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Many of the laws of California, and of certain localities in California, reflect hostility to guns and gun owners more than they reflect any concern with public safety.

For example, in San Francisco it was illegal for many years to own an airsoft gun (replica firearm that fires little 0.2g plastic pellets). This was struck down only when Arnold Schwarzenegger passed a law to the effect that replica firearms were to be regulated at the state level. It is hard to see what a ban on airsoft guns was intended to accomplish, since they are not viable as weapons at all.

More seriously, California laws concerning handgun sales prevent Californians from benefitting from safety improvements in newer firearms (as well as preventing them from benefitting from the coolness of new firearms). Only handguns on a select list are permitted to be sold in California, and Kamala Harris closed the list some years ago. Ostensibly this is because the state of California would (a) like to see newer handguns implement "micro-stamping", where the gun imprints its serial number on each shell and bullet as it is fired and (b) believes this technology to be generally available. It's not that (a) is a bad thing but (b) is completely false; there are virtually no firearms that implement micro-stamping.

Most absurdly, the ban on "assault weapons" is in practice a ban on rifles with a pistol grip, as opposed to those with a classic stock. Rifles are used in a small minority -- 5% -- of shootings, in any event. They are (a) inconvenient to transport and (b) harder to use for a robbery, where the robber would like to have one hand free to grab stuff. The ban on rifles with pistol grips is something that is more a matter of showing the flag than affecting a real positive public benefit.

Travel restrictions on firearms are also more onerous than useful. In California, we can travel with firearms to any place where we may legitimately use firearms or transship them, but woe betide us if we should stop for a coffee on the way there. Thus we may travel to and from a shooting range, but not stop for lunch at any point. Given that we are to lock our unloaded firearms up when we travel with them, it's hard to see what is gained by preventing us from stopping along the way.
This the best comment and exactly describes my experience with reddit in the last 4 years.
Beware: This article reads like it was written by somebody who has never developed a mobile app. Thus, before you go down this road, read below.

- Cross platform does not mean you can share the UI/design. Different mobile platforms require different accordances that users are accomstomed to. So your design and code might have to be different, just as it would be for native.

- Just because you are using a cross platform framework does not mean you sidestep the nuances of the framework itself or that of the host platform. In fact, it just makes things worse because you have to code around these nuances. Due to the underlying way iOS/Android work (e.g. permissions or the differences between Android’s activities or UIViewController on iOS), you will still need a fair amount of platform specific code.

- Many cross platform frameworks have limited support for other libraries and if not you need to go native to support them. At this point you may as well be developing natively.

- The performance can matter quite a bit. However, unlike native your ability to do anything to resolve these issues is extremely limited. Maybe it doesn’t matter a ton depending on the use case, but people do notice. Only being able to solve it by dropping into native sort of defeats the purpose of cross platform.

When you add all these up, the benefits of cross platform get very muddled.

It is far better to prove out your app on one platform, get users, solve problems, and when you have more resources and a good process, go to other platforms. If you don’t succeed on one platform, not being cross-platform would be an unlikely reason.

In the case of React Native, it is possible to have a hybrid, which may let you get around some trade offs.
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Was expecting the faeces to carbon date to some tens of thousands of year ago (cue Timeline by Michael Crichton).
You said you can't just ignore this either, yet there is nothing to glean from your supposed point. The numbers are far too close, and Europe far too diverse to infer anything. It's a waste of the 30 seconds of life of anyone who reads the post.
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That's a lot of money. 200k per year. Enough to pay for two or three employees in most developed countries. 2 or 3 people is really all you need to build a meaningful startup.

It seems that investors in the US have gotten so used to paying high economic rents and financial middlemen that they have lost track of the real value of money. 2 million is an enormous amount of money.

I could build an entire reddit from scratch for 100k. Scaling to millions of users is not difficult these days. I could even build an entire cloud platform from scratch for less than 200k on top of Kubernetes.
Both of these seek to influence state legislators, and the evidence is right there in the article.

Where is the evidence of Lyft's lobbying?

I'd like to counter your question with a question: why shouldn't a mayor be speaking up to influence state legislators if they believe legislative issues could have an impact on their city? This is literally one of the primary duties of being an elected leader at the city level.
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That's a horrific attitude, you cannot seriously think you have a successful business if this is what it takes to destabilize it. Try harder.
And it took me 3 months, $180, and being ordered to publish a notice in the local newspaper who was really uninterested in following through and then charged me another $170 for it.

It's different everywhere and it's usually not easy.
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Yes. But unfortunately, most of us aren't researchers, we are code monkeys, paid for contributions to company's project - contributions that mostly require concentration, not cross-domain research thinking. Note that when Hamming talks about working on "right" vs. "wrong" thing, he's talking about practical, mundane stuff vs. ground-breaking, world-class research. Not many of us here are paid for the latter, and as much as we do it, we probably do it outside work setting.

Even though, an "open-door" office is still infinitely better than no office. You get to focus in between visits, and the visits are less frequent simply because the other party needs to lift their butt and walk to your office.
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> Yeah, me feel the same. How do people game HN?

Sounds like a bot wrote that
> That being said, if you’re making a game, it probably won’t work in cross-platform.

What? Ever heard of Unity, powering the majority of games out there?
I was wondering that: where do the (rapid) upvotes for articles like this come from?
Honestly, I did not see the paid streaming model succeeding. But damn did Spotify and Beats/Apple knock that out of the park. I wonder if the younger generation even considers illegal downloading or if they just go straight to the streaming platforms?
You want corporate interests to rule a city? That's not even remotely democratic.
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This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Political_Order

There are a few anecdotes there as well, but it's less fun than Freakonomics. Still, it explains so much about institutions, governing, and generally how societies work. It does make you rethink everything.
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The technology is enabling them to see the autonomous or self-driving vehicles. The taxi dispatch solutions are successfully making rounds for over a decade now. The researchers forecast that the commercialization of autonomous cars for ride hailing services will abruptly spread in 2019.
Here I read an article about Rise of Autonomous Cars and Ride Hailing Industry: https://cabstartup.com/rise-of-autonomous-cars-and-ride-hail...
Will be glad to hear your thoughts on this.
Hi, author of the NSM patch. Still very much under development, but most of the important considerations aren't technical, and making progress on a system like this is more about how to roll things out rather than implementation.

It's great to seeing WebKit folks thinking along the same lines, and I hope to be able to discuss with them. Coalitions -- like the Mozilla/Chrome work on TLS adoption -- are critical in making progress in large ecosystems.
> assuming a fully efficient market (which it is not, see different bubbles in past few decades)

Well, I think it's part of the book to speak in favor of free markets as opposed to centrally planned "markets" (such as prices for money, e.g., interest rate).

If you're criticizing an underlying assumption, then of course I can also go ahead and criticize parts of mathematics for some of their axioms. Yet, that doesn't make mathematics wrong, only more limited in scope.
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"Governing itself" isn't some magical good

I don't think one who holds this particular stance is particularly concerned with the merits of democracy. Call me on it, if I'm wrong, scarejunba.
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Think of it this way: everyone has a moment when they just want to take a break and goof off for a minute. It's normal, and a part of keeping a healthy and productive mind. Now consider how many other people will a person taking break affect. In a regular office, or even cubicle setting: probably just themselves, maybe someone else to whom they walk to. In an open-office plan? Everyone within earshot. With multiple people taking breaks at random, if you don't have someone with a strong personality telling everyone to shut up and get back to work, you can easily have half a day or more wasted just on talking bullshit. Individual cubicles or offices are a natural dampener for this.
I did this for almost two years. I got really lonely and ended up glued to social media because I was too shy to talk to people in the random mountain towns I was staying. I also found living around cars all the time somewhat maddening. Imagine your background noise everyday being shopping carts and car door lock chirps. Usually the intent of #vanlife is spending more time in nature, oddly living in a car embeds you far more in car culture, streets, gas stations. There was always some latent anxiety about being somewhere you're not quite supposed to be, since living in your car is basically illegal. Novelty wore off after a few months, today I'm glad to live in an apartment. I get to hike/ski/climb almost every weekend, and come home to a warm, well-lit place with a couch and shower.
> Bribery tends to be a crime because we haven't found a way to short circuit en masse the human tendency to submit to influence

Contrary to popular belief, lobbying and bribery are in fact not the same thing.
It is linkable but it's an Internet discussion where I am allowed to speak in hypotheticals and being facetious. I've never hired anyone (it's just original founders and occasionall contractors). I don't like being forced to make sexist decisions or eat the risk so it will likely always be contractors for anything critical.
We also have more reasonable justice system here. You need actual proof and you won't be hit by a million dollar fine if someone thinks you might have made a sexist decision. Me describing the reasoning which led me to give up looking for new employees in overdramatized fashion doesn't fly as a proof here.
But TBF, we're doing rather alright compared to Africa, India and some of South America. Because of heavy emphasis on engineering disciplines in the USSR and because oil now, I guess.

Though as years go by, I hate this snow mush more and more. With a passion.
But I wouldn’t class i3 as slightly different. Probably an argument can be made that the prevalence of similar DEs ensured the APIs and interfaces that allowed for an i3.
Assuming the surplus is socialized via taxes, one would want a high degree of work force participation,to pay for schools, health care, infrastructure etc.
If you don't undestand at least a little about historical thinking, you will take exactly wrong lessons from books and historical texts. It also is not nearly as complicated as knowing details of brain surgery.
The article goes into this, but it's more accurate to say that the aggregator subscription business model saved record labels -- paying a flat but recurring fee to access a diverse (but ever-changing) library sourced from various rightsholders.

This is the same model as Netflix, which licensed all sorts of content when studios were glad anyone was offering, but as they realized they can launch their own streaming services, Netflix found it prudent to produce more and more original content to ward against people who might cancel after waves of popular shows are pulled and put elsewhere.

There's not much stopping record labels from pulling a Hulu, except for the fact they already did with Vevo, which was recently killed. Vevo fizzled because it was never clear what value it offered, and its content was also available on YouTube by their own making, in a desperate and bizarre truce against the realities of content discovery. It's like newspapers and their eternal frenemies Facebook and Google, but with more money on the line.

The value proposition of aggregators depends on the content they aggregate, but also on matching the content to a receptive audience. Labels may be looking at Spotify and wondering if they can't short-circuit them instead, but when content rightsholders wall themselves off from an aggregator, they must find this receptive audience themselves. And that audience may not be willing to pay the same way: the same content is available through other sources, even if it's just YouTube, or CDs, or digital downloads of the handful of albums they'd miss, not to mention the wide selection of other music from other labels they might warm up to instead. Movies and, in particular, episodic shows are less affordable through legal means, so it's far easier to withdraw them from aggregators and make them exclusives. And unlike music, motion picture is typically consumed once or just a few times, while music is consumed over and over again.

Conversely, Spotify might court artists to sidestep record labels, but that only helps for new content. Yet there's other destinations now for emerging artists and future fans thereof, and better platforms for discovery. With subscription business models, retention is always key, so enough palatable content has to be present and no competitor must be overwhelmingly more appealing such that subscribers are driven to cancel. And I don't think the Netflix pivot works nearly as well with music: the whole point of Spotify is to never have to worry about the costs and logistics of acquiring -- legally or illegally -- a personal music library ever again, and to remove the friction and mental gymnastics about picking some music you're in the mood for to play now. The reliance on back catalogs, of nostalgia and emotion of repeated consumption (vs. discovering something new) is too great. If labels start to withdraw, that utility will plummet.
It is very likely that sometime during next 100 years, people in that generation would look down on us as barbaric as Gengiz Khan cutting off people from his horse while laughing as if that was perfectly normal thing to do. I have never understood people eating meat for taste, let alone as leisure activity. If you had grown up never eating meat and then during your youth if you tasted it, the meat would be revolting in texture and least flavorful thing you would have tasted. So I tend to assume lot of people get used to it is because of their exposure to it since childhood. If you ever looked at chicken farm or industrial beef facilities, you would never want to eat meat again. The key to leaving meat behind would be artificial food that is wildly tasty and nutritious than anything we have from plants or animals.
From one party's perspective, it may just look like the other party does not support TLS. Without another point of reference, MTAs can't tell the difference between a lack of TLS support and a downgrade attack.

Alternatively, the government could also conduct a TLS certificate man-in-the-middle, which would work in most cases since almost no MTAs validate certificates outside of occasionally trying DANE (a spec for pinning certs over DNSSEC).
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"The Selfish Gene" was also a great discovery for me. I guess that coming from a CS background it was a big revelation to understand the biology in such a different perspective. Really worth reading.
> "microaggression" doesn't mean malicious intent, it means one of an endless series of small unpleasant things that pile up over time to make an impact.

Disagree. For a series of small, unpleasant, but otherwise unintentional, things, we have plenty of established words - including the very word "unpleasant". The term "microaggression" was created in order to enable blaming and condemning people at high enough granularity that a narrative of constant oppression could be established. Note how the word "aggression" absolutely does imply intent.
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It’s not as complex as you make it out to be. Interested parties including the media and lobbyists advocate for whichever level of government best supports or has the best shot of advocating for whatever position they are taking on any given issue.

You cited Roe v Wade, well there aren’t many that will simultaneously advocate for a pro-choice position yet also criticize the judgement in Roe v Wade in its legal or constitutional merits or lack thereof. For someone who holds a pro-choice position, Roe v Wade mostly “got the job done” on a national level, and whether SCOTUS should have kicked the buck up to Congress or back over to the States is entirely besides the point. Since it is a form of “law” not easily overturned except by another SCOTUS ruling or an Act of Congress which requires a consensus unlikely to form in either direction, it more or less protected the position of people who are pro-Choice regardless of whether SCOTUS was the correct place to make this call. No one is going to advocate a legal position that is counter to their ideological position except an exceptionally rare breed.

Most people simply cannot compartmentalize the differences in their legal and ideological opinions to the point that when talking to them, they may as well be one and the same. Wherever there is a difference and contradiction, the ideological opinion will almost always win out, and the legal opinion will almost always be construed to support or will be completely overridden altogether.

So whether it is access to abortion or digital taxis, people, corporations, lawyers and politicians alike are going to treat each level of government they have access to and each organ of government as tools to advance their positions. It isn’t these are the rules we have agreed to play by, our legal system is now just a very long multi-sided multi-dimensional game of legal Go to advance competing ideologies, power bases and profit motives. Maybe that is all Law ever was, but conceptually it isn’t that hard to grok this much: all levels of government are at the whims of people who will advance their interests at any cost and wherever they can gain ground. The primary thing keeping these whims in check are competing differing incompatible interests.
I found Apollo last year and was so impressed that it inspired me to finally get into iOS development.

Until then, not being much of a phone user at all, I'd been convinced that mobile experiences were always worse than desktop ones.
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Comment from the OP link that caught my eye:

"They’re offering free users 50% off their starter plan for the first 2 years. If you pay monthly, that’ll be $7.5/mo ($15/mo later). I can’t justify even $5/mo for this, personally…"

Too bad, so sad. Pingdom likely finally figured that most freeloaders won't ever convert and have no other positive impact on their top or bottom line. It was a great marketing idea at the time when it was OK to burn money to get non-paying "customers". Eyeballs, eh?

Never attempted to use them as I knew it wasn't sustainable.
Why make employers eat the costs? Just make government pay equal benefits to every mother for x months and don't force employers to keep the position open. This way actually everyone will have the same rights unlike now where how much you get depends on how good a job you managed to land even if you only worked there for a very short time.

There is incentive to re-hire anyway if you have open positions as you get someone already familiar with the work. Forcing employers to do so is a problem for smaller companies having many non-duplicated positions though.
I feel some people start talking all the time in the smaller offices. They don’t feel observed and then just talk all day, about everything, private and work stuff. When I’m at work I want to work and socialize at points I chose. People seem to be more cautious in open space
This is one reason why some of us choose to pay for journalism.
Why do you say that? I’m a real human with feelings, that just got hurt (a bit)
I read about it and tried it out, and I couldn't figure out how to use it. After typing my text, I kept looking for the button to trigger text to speech.

But, it just dawned on me that the idea is to type something and then show it to the other person. Which works, it just wasn't what I was expecting.
I've only heard of using ECS for games. I'll have to look into them more closely.
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This movie had a big effect on my personally. I quit my job of 5 years in no small part because of watching it.
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