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All your points are dead on. I'll throw in these cons as well:

5. visibility (as noted by angrygoat) and browseability is terrible.

6. Flipping through an ebook looking for something is impossible.

7. Illustrations or drawings are rendered terribly.

The list of pros of ebooks:

1. It's just a better experience. Ebooks are lighter than their equivalent books, easy to use one-handed, fonts can be adjusted, you can carry as many as you want with no extra weight, you can search within a book, you have access with wifi to your entire library at any point in time without having to fill up a cramped apartment. Browsing for books to read is terrible, but I can browse at my local B&N and then buy the ebooks on Amazon (which makes me terrible, but what can you do).

In balance, this means that I've switched almost entirely to ebooks.

The objections that you give (1-4) are the ones that are fixable by hoisting the Jolly Roger. This a step I am reluctant to take but if point 1 keeps going in this direction, then I can't really convince myself that I can justify the cost. A literally out-of-print book [1] selling for $13 is so outlandish that it makes my head spin. A book where the e-book is twice as expensive as the paperback [2]? What on earth is going on here.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009FKTTMQ

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XT605Y
I still don't get it. CGI scripts would run with reduced privileges. The CVE description says "code executing in less-privileged child processes or threads (including scripts executed by an in-process scripting interpreter) could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the parent process (usually root) by manipulating the scoreboard"

What is the scoreboard?
How does that follow? A charismatic demagogue won against a singularly uninspiring lifetime politician, despite receiving fewer votes (because Electoral College). Money isn't the only factor, but it's still one of the largest.
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Actually, though, all the models I have seen show Asia stabilizing relatively quickly, and then start falling. This is especially true in China, which is aging very fast.

The real growth explosion is all projected to happen in Africa: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/animation-world-population-...
> I personally have lower taxes, high quality healthcare, and live in an awesome location, and I got all of that through an education and training. That is available to almost every American if they just put in the work.

I'm sure that's nice for you personally. From what I've observed, this simply isn't true for many in America, who face desperate struggles despite hard work.
You are making the argument that he makes more money than necessary just for food.

It could be that you have—in theory at least—two options:

1) Try to plant corn.
2) Kill a rhino.

There is no option here that makes exactly $3 or whatever is may be that your food need is for that timestamp.

I think he means "people got to eat" as in you need some kind of income.
Trump got billions of free media exposure https://www.thestreet.com/story/13896916/1/donald-trump-rode.... He didn't have to outspend Hillary with that kind of advantage.
I really miss forums.

Google did a really good job of indexing forums, they where a great place to find honest reviews, share information etc. Now they are dying with users spread across various services which are not publicly indexed making it hard to find interesting information, that and forum posts look to be now down ranked in Google in favor retail sites.

A few of the communities I am interested in such as outdoors, adventure motorcycling have moved to google groups. It's frustrating as the content isn't publicly searchable so you can not discover it, it's also frustrating posts are displayed algorithmically so it may pop up in your feed, you navigate away to another page then are unable to find the post again.

Facebook has been great in it's trivial to create communities but it's terrible in the sense content is only surfaced based on some algorithmic value biased around display adds.
Is running hard on the knees? I see a large number of older people running here in Portland, OR. As a runner myself, the study I’ve chosen to believe shows that running may actually be good for the knees.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/well/move/running-may-be-...
Apparently, they have 10,000 cars in transit to customers right now as part of their international roll-out. Still came in worse than the worst analyst estimates. US deliveries of the M3 also tanked in January and February after a record December. March saw an uptick, but it's still far below the December number. But this has likely to do with the end of the subsidies.
The question doesn't really make sense, because that's not what unicode is.

Unicode encodes what's necessary for printing books since about 1900 (and a bit more, but that's a fair one-sentence summary). What you want to validate isn't that you'd be able to print every kind of book printed since 1900. You're only interested in some of the alphabets, and you may be interested in more functionality than just printing. For example you may need sorting, or character input with the right sort of interactive appearance changes, or equality testing.

If you decide what you want to work, then googling usually finds a suitable test quickly.
> you don't need

technically you don't need anything to live. Maybe a roof. A cover to sleep at night and keep you warm. Food to eat everyday, and that's about it. So where you draw the line as to "crap you don't need" is going to be an interesting question. Do you need a computer/phone to post comments on HN to live?
It also seems fully wrong as far as I can tell - Telsa will not demo full self driving this month and have not said they will. Unless I missed something?
This figure makes me wonder how other car manufacturers are able to generate demand. Honda alone sells 1m+ cars per year in the US. For all the news, Tesla will likely make 400k deliveries during entire year around the world.
That's probably true, but it doesn't rebut the central thesis that travel makes one realize how not-exceptional their own country is and how people everywhere are the same.

In fact, you're kind of agreeing.
The Internet was ruined when the masses moved in. Let them have social media as their own little sandbox to play in and leave the rest of us alone. I don't use twitter, facebook, instagram, slack, discord, whatever-else-kids-use-these-days. I still use IRC and read newsgroups.
I'm unsure if you're being cheekily ironic about American stereotypes, but everything you mention as an example of "level of life" is stuff, and how stuff's bigger and better and cheaper.
What if I personally prefer to work a bit longer every day, but retire a bit earlier?
Perhaps, but this is only one narrow kind of merit and it's responsible for a disproportionately large fraction of the outcome.

Networks also have gravitational type dynamics that accrue more network influence to existing influencers, so there's a huge path dependent effect where some nodes get rich network-wise by just being lucky or first.
This was possibly expectable. But it was not expected. Per their press release:”Because of the lower than expected delivery volumes…”
I was about to comment on how ridiculous this statement is, but on second thought I’m not sure, is this a parody?
The problem is actually far deeper than just social media being mindless. The Internet as such has become a Big Bank, where anyone (and anywhere!) can put in time investment and withdraw money.

Well, you could argue that people work on the Internet. It's not a bad argument, but the problem is much deeper than this.

Every single major social network is now being used as a storefront where you can promote and advertise your personal brand and/or product. I follow a fair amount of people in Web Design and Web Dev, and over the years, many have completely annihilated any emotional connection with their audience and instead run their pages as an established brand.

Look at what happened to Quora, a site that had an incredibly promising start and I personally enjoyed writing hundreds of answers. I enjoyed it because it felt like my answers are being heard, valued, and acted upon.

These days, Quora is a hellhole, a dreadful dump of marketing garbage where people are ready to get their pitchforks whenever someone tries to one-up their "best answer".

Instagram? Holy crap! Instagram is an absolute marketing godsend. Though, some would argue it's not exactly the most appealing type of marketing. The history books of the future will be like the pornography magazines of today. If this trend continues, then this is certain.
The days when typical food and drink in Europe is better than in the US are also mostly gone. Whenever I go to a fancy restaurant in, say Frankfurt, it doesn't measure up to a comparable restaurant in my home town of Chicago (with the exception of ethnic German restaurants, which are often pretty good)

Same with coffee: Twenty years ago German coffee shops had superior coffee to American ones, but whereas American coffee has vastly improved, European shops have in general been content to remain static in quality.
Those forms are so companies can prove they do not have systemic racism in their hiring practices. afaik for some government contracts a higher % of minorities is a positive factor (as would lower bid price).
Makes sense, I guess I wonder what the stated demands were of these sensors and whether they were built to reliably meet that demand.
Absolute fantasy.
In most European countries you also have access to private healthcare that you (or your employer) have to pay for.
I wanted to see the argument, but an over a hour long video with a bad speaker is a bit more than I will invest just to see the argument. From what I could catch by jumping with 5m intervals for the first 30m of the video, it seems to focus on the medical topic of gender dysphoria on young children, and on that topic I do know a bit to say that it is an area of research where there are many questions. Doctors themselves say it one of harder medical problems to get right, in both diagnoses and treatment. For specifics, about 60% of ten age girls and 30% for boys with gender dysphoria also suffer from server psychological problems such as PTSD, trauma, server depression or autism. It takes years to diagnose. There is about 2.2% error rate when a decisions is finally made to make sex reassignment surgery and hormone treatment. An other worry sign in gender dysphoria here in Sweden is that the number of patients between 2015 and 2017 has increased by almost 300% and people are now worrying a lot that the error rate will increase as well. In recent news here in Sweden, the 2.2% error rate is seen as lost group of patients being ignored, or worse feeling pushed and harmed by the medical profession that was there to help them. A third worrying sign is that the ages are dropping. There is a medical fact that early intervention before puberty has a better response, but it must be balanced with the ethnically questions of informed consent in regard to an irreversible medical intervention.

Nothing of that is "openly hostile to trans people", but is sometimes taken as criticism of the trans movement (by whom I don't know). It is criticism of the medical system, and it is important to distinguish between the two. Similar people argue that a view of biological causes of gender dysphoria is anti-trans, while other argue it is pro-trans. Research such as that is just research, while policy decision based on it can be either anti or pro-trans.

Putting the medical and research area of those topics aside, what I am hearing is the question about restrooms and sports. On that I have very strong opinions in that all restrooms should be unisex (and cleaning should be done regularly as neither sex deserve restrooms that stinks), and sports should quantify what unfair biological advantage is so that it can be applied universally regardless if we are talking about an increased amount of testosterone or red blood cells in the bloodstream. Heritability is considered to determine 66% of athletic success, and for sports where an hight advantage exist that number increases to 80% heritability. If we pitted a baseball team of significant above height women vs a significant below average height men, I would guess the women team had a biological advantage to win the match. Those views on restrooms and sports are sadly not universal nor even agreed on by the left side of the political spectrum.
tivo, netflix, amazon prime, hulu, etc.

I don't watch network tv anymore. Well, I don't actually watch TV at all, but you get the picture.
Shouldn't that be the other way around?

You're the one making the claim that the pilots acted inappropriately. Now you're saying you require evidence contradicting your claim before you retract it?
I disagree. This is an excellent way for the author to express himself. The meaning is clear, and the author avoided cliche and in doing so ensured that I would respond freshly to the word. If he'd simply said "fuckwad" or "bastard" or some other word I read a lot, my response would have been muted. It also makes it clear to me that his feelings towards these people are raw and fresh. The author has achieved excellent communication; I can literally feel his anger towards and frustration with these people (I'm feeling it right this second, as I type), rammed into my mind with a pithy "fuckbonnets" - it's almost like a kind of emotional punctuation.

The article is much better with this.
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I found this rather satisfying answer.

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

- John Steinbeck

Are you temporarily embarrassed?

You may not realise it, but you could be a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Do you plan to someday in the future have more money? Are you concerned that your taxes are too high, because someday you might pay too much tax. Do you ride the bus only because this year you can’t afford that luxury car you’re going to have? Do you live pay cheque to pay cheque like most people just because you haven’t had your lucky break.

You aren’t rich and it’s very unlikely you ever will be. The economic and power systems of this planet are not designed for you to get rich. The American dream doesn’t exist and it never did. Stop being a temporarily embarrassed millionaire and just be a person.
Let it be noted that the US population more than doubled in the same time period (1950-2018, from 150m to 325m, vs 1.4b to 4.5b). So 215% vs 310%.
"Do you think crocheting, knitting, bingo, and dancing are honestly good things to put people to do?"

You also ignored my first and more explained upon example, volunteering. Is there a reason for that?
> Linus Torvalds Says Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram Are 'A Disease'

Well, didn't someone at Microsoft call Linux "a cancer" once? I suppose turnabout is fair play... well not exactly, but close enough! More like paying it forward.
Using polling data to vote tactically is exactly what we want to avoid and gives undue power to pollsters (and the people paying them.)
" I’ve been to the US a few times" - Clearly then you are a registered expert on the United States socio-economic system :)
"Large cars, very large houses, every product they buy is at least 20 to 30% cheaper"

Ahhh, large-ness and cheap-ness make a better living?

(Oh my. Thread answered, in a way, though.)
Good textbook links in the class description. PDFs can be downloaded.
Europe is not the example I would use to tear down myths of American exceptionalism because Europe has its own myth of European exceptionalism. Europe has a cultural context that radically diverged from the Americas: the whole 19th century was a series of bloody, pointless conflicts that made populations extremely suspicious of power and the ability to compel labor / service. In fact, I find Europe a poor comparison because the cultural values around work ethic are so different. A better analogue is South America: culturally we share a lot more values (especially around consumerism and the value of work, though South America tends to value workers) with our southern neighbors than our friends across the pond.

No, it’s when you visit the cities most Americans think of as “third world shitholes”: places like Mexico City, Bangkok, Manila, Lagos, Bogota... and you realize they have much more modern infrastructure with more accessible healthcare, better food, and more opportunity for social advancement. When you see how the quality of life is better — or at at least equivalent — in a “shithole country”, it really disabuses you of any previously-held notions that America is heads-and-shoulders above the rest of the world. We largely just trade individual happiness for a low unemployment rate and a high per-capita income (which is only high if you ignore how much more we spend on healthcare).

I’m a big fan of Factfulness by Hans Rosling. One of the most insightful things in the book is that our understanding of the situation on the ground in a far off culture is that any information we have about that place will perpetually be 10 years behind reality. This has more to do with cultural / language differences than anything; before western researchers even realize advancement is happening to know to measure it, the change has already achieved critical mass. And the pace of advancement has only gotten faster, meaning our perceptions of these places are even further behind the reality.

But if you don’t travel, you don’t see any of that. You just see what the news shows you; and that news is influenced by the sentiments of an audience comprised of people who largely don’t travel. So misunderstandings persist.
These social media are not for everyone, for some one who are introvert or not a people person or just simply don't like other people then yeah twitter, fb etc are abomination.

Social media is also a tools, good or bad, its what you make of it.
This is about deliveries, not demand. They still have a large backlog of orders, and they haven't even entered the European market yet.
Money. People can rationalize a lot given enough money. (see also: workers in the tobacco/casino/opoid industry). The average compensation at the Silicon Valley giants seems roughly 3 to 4 times that of the average American (and I guestimate about twice as high if you control for education level).
Fun game: try to find a number for how many trillion euros the EU is in debt and be amazed at how much censorship was involved in hiding the statistic.
Between ebooks and my local public library, I purged my entire personal (physical) library.
As rhimenoceros points out, that is a failure of associativity, not commutativity.
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Totally agree with this. And I lived the American dream. Immigrated to US at 11 and went to Ivy League college. The US has been good to me. It is sad to travel to Europe and China to ride high speed rail and know that there will be no high speed rail in America in my lifetime. Sad!
While it is certainly possible to give people enough money to become uninterested of working, one of the conclusions of the experiment is that the UBI version tested did not make people less efficient at seeking employment. UBI just made them happier.

In other words, not implementing their UBI version is simply a way to punish unemployed people for not having a job. You can still argue that unemployed people should be unhappy, but you no longer have any basis for saying that unhappines will make them more likely to get a job.
Because they aren't
True but a tripling of a pop in 50 years has a very large impact on the environment. That’s a lot of strain on the system in terms of resource depletion, encroachment of natural habitats, pollution, etc. A tripling of a small pop is one thing, a tripling of a large pop is another.

That said China (and to a lesser extent) India are managing their growth with the future in mind (although at times that management was particularly cruel).
Shortening my stride length was the best fitness change I made recently. Dramatically less stress on the knees, but now I have some pain on top of my ankles, which, I hope, is not-joint related. Not sure what to do about that one.

As far as the study - I don't see any actionable info there.
Like all repetitive activities, runners are prone to overuse injuries and the most common is to the knee. However, runners are still much better off than non-runners. Also, knee pain is almost always due to a biomechanical or strength issue. If you’re smart about your running (most runners, self included, are idiots about their running), you need not get injured and you’re way better off than sitting on the couch.

That said, I don’t know what happens to the knees of swimmers, weightlifters, cyclists, etc, but inactivity is the worst thing you can do.

Sorry, I just hate this very common misconception that runners are out there destroying their knees.

From https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a20850408/5-thi...

Runners don't get arthritis in their knees more often than nonrunners.

Those are the facts. Period. If anything, long-term studies have found that runners have less incidence of knee osteoarthritis. One study[1] that followed runners and nonrunners for 18 years found that, while 20% of the runners developed arthritis during that time, 32% of the nonrunners did. A large study that looked at runners and walkers[2] found that regular runners had roughly half the rate of arthritis as regular walkers. In that second study, the runners with the highest regular mileage had the lowest rate of arthritis.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556152/

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23377837