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I'm impressed that such a move is even possible, considering the powerful interests that must be in favour of cashless. Cashless stores could be a stepping stone in the abolishment of cash.

The main issue for me is that if society is cashless, we could get negative interest rates, and we would be at the mercy of banks. All kinds of offers and conditions could be tied to and bundled with an increasingly abstract concept of money, credit and income.
Dont forget about his podcast Exponent where he frequently expands on his weekly stratechery articles. Good stuff.
agree, ISPs, cable-providers and wireless carriers should also be on the top of the list. Same here, there is no alternate to Comcast in where I live offering a similar service. They have been doing very slight improvements in service while almost doubling their prices.

Paying $110/month for a business line with 50 down / 10 up, while recently i was offered then refused a promotion upgrade to $140/month with 150 down / 25 up for 3 years. After three years, the pricing goes close $300.

Quite deceiving pushy sales people and their offerings with reduction in current pricing. I am considered a loyal grandfathered customer, yet i am totally stuck... :(
For common hobby grade engines that is correct. We actually have working one on one with a manufacturer for over 8 years. Over this time we have gone through many iterations to make the engines rated for manned flight. So we own the special internal components that make these much much better than hobby grade engines.
Right, and Walmart only allows products in its store under their terms which is far more restrictive, so I'm failing to understand how this model is worse for competition than Walmart's.

And what happened with PopSockets didn't quite work that way. They were already a vendor on Amazon, and they wanted to remove themselves as a direct vendor and designate a single reseller as their "approved" FBA on Amazon.

So they wanted to change the terms of the agreement, Amazon said no, and that was that.
Or the doctor could be in the room and act like somewhat of a human being and break the difficult news in a professional and socially accepted way.
The article contains the answer to the question: the CPU time is not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is the time of qualified people turning real-world problems into the code and interpreting the results. And this time is expensive.
I had thought maybe this was needed because of the patient being treated remotely, but the article says it was at the ICU and the family was told "the doctor was going to make rounds". Was this particular doctor actually at the facility?He didn't look he was dressed to work at the ICU that day.
The pattern I infer is that you will be eating 365 bagels--without invalidating your argument.
> At least on the small business jet flights I've been on, the actual flight is less comfortable. The interior has nicer decor, but it's also cramped and noisy.

But in this case you have to compare U.S. domestic business class to private travel, where I would argue the in-flight experience is still better on a small private jet. (I guess unless you are sharing a jet like the services you mention)

If you're talking about first class, as this article is, then you're talking about long international flights. The cramped and noisy private jets won't take you non-stop from NYC to Tokyo, for example.
As a simple-minded movie lover I agree with that sentiment regarding films. :) But cinema is just one of many artistic forms.

Do St. Peter's Basilica or Rei Kawakubo's clothes generate empathy? Should they even? Those are prominent, largely influential examples in their respective fields (architecture and design of clothes).
With even fewer viable public transportation options!
Unfortunately, barring some major unforeseen cultural and/or technological changes, I don't see those days coming back. The issue is that back in the late 80s/early 90s the cost of a new game was $60, and the cost of a new game today is... $60. That is, despite decades of inflation and an increased amount of development cost/time, that price point is stuck. I am not in the game dev industry, but I'm guessing they have loads of market research data explaining why that is that have to do with consumer psychology. While the industry is in a big growth phase that fixed price point isn't an issue because you make it up with an increased volume in sales. Now that the industry is more mature and saturated however, and so one response to the fact that $60 isn't what it used to be is micro-transactions, seasonal DLC passes, and anything else some suits can dream up to get a couple of extra bucks. The other response is indie game development, a back to basics approach where you make a game with a handful of people instead of 60+, and with a clever design and a lot of luck you can have a game that gets a lot of attention and do well for yourself even if your game only costs $30 or $15. Unfortunately, indie games are also saturated at this point, so standing out in the crowd gets harder and harder as time goes by.

The micro-transaction thing really is a sad turn of events though because it is not a content neutral change to games. Certain types of game mechanics are more amenable to to micro-transactions, and it creates an incentive to create artificial difficulty spikes in a game.
Do you mean both at the same time? If not, Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump would like to speak to you about their campaigns.
I misread this as comparing burning 2,400 gallons of kerosene versus burning 10,000 Americans and was becoming very concerned about where you are getting you data.
I enjoy cooking and food, but Huel (UK equivalent to Soylent) has allowed me to separate that from nutrition.

I often don't have the time and energy to plan and prepare healthy and enjoyable weekday lunches, so now they are all Huel. It's also very convenient if I'm travelling or busy at what would normally be a mealtime (Huel while driving is great).
Elizabeth Warren's New Plan: Break Up Amazon, Google and Facebook
That's a different failure. The government should have never allowed for the subsequent mergers.
And how would breaking them up prevent any of that? Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on data collection, Google doesn't have a monopoly on display advertising, and Facebook doesn't have a monopoly on peer pressure.
Austin is great, lived there for 4 years, and I think it's healthy to have alternatives to Silicon Valley - both geographically and taxation-wise.

My observation is that while there are plenty of startups - helped by Joshua Baer's Capital Factory and Techstars - it seems that most of the big tech companies are more taking advantage of the state's business-friendly tax laws and cheaper labor force than anything.

A lot of companies - Apple, Oracle, etc - are more using it as a customer service and sales team base than for engineering, R&D, etc.

Of course there will be plenty of counter-examples (HomeAway, Dell, BazaarVoice, RetailMeNot, Indeed), but that's just a macro observation to keep in mind.
It's 100% the same thing which is why this entire argument is so weird to me. This has been going on for decades.
What is the difference between a theorem, a lemma, and a corollary?
Do skinny people have faster metabolisms? Not really
If you have 40 minutes, 99% Invisible did an episode last year on some of the history of how doctors deliver news like this.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-bad-news/

> That’s why many medical schools now offer training for students on how to break bad news, bringing in actors to help them learn how to navigate this critically important and very high-stakes moment. And that’s not the only connection between acting and this particular facet of medicine.

> It turns out that one of the first doctors to recognize the challenges of this particular kind of doctor-patient communication wasn’t just a physician — he was also a comedian. And he drew on that experience to transform the way that doctors break bad news.

> His name was Dr. Rob Buckman, and his very unusual life experiences prepared him to tackle what might be the hardest part of a very hard job. Radio reporter and part-time medical school videographer John Fecile went back to trace the strange journey of this comedic doctor, and discovered unexpected connections along the way.

I don't think "through a video screen with poor audio quality" came up, but I'm guessing Buckman wouldn't have recommended it.
You know what would be really cool, is if Signal supported encryption over SMS. Then you could communicate without the cooperation of either Google or Signal's own servers! And no battery life impact!

...except it did. And they killed that feature, justifying it with a bunch of really weird arguments [1]. Like that SMS always leaks metadata, when Signal's data protocol also leaked the same metadata - except only to them, instead of a federated network. But don't worry, they promise they don't log it. Honest.

I don't trust Signal at all after that. Use SilenceIM for encrypted messaging [2].

[1] https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
[2] https://silence.im/
There are really good reasons to wear shoes where sanitation might be suspect. Hookworm is a real and nasty thing.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...
Why not both? Dumping on someone’s policy because you don’t who they target first doesn’t really help.

God knows I’d trust her to break up ISPs before pretty much any other candidate.
You're assuming that they identify as robots!
Because this is a political move and it is being done for political reasons.
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there are plenty of terrible doctor's out there... Why should we expect doctor's to be any better than the avg population? Same goes for other jobs that we put on a pedestal, like police etc..

should a personality qualifier be required for certain jobs?
I'm not sure what definition of appropriate Kaiser is using when they describe it as being appropriate to tell a 79 year old that he is dying via a robot
Yeah it is ambiguous. As Vince McMahon would say "Pronouns, pal"
I am guessing gp meant "surfing" as in the internet, not waves.
Obviously the aliens wait to make contact until there is only one species left on the planet.

We're almost there!
No one can make an informed claim about the correct timing here, and to do so and say we should wait smells of concern trolling.

No, it wouldn't make sense for Warren to wait if she wants progress. She should introduce the idea to the public as soon as possible, move the overton window, and if the idea has merit it'll be easier for someone in the future to carry it forward.
The reality is that the oil companies usually hire non-natives. They'll make big promises to the communities though before a project so that no one makes waves. Haven't yet heard of a case where they delivered the jobs to the native communities that were promised.
Linux does break userspace. It's inevitable. But everyone takes care it doesn't happen and if you report the regression immediately it will be fixed.

But if it's broken for 3 years and you didn't say anything, nobody will make a fix for it. Or it's unlikely.

A.out isn't used anymore. Like, not even the most ancient linux machines are likely to use a.out format. It's atm going to be hidden behind a flag, default off, if nobody complains then it'll be completely removed in a few releases.
My best guess is that he was a specialist not currently available at that hospital, so they had him consulting via telepresence. It makes sense then that the news might come from him but it seems obvious that another physician from the hospital should have at least been present, if not read the results themselves with the specialist available by video for questions.
The other side of Duterte’s war on drugs
agree, ISPs, cable-providers and wireless carriers should also be on the top of the list. Same here, there is no alternate to Comcast in where I live offering a similar service. They have been doing very slight improvements in service while almost doubling their prices.

Paying $110/month for a business line with 50 down / 10 up, while recently i was offered then refused a promotion upgrade to $140/month with 150 down / 25 up for 3 years. After three years, the pricing goes close $300. Unbelievable deceiving offerings for reduction in current pricing. Totally stuck... :(
If youre going to break up Amazon, AWS, and Whole Foods for being vertically integrated, how can you not break up the oil companies or the agriculture companies or the chemical companies.
This is a weird comment. When people are claustrophobic the implication is not that we need to sympathize with closed-spaces. You're injecting a meaning that was almost surely unintended to make a shaky ironic point.
The essential benefit of a quality education is the person has learned how to learn ... the Greeks nailed this by teaching the trivium : grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric ... armed with this educational foundation the person can listen, speak and write on any topic ... how ? because they have the skills to teach themselves ... this approach to education was used in the West for 2000 years - up until about 1900 ... outsourcing education to the government which has conflicting rewards and motivations has resulted in our current malaise

Time is precious so staying in mandatory education until a person is 18 is criminal and counterproductive for many children ... a resurgence of quality trade schools is happening and we as perspective employers need to step up and hire based on a real time assessment of those trivium qualities not on bloated automated parsing of CVs
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On Firefox, no plugin is needed for screen sharing. I wonder why one is needed in Chrome.
How would this work in practice though? Eg Amazon. Bezos is a major shareholder. Imagine splitting AWS from the retail arm, which I guess would be a sensible split point. If Bezos controls both, then what would really change?

I'm not critical to the idea nor supportive - I'm just curious to learn more.
> “In a country where people often go barefoot indoors – considering it a gesture of respect and a nod to hygiene...“

It’s not “often”, but “almost always”. It’s highly uncommon to wear footwear indoors (except in cold places where people have a separate set of footwear for indoor use).

In India footwear that’s been outside the house is considered dirty and unhygienic. It’s also disrespectful to wear it inside another person’s home or at temples. People would even avoid, whenever possible, carrying their footwear in hand (like in this village) or wash their hands well once they put the footwear down.

Culturally, one way to insult someone deeply in public in India is to hit them with one’s footwear (usually slippers). It’s also common, at least in some movies, that a girl who’s been harassed by a guy usually beats him up with her slippers. There have even been political incidents where someone who’s against a politician has thrown shoes or slippers at them at public gatherings (sometimes this has happened in the legislative assemblies too, where people from rival parties have done it to each other). This kind of usage seems somewhat common even in other Asian countries.

Talking about this village, a place where temperatures could be around 35°C (about 95°F) or more for many months in the year during daytime, walking barefoot may be difficult unless one is used to it. Maybe there aren’t many paved roads there either, since those could get even hotter.
John is confusing CPU time with CPU-core time. I assume he gets the $0.025/hour figure from "a1.medium", which is 1 core ("vCPU") with 2GB RAM.

As a result of competition, the price of any service tends toward cost of the service. So a $2000 computer with 8 cores that lasts 4 years + $500 for power/year + $500 for support/year is $1500/year or $0.17/hour. That's $0.021/core/hour, and the difference is a small amount of profit for Amazon and a buffer for when the CPU is idle.
Ask HN: How do you deal with people?
I'm talking about the average joe. How do you deal with them? I try to avoid contact to them as much as possible, but you're often forced to interact with them. What is your way of making the inter-personal stuff for both as pleasant as possible?
> It's not illegal to be big

I never said that it was.
In the real world, you don't want AI to instantly flip from 90% confidence in one direction to 90% confidence in the other direction, because it would cause erratic behavior. What would be preferable is a large zone where it gives both labels .45 score. Then you can apply higher-level reasoning based on the possibility that the object could be either of those two labels (i.e. act on the possibility of the most dangerous or most beneficial scenario of the two).
Look at other United 777s and you’ll see more Polaris seats: https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Air...
The point of having a doctor in the room versus a video screen is that the presence of the human is generally less "cold". Besides the audio quality problems the family describes, the manner of delivery has connotations of mass-produced automated service, which also feels cold.
I don't mind spitballing a bit here.

I'm definitely left-leaning economically. I also am very much in favor of giving developing nations a chance at competing with our economy.

However, I would go more or less the opposite direction of what you're suggesting. I support allowing American companies to produce jobs on foreign shores _provided those companies follow American labor laws_. I'm in favor of pro-labor regulation and I'm also in favor of free international trade, but not where the latter is at the expense of the former. A totally free world market would circumvent our protections at home.

All this to say, I wouldn't really call what you're suggesting a benefit by any view.
Ask HN: What tools have you recently started using that you are enjoying?
Over the years, I think I have discovered almost every tool I love using on HN--it's one of my absolute favorite parts of the community. What tools are top-of-mind that you have appreciated lately? This could be FOSS or a paid tool, at any part of your stack. For example, there are two that I have been using a lot lately:

1 - Redis - I am certainly a bit late to the party on this, but have recently started using Redis and am just so impressed with it. It's flexible, fast, well-documented, and has an absolutely amazing CLI

2 - Timber.io - They offer free and paid solutions but have a stellar UI and great searchability. I've used them with an Apache server, a Dockerized Flask App, and some Lambda functions where the cloudwatch logs stream to Timber
I don’t think so. While the results don’t change, a lot of human sociability is about doing the nothings in life. Like going through the motions of offering to pay yet knowing it’s the other person who’s going to pay (maybe they invited you, have more money, etc.,) still it’s consideted bad manners not to at least feign an offer.

Same here. The doctor and hospital should strive to be as human and empathetic as possible given the bad news. Adding an electronic intermediary created distance and adds coldness and the artifice of bureaucracy to the event.
Well, then the Economist is almost laughably wrong. This completely ignores the building and construction trades. In America, the average Millionaire drives a F150 pickup truck, not a Mercedes-Benz or BWW. (well documented in the book The Millionaire Next Door.)

Don't discount the trades.

Take the HVAC guy who just spent a morning putting in a heat pump at my neighbor's place for $6000. It was < $2000 worth of equipment (wholesale) and just he and a helper working under the house for a few hours. Let's be extraordinarily generous and subtract out half that for overhead (licensing, rent, van, advertising, insurance, taxes) and that's clearing $2k per day. $8000 per month. Owner's surely making more than the laborers, but let's just split down the middle. That's still roughly $45k per year for working 8 hrs per week. Yes, that's poverty in the coastal elite towns but a middle-class lifestyle in flyover country.

Move up to doing two such jobs per week (or even three) and a very solid upper-class lifestyle is within reach. Get a couple crews working under you doing a couple of those jobs per day, and now you're talking about a high standard of living, indeed -- vacation home on the coast/mountains and luxury vacations.

Another example: The guy who built my home is an Ivy-League MBA. After graduation he quickly discovered he couldn't tolerate sitting in a cubicle, so he turned the "side job" doing home renovations (used to help pay for his $250,000 degree) into a full-time profession. Now 20-years on, he has built hundreds of homes and is a millionaire many times over. By swinging a hammer.
Very excited to see this released because it makes use of ReactXP (https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/) which is IMO currently the best way to make native cross platform apps.
No amount of "roundedness" is worth the current asking price of college. They're going to have to offer more.
I am English, and was brought up this way, but many of my English friends evidently were not, because they keep their shoes on when coming in unless i ask them to take them off.
Is "technophobic" really a bad word now? If so, I'm an outright technophobe. If you're going to break hard news to anyone (whether it be a breakup, telling someone their loved one has died, or telling someone they are dying) you might as well give them the benefit of being there in person. You can hug a person, you can't hug a screen.
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Ma Bell wasn't created naturally at all. It's monopoly status was granted by the federal government. This is fundamentally different from Facebook, Amazon, etc. If anything, the large ISPs like ATT, Verizon, and Spectrum should be looked at, but solving the problems of ISP monopolization will take a lot more than just breaking up territorial monopolies into smaller territorial monopolies.
Perhaps this is "surfing" the web?
The family's complaint isn't about the doctor's personality.
Ideally it would directly and immediately decrease their values by the amount they were effectively extracting due to their monopoly position.
Anything has to go through economical system to raise GDP!

Let's discourage people from cooking at home, having guests at home, spending time in public parks and forests or at home with their kids...

GDP is happiness.

/s just in case
Indeed. Although of course for a company like Exxon the top mgmt are probably flying private jets...

The rare times I fly first it's just upgrades due to frequent flyer status
Strange Conjecture: What if the words of or relating to "magic" in Sanskrit really meant "technological"? In other words, what if the civilization which spoke Sanskrit was really a technological civilization?
Agreed - While I have HUGE sympathy for doctors that have to deliver this kind of news, I have numerous complaints about the care and attention I get from my doctors today when they AREN'T remote - I don't see remote as really being relevant here: Attitude and behavior count for a lot more.