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> Courts apply laws.

No, courts are arbiters, sometimes of the law, sometimes of civil disputes, such as contracts.

> Laws defining and providing remedies for comemrcial frauds are regulations

That is true, laws that apply to contracts are regulations, however, they are not necessary for remedy.

If I have a contract to receive "A spoon product id xyz as created by Sir Porky Pig of 123. Main, CA USA" and anything other than that is delivered, it's a breach of contract at least and fraud at worst. I could sue for damages. What regulation is needed for this transaction? If someone were to deliberately intend to deceive me, that is fraud, and there are already laws for that.
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We'll provide french lessons to any new Sterblue employees ;) (Geoffrey, Sterblue CEO)
If you leave more than a few car lengths between yourself and the next guy at rush hour, someone will quickly fill that gap.
>This is dangerous, as you aren't signaling people behind you if you are braking...

Engine braking results in a slow drop in speed. If the car behind you cannot handle a slow speed decline, he is the problem, and is driving too close to you.

Most good instructors teach students to try to slow down as much as possible just by getting your foot off the accelerator (not with engine braking, and not with real brakes).

As in don't wait till you are near the stop light to apply the brakes - just get your foot off the gas much earlier, and apply the brakes when you have to. In real terms, when driving at 45mph, I usually don't need to apply the brakes until I'm at 35 or 30mph. Puts less load on the brakes, and is supposed to be safer - you are easing into a lower speed as opposed to doing it suddenly.

The people behind you will not see a brake light, but will still slow down behind you. If they hit you, they are driving poorly.
Electric vehicles do use an assembly of gears to adjust ratios for optimal torque - but just the one gear. It's still a transmission.
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Your roommate in a suite could have just as easily been like that (unless it really was a socioeconomic class problem). GPA in the same-major across housing situations would be interesting to explore. I had neighbors who partied every Friday night with loud music and underage drinking until ~2 AM. It sucked, particularly when they did that during finals week and I had 8 AM finals.

I have friends who were in the suites, and there was basically no community developed there. In the standard dorms, people knew each others names because they'd run into them on the way to the bathroom. People kept their doors open (particularly in areas without air conditioning).

I say all this as a graduate of Iowa State, which I understand has one of the higher on-campus housing rates (95% of freshman, 50% of people who were on-campus last year are again this year).
I agree, but...

One of the things that you get in a university is contacts. A top-tier school may in fact be worth more money than a pleb-tier state school, if the people you meet there are worth more to know (over a lifetime) than the people you meet at a state school.

... says the guy who went to Random State University...
There's water in the air, so everything in the air is actually wet based on that line of reasoning.
> the main driver is the availability of student loans

100% this.

If you want to have an affordable college education, you can have one.

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1. I'm from Florida and the best school in the state is (arguably) the University of Florida. In-state tuition is $3,191 per semester, so $25k for four years. And that's the amount if your GPA/SAT/ACT doesn't qualify for the relatively easy 75% Bright Futures state scholarships or more-difficult-but-still-common 100% scholarships.

2. I went to Brigham Young University (private school) in Utah which is $5,620 per semester, so $45k for four years. And that's assuming your GPA/SAT/ACT doesn't qualify for the easy 50% scholarships or the hard 100% scholarship.

Text book are pricey, but there are ways to avoid paying the bulk of the costs. E.g. rentals, buying used. UF's libraries have text books with 3hr checkout times.

A three-month $10/hr 40hr/wk summer job is $5k pre-tax. A nine-month $10/hr 10hr/wk part-time job is another $4k. Plus, the IRS will give you $2.5k per year via the American Opportunity Credit.

Naturally, there's also food, rent, and transportation, but those exist regardless of college attendance. (Though finding cheap shared living is far easier in college towns.)

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Coming out of a undergrad with $50k+ in student loans is not done because you have to. It is done because you choose to. Given the availability of student loans, lots of people choose to.
I got my tranmission rebuild kit from RockAuto as well ;)

The auto parts world is a tricky beast. If it's not sold by a major retailer, there's often the manufacturer or specialty sites for various classes of autos, especially classic cars and 4x4s. Ebay is another great place for used parts as well.
His point was that domain experts invested in this company. What domain experts invested in Thearanos?
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I had forgotten about real player. It was so awful...
Heh I just bought a new car in the US and it's a manual (and it's not even a sports car). Why? Because I don't care as much about adaptive cruise control (I bike to work so the car is mostly for long drives) and it was $1200 cheaper (of course that's also going to matter when selling the car but if I tend to drive cars into the ground, 20+ years of use or more so that's not an issue). I don't feel strongly about either automatic or manual, both have their pros and cons, but if there's a significant price difference I'll go for the cheaper option.
Many in the cryptocurrency space throw around the "currency is not real" and "currency only has value because we believe it does." These cliches betray an ignorance of the very real power relationships at play in the space.

The strength of the US dollar is supported not just by the imaginations of its users, but by the political and trade relationships made and sustained by the will of the US government.

This is just one small example of the weight thrown around when the dominance of the dollar is threatened.
True.

Except that consumer electronics companies like Frys now get low warranty, extra shitty, extra cheap models to suck the Black Friday morons in since they know those consumers won't buy anything else.

I have, in fact, been warned at several stores (not just Frys) on the weekend afterward: "That's our Black Friday model. This model over here is nominally more expensive ($20-50 max), has the normal manufacturers warranty, and is a really good deal as it's 50-75% off our normal price anyway."
>Engine breaking just means slowing down by letting the foot off the gas.

Given how often I've driven on stretches of road where engine braking is prohibited, I beg to differ.

Engine braking is usually braking by shifting to a lower gear.
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Truly wonderful in its awfulness.
People always say this, but frankly I find stop-and-go traffic isn't that bad if you put the car into neutral instead of holding down the clutch the whole time. I haven't looked back since I bought my first manual car. I never use cruise control at all though, even when I had an automatic car.
> Compared to a Rails, Django, Express.js, or any similar more-traditional framework... SPA apps with frameworks like React are significantly more complex

Hmm, I don't agree with that at all. I work with Rails and React daily, and they're about equal complexity to me - React just tries to hide it less.

Rails especially can get incredibly complex the second you try to do something in a way that's not the "approved way".
Big rigs definitely stop in these situations. No matter how much space they try to leave, other drivers speed around them to fill it and they have to stop anyway.
Shame comments like this get downvoted. Because it's 100% true.

PostgreSQL still is lacking with its horizontal scalability story and there is no reason to choose it over something like Solr/ElasticSearch right now largely because of this.
> someone else will move in front of me and then I have to hit the brakes as well

I don't know what to tell you. Works on my machine.

Maybe it's because I don't do it in the left lane but I never see 4+ people force their way in front of me at the exact same time with no time to decrease my speed. The occasional one will buffer out so it works for me.
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When people learn to drive it's usually the panic rather than technique that makes people stall, anyway
IMO, it has less to do with government control per se, and more to do with someone paying for it.

Insurance pays for healthcare -> patients care less about how much it costs -> healthcare costs mysteriously rise

Government/lenders pay for school -> students care less about how much it costs -> education costs mysteriously rise
I think a bunch of smart people have spent a bunch of time on it and what we have currently simply makes the most money. Of course that may change once the majority block ads.
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It's not comparable. A mailbox is in a physical location and you have to be next to it to use it.

An email box is specifically meant to be opened anytime from anywhere on the planet. It's insecure by design.
I'm sure it gets used at dry water research meetings all the time.
Is no one on HN willing to wrestle with the actual premise of the article?

> A rhetorical substitution of developer value for user value [...]
> The “developer experience” bait-and-switch works by appealing to the listener’s parochial interests as developers or managers, claiming supremacy in one category in order to remove others from the conversation [...] The unstated agreement is that developers share all of the same goals with the same intensity as end users and even managers. This is not true.
> Shifting the conversation away from actual user experiences to team-level advantages enables a culture in which the folks who receive focus and attention are developers, rather than end-users or the business. It naturally follows that teams can then substitute tools for goals.

Our community is absolutely infested with this attitude right now.

Tell me: When was the last time someone provided battery life impact numbers for React Native? If you use it, was that even part of your evaluation criteria?

The OP is absolutely right: there is massive conflation of _developer convenience_ with _user experience_. The modern frontend web dev scene is merely one of the symptoms. The fundamental assumption that "good for developers" must by definition equal "good for users" is a) usually unstated and b) absolutely unquestioned. I agree with the OP that it is also often c) wrong.

In some cases necessity has caused some developers to internalize and stockholm-syndrome themselves into believing some cross-platform monstrosity or PWA-in-a-mobile-app is better or just as good as a native mobile app. Not because it is, but because they have no choice given their current budget and staffing constraints.

A successful startup requires clear level-headed thinking. Do not mistake expedient or necessary decisions for optimal ones and be willing to re-evaluate your strategy at any time. Above all don't talk yourself into believing user experience doesn't matter.
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Yes, the famous "People can work around our lack of features" unix philosophy.

What?
Well, the argument for it is the same as the argument for buying a turbo-charged car or a pickup that never hauls anything or whatever else people buy that isn't truly "necessary:" some people enjoy driving it.
Nah. I'd prefer a 4 day work week, thanks.

Now, if we had the autonomy to both choose how much we work? Sure. But we can't. Gosh I bet there were people making the same argument about working on 7 days a week too.
Some examples other than what people have already mentioned:

Prescription drugs. The FDA has a "no existing alternative first" policy - they work on approving drugs for conditions where no current treatment works before they even start considering competitors to existing drugs. This sounds quite logical, but the effect of it is that every new drug is granted a monopoly for a long period of time before any competitor can even legally sell their alternative, so the drug company can literally charge whatever they want.

Building codes. In my grandparents' day, it was still possible to construct your own house: you bought a plot of land, hired a concrete mixer to come pour the foundation, bought a lot of 2x4s, and spent a bunch of time hammering & sawing. Now, you have to conform to all of the local building codes (which in the Bay Area, I've heard, is an 800-page tome), and you need to get approval for every feature of the design from the city building inspector, who has the power to completely block your construction if you get on his shit list. As a result, the only people who can build housing are ones who have good relationships with the city and the know-how to adhere closely to all the building codes.

Zoning. Even if you have that know-how and relationships, there are some things you just can't do with housing. Own a 1/4 acre with a single family home and want to convert it to a 4-plex? Too bad, it's not zoned for that.

And you can see the economic impact of all of these by looking at situations where they're absent. Consider generic drugs: once a generic has been approved, the price of a drug can fall by 90% or more. Or compare housing in the Houston metro area, where you can get a 3BR2BA for under $200K, to the Bay Area, where the same house will set you back $2M.
Could you point me to some numbers?
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Put down more money, I guess.
Yeah, it is a business model problem. My solution is to not visit sites that have this business model for most needs. Sometimes I tolerate it for specific content, but mostly I try to stick to text-based sites.
I never fit into "normal" learning styles at all levels of school. I either grasped the subject intuitively and didn't need to be taught, or I didn't get it at all, and had to teach myself. I never quite understood this, but in my 40s a friend who had just read LOOK ME IN THE EYE, by Jon Elder Robison, suggested that I read the book, because I reminded her of him. I read the book and my head exploded. Not long after that I was officially diagnosed. It explained so many things and social failures over the entirety of my life. Knowing has been helpful but navigating social things, works things, and relationships of any and all types is still exceedingly difficult. Thankfully I can always escape into science fiction. :-)
:-D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17963838

Edited because I had the wrong link. I had posted that exact service earlier as an example of things being feasible but not best for latency, which is a very real component of user-perceived speed.
So what is the scrabble score for that word?
LE certs can still be used in those cases. We use LE extensively for the (somewhat critical) project I'm on. We centralize all certificate creation from our deployment server(s), so that we just push the certs out when the servers are built.

Doing it this way means we don't rely on the LE servers being up all the time, since we renew at the 1 month remaining point. If they're down for a day two, they'll just renew after they're back up. It also means our loadbalancers don't need access to the DNS system to handle the DNS-01 challenge required for wildcard certs :)
Having developed in ColdFusion approximately a decade ago, before the product we used (and I as a developer) switched to .NET, I did a quick search.

It looks like it's still being developed at least. All this time later I still liked how easy it was to cfdump anything (at least there's LINQPad supports it for .NET) and how nice FusionReactor was for troubleshooting issues.

We used a bit of closed-source software but FR could be configured to sit between all db calls, which helped us point out some rather inefficient queries the CMS was doing.

Every now and again I see a .cfm in the URL and wouldn't mind working (briefly) with the language again.

EDIT: Still looking around at ColdFusion, I think really the price is what resulted in it's lack of adoption. Typical Adobe pricing that's focused on enterprise usage.
I want to believe but if you do a little search you will see this kind of "battery breakthrough" once a month.
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See below link for references to relevant regulation.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/traffic/rules-of-the-r...
> Is there not some kind of government guarantee underlying the massive student loans the press runs stories about?

Yes, the vast majority of that is federal debt or federally-guaranteed debt originating before the issuance of federally-guaranteed debt was restricted tomthe federal government, but the $15k annual limit proposed is above the limit for such debt.

> I thought that student debt was in a special class, where it could not be easily discharged

There is a higher bar for discharging student debt than other unsecured debt in bankruptcy, yes.

But debt subject to that but not subject to the limit on federally guaranteed loans isn't a big share of the problem (nonfederal private student loan debt is less than 5% of outstanding student debt—$64 billion compared to $1.5 trillion in federal/federally-guaranteed student loan debt [0]), so there's not a lot of reason to believe a policy change that would limit the applicability of the restriction against discharge to a level higher than the limit on federally guaranteed loans would have a noticeable effect on the overall problem. It would further push private lenders out of the student loan market, but they aren't a big factor anyway.

> (and was backed by government guarantees).

Yes, most student debt is backed by government guarantees, but isn't in excess of $15k/student-year for undergraduate education.

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/student-...
My first guess would be to add more water.
Thanks, I would never have discovered this from their blog post but you are correct that the new functions exist and are documented here:

https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/SSL_allow_early_d...
Hybrid cars too - Toyota, Ford, Chrysler, et al - almost all use a dual-motor/generator system with a planetary gearset to allow direct drive. At slow speeds, the engine is basically just to power the first motor/generator, which powers the second one. The transmission shifts power to direct engine by spinning the first motor/generator less, causing physical force to instead be transmitted through the planetary gearset. It's ingenious, and was invented in 1969.

Honda uses a different system where the engine is just a generator until highway speeds, when a wet cluch engages engine to wheels.
> Spidermonkey is one third of the size(LoC) of V8 and has three times more comments

Is that based on https://www.openhub.net/p/spidermonkey?

It says last analyzed two years ago, but the last commit it includes looks like it was in April 2011.

LoC is a silly measure for complexity anyways :) Does it include tests and test runners? Generated files? v8 is in its own repo while spidermonkey is in the main mozilla repo, so it's going to be difficult to compare well.
I think the most compelling argument surely, is that it's just more fun. You actually feel like you're driving, it makes it more of an active experience.

Recently sold a manual car I owned for about 12 years, upgraded to a newer car which is automatic (only because there was no option for manual). Man, I miss driving a manual!
There’s no point for stick shift other than entertainment these days. When computers can synthesize porn they can definitely shift gears better than a human.
Although browbeating does have a lot of value, especially when there are already some bounds on what the problem is and how it can be solved with your product, you will hit a point where your customers say, "I don't know" and mean it. And that's when you have to start to treat feedback more holistically and use the customer as a final validation of an internal model. [1]

[1] http://ludamix.com/dive/performance/
When I saw the headline here my first question was, which crypto currency? Are we now lumping all crypto currencies together, when the broad category of "crypto" contains everything from Bitcoin to dogecoin to proposed ERC20 coins that only exist on paper? I too would warn everyone against using certain crypto coins for anything
Don’t believe an solution based purely on current aviation rules will work for the scale drones will operate at. Firmly convinced that the 200-400’ feet will more closely resemble class-A airspace than class-G and will involve local. Rules will be standardized by the FAA but the administration will have to involve local and they will have a say in restricted airspace, routes, etc. A VFR free-for-all with drones will be a mid-air nightmare and no magical UTM solution will solve it. Don’t disagree that the FAA has preemption, but the current aviation model won’t work in the future and the FAA knows this. They are pushing for more local involvement and it seems to primarily be industry pushing back. Additionally, it isn’t settled law where property rights end. Causby said 87 feet for sure but possibly higher. [1] Still a lot to be worked out how drones will integrate in the national airspace.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/328us256
There's no reason to expect that those rates would be higher for this equipment design than for the $15000 one, rather than lower.

That comment also seems to demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding of what's being discussed, since contaminated bottles are vanishingly unlikely to infect the patient — the air goes from the patient to the bottle, through a dry plastic tube, not vice versa.
doesn't the fact that dry water balls absorb gasses imply that the membranes are at least partially permeable?
For themselves, brilliant...
Developers tend to overstate how much their love or hatred of apple matters to both Apple themselves and the general public.
Idea: have the brakes come on when the car decelerates independent of whether or not the brakes are engaged. Simple a sensor that detects deceleration in excess of 'X' Gs will enable the brake lights.
I spent a whole evening last week playing with Hy Lisp (written in Python). It was fairly easy to write to the Keira’s APIs. Can anyone share any interesting HyLang uses/ applications?
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We live in a world of 'ship MVP, gather customers, exit'

Of course the developer experience is going to be front and center, when you're trying to start a new product and don't want to invest actual money into it for real developers, you need something quick and dirty to move the project along.

I'm firmly in the camp that javascript 'webapps' are crap and make the web less web-like, the web I came to enjoy. I reluctantly admit that the ship has sailed and I enjoy the web less now.