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You seem to be defining fractional reserve banking to be fraudulent (in your second paragraph). That's not a useful perspective for trying to get real answers to your questions.

When banking was "I'll store your money for you in a safe place for a small fee", fractional reserve banking was fraud, because it was not doing what you told people you were doing, and in a way that could cost them their money. Once fractional reserve banking became the normal way banks operated (that is, became both legal and expected), it's no longer fraud. It may still be immoral and/or unwise, but it's not fraud.

Now, there was plenty of fraud in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. ("Liar loans", anyone?) But that's distinct from fractional reserve banking itself being fraud.
Maybe it’s different now, but when I went to university, costly on-campus housing was mandatory up until your 4th (Senior) year.
The Australian public worship war and are utterly ignorant of the graves they live upon. Are they really your metric for how it should be?
1) When profit margins increase efficiencies decline. While their profit margins were low, you can imagine they spent a lot of time optimizing processes to remain solvent. This is an ongoing process, and when profit margins go up these kinds of processes are often neglected.

2) This is true, but where Amazon excels in market efficiency for the general case, they lack in supporting niches; especially high priced niches.

For instance, I just purchased a $2600 (+$30 2-day shipping) lens from B&H photo, despite the fact that I have a Prime account, and the price on Amazon was the same.

This is because, while I still trust Amazon for smaller purchases, I no longer trust them for expensive niche products like camera gear or computers, since their supply chain is out of control (Chinese knock-offs, etc.).

3) Sure they’ve made a few billion dollars in profit, but their opex is enormous. Compare this to Apple, who’s cash and equivalence is enough to run without sales for a decade. Given a downturn in the economy and a pullback in consumer spending (not to mention a drop in AWS revenue), Amazon could get into financial trouble pretty quickly.
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If there’s one thing worth waging war on, I think it’s all these diseases since they have a “common enemy” position against mankind as a whole.
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Here's the line that stood out to me:

more than three-quarters of students attend nonselective colleges, which admit at least half of their applicants. No one knows for sure how good these colleges are at their core job of educating students.

It's important not just because of educational outcomes, but also because the tuition/cost discussion is often dominated by selective colleges, and/or colleges with national or international brands. When it comes to those colleges, that's when we start hearing about the "arms race" described in the article (and amusingly highlighted in a Malcolm Gladwell podcast that was heavily criticized: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/18/malcolm-gladw...).

Another cost that gets brought up: all of the administrators who apparently didn't exist in large numbers decades ago. And, I have also heard the theory that expensive liberal arts degrees are basically subsidizing STEM research, especially now that federal research grants are harder to come by.

But again, these issues seem to be the domain of the selective colleges. What's going on at the nonselective colleges -- community colleges, lower-ranked liberal arts colleges, and the for-profit and online colleges -- needs more attention.
I'm coming around to the same feelings about dependency injection that many others express about macros.

In broad strokes, I really like that composition is increasingly being favored over inheritance. But I've also inherited some deeply Byzantine amalgamations of decorators and abstract factories that certainly do eliminate a lot of boilerplate. But they do it at the cost of sometimes making it very difficult to understand where certain behaviors are coming from.

The worst is, most of them are ones that I inherited from my past self. The specialized knowledge it takes to maintain an application that's been written this way apparently fades quite quickly.
Thanks a lot! Our software is really modular so yes we do have a few plans for new verticals :-) At this point it’s more a matter of commercial effort than technical development
This is pretty much the pattern I follow. People like to come up with solutions and so they ask - can you do this? The answer is of course ‘yes’, but it’s not necessarily the correct solution to the unstated problem.
Seems to be the way forward. TripAdvisor recently sent me a message that hotel X remodeled and this they deleted all (?) old reviews. I'm sure the hotel paid a nice sum for that, from seeing the new reviews not much has changed...
Beats me - but the "skills" demonstrated in the interview process you're defending -- "suck up; just keep going online until you memorize enough canned answers to most of these dang questions; suck up, suck up, suck up" -- certainly aren't going to help.

Right. People who don't think of Comp Sci knowledge as a set of substantive first principles, just as meaningless tokens they need to memorize and regurgitate to get the job -- those are precisely the people who should be weeded out. Each one of those questions is not merely a chance to "collect" an arbitrary thing. It's also an opportunity to practice applying basic knowledge and techniques.

If anything, they're basically orthogonal to the set of competencies needed to deal with that kind of a situation.

You may well need to spot a deadlock or a race condition in code. You may well need to spot code that is inefficient by construction, in precisely that kind of situation.
The scooter backlash vindicates Uber’s early tactics
"free": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_debt_crisis
The patent getting snatched up by cosmetics and then re-discovered almost 50 years later makes me wonder how many cool advancements have been lost to industries that couldn't find any value from them.
It's moot in any case, as nobody is considering storing CO2 by dissolving it in water. Supercritical fluid is where it's at.
Agreed - rich topic, poor analysis. Especially given the access to primary sources/institutions that study this problem. A market research report would most likely explain this industry and its driving factors better (but would be expensive)
> By no means do you need DPDK to basically eliminate the latency difference

I didn't mean to imply that was your argument.

> I just wanted to point out how low latency can go in general.

Rather, I meant that "can" isn't the same as "does", absent exceptional circumstances.

> A vm using SR-IOV

Whether this qualifies as exceptional is, of course, arguable, but I'm arguing that it is. I could understand the point that it doesn't have to be, but, to be actually convinced, I'd want to see evidence that it's well understood and well implemented enough that neither rare expertise, substantial engineering effort, nor constrained configuration (hardware or software) would be required to take advantage of it. I'd expect most technically-minded decision makers to think similarly.
Marinol is THC extract so far as I understand so it still counts as a natural cannabis product.
The right number is zero and a UBI until they figure out how to stop being jerks. (My primary personal reason for supporting a UBI is I want to be able to say "No rational employer should employ you" without that implying "so you should be homeless and starve.")

But short of that, the right number is zero on the interview circuit. You can employ jerks if you have to, but don't put them in more positions where they have to interact with others than necessary. Give them the legacy products where you can't staff a team of more than one qualified person anyway. Give them an office. And keep the door closed.

Remember that a jerk is basically a 0.1x developer - an employee who causes other employees to lose productivity by spending time working around the jerkiness, taking a morale hit, etc. Even a remarkably productive jerk at best only compensates for their negative effect on people they work with, and most jerks are not consistently remarkably productive. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-fired-our-top-talent-best... is a good example of a company learning that lesson a little too late. A company that signals that they trust their jerks enough to make hiring decisions and to represent the company's culture to potential new hires is a company that signals they're actively cool with jerks (or incapable of noticing, which has the same effect).

If a jerk makes a good employee unhappy and they leave, the jerk is a net negative. And if you keep employing the jerks, you'll find yourself with a 0.5 jerk coefficient on your hands very quickly.
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The most recent Jon Oliver[0] was on this topic. Disenfranchising people was one of the main reasons for the prohibition:

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPyLcQ2vdI
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Yes, University is expensive! But - a large portion of the numbers you see thrown around include living expenses! The same living expenses a student would incur if they were not attending University.

Nearly all American universities require their students to live in dorms for the first X years of their undergrad.

You can be exempted from this requirement if you are dirt-poor, or are married. [1]

If you are a middle class, unmarried 18 year-old, you are forced to undertake this expense - even if you have the option of living at home, or somewhere cheaper.

It's a blatant money grab. Yes, there are advantages to dorm living, but also lots of disadvantages.

[1] Apparently, all the nonesense about fraternity with your students, and learning independence, and students living in dorms having better grades flies out the window if you're married. Huh. It's almost like it's a thin justification for the university spending millions of dollars on building housing.
> how would you fill the inside of a 747 with ping pong balls

Funny you should ask, because that was actually one of my primary responsibilities at my last job!
Am I the only one who doesn't think this is that bad? Living on campus is a privilege, not a right. Students probably can live off-campus for less, but paying $1800/month (guessing that "a year" is ~8 months) for accommodation + food... Really doesn't seem that bad. It's certainly a premium, but it's an entirely optional one and doesn't seem like an extreme one.

Add on administration overhead for dorms, etc.

Proximity to classes, extra-curricular access, living with your peers... If you're going to move out of your parents' house, $15k per year doesn't sound that bad.
> "The IMF is not strong-arming the Marshalls, what they're doing is describing what will obviously happen if they proceed - the large correspondent bank will be quite worried," he added.

This guy really is an expert at "no really this isn't a threat wink wink".
> But taking such a non-nuanced, instrumental view I feel like you make the discussion less interesting than it could otherwise have been. And because it was a "first comment", it then warped much of the entire discussion on the topic. This thread has 80 replies and 55 of them are to you.

You are entirely correct, but unfortunately, I suspect that this is inevitable. Discussions of economic policy on Hacker News almost always end up in this same place.
I have the feeling that a working IPv6 comes out of the box with most Internet providers nowadays. I used it at home for months without realizing it.

So when I started hosting a side-project I made sure it was accessible via IPv6. Skimming through logs many people connect through IPv6 as well, so I'm a bit surprised when I read that deployment is slowing down.
In my opinion the entire process was a jerk. An entire day of whiteboard problems? What a waste of time for everyone involved.
Is the demo working? I answered everything but got stuck at "Done! Your information was sent perfectly."
The part I don't get in this equation is that why are state colleges struggling then to meet their budgets? If they were simply extracting maximum value, why are they struggling to cover costs?
Do substantive enough work, give it enough time, and first principles will still bite the butt of the CRUD app maintainer.
Interesting to see this on front hn, today I’ve packed everything in London and left for Lausanne, arrived few minutes ago with family. Although innovation activity wasn’t the reason we’ve moved here, it’s very interesting to hear stories like this, there seems to be something good happening with research, gov backing etc. I’ve noticed some good research in areas like cryptography (zero knowledge proofs), formal proofs and now robotics/drones; I know government is also running couple of projects backed by blockchain, quite open minded, not seen much of this kind of interest from other European governments (except Estonia maybe).
One bit of clarification: Amazon doesn't set the prices for most of the goods, the individual vendors do.

But yes, those vendors are probably taking advantage of the effects you're talking about.
I remember when I graduated state tuition, I had a full ride scholarship through state tuition. By the time I graduated my tuition funding got cut in half due to lack of government funding. I worked 3 jobs and only had to pay for living expenses / textbooks.

I checked recently my local University (the biggest one in the country, top 50 in many majors) charges $1000 per 3 semester hours(1 course). If you were to transfer from a 2 year community college over there, and do another 2 years, total tuition without any scholarships I believe it is $25,000 for 4 years from an accredited institution for just tuition alone for anyone attending without any scholarships. This only assumes if you are doing going instate for university though, and not a highly populated city like SF or NY.

Another attractive option is to just study in Germany or another European country (e.g. switzerland for computerscience, etc). Tuition is free (I believe?), and still very good as well. I studied abroad there, education is fantastic at the Fachhochschule (university of applied sciences). Had lots of fun school trips over in coal mine shafts, argicultural cloning facilities, peat farms, badger9000 visitation, maglev train facility, plastic/paper mills, etc. They didn't have anything like this in the states.
> Nationalisation was the alternative. Government acquires the failed banks. Manages the issue (even almost the same way the did). Profits flow back to the public. When happy, privatise again with a healthy profit. Maybe keep one as a public asset.

Are you unaware that TARP happened?
Bezos is going to space.

He's ruthless as hell but he dosen't force anyone to work for him, he doesn't force anyone to use his service.

Maybe, just maybe, he's that man who sold the Moon.
You largely described 1950 middle class ideal in gender roles.

The kind of work women did in the past periods is paid now too. Households were making own candles, cloth, raised animals for food, killed them, bed sheets, soap and so on and so forth. A lot of stuff you buy now would be crafted by women. Outside of 1950 homemaker or rich people, women in the past could not afford to be only nice and gentle. Women sold on local markets (based on local museums) while men went to sell away. Nannies and servants were paid (poorly). Women even worked in mines based on mining museum - they were separating rocks which is not as hard as mining (they were paid less then men obviously). Kids worked too. Also, still in mining areas, male miners tensed to die young while women and kids continued to live and continued to need money. Which practically meant, making things and selling them.

Same after wars. Men died, at periods a lot, women continued to live and needed to feed themselves and rest of family. That is the thing about male protectors and conquerors stereotype - they die or get disabled and remaining men can't replace them so easily.

There was patriarchy but also a very real need to negotiate well on market. A lot of those expectations is rich upper class thing - behavior you can afford only when you are rich enough not to be economically productive.
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Same here. I don't necessarily hate the comic style. But for some reason this particular style makes it very hard to read and understand.
To be fair, the EU can't change geography. We're a sparsely populated island off another island off the main bulk of the continent.

They already paid big chunks of the bills for Ireland's roads, ports and airports. Asking them to subsidise everyone's postal costs too is a bit much.
Oh. My. God.

This story is written exactly like a script for a movie, designed to make the American reader feel patriotic to the country and hopefully decide to send more of their kids to endless wars.

Just wow.
The thing is that in 3) the company still doesn't make money.
Google wants to make datasets searchable
Fair enough, my understanding was there was nearly a categorical ban on research w/ schedule 1 drugs. I am pleased to see this is not the case. Thank you for the correction.
How many roommates for $1k? $1k within 20 miles of Seattle isn't enough to live alone, and I'm guessing it's much worse in SF.
I will link to this book over and over: "Overcharged" explains the American medical system and its problems in great detail. Cannot recommend it more. Price obfuscation, third-party payments, and government interference have warped the medical system in ways that will make you laugh (then cry).

https://www.amazon.com/Overcharged-Americans-Much-Health-Car...
You don't need to bail out banks to protect the economy.
Sounds interesting - Do you have a link for that, or if you've got time could you explain?
It may well do, but then so do the best jokes / satire.
Alumni of WGU here.

I did mine in about 1 1/2 years of work for < $16k. If anyone is looking to tick the "college educated" box I would highly recommend it as the fastest path to doing that.
Not necessarily? It could also just mean that there are a lot of people not complaining enough, or simply without any alternatives and consigned to their fate.

It would also be interesting to know how much of their traffic winds up on IPv6 tunnels like Teredo anyway to NAT break. Windows by default tries to avoid the worst NATs by using Teredo IPv6 tunneling, and has since Vista.

It's certainly possible that IPv6 traffic already accounts for why users aren't complaining about how much CGNAT breaks IPv4.
Poverty in America is a result of American capitalism, at a very high level. At a very very high level, it is caused by human greed, and a lack of love for our neighbors.

We can talk about wages and employment rates, and race all day long, but those are just details. It's human greed in the end, and our inability to love others like we love ourselves.
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But is the fallback path for production even correctly tested, then?

And if it is, then what becomes the point of the assertion?
Do you have a pension? A lot of us do, and a lot of them are just specifically structured investment schemes with some tax incentives, which means they're a seventy year bet that the stock market will "always go up". Historically, that's been broadly true, given decent time scales - just as it was with house prices.

I suppose it would be logically consistent to then say that people with pensions are "asking for it", too, but you get to a certain point where we cannot blame the layman for not looking at a field where all the experts are saying the same thing and not believing them.

In financial markets, the idea that "prices will always go up" is not just reasonable, but one of the founding principles of our economy. Everything must grow, all of the time. If prices _aren't_ going up, then something is wrong, and if prices are going _down_ we call it a recession, give it a grand name with capital letters, and try to make it not happen again.
China’s system is probably better characterized as “State Capitalism” than communism, since the workers don’t own the means of production.
Congrats on your progress! How do you guys deal with liability issues, such as if your algorithms were to miss a potential defect and something were to happen? Do your customers worry about that at all?
Switzerland isn't in the EU or EEA, if that's what you meant by "commmon market."
I think you nailed it. My first Amazon order was in 1999. Recently, I've decided to make purchases elsewhere, due to various factors. It's becoming a place I don't like to go, because of the threat of fake products and reviews.

They are losing my trust, and I assume they feeling I am their market, with how much I have spent with them over the years.
I took french in high school and can read about 90% of this.

It's not that hard. lol. Half of advanced math was done in France anyway...Laplace, logarithmes, Cauchy, Riemann...

"analyser les résultats des algorithmes de manière quantitative" => analyze the results of algorithms in a quantitative manner
>That's probably true, but the truth is that situation was an unstable equilibrium in the first place. There's absolutely no reason in a functioning market to expect (or want!) one provider to be the uniform best option at all things. Eventually everyone else starts competing.

I'd say it's somewhat the reverse: Amazon was vastly better for things they sourced and sold themselves. I couldn't get everything there, but things they did have, I could trust.

They tried to expand into absolutely everything, and that's what feels like broke even my trust in the stuff they sell directly (since they also have comingling of third party inventory on that stuff, now).
The DMCA has no penalties for making a claim like this. Sony is claiming that he copied a recording that they actually own the copyright for. The DMCA's penalty for false claims only kicks in if they falsely claim to own the copyright, not if they falsely claim infringement.

EG: If I falsely claim to own the copyright to your post, that would be a violation of a statement made under penalty of perjury. If I falsely claim that your post infringes the copyright of some other post that I once made that would not be a violation punishable under the DMCA's false claims provisions.

It could still be slander of title or some similar violation, of course.
Interesting note about code comments in V8:
https://www.openhub.net/p/v8-js/factoids#FactoidCommentsVery...

Spidermonkey is one third of the size(LoC) of V8 and has three times more comments.
umm no, most people struggle to get by working the hours they do, unless there is some sort of very significant increase in the minimum wage without the general cost of living increasing to counter it there is no way itll work