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> What you're talking about is basically breaking or mastering the system by sheer force of will. And there is fun in that. But how much did it cost you to get to the point where you were able to play longer than a few minutes?

Ah, but how is that different from, say, swimming, golf, tennis, or racing where one must rent a course or court in order to practice their skill? Yes, arcade games weren't called quarter munchers for nothing but, for the most part, they offered a reasonably fair deal.

In contrast, there's no analogy to be made between those sports and loot-box based game. One doesn't toss money into a sports equipment store until one randomly gets a drastically better golf club.
What would you user today for someone that takes care of a simple WordPress install or static site?

I think web developer or software engineer is too much, and web editor is too little
I haven't read beyond the first page, but do know a bit about the US drug industry.

Briefly, since the late 1980s, the market for prescription drugs has evolved from one where pricing was close to list price, to one where pretty much everyone gets a large discount.

(By everyone I mean any kind of insurer or bulk buyer)

The effect is that the market has become completely lacking in transparency, as the discounts are not public.

Also, in many cases, the discounts end up in the hands of middle men, such as Pharmacy Benefit Managers or Insurers.

That suits them very nicely, as these discounts account for a large part of their profit and are hidden, unlike their premiums and insurance plans.
You mean the Automatic Book Updates feature on the Kindle?
> Therefore, while housing affordability is sure to improve in some places where it's absurdly high, it won't meaningfully be altered in places whose urban form is predominantly suburban.

That doesn't make any sense to me. Supply and demand exists in both the cities and the suburbs.
Even better, using the intermediary to negotiate prices makes them go up dramatically. At this point if I need something decently expensive from the hospital I just tell them I have no insurance. Because if I tell them I have coverage, they will use the negotiated price, which is absurdly high, and then my HSA plan means I end up paying the whole thing anyway.

The system is completely broken.
I could see cities going one way or the other.

* Some cities might readily accept the leverage to change policy they weren't happy with.

* Some cities might decline the federal grants, under threat from home owners.

* Some cities might decline the federal grants, because pricing the lower class out was the entire point all along.

Maybe a later volley will force more hands, but it seems like this policy will blow up in HUD's faces.
HHVM ending support for PHP after December release, focusing on Hack
I don't understand the question. Japan is intensely racist and xenophobic, probably significantly more so than the US.
> the same body that approved something so user-centric as GDPR could come up with legislation so incredibly hostile to small players as to effectively abolish the open internet by financial attrition

GDPR arguably hurts small players most. Mismanagement of a single users data could cost the farm. It greatly increased the cost for small businesses to do business in Europe.
It's in one of the images:

https://cdn.riskiq.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rsz_image1...
I'm an attorney and I've gotten lots of small business owners asking me about GDPR compliance. It's simple in theory -- just disclose your policies, let people delete their data, etc. The mechanics of compliance aren't really the issue. It's concern about enforcement and the uncertainty of it. After I explain jurisdictional issues and the fact that enforcement of GDPR against a purely US-based company is completely untested (and probably not even possible), most just reply "fuck it, we'll just not sell to anyone in Europe."

I agree with the basic concept of GDPR, but the uncertainty around it, the seemingly unclear nature of what exactly it means, and the fact that it will be enforced by each individual EU member potentially differently, all adds up. It's just not worth it.

This just adds to the pile, in a BIG way
When "good UX" (highly subjective, btw) means limiting your ability to control and optimize your own workflows, yes, some people reasonably choose control over a low learning curve pre-baked option.

Catering to people who want a super easy streamlined experience is hard. They want rigorous QA, tech support, and broad compatibility, all of which are very expensive goals to chase with diminishing returns.
You may also get used to it. I used to always exercise at night but a few years ago I switched to morning and now I can't exercise at night anymore.
Thanks for reaching out. I decided a long time ago that I had no desire to be alive, so I’m just waiting it out, praying for an early exit.

As long as I do not procreate, mission accomplished.
Some weeks ago, I was (and still am) making a conscious effort to deal with phone addiction, and wrote a blog post pointing out you don't really need the damn things most of the time, and encouraging ignoring them.

A few days later, I was at the car wash, thoroughly cleaning my car interior with a vacuum. Phone was out of my pocket, I saw my wife calling, figured I'd just call her back, which I did a few minutes later. Turned out she'd fallen at home and severely injured knee, so she needed me to come take her to urgent care. And because she'd left her phone behind when she went outside to rip vines off the house (and then fell from a ladder), she had to crawl back through the house in massive pain in order to call me.

Sigh.

That said, I have removed Facebook and Twitter from my phone, and removed most things from my opening screen. But I keep Kindle there. When I feel a need to give my eyes something to do, I can read a book. That's been awesome.
Very neat! Why does the 3rd picture have so much less fat than the first?
> Land is a zero sum game; we have a fixed amount, and while it's possible to create more, it's prohibitively expensive to do so.

Yes, but that sum in the US is huge. Drive around the midwest or any region outside of an urban core and its empty space as far as the eye can see.

The problem is large-scale economic and demographic changes. The US used to have:

* A culture that prized living in suburbia away from dense areas.

* Labor-intensive agriculture that provided a lot of jobs in rural areas.

* Labor-intensive manufacturing that provided a lot of jobs in a large number of smaller cities.

All of those forces encouraged the population to spread out. Those forces are evaporating. The suburbs are now seen as soulless sources of miserable commutes. Automation and consolidation has dramatically reduced the number of farm employees needed for a given square acre of land. Automation and cheap imports from other countries have eliminated manufacturing jobs.

Without those forces counterbalancing things, there is a strong trend towards consolidating into large metropolises which can't absorb the growth that quickly.

We can try to stuff every more dense housing in those cities and gradually turn them into concrete boxes. Some amount of densification is good. But instead of investing almost entirely in that, I really wish the US was working to try to make small and mid-size cities more desirable too.
Your [large] employer benefits from the system and wants it to stay.

You cannot get a better deal on health insurance on your own than through your employer. If you want to take a summer off the amount of money you would have to save up to pay for that is much higher. If you are thinking about changing jobs for more money you have to not only compare salaries, but also a complex benefit system that isn't really explained in the job offer.

If you want to see transparent pricing get the employer out. Buy your insurance directly from whoever you want (or maybe from the agent you like). Of course it will take years for things to change after this, don't expect things overnight.

Edit: as others have pointed out, it is the large companies who benefit at the expense of small companies and employees.
«I don't understand why so many are still blind to these very serious problems...»

Because something that consumes a fraction of a fraction of one percent of the energy consumed by the world is not a "serious" energy problem, no matter what silly comparisons people make, like saying Bitcoin miners consume more than Ireland when it turns out that Ireland consumes so little electricity that it could be supplied by a single hydroelectric plant.

Something that's actually a serious problem would be, for example, the fact the world wastes more energy than it uses every year: https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-dirty-energy-comes-fr...

There is also a lot of misinformation being published. For example uninformed journalists claiming that miners in China use coal power, when in fact most are located in the Sichuan province because there is plenty of cheap hydroelectricity over there.

I have studied mining for many years, and IMHO it is so ruthlessly competitive that I see the mining industry moving toward building or buying & retrofitting their own hydro/solar/wind power plants optimized for mining for two reasons. (1) Renewables have now become the cheapest source of energy. And (2) many costs of traditional power plants can be avoided when you design a power source specifically for mining (eg. a solar plant can avoid having to convert and transport AC currents on long distance and instead produce DC for immediate consumption by nearby equipment.) If mining ever gets to that point of large scale renewables power plants optimized for mining, we will probably see many net beneficial side-effects, such as the increased production of solar panels for miners causing the cost of solar to decrease for the rest of the world.

Finally, if mining ever gets so profitable that it warrants consuming much more than one percent of the world's production of electricity, then it means something would have pushed the value of cryptocurrencies very high. This something can only be a major event, such as the world realizing cryptocurrencies have enormous social and economic benefits. (I can't see speculation alone pushing and maintaining high prices long enough to matter.)

If, on the other hand, cryptocurrencies turn out to be mostly useless, then their value will remain low, and miners will never consume excessive amounts of energy.

You are basically worried about a non-problem. Miners will only use very large amounts of energy if cryptocurrencies are actually very useful for society, ie. if pros exceeds cons.
"Why you need to buy our product."
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Won't happen. The Nimbys have all of the money and can influence the votes in extraordinary ways. Look at Seattle, they won't budge and we have an enormous amount of single family housing. Our mayor is also nearly entirely useless as well, and seemingly only cares about sports teams.

The amount of propaganda that would be pushed out to crush any changes to zoning would be on historic levels.
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Snort, the GDPR is fairly hostile to small players by pretending they don't exist when they wrote the law. It's like signing a contract with employee hostile clauses that the employer pinky swears they will never use.

There is probably a similar pattern of ignore the small players in other new EU laws, but since it's not my industry I don't hear about them.
There are some good suggestions in the replies here, but I'd recommend looking at our secure introduction guide here: https://www.vaultproject.io/guides/identity/secure-intro.htm...

Effectively, there are only two possible approaches. Platform specific integrations, such as AWS IAM, Kubernetes, Nomad, etc. Or Trusted Orchestrators, which help inject the initial "secret zero".
I wish it was true, but if a company with the resources of Facebook doesn't allow remote or part time work, how can it become really mainstream?
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>Today you have people with their heads buried in their phones, 100 years ago it was newspapers.

However, there is also no evidence that people 20 years ago were walking around all day with their heads buried in newspapers, reading them in grocery store lines, during walks in the park, and in class when they weren't really supposed to. Maybe on benches and on the bus.
So once someone gets a local phone number and bank account to open the WeChat and Alipay, they can then use Swapsy/Megachange? Or does Swapsy/Megachange have a way around the local bank account/phone # requirement?
> . with extreme regulations, often stifling competition, Americans are getting ripped off every day with convoluted billing mechanisms.

I'm not American, but have enough exposure to US politics that I can imagine how any scenario to change this will go:

- Republicans don't want to upset donors and thus leave uncompetitive market in place, despite preaching the free markets all the time

- Democrats don't want to upset donors and thus leave uncompetitive market in place, having taxpayers pay ridiculous prices and pretending this is "free".

- Anyone who tries to encourage competitors to charge, say $50 for a liter of saline (still a very healthy markup for purified salty water) instead of $98 (the normal price for purified salty water) will be hit by politicians (funded by PACs) that are 'looking out for the safety of Americans' by limiting the market to existing players.

Nothing will ever happen and Americans will never have competitively priced healthcare.
Instead of trying to put cheap homes where the jobs are, we could also try to put jobs where the cheap homes are. People constantly talk about the former, but I almost never see people talk about the latter.
Show HN: JavaScript clone of google/python-fire
If I write a check with the dollar amount in scientific notation, will my bank honor it? How about a credit union?
Public broadcasters are always very soft on the party currently in power, since that's basically their boss. You need both public and private news.
Nothing fundamentally has changed about HN as Y Combinator has become more successful over time. Your premise pretends that both HN's long-term and initial success rests on the present riches of Y Combinator - that's false.

HN runs on one server and is moderated by just a couple of people typically. It is in fact the definition of a mom & pop operation. It does not have a zillion dollar budget, either for operations or promoting itself. It doesn't need it, the value proposition is the content, community and standards.

I can semi-trivially set up an HN clone for any given industry or concept. It'll be up to me to promote it and garner attention to it, however the point is that it's extremely inexpensive and easy (few regulations, hurdles, compliance issues, etc) to open up that type of expression platform. That's what the parent is referring to.
I actually find the opposite problem these days, at least in GNOME. Every release is less powerful, less customisable, and more filled with weird theory-driven bits of UI that just take up space on my screen and slow me down in the name of user friendliness.
how is this different from:

git push -u origin head

?
Like when Amazon removed Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four from Kindle devices silently? https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
Calibre (unsupported) plugins let you remove DRM from Kindle books, so you actually can save a local copy not connected to Amazon in any way. I keep buying Kindle books while this is still possible, and will stop if it ceases to be.
Ideally, the experience of the time spent leads to innovation and development of personal sysadmin, improving the process. There's a vast difference between technological choices that make sense for corporate IT versus an individual - eg all this "cloud" stuff aimed at simplifying hundreds of machines doing the exact same thing.

Hopefully we're heading towards a future where any non-tech person can easily setup a "personal cloud" by buying a commodity plug-in device, and have secure remote backups at multiple friends' places with a few clicks. Alas, money to actually fund software development was the real win of the surveillance industry.

But to echo your comment - the problem isn't really the time spent administering your own infrastructure, but rather when circumstances prevent you from spending that (focused) time.
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One huge problem with the idea of having the states do this: there will be a race to the bottom, much like there was with banking and credit cards, where these companies will rush to base themselves out of whatever states are willing to gut their consumer protection and corporate oversight laws the most.
Good! I am happy to hear American technology is supporting our military thus maintaining safety.
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I'm pretty sure it's some update. My guess is Avast.
Other then that, I have no problems. They use this laptop only for Skype. Even mails run only through another laptop with mint on it.
> Something that's not brought up often with this argument - the sales scope for modern games. Super Mario World was doing well if it broke 10,000 or 100,000 sales. In contrast a major game these days will break 100,000,000 sales.

Your numbers are way off. Super Mario World sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Every full Super Mario release has sold millions of copies.

Conversely, even the most popular franchises sell in the tens of millions range. GTA V is one of the few approaching the 100 million mark.

Back in the day games were in fact more expensive, but a lot of the cost was in the cartridge. Games were certainly much less expensive in development costs. Modern console game prices have been locked at around $60 for well over a decade. These games are hideously expensive to develop so publishers have resorted to gaining revenue via DLC, microtransactions and loot boxes.

Naturally, publishers have become greedy in this environment and are using these deceptive revenue streams to pad their profits. And really, these practices probably would've arisen even if the price of games kept pace with inflation.
Thanks, no, i think this is a good criticism.

I think what I meant was something more like "You can think of it as basically just the Cartesian Product of your two tables, and then filtering out rows based on how you specified the query." I'll make that change now.

I recognize that you would want to do the filtering first, of course, and only materialize the final table at the very end after everything else finishes.

Other than that, though, am I missing anything else? It's quite possible due to, as I said, how new I am to relational databases.
I never had the privilege of using Frontpage. I had the program and some books but I felt like good ole notepad was good enough for me, so I never even tried it out.

My mind was blown when I realized I could have different colors on my syntax and people actually indented things.
While I'm sure there are areas where this is true, this seems like a special case. In the Bay Area some liquefaction zones and high fire risk hilly areas are likely candidates to not build on, however, I didn't suggest to build everywhere. In fact, I think we should keep open space and hilly fire-prone areas as parks, we can in fill low density areas and empty lots with high density.
On the iPhone, grayscale mode (once enabled) is just a triple-click on the home button, so it's easy to turn off if you need color. You just need to remember to turn it on after.

Of course, if "scan for certain actions" is just feeding your phone addiction, then making it harder is entirely the point.
Business's who depend on the livelihood of free speech: Google, Facebook, Apple, Cloudflare, Netflix, Salesforce, et all need to get together and say "No, or we'll stop doing business in the EU".

This is beyond ridiculous.
> if we lived in a world where healthcare wasn't tied to employment

Lived in part of the world where healthcare wasn't tied to employment
NIMBY's have practically all of the power with zoning laws in Seattle. They have all of the money as well. We have a crazy amount of SFH right now when we have a housing crisis.

It's not like housing would become more affordable anyway, Seattle only builds luxury housing for the rich (and they're having a hard time filling these units!).
Is there any data to support that Tokyo has more affordable apartment than New York?

I have seen numbers compare rental price of 1/2/3 bedroom(s) in Tokyo to New York [1,2], but I do not trust those numbers, because they do not have the size of the apartment. I think it really matters, because apartments in Tokyo could be much smaller than those in NYC. I don't have a statistics for this, but there is an example [3].

OK. I found a table of comparison by sq instead of # of bedrooms [4].

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/one-bedroom-apartme...

[3] https://www.lifewhereimfrom.com/lwif-x-ep4-what-is-an-averag...

[4] https://resources.realestate.co.jp/buy/average-rent-in-tokyo...
Very nice for educational purposes I imagine. Or just hang it on your wall running your favorite code!
AB 2923, which overrides local zoning in order to allow BART to develop on its parking lots, recently passed both houses in California, despite NIMBY objections. And the Housing Accountability Act, which NIMBYs loathe, has long been law (and was even strengthened relatively recently).

Renters are a growing political force.
I live on Long Island, and it is expensive. Schools are funded mostly through high property taxes. It is nearly impossible to get high density housing approved for working age people. The constituents want only 55+ for complexes so they can reap the school tax benefits without more students.

So this in effect keeps affordable housing out as developers either build 3000+ sq foot "luxury homes" or 55+ communities.
Were we really that color blind back then or did we really have that poor taste?
My spouse switched to the iPhone SE a while back and loves it.
My landlord can put a lock for which I don't have a key on my apartment door without telling me too. The question is not whether he can or can't lock my door. The question is whether or not the terms of our agreement allow him to block my access or not. The fact that people often don't understand the terms of there agreements is definitely a problem, but that's not what the headline implies unfortunately.
Lua predates PHP by 2 years, and I'm sure this combination of arrays and hash-maps predates both languages.

Either way, I'm not sold on it. Arrays and hash-maps are fundamentally different, not only for optimization's sake[1] but even in how people use them.

[1]: Recent versions of Lua now try to detect whether a table is an array, and apply optimizations when all its keys are ordered numbers without holes.
> Federal zoning would be really difficult to get done constitutionally

Would it? I feel like this has Commerce Clause uber alles written all over it.
I think the idea of "master" as in a definitive or original copy has enough usage that it's considered a second meaning of the word. I guess it's still possible that people will be upset, but without "slave", it's not unreasonable to assume that people will think of a key or album master instead of a slaver.
Counterpoint that becomes increasingly relevant as one ages: "wear and tear."
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Not quite.. it also means that you can't stream it from your library either. So effectively it is the same. This is a cautionary tale for those who are buying iTunes 4k movies and can't stream 4k from a local device on their network https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/21/itunes-4k-content-strea...
Interesting point. I definitely notice that I 'coast' more in a manual.