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> The form of this argument is very popular wrt to the minimum wage, too.

I've never seen it; it's pretty clear that minimum wage isn't a fallback in case of private arrangement failure (that's welfare, not minimum wage.)

> We can make these programs whatever we want them to be.

Sure, we could make a general universal first-resort pension. SS has never be designed to be or marketed as that, so you shouldn't expect it to be. (That's orthogonal to whether you should reform it to be one, or replace it with one; a portable, universal, public, actuarially sound defined benefit pensions is, IMO, a great idea.)

> I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care very much about the intentions of the people who happened to write the original law.

I don't particularly care what you care about. The discussion was over various perspectives of the decline of social security, starting with whether it would fail to be there—it was then suggested that it would for political reasons, but the real question was whether it would be an adequate retirement. I was pointing out that the fact that it was perceived as unlikely to be should be unsurprising and not a sign of decline, since it never had been in the past and was never deisgned to serve that purpose.
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I guess I've never tried doing it one noodle at a time or something, cause breaking a bunch of them at once results in them broken in two. Maybe they prevent each other from snapping back enough to break again?
Yes, how dare they want to run the applications they have chosen to use.
Devices that are more efficient tend to be more complex, so that's another tradeoff to consider.
Yeah, and it's not even getting the code from an official source; it's coming from a random bit.ly link [created by a contributor][1].

I've [submitted a PR][2] to inline the install script in the README.

[1]: https://github.com/thisredone/rb/pull/5

[2]: https://github.com/thisredone/rb/pull/8
But these more general results are kind of small print, right? The abstracts to both linked articles talk specifically about normed spaces.

(Thanks for the correction. I just gave one of the properties, but should’ve been more precise.)
This looks sort of like a disagreement over what people mean by 'hobby'.

I think I could do this, from my starting point it wouldn't take me very long to do something useful. But it looks like the meat of this project involved corresponding with a city bureaucracy and cleaning up ugly data to get basic info from it. It sounds awful.

So... if a hobby is just something optional you choose to do and don't make a living at, then yes, I could do this as a hobby. But in the sense where hobbies are things you do for recreation - reading, gaming, woodworking, gardening, etc? This would be far less pleasant than any other hobby I have, and the bureaucracy parts would be actively negative.

I'm glad this happened, and I'm glad if people enjoy doing this sort of thing! But I think when we talk about having productive hobbies, it's worth differentiating "tasks you can achieve" from "tasks you can seek out sustainably without hurting your quality of life". I have productive things in both categories, but I'd only describe the second category as hobbies.
At least fees are included and you don't get a bad look for not tipping.
I sell a gun to someone who has expressed to me interest in self harm. They commit suicide. Did I "cause death"?
Somewhat related, if you use the BOP inmate locator, he's doing max security time at a place with total communication control where the most violent and high risk inmates are sent in order to earn back rights to re-enter gen population. Average time spent there is 2 yrs.
Not since Ring -1 came to existence.
>For example, take a fridge. If I buy a fridge, the company I buy it from has an incentive to make it break in N years, so they can sell me a new one, i.e. "planned obsolescence".
However, if I subscribe to a service to keep my food and beverages at a certain temperature, then the company has the incentive to make the fridge last as long as possible.

You just described a grocery store...

They keep food and beverages at certain temperatures. When you are ready to consume that food or beverage, you can pick it up (or have it delivered). And best of all, you pay no subscription fee :) But in reality, that's not practical. Most families eat 3 meals a day, and consume multiple glasses of some drink a day. To make a trip to the grocery store (or fridge depot subscription place) every time you want to eat or have a cold drink is not practical (and increases environmental pollutants). So maybe you want to go once a day, you'll still need some device at home to keep your groceries and drinks cold until you want to consume, some device like a fridge :p

If you found a solution, that'd be great. But you'd probably just be a food delivery startup with some fancy marketing lingo. And we have plenty of those already.
Are we supposed to look negatively upon this study because they say "more research is needed"? Sounds like good science to me.
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American Airlines, United, and Delta Make Billions Selling This 1 Simple Thing
What this is about is the increasing financialisation of the world's economy, in other worsds, consumers don't buy a "fridge" and own a fridge and have dominion over it (classical unfinancialised markets), they instead subscribe to a service that cools their food. This on HN and in other wealthy techno-cratic circles is more-often known as "$something-as-a-service" (or just "XaaS").

It's a trend that is in my honest opinion one of the more increasingly troublesome and negative aspects of modern human civilisation. Xaas has a nasty side-effect of concentrating wealth and power to fewer and fewer individuals, it creates a much deeper power structure, since one finances another who finances another who...and so on, and the more you financialise the more you can financialise - an unstable equilibrium, or "positive feedback loop". With classical unfinancialised markets, it is a more Slack(the app)-like flat structure, where products are exchanged and ownership is transfered. Everyone becomes an owner. Power, wealth, and resources diffuse similar to that of the heat equation.

We can see this nasty effect in the housing markets, for example. The current situation where the law and society in general allows a growing number of ownership-hoarders who buy up many houses in an area and lets them out to their fellow underlings is a rather dangerous and volatile setup, and historically does not end well for anyone, but especially those up top.
WHy would it take that long? If anything a new currency system would work _outside_ the broken international money transfer system.
To stop spam we can stop using email.

For hundreds of millions of people Facebook is the messaging system. There's postal, telephone, email, FB messaging. It's also the most used. I think you need to come up with solutions that assume it, or an equivalent, will continue to be a principle and primary means of communication for billions of people.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408444.2016.1...

"Overall, our review did not find support in the epidemiologic literature for a causal association between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or multiple myeloma."

I'm a natural products scientist and I have looked as closely as I can and I really don't find much reliable data supporting the assertion that glyphosate causes cancer. I avoided using it for quite some time, but I do use it now. I have to live by logic and not hysteria. Many pesticides are bad and dangerous, but glyphosate is as close to a magic bullet that only kills plants that I can find.
And phase out that nasty bunker fuel ships burn in international waters. But then there’s the issue of what to do with the bottoms from the column.
It may not be quite where you want it yet, but take a look at https://github.com/usefathom/fathom. In particular you may be interested in issue https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/40 where cookies are discussed.
Orthostatic hypotension and incident dementia, stroke and cognitive decline
Yep and also, who gets to decide which opinion is correct?
Apply at companies like Tesla or Solar City. They have a similar mission you can contribute to.
I agree I think it's not a great problem but it's worth knowing: some problems we're designed to have an obvious answer and allow the proctor to guide you to the ideal one.

This has the nice property of acting like a fizzbuzz and a sample of how do I work on hard problems stage. The first part is pretty pass fail the second is observational. This unfortunately requires a better thoughtful proctor which isn't always the case.

If I had a candidate that couldn't do the (n^2)/2 solution that's pretty bad. It's nested fors, man. Bang out in like 10 lines.

Still though, I agree, not great.
Fear monger. A 2002 car still has safety features such as airbags, seatbelts, anti-lock brakes that a 2018 will also have.
I have a few wild hypotheses on this

1. "Experiences over objects" is driven by the need to share it on social media. Photos at the Eiffel Tower garner more likes than a new BMW car.

2. Peer pressure: Experiences of others being shared on social media and garnering likes causes the follower to do the same.

3. Being raised by relatively wealthy parents with all the stuff, and being disillusioned by hoarding and ownership of stuff.

4. Cheaper and more accessible transportation coupled with a general increase in per capita income.

5. Real estate is expensive now, and being forced to live in small rental units, you've learnt to spend time outdoors.
The oldschool way of doing this is programs like awstats that parse the web server logs, which can do all the things you're talking about and is in Debian/Ubuntu repos. I don't know if there's a fancier similar tool that people use these days, but AWStats gets the job done.

I wouldn't say they record zero PII but they don't record much additional PII over what your logs already use.
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Ask HN: Issue tracker for startups – does it sound like a good idea?
IMO established companies are hard to convert. Since there are many startups out there, I guess it's probably easier to get them as customers.
A nation state running a social network removes an essential political fig leaf, mainly that these networks are not affiliated with the government. Obviously they've been co-opted, but people tend to ignore that in practice. The government is also technologically slow-moving, which makes it great for large and essential research projects in basic science (like every major advance in the 20th century) but not great for consumer-facing and short-term technological applications in the market.
> Well, ask LA how that is working out

Just because America cannot make something work, doesn't mean it cannot work in other countries. Especially in the public sector context, which is full of mismanagement in America.
I think you missed the point that in both situations there will be a fridge in your house. It's just that in the case of a service, you don't own it but a company does.
>Another advantage is that the whole life-cycle of the product, including recycling it, becomes a natural responsibility of the company.

A responsible tax system could accomplish the same without causing people to pay 100x the value of a good product over their lifetime.
Seems like there'd be significant savings in having multiple municipalities or even entire states coordinate their bus orders.

It seems especially silly to order a custom looking bus because this would obviously raise the price of replacement parts. Is this part of why old buses always look like crap? Cities don't want to pay the crazy cost of replacing a custom part that is clearly damaged or worn out.
Crack cocaine, in moderation. Snorting detergent, in moderation. Inhaling strawberry-scented RCs because it's "probably" healthier than LA air - okay, in moderation.
But how would that work? If I work on a word processing application, that application can be used to write horrible lies and propaganda that many people would believe. Are you saying I shouldn't work on such a product because of that?

If you look at the story of how browser cookies came about[0], it wasn't for advertising and tracking people. It was just intended to be a simple way to allow users to keep state between web pages to provide services the people wanted. It was later hijacked by ad companies to do surveillance and then the government hopped on board.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie#History
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I was asked this question at a company (unicorn, but lower bar than Google, got the offer) and I only described #1. Thanks for calling me stupid though!
| you have many of the same expenses as ownership

You're free from the task of maintaining and securely storing the thing. My biggest personal switch has been selling my car. Granted I live in an urban area where the dollar and time cost of owning a car are greater than otherwise, but I REALLY don't miss worrying about parking tickets, breakins, this and that funny sound coming from the motor, etc. Dollar wise it's been a wash.
>>I used to work at a company where some guys spent literally weeks inventing a fast way to do a dot product over huge vectors.

Very nice that you bought up this point. This is exactly what I was trying to point out. If a team of full time working people took weeks to arrive at a working solution, despite a massive body of open knowledge available as a reference to prior solutions, there is absolutely no way a candidate can give even arrive at a decent direction to the solution in under 45 minutes in a interview situation.

No one is saying algorithms are not useful.

But there is a very big difference between knowing an algorithm and inventing an algorithm. Testing the former is no indication of the latter, as illustrated by your own example.
They'd better start acting like neutral carriers before government decides it for them. I totally get (and enjoy) the position that a private company can do whatever they like, but there is a scale at which you've enabled a platform with wide enough reach for enough people that restricting its use will be regarded as stifling speech by the only people who matter and who are more than capable of compelling you.
On a related note, I've often wondered how the normalization of knowledge-seeking via Google affects collective and peak intelligence across a population.

My naive guess is that fast, normalized access to information increases mean intelligence, but decreases peak intelligence. I have a hunch that the production of positive outliers requires input volatility.
The article identifies some problems but totally misses their actual source. The problem isn't that we own less stuff, it's that the ownership is replaced by a dependency on a handful of corporations which we have no ability to influence or appeal to.

The substitution of individual ownership for a communal one in which individuals retain a stake - a real community, or at a larger scale, a democracy - is not inherently bad. The problem with our recent trend is that we aren't getting communal ownership in return; we're getting nothing but convenience.

Silicon Valley has morphed and commercialized the term "sharing". You aren't "sharing" when you use Uber or AirBnB; you aren't pooling resources when you use Netflix or Amazon Books. You're renting. You're renting from a centralized company which outsources the generation of actual value to others, and pays them as little as possible. You aren't shifting your dependence from yourself to a community, but from yourself to a company that wants nothing more than to make money.
"It doesn't. I can show me the world map initially until I type in what I want to see. I use it like this all the time and it works great."

And that would kill much of the usefulness for me.
I would much rather they build an Appliance that were design to last 10+ years, and with an warranty of 10 years for a higher price. Such design would means the company has an incentive for the fridge not to break in the 10 years, and extremely simple to fix within the 10 years.

There are things that I would like to buy for life. Kitchenwares, Desk, etc. There are things that are consumable and may be being a services would be better.

The world already has made a Subscription model for an Expensive and long last fridge and that is called installment plan.
Sounds like some great things for fridge service providers to compete on:

"Our fridges are more power efficient!"

"Ours have advanced health monitoring!"

"We have the greenest recycling program!"
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I'm really glad someone is seeing this for what it is. Too often people claim that you should go for the naive solution first, and then iterate, when that really doesn't work in the dynamics of a normal interview.
There is a 50-miles requirement for financial companies that came into effect after the 9/11. So I think 150 miles isn't all that unreasonable for military.
I loved debt: and I got a similar impression. Also I thought it was amusing that he criticized the barter theory of money on the grounds that it's self-serving for economists, when of course his model more correct though it may be, is self-serving for anthropologists.
Also fascinating is that curves of higher order power also have properties similar to elliptic curves
It is >0, and those people make more than me :(
Open source security keys: https://solokeys.com.

For me it's cool because I'm learning more about hardware -- I studied maths, so not really focused on physical things. For the world, I think/hope it's cool because it's the first open implementation of the new FIDO2 standard, which means strong two-factor authentication protecting against phishing, and perhaps one day soon also strong first factor auth (the standard supports it, but I'm not aware of any major service that does).

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The classical notion that property is a kind of independence, which this article implicitly draws on, has always felt wrong to me. Rather, property feels to me like vulnerability. When you own things, they can be stolen, they can be destroyed by extreme weather (a real consideration living in the Midwest---for folks in CA, think of the fires), they can randomly stop working, they can be devalued by market crashes. If you rent, all those risks are someone else's problem, and the price premium is really just a form of insurance against that.
Short-term heat acclimation may be enhanced rather than impaired by dehydration
More than smoking damages it?
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> What that means is that the threshold would be about ten times lower if electricity prices were ten times higher globally

This change in threshold would flow into pricing. Also, energy costs are a factor in equipment costs, network access costs and the cost to end users. One would be hard pressed to find a single priced good or service on this planet that doesn't respond to energy prices.
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Frankly, I deliberately avoid nearly everything with recurring revenue attached. It is hard to save, take risks, etc. where minimum payouts per month add up.

Fridge?

And I have three actually. One runs on propane, one standard power and one is a deep freeze, like what one would put in a garage.

All were cheap, all work well, all take modest to very liw resources to run.

The gas powered one works no matter what. That has saved me a time or two when there was no power. I may well get another. It is insane cheap to use.

Anyone selling me something that is planned to break gets the following:

Added to avoid list.

The product gets hacked wher it is posdible to untether it and or remedy the failure.

I tell others.

Now I realize all of that is contrary and toxic to many business models today. I rarely buy new.

I grew up poor, and had time which I invested in skills. Those have paid me off many, many times over.

I also think maximizing what has been produced makes good jobs, is better, with some qualifiers, for the environment, increases personal agency, lowers personal risk and cost.

Among many other good things.

Service models can make sense. For many basics, they just do not make sense.

I would much prefer we distribute repair, support modifications, upgrades and such across many enterprises as we used to do.

TV's were a good example. I grew up learning to repair them. Used to do it for date money. Offered in home service too.

Cars remain a good example. John Deere is the other extreme.

A blanket, "this way is good" makes little sense to me.

Would much rather have many local relationships than the same with big enterprises. More options, and if I do work, I get the immediate returns of lowered cost and risk.
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I misread it.

I’ve been oncall for escalations for like 15 years. That’s miserable enough, IMO frontline guys need fixed schedules and rotation if the volume is high.

I definitely cast my perspective on this and apologize if I came on too strong,
And I assume they can charge faster with specialized super-duper charging equipment.
my favorite game of all time is Activision's Battlezone. everything was near perfection, just wish to see a better AI
FWIW it's fairly simple to make your own DRM-less version of Kindle books you have purchased.
>really don't find much data supporting the assertion that glyphosate causes cancer.

I'm far from an expert, but this being in the news has piqued my interest as well, and I haven't seen much that confirms it either:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705608/

People hate Monsanto, and populism is rife, so the decision wasn't shocking. Amazing that Monsanto managed to sell to Bayer with these lawsuits on the horizon.
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You get a fixed ratio of distillates, but you can use cracking to convert heavier distillates into lighter distillates. The majority of the world's gasoline is cracked rather than distilled. Refineries in the US produce a substantially different mix of products than refineries in Europe and Asia because of different market demands (including significantly lower demand for diesel).

Changing that production mix is capital-intensive, but everything in the petrochemical business is capital-intensive. US refineries are having to substantially change their operations because of the increasing production of unconventional oil, which yields a very different mix of distillates compared to conventional crude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_catalytic_cracking

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/cs/c5cs0037...
FYI, this post hit the front page, but looks like it's been deliberately buried. I can't find it at all in the first few pages of front page results.

That's probably for the best, even though this seems to be the kind of "man bites dog" story that generate some novel, interesting comments amidst the flames.