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So one might consider "the original intent" of your home as an investment to be something other than throwing your money at rent. If I put $2000 towards rent in a month, I have a place to live that month. If I instead put $2000 towards a mortgage, I have some of that money in equity (and a place to live for a month). It "builds wealth" in that some of my monthly spend is resulting in value for me beyond the place to live for those 30 or so days. I think if people are generically looking to treat their home like any other financial instrument, they're courting danger.
I suppose you're right, for shared systems I absolutely get it. For techie workstations though...
In California we could easily solve the housing shortage by eliminating prop 13.

Because land isn't taxed based on it's current value landowners have little incentive to develop their land in order to get the most out of it. They simply bank land as much as possible as it's the most surefire way to turn a profit. It's why we have golf courses (https://www.planetizen.com/node/93284/la-country-clubs-takin...) in city centers, dilapidated shacks (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/google-ca...) next to Google's global HQ, and empty lots (https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/811-Pelton-Ave-Santa-Cruz...) right on the beach in Santa Cruz.

Additionally, prop 13 gives landowners every incentive to lobby for policies that restrict development in order to drive up prices instead of fighting for the right to build 4 story apartments on their property.

Impact fees are too high because cities can't rely on property tax. This stops all but the most luxurious developments: https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3497#Did_Proposition....

And then there's the fact that prop 13 transfers wealth from young to old, from poor and middle-class to rich, from black and Latino to white, and from renter to owner (http://www.betterinstitutions.com/blog/2015/07/prop-13-calif...). Making it harder for people to save up in hope of buying one day.
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Just think of all the value that you ate instead of saving in your fridge!
The distinction between "actively relaying" and allowing through in 2018 is now as empty and outdated as the idea that property rights extended up into the sky, so farmers could charge airplanes for passage.

The purpose of such a distinction is simply for people with power to regulate discourse.
It’s unusual for one generational cohort to control so much for so long though, so a lot of what we’re seeing with Boomers is new.

Boomers are an unusually large cohort that arrived basically at once. They are a much larger group compared to their parents and children. That alone guarantees economic and political distortions, as it means that an unusually high percentage of the population would be in a very narrow range of ages.

They also lived unusually longer than their parents too, by about 20 years so far. Their parents had to share power with the Boomers because they started to die out, with the Boomers this hasn’t happened at all. This means they took the mantle of power in unusually large numbers, didn’t need to share with their children, and lived so long that they’ve stunted the political and economic growth of younger generations. That Boomers are still clogging up the lower rungs of power is literally stunting the growth of Gen X and Millenials, which will be a problem when that cohort is forced to take over due to mortality.

Under normal circumstances no generation is ever in the majority, and the mortality of their parents and themselves ensures that they cycle into and out of power smoothly. This gives every generation the ability to transfer social and economic power smoothly, as well as maintaining a good worker to retiree ratio. The Boomers however have basically upset that balance by existing in a tight cohort and living unusually long.

So yes, parents shitting on “kids these days” is as old as humanity, but what we’re seeing with Boomers is actually quite new.
Ooh, I really like that one! Measuring area makes a lot more sense.
It sounds suspiciously as if you're drawing a direct comparison between the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2 and Gab getting kicked off GoDaddy. That can't possibly be an argument you really want to make.

You know better than that, and you should know full well I'd expect better of you.
Go applications do not need golang itself installed like a python or ruby. You can create the binaries on any machine and just ship the executable and it’s assets if applicable. The binary is static and contains everything it needs to run. Using grafana and influxdb as an example which might be familiar to sysadmins those packages do not need golang installed.
When KDE3 was around, I would use KDE3 apps in a GNOME 2 desktop, with the KDE4 transition, I found KDE quite annoying to use and switched to using a variety of applications to fill in the gaps (never found a really good replacement for Amarok 1.4, though, these days I make-do with mpd). Then Gnome decided that the KDE3-4 transition was worth emulating for some reason, and pushed out the monstrosity that is Gnome 3. So, these days, I run stumpwm on my linux boxes but I do most of my work on a Mac. (although, I have a suspicion that Apple's about to lose everything I like and I'll find myself cobbling together a linux desktop again soon).
This is called the black hole information paradox. Today most physicists believe that hawking radiation preserves quantum information. Hawking himself made a bet that it doesn’t, but by 2004 he had become convinced and conceded the bet. But as far as I know this is still an open question - we’ve never detected hawking radiation experimentally.
> Better rewards for uncovering bad science keeps it from devolving into a political contest.

No. If you increase rewards for uncovering bad science, it will just lead to false accusations.

> If you're not seeing the right incentives in place

Some people think that the very existence of incentives is the problem here.
https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work
Such an interesting mystery!
The nature of a NIMBY is to label any change as bad, regardless of the benefits to other people. If that isn't cynical, I don't know what is.

Would you defend segregationists, who tried desperately to preserve the racial makeup of their neighborhoods, schools, and buses?

It's a rhetorical question of course -- I know you would not. My point is just that your logic can be (and is) used to defend any number of despicable causes. There's no reason our civil society has to put up with with this nonsense.
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Yep. You have IP-ban on. Better change the MAC-address in your modem.
> Grad students / postdocs / human lab rats aren't scum, the incentives just aren't in place to promote good behavior

The question is, would additional incentives promote good behavior or just lead to more measurement dysfunction. Some people think that just giving the "right" incentives is needed, but actual research shows otherwise.

https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work
The role of science in society is to increase the sum of knowledge on which progress can be made. If a scientist knowingly lets false information be published he is causing a disservice to society, harming progress.

Scientific papers are made public for a reason. The correct information should not be accessible only to a small circle of people in the know. If incorrect papers are out there, those who can correct them have a duty to do so.
In Singapore, 90% of the housing stock is public housing -- including plenty of fairly upper-class developments. They public housing in a variety of sizes and styles, and to suit every income bracket, thus ensuring that there is no stigma associated with it. Then they use their control over the housing stock to engage in some completely overt social-engineering -- ensuring that no one neighbourhood becomes too concentrated in a single ethnic, religious, or economic bracket.

This is a very long way from how the West does things, but I've got to say that it works exceedingly well there.

(Disclaimer: not an endorsement of All Things Singapore.)
Yep it is disgusting. The end result is going to be science is seen the same as the Tour de France. Unlike the Tour science is not something we can live without.

The destruction of the reputation of science is probably the most dangerous thing going on in our society right now. If we lose science we have nothing.
What does it matter if Trolltech originated in Europe? I didn't know that until now.
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Hey its not the US, we don't have millions of free prisoners available here.
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>Density implies noise, pollution, traffic, people, and a certain type of urban lifestyle... all of which decrease attractiveness.

That is an incredible amount of personal opinion injected as fact.
I guess they'll have to return to sharing their desire to kill black people the old fashioned way, in person.

Something you aren't grappling with here is the way the Internet has enabled previously-scattered terrible people to connect and self-radicalize. David Neiwart, who tracked various "patriot", white supremacist, and other fringe groups since the 90s, wrote a very readable book about how things have changed since then: https://www.amazon.com/Alt-America-Rise-Radical-Right-Trump/...

I definitely appreciate the early ethos of the Internet. It's a good founding myth, and I would like to work to keep things open by default. But if the worse 0.1% of humankind ends up not being able to host anything because otherwise they will work together to murder people, I am 100% ok with bending my "anything goes" bias a bit.
No. Replication still had corruption when I was dealing with WiredTiger at scale. They kept claiming to have fixed the corruption problems in each release. After that a few times, I wasn't willing to trust the claims, so I wouldn't use Mongo anywhere that I couldn't just as well use a JSON file as my data store.
This is lit! I so much want to start my own listening to this .. Brilliant!
While true, there's also the fact that they don't have any btrfs engineers anymore (from what I've heard). The ones they had have all left for Facebook and other companies that use btrfs in production.
Only if you equate exercise of first amendment rights with loss of first amendment rights. Choosing to relay content or not is a first amendment right, compelling other people to do so on your behalf is not.

The "not relaying" gambit is irrelevant and dishonest in 2018. It's as irrelevant as farmers claiming they had the right to charge tolls to airplanes overflying their land, because originally, land deeds extended upwards indefinitely. YouTube "not relaying" is indeed a lot like a company town not wanting someone to walk their streets.

But no one entity is positioned the way Gulf Shipbuilding was in Marsh v. Alabama, so as to exercise the power to control the expressive rights of an entire community

In 2018, this is also dishonest. There are plenty of things which call themselves "communities" which indeed have the substrate of the lion's share of their discourse controlled by one entity.
No, graduate students in general have no leverage over their advisors. A single word from your advisor and you're out of the field.

There is little incentive to root out professors for any reason. The process of becoming a professor (grad school -> postdoc (N times) -> tenure track faculty -> tenured professor) is generally believed (by tenured professors, of course) to root out anyone unworthy of the position. You can believe what you want about the efficiency of such a process.

Public shame requires public understanding of scientific (mal)practice, so, good luck communicating that. Most of the time, the bad actors in question have already gotten papers past referees; what makes you think the public is capable of more thorough review?

Fraud is considered a serious allegation and as a result accusing someone of it requires going through a thorough process involving a host of university administrators, whose incentives are aligned with the profit motives of the university system.

Transferring graduate schools is essentially impossible, and even in the exceptionally rare circumstances that it happens, it always involves burnt bridges and often has to do with bigger fish (i.e. your advisor being offered a position elsewhere, and you're lucky enough they take you with them.) Without external funding to support you, you are usually replaceable. All graduate departments receive applications far in excess of the number of students they can support. They certainly will not consider taking on another from a school at which you've proven to be a problem. Academia has already established a quite successful leaky pipeline; the beginning (graduate school) is no different.

In academia, hierarchy is the rule, flat organizations the exception. You must purchase your influence, usually at significant cost (and luck is a significant component). As an undergraduate, the system is designed to cater to your interests; as a graduate student, you cater to the university's interests. Scientific integrity is a noble notion, and in some corners of academia, it survives, but it does so in spite of bad actors who thrive in a system designed to produce ten times the number of qualified applicants for each job, all of whom are judged according to easily gamed metrics. It would be nice if things weren't this way.

But the problem is, typically... if you decide to get a PhD in science, it is possible that you're already too obsessed with the subject to ever, truly, give it up, especially if it's "just" over working conditions. I can't speak for everyone, but most people leave because they were forced to.
Just like RedHat didn't go out of business despite basically giving away RHEL as Centos for free to everyone.

People, especially the professionals, want the complete experience, from hardware to support and everything in between. Can you provide the level of support they provide while being cheaper than them?

> With zero overhead I can sell everything they make cheaper.

Chinese brands do this all the time with Apple. They copy the Apple iPhone designs wholesale including the UI themes, make it cheaper, and yet Apple makes more money than all of them combined.
Would recommend straight into schema if you have the time- but if you must do it incrementally, then yea this will work. The JSONB columns are extremely powerful.
Why create a framework when you just want to display html?
Please please let us know when you have a need for testers. I'm literally (like, have it up on my ereader next to me right now) reading through Honor Of The Queen.
First people get kicked off their platforms "build your own platforms"

Then platforms got kicked off the platform platforms "build your own platform platforms"

What reason is there to assume those platform platforms will not get kicked off the platform platform platforms?

These people are not arguing in good faith.
prometheus did this in 2012
That issue exists in all of manufacturing; its not difficult to copy a bed or a shoe (ignoring high fashion/concept). Branding, trust, convenience, etc play a large role in your decision to buy nike over a cheaper chinese clone
This isn't true. Yes, Go packages are all statically compiled into a single binary (so you don't have a separate .so for each import path) but the actual binaries haven't been statically linked by default (or at all in some cases) for a very long time.

For instance -- Go has to link to glibc, and glibc doesn't provide proper support for static compilation (you _can_ do it but it's not actually supported in the RHEL sense by glibc upstream). And even when you force Go (through several magic incantations) to give you a static binary, networking and similar code will still use NSS (which uses dlsym and thus still requires dynamic libraries on the host to be installed).
Titan Quest on the Switch has splitscreen multiplayer. I'm not holding my breath, but I would love it if Blizzard did the same with D2.
No, I'm arguing that your free speech rights do not give you the right to compel me to repeat your speech for you, and that the idea that they do negates my free speech rights.

No one in 2018 really thinks that someone having a YouTube channel means that YouTube means to say or approve everything said on that channel. That's only pretended by people whose aim is just to silence those they disagree with.

I should think that the small fraction of a percent of people who'd genuinely have that sort of idea is far outweighed by the impact on hundreds of millions of people who feel their voices are squelched in part or whole by YouTube's so-called "free speech" decision to silence opinions they don't like.
Kind of shows that at end of the day, the issue is political and depends on who wants what. We can stop housing price increases and decrease future profits gained for current homeowners.
As much as I like the -design- of Nix as a system overall, I would strongly discourage trusting it today for any production or security sensitive use case until some concept of VCS signing, and review/release integrity is in place.

See: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/d178f63f9a588e463fdc07551...
For starters, just about every regime that billed itself as communist.
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This wait must have torn him apart.
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No, you were hypocritically pushing a narrative that I meant something entirely different than what I was saying, and I took that opportunity away from you. I'm saying the same thing I always was.
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Hey,

I've used https://hn.algolia.com for a long time to search relevant topics in hacker news but lately it isn't showing good results.

Just now I was looking for gantt charts stories by popularity in the last year and got nothing relevant back: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gantt&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story

Tried a few different things (custom time range over a long period of time for example) and nothing. Google is giving me much better results!

Same happened when I was looking into HAProxy articles... any other sites people use to search hacker news? Is it just me or is hn.algolia not as good anymore?
I'm sorry, but which part of calling the color yellow "bright" conflicts with the article's presented content in any way?
This already exists, it is called a job agency
> The solution is to get rid of zoning laws. Baring some breakthrough in public choice theory allowing us to break out of this mess, I predict we are stuck with this until the robots take over.

The breakthrough is using higher-level entities to constrain lower-level entities. What creates the problem is that you have a neighborhood zoned only for low density and the only people with a vote to change it are the existing homeowners whose collective voting sentiment is "screw you, got mine."

What's needed is a law at the state or federal level that any given fifty mile radius has to have a certain percentage of area zoned for unrestricted density.
Actually inciting violence or conspiring to do so is covered under common law statutes and can be easily prosecuted. This is far different, it is companies deciding on their own volition to unilaterally ban entities from accessing the very "pipes". Today it's at the domain level, so the convenience of being able to type in a name versus an IP is what's at stake. What next, ISP's blocking traffic?.. Like I've said it's the principle. I believe in free speech and a free and open internet, if there is criminal activity the FBI, et al. can easily get involved. This is about the fact that the very infrastructure of the internet is largely dictated by private entities who are now imposing their own discretion based on content they object to, odious as it may be. I for one am not keen on allowing the sociopolitical whims of the time to dictate who is allowed on this great thing called the internet. I see something once pure, beautiful, and glorious entering its first stages of death.
I think policeman as gender neutral. It can be used for all.

Similar issue?
I found most of his projects quite useful. Sure, it might involve a bit of overselling, but the API design is really good for the most part.

Also - I don't think you can really sustain an open source project that brings almost nothing, except a really good API (which some people really value) to the table without good marketing.
> Gab's users have a disconcerting tendency to blow up synagogues.

The Gab user in question was issuing threats on Twitter as well for months. Twitter did nothing about it. Under your exceptionally poorly formed argument, Twitter's users have a tendency to blow up synagogues (it was actually a shooting).

Under your premise, Twitter and Facebook should be forced off the Internet, or otherwise maligned, because the people that commited 9/11 were Arabs and there are Arabs using Twitter and Facebook. Under your premise, all Arabs should be guilty and share responsibility. Because N number of Arabs threaten Jews, no Arabs should be allowed on Twitter or Facebook, or otherwise those platforms must be isolated. You could widen that and claim it should apply to all Muslims because of some bad Muslims. By your premise all Muslims share guilt for the actions of some Muslims. See: Louis Farrakhan on Twitter.

We can extend your absurdity further. We can start talking about how Facebook should be shut down because it was used in some manner to assist in genocide in Myanmar. All chat applications must be destroyed, all encryption must be removed because it could shield someone like the Pittsburgh shooter. The iPhone and its security has to be forced out of existence, lest it protect someone like the Pittsburgh shooter. Why just imagine all the horrible conversations and plots that have taken place online, shielded, aided by encryption. Your premise has to be that encryption is also evil and must be 'stopped' or outlawed, because it routinely assists evil deeds.

And that's before we get to the use of encryption in warfare. Command & control, drones, planes, bombings, satellite communication. Essentially all warfare now or in the near future will be heavily utilizing encryption technology in a critical manner. That's a very large amount of killing and murder, in other words. As a technology assistant to evil, Gab couldn't hope to rival encryption tech in a thousand lifetimes. Your premise would require the abolition of all encryption and that all engineers and service providers globally must stand against all encryption technology. Such that we can see what all people are doing at all times, since so many evil people utilize the Internet and encryption.

It's a very obviously absurd premise you're floating. The entire Internet has to be destroyed if one follows what you're saying to its logical conclusion.