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I believe the point is that when autonomous vehicles are allowed on the road then those companies can undercut Uber's cost by whatever % they pay their drivers (≈40%?).

It's more of survival for Uber to get their own autonomous driving technology than it is an alternative business model. Without it they'll get priced out of the market.
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Based on past events, likely some pun or other spin on the word "recession" or "apocalypse". I've begun to think that if the media doesn't try to make up a new word or otherwise get you to laugh, it's not yet that big of a story.
I'm not sure if 'hoarding' such knowledge would be practical.

Sometimes, having a limited toolset would better focus you on the problem at hand. Then, once the challenge is clarified, the search for alternative ways to architecture and implement it would become practical.

If just for fun of exploring something new, pick whatever interests you in general, language, framework, a domain. Async processing and idioms?
But then it will not be a problem of business greed and stupidity... it will become a "national security threat", which will require more taxpayer money to solve, and of course may lead us closer to a war with whatever countries remain to be invaded by this immoral government. And "poor" JD will be just a victim of this vile threat "against us all".
There's also the "number of purchases * purchase price" equation which means you can make more money by reducing price if it means (enough) more people by the product, or buy more of them.
If anything, it is free advertising. Not sure why they would be bothered.
Yes. If you buy in the app and consume in the app, Apple wants their 30%.

That's why you can watch videos in the amazon prime video app, but you can't rent or buy movies there. You need to rent or buy the video on Amazon.com, then you can watch on the amazon video app.
Google News has no concept of 'agree with' it simply tries to find a news result based on what it thinks you want to see.

There are no politics baked in.

Google news will display what its users want to see.

Your issue is not with Google News. Your issue is with the users of Google news.
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190513170015/https://blog.evja...
I always wonder if people take into full consideration this gig-economy reskin of commercial driving or not. I maintain a CDL for work I perform at a large truck service center and its involved. Do "amazon drivers" or "uber drivers" even have a commercial drivers license or insurance?

- do they receive regular CDL related physicals that are required by DOT?

- do they receive an automatic drug screen after an accident?

- do they perform the pre-flight check on their vehicles before getting underway?

- are their vehicle logbooks and inspections current? can they produce them if pulled over?

- do they maintain acccurate weight, and accurate logs of vehicle maintenance?

being a commercial driver is much, much more than just clicking "yes" on amazon and hoping for the best.
I’m not OP, but I’d still argue that was meant as a joke. OP was riffing on the media’s sudden overuse of debacle.

Now there’s your comment. You missed the point and chose to tell OP they seem less credible and intelligent? That’s not very kind and frankly, people remember kindness far longer than pithiness.
The IBM XT was released in 1983. What's changed since 1983? A lot, actually. If you look at home appliances, the savings in energy usage have been substantial[1]:

> For example, the average refrigerator manufactured in 1981 consumed 1,278 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy per year and those manufactured [in 2013] consumed only 454 kWh of energy per year – a decrease of 64.5%! Similarly, the average energy consumption for clothes washers has declined by 73% since 1981, for dishwashers by 54.7%, for freezers by 49.4%, and for room air conditioners by 45.7%.

Adjusting for inflation, a 24-inch dish washing machine that cost $359.88 would cost $1,057.09 now. Instead, a low-end dish washer can be had for roughly the same cost. It will use less water, less energy, it will run quieter, and it will get the dishes cleaner with less pre-rinsing on the part of the user.

And what about cars? In 1980, the average fuel efficiency of a new passenger car was 24.3 miles per gallon, compared to 37.7 miles per gallon for a new passenger car in 2016.[2] They also emit less pollutants. And most people, if you let them test-drive the most well-maintained 1980s Toyota Camry and a 2019 Toyota Camry, would absolutely chose to drive the latter.

TVs have vastly more pixels, come in bigger sizes, are lighter and take up less space, can get more channels, broadcast TV takes up less of the available spectrum.

The Motorola DynaTAC cell phone came out in 1984. It cost, in 2019 dollars, over $10,000. Modern cell phones are smaller, modern cell phone networks are better, the phones are cheaper, and they also have more computing power in them than a whole shipping pallete of IBM XTs.

All of those advancements are as a result of complexity. All of that complexity makes these goods harder to repair without specialized tools and training. We didn't get duped into buying things that are harder to repair. We did it because the newer things tend to be _better_ in a lot of ways.

1) http://www.aei.org/publication/when-it-comes-to-home-applian...
2) https://www.bts.gov/content/average-fuel-efficiency-us-light...
Your IDE, its refactoring tools, but especially its debugger.

VSCode or PyCharm (assuming you are still a Python developer) could be a good place to start. I'm always surprised when I see professional developers coding in Sublime Text and debugging with print statements (or their equivalent). Usually you have better options than that, especially for statically-typed languages - but even for JS and Python.
> I don't know anyone that wants to fix their phone

Oh, and I forgot to mention [below] that where possible I do fix my smartphones. At the moment I have on order a new power sub-board for my thl T9 Pro smartphone and I've also a dispute with Motorola over the bootloader on its G6 Plus phone being locked as I want to root the device and change the OS. [I've the official access code to unlock the bootloader but a bug's preventing me from doing so.]
It's worth expanding on this. Because I think it gets lost in the rhetoric, whether deliberately or by accident.

A profit-maximizing firm sets prices that maximize its expected profit. This seems tautological, but it's important and I think it's implications aren't appreciated.

If your prices are already beating the competition, and you already have a solid reputation for low prices, there is no incentive to continue lowering prices, even as you cut costs. This is why monopolies are considered "bad", because they eliminate incentives for firms to care at all about the welfare of consumers.

In undergrad economics classes, you might learn that prices are set equal to marginal cost (including opportunity cost). But that is only true under specific and relatively strong equilibrium conditions, which I don't believe apply to Amazon.
Why do you need to save messages 1 to 2 years old?
Any insight on how you went about finding a competent doctor for this?

After watching this video, and almost being moved to tears with how accurately everything in it described my life, and seeing your comment about being better off with treatment, I am convinced I should finally try something.

I too have been able to cope, but I would love to live beyond just coping and I am realizing it is only shame and pride stopping me from getting help, and fear that meds could make me worse or I couldn't find a good doctor.
A Boeing 747 costs $200k USD in material and labour costs to repaint
I'm a person who understands things best visually. For me the bubble chart was pointless but the bar chart is very useful.
I really wonder why he ended up deleting the post.

Edit: It's back up again.
Are you made that they didn't leave open the possibility that she was Australian, a Kiwi or an Afrikaner?
Not everyone has the opportunity to be CEO. I value this persons recount of his experience but does anyone have tips to be successful that are more down to earth.

For example I heard emergency room doctors are really good careers for those with ADHD.
> Yes there are a multitude of media outlets on the internet which the citizenry can use to educate themselves. Are there moral hazards when the majority of the citizenry arrive at one or two doorsteps in-spite of the multitude of alternatives? What is the risk if what's served from that doorstep is detrimental to the republic?

As it turns out, we have figured a lot of this out. It turns out that a good way of deciding what is worth people's attention is to treat a link as a vote. We shouldn't be surprised or alarmed when that surfaces a few main choices, as most of everything is crap.

However as happens in almost every sphere of life, there's a good chance that the good stuff rises to the top (that would be that meritocracy that right wingers say they're fond of). Outranking the BBC for news is hard - it should be.

What its not for you to decide - even if you do suddenly start to decide to write in the style of John Stuart Mill - is that you like some ideas better than others and that you want to start forcing things on people that they neither want nor asked for in the name of 'balance'
Supreme Court ruling could threaten Apple’s 30 percent app commission
the thing is that a company can take on another customer without repercussion, or employ someone else to do the job. This is what people always fail to understand when discussing contracting v employment. As a contractor, if I get bored of the work, I can hire someone else to do it. Try explaining to your employer that you've hired someone else to do your job for you.
There Is a Handbook for Life
A contractor is a business,
Something that is sometimes pointed out about holes in spacecraft is that you don't lose air as fast as movies would imply. After all, the pressure difference between inside and outside is only 1 atmosphere.

For instance, if a micro-meteor created a bullet-sized hole in the International Space Station, it would take 5-10 minutes for the air pressure to drop to 0.5 atmospheres. The kilometers-scale space colonies described here would take much longer. More than enough time for some drone to patch it, or for the inhabitants to get to "life boats" or some sort of shelter.

I think the important part, then, would be to design the shell such that damage in one part can't spread too far.
Exactly—people need to know that there’s a spectrum of farmers, and they’re all very different. For instance, big commercial grain farmers like to convolute themselves with the family farmer when protesting laws that affect their bottom line. Things like proper buffering laws to preserve water quality aren’t going to affect anybody but the big conglomerates that want to abuse every square inch of their land for profit.
I use Org. It's part of Emacs, which you may consider either a dealbreaker or a feature.

While Emacs itself does not really work on mobile (unless you run it in a terminal), there is a companion app for Android called Orgzly. Unfortunately it is quite limited. For example, it does not support tables. (Since Org files are plain text, you can view and technically edit them, but the latter is a pain.) It's good enough for taking quick notes so you don't forget them and to look at existing ones.

For syncing, I use Syncthing, which works flawlessly. Conflicts have to be resolved manually though. Orgzly also has built-in support for syncing via Dropbox. I've never used it as it involves manually pulling and pushing to the server as in a VCS rather than working in the background.
Right now they have no need to lower prices. They can hold their lower production costs as a threat to any competitor who might be tempted to enter a price war, without ever needing to actually lower their prices.
Yes, they're loyal to whoever pays more and has more work. Slapping Amazon deliveries on top of Uber pool would mean more work and better unit economics, which should ideally translate into more money for the drivers.
Why are the tractors any different from cars? If I buy a car, I can do anything aftermarket to it I want. If the car is in warranty, those mods do not allow the manufacturer to not continue to support it (well established case law), and the EPA doesn't care once it's been sold (individual states like CA might have issue, but those are with the owner, not the manufacturer, if it's been modified).

This is all well-settled in the automotive world, why is JD 'different'?
The economy is not a zero-sum game, nor are corporate profits. Increases in productive efficiency create objectively more wealth overall, and those benefits diffuse out to every socioeconomic class (the classic conservative snark that even poor people have cars, refrigerators, and air conditioning, living better than medieval kings in many ways, is not inaccurate). We are living in an era where megacorporations and their related efficiency gains will rapidly increase the "standard of living" for a population which is (nonetheless!) going to get more miserable over time.

Stepping past the "zero-sum" claim, though, I agree that corporations should take responsibility for their incredibly powerful role in modern society, but I don't see a mechanism by which this could happen. The entire point of a regulated liberal democracy is to create a legislative landscape which modifies the incentive structures of businesses to "coerce" them into providing more social benefit than cost.

There is also nothing wrong with some level of redistributism, as long as it doesn't blindly ignore economic reality (a la communism). Many of the right-leaning nerds here on HN are in favor of universal basic income for that reason.
Thermal printers are the ones where the text becomes invisible over time I believe.
They should be outlawed as a way of providing anything of record.
My credit union gives them as their way of giving you your statement.
If it helps, IMO "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" is a better bang-for-the-buck. Enterprise-scale applications are a world unto themselves.
Totally fair point.

But, not at all an answer to my question. To you, does my question about Nim seem out of line?
> These are all benefits for John Deere.

Yep, that was my point in posting. It's usually good to hear both sides of things.

> Yup, DRM and platform lock-down (machinery is a platform??) increases profits

Reducing manufacturing costs is not the same as increasing profits. They're not a monopoly, they still have to set prices according to the market. This allows them to price things lower.

> "Platform flexibility" is nothing more than the ability for JD to lock out capabilities of the machinery that the farmer supposedly bought, and sell it as an add-on later.

Do you think that when a farmer spends 100k they don't know what they're buying? I don't know what you mean when you say they 'supposedly' bought it. They order a tractor, customize it, and buy it. It allowes them to get a tractor at a lower price point and upgrade as needed
I also like to ask what tool does the team use that the interviewer personally doesn't like, a different way around, whats the worst part of your job.
Most "profitless" tech companies do just fine on the public markets as long as they show consistent revenue growth. Take a look at multi year charts for HubSpot (HUBS) and Twilio (TWLO), for example.
Eugene Volokh is a lawyer and I am not, but I feel he is hairsplitting here. Regulations written to implement acts of congress are considered "regulatory law" and can be litigated in criminal, not civil court; you can be arrested for violating them etc. They swim, fly and quack like a duck.
Eh. There’s no such thing as “chocohol” or “workohol” but you know what chocaholic and workaholic mean.
What did you mean with the following paragraph then?

> Let's consider two independent rolls, X and Y. You can't compute the joint distribution P(Y, (X|E)), it just doesn't make sense as the two "variables" are defined over different spaces.

Do you agree that you cannot compute the joint distribution P(Y,X) either because the two variables are defined over different spaces?
I understand that completely. The way to hold companies accountable is to increase taxes on them, or increase regulations.

Companies solve to a given tax burden and regulatory regime. Their solutions can be influenced by changing the rules or the rewards.

Personally, I find it likely that no amount of regulation will solve the problem of creating employment opportunity for low skill workers. I think that we either need to create those jobs through the government (e.g. WPA, CCC, etc), or raise taxes to improve the amount of dollars spent supporting underemployed people, or investing in the skills.
Lowering costs gives a business the possibility of cutting prices, for example to try to increase market share. Whether they take it or not depends on the situation. But Amazon often does.
Active vs. Passive Mindsets
I don’t think you need an academic paper for everything
Yeah, one of Bezos’ oldest mantras is “Your margin is my opportunity”.
it's down for me.
patent-driven own goal.
> I think it's an hypocrisy issue primarily

It's not. It's game theory; it's simple mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem

The effect of any one person being "non-hypocritical" is minuscule. Effects will only significant en masse, and defectors must be punished, because it's profitable to defect. That means some mechanism to keep people in line must be used - and in our world that normally means the state. So agitation for political change is the correct approach.

Moral systems are another way of enforcing group will against individuals that would otherwise find it profitable/ to defect. Shaming works more efficiently in locally connected societies, though, and it's hard to scale it up to this kind of global problem.
Caching, logging, centralized configuration, Security, and Design Patterns are all probably easy to overlook.
> This is something engineers like us could easily afford in our personal lives

This is a clue on why just carbon tax won't do. An extra tax would hit the people who're most economically stressed while the top 10% will continue living their lives as is. Any tax on carbon should be accompanied with a negative tax or UBI for the low income earners. Moreover, since 50% of emissions are done by the top 10% income earners [1], there should ideally be a higher income tax which should direct go into funding R&D of carbon capture systems.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/extreme-carbon-inequality
That’s only true if you run a real business. If you do delivery for amazon or drive for
Uber most likely your margins are too low to hire someone and I would expect them to have something in the contract that forbids this.
> with the help of my wife (I'm terrible at making appointments!)

It's so, so helpful to have a partner who can help with actually getting an appointment set up. I found it to be one of the hardest parts of the process of getting diagnosed, and probably wouldn't have gotten through it without help from my wife.
Before you continue... Yahoo is part of Oath. [...] Select 'OK' to continue and allow Oath and our partners to use your data, or select 'Manage options' to view your choices.

More Oath BS, where Manage Options leads you on a merry dance and does absolutely everything except allow you to manage any options.

I'd love to see Oath sites banned from here.
One impact: no articles complaining after a “pop” how much money they left on the table.
It sounds like a good use case for logic programming.
Let me restate your point, because it’s a good one. The gist of your point is, if there is no collective action, then nothing will change, and “why should I make my lifestyle worse” if nothing will change?

The next step to realize is that, in the US, our “shared CO2 budget” is zero, possibly negative, in light of continued development in China, India, and Africa. Imagine how much CO2 emissions could be reduced if everyone in the US became vegan tomorrow. Now, realize that Chinese development in last year alone went up by enough to offset the entirety of that hypothetical savings.

Why “should I make my lifestyle worse” when development in India, China, and Africa is going to increase global CO2 output by multiples of the entire output of the US and EU combined?
Is it just the FF or the text is all janky?
Why does there have to be a middle ground? Things seemed fine before all the DRM. And I'm not sure too many of your things actually REQUIRE DRM to be carried out. And as far as your warranty FUD, it's known in other fields that if you make an unapproved modification to an item, or have it done by someone else that it voids the warranty. This is a problem that's already been solved that you are trying to use to support the case for DRM.
it's also the imbalance of cost, where western countries get shamed and blamed if they don't agree to costly restrictions while places like China and India cause most of the world's pollution and don't care
A worrying trend. Especially considering Tesla seem to take months to fix even basic fender bender problems.
Hypocrisy is the root of many, many disparities in the world.

Consider how things would be if Hollywood lead the way with all the celebrities (percentage wise easily top percent polluters in the US) giving up their gas guzzling vehicles, private planes, excessive travel, etc... Much of the public would follow their example automatically, even many politicians.

It sounds like you are advocating for "I don't have to do it if everyone isn't".
There are links to primary evidence and unbiased sources throughout. It's absolutely riddled with them, as this thread is with people like you.

So, you're welcome. Except, from your recent comments you seem highly averse to becoming familiar with the facts, even when people have put them right in front of you.
Future is created by what one is doing now.
It works great for these companies and it will work great for
Amazon.
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?
To be fair, he said 5-6 kilometers, and the Asse II mine is less than 800m deep.
> But no one seems to be looking.

There are a few people on HN and elsewhere, but I concede that our numbers are extremely small.

> I'm not sure what life would look like if they were. Probably very different and with a very violent transition.

I'm curious why you think a transition to a more enlightened (a significant decrease in both delusional meme-based beliefs, as well as ignorant over-confidence in the beliefs people do still hold) society would be violent? I tend to think the transition would be rather orderly, with people tending to hang their heads in shame for their former stupidity. Violent lashing out is what we have now.
That was a good talk but that alone will not be enough. No single solution will be enough. We need lots and lots of solutions across all sectors of economy. And while we are waiting for those solutions to materialise we should do our bit and start consuming less.