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It is basic economics 101: in the long run, Perfect Competition tends to yield zero profit. It is nothing to do with capitalism or meta-services, it applies to all economic activity. As Peter Thiel controversially but truthfully claims: competition is for losers.

In any value chain, you should seek the role that has the most control with the least competition. Often this is based on constrained resources: the supply of shovels in San Francisco is much more constrained and easy to monopolize than the area of land or length of rivers in California that might have some gold.

Creating or preserving the monopoly will also benefit from barriers to entry, such as conspiracy (oligopoly), regulatory protection (licensing, tariffs) or just plain old intimidation (mafia, law suits).

Another result is that when one constraint or barrier is removed, profits fall in that process, and shift to the next most constricted step of the value chain, much like the maximum pressure and minimum flow in a network of pipes with various diameters and valves. In general, this means that as artificial constraints are reduced (free trade, cartel busting...), the control of some underlying physical resource becomes most profitable, often property (assuming planning laws are never relaxed :), or certain scarce commodities.

For example, in tax-free and low tax economies (HK, SG, GCC) the profit often shifts to property (commercial and residential), so that what a worker gains in net income, they pay in extortionate rents, based on restricted land (HK, SG) or oligopolistic control of land and property (GCC). Low taxes are often a way of government forgoing revenue to the benefit of local landlords or property developers. Startups in Silicon Valley are ways of exploiting geeks to work hard chanelling money from VCs to local landlords.
I'm running Manjaro on my XPS 13 9360, dual boot. Had to fight a bit with Secure boot and the storage drivers, but once installed it's been a joy to use. Had problems in Windows with the Killer wifi drivers, resulting in bad latency when on conference calls but nothing like that on Linux.
I am huge fan of Deckset and use it for team internal presentations. Unfortunately, corporate identity is not something I could get working with Deckset. :(
Does this support LaTeX? Or can support be added via a plugin?
You're 26 and you found something new and interesting to do in the world. This sounds like being 26 to me...
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1. Japan also has a high share of iOS users.

2. Yes most users are going to put one of a “hundreds” (exaggerate much?) of versions of Android on their phone and not be able to run apps that requires Google Play services.

3. Apple made two shows - Planet of the Apps and Carpool Karaoke. No one expected those two shows to be a hit. Apple’s Services Business is still 5 times larger than Netflix.

4. Yes for profit seeking businesses, a success is by definition what makes money. As far as users winning they have a privacy invasive operating system on a phone that doesn’t see updates more than 18 months - if they are lucky.
What good is lower unemployment if no one can live from their job?
I know it's a problem in Germany, but from what I've heard it's a lot worse in the US, with people working 2 or more jobs...
iPhone XS margins are around the same or slightly less than prior models. Here are numbers:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-iphone-prices...

If you have better numbers, share them. Your article has none.
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Looking forward to your feedback.

And: yes, deckset (as I learned today) sounds a lot like markdeck, feature-wise... I will have a closer look on that and compare these tools.
Deckset looks really nice. Wish they had a Linux version.
> A slowdown in China this big is actually huge news so I'm surprised so many people are missing the forest for the trees. It means less foreign investment capital will be coming to the West and might potentially signal another global recession.

Ding ding ding.

There are all kinds of variables driving a global recession but the biggest pieces are the Chinese economy plateauing, Brexit and Trump showing just how divided the Western world really is. America's political civil war just driving this point home even more. These factors combined with a changing climate and a general populace that is only short of revolting thanks to the infinite variety of 'bread and circuses' available to us. It's like this is by design or something...
I was thinking about text based games for blind people, but since I don't know any blind people that I can easily ask this, I'll put it here in the hopes that somebody who knows the answer will notice it:

Presumably, text based games are played with a screen reader. Would music and sound interfere with the persons ability to play? I was wondering if you could mix text and 3D audio to create a richer environment.
Since it doesn't seem like either of us is going to change the other's mind, let's move on from this debate.
> I know they say "time enjoyed wasted is not wasted time" but if I would have programmed or learned a few languages or focused on competition math or read classical literature or learned to cook or any number of other things in that first 18 years, I'd be so much better off [1].

Better off in what sense? If we're talking about skills that apply to the rest of life, I honestly feel like deck optimisation was much better preparation for a real-world career (where the problem scope is never fully defined, the measure of success always involves an element of randomness, and hidden interactions abound) than competition maths was. And while it exercises a different kind of imagination and storytelling, I'd argue that games in a shared-world fiction can give a more intense practice of the things that classical literature give you.
Can someone please post any good resource for beginners about writing emulators.

I've read a blog post the other day that was recommending to start with CHIP8
as a good exercise for people that want to get into emulating.
I've just spent the past week reading/watching game reviews on BoardGame Geek. So many great games, so little time and money!
Can you back up your acqusations with palpable evidence? Neither Red author, nor any of official project representatives "made a go" on Clojure or any other language and its community, as far as I'm concerned.

As for "defensive lashing" - you should make a distinction between informed, well-posed critique and arrogant, unbacked ranting. Everyone accepts the former and does not tolerate the latter - the team is no exception. And, again - either provide an evidence for what you say or back off your claims. Calling project megalomaniacal for fighting FUD is completely off base, and every criticism raised in this thread was handled politely. Heck, I can pull out any blog post from one of Clojure community members and start claiming that it represents opinions of Hickey. Would that be OK? I guess not.

Even if there is a cost in using Rebol2 as bootsrapping language, it will be gone with 1.0 release. And right now Rebol source code takes roughly a quarter of whole codebase (compilers and linkers for Red and Red/System) - the rest is pure Red and its dialects. So your whole paragraph is completely irrelevant and misleading: lack of 64-bit support has nothing to do with Rebol2, bold "non-free dependency" claim does not have any weight to it (since when bootstrapping language is a dependency?) and "SSL library" passage tells me that you don't have an idea of what you're talking about.

And use official resources (Red and Rebol websites) as references, would you? Wiki page is an extremely weak testimony to whatever you have to say.

No project is ideal, but Red's terms are completely different from what you try to impose here. I do not say that we don't have holes in the housing - we do, and we have all what is necessary to close them.
Surely you mean a 3270 terminal...
Ask HN: How to improve your attention?
I'm currently learning how to drive and my instructor keeps telling me I need to pay more attention at the traffic.

I was wondering if there is any way to improve my visual attention and speed of reaction skills.

Playing action videogames seem to improve this[1]. Any other ideas?

[1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426114341.htm
When I click there the link it doesn't go to the post that the excerpt is from. What's the title / date?
> To a lesser extent this is the case in the UK, where most towns have their own brewery and will sell to all the local pubs.

Indeed, and it's making a comeback. You see a lot more local beers (and they're a lot more popular) than you did even 5 years ago. Two of my peers in their early twenties have gone into (local) brewing. One of whom did this as an alternative to university, one of whom took this route after studying chemistry.
> A more developmentally complex brain should imply prolonged rearing and have a bias of survival in favor of shared parenting.

Primates are significantly brainier than most of the rest of Mammalia, on average, and humans and gibbons are the only primates that are more monogamous than polygamous. Cetaceans and elephants also have comparatively large brains and aren’t monogamous.
I do not understand what you mean. But it sounds like you are into functional programming !? Which works fine without type annotations. For example:

const sum = (number, number) => number+number

Where type annotations becomes unnecessary verbose.
A similar law change led to a similar trend across all major cities here in India. I don't think I can even count the number of breweries in cities like Mumbai and Bangalore.
You have a point, but the problem is that there's no way to not spew data out in public spaces. I'd have to cut off all of the following:

- my mobile phone
- my landline phone
- all credit cards and bank accounts
- all hosted email solutions
- all other hosted ways of communication (social media, messaging apps)
- all ways of transport unless I own the devices (and even some cars you could own have telemetry these days...)

Basically only talk face to face, ride old cars and use cash or Monero. It's unrealistic.
This article doesn't really reflect the promise of it's title for me.

It just feels like a list of what happened, rather than a summary of how Nim progressed in 2018...
I wonder if this could be part of a bigger trend where the distribution networks become commoditised, allowing smaller players to compete again...
> euphrates_virtual_memory, a library implementing memory banking via native virtual memory

Is this.. practical? As I understand it, modern general-purpose computers tend to use 4KB pages (or larger!) for virtual memory, while game cartridges could and did use whatever crazy memory maps they could wire up... at least on the NES and SNES. Maybe Sega's 8-bit consoles were tamer?
Aka, the company wants to take a moral stand for once and I am going to retailate with an immoral posturing and kill some innocent animals and shove my immoral views in their face, before i leave.
The only decent D&D games I've played threw out at least half the rules. But at that point wouldn't you be better off starting from a more rules-light system? On the whole I've had better experience with games in the World of Darkness family, and even better with those at a FATE-like simplicity level.
> People aren’t reliably, exploitable stupid over long time periods.

They don't have to be stupid to be exploitable. They just have to be in a desparate situation.

In England people who claim unemployment benefit (Universal Credit (UC)) will lose that benefit if they refuse to take gig economy jobs. They're forced into these jobs by the state.

And then, because of the way UC works they are forced to work as many hours as possible. The flexible bit doesn't work for them because UC doesn't work well for people doing variable hours part time.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmwo...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/25/universal-cr...

https://www.ftadviser.com/protection/2018/03/29/meeting-the-...

https://www.litrg.org.uk/sites/default/files/Gig%20economy%2...
I'd define a monorepo as multiple loosely (or un-) coupled projects in the same repository.
The Linux kernel is a single strongly coupled project.

Nevertheless, whether or not you should keep your code in a single repository is more a question of the sheer size of the repository than of whether the code logically belongs in the same place.
Never cross my mind to. I associated with Franz Kafka and his book The Trial .
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Which pretty much invalidates the "Apple has announced that their products are selling fine outside of China." statement.

Besides it is quite exactly to see that outside first tier countries, iPhones never sold well, no matter what.

The numbers are easy to come by.
realistically this only works for unique products
there are so many alternatives for EVERYTHING
that most people will just move on to something that is ready today instead.
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As someone who has quite unsettling health anxiety and somewhat of a cancer-phobia, these articles kinda calm me. But what doesn't calm me are usually the comments because it seams that cancer is really all around me, and it's just around the corner, just waiting to snatch me. I don't have any cases in my closer or further family, but I'm frightened I'm going to be the one... The 1-in-2 statistics doesn't soothe either...
I don't think so. The pool value is 500,000 + sold tickets. So there's no reason for the organisers to limit the number of sold tickets. Since, as the number of tickets sold increase, the pool value increases. As the pool value increases, the number of bonds that gets paid off increases, so less debt for Hotel de ville (bondholders would be paying other bondholders).

I think the key is that no one thought Hotel de Ville bonds would get repaid, so their value would be approximately zero (or around about there). So Voltaire could buy all the bonds for cheap. Therefore, rather than there being a limit of the number of tickets available, he controls the number of tickets bought, since him (and his buddies) are the only bondholders and can buy tickets.
‘...post Jobs era...’ /s
This article contradicts that.
Apple dislikes the GPL, not all open source (they work on Webkit, LLVM+Clang, CUPS, Swift, FoundationDB, and a few others).

It's not so different from other companies (e.g. on Android, Google used the Linux kernel, but replaced all other userspace components of the traditional GNU/Linux distro by non-copyleft versions, including developing their own libc).
Ask HN: Will the usable lifetime of computing devices continue to increase?
I have a desktop computer that was high-end 8 years ago. It's still very usable with Linux and an SSD today. I have a 6 year-old Macbook-pro that is still more than adequate. I have a 5 year-old tablet, and a 4 year-old phone. Both are good enough for modern operating systems and programs.

I have bought new devices, but out of want rather than need.

This was unthinkable for computing and electronics equipment 20 years ago, in 1999.

What will happen to devices bought in 2019, 2029 and beyond?

This is tied to the apparent slowdown in Moore's Law, but it is not quite the same question. It is tied to the proliferation of new computing devices, as consumer behaviour shifts towards using many 'computers', rather than one.

My prediction is that the number of computing devices will continue to increase, offloading our computing to more and more devices. I predict that the mean lifetime of these devices will also increase. A high-end desktop from 2020 will last until 2030, capable of running the same OS and programs for the average person. But desktop computing may only be a small part of the ecosystem in 2030.

I'm interested to hear alternative predictions.
What kind of support do you have in mind?
Converting a whole document, a couple of slides, or embedding latex code within a single slide?

technical detail:
markdeck uses pandoc[0] as converter; and, yes, there is a LaTeX-Importer available, too (besides the Markdown-Importer used now by markdeck).
So, on a per-file basis, it should be quite easy to support other input formats than markdown (restructerdText might be another candidate).

Embedding LaTeX in markdown might be a little bit more trickier, because we already use html-tags where markdown is not expressive enough... sigh

[0]: https://pandoc.org
They have Google Analytics enables without consent and in the privacy policy they claim this:

>> “Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.”

This is wrong, GA may anonymize IPs, however they drop a tracking cookie in order to identify unique visitors.

Tracking cookies under the GDPR fall under “personal data”, even if they are pseudo-anonymous. Also note that usage of Google Analytics cannot be a “legitimate purpose”.

So is this legal what they are doing? Or what am I missing?
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Possibly at the high end of consumption, also possibly, your parents had a glass of wine or a dash of alcohol just before your conception.
This is of course a major reason why looking at sharp growth and thinking it might be an accelerating trend doesn't always work.

"Gig economy" startups pick at the low hanging fruit first. Taxi drivers who are already hired by the journey are much more easily "decentralised" than people who are supposed to be the face of their company or undertake jobs with learning curves. There's plenty of scope for online services to improve the hiring of the latter, but it's still going to entail longer term contracts and often more regular working hours, and often better comparative performance metrics than a skewed star rating system.
TypeScript is already good at inferring the types, so you can get suggestions on unannotated code, but I think TypeScript should get even better at inferring by getting closer to what a JS engine do and closer to the JS spec (eg. get rid of the type annotations)
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The DO one-click is super easy, but the SSL config and adding Cloudflare wound up being a huge pain. DO's docs aren't great and that meant I spent hours in config land just trying to get tablestakes blog features of HTTPS and DDoS protection.

Ghost 2.0 is definitely better than prior versions but still needs babysitting. As an infrequent blogger, I've found I am updating Ghost more frequently than I'm blogging.

Github pages or Gatsby (via something like Netlify) are much better suited to this problem because server config & SSL are handled and they're just serving static pages.
So Markdeck lets you use ascii art via pandoc, as well as generating slides from text with titles, background images and background colors. It can also generate slides with "hand-written sketches" as in the complete
slideshow: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-te...

I tried to help by putting in a change request, but couldn't exactly figure out where the slides were coming from.
> (Also, the discount that the syndicate got on the tickets should be irrelevant. That money is going into the pool so they're getting it back either way.)

Voltaire doesn't want to stump up all the money up-front (while he's confident that he will win, he may not have the capital required to purchase all the tickets he wants). So his agreement with the notaries allows him to purchase more tickets than he might have been if he wasn't allowed to get the discount (think of it as leverage).
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> Citation needed

This is not Wikipedia.
Or TORG .. so many possibilities in that game (badum tss)
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You have a strange notion of efficiency if you think something that takes more resources to produce is also more efficient...
Capitalism is just the private onwership of the means of production for profit, and the use of wage labourers.

You can say we don't have 'real capitaslism' rightr now but that sounds like the No True Scotsman fallacy to me.

We absolutely do have Capitalism. A heavily unbalanced, unfair and abusive crony capitalism, but it is still capitalism. I honestly can't see how capitalism wouldn't naturally tend towards these things anyway.
Lot of disruption ahead to be sure. The tech is getting better and faster at identifying issues. But this also means pointless/thoughtless interventions being done all the time.

If a 70 year old is 4 hours away from a natural death and the tech raises an alarm and pulls in a surgeon to do emergency surgery that keeps him alive in a bed for another 10 years. That's a bad outcome in my book. And it happens all the time almost in automated fashion. Producing more suffering not less.
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[…] France had nearly gone bankrupt. The bankers were to blame, having devised financial instruments that magicked debt away, only for it to return multiplied once it was discovered that the collateral wasn’t there. […]

History does rhyme …
If your business wants to collect my data without providing the safety measures GDPR provides, then fuck your business, I don't want to deal with it or you.

Of course if your business doesn't collect our data, there is no issue either way.
I'm not software expert by any means, but couldn't the deletion script also do a search for quoted text, at least sufficient to comply with the reasonable steps language of the legislation?
>It's referring to a directive which has been implemented by member states. Each member state has its own enforcing body, and some will take a more firm approach than others.

That's not true. The GDPR is a regulation (hence the R in GDPR!) which does not need to be implemented by member states. Regulations have direct effect, meaning the same legal text applies in every EU member state directly.
> So there's no reason for the organisers to limit the number of sold tickets.

But maybe they stupidly did so anyway? (Perhaps because they only knew how to draw randomly from the number of tickets that could physically fit into a large tumbler.)

> I think the key is that no one thought Hotel de Ville bonds would get repaid, so there value would be approximately zero (or around about there). So Voltaire could buy all the bonds for cheap.

That would also make sense, but it seems implausible to me that Voltaire would be able to buy up the bonds cheaply after the lottery had already been announced.
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Machine learning is literally mathematics, or more specifically, applied statistics. However, human stupidity can never be ruled out of the equation. Not calling something mathematics while it simply is mathematics is obfuscating the issue.
Thanks for the reply....
Is it bad that medical school entry is restrictive? Isn't the idea that you only want smart people to do it.
> He saw a government role in pricing externalities, banning poisons, preventing deforestation and pollution

The way I understand it, is that when Hayek was writing The Road to Serfdom, he was intended to make this book be a general defense of free market and argument against central planning, and reach as much people as possible, so he intentionally moderated the Austrian School's takes on government regulations, etc.
For my personal use case, embedding latex in a slide would be the best: I'd like to include equations alongside text and images, but I prefer writing markdown to latex where possible.