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> Steven Webb, Turo’s director of communications, says that 95 percent of the platform’s hosts rent out three or fewer vehicles.

Three or fewer, like the guy his own mini-fleet of two Tesla 3s and an X mentioned earlier in the article? I doubt many people have 3 cars to "share" without having bought at least one purely as a rental. And how many people can afford to buy/lease more than 3 vehicles for their fleets? I'll bet that 95% would be much lower if we looked at "one or two vehicles" instead.

These negative-externality-based "Uber/Airbnb for X" companies are getting ridiculous. Has someone started one for prescription drugs yet? "We're not a pharmacy, we're just a platform facilitating transactions between patients and independent drug contractors." (Or was that Silk Road's business model?)
Also, there are many limits to free trade. E.g. constant WTO lawsuits regarding one country subsidizing their own corporations. You could easily claim that all Chinese corporations are state-sponsored...
There's no argument against increasing supply. There's an argument against increasing expensive supply.

It's like saying, "I'm going to lose weight, by eating only pizza 24/7". Sure, you technically could do it from a calories in/calories out perspective, but it's going to do a hell of a lot of damage to your body along the way.

It might be less damaging to your body to lose weight by eating healthy first (building affordable housing, building public housing). But the urbanists are generally against this, they want to only eat pizza (only build high-end / 'market rate') while pretending that counts as an effective weight loss program, because "weight lost is exclusively just calories in vs calories out" -- "housing is exclusively just supply vs demand".

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Does their approach work? Technically, if you build a metric-insane amount of high end housing, you eventually slightly decrease a tiny percent off the yearly rental growth at the highest-end of the market (Seattle is the textbook example of this).

Is this a healthy approach for the city at large? I'd argue no -- it does massive damage to the poor/middle-class, and to the climate in general, all of which is all completely ignored while Urbanists focus exclusively on bringing luxury housing down tiny percentages for a tiny few people who qualify for them.
They are good for iPhones but not great otherwise. My parents switched to them 6 months ago. They don't allow you to bring another Android phone (yet), so I had to switch from my amazing Galaxy S5 to a S9 purchased through them. Aside from being a major hardware downgrade for my purposes, all their phones have locked bootloaders so you can't mess with them at all (aside from `pm uninstall`ing most bloatware).

You also can't bring a non-iOS/Android phone to their network (aside from iPhones, all devices must be purchased through them).

I plan on buying a Librem 5 when they are released; I will have to switch carriers and pay more every month, but freedom is worth the price.

But for my parents, paying just $7/line in taxes and then 20-30 dollars per month for data is well worth it, even after factoring in the expensive upgrades from the old S8+/Note 7 to their S9+/Note 9 (and yes, the S8+/Note 7 would have worked perfectly fine on their network if not for their asinine restrictions).
I find it problematic that there have been oodles of very classical kinds of 'terrorism' and 'extremism' on Social Media since the start.

ISIS has been recruiting with absolutely brutal kind of stuff on Twitter, etc..

But now we have this nutbar thing in New Zealand and it's a 'global action'?

Aside from the complications mentioned in some other comments ...

... the Jacinda / Trudeau / Macron triumvirate I think were looking in the wrong places.

So it's probably good that we're taking action, and just beyond repulsive that that some massacre was broadcast live on Facebook, but I hope we accomplish do this without too many existential issues.
Finally. The whole "we do it too" is a matter of degree. We have an "approximate" democracy. There is infinitely more transparency in our totally fucked system vs the CCP totally fucked system.
I don’t get that vibe. I’m not sure of your age or if you’re a parent but there’s some recent writing in “Coddling of the American Mind” where they speak about making the road for the child instead of the child for the road and how that’s influenced adolescents today and their lack of maturity in college and beyond.

It’s terrifying to think about something happening to my daughter but I know if I don’t give her the opportunity to learn about responsibility and safety on her own I’m not doing my job as a father. Having a playground or similar option (hiking trails, rustic camping, etc) to explore this is a plus and IMO part of what we need in society and less safetyism.
I don't want my daughter to learn about diving into the concrete floor of a pool, or smashing her head into a concrete play structure, by trial and error.
Well, broadcasting your massacre of 20 people online would be one kind of 'extremism'.

So there's that.

Surely it can get tricky (and it will) but we have to do something. This is not new, we always have. Every nation has some kind of hate law, applied one way or another.
Wouldn't the credit cards be traceable (record of where you spent it). It wouldn't necessarily tie you exactly but it'd create a large paper-trail.
If you share something, you don't charge. If you charge, it's called renting.

They are implying benevolence when there is none. Especially on the part of the hucksters.
University is definitely a prestige good. Most people don’t go into the profession they trained in. Lots of people studied something there are either no jobs in or they never even intended to practice professionally. Most people forget most of every university class they ever took. People care enormously about the prestige of university attended even though what’s covered in an engineering or literature degree at Harvard and Directional State U will have huge overlap. Finally, look at credentialism; people need Master's to get jobs that used to require a. Bachelor’s and a Bachelor’s for ones that used to require a Master’s. The Case Against Education, Bryan Caplan, has much more but education is absolutely a positional good. People don’t just want it. They want to have more than other people do so that in a legible ranking they’re superior.
I feel like there's a mental illness the entire world is seemingly ignoring, whose symptom is constant, floating disgust and contempt and despise. The ability to be offended by anything, because it's not the stimulus that offended you; you were already offended as an equilibrium state.

Let me attempt to describe this mentality as a recipe (because I don't have a good name for it, but I'm sure you can recognize it): start by imagining clinical depression. Keep the "everything in the world sucks" part, but remove the part where you consider "everything" to include you. (This isn't narcissism; you don't think you're all that great. You just aren't down on yourself. You think of yourself in a normal, healthy way.) Then, take the parts of depression where you have no energy and don't experience any emotional affect, and replace those with a sliding scale from "neutral" to "panicked shouting." (Which isn't real panic, per se; it's just a very loud simulated fight-or-flight response, without any real fear or traumatic recall behind it.)

An increasing number of people are like this. Nobody notices these people as unusual at all. This used to be rare enough to caricature; it was the "I want to speak to your manager" mom. But everyone is like that now. Every age group has these people in equal numbers. What... happened?
What were the reasons? Research results not turning out well? Not enough supervision or too much micromanagement? Too much irrelevant tasks? Stress about funding sources?
> Another source suggests that death rate from "Islamic terrorism" in the US is somewhere around 1 in 3,500,000.

Yeah, that can't be right. Or, it can be, if one only takes into account years after 2001, when at least 3000 people were killed, or 1 in 100 000 US residents.
USA is not a communist country, big difference. With political administration changes, also do foreign policy opinions change, along with whatever CIA has to do with foreign sovereignties. One USA regime pardons Manning, another jails him/her. One USA regime bombs Syria, another doesnt. Also, CIA seeded companies are just a few and none of the big ones. Palantir and Oculus are their biggest, not sure Oculus can spy on foreign countries but ok.
Sure, I might have hit a corner case but I made an in-app purchase for a one year subscription for a service.

After using the app for a couple of days and restarting the phone, the app seemed to hit a bug and behave like if I didn't buy the subscription, prompting me to buy another subscription which I did thinking that this would unblock the backend and somehow merge with the fact that I already had a subscription.

Unfortunately, Google Play charged me again for a subscription I already had. Both the app creator AND Google Play were difficult to join. The App creators never replied to any of my emails. Google Play got an automated support website that decided that "I was not eligible for a refund" and there was nothing I could do about it. It also seems to be impossible to contact a real human being to explain the situation.
Today, you learned about Something Awful[0], a social forum that charges a nominal fee for accounts[1]. After being banned by administrators, a rule-breaker must pay another fee if they wish to be reinstated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Awful

[1] https://secure.somethingawful.com/products/register.php
> new residential construction is mostly (90+%) detached single family residences

But how much brand new residential construction on vacant plots of land is going on in the most expensive cities? The slightly unrealistic YIMBY movement makes it sound like there's many plots of vacant land just waiting to be developed. But..... there's not. Upzoning mostly means buying existing SFRs and doing teardowns, not just building brand new on these imaginary vacant plots of land in San Fran or Manhattan. This is limited by number of SFR sellers, etc.
This is a great overview. I would also recommend Dekker's book The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error [1]. It's a bit easier to read than Drift Into Failure, which I found to be very dense.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
There is a lot of circumstantial evidence to suggest that he is[0,1], going back to lawsuits over housing discrimination in the 1970s, to his comments about wanting more immigrants from Norway rather than "shithole countries" in Africa, and of course equivocating on Charlottesville.

Granted, he hasn't burned a cross on the White House lawn, but it's difficult to look at his statements and the unprecedented (and well documented) support his campaign had from racists and not conclude he probably is racist beyond a reasonable doubt.

[0]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-r...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
That's fair. I simply can't see the best solution relying on getting rid of deeply ingrained culutural norms that span thousands of years.
Kids feel safe when they don't know what the dangers are. My kid would feel safe sticking his hand in a pan of boiling oil
> We just will have to learn to live without all the cool stuff we like

Like arable land.
If some new life form emerged from scratch it would be pretty easy to detect right?
What if the market is the general public, the consumers?
To answer the last question, unless rates of adults dying by car accidents/drowning/etc went up the same amount it went down for kids, no. And it's still better to not die as a kid anyway.
I wonder if it's sustainable though. If you keep raising the prices and people buy what you're selling, and then eventually realize the quality isn't up to par of what they're paying for.
Ironically, I've rarely seen a thread with so much downvoting as this one. Is trying to grey-out a post the same as wanting to censor it? I just went through and upvoted most of the posts that were grey.
"Senior scientists are expected to be both a robust support system and a stern, independent assessor of progress — a contradiction that discourages students from sharing potential mental-health issues for fear of damaging their professional progress."

This is true at all levels. As someone recently pointed out on HN, bundling formal evaluation with teaching makes students cautious, for good reason. It makes it harder on both sides for teachers to help students learn.

Graduate advisors become even more powerful when they control your funding (i.e. ability to eat) as well as your continued presence at the school.

There are similar problems in workplaces where your boss is supposed to be a coach or facilitator but is also expected to be an evaluator who has power over your salary and continued employment.
It’s not ridiculous and I don’t want to get into a flame war over this, because clearly my statement is contentious! Rather I’d like to have the discussion and I feel this is a relevant/appropriate albeit esoteric forum. Yet I stand by my statement.

To elaborate: yes the suffering by a parent when witness to the suffering or death of their child is painful beyond words. With few if any experiences comparable. However, the combined suffering of literally millions upon millions of people subjugated to the atrocities of war made possible by the implicit support and consent by literally the same set of said parents is beyond the ability to fully comprehend or experience as an individual. However despite our inadequacies as individuals at being able to emote in the face of such atrocities does nothing to diminish the pain felt by the victims whose combined suffering is orders of magnitude greater than that of an individual parent. Just because we lack the ability to comprend the suffering on such a scale does nothing to alleviate it. If anything it only exacerbates and obfuscates the phenomenon. I believe a term for it is The Tragedy of the Commons.
The discussion began on the topic of playgrounds and safety. All people have the risk of injury and death at all times. Some types of injury are not severe and have few lasting consequences, others are of the converse type. Paralysis is incredibly uncommon when compared to scrapes and bruises, which is why I brought up that subtopic.
yea a bunch of people have asked about Direct name search. I think i will make name search a specific field and try to autocorrect if there is an exact match
You can AOT C#/F#/.NET

It has value types, Span, PInvoke etc. that make low level interop simple, GC and higher level semantics and better ecosystem/tooling than most alternatives.

Runtime size and GC limit some use cases
Is it really any worse tan a high-stress job? What is the baseline for the comparison? Is the corporate environment with all the office politics, performance reviews, project deadline pressure etc so much better?
Hills are known to promote mentally stimulating play.
"induced demand" basically means that you make a place so awesome to live, that even more people want to move there!

Like yeah, maybe. But if a place is so awesome, then shouldn't we try to let more people live there? Shouldn't we trying to continue to do things that make this city awesome?
I was thinking about it.
Making up filters to filter other people expression, using rules that are not explicitly enumerated in Governing laws -- is selective censorship.

Making up speech/expression filters that are explicitly enumerated by governing laws, is censorship too -- but this one is not 'selective', instead it is mandated.

So the opposition that people have on these topics, is towards 'selective censorship', not the 'mandated' one.

The next argument for 'selective sensorship' -- is that a private business can make up their own rules.

My view is, yes, private business can -- but then, the content where selective-censorship was applied, cannot be available publicly without a fee.

So, if Facebook wants to do selective-censorship, then ok --

however, that filtered content should be available only to people who selected to participate in explicit business relationship with Facebook.
White House launches tool to report censorship on social media
Show HN: Swift Budget – Envelope Budgeting for iPhone
> If a company hadn't planned ahead well enough to survive a bad year then they deserve to go under.

Maybe, but we don't deserve to have them take the rest of the economy with them.

It's hard to overstate how much of the economy depends on insurance. If an insurance company becomes insolvent and can no longer cover it's long term liabilities, elderly people who were counting on life insurance or annuities will starve and the newly uninsured in need of operations will die.

If the human toll does not impress you, consider that the entire economy would freeze up without insurance. Residential and commercial building, freight shipment, construction, and most sizable loans all require insurance coverage.

The insurance industry is not like a banana stand. We need to (and do) strictly regulate and audit these companies.
I think just adding a “dislike” button would make a big difference.
Google Payment Privacy Settings Hidden Behind Special URL
The difference is that it's free and open source. ROMs such as Lineage OS do not need to pay for a commercial license to fork the code, and an app such as F-Droid can run natively on any Android device.
"since they punish us more then China. "

No they don't.

Most goods from China can be sourced elsewhere, moreover, America has the surpluses to handle some extra cost.

China doesn't. They are at the end of their last boom, and in trouble, it's really bad, and this comes at a bad time.

This is why China's response to Trump's most recent massive tariffs are much smaller.

The US has the upper hand in this, though not blatantly.

The sticking point right now is verification: both sides agree that China should stop with the IP theft, but the US does not believe China will actually do anything after the agreement has been signed, and so wants China to change it's laws. China sees this as a breach of sovereignty. So there's a huge face saving problem on China side, and to some extent on the US side with Trump.

I think they will work it out actually, a deal will be signed, China will take 'some steps' but they won't really care, Trump will be gone in a few years. I don't think that much will change in the end.

But these tariffs are really bad for China.
> Unfortunately, Unix time did not considered the effects of leap second

The change to UTC to include leap seconds was in 1972, which was after unix time came into existence.
Was with you until that last sentence. The most viable way to create affordable housing is to admit that a very small number of Tier 1 US cities are effectively full- and encourage smart young people to move to Denver and Charlotte and Miami and Raleigh and Indianapolis and Phoenix and Burlington and Madison and.....

But yeah, everything else you said is spot on. I previously worked in commercial real estate, and I find the Matt Yglesias-types' understanding of how property development works to be bordering on magical. I mean, again, I fundamentally agree with the YIMBY movement, and that many zoning laws are glorified rent seeking. But the affordability issue is fast leaving rational discussion and entering belief system territory. Manhattan & the Bay Area & LA are expensive because the demand to live there is 10,000x or 20,000x what it is to live in, say, Milwaukee. This is the root of the problem- you cannot possibly build enough to sate demand in a non-command economy
R152A, also known as "canned air", is actually very usable in an R12 system without any modification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wkBnhcyO3Y

(That guy restores old refrigerators, so he probably knows a thing or two about refrigerant substitution...)
Internet Data Is Rotting
I like the cut of your jib. But I suppose what I was saying was that, for the purposes of establishing “now”, “now” isn’t really standardizable except with respect to a single inertial frame, and any time-keeping that occurs outside of this inertial frame will not be absolutely in sync, even though it may have a highly accurate measure of time for its own inertial frame.

This matters when computers are bouncing records about time around satellites and across the global.

Edit: I have no idea what I’m talking about so please do not hesitate to correct me on the particulars!
Purloined Yak – How the CIA 'Borrowed' a Russian Jet
Houston is really sprawling, and can expand in all directions. If the LA area didn't have an adjacent ocean, and mountains, it would be easier. Instead, if we do expand out past the mountains, then everyone has to funnel through the passes.
Hey all,
I made this in my spare time because I'm really interested in personal finance and I really hated all of the other budgeting apps. I'm hoping others like it, but it works for me and that was my main goal.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Main annoyance for me with other apps: the auto-categorizing of transactions. Personal finance is personal, and it’s impossible to get them right 100% of the time. I use the same type of guesses so if it is right you can quickly confirm it, but if it isn’t you have a chance to correct it before it goes into the wrong budget category.

Edit: also here is direct link to app store if people prefer that. wasn't sure if i should link my site or app store - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swift-budget/id1222420404?ls...
Tulsi Gabbard: Silicon Valley Is Throwing Free Speech 'Out the Window'
Setting Up AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Deploying
Short answer: yes

Long answer: it depends whether you mean actual vulnerabilities, or soundness bugs

Known bugs that could affect security of programs written in Rust get fixed ASAP. There was one serious bug in std's VecDeque that caused memory corruption. There was a more recent issue where if you override type_id method that wasn't supposed to be overridden, and then use another method that relies on type_id being correct, you get crashy garbage. In C or C++ that'd be called garbage-in, garbage-out, and a bad programmer shooting themselves in the foot. In Rust that was considered a vulnerability.

Apart from that, there are known soundness bugs in the language/compiler/LLVM that could lead to undefined behavior, miscompilation, or otherwise weasel out of things that the language is meant to guarantee:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Ais...

At this point these are mostly edge cases that you're unlikely to hit in real code, but if you really really want to make your program crash, Rust can't stop you.
> doesn't endorse terrorism

The use propaganda to make people support the war effort against the Middle East. Ask people in the Middle East who the terrorists are.
Explain Tokyo then.