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> [Google being a monopoly] is just false. bing.com exists. news.ycombinator.com exists. reddit.com exists....

I don't think the existence of other websites on the internet is not really an argument against Google being a monopoly. Without question, the vast majority of the population (outside China) uses Google. This means that the majority of people who use the internet are using Google as their method of accessing websites, and thus Google has an effective monopoly on what links people see (and thus by proxy what articles they read and what they think about topics).

I'm arguing all of this from a point of view where you don't really care how Google or anything behind the scenes works -- most people view Google as a utility that just tells you what "the internet" has to say on a topic. Given it's prevalence and significant impact on people's decision making, it should have far more accountability.

> Google shows at most an excerpt (that is defined by the publisher) or a headline (on news.google.com).

Google also has their Q&A thing where they parse the contents of web pages to answer questions you ask Google -- so you don't end up on the person who wrote the answer's website. I think that is pretty clearly an example of Google showing people's content without giving them page views (whether or not you agree that it is an issue).
Oh, it's just an email address now? Good to know, thanks.
Excluded is the idea that most customers only need low functionality in office software, which would suggest that they aren’t the power user types that even care about add-ons. Bob in finance doesnt care about better spell checking.
This is a good point. Newly launched generic drugs go through a period of rapid price adjustment, where at first they are priced only a little bit below the brand-name drug. Then as more generics become available (and keep in mind we're talking about physical products with expiration dates, inventory and distribution delays, etc.) the best wholesale price drops.

In theory this is an area where PBMs can add a lot of value, because they have broader visibility into the pricing of these drugs (both by researching manuf pricing and negotiating prices with pharmacies).
That's a good one. Amazing how little muscle the sedentary person has.
It's said that you need to do 3 things in America to avoid poverty.

1. Graduate High School
2. Work full-time
3. Don't have a baby out of wedlock

It's that easy.
Regarding the muslim foster care story, since you're apparently better informed than I, do you know where's the dad in that story?
> I take umbrage with this sentiment

> is used as a way to dismiss anyone with a different view

I'm sorry but being offended that some people might like something different than what you like is not complimenting you at all. You complain about others dismissing your point of view while you're dismissing their point of view. And you completely ignore the fact that I didn't state it as a universal truth. It's even highlighted: "could be more fun". Your argument revolves around "I don't understand it or like it so it must be wrong". Under no circumstance do I have to like the same things as you to be right. When talking about my tastes I am always right. No exception. If you don't feel like this applies to you then it just means you're not in the target group for my statement.

The rest of your comment is just insulting which doesn't help you make a point or even make you sound like a reasonable person.

I don't enjoy riding a motorcycle but you don't see me offended by the fact that you do. Maybe you feel engaged snoozing in the train. Don't hate the people whose minds like more. And don't contradict or insult them about what they want or like. Makes you look petty and insecure. If you need validation for your tastes this is definitely not the way to go about it.
you assume poor people are idle.
This is very Pandas specific, but I’m going to give you my intuition with a bit of Python knowledge (10yrs):

1. Anything that doesn’t have parens is either an attribute or a property. A property is basically an attribute, except that a computation of some sort is usually executed to set/get its value, whereas an attribute has its value set explicitly. Look at the source to identify if the result of the first code block sets an attribute named `mean` or if it has an `@property` declaration named `mean`. Either way, they’re roughly the same when using them in code.

2. The fact that both `describe()` method examples can have another function and attribute/property chained to their result means `describe()` is returning an object of some type that is not a stdlib data type.

3. The `df.groupby().describe()` is likely returning a different type of object than the second `df.describe()`, as evidenced by the first result having a `mean` attr/property, while the second has a `mean()` function.

From here, I’d start by inspecting the object type returned by `df.groupby()`, `df.groupby().describe()`, and the `df.describe()` to discover the differences.
Nor customers/users.

The problem is that 'normal' people don't know how to use most distributed/encrypted/stick-it-to-the-man products, nor do they care.
Yeesh. That's a great visual. I'm a sedentary software engineer... gotta make some changes. It reminds me of the cancer slides in the "How Not to Die" talk https://youtu.be/7rNY7xKyGCQ?t=780 which is partly why I'm now vegan.
It seems to me the problem its solving isn't efficiently 'mining' the currency, its efficiently transferring small amounts of money. If there was a way a website could present a button I could use to flip them a penny (without a complicated setup or previous relationship with them) on my way thru if I like the content, I'd smash that thing all day long.

The telling thing is that people are seriously considering a system that wastes 97% of the money in the tiny transaction to easily transfer the 3%.
It seems you are right. Must be one of those bay area perks :)

> Stanford Hospital and Clinics in Palo Alto and Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento are two of the most profitable U.S. hospitals, yet both hospitals carry the “nonprofit” designation, according to a new study.

> The most profitable hospitals had the highest patient care markup rate, the authors found.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/03/nonprofit-stanf...
I really wanted to try out Edge. But there are no extensions of any sort. With out the password/bookmark managers and all, how can anyone get started in this thing.
I switch back and forth between firefox and chrome because of the cross platform extensions. Microsoft should pay developers to bring their products to edge. At least the popular ones.
Well of course it would be a short date.

It's fast food...
Which is the real problem with Mozilla being dependent on money from Google. Google can do whatever they want against Firefox, but Mozilla is very limited in its response because they can't risk upsetting Google too much.
OK. This does seem like a straw man characterisation. Or at least it's different to what I had in mind.

> "The PWE quite intentionally doesn't care about those effects, what possible effect could you have next to the will of God anyway?"

Can you provide any links to material that back up that claim? It's not how it's described in the Wikipedia page, for what it's worth.

I'll grant you there may be some people who think the kind of things you describe, but does it really have any kind of dominant influence in the world? I see no evidence for that, and I can't see how society could ever have functioned or progressed if it did.

What I see is that well-functioning people in well-functioning societies take care to do things that have positive consequences for themselves, their families and their societies, and try to go about them industriously so as to maximise those positive effects.

And people generally pay close attention to what others are doing, to gauge who is making a positive contribution and who isn't (both on an individual level, and at a corporate/government level). Then we encourage and reward those who make a good contribution, and critique/penalise those who don't (and ideally, help/support those who can't).

Sure, it's not "God" keeping tally, but it's society at large, by making direct observations and sharing their observations through word of mouth and (more recently) through the media.

I'd suggest that society's progress may be faltering because too many people - including many highly-paid and highly-powerful people - are not making a sufficiently positive contribution to society, whilst many people who make a strong contribution don't get adequately rewarded.

But to me that seems more due to an abandonment of the principles of said work ethic, rather than being too heavily beholden to it.

I guess we seem to be talking about different things, so at this stage I don't seem to be missing anything :)
I feel like Hearthstone is the outlier in your list

Card games are gambling. True, you can get gambling credits by grinding a lot in Hearthstone, but I feel this is despicable especially for a card game catering to mostly underage or very young people.

This applies to non-virtual card games too (e.g. Magic, Pokemon, Yugiho). Pack-opening is kid's gambling. They are made to encourage people to open more packs/make a deck/etc. At least in real-life card games you can trade cards (EDIT: hearthstone has dust - which acts the same).
Such a Linux Desktop evangelist comment chain. Step one: ask what problems people are talking about. Step two: completely dismiss and downvote all responses.
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I agree with the directional sentiment of the article that a cashless society is bad for the poor and for other disenfranchised members of society.

I don't see the "many places will not accept cash" problem that the article suggests is widespread.

I'm in Shenzhen once or twice a month and haven't had any problem paying with cash - taxi drivers and vendors don't complain.

Vendors being unable to give change for 100 CNY bills was a frequent problem 10 years ago and is still periodically a problem. More often than not the solution is still the same as it was 10 years ago: insist that this is all you have. Half of the time the vendor really does have change and just didn't want to give it to you. The other half of the time the vendor really didn't have change and will ask a neighboring shop for change.
Not as significant as curtailing free-speech. Some things don't have a price tag.
They could easily couch the statement in such a way that they would appear blameless, if they really wanted to make a positive statement. E.g. "We recognize the critical contribution of publishing companies to our society and want to do our part to ensure the continued existence of a strong publishing industry."
Absolutely. Refrain from having children if you cannot afford to have children.

People love to tell me I'm insensitive but I say the community needs to step up and do it part to help raise the children. We won't do that. We harp on about "personal responsibility".

I think most* people who don't already have children (me included) should elect to not have children in the current situation. There is no benefit to having children in the west. We don't care after our parents. How can we expect our children to provide care for us? It makes no sense to have children on am individual level. Yes, a shrinking population can wreak havoc to GDP growth rate but what is this GDP growth doing for people out of work and unable to afford health care in Wisconsin?

There is a stigma associated with not having children. It needs to go away. It needs to be the norm and not the exception to have zero children.
I know, thus the "except for the note that it of course affects everything else" part. However all discussions revolved around the internet and the internet was the sole reason why a change was made.
To punch it up a bit, it's anyone with an interest in collecting/preserving coins or currency. Doesn't have to be an expert or rare. Coin/paper money/exonumia (tokens, fantasy issues) collectering = Numismatics

Also, fun fact for anyone reading, you can buy true, ancient Roman/Greek coins for a few bucks. Nice silver examples from certain well known emperors are often <$50. Just go on vcoins or somewhere reputable.
> I have 16,000 connections.

Maybe that is the reason why it sucks for the author.
I use LinkedIn as my personal CV and have gotten a job through it. If I had to search for a new job it would probably be through LinkedIn, Stackoverflow and other smaller sites for remote workers.

LinkedIn is better than all other general career sites, much much better and I can always point people there if they want my CV.
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Possibly one of the most annoying aspects of LinkedIn is the slimy way it tries to connect you to other people through spam. I recently received an email from LinkedIn saying a friend I know in real life wanted to connect. I talked to him and he said he never made such a request, so it turns out LinkedIn reached out on his behalf. What benefit does this have to anybody?
This article from The Verge[0] cites some support Tweets:

- AirBnb[1]: "We'd always recommend that you use Google Chrome to browse the site: we've optimised things for this browser. Thanks."

- Seamless[2]: "Safari is not a good browser to use with our website. Google Chrome work better with our website or you can download the app."

- DirecTV Now[3]

- IDAT solutions[4] (some random thing I found while searching)

- Countfire[5] (ditto)

Groupon said something similar as well but walked it back. Whatsapp's web app didn't support Firefox initially but does now.

Could browse through Web Compat[6] as well, though I'm not sure if this site is more about sites that should work in FF but don't, or Firefox bugs.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16805216/google-chrome-onl...

[1]: https://twitter.com/AirbnbHelp/status/752829250198245376

[2]: https://twitter.com/Seamless_Care/status/942798540396474368

[3]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/7/15758274/directv-now-googl...

[4]: https://www.idatsolutions.com/faq/

[5]: https://www.countfire.com/

[6]: https://webcompat.com/issues
It always rubs me the wrong way when in a movie there is a dialogue scene in a car going at a steady pace, and yet in the background you get a recording of a motor revving up and shifting back down in a loop. Like a Shepard tone, but with a car.
> Well, first of all I have yet to hear about this vote from any of my local news sources. If I didn't browse hackernews I likely wouldn't know about it.

Where do you live if I may ask? here in austria it was everywhere before the vote and now new articles with the result.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that iOS never gave you that control while Windows is trying to take that control away.
There is one kind of learning that you do to get a job. But education in general is something that is beyond that.

Learning basic personal finance, or a skill, or learning to exercise, or reading about government services, learning cooking etc can go a great deal in fixing one's problems.

Education often involves learning something, its not always reading text books and writing exams.
Nearly every person I know despises LinkedIn, with the singular exception of the people who for some job capacity use it to find out other people's history and contact information, who merely dislike it. The constant emails are a big part of that.
This is the real bummer, IMO. It's not even like they're reaching the sites that truly, genuinely don't give a fuck about copyright. The big sites have long implemented all of this, anyway.

It's basically just more bureaucracy if you're running a start-up or mid-sized company and want to do things by the book. Something to worry about, something to fear. I genuinely wonder if copyright holders will make a single cent off this.
I couldn't disagree more. Linux is fine for the kind of people who only use computers to consume content, but then again any personal web kiosk (like a phone or tablet) can easily serve that role so it isn't exactly a high bar.

The real problem areas are when people who want a personal computer try to color outside the lines of whatever the distro developer intended as a use case ("Why would you want to do that?" is a common and annoying response).
Well this sucks a lot, but if I'm reading this right, they at least amended it to be _slightly_ less awful: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Se...

It seems to contain a bunch of amendments that seem to make at least Article 13 a bit less draconian. In particular, 13.2b seems to require a human-reviewed and appealable complaints mechanism.

All in all, it's still very shitty.

I intend to save the list of those who voted for and set a reminder to dig it out when the next EU elections come up. I hope people with more social media presence than I do the same.
> Chans allow anonymous users to upload images and historically this leads into a lot of illegal content

Moderation over the last years has been strict though. I haven't seen any illegal content on there in ages.
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Are you sponsoring visas?
I am asking because on website it says "You are authorized to work in the US and will not require sponsorship in the future"
On a related note, wouldn't an employer likely fire a server that doesn't earn enough tips, say, two months in their employment?
I can't say LinkedIn has added a lot of value to my life. In fact I mostly forget it exists until I remember that I have a linkedin account every few weeks, take a look at it, accept the one connection request I have waiting, and then move on. I suppose it shows that I exist and am a human person, maybe. At least it shows that someone made an effort to put together a short profile for what appears to be a human person.
Turnout for the 2014 European elections was at a historic low

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2014-results/en/turno...

despite claimes on election night that turnout had (very slightly!) increased over the previous election

https://www.politico.eu/article/this-time-its-different/

Election turnout falling consistently as the elected body's powers increase consistently. Not great.
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This is more nuanced. You get in-game currency for skins/cards you already have in both Hearthstone and Overwatch, which is equivalent to being able to sell your cards
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I honestly don't understand why people keep comparing the culture of American cities and states to European ones. America is one giant country - the EU isn't. The cultural differences between Detroit and, say, San Francisco is miniscule compared to differences between London and Berlin.

Not every city in America is San Francisco, Seattle, or Austin, but neither one state nor one city is as technologically dysfunctional as their European counterparts.
I use HyperV. The server reboots once a month for security updates.

Guests - it depends on the OS the guest is running. I follow standard best practice for each OS. The server has encrypted drives, and each VM disk is also encrypted.

Remote Admin - SSH, Remote Desktop, Powershell etc. Standard management protocols. Since I have the IPSEC VPN always running, I can use anything.

I'm aware that I could be hacked if someone sufficiently skilled wanted to take me down, but that's true of anything stored online. I've achieved a reasonable level of security and I have control over my data.
I think LinkedIn is great for recruitment of software developers. For journalists, I'm sure it's completely useless.
As far as I understand it, minimum wage helps people in employer markets. Prices would go down to zero or at least the minimum cost of living if people would fully compete for jobs in markets with more workers than jobs available.

Inevitably, the market for unskilled labor is an employer market because there will always be a supply of workers unless each and everybody has a job. However skilled somebody is, if he doesn't find a job in his profession, he falls back onto the unskilled labor market in every other profession.

It is correct that minimum wage prevents the existence of some jobs. But it ensures higher wages for all of the unskilled workers who create more value and who are not replaced by a lower bidder.

The jobs that create less value than minimum wage are still available for freelancers. Companies have to buy them as a product or service.
It's a garbage app, but I got my current job through a recruiter from there, and I'm pretty sure if I need to do the same again I'll get a bunch of leads there. I don't know why anybody would ever use it unless they're currently looking for a job or recruiting though.
I'll be that deluded person here: we completely switched to using Linux at my workplace and never touched windows 10. Granted we're a software dev shop, but from what I've seen, realistic workable alternatives do exist.

Cheers.
Member states can be even stupider. I get scared thinking of what a "reasonable interpretation" by some right-wing local government with poor understanding of digital markets would look like.
I don't know if you are purely talking about mental health. But I would add in some resistance training, for bone health amongst other things.

"enough sleep, cardio and some resistance exercise"
The patterns on the 40 and 70 year old triathlete match far too well. I'm calling bullshit. The "70 year old triathlete" scan is just further up the leg of the 40 year old.
Because those ancestors "struggled in a much harsher world" in easy mode.

They struggled in an era of economic upward momentum, much mobility, job creation, with a population boom, and when the US emerged as global leader. And from 30s to 70s, in a much more labor and working class friendly climate, when lots of protections and rights were established (the 8-hour work day, pensions, minimum wages, equal rights for women and foreign workers, work safety, etc).

Not on an era of stagnant wages, job outsourcing, automation, over-concentration of money to too few hands, precariousness, eroded labour rights, when other countries emerge as global leaders, and so on.

When playing life's levels, it's not just the conditions you meet that matter, it's the momentum of the whole game environment too. If the game environment constantly upgrades, gives you more guns, ammo, etc, it's easier than playing easier initial conditions but seeing very slow or negative game environment progress.
That is when brain cease to develop. That does not mean people are not mature enough for us to treat them as responsible for themselves sooner.
Yeah I always thought that the price of Roman coins, compared to more recent coins such as Tudor etc. is so cheap, I assume that's mainly due to there being so many of them?
I, too, dislike LinkedIn and don't find it useful, but you can't write a "X sucks" and then plop this sentence right into the second paragraph:

> I understand that I’m using LinkedIn wrong.

"This hammer sucks! I keep swinging wildly, but none of my nails ever get hammered in, but my TV and most of my light bulbs are broken."
Well, yes. Politicians created the system where it was possible for this to go through without any support from citizens, because they have simply no idea what is going on inside the EU.

TL;DR, politicians created the EU, it currently sucks even if they pass some very good laws sometimes. Now it's time for some very bad laws, the issue is that these laws is so bad the good laws seems very small in comparison.
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