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> The point of a minimum wage is exactly to stop the those desperate for work to work for less than a living wage.

I'm fascinated that people can see this far, but can't see that if you stop people's best way out of this¹, they're in an even more desperate position.

¹ The sub minimum wage job that they'd take if allowed
> most places go for less than 60% of list price

As of today, maybe. But we had to endure several years of inflated prices. It's hard to not correlate the inflation directly to the government's monetary policy.
I totally agree. Monopolies are destructive. Markets to work with monopolies; there is no competition to allow for optimal price discover that matches supply and demand. I am just reacting against the urge to blame monetary policy and government itself. I find this to be a common response that keeps being disproven and yet doesn't go away.

I am definitely not a fan of Uber, Amazon, and the like. I really don't like this model that is being pursued in much of SV. I understand Peter Thiel and others reason for wanting monopolies; it is rational from the perspective a firm and investors, but it is highly irrational from the perspective of that firm within society, and an investor as a citizen within a country. The more monopolies exist the smaller the economic pie will be over time. The more they concentrate resources to extract outsized profits, the less space there is for innovative startups. The more they abuse pricing power, the less customers they have.
> having your travel plans ruined.

Or in the case for a lot of workers on visas in the valley: Lose your job. They deny entry, put you on a blacklist that guarantees the same treatment every time you try to re-enter. You either comply or you are effectively banned from the country.
Almost all of them. They manage their portfolios like most other large fund managers albeit with a slight preference towards lower risk assets to ensure their short/medium term pension obligations are met, but they will almost always have an alternative investment bucket which VC will be a part of. They're also not interested in doing direct investments, so they'll diversify their early stage risk by investing in a couple of the more successful, established VC funds who spread the bets for them.
it would be fun to take a trans-siberian rail ... except it takes like what ...7 days? eats up vacation time pretty quickly.
Yeah. There is also the element of how being philanthropic isn't 'cool' as it might be in the US. The article specially notes the problem of how the are no economic incentives to do so, unlike the US and China.
My interpretation was also they didn't trust the charities/groups weren't embezzling the money.

>So, for instance, a non-profit that works to improve sanitation could use donor funds to build toilets, hire more people or even buy a laptop or other equipment that might make them more efficient. But most donors, Mr Bhagwati says, will set conditions about how they want the money spent. In other words, they will insist on the toilets being built. He calls this "restricted giving" and says it's hard to coax people to give any other way.
Playing a vertical game of football underwater would be very difficult, and likely hazardous.

1. As anyone who's gone diving will attest, you physically can't dive very quickly. You have to constantly equalize your ears as you descend to avoid pain. This would limit how fast you can go down. (Especially at shallower depths, where the effect is more pronounced.)

2. At deeper depths, you'll quickly hit your no-decompression time limits. At 40 meters depth, you only have 8 minutes of no-decompression time. And that's if you don't run out of air first.

3. Recreational diving is usually limited to 130 feet / 40 meters - and that's with extra training. At deeper depths not only does nitrogen have a narcotic effect, but oxygen quickly becomes toxic. A 100 meter dive is well within the realm of technical (not recreational) diving and would require special breathing gas and careful planning.

4. Rapidly going up and down, like you'd need to play a game of football, is recipe for giving yourself the bends. You need to ascend slowly. (And again, that's assuming you haven't exceeded your no-decompression time.)

On the other hand, you could play a horizontal game just fine. You're practically weightless underwater (at neutral buoyancy), so the game would be the same the same either way. (For Ender's Game fans: "The enemy's gate is down.")
I won't stand for it myself.
Are you talking about a turn coordinator? That doesn't show "down." The sum of forces acting in a coordinated turn will keep the ball centered even though the airplane is banked.

Also I'm not sure what you're talking about with using the real horizon as a backup to the artificial horizon. It's not meant to be a redundant setup. Artificial horizons aren't required for visual (looking outside) flight, and relying primarily on the instruments in visual flight is an error.

In clouds/poor visibility, the cross-check for the artificial horizon is provided by the other flight instruments: airspeed, altimeter, turn coordinator, vertical speed indicator, and directional gyro (or their equivalents on an electronic display).
What's wrong with Apollo?
Well, i’m not a web dev, but as a long time fan I may offer some personal opinion on this. First, who visit these sites? Nowadays fans just follow twitter and Instagram for related info, and would-be sponsors have no reason to take a look at sites looking for interest. This is such a small field with huge public info availability no body needs info from web site to relate. The only time I tried to visit team website is to shop some fan stuff. I guess the teams also know this so they can’t care less
Moving on from Rails and What’s Next
Is there any email client that supports bundles like Inbox did?
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I think we need to promote startups and companies in general that are built on public decentralized protocols. Breaking up monopolies without having the public platforms available could just lead to other technopolies popping up to replace the old ones.
This exists on iOS as well.
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You can also remove the top tabs (Social, Promotions, Updates) which are mostly advertising and have "get back to our website" emails.

Lot of forums have moved to Facebook now, so that tab is also sort of obsolete.
Is there another method to measure wind direction, that doesn't involve a small physical winglet?
Main question for me is, why doesn't it use gyro meters for figuring out a rough approximation of AoA? So it would only kick in if gyro is above a certain boundaryb and the air speed sensor is below threshold. Then double up both the gyros and the air speed sensors, if anything disagrees give errors instead of activating. Even outside of aviation I find it incredible how naive the current design is.
You're not comparing hybrid against diesel-electric, you're comparing hybrid against fully electric. The cost of putting batteries in your rolling stock might or might not be higher than electrifying the last 5%. Either way, it's small compared to the cost of electrifying the 95%.

Note that the eastern seaboard (with its bridges and tunnels and topography) is getting electrified; the long and flat midwest is not.
Agreed; most of the blame is on those third party sites.

Further, Google's own browser, Chrome, will not stream above 720p Netflix(and maybe Amazon now). So at most Google is a lesser DRM god.
Why would a browser or extension client side not be better? Adding an intermediary would add latency needlessly...
a) Taxing workers to give non-workers free homes in premium markets violates most voters' intuitions about fairness.

b) Restricting internal migration or treating people from certain places preferentially also violates most voters' intuitions about fairness.

If American democracy is to end homelessness, anyone must be able to move to New York/San Francisco and immediately obtain a home there that neither they nor anyone else pays for.

Holding out for this doesn't seem like a good plan.
Linus’ view on anonymity was surprising to read. I’m not sure I agree with him on that but his view on social media being a platform for the lowest common denominator sure seems agreeable.
The opposite of monopoly is diversity, and in genetics, the opposite of diversity is inbreeding.
I dont know why anyone with any commonsense still uses Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. They're completely uncontrolled nonsense that I wouldn't trust with my email address. Let alone my phone number.

Call me crazy or socially inept, but I value privacy.
The problem with this idea is the "identical" aspect of each redundancy. If it's identical, then it will likely suffer from the same failure mode at the same time as the others. In the case of the AoA freezing, that's exactly what happened.

A more robust idea is to have three redundant subsystems, each different.
Surprisingly to me the author of "down and out in the magic kingdom" and the maintainer of BOINGBOING supports web DRM and he's part of the W3C committee. he's a great author and a good person with an anti-authoritarian bent I don't understand his position on this.
> Lingua, the prominent linguistics journal, where the entire editorial board resigned and started the Open Access journal Glossa

In case any readers aren't aware, "lingua" is Latin for 'tongue'/'language', while "glossa" (γλῶσσα) is Greek for 'tongue'/'language'. (We also have English words that come from the Attic dialect form "glotta" (γλῶττα); for Ancient Greek dialectal variation between σ and τ, see https://lucianofsamosata.info/TrialInTheCourtOfVowels.html.)
Github is actually a great example - i think it's getting better gradually, but for a lot time it was really obvious that it was server-rendered pages with a few ajax calls sprinkled in to do small things like update the status when the tests finish. And it led to all kinds of weird edge cases and unpredictability, some things would live update, other things you need to do hard refresh to see the latest version, sometimes when using the back button it would reload the original version of the page before the ajax calls had succeeded so you'd see old data.

Clearly it wasn't bad enough to drive everyone off the platform, but there's no way you'll convince me that that was a better system that a well-written SPA built with modern tools.
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Tim Berners-Lee's Google-funded $1M Turing award sure smelled like a payoff to me. If it wasn't, the timing sure was convenient.
Yes, look at this page - https://mprove.io/docs/blockml/fields/measure.
You need to specify measure "type" and "sql_key" that will be used to avoid counting duplicates.
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The courts have ruled that if someone makes a request under threat of physical violence or death, it is impossible to consent unless of course the person making the threat in law enforcement.
Vegans are an opinionated bunch.
I value privacy as well, but I use Twitter for public things. To me it's not much different than having a public blog that data companies could scrape and store.

Facebook and Instagram feel different to me just because people tend to use them in more personal ways. But, again, if you plan to make the data public anywhere it can always be gobbled up by spiders and three-letter agencies.
As much as I dislike what Instagram “is”, it is pretty much the best platform for (non-public) photo sharing. If there was something better, I’d use it, but there is not.
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i know the US gives tax deductions for charitable giving. i don't know how this works in China. what are the incentives in China?
No. If they find someone important they just let him go with an apology. Penn Jillette fought them years ago and refused their apology; it went nowhere.
Off topic, but for those looking for DRM-free bookshops, check out this list maintained by Libreture [1]

Personally, I never buy DRM encumbered books. I started buying from Fictionwise, then moved on the Weightless Books. I also only buy non-DRM books from Google Play.

[1] https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/
Why are operating systems built on C, though?

C actually has merit, that's why.

1993 Donald Knuth interview: http://tex.loria.fr/historique/interviews/knuth-clb1993.html

"I think C has a lot of features that are very important. The way C handles pointers, for example, was a brilliant innovation; it solved a lot of problems that we had before in data structuring and made the programs look good afterwards. C isn't the perfect language, no language is, but I think it has a lot of virtues, and you can avoid the parts you don't like."
Yeah, but I get the feeling that it's more of a way to ensure that you probably get at least two components that will 'burn in' well and hopefully not fail too early:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

Like, you don't expect them to last forever, but you do expect at least 2/3 to meet their lifetime estimates.
That's funny, I usually hear Ruby referred to as "the good parts of Perl" (and Google searches for those phrases suggest the same[1]) -- there's no sigil conjugation, objects are first class, and there are fewer magic variables/idiomatic usages of magic variables. I agree with the author that 2.7's new block syntax is a step in the wrong direction (and that safe navigation/method reference are a little uglier than they need to be), but I think Ruby has otherwise done an exceptionally good job of taking the best parts of Perl and combining them with the best parts of Smalltalk.

[1]: I only get 1 Google result for "the bad parts of perl" and about 1000 for "the good parts of perl".
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Genuinely curious: how long have you been doing web development and what technologies were you using before you found yourself absolutely needing React and co?
Won't happen until Donald Trump's justices retire.
I am not surprised. When do we start to consider the possibility that the software was compromised?
I'm disheartened by the power wielded by so few in the American King Making Machine called the Silicon Valley.
Can you provide a single problem where the right solution space is blockchain? Ive thought about this a good amount, and cannot come up with a single use case where current established centralized technology is not a better solution.
I really hope VCs do the right thing by the environment and stop supporting any crypto company that involves the sort of excessive Bitcoin type mining we've seen today.

Whatever problem they supposedly solve does not outweigh the staggering impact to the planet.
I'm not sure that is true (all laws are about contracts), but your comment suggests an indifference
to the notion that laws should be evaluated based on how burdensome they are to individual liberty.

My comment was intended to illustrate that minimum wage laws not only restrict employers but they also restrict workers. The rationale for these laws is necessarily built upon the assumption that individuals are incapable of determining what is in their own best interest and must be forcibly prevented from making unwise decisions regarding their own employment. The government's centralized one-size-fits-all solution represents an infringement on individual liberty and individual rights, the exact opposite of the proper role for government.
It sounds like he just re-discovered that a Moore machine is simpler to implement than a Mealy machine.
Dear Lord I hope it's 2017 all over again :)
The Economist is skeptical:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/03/28/f...
Things like this which they only just introduced and you didn't know about until this article?
Another way would be to stick a tab in the slipstream, and measure the pressure on its leading edge and both sides. Or just put a strain gauge on the mount of the tab and measure the bending forces (and this would have no ports to freeze or moving parts to jam). I bet there are lots of ways.

P.S. I bet you could even put a strain gauge on the wing spar to measure the bending force on the wing, couple that with other inputs like airspeed, and come up with a reasonable AoA value.
Seconding this request. Whenever I ask a crypto bull this question directly they just call me an idiot without providing any actual examples.
I’m a huge fan of all the features this person is complaining about.
Illegal stuff?
You're right, it's not synchronous! I looked back at our development notes and it seems like we were seeing about 15 minutes, generally, between creation of the manual invoice and finalization/payment. But that was using our test, not production Stripe API keys, and was a fairly small set of anecdata. I don't have better data because we ended up not rolling out any features that required manual invoice generation.
I don’t disagree. We need to get money out of politics. It’s been done before. It can be done again.
I have also thought about this a good amount, and the answer is any place you want a market. Markets are a very interesting thing, and when they exist all sorts of things happen, but especially real time price discovery.

What digital assets enable are markets around digital goods. Software can be funded and operated using new tokens specifically for that project. I believe it can be one solution for financing and creating real gains from open source.
Handshake.org decentralizes the root zone and obsoletes certificate authorities. Basically, it lets you register new TLDs that are censorship-resistant, seizure-resistant, and tamper-proof.
Actual real, obvious, explainable, practical applications of crypto and blockchain will help legitimize the industry.

Something seems so so wrong with the notion that, "aww shucks, we just need more VC attention! And then we'll become a real boy!"
I didn't read it as demeaning. I would respectfully like to posit that perhaps you haven't fully thought through what makes EN and its ilk different.

Yes a full text search and wiki linking interface would get a fairly large chunk of the essential functionality done. But there are MASSIVE gaps there. For one, a wiki is a web interface. Those are slow and suck on mobile. I've yet to see one that doesn't. Attaching media is painful. Theres no web clipper support. You'll have to roll your own infrastructure including backups. Capturing anything outside of a traditional desktop context is going to suuuuuck. Capturing TEXT is a fairly trivial problem. So much of what I capture in a given day is much more than that. I regularly scan documents and use EN to manage a paperless office for instance. You can do that with a wiki I suppose but it's more friction than is worthwhile IMO.

If you practice GTD like me, you need a trusted repository for capturing your thoughts, items, todos, etc. It should be fast and easy and available everywhere. Thats The value prop that EN brings to the table. No matter what it is you want to capture and store, no matter what platform, they have a way to quickly and easily do it. You can even email notes right into it (they give you a special email address) which I use for things like tech newsletters and stuff. So while you are right that notes apps have been around, its the little things that really make the difference here.
Boeing didn't panic at the NEO, their biggest customer(s) like Southwest wanted something ASAP that was competitive with the NEO. Airlines like EasyJet, Ryanair, and Southwest built their entire business on flying exactly one type. EasyJet with the A320 family and Ryanair + Southwest with 737. Southwest flies around 700 737s currently and retired their 737 Classics when it became clear that the FAA wouldn't sign off on pilots being rated on the Classic + NG + MAX at the same time (instead it Classic/NG or NG/MAX). You can build a profitable airline on a diverse fleet (look at Delta, they fly almost anything imaginable), but that's not where Southwest is now and it's an expensive road to diversify.

There's a nasty rumor that Boeing agreed to pay Southwest $1 million per plane if additional training was required. That's a lot of money just on the Southwest contract. If any other airlines (e.g. Ryanair) demanded similar that's a huge chunk of money.
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Mandate truly electronic record portability by making a common format, designed by a comitee of stake holders (doctors, EHR companies, etc). All EHR systems have to be able to massively import and export records from and to this format, by law.

Reducing the friction to swap providers should give a good jolt of energy to the industry (reducing moats encourages new competition)
why not payments...which is what bitcoin was founded to do (though perhaps has moved too much into store of value territory)
Agreed that markets are very interesting, and agreed that real time price discovery is a thing that happens in markets...

But I still fail to see how blockchain is relevant here? A centralized system for managing supply and demand equilibrium through dynamic price changes seems like the best system here.

I do not feel as though have answered my question - would you mind expanding on your answer?
The entire technology stack the modern Internet is built on exists because Stallman clung to his dogma, how's that for "presumed benefit"? Stallman isn't the world's smartest person or best programmer or even a particularly gifted organizer. His superpower is his fanaticism. And it worked.
I saw one of the CompuServe PDP-10 clones running at VCF West last year in Mountain View! It's this one on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CvBwt5nfg
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Good to know. For some reason I just kind of hate the UI. Thats my primary reason for not using it. MS apps just look like garbage to me. Personal taste thing tho.

OneNote is the only thing I've seen that pretty closely matches EN in features. Its missing the email to inbox feature that EN has (unless they've added that since I last checked).