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renting at blockbuster made sense. You could watch a movie unlimited times within a 5 day period for $1.99, versus purchasing the video for $29.99.

renting at Amazon Kindle doesn't make sense. You could pay $9.99 to rent a digital version indefinitely (or until Amazon loses the rights to rent), or you can pay $6.50 to buy a paperback version that you have second sale rights to.
Saddam wanted to change the trust in Dollar. He decided to trade in Euro. Look what happened to him.
Just because it needs to be said, supporting a friend or family member and holding them accountable for things they did are not mutually exclusive ideas. It is perhaps emotionally tricky when the problem is viewed as a he said/she said argument, but in this case there seems to be evidence bearing out the allegations at least in part.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here (this topic)!
Texas becomes 11th state to call for constitutional convention (2017)
== Google Cloud ==

Google Cloud's protections against this new vulnerability:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/protecting-agains...

GCE Related information:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/security-bulletins

GKE Related information:
https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/security-bul...

== Oracle Cloud ==

https://blogs.oracle.com/oraclesecurity/intel-l1tf

== Azure ==

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2018/08/1...
I applaud that they state it's still safer than regular cigarettes. I gifted a friend who is a smoker with an e-cig package. A couple of months later he is still smoking cigarettes as he thinks these may be more dangerous..
We're specifically talking about interest rates as a monetary policy tool. Endogenous inflation is difficult to unpack, but it's generally agreed that the government can override endogenous inflation and set monetary policy within a fairly narrow band. In Western countries with reliable central banks, this is exactly what happens.
Probably not, but I have no personal problem with backing up my own content and it's not like there's an actual legal risk for doing so.
It's called a "spaghetti noodle", like in the subheading of the article.
I don't think the parent comment was making that kind of point. The referenced article was talking about problems that LA officials were seeing at (and with the vehicles produced by) the BYD plant that is the subject of this post's Ars Technica article. And I can vouch for that; as I detailed in another comment, I often ride BYD buses that are old enough to be in the scope of the LA Times article, and there are issues.

I expect this electric vehicle maker will get their act together with time!
The only thing somebody has to do today to become a "white supremacist who spews Pepe memes and vile anti-Semitism" AND a "neo-Nazi" is vote for Trump. So, more than 51% of the country right there very much care.
It would be interesting to greenfield design transportation.

Cars are very well executed machines, but I've always wondered what alternatives could happen if there wasn't the weight of backwards compatibility.
Ask HN: Have you been rejected by Stripe Atlas?
Few days ago I received a rejection from Stripe Atlas, because they deemed the business "too risky". What was your experience with Atlas? Have you reapplied after initial rejection? I want to apply in the future with a different business, but I am afraid that this rejection will negatively impact my future application(s).
Interesting about the acceleration and braking UX... that experience is exactly what makes electric passenger cars feel sporty and responsive, but I can see why you don't want that for municipal buses.

Then again, the "gas pedal" is basically a skeuomorphism dating back to when it mechanically opened up a gas valve... it's all drive by wire, so, "fix it in software"?
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What he means is that also in the case of the Grenfell towers "everybody knew it was going to happen". Except it's not true (as I bet it's not true in case of the Genoa bridge as well), as among the thousands of angry complaints that the residents sent to the council in the years before the catastrophe, apparently none was about the choice of the cladding.
I flat out do not by that "can only harm oneself" argument. The effects of addiction on those close to the addict are quite well documented.
"Bigotry is fractal" is I believe the saying.
They do indeed. Same as trams, trains, or trolleys
> what is affected by the mining capacity? The speed of transactions? The price of transactions? The creation of new coins?

None of the above. More miners means more people splitting the block rewards, and more network security against 51% attacks. Literally nothing else is affected.
It does, partially. While it's no replacement for democracy or other forms of cooperative stakeholding, the one avenue we have for influencing companies we grow to depend on is through our business. Monopolies remove that sole piece of leverage.
Razor style electric scooters you can easily carry are $200-300.
>>I mean I'm surprised you don't see why this question is plain stupid.

Its more psychological than technical.

Once a person knows how to do a thing, they start to think any one who doesn't, is stupid.

Their intelligence becomes the baseline to measure others intelligence.
> But then again, Jews became the bankers of Europe because Christians at the time were against it as well.

Jews actually had few other job options left to them. Antisemitism was really really widespread throughout entire Europe.
It seems to me the author does a lot of hand-wringing over the loss of ownership of things I didn't particularly care if I own or not. I think back to Thoreau's "don't own anything that eats or needs painting". I had DVDs because I might want to watch the movie again. But if I were to never see Caddyshack ever again, I could live with that, so now I might just buy it on iTunes. Apple has shown themselves worthy enough in my eyes to trust that I will always have access to Caddyshack. But here's the kicker before some of you get your dander up: if Apple were to somehow screw me Microsoft-style and my movie just disappears, for the pittance I paid I don't care. Because it beats boxes of DVDs taking up space in the attic.

We’ll have ovens and thermostats that you set with your voice, and a toilet and bathroom that periodically give you the equivalent of a medical check-up.

Until we are required to have such things, I do not care that I have the option. I have a Nest, I have Hue lights, I've gone to the trouble of hacking together a HomeKit server that can talk to the cameras. You know what? All of that shit could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn't care much. Oh, I was all excited when I got the gear, it's handy, and I would be inconvenienced by the disappearance. But the novelty of that stuff wore off fast for me, and I don't consider it a requirement in my life.

And I think that's key: as long as we can do without your subscription whatever, the author's hand-wringing is a bit overdone.
Ebooks solve specific problems that paper simply cannot, the biggest being that you can carry an entire library in a package smaller than a typical paper book. Beyond that, ebooks can be acquired immediately, and many vendors allow you to sample the book prior to reading.

All that said, I've also returned to paper for essentially anything I anticipate wanting to take more than a few notes in, or really referring back to at all.
Noodle is from a German root so not sure why you think of "noodles" as Asian.

I break spaghetti in half when I'm going to be stirring the cooked pasta into vegetables as opposed to serving a sauce on top of it.
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#3 is exactly what happens in these cycles. Take on a mountain of debt, and inflate out of it.
https://www.concordia.ca/research/migs/resources/rwanda-radi...

> From October 1993 to late 1994, RTLM was used by Hutu leaders to advance an extremist Hutu message and anti-Tutsi disinformation, spreading fear of a Tutsi genocide against Hutu, identifying specific Tutsi targets or areas where they could be found, and encouraging the progress of the genocide. In April 1994, Radio Rwanda began to advance a similar message, speaking for the national authorities, issuing directives on how and where to kill Tutsis, and congratulating those who had already taken part.

Almost a million people were killed during the genocide, egged on by radio stations. "Just don't listen to it" wouldn't have been an effective strategy.
I think Miele has ten year warranties for some appliances, and it wouldn't surprise me if Viking does. I know that Sub-Zero warranties some parts for up to 12 years. So, if you are really willing to spend big money on appliances, you can get lengthy warranties. Anecdotally, Viking, Miele, and Bosch appliances last a very, very long time.
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A good read in a time when the valuations of Netflix, Amazon, Tesla etc are extreme by conservative investing standards.

Many famous value investors such as Bill Ackman, Bruce Berkowitz and David Einhorn have been getting absolutely killed in the market in the last several years.

It is difficult for me to imagine that this pendulum will never swing back. The combination of oligopolistic technology firms (platforms!), Quantitative Easing, low interest rates and more globalisation than ever certainly make for exciting times.
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Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17757673
I think these should be called scooters. Unfortunately, English also uses that word for kick scooters, and now the two are hopelessly confused.
SPECTRE-LIKE FLAW UNDERMINES INTEL PROCESSORS' MOST SECURE ELEMENT
Yeah, the High-Level Synthesis work goes back to the 1990's. Wikipedia has a nice list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_synthesis

They didn't really pan out in terms of large uptake. They did solve some problems pretty well with shorter, developer time. There's also been open source ones designed. Here's a few:

http://legup.eecg.utoronto.ca

https://www.synflow.com

Many of the other ones seem dead or don't have a software page. I'm not sure what's current in FOSS HLS with C-like languages. Anyone know of other developments at least as good as the two I linked?
Not sure what the big deal is... this was solved back in 2005 in one of the top physics journals https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95...
being a racist and enjoying baseball -- basically morally equivalent, right.
A lot of debt is held in foreign currency and imports just got a whole lot more expensive in a handful of days. This is a serious blow, especially if Turks lose confidence in the lira. I can assure you that Erdogan is getting nervous. He can talk about boycotting Apple and buying Samsung all he wants; both phones are now unaffordable for a lot of people who were planning to buy one. Those people aren't going to be terribly happy about Erdogan's flirt with Russian missile systems.
Nope, this will never catch on anywhere that experiences winter. You can't ride a two wheel vehicle on icy roads and it takes a ridiculous amount of clothing to keep warm. If I have to buy a car for winter to accommodate my scooter lifestyle, then I might as well just stick with the car.
Neither of these things is possible, so comparison is meaningless.
> Few Americans borrow in non-U.S. dollars. And the U.S

This is interesting. But, the world is not all about US. My question is, can Trump do same with some European country?
This tragedy shows the importance of inspection and cost of maintenance of infrastructure. In the U.S. there are approximately 600,000 highway bridges. It's estimated that a quarter of them are at their end-of-life mark (that avg being estimated by some at 70). Not counting over 1,700 bridges still in use built before the 19th century, the breakdown is something like this:

Decade No. Built
1900 6,084
1910 5,893
1920 17,883
1930 42,009
1940 25,971
1950 64,085
1960 99,975
1970 82,129
1980 78,279
1990 81,410
2000 71,475
2010 38,038

This is just bridges. There are also about 84,000 dams and in a decade or two a huge number of both of these will approach their end of life, just as a legion of civil engineers go into retirement.
From the article:

"Soon after the university made its final, confidential determination this spring, a group of scholars from around the world, including prominent feminists, sent a letter to N.Y.U. in defense of Professor Ronell. Judith Butler, the author of the book “Gender Trouble” and one of the most influential feminist scholars today, was first on the list."

I assume this is to what grandparent was referring.
readers have been flagging it, and its probably been auto flagged due to other readers downvoting a significant number of comments.
Driving is the most dangerous thing most of us do, and we do so on a regular basis.

The risks of injury in an automobile accident should absolutely weigh into the calculus of car ownership. Especially considering the staggering amount of progress made in vehicle safety in the past 10 years. If a brand new Camry saves you from a single ER visit that you would have had driving an 2008 Camry, then it's already paid for itself.

It's not really any different from buying a fancy $150 toothbrush that does a better job at preventing cavities, or any of the many other purchases that statistically save you money in the long-term.
the noodles are something like 10-12" long so you don't really end up with tiny bits of spaghetti. It just makes it easier to cook in a smaller pot.
Crashes are happening all the time. For example right now P2P lending is crashing hard. The question is if it is worth it to have a systematic crash in order to clear the markets, as in Andrew Mellon's "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate." China is not the only one in the modern world unwilling to crash systematically.
Facebook Exec Warns News Outlets to Cooperate or End Up Dying in 'Hospice'
This is a big issue. I cycle to work everyday (Oakland) and there are at least a dozen people parked or stopped in the bike lanes. The big issue is that there is no where to stop. Parking is cheap/free and not time limited so most cars don't really move and the very few short term spots aren't ever enforced. You can drive around for 15 minutes looking for a spot or you end up in the bike lane. This isn't good but its at least somewhat understandable. This is the case around transit stations and busy restaurant/commercial streets.
Not just a trainyard: reportedly the bridge runs above Ansaldo Energia, a big company that makes generators and turbines. So yeah, definitely not prime land, but still crowded.
Everything this guy illustrates in this article as frightening and subversive, I see as positive. Americans confuse control with love; that's why we say things like "you belong to me" and "I only hurt you because I love you". That's why we substitute possessions for relationships. It's a thoroughly poisonous attitude.

The most bizarre statement is when he says "The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system." It's pretty obvious to me that a deliberate and intentional effort has been made to ensure that only people who own a lot of property have any voice in the system; to flip that relationship around and make it a moral statement is frankly a little scary. People really think like this?

Look, what Americans need is to spend more time with their friends, their children, their spouses, their families. Not to spend time collecting fancy cars or other hollow pursuits. This is a lunatic point of view.
I've been in your camp before, but generally mopeds are legally defined by maximum engine displacement (usually 50cc, though not sure how that works with electric motors) and speed (50km).
Yep. Pretty soon. You write code. You create a docker file. You find a place to run the docker file with your code [cheapest!]. Run it through your tests. Monitor it. The end. No vpcs,salts, puppets, sshs,chefs, horses,anisbles, cats,ec2s,devops,noops, sysadmins, kubernetes or chaos monkeys required.
To put my point of view bluntly, this is going to be a never ending game of whack-a-mole. Even if someone documents how to cleanup your location history across all of Google’s properties/services/databases, nobody can guarantee that it’ll solve the problem forever — except Google.

And Google’s business model as well as response to this finding make it clear (at this point) that Google won’t “solve this” and won’t do anything to make this less confusing and easier.

This is not the first time that Google had been found collecting and storing location information contrary to its claims or its explanation in help pages. Every time someone does an exposé, certain things may change (in this case it did not).

The writing on the wall has been clear for a long time — if you don’t like Google tracking your location, stop using its products/services or at least avoid creating an account with Google. I’d guess that the latter is highly impractical for most people. “Choose your battles” is what can be said when there’s no hope.
That is certainly part of it, but it is also about capability. They don't know how to make it work, maybe especially not in their own heads. The same is true for developers. Seniority is largely measured in how good you are at delivering what is fundamentally correct without compromising. While lesser programmers will convince themselves that it is unnecessary or that their own solution is good enough.
This is not fear mongering, it is actually true. NHTSA reports have shown repeatedly that newer cars have fewer fatalities. Perhaps there is some other reason for this correlation, e.g. maintenance. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Ad 2 and 3: Supposing for the moment the accused is innocent, how else could a defense/support look like? If "this issue" did not happen, how could they know about it? How could they prove that nothing happened other than "I think I would have noticed"?

> Seems people behave just the same as everybody else, in a tribal way.

Supporting someone you believe innocent should not be derided as "tribal".
I think so, I haven't read through it but it looks like the one, thanks for finding it!
AH, Europe. In the US you pay around $1.5 to $4 per withdraw, because the ATM network is a private enterprise not owned by the banks.

You will get there, unfortunately.

And you completely missed the point. Loaning/re-investing with volume is a very sure way to make money, and was what banks used 30+ years ago. now they pad it with fees for everything.
The Medical Device Nightmare: Our Scariest Security Threat Yet
It's also hard to gauge quality. Is a Samsung fridge 10% or 20% more durable than a no-name fridge? How much of a price premium to pay?
> I'm a feminist, and knowing neither the professor or the former student, I would believe the student's claims above those of the professor. Gender has nothing to do with it.

I would believe neither, ignore Title IX, and have such serious claims investigated by a judge. Then I'd believe the judge.
Yes.

This case is rare because it's rare for the woman to be in the position of power and the man in the subordinate position.

In any of these cases, we need to take the accusations seriously, which is what #MeToo is about.

Let me reiterate that. #MeToo isn't about women vs. men. It's about acknowledging the abuse of power to harass, humiliate, intimidate, and violate. It's about resisting the knee-jerk reactions in defense of people who abuse power. It's about fixing the dynamics that have historically caused victims to avoid speaking out because doing so is more likely to destroy the victim's career than the abuser's.
The terminology is a complete muddle in English. Even reading through that article I had to go back and forth a bit to understand what was being discussed in a given paragraph.

If you just say scooter these days, there are about four different things you could be referring to.
> Whether you own music or rent it doesn't give you a stake in the system, nor does owning a car vs using public transport.

You're correct, but it does at least give you some agency independent of the system. If you own a DRM-free mp3, you can listen to that song every day for the rest of your life if you want to. Whereas if you just have a Spotify subscription, a record company can decide to pull the track whenever they please (which usually happens across all streaming services at once), and then it's just gone.

The tradeoffs are debatable, but they exist.
I had a 100-year old neighbor that grabbed my butt, then she laughed like a teenager. It was shocking, but only because no one would associate centennials with that kind of behavior; otherwise it's a super funny story to tell at parties.
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> Should we consider banking a disreputable industry because of actors like Goldman Sachs?

And Wells Fargo. And Bank of America. And HSBC. But yes, any one of them is enough.

Mining is disreputable because of endemic pollution externalities and worker safety violations. Jewelry is disreputable from cartelization and the FUD regarding synthetics. Foxconn is disreputable because of worker suicides and the Chinese government's apparent political interest in advancing its high-tech manufacturing by any means necessary.

Prurient businesses are disreputable for several reasons, and one of them is the self-reinforcing reason that they are forced into using grey-market payments processors, because their industry is disreputable with respect to customer payments fraud.

So you don't purchase gemstones as investments, you don't let Goldman Sachs handle your IPO without a lot of scrutiny and supervision, and you don't trust the clay lining under the mine's leach pond. And you don't let adult entertainment businesses do card-not-present transactions. The industry attracts bad actors because there's money in it, demand is high, customers have their respectability masks off, and it has less personal accountability than other types of work.

The businesses that have a reputation problem regarding its suppliers getting paid reliably are going to have the worst problems. Everyone else can clean up their problems with lawyers after the fact, with the money they have already been paid, but if your problem can prevent you from getting paid in the first place...

Goldman Sachs never has that problem. Ensuring they always get paid first is apparently part of their culture. That's why they're always the ones making out like bandits while everyone else is dropping like flies. They might stab you in the back, but they won't ever fold up and collapse underneath you. Their office will always be open to accept your civil complaint or welcome the regulator/examiner or government's attorney. And their corporate executives will always be eager to repay your Secretary of the Treasury nomination, or seat on the Fed board of governors, with truckloads of hard money and soft money to support your political campaigns. They might not be reputable, but they are respectable.

Prurient business lacks even that, for the very reasons you mention. If you don't have the respect, you will never get the reputation, no matter how reliable you may be.