheaper. I imagine that net this won't be good news for utilites either.
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I hear ya. For me -- It was something about trying to go up and down narrow staircases to get to my upper floor apartment that I rent for 2,000 a month for 1300 SQFT and waiting for elevators holding two baby carriers with screaming babies that didn't sound appealing to me, especially when I can own, for about half the price (roughly 1,100), a 1900 SQFT house that I can walk straight into.
The IRS doesn’t care about state sales tax. Your state agency is probably called something like the Dept of Revenue. Overpaying taxes “just in case” seems like an odd strategy to me.

It’s hard to believe anyone doesn’t know they are responsible for paying their own sales tax on out of state transactions. It’s on the state tax forms, the tax software asks about it, your tax preparer will ask about it, etc. It was also big news when the states were going up against Amazon for collecting sales tax. Besides that, ignorance of the law is never an excuse for breaking it.

Anyway, NewEgg has to have known that some consumers were purchasing from them to avoid sales tax and that this will lead to reduced sales.
I don't think it's as straightforward as more demand. One generation provider offers free EV charging on weekends[1], which shifts some charging to an offpeak time.

Another confounder is that EV's can be used as storage devices dumping power back to the grid[2].

1. https://www.chargepoint.com/products/home-station-incentives

2. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-ev-chargers...
I wish I could just throttle javascript execution to 1/100th its current pace. I really don’t need it for most websites after the initial load of content, which is unfortunately driven a lot by javascript these days. They mostly exist to serve more and more annoying ads, best I can tell.
My car (gasoline Euro-5) smells only when the engine is cold. Once it warms up, I can't smell anything. I guess it probably means that the catalytic converter is working as expected (it needs to be hot enough to work properly).
quadruple when you consider all pogo players now burn two tanks of gas per week going places...
they need to disable that damn long-range map or I will report them to the carbon tax committee.
Best way to figure out someone else's codebase, IME, is to just dive in heavy and start breaking things. Figuring out what's connected to what and why by removing chunks of code that you need to understand.
> The latest figures, per Wikipedia, puts traffic at about 74 million posts per day, totaling more than 37 terabytes.

Just yesterday, I spoke to someone who mentioned Usenet as a means of pirating movies. I cry a little inside whenever I hear that people only know of the once great decentralized discussion system as a dumb pipe.
I'm not sure about that. The flip side of that is that my standard insurance insures me on my car, but I'm also insured to drive someone else's car too without further premiums required.
In English not a problem, however Wikipedia chinese is blocked from time to time. Note that they did block certain pages (like that one and the DL’s page) before Wikipedia moved to https for everything, then wiki was blocked for a while but they eventually unblocked it.
I don't see a problem with heating the room in the winter. [1]

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/2184
> Whenever I see bicycle on a sidewalk is most often because road is jammed with cars or it's too dangerous for bikes

Apart from the very common use case where I live (Switzerland mind you) where cyclists just don't give a fuck about anybody out there, and use any means to go ahead including crossing red light, passing through crowd of pedestrian at high speed, jumping to sidewalk at full speed just to cross with pedestrians' green light etc.

Seeing this every single day, usually multiple times. Roads are not really crowded. Just that some people are selfish arrogant assholes, and cycling to work seems to be one of activities that reveal it.

As a pedestrian, I hate bikers (and I do XC cycling quite a bit). By far the most arrogant&aggressive participants of public traffic in the cities.
It's kind of related to so-called domain generation algorithms (DGAs) commonly used by malware to circumvent blacklists and network filtering.
I agree, yet we're still kind of uncomfortable with species not being discreet across one or more of these taxonomical approaches.
"TVA will sell less electricity in 10 years than it did 10 years ago. That is bonkers."

Why is this so crazy to imagine? There are so many drivers to increased energy efficiency. LED lightbulbs, LCD TVs instead of monitors, vastly improved efficiency standards/technologies for various appliances, fact you can do loads of stuff with a smartphone instead of watching a giant TV, etc etc, huge fall in heavy industry, small scale solar/wind generation actually appearing as a reduction in demand on the grid instead of 'increase of supply and corresponding increase in demand'.

I'd actually say it was more crazy if we expected it to continue increasing thinking about current trends, and I've heard this story of the utility death spiral for about 5 years so I don't think it is a sudden problem.
dupe, https://www.mapd.com/blog/mapd-open-sources-gpu-powered-data...
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It will please you to know that gears are fitted as standard on many bicycles.

Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_advantage

Honestly trying to convince people that a full life can be lived with a bicycle feels a lot like the problem of the cave.

There's a whole world outside the parking lots, but too many people have never even seen it; just pictures of it on travel blogs about Amsterdam, and don't really think it's real.

Edit:

In addition to gears, batteries and motors are a thing.
Wireless is not going to solve anything. The lowest loss method for long distance transmission is high voltage DC.
From the chart I just can see that GDP can predict conceptions. GDP falls, conceptions falls, then came the recesion. GDP begins to recover, get out of recession, then conceptions begin.
Why doesn't the EU scrap all state level VAT for an EU wide VAT?
Damage liability remains with the vehicle owner, just like if you loan a vehicle to a friend. You don't insure your ability to drive safely; you insure the vehicle for damages to it and caused by it. Fault will likely be determined exactly how it is for a human driver.
At which point they've crossed the line into a crime, so liability is a crime. These concepts are already in play in other industries that use software on devices that could harm or kill.
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Apple includes their own office suite for free with all macs so if you don’t need 100% office compatibility why give MS more money? I haven’t had or used office in some years now and don’t miss it a bit.
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It seems reasonable to me. The risk is primarily determined by the ability of the driver, and can be gauged by their claim history and factors like age.

E.g. a 65 year old female driver with no claims and a low insurance premium. If she arbitrarily allows her 18 year old male neighbour to drive her car, the insurer would be exposed to a high risk. The only way to offset that would be to raise premiums for everyone.
The most traditional tool we've used is probably http://www.codecombat.com Also PBS has a Crash Course in Computer Science video series that's excellent for ages 10+ -- we pause it a lot to make sure they caught the main points.

I also show them what I'm working on for fun and invite them to help with parts of it. Usually Arduino and 3D printing/modeling. We've started (but not finished) a few web-based games together. I don't know if either of them will ever catch "the bug" like I did at their age (9 and 11 now), but I want it to be an option for them if they do.
Simply stop accepting European credit cards. Just like many EU online shops do not accept non-EU (or what blacklist do they have) cards. At least I haven't been able to buy an ebook without a proper European card and/or billing address.
Could you explain what you mean? Wireless transmission does work (especially on the industrial scale), and has losses of its own.
If electricity wasn't a monopoly, the answer would be an obvious yes: falling demand and falling costs both indicate falling prices.

But given that it is a monopoly that is supporting huge amounts of fixed costs (infrastructure and debt payments) there will be significant pressure to increase costs.

I predict that both will occur, increasing the already significant disparity between regional electricity prices.
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Wikipedia started being blocked when I lived in Beijing in 2005. I'd be surprised if it isn't still blocked.
Regarding your first point, would it have to be your own car? Not to derail the conversation into whether or not you should actually own a self-driving car, but what if you just used a shared car for your commute?

It would mean the car doesn't have to drive off to park somewhere, but to just go pick up the next person. I'd imagine it would be possible to have enough cars on the road so the wait is negligible, but still have markedly less cars on the road. Might this be a realistic future?
I'm not sure that you quite realize that Troy's intention here is to eventually be soaking a whole lot of zeroes with this. Add on to that that, if people are relying on this as a service, it had better not go down under any remotely plausible circumstances, and some growth-hacker's dedicated server from Hetzner or whatever is unsuitable. Edge caching only blunts sufficiently this if everybody's searching for the same passwords and proving that that's the case is a burden you have not shouldered.

To that end, "just use a VPS or a cheap dedicated server" sounds a whole lot like the middlebrow thing we're supposed to not be fans of around here.
quadruple when you consider all pogo players now burn two tanks of gas per week going places... they need to disable that damn long-range map or I will report them to the carbon tax committee.
Sorry to see you downvoted.

I'm totally sympathetic to the end goal, I would just like to see a realistic approach and the GGP's call for an outright ban on vehicles in the present is not supportable.

The biggest problem I have with various 'green' parties is that for the most part their solutions are bordering on the militant and do not take in to account the various complications that will need to be dealt with in order to implement the final vision.

I cycle a lot, wear out a couple of bike tires in a year. I also drive a lot, live in a small town outside of Amsterdam. So I think I see the world from both sides and a life-long interest in green technology (windmills, solar) as well as electric vehicles has given me a pretty good ground level of knowledge about all this stuff.

There is one part of me that would very much like to see this car-free city of the future come to pass in my lifetime, I'd probably move there in a heartbeat if it were done properly. But if it were done improperly I highly doubt it would fly and it would likely end up being undone and that would cause a setback we can not afford.

So better to think really hard about how to make this work, prepare plans that are properly wrought through in such a way that they work for everybody and in ways that do not accidentally kill the thing they are aiming for.

Keep in mind that cars were not thrown into cities without reason, and that at the time they were invented the bicycles were already there as well. The car mostly displaced the horse because it was cleaner.

The time when things went wrong is roughly the 1960's (for Europe at least) when suddenly a car was within reach of everybody that wanted one and the cities were ill prepared to deal with that. By the 1970's the disaster was already complete and traffic became a mess. It's been downhill from there so we definitely will need to make changes.

In my experience to date it takes roughly as long to get out of a problematic situation as it takes to get into it. Any major changes on time-scales of less than a few years will lead to trouble, a realistic transition plan would probably run for a decade or more.
So same price and doesn’t integrate with Apple devices?
Say the manager knows about a bug in the AI but it consider that is more expensive to wait and properly fix it then push an update with the bug present. Should the decision of fixing or not a bug that can cause lives be influenced only by how much will insurance cost?

I am not arguing that a person should pay with his freedom for a mistake, people do mistake, I am afraid that the bad behavior from software industry will apply to self driving cars, the move fast and brake things mentality,ship with known bugs etc.
They already have in some of the most appropriate circumstances. Article is 2017 but these are still up and running.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/container...
I'm curious to know this too. A responsive "pull-right" that sends an element to the right hand screen edge no matter the screen size, without having it shift onto the line below.

I'm sure it can be done if you create enough media selectors for every common resolution but outside of that...
Wouldn't that result in even more lost in transmission?
>Only about 1000 people get Chinese passport per year.

i suspect that's a combination of han biased policy (as mentioned in a sibling comment), and the fact that nobody wants a chinese passport. china doesn't allow dual citizenships[1], so for a chinese with "western" citzenship, getting a chinese passport is a downgrade, unless you really sure that you want to stay in china.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationality_law_of_the_People%...
That's actually a very good product idea. I would pay for something like this :)
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The tiny little conspiracy theorist in me wonders if these records will be used to establish probable cause to search for people who may be mining Crypto and not reporting the income. Why else, of all places, would they start the fight with Newegg?

Either way, this state is broke and will do anything to dig themselves out of the grave they've dug.
By offering two different models and letting you choose between them for each hostname under Cloudflare.

1) Injecting themselves on the application layer (the current model)

2) Injecting themselves on the network layer, passing through only encrypted traffic between the client and your servers

Not every feature they currently offer would still be possible in model #2, but most of them (including DDOS protection) can still work in a limited fashion.
I do things in an old-school way. 2 Bare metal servers at different data centers with totaluptime.com acting as a load balancer with auto-failover.

Deployment is done via SFTP by pressing the publish button in Visual Studio. This will deploy to the inactive server. I then manually trigger tests on GhostInspector (this could be automated via API) to make sure I didn't break anything. Then I run a custom script to make the load balancer redirect traffic to the upgraded server.

Solo founder, small bootstrapped business generating 50k/month with 1000 paying customers. Hosting costs are under $500. I could double the number of clients without needing to upgrade the hardware. I looked into moving to AWS or Azure, but can't justify paying 4x more for the same performance.
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"Conceal" is quite an ambitious term for something that literally makes noise out of your computer fan. `top` to check that Firefox is guilty and `about:performance` to close the guilty tab. There are so many shitty JS single-page sites out there that abuse clients' resources I don't even care whether it's crypto mining or just incompetence.
I think this is not correct, because companies that act more meritocratic will be more likely to succeed, and there you have capitalism.
Some kind of execution budget would be really nice for JS. I wouldn't blame browsers for not putting it in though, no normal user would touch that kind of control.
Quite a lot of material on the web is only there because of advertising, not because it's any good. Unsurprisingly the "free market" doesn't work very well when everything has a zero cost associated with it.

The downside of losing ad-supported media will be ad-sponsored media paying to write the content itself.
Why is this moral outrage never directed at people cheating on their taxes? This isn't a mere oversight: there is a specific question about online purchases on the tax form.

If we could stop people from committing crimes and using privacy rights to get away with it, we would actually have a much stronger argument for privacy rights.
My local electric utility just got a rate hike approved by the state utilities commission and is already pushing for another. They're putting the costs of cleaning up the 2014 coal ash spill in the Dan River on customers, the bastards. As long as utilities are permitted to make mistakes and pass the costs of cleanup on to taxpayers or their customers, they will, and bills will rise.
On a larger utilitarian scale sure, but once a driverless car kills a person many legal and ethical issues will arise that you can't just brush off with that argument.
I think the Amish get married young and then stay married for life, so not sure if attractiveness plays a factor (since more or less everybody gets a mate).
Absolutely, but I find in many cases, people are just too lazy to want to dig into another piece of code, and just give up prematurely.
> Can someone point me in the right direction to learn about or just simply explain how modern-day browsers allow for scripts to drain CPU resources?

They allow it because the point of scripts is to consume some level of CPU resources, and setting an arbitrary limit on how much is too much is bound to cause a bad user experience when e.g. rendering large visualizations or playing a fast-paced game.
I'm kind of curious to find out what kind of comments you're publishing on Hacker News, of all places, that's making you a target to the alt-right.
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This has certainly been the "common wisdom" trotted out for a long time now, but it's also always struck me as post-hoc reasoning. There simply has never been a modern industry-wide, concerted effort towards creating and requiring use of an extremely convenient web pay system, despite advances in technology and user sophistication over the last 20 years. If ads simply were no longer economically viable, would users really simply give up on all news and such? Everyone would simply throw in the towel?

I'm extremely skeptical. It's not at all hard to think of a lot of different ways that would be enormously convenient and highly transparent to users to have direct pay options. I think they haven't been tried because of the standard technology issues: we're in a local minima and there is enormous inertia with what "everyone uses" already. But that's not at all the same thing as being in an absolute minima, where any change would necessarily be less efficient. Quite the contrary, in tracking flow of money and resources advertising looks to have quite a few unnecessary inefficiencies between user goals and publisher goals. That being the case I see no reason to believe inherently that something better could not be developed if there was sufficient motivation, and an existential threat would certainly be that.
i just wonder how that will affect the people (i.e me) that get very nauseous in cars, especially when looking down/reading something. i dont know the science but its a lot worse when it's stop and go traffic. can self driving cars be programmed to drive and react much smoother to help us folk that are sensitive to this?
This is incredibly ham-fisted. If you're going to go through the trouble of doing the accounting and submitting the numbers to the state, just collect the sales tax and remit the money.

Doing it this way has no apparent advantage at all and several disadvantages.

It's worse for privacy, because if you remit sales tax then the state knows your total for the state, not who your customers are and how much they spent with you (obviously a problem for specialty retailers).

It's worse for bureaucracy and waste, because instead of automatically paying at the time of purchase, everyone has to fill out separate paperwork and pay separately.

And it's worse for small businesses, who now retroactively have to waste time unscrewing this because Newegg just told the state that they owe a bunch of sales tax they may not actually owe, because the parts they bought were either resold to customers not in Connecticut or resold in Connecticut where the small business itself already collected the sales tax.
It will create group of hyper-commuters who travel to work longer than it standard today because it will become slightly more convenient. Nothing I'm looking forward to.
I am considering the case where a company would refuse to upgrade the sensors(or the software) if this would costs say 25% more then paying for the killed people.
There's a big difference between "in the EU" and "with people who reside in the EU". When I come to the EU to do business, sure, I'll comply with their laws.

But it's very different to expect people who live outside the EU to respect EU laws, just because someone from the EU happens to choose to visit their website. I don't see this as any different than if someone in the EU was to visit a convenience store in the US - should the convenience store owner be bound by EU regulations in that case?
In a few years, I think this is a more likely concern:

"If my child died in a situation where I know without a doubt an AI would have avoided the accident, it would matter a hell of a lot to me."
How is this any worse than having learner drivers on the road?