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>I disagree quite strongly with what I take to be both of your main points. I am genuinely under the impression wealthy humans are responsible for a disproportionate amount of environmental destruction. We consume more of everything that contributes to deforestation, pollution, and plastic waste.

Just look to the company hosting this site...

I've flown once since Y Combinator came into existence, Y Combinator requires at least 1 founder of every team that gets an in-person interview to fly to the Bay Area.

CO2 emissions from aviation fuel are 3.15 grams per gram of fuel.

>a round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco emits about 0.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/climate/airplane-pollutio...

YC has funded 1500 something companies funded, let's assume they've interviewed twice that many in person.

So let's say 0.7 metric tons x 3000 companies x 1.5 cofounders, that's 3150 metric tons for in-person interviews.

Now, let's look at data transfer for skype.
Saving and storing 100 gigabytes of data in the cloud per year would result in a carbon footprint of about 0.2 tons of
>Saving and storing 100 gigabytes of data in the cloud per year would result in a carbon footprint of about 0.2 tons of CO2, based on the usual U.S. electric mix

https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/carbon-and-the-cloud-d6...

Skype, with HD, could use

>Recommended Video Call HD 10.98 MB/min

https://www.orduh.com/data-usage-on-skype-video-call/

Assume 15 minute average interview.

165 megabytes x 3000 companies = about a ton of carbon IF the data is stored for a year so in reality a fraction of a ton.

So an investment company, looking to invest in businesses that ideally will hit a billion plus valuations, could have easily used 3150x more carbon because they can afford to reimburse flights and would prefer to do interviews in person where video chat would have not only cost orders of magnitude less but generated thousands of times less carbon.

Now consider the more money you have, the more likely you are to travel regularly for recreation and here is a clear case where more $$$ can easily result in a considerably larger carbon footprint.
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On why to use curio or trio. Old bust must read because mentions back-pressure which is rarely discussed at all.

https://vorpus.org/blog/some-thoughts-on-asynchronous-api-de...
> And one more simple change: make income tax calculated by the IRS and you file changes against their preparation, rather than you sitting down and trying to figure everything out each April. Cuts down on frustration and tax avoidance.

Yes please. It drives me crazy that I have to waste time copying numbers between forms for my taxes.
It may be that he thinks of overhead as fixed costs (as opposed to variable costs). If you have very low fixed costs, your business can scale up and down on a whim, without terrible consequences.
>For my own travel, I got so sick of the problems with key access. It's just too hard to coordinate with most hosts when you are in a foreign country and don't have cell service or wi-fi.

Yeah, in Spring two years ago a friend an I did a Europe trip, with 4 Airbnbs bookings in total. On three of them we had issues getting in, where we had to contact the host, who was hard to reach or unavailable. And none would give us separate keys.

>And then hosts often expect you to wash your dishes and put laundry in the washer. Why do I need to do this when I am paying >$100 for a "cleaning fee"???

In fairness, cleaning involves a lot more than that step. But there does seem to be an arms race in how much of the cost they can cram into a hidden "cleaning" fee.
Wow that's dystopian. I've worked in large organizations enough to know that they aren't my cup of tea, but I've never seen things sink to these levels. Why would humans voluntarily join such organizations? (Yeah, I know, to make a living... but TFA seems to indicate that there are other options.)

When work situations get really intolerable, the civil courts are always an option. Except, for the unsupervised services they aren't. I'm sure that makes a difference.
Here is a better Android Diary app that saves a single .txt file per day on the sdcard.

https://github.com/billthefarmer/diary

Then just use syncthing to syncronize those files to your other devices.
Sure, its your choice.
That's simply not true for many Git users. I'm a developer, so I do use Git every day, but I work with a bunch of researchers that absolutely do not need to use Git more than once a week at most. Convincing those people to care enough to learn the internals has been a constant uphill battle for me.
I once reached to Dancing Rabbit as an 18 year old! I was so interested in their concepts and wanted to join, but then I went elsewhere with my life.
As an advertiser, you go down the tracking route and you decide to spend 1M targeting women 21-35.

With tracking, you spend all on an exchange that has a ton of supply. ELLE competes with JennyBlogger. You potentially hit a ton of women across different properties. You may be advertising to women on male dominated outlets (the “promise” of digital tracking)

With the direct route, an ad manager may spend that 1M on specific properties, maybe between ELLE, Vogue and InStyle. This is a bit of a simplification as most firms have separate direct and programmatic spend, but the amount of money allocated to each depends on the perceived return of each inventory type.
As a host, I'd get a router with a separate guest network anyway. Fing wouldn't find anything.
This is a tough one. There are some seriously nuts and creepy people out there. If you use Airbnb with your teenage kids and somebody has hidden a camera somewhere for their own personal pleasure what can Airbnb do? Inspect every property that they list?

At least with a hotel the owners usually care about their business and reputation.
If it's a matter of degree, it generally seems like alternatives to capitalism perform worse (world wars, Stalin murdering 16 million, Mao's five year plan). Capital is a rather decentralized form of power, and typically to make any of it, you must put your own assets, resources, or time at risk. Except in edge cases which might not really be capitalism (slavery, central banking e.g.) you also can't accrue more capital without at least exchanging for something someone else wants, making it non-zero-sum and distributive, which is not the case for say political power.
though if I remember correctly, it comes from the military where seniority (and thus decision-making capability) and pay grade are explicitly linked.
Airbnb should be liable one way or another of those situations. They should at least inspect the places before accepting them in the network. They should inspect after a complaint.

I had a massive rat infestation in my Airbnb in Paris. I arrived at the place at night and I didn't see at first the forced temporary leave notice on the building door for all inhabitants. It took Airbnb 12h to respond to my emergency call. They didn't reimburse my first night, considering that I stayed and didn't allow me to review if I accepted the reimbursement of the rest of my booking. The wording was memorable "We contacted Thomas your host and he has agreed to ... ").
The US also entered a more command economy during wartime, when industries were nationalized or coerced into producing wartime supplies.
To be a capitalist you must exploit labor for profit. It’s astoundung everyone’s face is melting off because they don’t understand this basic tenet. I mean, you can say the person deserves the profit, but you would be sociopathic and wrong.
Agreed. If that polarizing note were omitted, there would be dozens of comments here, on github, and elsewhere saying "oh, great another electron app, NEXT", which is equally bad IMO.

Other comments here (and probably GP) dismissed the software, due to the note, before even checking its utility. This is good, because the polarizing note deters people who value tone and identity more than utility, preventing these arguments down the chain. Basically it's leveraging outrage against people quickly susceptible to outrage, so I would say it serves its purpose effectively!
Or a box with a high voltage warning sticker. Unlikely anyone will want to toy with it.
How recent is lately? My experience a bit over one year ago was great. Likely highly dependent on the area.
Please tell me all of the products that your code is contained in. I don't want to die in a self-driving car because has superficial test coverage. (Well it passed it's feature tests that you wrote for it)

There are very specific reasons for each level of testing and the benefits stack.
You grossly misunderstand digital advertising or your bias has completed clouded your logic.

> A wedding anniversary is a significant thing–some John's may be swayed by an advertisement, but many would consider it a bit of a cheat not to put more "novel" thought into it.

No idea what you mean here by cheating or novel thought. We're talking about whether knowing that info allows you to have more successful advertising compared to random chance. Serving John ads for roses, chocolates, and vacations will be more effective than serving those ads to a random person.

>Frankly, the former of those two data-points could mean anything. Much of what advertisers believe about consumer habits of single people could easily be correlation.

Correlation is the whole point. If someone who is single and goes to the gym is correlated to certain purchases or behavior, you can advertise those. And being single, a woman, and a gym-goer isn't super valuable by itself but combined together you can advertiser women's athletic clothing that is functional but also attractive.

> As for the latter, anyone with a daily gym routine is less likely to want to change it. Selling gym membership to someone speculatively hoping to start going to the gym is a better bet, but much harder to track.

Again, you don't understand advertising. If I know someone goes to the gym every day I'm not going to advertise gyms to them. I'm going to advertise water bottles, protein, healthy meal kits, athletic clothing, etc.

> Going back to the anniversary gift—I seriously doubt many people are much swayed by one-off ads in buying something as significant as a car

We're not selling Steve a car with targeted ads. We're taking his promotion and propensity towards bmw to assume hes wealthy and likes luxury goods. You advertise more expensive goods to him, rather than cheap ones.
The person screwed in this transaction is the investor. They should sue.
This is a compelling story that may be true for the UK, but there is no such list in the US.

Sadly, recruiting for the intelligence community is probably around the same efficiency of your local state government. Recruiters go to college career fairs and review applications from the website. Most candidates are unqualified, crackpots, or both. A couple schools have professors that encourage students to work for agencies, so alumni from these schools are overrepresented in the IC.

Occasionally, an outstanding person is identified and recruited, but this is rare. It is almost certainly driven by a person on the inside giving a referral. The recruiters have no bandwidth to be spending time pursuing candidates in any kind of targeted fashion.
In a kind of dark way, this is great news. It will be useful for other states, as well as the city of Chicago, to have an example use case for NOT legalizing video lottery.
>Unless the people are being forced to work/buy/sell with amazon, they are by definition not being exploited.

"forced" can happen in more ways than one. Workers in third world sweatshops aren't forced by law to work there, but they are forced by capitalism to work there to feed their families.

Also: Exploit (v)

2. To use selfishly for one's own ends.
25% cell death in a cell subpopulation in mice from 3 mights of bad sleep!? That's such an extreme effect from one study in such different animal, it really can't be useful for extrapolation.
But why? Looking at the wordexp synopsis it doesn't seem like a particularly advanced function. Why don't the various libc's just implement this function directly in C?
In a previous life I earned good money doing re-modelling in banks and office buildings. Because these businesses needed to stay open with minimal disruption, a lot of work was done at night and weekends.

I never got used to switching from day to night and days off were spent mostly sleeping.

Eventually it came to an end, after about 8 years, and I returned to the land of the living, working 9-5. The adjustment was difficult and the drop in income wasn't much fun either.

I ended up changing jobs every few weeks because there was always some reason to leave and eventually I just stopped working altogether. I didn't know it the time but I was drifting into a severe depression that lasted several years and ended with me living on the street.

I can't say for sure that working nights for so long set me on that road but I have a strong suspicion that it was a major factor.

I got lucky after a short while, got back into work and it's all just a bad memory now. I do wonder where I'd be now though if I'd just stuck to working days, like most people do?
Yes, just like exhaled breath is a waste product full of C02 and containing very little oxygen. If other people had to breath that they would become very sick or even die.
Who would have thought that an unregulated industry would be so hostile to customers?!
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Forgive my lack of clarity, I was only talking about the non-paid service.
Many sharpening companies provide knives and keep them sharp for a flat rate. The more they have to be sharpened, the faster they get worn out. If it is on the sharpening company to replace worn blades, they will want to strike a balance between lifespan and replacement costs.

The fancy "Japanese steel" knives cost the earth, but high-quality commercial knives (99% identical) don't. Commercial knives are designed with a different approach to safety. They usually have larger grips/guards that, while cumbersome to noobs, reduce injuries. A blade destined to be used constantly and resharpened many many times will also be substantially heavier. That may seem a problem for cutting tomatoes in your kitchen at home, but try prepping a few hundred chickens each day for a week and you will appreciate the heft.
>Sadly, the best argument against UBI is that vast, vast majority of people will not be working full time on F/OSS or quite possible anything else.

That's sad only if we have the scarcity induced morality of associating "getting to have a living" with "earning it by working".
One weird trick
Yeah, I think I'd find it useful- I'd love to be able to ape a few of the tricks that the four voices use to slide to pleasing chords. The music theory "rules" are certainly available, but only in the same sense that the rules of calculus are available somewhere.

Either way I agree, definitely a fun project.
I would atleast use a hashmap rather than a linear scan for lookup. My guess is you would be utmost 10x faster in that case
> Use your own hardware, no crappy ISP router required

This has been true of every American ISP I've ever used.

I'm even currently running OpenWRT on my home router.
This is how an oligarchy works
Luckily, we could prove to Airbnb that the furniture was not original, and that it was modified multiple times, badly. After the whole vacation spent worrying about the communication between the host and the Airbnb, we managed to avoid having to pay.

A similar experience is what put me off to AirBnb. What was supposed to be a carefree weekend at the beach turned into managing the property manager. One thing after another. Starting with no key because the lockbox code was incorrect. Some other doozies include: twin not a full bed, patio door did not lock, no hand soap in bathroom, and the Internet didn’t work.

Hosting is difficult and Airbnb is still learning. Once day they may have it figured out, but I’d be surprised if when that day comes they don’t look a lot like the incucmbent players. In the mean time we are all paying for their training.
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That is not what happened. The Chairman was buying Sears out of bankruptcy using his fund. He didn't approve it, an independent law firm did (they rejected his first bid), and it still has to be approved by a bankruptcy judge, which isn't a foregone conclusions, since Sear's unsecured creditors are going to fight it.
Just yesterday I attempted to explain to my colleagues (who have been mainframe developers all their life) the concept of having multiple remote repositories and different possible setups. I think I explained adding remote repositories well enough, and mentioned the use cases for such a setup -- having only read access from a repository and needing to develop in a fork while keeping up to date with the original.

Does anyone have a good analogy for this? I think they understood for the most part, but explaining things better is something I have been really trying to improve on in the workplace lately.
Logging as a service
The beautiful thing about business opportunities is that you can create them by mastering a niche.

And once you do, You can charge a lot more.
> the SSH protocol is a "server-first" one, but HTTP is "client-first", so if you pause the SSH banner for a few seconds, you can basically host both on the same port.

In the interest of accuracy, the condition we are looking for is that there is at most one "server-first" protocol in the set you want to multiplex between on a single port, right? Because realistically, any numer of client-first protocols can be distinguished with some heuristics?
Less than $15k seems questionable. He has a van to carry the supplies around. Sure, you can lease or borrow, but there's $5k (for a used beater) to $20k (for a new Transit Connect cargo). Two commercial buffers at $1000/each (less used). Good shoes, heavy duty work clothes, another couple hundred. It adds up pretty quick.

Then you add insurance. No idea what that costs, but between risk of injury and liability, it's probably not pennies.
Bitwig Studio 3: Enter The Grid.
TypeScript is basically only good now because of the competition. Earlier versions were pretty darn awful.

These days, yeah, you're probably right that having only one might be better. Hopefully WebAssembly and languages running on top of it will create the awareness and competition required to keep things moving.
Actually, Shkreli got in trouble even though all of the plaintiffs had ultimately profited big time... but with some delay and period of uncertainty.

Which shows that outcome is not all that matters, legally.
15ms for that is ridiculously slow, but if you’re doing single pixel rectangles... that would do it.
Durable yes, good edge retention? Not so much. Restaurants like this tend to prefer softer more durable steels, like that found in your classic Henkels (usually refereed to as German stainless). A chef's personal knives tend to be a very different style. Usually modeled after the Japanese style of knife (very thin stock, very high (62+) hrc). And the steel tends to be either carbon steel or vg-10 or better for stainless.
I think that the issue isn't that people don't want politics out of their art entirely. It's that people seek a balance, and right now, the balance is atrociously tilted in favor of politics. It is a very common mistake across a wide range of fields to mistake an imbalance and a desire to move back towards balance as a desire to move right past that balance and keep going, made by both people desiring the move and those fighting it. But I think this is a balance problem, not a "get it all out" problem.

Of course, it's also scrambled by the way the Internet amplifies every outlier voice, and you can get yelled at simultaneously for having too much politics and not enough. And we've got a good group of folk running around and projecting politics everywhere, and screaming at you if you resist them.

You'd get tired of even your favorite food if everyone you knew was literally sticking it in your mouth at what felt like every available opportunity. And even if it's a very healthy food and desirable in every other way, you're not going to enjoy it.

While I'm not sure I call myself "an anime fan", I've found myself going there a lot more lately, because either A: the Japanese culture right now is a lot more willing to just tell a story and not provide me with the "correct" interpretation, complete with social pressure and serious threats of ostrichization if I don't agree with it or B: I'm oblivious to the politics because I lack the context or C: I can see them but I haven't been rubbed raw by constant exposure to the issue, or I have no particular reason to care (e.g., a series clearly tackling the political issue of Japanese government censorship, but it's pretty easy for me to be fairly detached from the politics).
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> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff? John has a 10th wedding anniversary coming up. Mary is single and goes to the gym every day. Steve just got a promotion and likes the BMW 3 series. Michael is overweight but has just gone on a diet. Are such details of no significance determining what ads to show these people?

I think there are a few factors:

1. Targeted ads are more likely to show people things they're already familiar with. The ads are more "expected" so there's less novelty. Untargeted ads can inadvertently hit wants and needs that aren't part of the user's tracking profile.

Closely related to that: targeted ads can induce their own special kind of fatigue. If all you see are diet ads because your profile says you want to lose weight, you're going to get really sick of seeing diet ads. The targeting actually works against effectiveness.

2. Targeted ads are much more exploitable by scammers. See: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s.... This leads to a greater erosion of trust. The expense of traditional and untargeted advertising weeds out such scams.

3. Building a good user profile is hard. If you get it right, you have the problems I described in #1. If you get it wrong, you're blasting someone with ads that are completely off the mark (like weight loss ads for a very healthy and fit person).

4. If a user sees one targeted ad a week, that ad is likely to punch above its weight. If they see 50 targeted ads every day, the effect is much different. They're more likely to develop negative emotional reactions to the ads, as they gain awareness and get creeped out by the tracking and attempted manipulation.
If rent were the same, then it wouldnt happen as often, because any slightly better deal will make the owner of the property lose out.

Rent on self-owned is definitely higher than market price. It has to be for the transaction to make sense.