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You don't need a better theory for the purpose of the discussion.

What you can do - as one example - is take the results of what you know to be flawed not so seriously and when making decisions built-in more leeway for errors and corrections, and strengthen the human side. Incidentally, that is actually very capitalist/liberalist: Give more power away from centers to the root, the local people to make their own decisions, overriding what theory prescribes.

For a concrete tiny example, when I tried to return something at a department store the employee was very afraid to do anything not by the book. She was continuously being watched by cameras too. If she had had the power to actually make decisions it would be much better. Sure, people make mistakes, but I question the solution of making people into programmed "by the rules" drones with no ability to react to local events and use their own brains (if an AI would do that everybody would be gleaming, "look how intelligent our AI is!" - even when the results are far worse than that of even a below-median IQ human brain).

The point is what can change is what you do when you find that your theory is not good enough, and I'd say there are plenty of things to do even if you don't have a better theory (now or ever).
Not only that, by GP's logic Marks & Spencers would somehow be obliged to get you a US region coded DVD of that movie (whether the actual rights holder ever released it or not!).

To be clear: I absolutely hate the ridiculous licensing policies of the movie studios, but they're clearly not Marks & Spencer's fault, or Apple's, for that matter.
How much is Long Term Disability Insurance likely to cost if you have been tested and shown to have a particularly high risk of developing a long-term disability?

Oh, you wouldn't tell the insurer? That'll probably be grounds for invalidating the policy, if and when it ever comes to light.

The more we are able to know about the likelihood of future medical issues on an individual level, the more dysfunctional the "insurance" model will become.
The contract with the insurer could specify prison. The official courts no longer require prison, but the insurer that you've agreed to might.
Me too. I want a blank page when I open my browser. If I reboot a device, I want nothing but base system running when it restarts.
I sure as heck want my tabs back. But I'd settle for "restore tabs" as I have to do that a lot in chrome on my MacBook Pro. On my Android, the tabs are just there and I really appreciate it. I have over a dozen tabs open on my phone and two dozen on my laptop.
I really don’t understand the reasons behind building a sea bridge connecting HK and Macau. I can’t help but think this is a project drawn up by some inexperienced policy maker. Other than it being a grand landmark public project, and ignoring cost-benefit, can someone tell me about the engineering aspects of it with all the obvious natural challenges?

Edit: appears the project was delayed since 2016 due to various issues.
I don't recall mentioning anything about consistency or beauty, and I think I'd do pretty well at a test of identifying externalities.
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Well to bad, that with buy, you basically promise a immortal service. Thats the shops problem, not the customers. And trying to hoodwink customers with DRM and lawyers - well that has worked very well in the past to agitate people until industries where cracked up by the government.
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I am talking about GOOD food. Anybody in the world can make burgers, hummus, and tacos. But is it authentic and delicious? Not in China
We have known for hundreds of years that over expansion of debt causes crashes. Maybe I'm missing the point, were economists supposed to stop the expansion of debt?
Is this due to memory exhaustion? If so, does Safari not have limits applied that cause it to be killed for running into OOM?
They attest legal identity - watch the Chrome demo video.
> Perfect competition, perfect information, etc. -- these assumptions weren't commonly built in to models because they actually simplified them

Um, what? That's exactly why these things end up in so many models.

> (there are plenty of better ways to simplify economic models).

Such as?
There's also standalone BBC Basic for the Raspberry Pi:
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico
> How is Facebook's iOS app 491MB?

Simple - Feature Creep[1]. Facebook's iOS app shows no restraint when it comes to features. Take for example when you have the word 'congratulations' in your status, when you then click on the word after posting it we are shown a big elaborate animation. Something like that may be at least 10MB of code - just for a silly animation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_creep
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The Shure ones are great. Standard Bluetooth issues, but, good sound quality and great passive noise isolation.
If we've set the fine levels right, someone who can't or won't afford crime insurance is a net liability to the rest of us. The insurance premiums will vary greatly with the conditions one agrees to. Very few people would be unable to afford any such conditions.
Does iOS not enforce reasonable memory limits on apps to prevent a panic?
Exactly. Suppose he switched to a Windows PC and now complains that he can't re-download the movie from the Windows Store (or whatever the equivalent is called). That would be unjustified.

(However, he could move the music he had purchased from Apple and still had on his computer to his new Windows machine, unless I am mistaken, as they're not DRM'd. Not sure about movies.)
They had an internal search box you could setup to crawl your intranet. They have shut this down and order all companies to turn it off. SLA does not matter
Another day another Fuzix platform
Considering Facebook owns Instagram this sounds like great news for Facebook. Facebook the company owning the product teens are using instead of Facebook the product seems like a good long term strategy.
Ask HN: Cheap mobile robots that can communicate
Hello

So I'm a student and I had an idea for my thesis in renewable energy (MSc) but I want to test it out before actually using it for my thesis, and it might be to big so I want to start ahead of time.

What I need are cheap mobile robots that can move around and that have at least one arm that I can program in all directions, preferably on top of the robot. I want them to also be able to communicate between them each other, so they don't want the same spot. But it would actually be better if they could communicated even more sophisticated to choose the best formation.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

I'm not giving more details because I honestly can't find anything similar and have delusions of grandeur about my idea.
Recent iPhones have been getting slightly thicker though, afaik the 6+ was the thinnest.
I think the thing that gets me most about his argument is the ignorance of nefarious actors and monopolies.

It isn’t reasonable to say "free market, they’ll go out of business" if real people need to suffer while they do that.

Look at Comcast for example. When and where in history has an entity like Comcast gone out of business? How many people suffer under one or more of their "policies"? Who can step in to challenge them? Why are there no challengers in any markets?

After all that, he talks about all the rules that these systems run by, who enforces them? Which organizing body holds them or updates them? If all taxation is theft, how are laws compiled and how do we ensure fairness and equitable access?

This guy like so many other economists seem to work so far into the realm of theoretical and philosophical systems, there appears to be no accounting for major flaws.

How do you deal with a warlord who rises up to claim all the roads in a tiny fiefdom without taxes?

In his examples of interpersonal violence how does he defend himself? That soft squishy old intellectual with lots of resources? How is he protected in his libertarian utopia?

How does it not devolve into an oligarchy or a dictatorship?
Yes. Region locks are a fabricated limitation, just another way for Hollywood to extract money from the consumer. You should be annoyed with Marks & Spencer’s for playing ball. Because while one drop might not turn the tide, eventually the dam breaks and some retailer somewhere will find a way and sell unlocked DVD players.

Effecting change in society is an exercise in finding the right pressure point. Hollywood doesn’t care about our feelings on region locks. Sellers do. Put the incentive in the right spot and watch the stars align. A well leveraged arm cannot be overturned.
So then universities have to completely rely on money from the private sector? Don't you think that would lead to an environment where the sponsors tell what to teach? Don't you think that could be problematic? Not to mention what your solution would mean for young people with less money or professions in the humanities. You think studying history is not important?

University is not only there to teach you knowledge but more importantly critical thinking and scientific best practices (like checking your sources). If anyone has problems with critical questions about their reasoning or their sources, that not the problem of the one who asked. If anyone think questions show lack of respect, maybe they should first think why anyone should respect them.

I'm pretty sure there is a certain culture of feeling superior if one has a degree from a university, but this is definitely not fixed by frowning upon higher education. Actually it makes everything worse.
Economist here. I think you're mixing political science (power distribution + more) with economics (efficient resource allocation + more). Happy to talk more if you're interested.
From the section just below in that wiki article

"Brazil nut trees produce fruit almost exclusively in pristine forests, as disturbed forests lack the large-bodied bees of the genera..."
It never ceases to amaze me how easy people like HN User "rdl" believe fixing Malaria is. They think we can just wave a magic wand, and all of a sudden the world would be rid of Malarial disease. Do they think idiots have been working on this problem for the past 2 or 3 hundred years? Malaria is one of the most savagely cunning bugs around. Given the history of our fight against it, to imply that we are going to get rid of it with a bit of genetic pixie dust is just astoundingly naive.
My client (if I worked in that company he would be my manager) didn't care about installer size either.

I did. I think it's about developer professionalism.

If you have business goal to make small bundle but don't have professional developers who understand what I wrote in previous comment, it won't be small.
“Off the boil” isn’t a temperature (remember, we’re talking to coders here). I like to use water at 195°F, I find that anything hotter leads to overextracted coffee that doesn’t taste very good.

There are two other variables WRT extraction left basically untouched: grind fineness and brew time.

I think playing with those and trying different brewing methods helps find what works best, but not everyone wants to run experiments first thing in the morning.
How is the Boulder group? I've been meaning to come that way - I'd pay at this point to have strategic rather than consistently tactical technology discussions. Every other meetup group devolves into frameworks, "cool tech", language talks, devops, etc.
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Well I've seen worse rules of thumb.
You are complaining that movies are all similar, insofar as they tend to focus on 1, 2, 3 or 5 people?
Anyone got a Superhuman invite?
Tim Cook is to Apple as Steve Balmer was to MS.

Both companies stocks soared under each, largely because of their cost cutting / monetization of every aspect of product. However, in both cases, such maneuvers wound up alienating their core supporters and causing strategic brand identity issues.

Eventually the board will have to replace TC (and most of the stagnant C-levels) and hopefully, like Microsoft, this will lead to a revitalization of Apple.

The "XS Max"...really? Sounds like they've outsourced more than just manufacturing to China.
I see. Not that 70MPH is particularly great either.
Not sure. Can you point me to a basic implementation in Javascript, C or Fortran?
I’d agree with that. But GP’s point still stands if you specify the Midwest rather than California. In fact, that happened during the Great Depression, exacerbating hunger problems just as unemployment was peaking: a severe years-long drought in the Midwest (whence the term “dust bowl”) crippled the country’s grain production.
So, outside some very obvious heterodox economics departments, I haven't seen this. Do you have some examples mind?
The digital single market for online content services is effective since April:
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/cross-border-p...
Everything is a market. Problems arise when this is ignored and, worse, when rules are created that go against the market.

Education, for example, certainly is a market. Demand is high and all parents try to get the best the can for their children, which creates an imbalance between demand and supply for the best education. Where school places are allocated according to catchment areas, houses prices immediately reflect the value of certain schools. That's the market talking.

In the UK, there used to be "grammar schools", which were selective secondary state schools. Most of them have been abolished but not all of them. Getting a place means top free education.
Result? Insane competition and huge industry of private tuitions and training books that lockout the poorer. Again the market is at play and tells us that a grammar school place is extremely valuable.

Supply and demand, therefore markets, shape everything.
I'm not sure if you are aware of the recent "anti-motion sickness glasses":

https://visuall.net/2018/07/09/seetroen-the-first-glasses-to...

Maybe you could test them, for science.
As someone about to board a plane with my SO, one problem that would be nice is if apple devices could do simultaneous devices connected. My iPad plus headphone splitter is ok, but, I’m mostly on Bluetooth only headphones. If you want to share a listen, you need wired ones. Seems like they could fix this audio stack to allow this, or maybe we need a big upgrade to Bluetooth hardware to allow it.
Tested in on my Macbook in Safari, it crashed spectacularly
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Wow, you seem just like another friendly and helpful Apple Fan. Of course I love to complain! Thanks for your unique input and no I don't seriously think your are his second account, I wrote that to emphasise my argument that followed this and which you left out. EOD...

Note to myself: never mention Apple again on hn

Edit: wow ninja-downvote within 1 minute! Have you been reloading your comment page for the last hour?

Oh I see...it's the other guy again...no surprise there.
In my experience it’s as good as SV, sometimes a bit better, sometimes a bit worse. Nothing like Tokyo, but SV is a much lower bar.
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Won’t do you much good, though when you’re trying to charge and listen while waking or in a moving vehicle. Unless what you mean is contactless charging - which would be ... interesting ... in public spaces (street or transit).
You can potentially reverse an entire election and do it again, but you can’t reverse one vote.

I’m sure there are solutions. My point isn’t that it’s impossoble, it’s that banking and voting are so different that the existence of solutions for one tells us nothing at all about the other.
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The questions is also, why should anyone listen to what Peter Thiel thinks? Because he made money with Paypal and is now a VC? As if that somehow means he is more qualified than your post man in terms of political views.

If people get really brainwashed by having higher education or spending more time in college maybe there is something wrong with the education system, but maybe (just maybe) being brainwashed is just a try to smear everyone with a different opinion.
You put yourself in position of arbiter, able to distinguish needs from wants, what matters and what does not, what is fantasy and what is not, etc. This makes arguing with you kind of useless.
More details about the attack in this interview with the researcher: https://www.zdnet.com/article/nasty-piece-of-css-code-crashe...

Safari on MacOS is also affected, and you can make it persist with a little bit of JS.
I think it's a bit of a tongue in cheek statement tbh
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Apple must use better compression /s
First principles, eh?
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"The motives are entirely different between China and the West. The US and western Europe are trying to protect their open, liberal democracies from those outside bent on subversion."

I thought that it had a lot to do with the copyright industry. Upload filters against copyrighted material and link tax sounds less like trying to protect democracy and more like following what powerful interest groups want.
I think the article sounds a little naive and don't dig deeper than that they are doing it for the wrong reasons but we are doing it for the right reasons.
I love my AirPods. I find them fairly comfortable and the audio quality is fine, perfect for podcasts (theory: the rise of AirPods and rise of podcasts are related).

However, AirPods don't require the removal of the headphone jack! The removal of the headphone jack is still so consumer hostile: it serves zero benefit to anyone apart from bluetooth accessory makers. If Apple really was serious about advancing bluetooth headphones, they would at least license the W1 for the pairing magic to other manufacturers.

Good Bluetooth headphones AND headphone jacks can exist at the same time! Anyone arguing for the removal of headphone jacks aren't grounded in any sort of reality tbh.
I think he means the web browser app. Probably only used for Hacker News. Like a boss.
Just like we got rid of smallpox with (initially) cowpox pixie dust? Or are very close to getting rid of polio with vaccine pixie dust? (Massive amounts of work to deploy each of these to the entire affected populations, but at core the technology is what makes it possible.)
That explains why they never made the "Two and a Half Men" movie!
The idea that economics is formulated as it is to protect the status quo, or to justify the distribution of wealth and power is only partially correct. Economists have a lot to say that elites do not want to hear. The political class, in fact, routinely ignores economists' prescriptions, eg a carbon tax.

Instead, I would say that:

(1) on some issues there is a diversity of opinion among economists and so people pick and choose their ecomist to justify their position

(2) non academic employed economists' pronouncements tend to reflect the interests of their employers (for variety of reasons)

(3) as a class economists defend not the status quo but an ideology that justifies that status quo. for example pareto optimal policies dont really work out when distributions are already highly unequal.
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Not sure what your issue with "hard to analyze" is. When compared to linear systems, nonlinear dynamical systems are hard to analyze.

> Nonlinear dynamical systems, describing changes in variables over time, may appear chaotic, unpredictable, or counterintuitive, contrasting with much simpler linear systems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system
Would this cover assets not directly owned by him, or assets owned abroad etc ? some loophole which would allow him to retain some chunk of his wealth?

While it likely that it is negotiation tactic, it has to believable one for creditors to think he may actually follow through, otherwise there is no point.
I think at that point it's like a game and money is how you keep score. It's how you let others know you are smarter, faster, bolder, etc. than them.
Developers of an app used by over a billion people do not know how to develop software because you wrote a small CAD app one time? Right.

I think someone should reach out to them and let them know that they just have to gzip their XML!
Or a crowded subway car. Or a midtown NYC street at 8:45am. Argh.

Apple, not everyone lives in the suburbs and uses their phones primarily at home or in personal vehicles.
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TLDR: The "most addictive theorem" is the Hartman–Grobman theorem which states that under some very specific and technical conditions non-linear system near equilibrium can be described with a linear system.

More at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartman–Grobman_theorem
Why the downvotes? The guy is a security research, and published a bug that can crash the app or OS (reports in this thread have reported mixed results, and others are saying it may impact OSX as well). The guy goes to Twitter the announce the bug.

Most people that call themselves security researchers will notify the vendor and give them some amount of time before publishing it. He waited 1 day.

My best guess is that since it's just a OS crash, he felt he could release it. But for something that is easy for any website to do, seems like he should have given them some more time.
It's definitely dealing in edge-cases, and I think there's a middle-ground where you make sure people are aware of the edge-case conditions they're approaching, without necessarily irritating people to whom they don't apply.

So on the one hand, making it clear what the region you're buying into actually is would be really nice, and on the other hand (as suggested) making it clear when you've crossed into an edge case and there are things in you're account that you're about to lose access to, or that you might expect to see but can't, would make resolving this kind of issue much easier. And wouldn't bother the 99% of people who haven't switched their account region after "buying" something.
This is definitely something I thought a lot about before accepting sponsorship. Right now we only have 1 sponsor, and they picked us because they want to be authentic, without pitches and marketing to the group. So I'm trying to be ultra selective of which sponsors I work with to maintain the genuine connections this group has.
That's a difference between a free market and a planned economy, not a political one.

And Freedom doesn't mean an absolute. In the West I'm no freer to slander than anywhere else for example. Its all tempered, and that's no reason to say "Well we're just the same"
Apply with your background and we can take a look. That is one of the intentions though.
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Security people, any chance at all this was caused by hacking some utilities SCADA somewhere? Tell me the Russians or the Chinese can't turn our houses into bombs...
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