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> Unlikely to the point of making one angry. It shocks the intellect.

I am sincere when I say you need to read considerably more history. You could start with Seeing Like a State, the book this article is reviewing, since it contains many examples that would, apparently, shock your intellect. Many of the schemes tried in history are certainly shocking.

If you want to flip through Wikipedia instead I would suggest looking into the works or deeds of Le Corbusier, Earl Butz(! maybe the man solely responsible for massive scale farms in the USA), Robert McNamara, Robert Moses, Jean Monnet, the Shah of Iran, David Lilienthal, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Julius Nyerere, and for examples of re-ordering existing neighborhoods especially the work of Moses, but also Haussmann's renovation of Paris, and Le Corbusier's proposed (but never enacted) remaking of Paris center. Maybe also read about Oscar Niemeyer and the making of Brasilia.

Or, if you want a US centric look try The Death and Life of Great American Cities, where Jane Jacobs details lots of things that happened in the USA that you may term "unlikely."

> we have to assume, as I'll do, a first-world democracy

It's not clear why you'd have to assume this. The book covers societies in very different times, across continents, but certainly includes first-world democracies, as well as forced villagizationin in Ethiopia, forced standards conversion in medieval France, the rise of grids in many countries, and so on.
Do you want to hear a joke about UDP? I don't care if you get it or not.
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> "To that end, I would argue that for Shopify a high churn rate is just as much a positive signal as it is a negative one: the easier it is to start an e-commerce business on the platform, the more failures there will be. And, at the same time, the greater likelihood there will be of capturing and supporting successes."

Yes and no. The excessive lowering of the barrier to entry is self defeating. That is, more stores === more noise. Throwing still more at the wall isn't going to increase success. That friction will increase
Failure.
n!+1 can be prime, as primes can be divisible by 1. None of the n-1 numbers after n!+1 are prime.
"Just combine these 6 things and it's just as easy as a single tool that does it all for you."

Is this satire?
Something is wrong here. Nematodes aren't segmented animals, they dont have a differenciate head and anus in different segments. I understand that those species show a fake segmentation in the skin.

On the other hand, In all nematodes that I had seen, anus is not terminal. Nematod sheaths on the other hand can show this but they aren't alive.
You can increase that ratio considerably if you take off most, but not all, the cream.
True, if it's DIY it's Maker. I don't mind "girl stuff", nor do I like the separation. I don't see a reason why I should limit myself to socially preapproved maker topics.
I don't have the solution but I don't think state-subsidized is it. It's a conflict of interest when the people you're trying to hold accountable are the ones writing your paycheck.
Congress (usually the members unhappy with the coverage) is constantly trying to cut funding from NPR, and it's very difficult to budget and plan long term when you don't know if you will continue to be funded. Big advertisers do occasionally pull out over negative coverage, which is another reason diversified revenue streams are essential.
I'm pretty tired of re-framing this same issue. I sit here at work because although I'm nearly a multi-millionaire, I have very little actual long-term confidence that that nest egg is going to have any value over say, the next 30 years. I would retire today if I thought it would. Inflation is deadly. The constant moving of goal posts is deadly.

And I'm a humble man--I don't have caviar tastes. I do want to put two kids through college. How the fuck much is that going to cost? $200K each? Is it even worth it? I should just buy each of them a business.

The US has gone insane and it's time to put things back to sanity.

BTW--even starting a self-storage company costs like $5M now. Again, insane.
I thought one of the big problems with Australian politicians doing anything about climate change was that the ruling conservatives are in hock to the big open cast mining companies. Seems like this could be a great opportunity to get these companies on side, especially if there is $500M to be made from it. Much easier to give out the money to them in the open for a good reason than to somehow launder it through some complicated corrupt process.
This comes about because people can't get past the idea that art is a natural gift, whereas it is in most part a learnable skill. My thinking on this changed after watching the Great Course's "How to Draw" lectures [1]. Dr. Brody explains most people don't realize that with effort and practice they can learn to draw effectively; that it's not something you're born with.

If you accept that it can be decomposed into small skills, which can be practiced, and aggregated to create effective art, then it can be tested and graded.

[1] https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-draw.html
It also depends on their lifestyle (how wisely they manage their income).
In case of misunderstanding, the sub is K-278, the big nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered Komsomolets, which was lost at 1680 meters in 1989. It isn't the smaller sub that recently had an accident, also in the Barents Sea, but did not sink.
You'd still have to kill the pid
They're beating earning expectations consistently: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHOP/

They're also growing and hiring more which always looks good in the books.

Unfortunately, while their revenue is growing their earnings are in the negatives: 1B revenue in 2018 up from 673M in 2017, however they're -64M in earnings and -40M in earnings previous to that.

Not to mention the hype stories like this: "Shopify's market share could triple within five years rivaling Amazon", https://finance.yahoo.com/news/shopify-apos-market-share-cou...
>Not only is this not true, but it's also not the point. The point is to do it yourself, and the Maker movement has always catered to that. Self-makers have always had to charge more for their crafts than mass produced models, citing scarcity and often component quality (especially true for digital electronics).

So, like I said, it's about enjoyment and not monetary output.

>Which maker space was using a non-profit model?

Probably 90% of them in any area are non-profits, they're just small and don't have fancy machinery.
This "spock" character is just another form of rationalism. It has a long history, for example french revolution.
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And we build fast so that we can make tons of low quality apps. I think we're over saturated as it is.
In terms of economic class demarcations, I find the Marxists' definitions much easier to follow and reason about. If you own capital, you're a capitalist. If you work for a wage/salary, you're a worker. You might be an extraordinarily affluent worker but your relationship to capital is the same. Also, some might be part-time capitalists and part-time workers.
What is normal changes, what seems absurd today might be quite possible tomorrow.

Besides that, there is the fact that "Authoritarian High Modernism" absolutely existed in the past century and resulted in all sorts of "insane nonsense choices" being made to the great detriment of millions of people.
Okay so this would be a “Third Reich boat”? Because the nation wasn’t really anything resembling “Germany” at that point.
No, it’s not. If you make 200k in the Bay Area you’re not middle class.
One could turn it around say that no middle-class people live in, say, Medina, WA (where BillG lives). Cost-of-living determines which class or classes get to live there, not the other way around. At the extreme, in a hypothetical neighborhood of $10MM NYC penthouses are you going to say $1MM/year is "middle-class"? If so, we simply aren't going to come anywhere close to agreement.
Pi-hole or alike. Works very well for me, although I'm experiencing some problems with it. I'm a bad system administrator, though.
better than ios updates making the phone unusable. happened to me on old ipod touch models, not even the battery thing.
I've had luck with official Google phones the past couple years, and in the past the Moto line of Android phones stayed up to date to a point.
To me the distinction between middle class and upper class is if you can pay a group of people a salary and still accumulate wealth yourself. Also, are you free yourself and do you have to work?

The line between middle and upper middle has more to do with disposable income and which consumer habits they hold.
Not an expert, but I think Algeria wasn't seen as a colony, but as the southern part of France proper.
Should teach how to fake your death in art class.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/No-need-to...
It's not uncommon for people to be selling artisian products on shopify, which a trend that's been increasing over time. There's a large boost towards 'natural/homemade' products towards daily consumeables, accessories, clothing, indie perfumes, beauty products, etc. At least this is my experience in several hobbyist circles I lurk in.
Which of those does the logistics and fulfilment part, which is really the heart of the article and the killer strategic step for Shopify?
I honestly didn't even realize those were temporary, I've just always seen them.
It’s simply cheaper to buy equipment yourself.

A 40W laser cutter costs $300. AD 3D printer costs $300. An oscilloscope cost $500. A crappy CNC is not much more. Hot air rework station is $60. PCBs can be ordered in China for $10.

I buy these things as I need them.

The quality is way lower than what you can find at a maker space, but I don’t need the highest quality for a hobby experiment.
I believe it's still being prescribed for common cold, by similar logic w.r.t. the immune system.

The actual benefit is weak, unless you're a marathon runner or a soldier on subarctic exercise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23440782
It seems to me like Aggregators vs Platforms is related to Products as Commodities vs Products as Brands.

Aggregators win when products are anonymous commodities. Brands win when products are beloved.

It seems like the trend (for many reasons: over-marketing, dis-satisfaction, dis-trust, a race toward the barely-legal) is toward products as brands: brands which are authentic and relational and participants themselves in the experience (that "get it").

I think this trend will prove to be great for platforms, and bad for aggregators. https://medium.com/@thecraigmartin/the-greatest-threat-to-re...
Chinese made machinery (or used machinery from craigslist) is rather inexpensive (and good enough for non professional use) and $100+/month membership fees will add up over time. You can get some nice equipment for $5k which would be less than your dues for 5 years.
The History Guy has done an episode on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfr0nsh0Ghc
...but if you make 200k in Detroit you're above middle class... so again, like OP said, this is all relative to where you live.
> WordPress + WooCommerce, PrestaShop and Magento already do that. Drop $10 to $20/month on hosting on DigitalOcean, install Wordpress, install WooCommerce, buy a cheap theme, buy whatever extra plugins you need, setup your payment system (PayPal and Stripe are supported), and you're off to the races.

So all the average person needs to set up shop is design skills, software engineering skills, understanding of servers and PII, and the time to do complete all technical tasks while also building up their actual product catalogue.

That's a lot, and goes a long way in explaining why Shopify has a justified usecase.
The unspoken tragedy of this is how the IRS limits for "wealthy" were developed in 1913 when $250K as upper-limit was equivalent of several million dollars now.

They seem to have zero interest in re-calibrating those high brackets into something more meaningful to account for the 100 years of continually inflation.
Adaway and Afwall+ for blocking apps that shouldn't need internet to function.
I've set up ecommerce sites quite a few times and it was honestly 1 to 2 days of "work", install + configure and then the rest was customization which clients pay for and are patient for. We were ready to sell product within a day basically and then iterate from there based on client needs.

I guess I wasn't clear enough in making my point: Wordpress + Woocommerce can be setup very quickly and with minimal fuss and they can be as heavily customized as you want and rival whatever plugin-heavy Shopify sites are out there.
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Is it just me, or does the field or human history seem have it's story "rewritten" every few months?

Can an expert chime in on whether this is a false narrative produced by the media or an actual happening?
> consumers equal loudness with effectiveness in a vacuum cleaner.

I wonder how many consumers believe this versus how many actively seek out quieter vacuums.
he isn't making it up, this happened most famously in paris but also in many other places
I know that Lisp is very popular here on HN (Paul Graham!), but my gut feeling tells me that many Lisp related posts with hardly any upvotes / comments get pushed to the front page of HN. I wish there was a HN filter to hide certain keywords.

NB: I read SICP cover to cover twenty years ago, did many private projects with DrScheme (Racket) and was influenced by it's paradigms early on. I do appreciate Lispy topics, but why front page of HN?
No, it's the standard response from some open source people for any proprietary end-to-end solution. The most famous example was this response to the launch of Dropbox:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Trump also said he wouldn't take vacations like Obama (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/27060941248019251...) and that he'd stand up for the LGBT community (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/74277157603946086...).

His Twitter pronouncements are so commonly contradictory to his actual actions or subsequent tweets that there's an entire subreddit of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump
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The link you provide gives 13g of sugar per serving (125g). A typical apple weighs between 70g and 100g. A regular Marsbar is 51g, of which 60% is sugar. I'm really sorry, but I can not accept a 300% difference as 'more or less the same'.
Which device? That doesn't sound right. We're in a more or less identical situation, with Galaxy Tab S2's for the kids that we bought three years ago. And indeed, they're running comparatively ancient Android 7.0 images and will never see a version bump again.

They do, however, continue to see security updates. And in particular they've been patched against the vulnerability in the linked article. I'd be very surprised if yours was any different.
True yeah, though personally, I'm very deep in the 3DPrinter/Electronics part of the maker community, so I'm not that exposed to the other parts. I do however do some woodworking and such. I was just surprised that there were cosplayers, wouldn't have suspected it myself since I've never heard of it.
You're getting downvoted but I think it should be uncontroversial to say that mainland youth and HK youth have VASTLY different relationships to the CCP, and this particular propaganda doesn't seem to account for that. That's why I think it won't do much.
> Someone Left a Hatch Open

There's strong suspision that it was an act of sabotage. Not sure what turned out post the inquiry.
Maybe it is a cultural habit.

Here in Italy, you normally drink coffe at home before leaving for work.

Then, later in the morning you want to go to a bar to get a coffee (even if every office/shop has a coffee machine of this or that kind) usually with one or two colleagues, essentially because it is a way to make a short pause, have a quick stroll, talk with the colleagues about non-work arguments, have some interaction with the barista and/or the cashier.

Exceptionally, i.e. - as an example if there is a meeting - someone calls the bar (of which the phone number is known of course) and orders the needed coffees (and pastry/whatever) and either someone from the office goes and gets them or a barista brings them up (this depends a lot on the city/village).

Apart the above exception here having a coffee is more a ritual for having a pause mid-work, making it more "efficient" wouldn't probably work.
This is the only definition that matters.
It could be designed in such a way that multiple people could use it with reasonable comfort with a small holding tank and then periodically someone comes along and flushes it.
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answering calls, writing a few emails on holiday, is different from actually living in a country on a tourist visa and working remotely.
1. The other parts of the project can remain MIT or any other gpl compatible license. A condition for distributing the GPL library is that the whole project get covered by the GPL. A way to look at this is to think of parts only having to follow their own license, while the combined work has to follow all licenses that has clauses for combined works. In practice this mean that for example the GPL patent clause will cover the whole project and not only the library.

2. As each part has it own license you can mix and match how ever you want as long as the combined parts are compatible. If you are the author of all the project code (other than the CGAL library) then you have additional rights to change the license of future version, but in this case it is unlikely to matter as MIT is very permissive license. As the copyright author, the only way to "lose control" is that you can't retroactive change licenses of past publications of old version. New publications and new version however is fully within the control of the copyright author.

3. Plugins live in a grey area of copyright. From what I have seen the most common answer is that they are not covered by the license of the main program. Different organization makes different interpretation here, and for what it is worth FSF has published where they will enforce GPL (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins). I think Linux foundation determine the line based on GPL_ONLY flag in the kernel code, and wordpress has it own interpretation. I would however say that it is a bit of a stretch for a library authors to complain about the plugins licenses to software which uses the library unless there is very heavy and obvious 1:1 link between the plugin API and the library.
I'll never understand this argument:

> Apple's wielding of power in this way... the idea of the OS/platform vendor meddling with third-party software...

This is THEIR app store for THEIR operating system. Why in the world would they not be allowed to control their software's features or third party integrations? It reminds me of the ridiculous argument over Windows setting IE as its default browser (and I've been a web dev since the late 90s).
And it also depends on the tax rate. Making $/€100k gross, pre tax, means something different in San Francisco vs say Barcelona.
That would be fair, if the infrastructure reflected that. It doesn’t, however: often there’s only one lane downstream from the traffic light that can’t be effectively shared, so there’s only one resource to queue for. That’s why we should get some proper bicycle infrastructure built already, but bicyclists angering drivers with their behavior isn’t going to help.
That is why we use the term “middle-income”, because it is defined in relatively straightforward ways.

The whole reason for this discussion is the lack of sharp categories when talking about class.
Pebble wasn't a failed Kickstarter project; it was a successful Kickstarter project that was then bought up and killed off by Fitbit.
> markets are the worst possible way to determine artistic value

Markets are the worst way to determine any value; if I ran the world all the prices of everything would be set differently. Nevertheless we haven't yet found a better way of estimating the value of things.

But on a relevant note; not only do markets give the impression that they don't value art closely to some sort of objective intrinsic value - they also probably can't incentivise great works either. Consider the case of Don Quixote [0]. We have arguably one of the greatest novels of any language, ever. It was "engendered" in a prison [1] and the value of that work to the literary canon goes way beyond whatever trials befell Cervantes in getting the life experiences to write it. The situation defies any sort of economic rationalism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes
Well, no. I made a point about the terminology that gets used today, and explicitly did not come in on either side of an abstract debate about whether that norm is appropriate or should be changed. Nor do I mean to.

"Nazi soldiers", etc., was common during the war years and immediately afterwards, especially in ideologically charged material, but "German soldiers" took over by the 1950s, and has continued.
Except wasting electricity (probably not much, but a minute or so of battery life sounds more useful than a glowing apple)
This is one of the problems of Android's model. By being so open to customization, any branch's weirdness gets mixed in with "Android", because there are too many variations and not enough linguistic ability to name them all clearly and consistently in conversation.
Lower-class / Middle-class / Upper-class defined as brackets of income seems to be the wrong way to divide things.

There is an ownership class that receives preferential tax treatment and a labor class that doesn't.

A small business owner might only net $80k/year, but their incentives in regards to policy are more aligned with a billionaire startup founder than with an $80k/year middle manager, because their income doesn't come in the form of a W-2 job.

It doesn't really matter the amount of income you're getting, it matters a lot more in what form it comes. People who work for others and have a boss who determines their livelihood have more in common with each other regardless of how much they make than people who own businesses. Even movie stars have a union.
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Base64 should allow you to do it. It's logical to limit remote font loading, even moreso than js. There used to be quite a few RCE bugs involving fonts on Windows and Adove.
I didn't pay $1000 for a "telephone with a few extra bells and whistles"
Someone who knows how to do all of those things, already knows that they know how to do all of those things. Nobody who uses a one-stop-shop like Shopify is duped into thinking it's something revolutionary. Either it's not something they know how to do on their own, not something they think is worth the trouble to do on their own, or not something they could afford to pay someone like you to do.
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Just a personal anecdote: I've been using Amazon less and less. Most of the goods I buy from them are things that I would otherwise get from a supermarket. Bulk goods mostly, and almost entirely things I'd otherwise get at my local supermarket or Walgreens.

My other purchases are from shopify sites. I trust that what I'm buying is what is advertised far more than I do with Amazon. The influx of crummy knock-off products, poorly made junk, and a lack of quality around product listings on Amazon has completely driven me away from them for things like clothing, shoes, fitness products (equipment, supplements), and anything else that I wouldn't see myself purchasing regularly or that I require a high standard of quality for.