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> Austin has a compelling mix of factors that keep people moving here.

I think it has to do with it having a lot in common with certain other places but lacking certain things that make those other places highly unattractive.

80% of the upsides and 10% of the downsides at a fraction of the price of the alternative is a going to be attractive to a lot of people who can't justify the other option.
It would be odd if it were SV myopia, since I'm 1000 miles from there. In 90% of Denver Metro, your choice is Comcast or 1.5mbit CenturyLink. I just bought a house in a new neighborhood, and one of the major selling points was that both CenturyLink and Comcast offer 1gbit service. CenturyLink's service costs about 3/4 of Comcast, and Comcast's service here is already about 1/2 of what they change for gigabit in other areas that don't have competition.

Sure, Google has the search monopoly, but they don't actively squash (or try to get laws made against) any other company trying to build an alternative search engine. I use DDG for most things, but occasionally have to repeat the search on Google because its just better.

Also, my point isn't that FAANG are perfect citizens and don't need any regulation at all, its that the Telecom companies are far worse If we're gearing up enough citizenry outrage to do some monopoly busting, lets start with them instead.
Canadian dual citizens must travel to and from Canada using a Canadian passport.
Looking at you, LAX. Coming from SFO, I've spent more time in traffic getting to where I need to go in LA than the actual flight.
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There was also ... the MSX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Msx
Presumably, he would prefer the publishers' option of not having Archive.org online at all.
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As a Philadelphian, I find this odd and backwards. It’s cash only stores (Chinese food stores, corner stores, etc) that are annoying to me since I almost never have cash on hand and prefer to pay with my card. Plus I’m sure the city is bringing in far less tax revenue from cash only stores than a cashless store since there’s no paper trail with cash.
This made me think of the Chinese practice of zuoyuezi (坐月子) [0] which translates to "sitting the month" and refers to what we know as postpartum confinement in the West, and which includes a fairly strict diet for postpartum mothers.

Many women who practice this in the US will pay someone to prepare these meals for them a week at a time (they will come to your home and basically do meal prep for the week with the last few days worth going in to the freezer). There is a company in SoCal [1] that will prepare the meals and ship them to you frozen, I believe, as well.

I don't know if they're actually healthy or not but you'd hope they would be better than processed foods.

And I guess my point is that money can buy you just about anything. If you want healthy, frozen, ready-to-eat meals, they can be had for a price.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_confinement#China

[1]: https://www.postpartummeal.com/zuo-yue-zi/
Oh, I don't know if I was unclear but it can definitely do web. The mobile story is a bit more hazy (I think mainly accessed through React Native wrappers), but the web is a first class, I would argue best-class, use case for Clojurescript.

Libraries like Re-Frame[0] and Reagent[1], as well as build tools like figwheel[2] or shadow-cljs[3] are the best frontend web development tools I have ever used, and I've used Javascript, Typescript, and Purescript professionally with Angular, AngularJS, React, a big 'ol jQuery glob, and Halogen.

[0]https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

[1]http://reagent-project.github.io/

[2]https://figwheel.org/

[3]http://shadow-cljs.org/
>1) Part of the idea is to make work more pleasant, not endure a bunch of misery and then retire happily.

I never recommended spending your entire career living someplace miserable. It doesn't take very long to save up a nice amount of cash if you're working in a tech job.
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In Sweden it is not uncommon to remove shoes at work, especially when it's a wooden floor. I know we do it in my company. On the other hand in France it is very uncommon, but it is pretty usual to switch shoes when entering the office. Especially for those who have fancy shoes in Paris and don't want to get them ruined in the metro. So you take sneakers from home to work and switch to nice shining leather shoes at work.
I'm not entirely sure why the article is conflating credit with this issue. Card != credit. There are debit cards too, and you don't need credit for one of those.
I don't think the discussion to be had is "whether women working is an absolute unquestionable good thing" but rather we should be asking whether we should permit employers to continue making it so difficult to prioritizing parenting. Falling birthrates aren't a gender issue. As pointed out in an another comment below, it's an issue of financial security.
I assume the private flying crowd is doing multiple flights per year. Let's say 1 a month? That'd get to 2 orders of magnitude away.
Can you imagine how noisy everywhere would be if these became a commodity like cars? No thanks, do not want.
The population of Travis County was only 212,136 in 1960 and is now 1,226,698 so there probably aren't that many historic buildings that can't be redeveloped. I think it's probably the lack of air conditioning that kept the population low until recently.
LHR, LAX and a few others. Like I said, very few.
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Do Teams and Skype work on same stack in the background ? Why not merge them both and provide a singular interface ?
i thought that because cash was "legal tender" it was required by law to be accepted but the second paragraph disabused me of that.
If you actually use random passwords, this isn't possible. You have to pull up your password in plaintext so you can view it in its entirety and manually count to the correct character,

This partial password stuff is just utter garbage. It's lower security than a typical password, way lower security than multi-factor auth, blocks use of password managers, and is generally inconvenient for no good reason.
I found the heat unbearable only a couple of months of the year (as a native Texan) on the other hand it got cool enough that a pool requires a heater for almost half the year. :) My allergies went off the charts in Austin even compared to other parts of Texas, also the traffic if one has to go cross town is comparable to Houston, a much bigger city, since there was only I-35 going through town (versus the 360 loop which had a lot of lights)
If email was what my interlocutors used then sure. You need two people for this dance, y'know.
Nextcloud is a fork of OwnCloud, and you can integrate an online office suite with it (Callebra Online). Both can be self hosted.
Was it necessary to make $100B on it? Remember that Google started as a grad school project. Could it have continued and still been the same gift to the world? (Could it have been better?)
There are industry consortiums and partnerships and the like. Surely some of these companies could find a way to work together. And surely the U.S. with the NSA could initiate its own Manhattan Project for A.I.
This isn't a distro, but it is something at least equally complex. The company that I currently work for is a leader in our industry (I'm being intentionally vague here for legal reasons), producing very complex enterprise software for large customers. The entire company, not just the dev team, is less than 25 people.

The company has been doing this for roughly 30 years.

The size of a company is not irrelevant to what a company can do, of course, but it's also not determinative.
In the past couple years, a new legal theory proposed that the definition of monopoloy needs to be updated for the 21st century.

Instead of focusing on consumer welfare, antitrust law should focus on 'anticompetitive behavior'. In this argument, amazon is the platform through which all other online sellers go to market, like railroads in the late 19th century. Behaving as both a platform and participant is anticompetitive, regardless of whether programs like 'amazon basics' make consumers happy.

NYT article about the author of the original law paper https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/technology/monopoly-antit...

I don't have strong feelings on the issue, but this may help explain warren's stance, which isn't directly related to consumer choice.
I went to a public university, with a pretty decent scholarship, so it wasn't terribly expensive until I lost it due to the aforementioned bad grades.

I'm not sure what else they could offer; most of the information they provide isn't "forbidden"; you are welcome to go buy the textbooks and read them yourself if you wanted.
You could look at this as "CPUs are cheap, of course we can afford to leave them idle." But a more interesting angle is, "For one programmer's hourly cost, you could run 4000 CPU cores continuously. Can there really be no practical way to apply thousands of cores to boosting the programmer's productivity? What are we missing?"

For instance, couldn't https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman develop into something that makes computing worth spending on at that level?
> A signed app can be distributed from anywhere with the assurance it's the same app - it can't be maliciousified

This is only true if there is some trust in what is signing them. If anyone can get one then anyone can sign the malicious version of the app with their own key, or one they stole from someone else. The user doesn't know who is supposed to be signing the app -- and if they did then you could be using TOFU or importing the expected source's key from a trusted channel without having to pay fees to anyone.

> and if it was malicious from the start, it can be disabled.

In the same way that Defender can block it. Then the attacker makes a new version signed with a different key.

The problem with CA-based signing is that it's a garbage trade off. If you make it easy to get a signing key, the attacker can easily get more and it does nothing. If you make it hard, you're kicking small developers in the teeth.

> The non-signed up can have zillions of malicious variants which something like Defender may or may not catch.

Which is still possible with code signing. The attacker gets their own key, uses it to infect many users, then some of those users are developers with their own signing keys and the attacker can use each of those keys to infect even more people and get even more keys.

Using keys as a rate limiter doesn't really work when one key can get you many more.

> It also gets a shot of circumventing (or even exploiting) AV.

As opposed to a shot at exploiting the signature verification method and the AV.

There is a better version of this that don't require expensive code signing certificates. You have the developer host their code signing key(s) on their website, served over HTTPS. Then the name displayed in the "do you trust them" box is the name of the website -- which is what the user is likely more familiar with anyway. If the program is signed by a key served on the website, and the user trusts the website, then you're done.

The application itself can still be obtained from another source, only the key has to be from the developer's website. Then future versions of the software signed with the same key can be trusted, but compromised keys can be revoked (and then replacements obtained from the website again).

This is better in every way than paying for EV certificates. It doesn't cost the developer anything, because they already have a domain (and if not they're very inexpensive and independently useful). But the attacker can't just register thousands of garbage domains because they're displayed to the user and nobody is going to trust "jdyfihjasdfhjkas.ru" or in principle anything other than the known developer's actual website, which the user is more likely to actually be familiar with than the legal name of the developer or their company.
> ... shall not: ... Charge a higher price to customers who pay cash than they would pay using any other form of payment.

https://phila.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3710586...

Businesses are also prohibited from charging a cash processing fee higher than the processing fee of any other type of payment. Depending on how this is interpreted you could introduce an alternate form of payment that carries a high processing fee and charge the same amount to pay with cash.

Edit: Replaced joke with the technical insight it was meant to suggest due to downvote.
However, I am aware Philadelphia is a poor city, with around a 20% unemployment rate so, and many unbanked/underbanked ppl I can see the other side.
It's a really new addition to United's offerings. I flew LAX-SYD in November on a United 787 and that plane only had Economy Plus/slightly more legroom.
I'm not "dumping" on her policy, I'm dumping on her choice of targets. I'm not happy about the App Store monopoly, but I'm actually upset at Comcast's behavior in every area they do business.
It is not necessarily a bad idea, it's just one of the ideas.

IIRC Ruskin, a leading art critic in 19th century, argued that art (aka paintings) should be moral and Christian and I'm pretty sure at least a few really clever medieval and ancient guys shared the same notion (albeit their ideas of morality were probably different).

But it's not a universally accepted truth. Just one of possible interpretations I guess.
* secularists

When you remove religion of any kind, that void does get filled, and in this case worship of sex is not uncommon, harkening back to thousands of years of deeply sexual pagan practice.
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there is much more to anti-trust than just monopolies. theres a whole slew of anti competitive behavior.
When I was house hunting, 4 bedroom condos in a city basically didn't exist. Most of the ones I saw were 5-10x the price of a suburban 4 bedroom home - and that's ignoring the HOA fee, which many single family residences don't have.
This also describes NASA (sadly) and university research teams
> since there’s no paper trail with cash.

Exactly this. This is why cash is good. Anonymity.

Enjoy it while it still exists.
This means you're re-using passwords. There is zero chance that you remember hundreds of unique passwords for all the different sites you need access to. Good money says that your pattern is extremely predictable and anyone who sees one or two of your passwords has enough context to know the pattern for all other passwords.
Then why do binary patches work so well?

The additional constraint of page boundaries will kill a lot of this. But I have literally seen before my eyes, in the form of looking at binary diffs, that library changes wind up a lot smaller than we expect. So I do think it is possible.
The same factors that lead to being denied credit also result in being denied access to banking, so, sure, the problem is really for the unbanked and not those simply lacking credit, but those groups have a deep and fundamental link, not a mere casual correlation.
United always asks after I book a $200-$300 cross-country flight whether I want to upgrade to business class for another $800. While I admire their enthusiasm, somehow I always click "no."
Good for them. Cashless stuff sound cool and progressive in the short run, but it's is a horrible idea in the long run. It's a privacy nightmare and gives disproportionate power to a few middlemen entities that usually have zero obligations to anyone. Also, it's a great stepping stone towards centralized control over all transactions.
Thank you! I went into more detail in another comment in the thread, but going from one instruction set to another just felt like having more than one way to say the same thing. Every instruction was different, but the concepts and kinds of instructions were pretty much identical. Once you've seen an overflow flag and a carry flag and registers and bit shifts and memory load and store on one CPU, you'll certainly recognize them on another.

I guess Steve thought the CPUs really were different, like, say, the difference between a CPU and a GPU.
SF is still SV duh
People that would have done that decades ago have private jets now, and it's a terrible deal for the amenities offered in almost every other case.
There's a jet powered minivan that shows up every now and then to this Cars & Coffee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEZ6zqeRXiw They also have a smaller jet engine powered mini bike similar to this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybX25MjTsw
Honesty doesn't seem to be at issue here. Empathy definitely is. And while I take your point that you'd prefer an email, and I guess a degree of privacy with your own emotions on the topic, I can imagine that many people feel otherwise. I think I find myself in their camp, not yours.

@polly "bad news by email?" "hell no" "just post it on twitter"
I'm not a doctor, and I'm sure you've gotten good information. But you don't need that much sun to get your vitamin D. 15 minutes is enough for a whole week.

I've found for me personally that vitamin D supplementation helps, but my tendons/muscle attachments are still weak and injury prone unless I get some real sun.
Actual dystopia, surely?

He was referring to major flaws of the two stream, grammar and secondary modern, school system in place in the UK at the time. That it led to "an obsession with quantification, test-scoring, and qualifications". So we still inhabit it.

That two tier education was supposed to be a three stream system including technical schools for engineering and trades, except almost none of those were built. So the UK spent decades wondering aloud why our education couldn't turn out engineers and tradespeople like Germany.

Subsequent UK attempts at school specialisation have been even worse.
Only if you don't value your employee's time.
The original paper is pretty readable, the NYT article doesnt really add anything but context. https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
Wasn't Silicon Valley a bunch of orchards in 1960?
Likely for ideological reasons as Chelsea Manning was offered immunity for the testimony. The paper mentioned interestingly that Chelsea has served the longest sentence for leaking information.
The rider's orientation looks...insane.

They won't be able to see anything through the body of the thing (gotta squint at a little display to understand what the heck you're flying towards?).

All their weight is going to be on their crotch (and, like, the front part of it) or maybe their stomach.

Their neck is going to be fighting gravity in the most awful way.
It may not be the right way. We use it because some people need to hear it from a human. Given it's a fairly difficult thing to elect the method, we seem to have defaulted to humans being the best tool for telling other humans they are going to die.
Mmmm. Take a look: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/banks-have-been-fined-a-st...
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The fact that neither Vegas or Reno have become major tech hubs is confusing to me. Both are closer to the Valley (Reno is a 4 hour drive away), they're in the same time zone, and Nevada is super business friendly. That being said, Texas does have a lot more people than Nevada, which could definitely be part of the draw.
Nevermind that many students just go for buying their papers so that the party can go on. I remember boasts of this at U of T back in the day—there was even signage above shops on Yonge St offering the service. They haven't even had to leave their seats for a long time—they can just purchase them online:

2001: https://slate.com/human-interest/2001/12/how-to-buy-a-good-c...

2019: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/02/19/cheating-at-u-of-t/

Not to say it's universal, but it's rampant—the view that they're just there to pick up their ticket to an easier life. (if it's accurate, or not!)
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My company makes me fly coach. However, when booking business trips I tried to stick to one airline, and made sure to use my personal frequent flyer number I just kept raking up points until I hit platinum membership, then I can use the points to upgrade to business.
Maybe we should make your car go carbon neutral?

The percent of CO2 emissions from private jets is <1% in the US. Democracy shouldn’t be two wolves and a sheep deciding whats for dinner.
I don't know why people pay for cable or Netflix when the best three-ring circus exists in the form of Silicon Valley.

Related to discussion, Japan actually has something in this vein where you can book an appointment with someone and engage in non-sexual intimacy (hugs, etc.) I believe Vice also had an article or video on this.
Is a custodial sentence mandatory for contempt of court? Seems like the prosecutors didn't want it.
Yeah but what about GPU time? It has unfortunately become an arms race in AI and everyone who doesn work for big co is essentially precluded from making research/innovations
> Let alone in connection with Bandersnatch, which was mediocre at best.

Yeah, that one was an odd connection for me. Interactivity does change the experience of narrative media, as has been obvious to anyone playing video games for a good long while now, but it's a weird way to work one's way up to where the article takes it.

To the extent that one's empathy wanes in Bandersnatch I think it's mostly down to

(1) seeing the scaffolding behind the scenes and wanting to explore, at which point the narrative loses its power and it becomes more about poking around the various branching paths, and

(2) the limitation of choice itself as meta-level control of the viewer—those "oh god I don't want to do either thing to this person" choices are the part where the episode actually has something to say. Maybe not anything new or profound (done to death in video games, which have mined the meta-territory of player choice in narrative for years) but at least something. To me this is the part—the "wait can I do neither? Oh. I'm under control too." that elevates the episode to Black Mirror level rather than just being an interesting tech experiment. The little "ah ha".

The second part is why it's pretty easy to get into the groove of just poking around without feeling anything for the characters. It's the limitation of your choices and the high visibility of the system behind them that kills the empathy. Again, territory video games have played around in for a good long while. It's a hell of a lot harder for me to play the "bad" route(s) in some video games than others, depending on how they're structured and how good the narrative and characters are. Often I can't do it and still enjoy myself. What's interesting here is why Bandersnatch in particular isn't great at maintaining viewer/player empathy—which is likely, at least in part, intentional.
Try this one?
https://www.illusionsindex.org/images/illusions/duck-rabbit/...