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> you have to decouple economic growth from increased consumption of natural resources

Hasn't technology generally been heading in this direction? It seems we are constantly doing more with less. If it keeps up, and we slowdown procreation, I see no reason why it won't drive resource usage down long term.

I mean, I completely disagree with the premise that we must consume non-renewable resources to generate wealth, but assuming it is true I think we've come a long way in changing that and the future looks even better.
Quite possibly. And likely equally true of most other divisive topics. The question is, how do we handle that here? If we leave it to run its course untrammeled, that amounts to letting this place shatter.
"Purism's instance removed all moderation tools" is the reason I have an opinion on them at all. I only realized they reverted that when linking to the commit where they broke it for my previous comment.

I might change my mind on defederating them if the users of my instance weigh in, but forty years of growing up along with the Internet has given me a rather jaundiced view of the ability of people whose primary concerns are softwarefreedom* to make sensible moderation decisions. Especially when they've started from a position of "we can completely opt out of moderating our social software, it'll be great, I'm sure everyone will behave like adults" and had to be argued out of that.
The US law enforcement doesn’t typically have jurisdiction over the military. However internally the rights abuses at Guantanamo were investigated, people were tried in court-marshall and convicted. The Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam was prosecuted however punishment was a slap on the wrist.
The fast food analogy feels weird to me because of trademark implications.

The analogy I would use is, should the shape and usage of a steering wheel be copyrightable? Should a company be able to prevent someone else from building a car that has the same steering wheel, stick-shift, break on the left/gas on the right interface? After all, you could easily argue that building an intuitive car interface was a difficult, creative act. A ton of work has gone into making modern cars intuitive, and it's not like any of that design is obvious or trivial.

The answer to that question has profound implications for the ability of businesses to compete, and much more profound implications for our general ability as consumers to get products that act the way we expect, and to avoid radical amounts of vendor lock in.

Imagine a world where the interface for shifting gears was different for every car brand, or where notifications like turn signals, or errors like a check engine light couldn't be copied. It would make the automotive market uniformly more annoying, more dangerous, and less competitive.
It is elites a way of saying that most working class is becoming disposable for the elites. Why let them idle? Better just dispose them for good.
The news can only focus on one major company at a time, but the courts can go after all of them.
Increasing benefits and worker protections also increases the cost of hiring employees. This is widely understood. In countries where employees have extensive benefits and protections like France, employers are very picky about which employees they hire because it will be difficult or expensive to fire them if they turn out to be poor workers. Hence, and unemployment rate over twice that of the US.

The ease of entering and exiting the gig economy is one of its most valuable aspects. What other kinds of jobs can you set your own hours, and join and quit largely at whim? If Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. all now have to consider their contractors employees then they will have to start setting hours. If they have to give their workers the same benefits as employees, then it will be financially unsustainable to let them set their own hours. People who depended on Uber for flexible employment will not be able to continue working.

This seems like political posturing that's going to hurt the majority of employees if it passes.
My gut feeling is that software techniques are still too crude to capture just the kind of repetition that we'd want to downweight. But it would be interesting if that were wrong.
seems like same topic as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20065910
What you're calling insurance (insuring people who have pre-existing conditions, or are known to be very expensive) is not insurance. That's just plain old welfare/socialism.

I'm fine with welfare, but keep it out of insurnace. Let insurace be for insurance (i.e. known but unpredictable risks), and welfare be for welfare.
You specifically said that management doesn't involve "talent", "problem solving", "intelligence" or "creativity". And often the best managers are people who are just as familiar with the physical/logical domain as the concrete "problem solvers" - after all, much of the difficulty of "getting people to solve problems" is things like knowing when to call BS on someone vs. when there's an actual issue that's gumming up the work and that one should deploy resources on. Stuff that's way too hard unless you actually grok what's going on.
The trouble with that argument is that everyone has their different idea of what the exception should be. If we accommodate them all, that's the same as anything goes.
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I'm glad that I'm not the only sucker to buy complete crap from China.
I'm not sure I understand your comment, but we're only interested in those qualities in how they manifest in HN threads. They're not absolute values—they're simply ways to achieve the goal of the site, which is to be interesting. Assange may be interesting and Assange may represent information exchange, but empirically, the arguments people are having about him here are falling below the minimal substance line.
The universe, heck even the solar system, is pretty big...
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This should be part of some philosophy course: how can one become evil, even when starting with good intentions.
I drop all traffic from Scaleway, they do not care about abuse coming from their network: https://badpackets.net/ongoing-large-scale-sip-attack-campai...
Going from a model where social media is a new instance of the public square I guess I would agree there is no expectation of privacy in the public square, but where the public square metaphor breaks down is that this square is actually owned by a corporation that is taking pictures and wiretapping all the individual conversations taking place in their square and selling the contents thereof to other corporations.

So as always metaphors are a lousy way to reason, and quickly break down because once you are arguing that X is like Y you will end up hitting the limit of X being unlike Y anytime you try to deal with something complicated in regards to X.

Hence regulation of a medium where everything lasts forever and can be looked up instantaneously from almost anywhere, and copied and repeated all over the world by anyone wanting to do so, should not follow the model of regulation for a medium where everything is ephemeral and while theoretically open to anyone in practice not so open because availability of space is a limiting factor on proximity and proximity is needed to take part.
No you didn't, but I have a feeling you're not being genuine about wanting to understand either.
I think it’s probably because perks offered to google employees are meaningless to 99% of people. The damage and potential damage google is doing to the public is far worse than the fat salaries they pay their employees. If Google and Facebook paid the same wages as any other other tech company, people wouldn’t be as eager to join them and throw their ethics out the window.
Weaker adhesive invented instead of strong. This is how Sticky notes were born
Like the animations. Nice simple website.
See the whole "while it would make the movement unlikely to succeed" is what I hear from politicians explaining why they don't refuse corporate donations like pledging to fight corporate greed. These people are PART of growth...

>Even though this is the most misanthropic comment I've ever seen on HN and I'm appalled you would consider writing it, I'll play along!

This modest proposal being pushed to shrink the economy would ultimately result in millions of deaths as a direct consequence. Its not a big leap to be in favor of causing death directly instead of through effective democide. I'm wondering what their position on human life is.
Convenient for California that those LLCs require an $800 state tax paid each year.
Short answer: no.

Slightly longer answer: kind of but no.

Longer answer: can be apparently flat for a limited region around you but generally no.

Accurate subtle Answer: round because that is easier than flat.

Descriptive longer answer someone else said: the earth is a spheroid. Average roughness of earth if size of billiard ball would be as smooth as a typical billiard ball.
Agree, I thought i was reading the wrong bio.

A little out of his league i would say.
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I'm willing to spend an eternity fixing it.
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I agree that it's a deep topic and that people disagree on fundamental levels. Unfortunately, that's not enough to make for minimally acceptable discussion, i.e. something better than repetitive flamewar. In managing this site, that's one of the main things we have to watch out for. The topics may be incredibly important but what good is that if we blow ourselves up trying to deal with them?
> (please repeat after me, 30 years)

This is bad form.

> But there is not even a single high-profile hardware

> backdoor incident publicised. This tells you something.

Not so much. If the US military found a hardware backdoor, would they want to publicly tell their enemy that their strategy is effective? Not only this, but if they tell their enemies which ones they find, by doing so they also tell them which ones they haven't found.

The only reason details of these fakes were published was likely because the Chinese company couldn't reasonably be considered as acting maliciously in this regard. Rather, they were just trying to turn a quick buck.
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I'm happy to acknowledge that. But how does it change how we should manage HN?
Google isn't, and the fact you're getting responses that are dodging your question just goes more to your point that this is most likely politically motivated.
Where were those teams when whatever the predecessor to G+ was called was launched and started sharing with your abusive ex's, people you had orders of protection taken etc. etc.?

I am sure they do review things quite carefully to avoid something too obviously illegal. But anything more than that? Color me skeptical.
> someone would write an alternative universe historical novel

well in Italy we took the story and made an advertisement out of it

https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=gEg6G0PmHDw
Flat locally, round globally.
> However, how certain are you that the overall situation will be worse?

It will quite obviously be worse for everybody who is left without employment.

Also, as this article points out, jurisdictions that pass these laws tend to be competing with other jurisdictions to attract business. For the case highlighted in the article (freelance writers), the outcome was that nobody’s working conditions were improved, and that the residents of the jurisdiction in question simply all lost their jobs.

Setting a minimum wage poses the same problems. Set it too high, and you kill jobs and business. All such restriction have the same consequences. The question that should be asked is whether it’s reasonable for people to enter into freelance contracts. I don’t think it’s reasonable to deny people who could benefit from them the opportunity to do so. I do however think it would be reasonable to deny people the opportunity to enter into a working arrangement where they’re paid $1/hour. I don’t think the two are equivalent at all, and I think that most discussion around ‘compassionate’ ideas like this do a very poor job of weighing up such pros and cons.
Formula E uploads races to YouTube which makes it easy to watch. Here are the races for season 5:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiSlrzIEN5WJEbJIdK3jD...
Sorry, I see you replied before I edited that out. Apologize.
They may not want to reveal details, but even not to the various Congressional committees for more funding (among many reasons) to fight back the enermy? The U.S. Congress could publicly condemn these kind of bad doings
by China without publishing details. Plus, in the U.S. information has lots of ways to leak out, from Snowden to some pesky jounalists.
Most of these 100k people lived in Pripyat. Chernobyl is to the south of the nuclear plant and wasn't as affected. According to [1] 12500 people lived there before the accident, currently about 600 people live there.

[1] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE...
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Also, given that metaphor, if I'm whispering to a friend in a public square, I do have an expectation of privacy in the sense that there should not be boom mics placed everywhere to pick up the smallest of conversations.
> Why was anti-trust pursued against Microsoft then?

One example among the many things the court found they did was to tell OEMs that they wouldn't license Windows to them if they _also_ included Netscape preinstalled in their computers.

The stated purpose, from internal emails, was to prevent Java from becoming the de-facto API for writing applications, which at the time was win32. This was a gigantic barrier of entry that protected Windows' monopoly and they did all those shady things to keep it raised.
and while it might work for Twitter (with the exception of private messages) I'd also argue that the metaphor falls apart for Facebook since you can have private profiles and groups where there's an expectation of privacy.
>Many of us work on things that people like and improve our lives.

Why is it that the things that Google creates that might actually "improve our lives" only last long enough to get people hooked into the G before said product is end of lifed?

I do not use a broad brush and paint 100% of Google employees as doing evil. However, I always think of the Grisham novel The Firm when thinking about Google. They lure very young, bright, talented employees in with the lure of very large pay checks. By the time said employees become aware of what the company actually represents, they are too entrenched into the lifestyles to "which they have become accustomed". At the same time, the users are lured in with free apps/tools/services that seem quite useful. Whether these apps/tools/services remain long term or not is a crap shoot, but G has you now
>it'll become crowded really fast

That means we'll have a lot of brainpower to figure out the space exploration thing.

If anything, it's more ecological than taking multiple generations to do it, since you wouldn't waste time having to raise researchers over and over again because the previous generation has died.

Also people would have more reason to care about the environment since it's their own life at stake.
It really rubs me the wrong way when I see comments like parent telling people what they should do with their open source projects.

However, as a game developer, using an engine without some substantial dogfooding (or orders of magnitude more use by third parties, ala Unity) is simply a bad idea. I have done it multiple times and each time it's burnt me.

If you were trying to sell this as a commercial product, I'd be right there with the parent comment. Since it's not, I'll just take my hit of dopamine that I live in a world where cool stuff like this is being worked on, and add it to the list of stuff I'd like to play with.
The 2012 antitrust actions were settled with Google by the FTC, not shut down:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/01/googl...
Sure, but what about people that work 2-4 hours a day, to supplement their main job? Or once a day on the weekends? Or a mom whose daily routine is to drop the kids off school, and drive Uber until the kids are done with school?

This is the problem with extending employee benefits to gig workers. Employee benefits are an overhead cost, so now it becomes unprofitable for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. to have workers working sporadic hours. If their workers get classified as employees, then they'll have to start setting hours for employees. This put a lot of people who need flexible hours out of work.
Germany has similar workers' rights and protection from firing, yet it has a lower unemployment rate.
> That's absolutely not true and completely at odds with any kind of mainstream economics.

Yes, because mainstream economics has everything righ in their story.

> The simplest example of new wealth creation is new technology - if I figure out a way to make the same product, only faster/better/etc, then I'll be able to offer the same "product" at less money, thereby making everyone better offThe simplest example of new wealth creation is new technology - if I figure out a way to make the same product, only faster/better/etc, then I'll be able to offer the same "product" at less money, thereby making everyone better off

You see we live in times where apparently microplastics and pesticides are detectable in human bodies. I personally don't buy the fairytale about the magic technology. Yes you've managed to make product that is faster/better and you managed to externalize the costs for this so it seems like it's only win.
The problem is that most are not making much money [0] and most would be better off working a min wage job.

Most Uber/lyft drivers are recent immigrants , working poor who end up taking on a lot of risk for little if any reward.

Uber also uses psychological tricks to trick drivers into driving more then is rational [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/technology/uber-driver-ip...

[1]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/ub...
but is Instagram really social? The most people I know just consume and leave a like. Even Instagram stories are one way communication in most cases.

there's not the level of interaction (and exposing one own opinion) that you'd see below a Facebook or Twitter post
TV shows are notoriously bad sources of information about the real world. In the real world if the police has anything solid which they believe points at you as the perp, they will arrest you first (possibly after watching you for a while). Extracting information from you is so much easier when you are intimidated and fearful - as anyone would be after marinating for a few days in a cell.

Talking to the police before you get arrested is just plain stupid. Let the lawyer do the talking. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNc3Qic-Ks
This is a really cool idea! I'm making a browser poker app just to play with friends but idea was to have it specific to poker with a similar UI to pokerstars, 888 etc.

Never considered emulating actually just having a deck of cards on the page, using the same level of trust you have between people irl.
Any plans to add stuff like chips or scoring?
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> then you might be considered an employee anyway. Which I can't understand why you _wouldn't_ want that

Because it comes with a significant reduction in flexibility. If the employer has to provide health insurance then they'll pay you proportionally less, even if you already have health insurance through your spouse. If they have to pay you overtime then they may cut your hours instead, or lower your base pay to compensate, which may be worse for you than being able to continue working at the original wage.

Meanwhile if you did prefer some aspect of the arrangement the law would require then there is nothing stopping you from negotiating that to begin with in exchange for the correspondingly smaller amount of cash money. Few employers have any objection to providing you with health insurance in lieu of the same amount in cash that they would otherwise still have to pay you in order to get you to work for them.

But some employees would prefer the cash -- and the employers take some of the loss when not being able to do what both parties prefer makes the employee walk away, so they don't like it either.
In my field it’s standard that if you don’t show up, your paper is not published in proceedings - and normally those proceedings are in an IEEE Transactions journal.
Regardless of durability if you lose your customers data are you sure you will have customers paying you to keep you in business while you figure out liability?
Once they get to doing communism, both the economy and the population will shrink automatically.
This blog post provides rebuttals to some of the points made in this comment thread:

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a...

That blog post was linked to from here:

https://github.com/do-not-theme/do-not-theme.github.io/issue...
I'm talking about DO, not the affected company
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Do you realize that anyone can be a full-time driver? The job has been available for a century now, and has plenty of demand still.

The people driving for Uber do not want a full time job, that's the point. They want the flexibility of working whenever and wherever they can, usually because they have a day job, are retired, in school, or some other situation. Ask your next Uber driver if they want an 8 hour shift where they have to show up on time at a location that Uber chooses. See how that goes.

The low rates are due to an over-supply of drivers, something that happens because it is low-skill flexible work. All that Uber needs to do is limit the drivers on the platform, but that has its own challenges which is why it hasn't been done.
Yes unless your potential clients are in government, medical, insurance or financial industries.

Locked windows workstations, OS are frozen on Win7 For as long as possible.
>Not so much. If the US military found a hardware backdoor, would they want to publicly tell their enemy that their strategy is effective? Not only this, but if they tell their enemies which ones they find, by doing so they also tell them which ones they haven't found.

This thinking can be used to start real wars then, we know X has illegal weapons, trust us we have proof but we can't show it, sure years later after lots of deaths and bilions spent on war you find that it was all propaganda.
Board members are not company employees, and Eric Schmidt is not a Google engineer as GP claimed. This is a stretch even by conspiracist standards.
Most corporate workstations are locked.
This makes me sad. I get that rounding errors are a thing. However, a million here, a billion there, pretty soon, we're talking about real money.

In the real world, most people can't really comprehend the value of $1,000,000.00. One million might as well be one billion might as well be one trillion. At the risk of being cliche, if we did not have the loss of the $4 million per year (of just this one specific thing), what else could that money have been used for instead?
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And the rest of the world won't touch them because they break down pretty much every week.

Reliability is very important for a bus, and BYD hasn't got that yet.
There are market concentration regulations. The SEC typically applies a formula to determine if an acquisition results in a single entity owning too much of the market, in which case it would not be approved.

I don't know if this has been considered for these companies, but I suspect it may have been bypassed. At the very least, that's what an investigation would determine.
I agree that writing well is extremely important. However people like to do so much verbally in meetings, that what you write will probably not be read carefully.