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> Rock climbers drag themselves up a rock face with their bare hands, using a rope to catch them if they fall. Cavers drag themselves up a rope, because avoiding a fall is better than arresting a fall. That's the fundamental difference in culture and attitude between cavers and participants in "extreme sports".

I completely disagree. I am a climber, I climb sports, trad and free-solo. Trad requires the most skill in evaluating risk and coping with and rationalising fear (my definition of bravery; conversely doing dangerous things without fear or understanding is not bravery, it's stupidity).

When you place gear on a route you are constantly assessing the capability of the system which affects your trust in falling on it, because not all routes have the same natural quantity, quality or distribution of protection... Bravery comes in all kinds of forms depending on the exact combination of gear and fall potential (what you are falling into), but an obviously valid type of bravery which is easiest to explain here is dealing with _irrational_ fear when you have the experience and skill to know that the system works but has a big fall potential: e.g you have completely solid gear well distributed up the bottom half of a pitch on a sheer or overhanging face with good fall potential, but a hard run-out stretch above with no gear (lets say 1/4 of the bottom half and about 6 meters above protection to make it scary but no groundfall potential), this is safe to fall on, but you will be scared and it will take bravery and experience (experience of how the gear works and knowing how much you can trust it, experience of falling and knowing how to react and what to expect from such a fall).

A more realistic and interesting scenarios are when there is some significant amount of risk, innate fear is very useful here to guide you to the seriousness of a situation, but you need the skill and experience to separate it from the irrational and then manage the "rational" part by responding to it but not letting it control you.

> Cavers go into a hazardous environment, but they mitigate those hazards through meticulous planning and preparation. They don't see their activities as inherently dangerous, but technically demanding. If you're taking risks in a cave, you're foolish rather than brave - you're working beyond the limits of your skill and experience.

I'm not a caver but I doubt any of the cavers involved in this dive would agree that "They don't see their activities as inherently dangerous". There _are_ inherent dangers with this dive, experience and skill allows you to mitigate and manage it and respond to dangers in the best way possible, but there will always be some amount of risk you cannot eradicate, this is where bravery has it's place, it's not about being fearless, it's about being in control and understanding and accepting the potential outcomes.
Give them a year and see them running back. They have no clue.
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Poor people are not profitable enough to deserve equal treatment. Airline flights aren’t useful to people with starving babies or people whose very existence is illegal. Those people have different desires and other marketing strategies are more effective.

And there is the system itself: value exists in transactions, not money. Money is just another commodity. When you have a pile of money, it’s a safe bet there is only one thing you care to do with it: make more. Investments in things you don’t expect to be rising in value are unlikely, but since that pile of money isn’t profitable until you invest it, your choices are limited. All people with piles of money come to the same conclusion: throw it at rich people because that usually seems like the best way to make it get bigger on it’s own. Even if this likelihood even outweighs massive risk, it’s still better than contributing to society because if it works, it will be guaranteed to only take from society instead... which is much easier and somehow still garners social approval.

For society which depends on vertical circulation, the result is catastrophic waste. But the goal was to profit, which requires transactions.
My AMEX doesn't even have fees.
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See, no matter how skilled and careful you are, some necessary activities are more dangerous than watching paint dry. And courage/bravery is what motivates you to tackle these activities, in spite of your knowledge of their inherent danger.

Yes, skill is required, but actually skill is associated with courage; it is the skill that enables you to assess just how dangerous the activity might be, but it is courage that motivates you to undertake it, in spite of your knowing that no amount of skill can make it every-day-level safe
It’s not a simple problem to be sure.

I rub elbows with landscapers in one of my hobbies and the general consensus seems to be that leaving fruit or leaves under your tree as pathogen vectors is a bad plan. That it’s better to hot compost everything you can’t grab before it hits the ground. We have orchard ladders (the ones with the flared base) and telescoping handheld pickers and dwarf varieties (trees with better modularity?) that keep most of the fruit within picking distance.

Also leaving ripe fruit in the trees just means the wildlife or storms have a chance to get it before you can.

I don’t have any mature fruit trees now but my plan is similar to my friend who has five apple trees. Harvest as much as I can process at a go (she makes cider). And then whatever the animals don’t get after that is a bonus.
The bubble will be gone when the money dries up and that will never happen because there will always be suckers. Also nice username.
There's a market waiting out there for modular components that allows one to build their own customized cubicle in an open workspace. The components should be small enough to be able to be brought into the office without raising suspicion.
Cash-only stores certainly exist. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen one in the US. I think I ate at a hole-in-the-wall cash-only restaurant in DC a couple of years ago.

Nice attempt to turn my phrasing onto me, but I’m not actually claiming that cash users are being unfairly subsidized. Rather, I’m arguing that cash also costs, and the difference between cash and card (whichever way it goes) evidently isn’t all that important.
I'll take this opportunity to bring up Land Value taxation as an alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Creates incentive to use land efficiently, coupled with fewer economic distortions.
was it for convenience reasons (didn't want to deal with 2 credit cards)? because from a purely rational point of view, using debt/cash when a place doesn't take amex is always worse than using a no yearly fee visa with some amount of cashback.
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Sorry for misleading. I am aware that the term "tensor" was originally introduced within physics. But then it was adopted in chemometrics, signal processing and machine learning in a context of N-dimensional arrays of data. As such, this toolbox is focused on multi-way analysis and tensor decompositions of N-dimensional data arrays (tensors). However, fundamental operations include folding/unfolding of the data, tensor-matrix product and contration with a vector or another tensor. The latter is not implemented at the moment, but will be in future releases. Not sure whether these opertations carry the same meaning as in physics though.
It still leaves much to interpretation. A taxi company is subject to the same rules, but only a small portion of their fleet is accessible. If you call a wheel chair accessible taxi, response depends on where those taxis are and if they are available.

At any rate, the ADA is a popular topic to sue over (see California drive by ADA lawsuits, for example). You can do everything right but still expect a few lawsuits at least. A lawsuit itself doesn’t prove anything until judgement has happened.
Sports teams are companies.
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Actually, terrorism is really not a bad description of trolling, if hyperbolic. But these pranks seem to go beyond trolling, too.
A lot of people focus on how this information is used by advertisers, which can be a problem, but in my opinion the bigger issue is how data brokers are starting to act like completely unregulated and sometimes highly inaccurate credit reports.
This honestly sounds like you just disagree with them. They are literally a political organization. They are, ideally, not just a front for democrats or republicans. However, if they were just a front for the law, they would be unnecessary. Since, well, the law should already be a front for the law. :)
> Pro-people laws like the GDRP and this copyright

I quite like the GDPR. I don't see how the current proposed law is of any benefit to people. It benefits a limited amount of companies. Good luck competing with e.g. Youtube if you have to invest 60M EUR in a difficult to create copyright filter.
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The leaks, they keep on coming for Tesla. Tesla employees seem genuinely worried about shortcuts, despite taking pride in being associated with the most innovative automaker of our times. I believe Musk should heed to concerns, instead of foaming at the press, or branding concerned employees 'disloyal'

Can Musk be sued personally for cases of faulty brakes (if any)?
Can grow no more than 2% per year from time of purchase. What is called the assessed value (the value of the property used for taxation) starts at the purchase price and goes up by California inflation or 2%, whichever is lower, per year. Additions, however, are added to the assessed value. But this still leads to great inequities on how much taxes people pay. You can see what your neighbors pay quite easily by using zillo and looking at the Tax History section of a property.

The fact that Prop 13 assessed values can be passed down to children and grandchildren and is also applied to corporations causes its unfairness to continue to increase each year. The sooner it is repealed the better.
Wealthy people are a more lucrative target for the type of surveillance that credit cards do. Their pot is obviously bigger, and their financial inefficiency is more steerable (whereas a poorer person's inefficiency will be out of necessity). eg ordering from Amazon without checking prices can be nudged into ordering from a different retailer without checking prices.
The response time requirement could create an interesting tension between ADA proponents and environmental advocates. That is, if Uber/Lyft need to have vehicles that are 2 minutes away for passengers with motorized scooters/chairs whenever they have vehicles that are 2 minutes away for ambulatory passengers, this will require having many larger vehicles. These vehicles pollute more (and if they're EVs some day, they'll draw more electricity).

In my experience, only about 5% of the rides I've had end up being on vehicles large enough to stow a motorized chair, so equivalent response time could mean a major shift in the type of vehicles used.
Throw in US federal estate rules permitting a write-up in basis to fair market value at the time of death, allows heirs to have property tax basis from 40 years ago, but investment basis of today. Both of these policies decrease liquidity in the market and consequently increase prices further.
Had an issue with our credit card on Azure. It had been maxed out on unrelated charges and could not process for Azure.

Microsoft waived the fee for the month, in the region of 100s as a good will gesture. However, they did warn us to resolve the problem before the next billing cycle or face service disruptions.
Most of the best rewards cards are available to everyone. The rewards are more valuable to someone with low income. Case in point, when I had less money using Discover 5% rewards to buy clothes was more valuable than it is to me now.
Why dont you simply use notepad++ and count the spaces?
Romania is quite terrible in that aspect. A program called “First House” has been running since 2009, giving loans with variable interest rate, 5% downpayment for 30 years with rates that can go up to 45% of their monthly income. They are guaranteed by the state.

This keeps the estate market propped up and hurts people’s mobility. It’s the main way banks get to make risk-free money off the population in a country that has the biggest GDP growth in Europe based mainly on consumption.
You’d expect for them to hit an equilibrium where the expected values are similar. You’re absolutely right that a poor person who carries a balance forever and pays a ton of interest is extremely valuable, but that’s countered by people who stop paying altogether. It’s the same reason a wealthy person (or rather, a person with good credit, which I’m sure correlates strongly with wealth) can get a better interest rate on a mortgage or car loan.
Ghostery can replace scripts like Google Analytics with stubs that expose the same API but don't do anything. Last time I checked, NoScript/uMatrix can only outright block those scripts from loading, which breaks some poorly-coded sites.
Just a few days ago I added to my Pocket IMproved CSS style to 1) put some distance between the trash and other post icons and 2) colour-distinguish them.

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Me too. I thought I would have a seizure with that last one.
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It's important to state here that over-consumption of living space in Sweden means something almost completely different than what an American would think it means. Also, Swedish cities are small compared to American cities, but more dense, and of course more space-conscious in typical European style. Stockholm for example feels much more like Honolulu than Cincinnati. The Swedish housing crisis is basically that Swedes want to live close to the city center, and there simply aren't enough places to live there. If Swedes were willing to bear the burden of a typical American commute on their amazing public transit, nobody in the country would think there's a housing crisis. But there are other considerations at play, too, aren't there? For example, there's plenty of housing available in Kista...
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Yes? Isn't making a dent in the universe what everyone is trying to do? What else is there in life? Just surviving until you die?
That statement is very difficult to prove. Where’s the control group? To take an example from YC themselves, what would rethinkdb have looked like if they kept a close core and monetized upon that?

It’s a very bold claim, and I’m not sure I agree.
I think the intended meaning becomes much clearer in the context of the preceding sentence:

> I realized that I’ve overestimated my ability to quickly understand what drives people to do what they do. I have overvalued reasoning in myself and others and undervalued pride, fear and the need to belong.

The context is "what drives people to do what they do", and she used to work on the assumption that what drives most people is mainly reasoning rather than emotions. But she discovered that this isn't true, including for herself.
Just because it's minor doesn't mean it's nonexistent. I think it's fair to say that cash subsidizes cards, and the other cards subsidize AmEx. Stores should be free to pass on the transaction fee, it's not fair that processors can hide it.
I'd be curious to hear about your experiences/challenges. I really liked the loading/splash screen.

I tried the PWA/offline mode on Safari/iOS but that's not working right now.
Can you expand? All taxes are distortionary.. the tax system always creates some incentive that wouldn't be there without the tax. Might as well make it a good one.
My apologies. I did misunderstand that.

I don't necessarily agree, but it's an interesting thought. I've never considered the cash overhead before.
I'm fond these days of pointing out that Texas is far more liberal than California because in Texas a working class family can afford a place to live.

California's housing policies are the shame of the state (and the nation) and are destroying the state's culture. They will ultimately destroy its economy by driving away the next generation of creative people and entrepreneurs.
> how does this translate into US units, are there such simple conversions?

Not really. I have a couple of these types of conversions committed to memory (1 gal water = 7 pounds, etc.), but it's all pretty ad hoc. That said, I haven't found too much use for it.

All that said, I very much appreciate the orthogonality and consistency of SI. In an ideal world, the US would be on it, or at least on something the same as the rest of the world. Aside from sheer habit, I think the most compelling argument for the reason we aren't is that the units we use are so heavily baked into physical objects.
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6% on groceries is insane. If you look at the income statements of large grocery chains, their profit margins are in the low single digits.
The ugliest thing about the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Foundation's campaign was that it was almost entirely based upon the idea that old people shouldn't be priced out of their own home because of rising taxes.

Now it has made a lot of very rich people even richer (not to mention driven elderly renters out of their homes) as well as caused a budgetary crisis in California.

Jon Coupon's (current president) response to this budgetary crisis that they helped caused is to argue that California state pensions add up to too much of an unfunded liability and should be slashed.
When you say "government" or "they", you are talking about your fellow citizens and members of the community. Consider a hypothetical in which there is beautiful beachfront property in your town. Would you rather it be owned by a few wealthy citizens who pay no property tax or the government?
I think I agree with you that the context of an artistic work is a valuable lens through which to view it, but there are definitely timeless works of art, too. Don Quixote or most of Dickens come to mind.
There are a bunch of card only cafes in a kind of gentrifying neighborhood by me.
Selling a home and then buying a new one costs about 10% of the price of the home between closing costs and real estate commissions. That it on top of any costs to move that you would pay while renting.
I remember how much praise the Purism laptops got for the hardware kill switches on the microphone/camera. It seems like it would be easier for the 90% of the target audience, who probably never uses the mic or the camera anyway, to just remove those pieces from the hardware altogether and let those who need it plug in a USB mic or webcam.
Earplugs and brown noise. I can just, if I concentrate, make out _that there are people talking_. But since I completely can't parse it, it doesn't disturb me. The earplugs mean that I can listen to it at a much greater volume that would be comfortable/safe without them.

The downside is that every time someone wants to actually talk to me, I have to take my headphones off and take at least one earplug out.
But then your yard ends up smelling like a failed brewery, and the dog keeps getting sick.
Two things comes to mind:

First of all, Max Headroom. I think there it was a felony to turn your TV off or some such.

Second, Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It is a anime tv series that involves an undercover security force in future Japan.
Hit piece much?

Visa & MC's fees have been steadily climbing for years...

I use all of the above, but I _love_ my AmEx (Zync, because I'm cheap) charge card.
Email workflows existed prior to the GitHub's of world. The latter won because of genuinely superior workflow
I almost never ran into a merchant that didn't accept Amex, so I didn't have any particular reason to go to the trouble of getting another card. In fact, I more frequently ran into places that didn't take credit cards at all.
> Brian, Caleb: great talk, great writeup. Sorry HN is . . . being HN. Keep at it.

I don't think HN was super vicious. They presented an out-of-the-box solution to a problem but they didn't define the problem fully. Based on what we saw, their solution seemed way overkill.

Glad to hear that there was a solid reason behind it, not just hype and recruiting buzz.
now i'm scared to re-read prey. loved that book in high school but i was a simpler man then
I thought this was a good article.

I think the relationship between streamers and their audience is a more extreme form of the relationship between celebrities and their fans (some of whom may tend toward fanatical).

It's not surprising that things end up this way. When you remove the music/movies/whatever that the celebrity is producing and give the fans direct, real-time access to the celebrity's life things were bound to get weird.

One area where I disagree with the article is this characterization:

> [Viewers] are immersed in an online culture that believes that “social-justice warriors” and political correctness are the main obstacles to self-actualization

In my opinion this kind of "extreme speech" should rarely be taken literally. Instead, misogny/racism/xenophobia/ranting about "SJWs" on the internet should be viewed as a weird kind of performance art rather than an expression of genuine beliefs.

None of that makes it pleasant to an uninitiated spectator, but I'd compare that to how someone might find a dead baby joke terribly offensive. Really, I'd compare the whole thing to an inside joke between friends that would be considered "over the line" if someone else heard it. There's nothing new about that.
I've spoken to people who've been in the community for a long time and they seem to view the blockchain hype as something generated to get banks to underwrite the updating of systems that have barely been maintained since the 80s.

(Despite it not being really necessary for like 95% of problems, of course.)
Where I live in the UK you pay a council tax as the resident of a home, instead of a property tax on the value of the property. It's an itemized tax like you describe. Do you want to know why? Because rich people owned huge swaths of land and wanted to sit on it forever without any pressure to sell.

Land is a finite resource and we should absolutely make ownership of it subject to tax.
he has been in VP roles for decades, wouldn't call him an "engineer".
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I don't follow. What is it that offset the years of fees?