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>People can make "customer service" a rallying cry, but "customer convenience" seems to be the actual metric that matters.

Exactly. Don't make it hard for me to give you my money.

Home depot and Autozone aren't going to be killed by online retail because a large fraction of their customers need drain snakes and replacement car parts today, not two days from today.
> That kinda already exists though, with team driving. Two pilots relaying gives ~22h of driving per 24h plus 2x30mn slack (under US regs, though there's still a limit of 70h/8 days followed by 34h rest per driver).

So at minimum labor costs could halve... Sounds like a huge productivity boost.
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Road maintenance is contributing to the upkeep of the community, so that's not a use that illustrates the argument that vehicle dwellers aren't contributing to community upkeep.

But, yes, it's zero-sum: but if vehicles that are used more as houses are having tax revenue distributed as if they were being used more as transport, then people sleeping in cars are subsidizing drivers.
In the U.S. there are an increasing number of places where the schools insist on parents being present for both drop-off and pickup, sometimes to the point that they will call Child Protective Services (government agency) to report Child Endangerment if the kid arrives alone.

We are looking at places for our older child right now, and one of the schools we are looking at has an official document that the parents must present in order to pickup your child. Otherwise they will not release the child.
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Thank you for this answer. It makes a lot of sense. I suppose I was conflating blockchain technology with actual problems that it could solve. The same probably also applies to cryptocurrency.
I agree with this. Inflation is a huge factor and needs to be considered with any retirement calculator because you can't assume that your $100K today is worth $100K in 20 years.

I actually built a calculator myself to better accommodate for inflation and have the ability to tweak the numbers just a bit more. If you're interested:

https://www.financialtoolbelt.com/calculators/financial-inde...
I was describing the mental state of a segment of American society. The particular segment I'm referring to often has views that are detached from facts.
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I guess we are presuming that drivers wouldn't simply step on the gas in that kind of situation.

Also I suspect the absence of a human being in the situation would psychologically make the theft feel "less wrong" to many would-be criminals.
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Another more detailed one is cfiresim

http://cfiresim.com/
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I've been programming professionally for the better part of 7 years now, and can pretty confidently say I will not be doing that anymore. Worked in the bay area for a company and quit after a few years following a series of layoffs hitting my department. Then basically had two jobs where I only lasted for less than a year in each. Washed out.

Moved out of state and had two other jobs programming. The first didn't have enough work to keep me around, and started the second. I just quit that one after 8 months. It is probably my last as a programmer, my resume just has too many red flags from a hiring perspective, and are probably right in their assumption, along with my wariness of the field as a whole.

My question is, how did you folks out there find another career? DJing a strip club, no joke, is not going to be a viable long term solution, and for the first time have _no_ clue what to do next. No debt, children or any serious obligations, only caveat would be lack of higher education, so I can entertain a bunch of options.

What did you do to start a new chapter? Not trying to drum up a pity party, just looking for fresh perspectives out there on stepping into the unknown.
This is true. The work of labels is not hard to replicate digitally and Spotify is a valued brand already with amazing distribution built in.
On the physical front however (and bands need concerts to make money) they would be disadvantaged. Seems surmountable too, though.
>On a related note, could someone explain to me how Russia manages to stay a threat with a military budget that's about 6% of the US budget? Or does it only seem to be that smaller because their soldiers are payed less?

Never underestimate the sheer waste and incompetence that the US Government is capable of achieving. My general model is that we get about ten cents in value for every dollar spent. So, all Russia needs to do is break even, and they would achieve close to military might of the US.
What time is it. Where am I. What is my name. Where am I from. Who is my captain. Where have I come from. Where am I going to.

This note in a bottle knows more about itself than I do.
Awesome. I don't know how common it is to see an app with 600+ reviews without anything less than 4 stars. Great work to a great team.

https://apps.shopify.com/shogun
> Hell one of the reasons passenger trains is shit in the US is that passenger rail does not get priority over freight

They do have priority:

> (c) Preference over freight transportation. -- Except in an emergency, intercity and commuter rail passenger transportation provided by or for Amtrak has preference over freight transportation in using a rail line, junction, or crossing...

http://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-49-transportation/49-usc-s...
The transition from "free-range" kids to the helicopter parenting they experience now also informs a lot of the issues with college and university students being afraid of challenge and ideas they've not already come across. I look at how my brothers and I were raised (in the 80s) and I look at kids born and raised in the 90s, and there's a clear disconnect in attitudes and experiences that can be attributed to whether or not one was constantly supervised and pampered.
Isn't the sentiment over WWI that it was only a matter of time and casus belli? If not an assassination then a border skirmish or something else.
It's amazing how clear this is, yet so few people can see it, it makes me wonder if there would be less confusion if we didn't have two different cultures involved.

Of course, Western corporations and their executives who are profiting handsomely from it have good reason to "not notice" what's happening and continue to talk their book, but the wilful ignorance of genuinely well-meaning liberals is more complex.

I always wonder if Chinese leadership sometimes leans back and marvels at how easy it is to win when the uninformed citizens of your adversaries are in an ideological war with each other.
"Because if I recall correctly, the US military spending has gone up significantly as well, also it's projected to rise even further in the future."

US military expenditures are also very disturbing.
This could well be what's pressing them to stay away from the label game.
Also, to be honest, we could pay for a three bed apt. Afford is another question. Currently socking away cash to try to buy a house, but that affects ability to go somewhere more suitable for a family in the meantime.
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NixOS, because it's the cutting edge of configuration management and package definition. It even reinvigorated my love for computers and free software just by being so elegant, sound, and practical.
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I definitely think something like that would have potential for virality; something where maybe in order to add someone, you have to be in physical proximity with them when adding.

I could totally see that becoming kinda gamified, the objective being to collect as many of your friends' on it (by actually physically meeting them) as possible (like Pokemon Go, lol)
You're in pretty dangerous territory when you start to justify censorship because the right people are getting censored. Censors, be they government or not, never think they're censoring the wrong people, they always think they're doing the right thing.

I’m not making that argument, and I’m not diving into the bottomless pit or what people “feel” is censorship, when it’s appropriate, etc. HN exists by virtue of constructively and carefully applied censorship, with a specific and stated goal to avoid degradation and collapse. Censorship is a tool like any other, none of us should expect to be free from it. Government censorship is a whole other matter, but fortunately the 1st ammendement protects against that.

To the rest, I’ve been hearing the same “if’s” from the same bad actors for decades. After all, when a good argument or cause is absent, out come the slippery slopes. I’m just tired of it. It always seems to come down to a plea for assholes to be given deference, and anything short of that is “censorship”. Please.
hmn, do you mean corruption is not as bad as income inequality?

Because one can argue that corruption foster inequality, where government workers steal money from the people, they give favor to rich "friends" making them richer.

I can guess your solution is to give more power to the state to solve the inequality issue, which actually worsens the corruption caused inequality.
3.5% end up with a meaningful income? That’s probably an order of magnitude more than I’d have guessed! Interesting...
Hey, even Saarbruecken hosts demoscene parties :-)
Taiwan is a first world democracy that has at least existed with its own distinct government for seventy years. A Chinese military invasion would be unprecedented in the history of the world since WWII. I wonder what such a war would signify for the postwar order.
Ah, it does not assume that you'll die:

The retirement calculator takes the Total retirement savings and calculates how much monthly income a 4% annuity would generate without drawing from the principal. This indicates the type of lifestyle you can expect without running out of money.

Or, to put it another way: it assumes that you want to be worth roughly the same at death as you were at retirement.

That's fine, but it bears mentioning - since it assumes you want to pass on potentially millions of dollars at the time of your death.

If you aim to break even at death, that changes the calculations.
Yeah, surely there's no history of right-wing organizations gathering support by engaging in public welfare operations.
Of course it won’t exist. It’s an asinine, regressive policy that uses trick after evil trick to convince voters that it’s not an unholy abomination.

I know my rhetoric sounds like a joke, but I’m 100% serious. You have the fake notion that “employers pay half” (no, the worker pays 100% of it truly), you have its regressive nature (poor people start working earlier and also die earlier, so it’s a redistribution towards the wealthy), you have the fact that it’s sold as a sort of insurance/retirement account when in actuality it’s neither.

Honesty, you’d be hardpressed to find a more awful government “safety net” program. I miss the days when I supported myself only on illegal income and got to avoid the whole issue. Alas, those days are gone.
The municipal services, in the US, are generally funded by property taxes. If you are in an RV you aren't paying for those services so I wouldn't agree that you have a "right" to them.
Ask HN: How will you manage your digital assets when you die?
As I get older I have needed to perform digital forensics on friends and family members online accounts and assets. This has me thinking how can I automate this for my own things?

For example I've built a password protected web-site that I try to keep updated with important information for family and a paper in my desk that reads "In the event of my passing visit this URL ...". This is a place to give survivors the keys to my password vaults and allow them to memorialize my social media profiles.

However no amount of documentation will cover cases of GitHub repositories and NPM modules. Are there ways of transferring repo ownership to others or bots to auto-reply to pull requests long after the authors passing? How do others plan to handle the case were their code and digital assets will live on past their own life?
Honestly we just provide really great support, and ask people for reviews when we solve their problems.
I am really amazed that a ships log from 132 years ago was retained and is still available. Is this a common thing?
> countries where corruption is endemic and part of the culture almost always started out as "extraction colonies".

This is an overly simplified, albeit correct, way to explain it.
It's Google deciding to publish their formerly internal documentation as a public service. If they're using Python 2 internally, of course their internal documentation is going to be on Python 2. Releasing it is purely positive.

Still, if you need to search for today's reason to switch to DuckDuckGo, I guess Google releasing a free class for the wrong version of Python is as good as any.
Is there something in particular about him that you find scary? I'm not sure why length of rule should play such a large part in this calculus.
AIUI?

(But this is another good point: a failed hyperloop also won't have A/C. That will be a potentially life-threatening problem in Dubai, where the first hyperloop is likely to be built. Summer temperatures there regularly reach 45C.)
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Would an applicant come off as unfocused if their bootstrapped startup actually hit a few of the items on the RFS list?
That's assuming the bottle, paper, and museum staff even exist. From where I'm sitting, this is just pixels and text.

> It would have been quite elaborate hoax to correctly reference the logs, find a vintage bottle, paper and printing press and forge the handwriting.

Ah, from that point of view it seems like a lot of effort. But suppose someone already happens to have the vintage bottle in their possession, from a long time ago. Then they happen to learn about this ship and its logs. "Hey, I have a bottle from around that time, ...".

All sorts of situations and combinations occur in the world without a lot of effort, due to things just falling in place. Then they look like they would require effort if viewed from the point of view of having been contrived.

It's similar reasoning to the greater ease of finding two documents with a colliding message digest hash, compared to finding a colliding document for a given document.

Sure, the given situation is hard to contrive, but it's one of an infinity of possible hoaxes, and there are many people in the world with many experiences and ideas and things in their possession and so on.
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USA turning over nuclear weapons to Taiwan sounds like a recap of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Unfortunately Trump is no Khrushchev, and Xi is no JFK either. A terrifying scenario.
I just read a blog post showing how costly and/or complicated it is to move money between countries, when doing internships for instance. I guess that's one problem that could be solved.

https://medium.com/@emilefugulin/money-tips-for-foreigners-w...
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Although I agree with you, the problem (in the US at least) is that pivoting is nearly impossible for a large group of people. Our educational system is expensive and generally has terrible quality, and we don't have very good social programs to help float people while they are getting re-educated.

If we push innovation without changing these problems, it's not gonna be pretty.
I really like that Spotify has a Linux app.

... Since it's built on electron, though, it's basically the same as the web player. A chrome web app would do too, really.

But I guess it's a nod of appreciation.

There are also some nice single board computer based players based on this and that's nice.
What you do not seem to acknowledge is that your view boils down to 'my way, or violence.' And your opposite is similarly viewing things through a lens that boils down to 'my way, or violence.' It's easy to see how this is going to end... When you put this in some sort of reduction to absurdity by pretending debates are about slavery, then it masks how truly psychotic this is. In reality, people are discussing things that are far more shades of grey than black and white, but with complete mutual self righteous determination that their side of grey is actually the 'white' side.

But let's get back to even notions of black and white, right and wrong. People must be allowed to think and even argue in favor of things that are completely awful. Deciding to assault people for wrong think makes you no less wrong. The difference is in action. And again this often results in people trying to do things like invoke some sort of 'paradox of tolerance', but in reality - there is hardly such a thing. Please list an of a single society that was oppressively destroyed by an internal force that made their points relatively peacefully. That whole sentence is a a nonsequitor. It's the prime example of that sort of sophistic logic people use to convince themselves that they're protecting society from its imminent demise, and it's complete nonsense. And it's also arguably the most dangerous thing in this world. Nearly all 'evil' in this world has been done in the name of some greater good.
Dropbox, which is a much smaller company and codebase than Google, is (as far as I've heard) still on Python 2, despite having hired Guido van Rossum away from Google to work on static type annotations for Python to fix all the str/bytes stuff and related incompatibilities in their codebase so that they can move. Certainly this was the status in mid-2016, about four years after they hired van Rossum: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/2266/

The difficult engineering problems in the world aren't greenfield engineering.
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So many years ago, a friend convinced me to go "bird watching" with her. And I discovered that it's mostly bird listening. It takes considerable skill to actually see the birds that you hear.
Definitely agree there is a lack of easily accessible information on coins. I started putting together https://www.orc.press though my sense is that it's overly technical for most users.
Nextdoor sends you a postcard in the mail to the physical address you register with. You validate your account with the PIN on the post card.

This way you're fairly certain that you're only interacting with your close neighbors.
Looks like a great tool. I have a Shopify site that has a large amount of products. I've had to build a lot of backend tech to manage all the syncing of the products with the API. Making sure the products are updated with the right info, are in the right collections, are connected and visible within my SEO strategy. I've punted on the UI side and opted for just buying a nice theme and doing some basic customizations bc working within Shopify is too painful.

I like the idea of smart data collections. If you guys had direct DB connectivity, auto-populated the collections AND synced that between platforms, that would be baller. And if you offered direct FB / Google Merchant center feed control, that would be even more baller.

Would love to start a trial, but it seems daunting to figure out the migration component. If you made a tutorial video on that, I can see that easing that friction point.
That's probably part of it, but they aren't mutually exclusive. The difference in wages between spouses is small anyways (but men usually earn more), so I don't think the marginal increase in a woman's income changes her ability to provide for herself all that much.
One example that YC has already funded is Substack https://www.substack.com/ Writers on there are making more than have ever made elsewhere.
He he, good ones.

Here's a small Python tool I wrote to help with stuff like this - it can easily be customized to add more suggestions of your own, from this thread or elsewhere:

Cut the crap! An absolutely essential tool for writers:

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failure recovery in the context of spacecraft usually means software-commands sent via TT&C (tracking, telemetry and control) channel to switch to another piece of hardware, part of the N+1 or 1+1 configuration on the spacecraft. It is incredibly exceptionally rare for a human to ever visit a satellite once in orbit.

They did it a few times in the 1980s with the shuttle, including recovery of a satellite to prove it could be done, and there were the hubble servicing missions. But other than that no human has ever touched a satellite once it's in orbit.
My only personal favorite missing from that list is a local Lansing band, The Woolies, that cracked the top 100 with a cover of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?
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Old-style tontines are not actuarially fair - they are significantly more valuable for you if you have a higher life expectancy. It transferred wealth from older individuals with a higher chance of dying to younger individuals with a lower chance, with the obvious failure mode of a tontine being something you sign your children or grandchildren up for.

Actuarially fair tontines would yield mortality credits based off age and amount invested. So if you had a 10% risk of dying in a year based off actuarial tables, and you had a balance of $10k, you'd have 1000 mortality credit units. 1% chance of dying means only 100 mortality credits. So there's no advantage to signing up younger folks - the lower risk of dying proportionally lowers the mortality credits earned.
print as a statement vs. function doesn't carry that much weight when you have tens of millions of lines of currently working code to migrate.