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Oil tanks + installation are cheap enough I'm not sure it would make financial sense for this to be a business model (we were quoted a ballpark figure of $1,500 to replace ours). Oil tanks require no maintenance whatsoever, just replacement every 15-30 years.

I have an agreement from a company that they deliver oil automatically when I need it, but I don't pay anything extra vs just calling them for a one time delivery and I can terminate the agreement at any time.
The wikipedia page and linked references for the inspiration for the fictional Nucky Thompson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_L._Johnson
Of course. This is true of New York as well, especially outside of Manhattan. I, too, would prefer a regulatory environment that allows for denser construction. None of that changes the fact that the regulatory environment is what it is, and as a practical matter it limits the extent to which people are able to move to either city to work for Amazon.
I am applying some of the concepts in this post, but with 2 young kids I can't simply dedicate as much time as this person but:

1. I rarely watch TV now, maybe 1/2 episodes a week

2. Given up alcohol and caffine mostly (occasinal drink for special occasion but not getting drunk)

3. I'll let my body get the sleep it needs but if I wake up early I'll just go do some work.

4. Laser focused plan around producing content, improving my writing skills, and marketing. I am not allowed to code in my spare time except for the odd bit of JS or whatnot related to marketing.

5. I am writing about stuff that is bread and butter from my job. I can legit learn more stuff about this subject during work hours as it will improve my job.

6. I think I could probably commit to 10 hours a week of work. Like I said I have 2 young kids, and I do want to spend time with them.

The article has got me thinking about

1. Arranging to have no commute, at least some days

2. Using KPIs or some kind of "Star Chart" to track my effort and efficiency.
Your point does not stand.

It's not illegal (a violation of civil or criminal law) in most jurisdictions.

It's a slam dunk lawsuit though. There's basically just strict liability for any harm that comes of it (yes, I know I'm over-generalizing). Being liable for damages caused by making damaging false statements is basically the court forcing you to accept personal responsibility and making you make it right. Actions that constitute libel rarely violate a civil or criminal law (in the US). A lot of things are slam dunk lawsuits that aren't illegal (e.g. breach of contract).
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this story cites one estimate that, for a certain list of drugs, the savings from buying in Mexico was 40-60%

that's huge. but -- how can US consumers possibly save any money by going to another country to buy a product? i thought globalization had brought US consumers free trade.
I think maybe it wasn’t clear that I was responding to your comment about no innovation was made versus that blockchain was required. The innovation is that JPMC actually has an internal accounting and settlement system they can trust, not what database it uses or what language it was written in. Previously they relied on ACH and Wires which they didn’t control.
This is nice. I've always used the WIP tag but this is cleaner since it blocks merging.
> No recording errors: if it's "Bg4" and you write "Bg5", we can't help :(

You can help by checking the legality of the current move (which you seem to already do) and also the rest of the game?
Trump is working so hard to keep us safe!

To keep our families safe. To keep our children safe. To keep our communities safe.

Did you know that if Trump wasn't elected, we would be at war with North Korea? Nuclear war!
I mentioned cities by name that have booming tech sectors and an influx of corporate headquarters. If the influx in Nashville is from Louisiana, that's still important, because it represents an influx that previously would have gone to some other city where there are attractive jobs. NYC used to be one of those cities, and now compared to Nashville it has far less to offer than it did in previous decades.

Do you understand my point now? It does not matter whether Nashville's population ever equals that of NYC. The population growth spread across 5 cities in formerly rural areas represents growth that otherwise would have gone to the great economic hubs of the nation, which must now compete for job applicants on something other than the MOMA and the smell of urine in the streets.

Because, if NYC doesn't compete, then it loses the best job applicants to places like Nashville.

That's how equilibria work.
I'd just like to say I'm absolutely fine with your pricing. Seems totally fair. Thanks.
The GPL continues to be a popular license. It just got popular enough that in v3 they could take a more aggressive stance on patents and tivoization. Which is inherently a trade off between goals and adoption. They chose to achieve more of their goals at the expense of some usage.
Amazon still plans to dramatically expand it's workforce in NY/NJ.

Im not sure what the point of any of this was.
I assume I'm a monkey pretending to be sapient.

Psychologists have found that a lot of decision making is rationalisation of an instinctive decision.

Those moments when you stand there thinking why the hell did I just agree to that etc.
OED says not so clear-cut:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/farther-or-further
If you are happy making sacrifices in your life like cutting out relationships then all the more power to you, but I personally find it kind of crazy that we've reached a place where people think that their business idea is so important that they are willing to sacrifice basic human needs like social relationships etc to try and strike rich.
Some analysts believe they will help on the production side too since they don't have an EV Pickup in the next 3 years of road map. Each side might learn something from sharing their expertise. Apparently Amazon is interested from a delivery vehicle standpoint. It's probably not that useful as a pickup truck, but it could be a good platform to build a proper delivery vehicle on.
yeah, the whole 8 hours trifecta thing neglects a lot of round corners
I am also an NYC resident and followed this story closely. There was an immediate, knee-jerk reaction from local politicians when the announcement was made, often in the form of protests with plenty of photo ops. It was not about how to work with Amazon and the community to create something that works for everyone. Instead, their message was "WE DON'T WANT THIS, GET OUT NOW!"

At the end of the day, this city needs to curb its reliance on finance jobs. Adding 25k tech workers would be a major step forward to making NY more of a tech hub than it is today. Kicking out Amazon sends a message to other large companies who are thinking about NYC -- buyer beware.
Google is expanding to create 25,000 GOOD JOBS! But since it didn't extort $$$ out of politicians, the politicians can't as easily take advantage of it.

If you can get high-tech companies who are willing massively expand to create lots of GOOD JOBS without have to short $3 billion from the state budget, that might mean that the $3 billion dollars was a total waste and boondoogle....
There seem to be services that mail insulin from Canada already, which is significantly cheaper.

Is it really cheaper, or necessary to fly to Mexico to pick it up yourself?

https://www.canadianinsulin.com/
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I didn't know this was news. My mother, a US resident who's lived in the US for ~30 years, in a border town, goes across every time she needs any sort of medical care.

The Red Cross only takes cash, but it's so much cheaper (actually affordable).
Define safer? more safe for an individual or more safe methods of generating power?

Centralized utilities also have a nasty issue of not coping with natural disasters particularly well...
If your data is in-memory, why would you have IDs and foreign keys? You'd just have objects referencing other objects (or maps referencing maps, or whatever is idiomatic). I wasn't talking about re-implementing a relational database in-memory, but simply working with data in the way that is natural in your language.

If you do actually need advanced schema features, then I agree, just use PostgreSQL. But none of the things that you've listed are advanced features, and all of them have some trivial equivalent for in-memory data.

Side note: do you maybe have an image of a very particular kind of app in mind? Like, a moderately sized web app? Keep in mind that I'm talking in general here, about web/desktop/mobile, and about all sizes. And in practice, even for web apps, people often underestimate the actual usage and perf requirements.
How did giving Applebee's a tax discount put KC on the map for tech?
I have the HiFive 1, but it's just an Arduino equivalent. Fun for a little bit of low level hacking, but it's a RPi or BeagleBone Black equivalent that I'm looking for.
I can't talk for OP but I've been running a software company with both software products and bespoke service lines that generate a good level of income...I reckon I can assist you with your uncertainty - feel free to email me on simon.swords@atlascode.com
The cost of compression is very small for low performance designs (single instruction in-order issue). It's very straightforward to implement.

It gets harder for more complex designs though.

But for cases where you want to replace a Cortex M2, the area increase will be trivial.
> "Trusting this government with more power" is totally outside your control.

When you fight to pass a law that will create new government institutions and regulations and grow it in size, you're advocating the granting of more power to government. You are in control of whether you choose to advocate that or whether you choose to say "this could be abused".

Government is the ultimate example of needing to consider yourself part of the threat model of your system.
Most things out of Silicon Valley seem to be based on that premise.
With Kubernetes and managed Postgres, under the wonderful Digital Ocean UX and product design, I’m keen to try this on personal projects.

That said, I do wonder who the pricing is targeted at.

Our database primary is around the same price as the highest spec DO are offering, but for that we get 3x memory, 6x CPU, and 2x the disk.

For some things there are definitely huge benefits to using a hosted product, Jenkins for example costs us a fortune in engineering time. Postgres though is fairly straightforward for a simple setup, requires little ongoing maintenance, and scales well to bigger boxes without much work.

I can see spending up to $100 a month of this perhaps, but for the ~day it might take to set up Postgres on $50 of hardware with twice the performance, I can’t see going much further beyond that. Equally, higher up the scale, the top end is not that high performance for ~$2500 a month. The point in time backups is fantastic, but I’m not sure how necessary they are for most customers, over a standard Postgres hot replica setup.
As a non-US citizen working in the states -yes, you can land a job from merit alone.

My 2cents of advice are be upfront about what type of visa you will need when you start the interview process. Don't trust that the HR will know the correct visa and requirements. Do you own research about processing times for the visa, make sure you look at recent data for this!

Good luck!
This is the third article Ive read recently on HN where I honestly couldn't be sure if it was parody or not.
Why should NYCers not be pissed off that other people are making decisions on their city for them?

Why is NYC governed by Albany? Seems like it would explain a lot of the failings of NYC (eg. failing subway).
Not all insulins are the same. My guess is that this insulin is glargine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_glargine) which just came off of patent in 2015. Glargine is a synthetic long-acting form of insulin that gives allows absorption without peaks, which is much better than previous types of long-acting insulins.
As a Dutch person who spoke to US people in Dutch hospitals —- who needed to pay full price —- I daresay the US health care system is worse than some 3rd world countries their health care system.

It is indeed infuriating.
Same with tech actually. Busy flying a family member halfway across the world because the price diff on a single (!) laptop and cellphone covers the long haul flight costs.

Literally fly over, crash on my couch and spend a week exploring a different country for zero additional cost.
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I had an idea for a dating / social app. Using activity pub. The whole dating app scene, could do without monetary incentive.

Keeping inactive profiles present to pad results.
Lack of filtration on message receival.
Keeping people on via swiping etc.

The applications feel like they're geared more as a game. Keeping people on the apps. I've heard the same frustrations over and over from people. I've even heard similar pitch ideas. Then the question of how to monetize it comes up.

I'm not generally a free software only person. But I think that a public space for socialization and meeting people online. Should be free on monetization, or incentive of money.

I had thought of a torrented, shared db within a local region. With a few central nodes, eliminating hosting costs. This is just filed away as one of my fun projects.
I learned the hard way that "passive income" via SaaS is fools game. Yes it does exist, but it's incredibly rare and so it's very unlikely that any idea I have is going to be the unicorn idea that generates a shedload of money for minimal effort.

I stand about as much chance of becoming the next YouTube/Insta star.
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Elon Musk is far greater an inventor/entrepreneur than Edison ever was. If Elon accomplishes a fraction of what he's set out to in his life, history books from the year 2500 will relegate Edison to a footnote in the chapter about Musk.
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Garages are all converted bedrooms now
> it's pretty much a turn up and go service

Assuming you have a flexible ticket, which the overwhelming majority of passengers don't.

Tried asking BA/AA to move to an earlier flight on a non-flex ticket? "Computer says no, unless you pay $lots"
My understanding is that there are insulin analogs that are vastly better treatments, due to being faster acting. These analogs are still patented.

However, even considering the patents, insulin prices for the same product are much higher in the USA than in Mexico or Canada. American prices have increased by an order of magnitude. [1]

IMO this rampant price gouging can only be explained by the pharmaceutical lobby, and a political apparatus addicted to their money.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/31/why-i...
The short answer is patents. There's a cartel of a few makers (Novo-Nordisk, Lily and Sanofi) that slightly "improve" their insulin every few years to extend the patents. There are some generics available but they're not the fast-acting kind most diabetics use.
He's published a huge amount of detail about revenue and costs, his profits aren't enough to sustain a family.

I say that with the greatest amount of respect for the man by the way, he's super super smart and I love his writing.
from what i understand, you get a reward for serving the data, so you miss out on a good portion of bounty. you probably COULD attack the data like that, but it would cost you which might stop large scale attacks

*EDIT: and not just for serving it, but for serving it quickly.

from their site:

> Are you in the middle of a dense city? Do you have access to very fast Internet pipes? Have a rack in a carrier hotel? Perfect! In Filecoin's Retrieval Market, miners get rewarded for delivering content quickly. This makes the retrieval market good for miners who have low-latency, high-bandwidth connections to lots of users (but not necessarily the most disk space).
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Hey! Creator here. KetoHunt is a simple web app I built a while back while searching for foods I could eat on my ketogenic diet. It's nothing special, just a simple Rails app and a mailing list.

I try to add a few products per day and may build additional features if the interest is there. Thanks for checking it out. :D
PG&E who, if you can believe their actions, is really concerned that people will just drop off the grid altogether.

It is.

It just looks to the east where nearly all of the largest commercial energy consumers in Nevada have dumped NV Energy and built their own solar farms to save money.
Is this paper available in PDF?
It is not just insulin. Prices of all drugs have been rising in the US, from 2x to 3x at a minimum, to 1000x in some cases.

The reason is insurance. When individuals are paying for drugs, drug companies can only charge what individuals can afford. When insurance is paying for drugs, drug companies charge what insurance companies can afford, and insurance companies are able to pay much higher prices (and they recover their costs by raising premiums.) You can't blame pharmaceutical companies for not leaving money on the table.

The fact that Medicare is legally not allowed to negotiate drug prices (a big handout by Bush administration to Big Pharma) isn't helping either.
Open source CPU?

where can i buy one :O
>I would definitely not want the government to be able to control what ideas/speech is allowed on these platforms and what isn't.

I definitely want the US, with their strong ideas of free speech, to be the ones controlling those platforms. Because, as they are now, they are severely restricted.
Versioning solves the sole thing the "Swift 5 ABI" officially claims to solve: Avoiding to embed the Swift libraries in every single binary. If you have apps on your iPhone which use 3 different Swift versions, you would have 3 versioned copies of the runtime in any other environment. Instead those libraries are copied for _every single app_.

Windows is a prime example which uses versioning and still allows to share modules by the means of a proper ABI, COM (__stdcall and friends, yuck).
It is absolutely common to embed multiple C (yes, even C has no stable ABI on Windows!) and C++ runtimes in a single binary and use COM as the ABI.
Something like that would have worked for Swift as well, precisely as demonstrated by the article, using the simpler ObjC runtime as the ABI.

> What does it mean if you have an API passing a struct/class/record around if different libraries have different ideas of what the in memory layout of that struct is

That is precisely what an ABI declares and is used for. In the context of the post, the ABI is the _ObjC_ runtime, which is stable. That potentially different Swift versions being linked have different layouts doesn't matter.

The primary issue with Linux is that it doesn't have explicit support for two level namespaces within dynamic linking. Though it is again also not uncommon to mix ABI-unstable languages like C++ by the means of a stable ABI (either C or for example the ABI defined by Apache).
From what I heard, Google also doesn't get the kind of deals with tax breaks that Amazon did. Amazon wanted to leverage their added value (which is clearly existing) into some benefits. That did not work in this case, but it wasn't at all obvious it won't. Majority of New Yorkers supported the deal, as it was.

Also, "nobody bats an eye" is not right either - there are tons of protests against Google, which has been widely reported. They just didn't have a focus point like Amazon did, but if any city had a wide contingent of young socialist politicians caring about PR much more than for the jobs for the city population - the same could happen to Google too.
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Other than the fact that stadiums are known to cost cities a lot of money without returns and NYC gets to avoid those costs and benefit from the branding.
That's absolutely insane. So we get oligarchs and tyrants buying up property in NYC to launder their ill gotten gains and paying little to no property tax on it!
Huh, who woulda thought paying cash would be cheaper than filing a bunch of forms with an insurance company, giveing them a hefty discount, then waiting a few months to get paid.
That’s 356 hours per year. You can do a lot in that many hours.
if that can make anyone reading this feel better, most of the side projects you'll never have time to work on are probably useless anyways.
Part of this is because the US prices of drugs, subsidize the development of drugs around the world. Pharmaceutical companies rely on the US market to offset the R&D of the drugs, while then providing other countries with drugs above the marginal costs (which is still profitable). In this scheme, the pharma company benefits (they increase their profits) as do the other countries (they get cheap drugs). The loser in this arrangement is the US consumer who gets to pay high costs so everyone else can have ground-breaking drugs at low cost.
> If I am not a shareholder, there is nothing I can do to stop a big company’s bad behavior

Choose not to do business with them. Advocate that others not do business with them. Encourage employees to leave or change things. Work with companies you can influence to avoid doing business with them. Create competition, whether as a business or as a new technology that obsoletes theirs. There are many, many things you can do that have far more likelihood of enacting meaningful change, and that have nothing to do with being a shareholder.

The likelihood of success in such methods depends heavily on the ability to get others to agree with you and take action.
Not sure about some of the numbers there. They say that a 3 month supply is $3700.

Humalog without insurance costs $95 per 3 ml cartridge, let's say it's a $100. This would mean that this child needs 37 cartridges for 3 months, or 12 cartridges per month, 3 per week.

That's a pretty crazy amount of insulin. I'm a T1 diabetic, that doesn't eat particularly healthy, and I need 2-3 cartridges a month, almost an order of magnitude less than the person in the article.

I don't think those numbers are right.
> Browsers can block that quite easily.

How? That's not possible. Facebook knows where you are and what you're doing, etc, without you even having a computer or smartphone at all. Your friends or their friends will already upload your address, phone number, contact info, etc.

When you go out in public and you get caught in the background of someone else's photo, that you might not even know is being taken? They might post that to FB or Instagram, and then boom, FB gets another data point to analyze and find out where you go and what your habits are.

"Browsers" can't block what Facebook does to track users, not even close. That would be a trillion-dollar-invention.

> And people are becoming more aware of how that happens,

Are they? I don't think they are. I think people are grossly misinformed about how the data is collected.

> and developing tools to control and expose that

Who is? I know of no serious efforts to meaningfully reduce the data FB is able to collect.

> and at the end of the day people can choose to use it or not.

No they cannot. None of these services or companies are opt-in. You have profiles with them long before you sign up. You are being manipulated and studied and watched and you have no choice about it.
You need to run it a few times; the results vary very wildly.