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I don’t think anyone proposed people would drive for no reason. When there is more road capacity, people find more reasons to drive. More people get cars and more businesses use cars to move goods around. In the future self driving cars can be used on the road for any business reason someone could think of. There’s probably reason for 10x the cars we have today if they could fit on the road, which most cities could not handle.
What makes single-payer healthcare, like Canada and the UK, a disaster? I'm from Canada and currently live in the US. I don't have many complaints about the canadian healthcare system. I got a suprise bill yesterday in the US healthcare system for routine bloodwork.
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Even though I do like C++, I kind of agree.

As Wirth languages fanboy, I belive that if Java 1.0 had AOT compilation from day one, instead of leaving it to commercial third parties, and proper value types, the amount of C and C++'s adoption would have looked much different.
Those are micro level features. For mission critical module like this, it is unlike those low-level bugs will be left without notice.

But the true complexity is coming from states, and combination of states, and many of those are unknown to the developer until certain incidents kicked in. Good programming practice can't relieve programmers from the cognitive burden of reasoning the outcome of those combinations.
I definitely want to work on it more but I think completion goals are going to be at a chapter level maybe -- there'll always be stuff to add :)
"Organizing large-scale information flow" != "part of the state", no matter how much you assume they are the same.

By your standard, traditional media are also part of the state. That is also false.
I think people are holding on to the hope that competition in the marketplace will control prices and bring them back to reasonable levels. I know I held on to that hope for a long time, but it's becoming clear that mere competition among insurance providers isn't a strong enough force. Medical prices are so high now that I think people are ready to consider drastic change.
I'm the author of a book also available on Leanpub.

I love this service as a publishing solution. You can write markdown and get your book updated to dropbox (while you write it/push it to VCS) and then publish directly through them to epub/PDF. But the other nice thing is they can export Amazon-compatible files so you can publish to Kindle.

They also offer a very fair and transparent royalty structure. I found Amazon could be a bit greedy. The reason why is when a book goes above 9.99, they increase the royalty significantly.

The only other tidbit I have to say is:

I also considered using sphinx-doc as a route to build the book. I haven't found a way to offer an appealing LaTeX (theme? template?) that'd work with it. If you do know LaTeX well, and have time on your side, maybe sphinx-doc could be down your alley. It can build to HTML, PDF, and epub.

As far as distribution goes: My experience with Apple's book store was very cumbersome. Difficult to get support, and in one case there was a glitch that unpublished the book.
No but certainly outside the door in the hallway, where a hotel staff would have free access anyway.
I upgraded with homebrew to v3.0 but the && syntax still doesn't work, do I have to do something special to enable it?
For any practical purposes road traffic can be considered a gaseous element that quickly fills as much space as is allocated for road space, with heavy emphasis on segments that lead to several destinations.

Conversely, when roads are put on a diet and lanes are removed it generally turns out that the traffic does not pack into queues twices as long, as is often expected or feared, but generally disappears.

To control congestion is to control the space available where congestion can happen. Build a two lane road and you will have two lanes of congestion. Build an eight lane road and you will have eight lanes of congestion.
As a software engineer who shows up at 11, I can tell you that there is a significant current against us late starters. I agree with you that it would be good for us to move this way, but it is hard for all the early birds to swallow.
The majority of Americans do support a single payer health plan (though there is a larger divide over Obamacare/Trumpcare for various partisan and non-partisan reasons). Instead of asking why the minority does not, you should probably ask why the government is not fulfilling the will of the people. I'm sure lobbyists from the multi billion dollar healthcare industry have something to do with it.
Tesla cars badly need a perl 6 API.
If it was exploitable and failure prone, why is it the standard going back centuries?

If somebody gets into my bank account, what happens? The Bank covers my losses as law enforcement looks into the security breach and tracks down the thief. My life is unchanged, I don't lose anything.

If somebody gets into my bitcoin wallet, what happens? I lose everything I put into it, period. Can't get it back, can't prosecute, can't have my losses covered by federal investment insurance, it's just poof, gone, and no government is going to chase it down because the design of the system prevents any authority from intervening.

Which of these is more idyllic to you? I would much rather live in the world of banks and FDIC and police and courts than to live balancing on the razor's edge in crypto-land, a keystroke away from total ruin.
If you are sitting there thinking: "So what", I highly recommend you educate yourself on how building roads actually affects US infrastructure.

We have a CRUMBLING infrastructure in the US, and people are constantly complaining about potholes in major metropolitan areas. And the solution is build more roads? We cannot even maintain the ones we have!

Recommended reading:

- https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

- https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/16/why-walkable-s...
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The US doesn’t have anything similar, at least not normally. Roads are almost always wider than needed, I assume because it feels safer, but really just makes people drive faster. Any redesign that deprioritizes cars in any way (even if it just appears to do so) is ridiculed and fought against.
A large reason kids play Fortnite is because it provides a space to socialize - it's a lot harder for kids to get anywhere without a parent driving, these days, and the parents are a lot less likely to leave the kids unattended, which tends to put a damper on things. Even malls often try to discourage crowds of teens, if you can even get there without a drive.
People are given an opportunity to do something and then they do it.

If you don't put a price on it then people won't prioritise, and the demand becomes endless. And you can never have supply to meet an endless demand.
Ellison was a very close friend of Jobs. At least as per Jobs biography by Isaacson.
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As a general rule, I have found out that every time there is something that doesn't make sense ("smart people who want to make money should have figured out a solution to this!"), the answer is government interference with free trade.

In this particular case, while I'm always against Imaginary Property, I suspect it's more the government contracts part [1].

[1] https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-starte...
As a data point for low-end assassinations -- some cities don't have the police resources to investigate fully every time a faceless teen or young twenty-something rolls up on a moto, shoots someone, and rolls on. I remember this being something that the local radio and papers would talk about in some of the south american cities closest to the fishing village I spent 7 or 8 years in.

It was convenient to pretend that all kinds of legitimate low-level assassinations are gangland "ajuste de cuentas," back-and-forth murders amongst gangs, to the point where the phrase 'ajuste de cuentas' became kind of a shorthand to refer to the police's lack of zeal.

So that the entry level product could be surprisingly reasonable for settling business disputes in extra-legal ways.
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They cover some of it, but in FY2019 $24.9M of County Debt will be issued for $44.5M of capital expenditure on roads: https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/23320#pag...

This is actually part of the problem of the American model; larger entities are always willing to foot the bill, so why bother assessing the economic feasibility of a project?
>Then URLs will have nothing to escape.

Unfortunately, `&` is used in URLs, and is special also in the middle of a token.
Sometimes I wonder how buses with private compartments would be received, compared to today's cattle cars.
Rust actually has that they just can't be substituted automatically because they're different types:

fn<T: MyTrait> compile_time(thing: &T) {}
fn run_time(thing: &dyn MyTrait) {}

The reason that you can't just substitute them is that you can do more with compile-time generics than runtime ones -- runtime generics have unknown size (different concrete types have different size, so what size is the runtime generic version?) so they always have to be used through a pointer (and usually heap allocated). There are a variety of other restrictions on trait objects (runtime generics) for type-system reasons.

It would be possible to find cases where compile time polymorphism is replaced with runtime polymorphism, but I'm not sure it would really gain much given the restrictions.

Now if you start changing the language semantics a lot more becomes possible, but I don't even know what changes you would have to make to the language to let that happen.
> My code base is hilariously slow to compile, and the biggest single culprit is the variant header.

yeah, <variant> is so slow that I wrote my own (domain-specific but could be repurposable) variant-like code generator. It keeps the same API but makes everything sooooooooooooo much faster to compile - especially the visitations with multiple arguments.

(ugly fugly, full of dirty hacks, but it only had to run once or twice : https://github.com/OSSIA/libossia/blob/master/tools/gen_vari...)
I feel like this argument is brought up every time Indian government invests in anything. My two cents below with the full disclaimer that I have been fortunate enough to evade poverty most of my life.

I am not saying that the poverty issue and the sheer scale of it, as you mentioned, shouldn't be a top priority but it can't be the only priority. I am from India but have lived in the US most of my life and have to say that looking at both countries, unbounded welfare spending does not seem to solve the issue of poverty and we can't possibly expect that to work against a growing population. It may mitigate the scale of it in the short run but in the long run, investing in the economy seems to be a better way of reducing poverty.

I can't comment much to the merits of doing a manned mission vs other types of space missions but science investment vs poverty is not a great way for any government to prioritize spending. For me, balanced spending is the way to go.
In the formula “just do X”, the problem isn’t so much the “X”, it’s the “do”, for the reasons outlined by the GP comment.

In this particular case, the notion that Medicare works at all (let alone well) is a point that about half the country will not concede because it’s one of many a shibboleth that keeps the “sides” at each other’s throats.
> circumstances preventing socialized medicine in america

Honestly I think it has a lot to do with the popularity of Fox News and its bias against any centrist/left policy. Also, keep in mind that the US was for decades fighting a war against communism which branded any socialist idea as evil and even going so far as to overthrow socialist governments. So, there are decades of propaganda that needs to be overcome.

In fact I think we have the millennials to thank as they grew up after the cold war and did not experience much of the propaganda that older generations did, so they are more open to policies like universal healthcare.

edit: quickly downvoted? If you disagree that's fine, but at least share what you think I've got wrong.
Eh... There was a toll lane added from just outside Boulder part way to Denver. This has not generated more traffic, but it has generally speed up the road (sometimes to an undesirable extent as faster moving vehicles make more noise).

They didn't change the two lane in each direction structure, they just added another lane on each side which can only be entered/exited around exits.

A couple things I've noticed, most mid-day traffic occurs in clumps. You can usually take one segment of toll road for $0.35 and exit back into a mostly empty highway. Also, the toll lane people usually move above the speed limit. This speeds up traffic in general because people seem to tend to move into the right lane when someone blasts past them. A few people do it and most slow drivers will get the idea. And it also discourages lane switching which is a significant contributor to traffic. Once you're in the toll lane, you're committed to it until the next exit.

The problem with just arbitrarily adding more lanes is than lane switching is a major cause of traffic. Every time someone switches a lane because their lane is too slow, they usually cause the car behind them to have to slow down which causes a ripple effect. Add this to complexity of an 8 lane freeway and you may have created a nightmare for travelers. Granted in over populated areas like much of CA, congestion is somewhat unavoidable. (I grew up in the LA area)
Yes, it is a problem. I can't recall the details, but I have heard compelling arguments why waiting in lines is awful from an economic perspective. You might enjoy hearing an economist's perspective on time.

Poor people would likely benefit overall from more efficient use of roads.

Interstate roads allowed people to live far from things they need (e.g. jobs). Your suggestion is backwards, people should be located near things, not the other way around. Roads with no fees have distorted supply and demand. The market can't function.
Disaster compared to what? The insane number of medical bankruptcies in the United States?
Ask HN: Are there any alternatives to FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon)?
For a small business that prefers someone else to handle the logistics of stock, shipping, payments and returns, are there any alternatives to FBA in the US or Europe? As far as I can tell, the answer is a resounding no. Am I wrong?

I'm aware of some of the problems with FBA. However, it also offers opportunities to small business' that have no equivalent.

If you know of alternatives to FBA, please post them here. If you have used FBA, please let us know about your experience and your thoughts. Thank you :-)
> "That said, second-guessing the user's input is dangerous territory, which is why no shells do what you describe by default."

Sure that's true, but on the other hand I don't see anybody ever recommend default zsh. It seems pretty widely understood in the community that OMZ (or their equivalents, I have unrelated complaints with OMZ) are sane 'defaults'.
Thanks for the info.

I'm interested in having my own IPs mainly so that I can move servers wherever I want and take the IPs with me. CNAMEs can only go so far when it comes to moving things around without interruption.

It's only a small personal operation though - and I am aware that limitations with hosting providers and ISPs may prevent me from being able to point my own IPs to them.
The rarity and economic value of the Black Lotus card has nothing to do with it being of the "artifact"-type category. And imparting the detail that this most valuable card is a flower is of value to the non-MTG-playing audience. Because it imparts an unexpected quirky detail to the layperson audience -- in a game about dueling wizards and summoned monsters, the card that excites players (and their wallets) the most is a card that depicts a flower. Hence, the use of the word "even" -- e.g. "even rare flowers" -- to denote what the authors think is an interesting quirk about MTG/WoTC's lore/eco system. There is no claim that "flower" is an actual category in the game, or details about how certain spell cards are sometimes limited to affecting a certain category. Such a simplification/summarization is only "dumbing down" if the story purported to be a helpful guide on how to play MTG.
Of course the power lies with them. Their activism is the primary impediment to actually-feasible projects getting built. All they have to do to yield a healthier supply/demand balance is stand down.
> In trying to explain the Islamic world’s intellectual laggardness, it is tempting to point to the obvious factors: authoritarianism, bad education, and underfunding (Muslim states spend significantly less than developed states on research and development as a percentage of GDP). But these reasons are all broad and somewhat crude, and raise more questions than answers. At a deeper level, Islam lags because it failed to offer a way to institutionalize free inquiry.

This is a pretty blunt and unconvincing dismissal of some pretty huge factors.

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The article makes some pretty strong claims that Islam currently has some fundamental beef with science due to a philosophical beef with causality as a "natural" force that does not exist in the West. I must disagree, not with the idea that Islam has this beef, but that this beef does not exist in the West. It is simultaneously true that Christians have been scientists, and that Muslims have been, and that both institutions have, at various times both endorsed and indicted the scientific method - and more specifically the idea that natural phenomena are causal without the influence of god.

Perhaps the author has heard of Leibniz's seminal work, Monadology? In this work Leibniz essentially argues that all action and causality in the universe is the result of God's great plan unfolding, that every action and reaction is predetermined, stored in every fragment of matter and that causality effectively does not exist. Now, according to the article, this kind of denial of causality is antithetical to scientific thinking and progress. Leibniz, along with Newton, is widely credited with the discovery of Calculus.
Interesting note actually, thanks. :)
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It's a good idea to stand outside the boundary of any arc-flash or arc-blast hazard during first energization of any high-power equipment.

Also make sure that your employer provides you appropriate arc-flash protective equipment if you're doing that kind of work.

Low voltage, high power systems often have very high arc flash hazard.
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This is exceptionally callous way of looking at things. Video games are certainly a medium for discussion: "Papers Please" is a discussion point on legal immigration for example. (Its not true across the board: "Prison Architect", is NOT a discussion point on prisons).

I'm not one to play "political" games, but IMO, they are no different than political or personal movies, poems, or letters. Video games are just one more medium of which society can use to connect and communicate with other people.

Have you played the "This is fine" flash game? Its actually a deeply personal + political discussion point as well.

https://namsang.itch.io/thisisfine

These games aren't necessarily designed for maximum enjoyment, they're optimized for maximum discussion and community connections.
The real arguments only rarely get stated by politicians, and it's the reason we don't get other universal services, either. It's ideological. The economic efficiency, competency, or access arguments (government can't do anything right, it's wasteful, etc.) while they do get used (and are certainly believed to various degrees) aren't the core (cultural) reasons. They are a belief that:

- society should be dog eat dog, red and tooth and claw, and that the weak and sick should merely die. Not only is that not bad, it's desirable, as the weak and sick bring down the rest and having them disappear strengthens the society / species

- the world should be every-man-for-himself, that you should be on your own, and never expect anyone to help you outside of blood relatives, or if you're lucky, charity.

- that everything must be "earned," discounting the ideas that it's society itself and all of its trappings (trade rules, police, roads, availability of skilled workers trained with public money, etc.) that's allow said money to be earned in the first place. If you don't earn it you don't deserve it, regardless of what that means for you.

- that government should simply not be in the business of providing services, period. It should exist only as a nightwatchman state that protects from "force and fraud" when it applies to domestic policies (empire building and maintenance + policies to further theocracy and political chauvinism are a big divide over spending on the right)

- taxation is theft. If one "earns" money, one should be able to keep basically all of it (minus force+fraud taxes, though ancaps don't even want that one.)

Now, mind you, this doesn't actually reflect the will of people in the US (recent poll links: https://twitter.com/GunnelsWarren/status/1078510910317174785), but large parts of the right-wing establishment (many of which inhabit the Democratic party, not just the Republican one.) This includes large donors, corporations, and powerful think tanks.

One thing that has to be understood about the US, is that since its very founding, it has largely opposed redistribution (the General Welfare clause notwithstanding.) People should remember Madison:

"Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
Not travelling because of some pain? Painkillers + business class.

Not travelling because I'm unconscious or in a critical condition? Foreign insurance + air repatriation.

Some countries do sell that, even to non residents. Just get world coverage - it's a bit more than $70, but if something bad happen, you get med evac'ed to that country and treated there.

I'm exploring that option as I discover the wonder of medical tourism.
This is tangential, but I highly disapprove of any encouragement to stay up late. Sleep is incredibly important for the entirety of the body. It's always better to get well-rested over a small amount more work done (which you'll eventually lose anyway since you won't be well-rested).
It's going to be rough on you if you're hit by a car in Chicago and you only have insurance in France. There's a world of difference between emergency endoscopic surgery and a trip to the ED (or ER, or A&E, or whatever your country calls it).
You can also have more parks and fields that are well-maintained and available in proportions appropriate to the local population (i.e. not held at existing supply through density changes). It is a false dichotomy to suggest we have to choose between kids playing outside and having streets for transportation.

Not to mention that anyone who grew up pre-Internet or pre-smartphones knows that the real barriers to kids playing outside are more cultural/societal.
I feel really bad for the children who seem to grow up in the backseat of some monstrous luxury SUV. I can't imagine it leads to the best types of citizens.
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