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> I hate this bullshit of "America is too spread out for transit." No, it is now. It's only happened in <100 years. It was because GM and Ford bought up all the street cars and replaced them with buses or killed them. It can be reversed.

Unfortunately, the American population has also exponentially grown in that same time period. It really isn't that easy to switch back to streetcars or light-rail or bicycling, and if someone figures out how, it'll probably be the biggest infrastructural development of the next fifty years.
I'm not sure which cities your referring too but even in towns like where my Dad grew up, a population of 40k, they're beginning to zone mix-use in urban areas.

As yardie mentioned, there is a huge demand for mix-use properties. To keep with Chicago as an example, I lived near a large area of small mutli-family (Du/Quad-plex or multi-story flats) and large single-family homes. There was plenty of commercial space but there was a huge local demand for mix-use property which led to it being developed. Called "New City" it was a tower on top of a movie theatre, a grocery store, with surrounding retail and restaurants.[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9086253,-87.6488544,17z & http://experiencenewcity.com/

I wouldn't be surprised to see more zoning like that in small to medium cities, however, it's likely they would be more like landscrapers than skyscrapers.
> that they don't want to do

This seems like a strawman.

If your point is that the author presented an interview vignette where the "Me", interviewee, character reacted to an unpleasant situation with less grace and courtesy than ideal, I doubt anyone would disagree. It was likely also just for emphasis and not to be taken literally, as it wasn't core to the point of the article.

It's not that the interviewee merely didn't want to perform the exercise. It's that he questioned (or rejected) the premise of needing to do it that way. In the context of the interview, what would it show?

There are plenty of people who very much want to work with someone who will question and even push back on "going off the reservation" (as a comment up-thread put it).
There's activity on the case (2:17-cv-2313-PMD) as recently as earlier this month, but you'll need a Lexis or PACER account to dig in and see what's up. But it doesn't look dead. Amazon is going to probably bury the plaintiffs in paperwork.
Sure, but how do they get that money back to you? How do you spend it? Theft is a lot simpler if you don't spend your ill-gotten gains.
Who was harmed when Billy grows, and smokes a joint of pot?

That hasn't stopped a crop of statues from springing up to deal with just that kind of behaviour.
Your first analogy (50lb computer) is nonsense because that's exactly the point I'm saying: computers that fit on your pocket and are just a few grams can easily render a webpage. Who thinks that a 50lb computer is nice unless it's sophisticated hardware that can't be condensed? Cars are nice yes but there are plenty of other smaller and more nimble transportation devices. So weren't not throwing away nice things here.
That is not a weakness, that is life

edit: this is a star trek reference
Its pretty great to get groceries the day of on your way home from work. Ingredients are fresh, and nothing sits around wasting away in your freezer or fridge. Your town has to be setup well for it though.
Just found out about PillPack, would have given them a shot but I don't feel that I can now.
I feel for you dads that have to wait in CVS/Walgreens. Hopefully the system gets easier for you guys. Maybe your doctors office could setup eRx but that does require certain software/money.
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We all have stories of buying our first XX Mb hard drive, thinking, "I'll never fill that up!" But it's going to be a while before I fill 128TB. Anything needing that much storage isn't going to benefit from storage the size of a thumb nail. I've got 128Gb cards in my portable four track recorder and a GoPro camera. I don't know how many hours of music I could record at the highest quality, but I've got hour upon hour of jam sessions and workshops, and it's a long way from full. Multiply that storage x1000, and I'd just never delete anything, ever. :-)

And I'll bet the GoPro would burn through a dozen batteries before it fills the 128Gb card. Your batteries would probably die from charging cycles long before one fills even that first terabyte of this hypothetical card.
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Privilege begets privilege. There are many students with the mental potential to get all A's in school that do not, often due largely to family discord and stress from poverty. Coming from a privileged background of a stable family with educated parents makes the achievement of straight A's mean much less than someone coming from a less privileged background. There are not objective measures of ability that you can cleanly separate out from their environmental dependencies. Being born poor is one of the worst things you can do to your health: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/01/401251/poor-health
The (mostly American, mostly late 19th- mid-20th century) cities at issue were largely developed by people with cars in mind, before obesity and pollution were known issues. There's a lot of inertia to that kind of design.
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US towns stopped building as a dense collection of buildings at the end of the 19th century. Modern "towns" are a dozen or so old buildings from that era surrounded by dozens of square miles of urban sprawl mcmansion housing.

Fundamentally the US simply has a density problem at all grades of construction. Its just more apparent in cities where the overconsumption of land per capita impacts more people.
I was asked once to provide references. I asked the recruiter how this could make sense as I will give her three friends who will swear that I am extraordinary.

She said she need three references and that's all.

It was at the beginning of my career, I am so glad that such nonsense is over now.
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That is assuming the market cares about opting in and security. Since their customer is a business that needs information on you and not you directly, I'd say it doesn't. The pressure to change will need to come from elsewhere.
Is that supposed to be a joke? Houston has a similar lifestyle to Berlin?
Are ethics at your tech company waning?
What happened to tech executive (e.g. HR leadership) setting the ethics bar high the company? That notion seems to be disappearing. Does your company have similar ethics issues?

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A 400k home in a ~80k salary, thats 5x what you make.

I make 150k and live in a 300k home in the midwest. I do like the privacy of my area (you'd call it "car culture" for sure), so tradeoffs, I guess.
I live in Boston, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, it is an expensive place to live (probably because actually walkable areas like this are so rare in the US), and I may not stay much longer with the rate of rental increases.

If you do live in an area that is more car friendly than anything, a van might be the better option: https://nicolagriffith.com/2018/05/26/new-car-an-accessible-...
There is a different psychology there, because the otter case comes off; it is like clothing for the phone.

The protection is not exactly the same; a case doesn't protect just against falls, but general wear and tear. There are situations in which your device can be damaged which do not involve a fall and deployment of the springs.
You obviously have never been to a Greek hospital.
You're basically asking people "What is my purpose?" and really no one here can tell you what you should be doing. Deep work is an art form of eliminating distractions and concentrating on the specific task at hand for a period of several hours uninterrupted. Whether its "work on a research paper" or "write a novel" or "learn a new programming language", these tasks are ultimately up to you to figure out what you should be doing.
Oddly, this is a common trope in a lot of popular media, where heroes are often noble and strong, whereas their opponents are weak but cunning. (Various "Batman" movies have such plots, where Batman is almost brought low by the scheming of physically weak adversaries.)
I don't think tech can crack education. All the iPads in the world couldn't replace a good teacher and good environment. We need to better support teachers over anything else. If all the money that was raised for the school went to teacher salaries, supplies, healthy cafeterias and likewise I'm sure the school would perform better
The truth probably lies somewhere in between you and the OP.

Most of the things you've mentioned are at the top-half of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. For many, they are one pay check away from homelessness.

Public education, while mandated, is not equal, as property taxes pay for education across most of the U.S, which equates to, rich folks/better neighborhoods having access to better funded schools.

There was a hackernews comment some time ago that pointed out that the fundamental problem seems to be that over the years, the distribution of risk has moved from institutions to the individual. The individual bears the brunt of the risk, with cascading burdens tied to small emergencies.

The oft cited scenario of low-income folks losing their job due to car troubles, thus being on the brink of homelessness, due to non-payment of rent is becoming more of a reality for the middle class.
> the rampant counterfeiting going on right under their nose.

This is news to me. Can you link an article about it?
Just trying to think what the comment you're replying may have been saying - is it possible that in some of the more rural areas funding for healthcare was a victim of "austerity" and so it's lower quality than the average?

Also it seems that the WHO paper seems pretty old - I scanned it for a publishing date but couldn't see one, but all the papers it references are from 2000 or older. After the financial crisis quite a lot of public services suffered pretty badly from spending cuts. Furthermore the Lancet paper seems purely focussed on mortality over a pretty broad span of time (1990-2015), which is of course pretty important ... but is only one part of what you want to measure when talking about healthcare ("did the patient die from their knee operation" doesn't answer questions of wait times, quality or cost).

The spending cuts after austerity noted by a more recent study (Euro Health Consumer Index - https://healthpowerhouse.com/media/EHCI-2017/EHCI-2017-repor..., performed yearly) which assesses Greece a bit lower, 32nd out of 34. It seems to suggest that the cuts have a pretty significant impact:

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Greece was reporting a dramatic decline in healthcare spend per capita: down 28 % between 2009 and 2011, but a 1% increase in 2012! This is a totally unique number for Europe; also in countries which are recognized as having been hit by the financial crisis, such as Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania etc, no other country has reported a more severe decrease in healthcare spend than a temporary setback in the order of < 10 % (see Appendix 2). There is probably a certain risk that the 28% decrease is as accurate as the budget numbers, which got Greece into the Euro.
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I'm not Greek and have never experienced their healthcare system so I have no idea which of these is the most correct, and even then relying on a ranking system might not give us an accurate assessment. However I would be extremely surprised if Greece was able to continue providing healthcare of a higher standard than Germany, Sweden and such.
What the EU is actually proposing is to encourage more migration within the EU. The EU has very abysmal levels of intra-EU migration, around 1/10th of that of the US. Because of this, you have areas with a lack of jobs and other areas with a lack of labour.
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It is interesting that when humans (Oriental medicine diagnosis) detect the same it's considered anti-scientific.
> lots of teams working on lots of products, and if some of them don't pan out, that's OK

Basically the modern tech titan mantra. The only company out of the big 5 that isn't doing this is Apple.
Got stuck in the signup flow. First, I was super sketched about giving you my bank details. After a while I found the tiny text that says you use a third party, but I couldn't verify that.

I decided to trust you since you're a YC company, and put in my creds anyway. To log into my bank, they required me to send a verification code to my phone. The text never came, but your flow has no way to go back and either request the text message again or have them send an email instead, so I'm now stuck on bank account verification. :(

So, areas for improvement:

1) Use bigger text to show you're using a third party for bank login, and maybe some way to verify that.

2) Create a way to request another token via text or change to email.
It does somewhat, hence the range I mentioned. For posting submissions and comments it was 10.9%.
All the ones I've had (and all the references I've read about their compatibility) have been during the Lenovo period, I believe.
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> There are many students with the mental potential to get all A's in school that do not, often due largely to family discord and stress from poverty.

There are also many students that do not have the mental (either intellectual or psychological) potential to get all A's in school because of a history of family discord and stress and physical environmental effects associated with poverty. (That is, even if you took away any effects of current poverty holding them back from what they intellectually and psychologically could do under ideal circumstances, they still would not do well because of past circumstances.)
This is a bit easier if you're a standard b2c SaaS company where you keep all your data in one place and can keep an eye on it.

But if you're not, or you're not sure what the boundaries of "personal" are (is a first name only personal?) it's harder.
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For the same reason jobs are not created as much in Wyoming or Vermont so much as they are in LA or NYC ... the jobs are being created, it's just that they're in Germany and the UK and not Spain.

Part of the issue is that Spain & periphery tend to have fewer 'large industrial conglomerates' that enable profitable
things to be done at scale (i.e. making cars etc.). % people employed at companies with >1000 people is much bigger in Northern Europe - which makes it more difficult to compete in the periphery.

But really, this is what can be expected with a true Union in Europe, and it's why Germany is so keen on it, and of course the Lib Dem (i.e. business types) are super keen on it in the UK, despite populist upset over Brexit.

The short run advantages of common market and supposed common risk of the Euro (which never happened), the downside is that skilled people are flooding out of the mediocre areas into the competitive areas.

Portugal is turning into a nation-sized retirement home, sadly.

In an odd way, this might actually be a 'net good thing' economically, because Germany might be better at putting people to productive use in industry ... which is why the Lib Dem types like it (i.e. they see the economics) ... but really this speaks to an existential challenge to the very nature of European nations and peoples.
Announcements in the trains crossing Romansch areas are primary in Romansch. It's nice to hear them.

You can use Google search in Romansch and they was a translation of Windows 7 and Office.
> But really, who needs +16GB RAM on their laptop?!

I need it on whatever machine is my development machine. Clojure REPLs are memory intensive. I'm sitting at 7GB in use right now, mostly thanks to Chrome, even without anything major running.

I could probably squeeze under 16GB if I was aggressive about shutting down server applications (e.g. Apache and MySQL) I'm not using at that moment and only starting them up when I need them, but that's just adding more chores to my workflow.

Having more than 16GB of RAM just means I never need to worry about it. It's one less headache to deal with.
Texan cities are all very car friendly and pedestrian unfriendly. It is just not possible to get anywhere without a car, and people will look at you strangely even if you walk down to the grocery store a mile away or so. One fine Houston morning, my friends and I decided to walk down to the strip mall for lunch after a night out; the sidewalks were unmaintained and cracking, but also... we were the only ones walking! It was quite a shock to me to see that, especially since the roads were chock full of traffic.
I was surprised there was no mention of six.py. In my experience it's been a key enabler for 2->3 transitions. But maybe not at Facebook?
It’s possible and been done. See this doc for a good example of this happening in US:

https://www.netflix.com/title/80145240
Thanks for the feedback! As soon as Saturday the promo will be over :)
Again, we're talking about Presidential elections here. Gerrymandering is irrelevant.
There's also Mononoke[0], a "Mercurial source control server, specifically designed to support large monorepos" which they're working on in Rust.

[0]: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/mononoke
Between Django and Flask, Pyramid is often forgotten. It seems like the only one of the three that has been genuinely designed to be extended (vs. Flask's approach of
"here you have a magic-global variable (that's magically working like a stack of dicts), go put some stuff into it"); a good example would be renderers. In Django it's still kinda awkward to use other/multiple templating engines; Flask doesn't really help. Pyramid on the other hand has a simple and extensible interface to support multiple templates and other renderers ( https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/na... ). This is a common theme with Pyramid. Another is avoiding global state; they're quite successful at that (vs. "I declare my entire app/blueprint within a function"-Flask and "I don't know how this works, it's just like magic. I go to my model class and, BAM, suddenly I'm connected to some database"-Django).

(Other examples where the other two's solution feel rather lackluster to me include middleware vs. view derivers, view predicates, the routing system and the security area)
> Those "structural changes" are called austerity

These terms have wildly different meanings depending on the context. In my use, structural change refers to revenue-neutral economic rule making. Austerity means deficit reduction.

Making it easier to hire and fire employees is a structural change. Making it cheaper to form a new business, or increasing funding to courts, is also structural change. Removing requirements that e.g. hairdressers be licensed [1] is another. Some of these measures may actually increase deficits, at least in the short term.

[1] http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/15/texas-supreme-court-stri...
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Pharmacies and benefit management companies have become very consolidated in recent years. And from what I've seen (which I'll have to be cryptic about since I don't want to accidentally reveal personal information about myself or anyone I know), it's not been to the benefit of consumers. Big evil companies that make money by screwing over sick people have been doing the 80s slash-and-burn consolidation thing where good companies are bought, existing customers are screwed over, and some small fraction of the company is absorbed into the greater machine. Buy a good company, deny people their medication, then make money off the difference until the customers leave for another company, then finally buy that one and repeat the cycle.

This means getting in there is going to be very profitable, and if amazon can get in there are use its existing scale they can get quite rich. There's now three benefit management companies that are in charge of altruistically deciding what medications you can afford. On the one hand, Amazon breaking up this pathological oligopoly would be good for consumers, but if it's really a market structure thing we run the risk of there still being on three companies, but with Amazon instead of CVS, ExpressScripts, or United Health.
Microsoft had an older e-mail implementation with their DLs (short for discussion lists). They exist for all manner of topics from where to find free food to finance, liesure and even politics. While I have seen them get heated or controversial its extremely rare.

My view is Google blurred the lines between work and leisure too much which encouraged behavior not tolerated at most companies. However internal discussion boards are still great. The "Internz" mailing list did frequently have these sorts of problems but that was largely because of the general inexperience of interns.
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In the past EC2-based clusters have made the Top500. Somewhat unique then because they were the only virtualized systems, but those were just 10 gig ethernet and HPL runs really well on those. In all cases we did it on relatively small number of machines before they had been publicly launched (essentially we used HPL as a stress test).

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Unfortunately, there's no business justification for any of them to do this. That is, the financial incentives just don't exist.

Until we decide we've had enough of this and pass a real law that holds CRAs liable for the data they collect and store, absolutely nothing will change. Equifax's competitors know that, with no such law on the books, they have enough money to withstand the very few lawsuits that could come their way as a result of a breach. They know the average person doesn't have the spare cash or time to pursue such a case.

Equifax should have been liquidated after demonstrating the degree of negligence they tolerated for years. They're still standing because we let them.
> How about all those amazon deliveries?

That's what the drones are for
You're not wrong, but if history is any indicator: tech companies need to innovate or die. I'm not convinced facebook is here to stay.
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I'm not sure the average Twitter user wants Twitter to "deal" with him like they're Vito Corleone.
> It means the regulator can't issue instant fines for non-compliance

The regulator interprets the gap. "Planet-sized gap" means the regulator can choose to be lenient or capricious based on their own preferences. That kind of uncertainty is anathema for modern businesses. (It's also beneficial to those who pay to build relationships with said regulators.)
NURX (YC W16) is hiring by the way and it will be bigger than PillPack https://www.nurx.com/careers/ as it also prescribes
Hi Henrique and Pedro. Great service idea. I love the write up.

I just signed up and after clicking the activation link in the email, I started the application. When it go to the step asking about my bank, I said it wasn't listed and then I typed in my bank name. Now I'm sitting at the final page with the 'Submit Application' button, but it's grayed out. I'm using Firefox Nightly on Ubuntu.

The rest of the flow was pretty easy though. Nice job.

EDIT: Larissa was able to help me via the intercom chat. Great support integration!
This is a really good point - but most good industries cannot exist in the shadows.

You can't make cars 'in the shadows' for example.

So while that may be a silver lining ... it's not a very happy one in the long term.