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> 1) today's mass produced furniture is of significant lower quality than that of generations past. Why is it that so many industries improve over time, yet the offerings for furniture have gotten so much worse?

Let's accept this premise as true, if a company can cut corners and consumers keep paying the same price regardless, quality is allowed to suffer. Competition stops working when consumers can't tell the difference or don't bother shopping around.

> 2) the manufacturer's exploitation of asymetric information. When they know how crappy the product is, and the consumer doesn't, the manufacturer wins the transaction every time. Too many times I've felt like a sucker only a few months after purchase. Spending more money doesn't mean you get a better product, it often means I'm a bigger sucker.

Well, you do know better now, right? The asymmetry isn't set in stone. You can spend more time on research, educate your fellow peers, etc. Start a YouTube channel that becomes the top result when people look for furniture.

Perhaps people just don't care enough though, then that information asymmetry is actually part of fair pricing. There are other areas, cars for example, where there's a wealth of such information both sought after and provided.

> 3) The lack of diversity in available options. You have either low-quality department store options, or you have a super expensive individual craftsman, with nothing in-between.

Again, this reflects the purchasing habits of actual consumers. People don't care about furniture enough to pay a good price for quality work, therefore producers have to adapt to either ends.

> 4) the lack of accountability for companies that peddle crap. Example: Ikea's quality has been the butt of jokes for a long time, but consumers keep going back. This isn't the way I expected the free market to operate.

I guess your expectations were wrong then. There are many reasons for IKEA's success, the furniture quality (perhaps ironically) happens not to be one of them.

> I realize I'm probably weird in that I chose this, and it wasn't an easy, nor cheap choice, but I'd rather do it than give the department stores another dollar of my business

Don't get me wrong, I totally respect your choice and "do it yourself" attitude. You may have gotten more out of it than you paid. If it's really just about the furniture though, paying a craftsman to do the work may just be cheaper.

> I'm dissapointed that if someone else was in the same situation as me, I wouldn't have an easy answer for them.

The "easy answer" is to pay the craftsman, but people don't want to hear it because they can't (or just don't want to) pay for them.
I see, that would be amazing! Yes, it would, to give a head start:

npm i && npm run bootstrap && npm run dev:with-companion

Then visit http://localhost:3452 and it should get you a working dev environment with auto-reloads and all that jazz.
Except then it affects poor people more as consumption of things that people need makes up more of their income than the rich who have more disposable income, savings, capital and investments. Thus driving even more wealth inequality. But HN readers are more of the "Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaire" types...
The spaces is an iso standard.

Most Europeans I’ve talked to use “,” for the radix and “.” For the separator.

Personally I really like spaces since they’re unambiguous.
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Not to spoil this, but what were the reasons? Are they convincing?
Like another commenter said, the show apparently states that "justice in life is not possible" and in my opinion that is rather valid, considering what you can get away with as soon as you attain some sort of arbitrary status, as a high public office or just a lot of wealth.

I don't want to kill myself, because I get more joy out of being a constant thorn in the sides of the corrupt, but as a teenager you may well feel differently. And for good reason. I felt more helpless as a teenager as well and did at times ponder whether a strongly worded suicide note along with suicide would achieve more than anything else I could have done.

That is no longer true, but that still doesn't change that I did experience those feelings.

Isn't it more important to address this than to (as perhaps legislators may try) simply prohibit media that deal with these themes?

See the most recent scandal in the UK where a debate kicked off around whether instagram et al should allow content from people showing off their self-harm, etc...
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There's also no way that he doesn't get a massive refund at the end of the year based on his salary.
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Anki is very powerful, but Memrise is a more user-friendly option that includes ready-made card decks for most popular languages.

https://www.memrise.com/
HN gobbles up literal new lines without code blocks so either the poem would all run together or have blank lines between each line.
Maybe Librem5...we'll see.
I relate to that. As a Portuguese, I had both English and French in school. As a teen nerd learning Basic on the ZX Spectrum, English was much useful than weird french. I now regret not paying much attention to those classes.
I don't think everyone must have a website, but I do think many more people would if they realised that the cost and difficulty of setting one up are much lower than they used to be.

A personal site can be about pretty much whatever you want, and look how you want it to look. It doesn't need to be a sales pitch, or on topic all the time. It doesn't need to come top in google when you search for your name. You get to decide why you're building it and who your target readers are (if any).
"Snoopers' Charter" pretty much gave police and other civil law enforcement agencies broad spy agency-level powers.

This game was over the moment that law passed.
As a control systems engineer I have been saying this for quite a while now.

Reprocessing a little of the processed signal can have dramatic effects.

Plus the brain has waves, oscillations are generally the result of feedback that is out of phase.
I've considered rolling comments I've made here into blog posts. I'm not sure if that's a fox paws[0], though.

[0] I know. I did it on purpose.
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for what it's worth, ST_AsGeoJSON lets you specify decimal precision as an optional argument, so you at least don't have to write a truncating loop.

Another good option with many polygon geometries is Base64 encoding the output of ST_AsGeobuf -- it is many times smaller than GeoJSON and still pretty easy to handle from Javascript. (Needs libprotobuf-c on the PostGIS side and geobuf.js+pbf.js on the JS side)
synecdoche: a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society), the species for the genus (such as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (such as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (such as boards for stage)
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Sins are a social construct. Laziness is a state of being that many people aspire to, but few can realistically achieve without serious detriment.
I can't figure out how you only serve the alt-srv onion address only via the tor browser. Browsing via tor otherwise does not return that header.

I have tried mimicking the user agent and many other headers, but I cannot get CF to send me the alt-srv onion address when using tor unless I am using the tor browser.
>French is a difficult language to learn

For a native English speaker, it's one of the easiest languages to learn.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.g...
>It's just a matter on how much time you spend learning the language.

I'm not sure if you're making a personal observation that's unrelated to the specific findings in the research paper. That's fine but it may inadvertently make people think that's what the paper concludes.

The particular paper[0] says that when testing for grammar accuracy in a 2nd language, the years of experience is not as predictive as age of of first exposure. The same dropoff of learning grammar happens to immersion as well as non-immersion older learners.

The authors don't claim to know why that happens but nevertheless noticed the patterns.

[0] found a full pdf in amazon s3:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/l3atbc-public/pub_pdfs/JK_Hartshorn...
I googled and added it up (just out of curiosity) using the BOM, and total cost was ~$88USD (not counting shipping)

Also, the OS is FreeRTOS (Open sourced by AWS/Amazon in '17) if anyone is interested
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> The Internet is the single biggest repository and distributor of human knowledge the world has ever seen.

This is true, but I worry about the quality of the information and it’s longevity. We may yet lose a huge amount of information because we take it for granted that the internet will save it all, when it doesn’t. The term for this is “digital dark age”.

> If you wish to find the truth, you can.

I mean, aside from all the people learning lies. A lot of utter nonsense has found its home on the internet too.

> the problem is that ... Republican

I’m going to stop you there. While I might agree politically, philosophically this is a bad road. It tempts you to think that everything is fine if only you could defeat your political foe, which I just don’t think is true.
It sounded like you were saying "instead of using GitHub (with git obviously), you can use just git and email". My comment was basically trying to say "without a repository how will people find you, how will they catch up on recent dev, how will they view past emails, etc., unless you have a central repository of some sort".

I'm not sure how "just give people direct access to my local git" fills that massive hole, so I assumed your mention of email included implicitly something like a listserve. Otherwise your suggestion seems entirely unworkable to me?

So one of us is missing something. Are you really proposing p2p git + email alone with no other infrastructure? Do you think that's at all optimal?
In my experience, is usually the ones proclaiming moral superiority that have the most to hide (or are the most willfully blind).

There is no moral dichotomy between reps and dems, they are pretty much equally depraved from what I can tell.
That could have been checked easily in like 5 seconds of review? Yes.
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If you wanted to start one, what would be the easiest way of doing so, preferably an all static site. ?
I've been reading the comments for a few hours, and am actually amazed that this is still at the top of HN, so here goes:

I've kept a blog (https://taoofmac.com) for over 15 years, and I've derived satisfaction from it on three main counts: I like to write in general (and keep notes, and the site actually started out as a Wiki of notes covering my migration to the Mac), I like to tweak the code behind it (although new releases are now years apart), and I like the (little) correspondence that comes from people who tackled the same issues (sometimes with different solutions).

As to exposure, it was great fun in the pre-iOS days and when Mac blogs were all the rage. But professionally (and this is the bit where I think some pushback is needed) I get exactly _zero_ benefits from it, because:

- What I write about technically has (by design) nearly zero import on my work, skills or career aspirations

- LinkedIn has become the de facto "show off" (cess)pool, and although I write a few opinion pieces now and then and post them there (and on Medium), the novelty value has largely worn off

In fact, my online presence has, if anything, been a nuisance in my career moves--my currently being at Microsoft and keeping a Mac-related blog is often commented upon, for instance, and many recruiters who approach me via that route usually think I'm a developer (I also have http://carmo.io, but that has essentially zero visibility).
Servers break a lot, so no.
If you go to a high level of abstraction, you remove useful distinctions. That is not a productive line of thought. Not all income is the same, and not all expenses are the same. Excise taxes and any "nudge" tax laws make this obvious.

It is true that there are some tax deductions that are abused. However, the effect of encouraging investment by businesses is much more important.

>If you happen to be the owner of a corp you can also use those things to your individual benefit.

This could be considered an abuse. However, the benefit of encouraging investment by businesses far outweighs the negative of this abuse. We tend to focus our attention on a few big individuals who cheat, and this excessive focus throws off our moral intuitions. Heck, the gas station owner might have deducted the cost of buying a toolbox needed at the workplace, and then borrowed a wrench from that toolbox to go home and fix his plumbing. That would be fine with me, to the extent that all the damn tax paperwork stops being worth keeping track of.
That was not my experience. I went through a libertarian phase in college and wrote lots of papers that were rather contrarian. I always got "As." Of course you can't just say "the text is boring" or that "you don't see talent in it." That's a really dull thing to say. You need to be able to understand the status quo well enough to be able to articulate it on its own merits, and then go beyond that to explain why you disagree. (And that's an important life skill! If you can't articulate your opponent's argument as well as they can, you can't hope to persuade them to change their mind.)
> the difference is there are a lot more things a corp can do to reduce taxable income than an individual can do.

this is exactly it. Rental costs are deducted as expenses for a corporation, but the same rental expense cannot be deducted from income. Arguably, the cost of staying alive for a person is an expense for making the income!

To make it catagorized would be too complex though - i would propose that personal income should be average-able across that person's lifetime. I.e., if i made $1000000 in one year, i should be able to spread the income from when I first started working (and paying taxes), so that my average income per year is the same number. Then you back pay all the "missing" taxes from those years, rather than suddenly jump to the $1,000,000 tax bracket and the gov't taking 45% from you in one go.
I've been working on PDFShift (https://pdfshift.io) for a almost a year now - alone. I'm nearing 100 customers and will soon be able to make salary :)
They are sensitive because even what may seem to you like a tiny mistake, or a slight mispronunciation can completely change the meaning of a sentence or make it impossible to understand.

Broken English is everywhere, people got used to it. This is not the case for other, less pervasive languages.
Yep, this is pretty common practice. https://adage.com/article/dataworks/data-partners-tie-mobile... is a decent writeup of a few of the ad targeting providers involved.

In general, if you don't want something tracked, don't use a loyalty card, and pay with cash. The entire point of loyalty cards is to derive value from your purchase history in any way possible. And per https://ncvhs.hhs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/NCVHS-Beyon... page 4, OTC transactions do not create PHI for the purposes of HIPAA.
I think it's a fine thing to take responsibility for your government. But it's a bit much to blame people for the government doing bad things with "their" money. It's not their picture on the money. There's no unsubscribe option on a tax return form. You can't opt out, and even in our Western democracies representation is... poor, to say the least. The distinction between a government and its population is not meaningless.
You could start a search engine with data from commoncrawl, maybe you can even get other projects like archive.is to ship you some hard drives. Then you just need to build an index and serve search queries; plenty of open source search engines have been attempted, giving good Templates or even directly usable implementations.

The hard thing is distinguishing personal blogs from blogspam and other worthless content. Performance is a huge issue since you want to spend at most double digit milliseconds per page, but maybe it's getting viable with ML becoming commoditized. But getting this perfect would make or break the project.
I started learning french at 50 to be an example to my teenage son, encouraging him to learn a second language rather than playing fortnite. It is harder when you are not in french speaking area/country. Everything around us is english. I listen ici.radio-canada during commute and after 6 month in, I can understand 60-70%. But if I would be in Quebec listening french all day, I think learning would be much faster even at middle age.
I don't know if this holds in national exams or in many countries, but my teacher used to follow logical argument and would score that.

I do remember a few cases where there were outright red question marks when essentially I was trying to make elaborate con arguments.

Fortunately, we had no multiple choice questions for any of our three English tests.
> The main goal of my blog was not to be interesting or show off

That's what they all say.

Humans are social creatures and the main motivator for anyone to do anything in public is to "show off" or "be interesting". "All is vanity".

That isn't necessarily a bad thing. Without a desire to compete, impress, prove our worth and so on we'd be living in huts. But it's something to be aware of and something that should be tempered.

I think the pendulum is swinging away from modesty plus self-reflection and towards "people documenting their lives in public".
Individuals can only do this for 7 years FYI. Corporate carry forward is much longer (is there even a limit? I'm not sure. I usually don't keep my corporations that show a loss for longer than a few years before dissolving them and forming new ones).
I'm not from the US, but the republican party is always held up as the "bad guy" in these conversations. Let's not forget that the original Obama campaign was the first to really leverage social networks and online advertising to great effect, the republicans then turned around and did the same but better with Trump. When the Democrats did it, it was praised as innovative and clever the future of election campaigns, when the Republicans did it, it was apparently the end of the world and the internet should be burnt to the ground for facilitating this terrible thing to happen.
The CCCamp 2019 badge will be a (low cost) smart watch called card10:

https://gitlab.hamburg.ccc.de/card10/logix
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I think there's a right and a wrong way to run these programs. Some schools just pick a couple of outliers and make it obvious they're outliers. If you're going to group some kids by ability for some classes, do it to everyone. Yes, a few kids are really advanced. A few others are almost there. Don't make the first group so uniquely isolated at the expenses of making the second group miss out on similar opportunities entirely. I see the benefit of keeping everyone together some of the time, but I'm screaming inside when I see my daughter reading at a 3rd grade level next to kids who still don't know the alphabet, and her teacher has to keep them all in one big reading group. She has an alternative but it's strictly an addition to all her other work: which is how it was for me, so I got A's in the gifted program, and D's in my regular school work because it seemed pointless and stupid. My high school was only told about the D's so it took me 2 years to get back into Honors classes. Whoever designed that program was not gifted.

Let everyone spend some time grouped by ability. Don't just burden them with more busy work. And please make sure the teachers running special programs have a clue what they're doing to kids...

edit: Furthermore, I always thought it pathetic that I went from being a very average student in 2 other countries, moved to America and was suddenly seen as a gifted genius who was years ahead of my peers in math and science. I've obviously never seen it that way - I think kids are capable of for more than the American school system expects of them, but their intellectual growth is being stunted at a very young age.
When back in the early 00's the UK wanted to introduce a picture ID card, there were huge protests across the country that resulted in the scheme being shelved indefinitely. It took the UK years to even introduce a picture driving license (you might have seen the "counterpart" old driving licenses which were in use until very recently. They were a single A4 sheet with no picture on it).

How ironic that despite the continued protests against picture ID cards based on privacy concerns, the UK is the most watched country based on the number of CCTV cameras per square mile, and now this.
Australia would like to argue this point, but the latency of our replies would make it seem like they're coming from the late 1990s.
> Dose of reality: test makers are for-profit organizations

The College Board, the maker of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams, is a not-for-profit organization. While the test in question the author refers to is the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR), it is factually incorrect to say test makers are for-profit organizations.
You can work on very interesting things remotely, but it takes time/effort to find them & secure them. If you build a superstar profile, even conventional FAANG companies are willing to give you remote work for longer periods of time.
You get a personal exemption and a standard deduction for your living expenses. Yes, it's unfairly low compared to Jeff Bezos's deduction for his Gulfstream plane and executive cafe.
You can carry forward capital losses.

Theoretically, this is appealing - practically, I see a lot of problems
Only if you set up a corporate tax shelter for yourself.
Jokes are like code. If you have to explain then it's probably not very good. ;)
And how did we end up with those loopholes?
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A doctor has to mostly always treat common cold, and influenza. But that's no excuse for her / him to not know the purpose of the left pulmonary vein. The more basics they know, the better doctors they are.
Sorry if this analogy is a bit extreme, but I want to make a point.