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I was in Denver and the amount of these scooters littered around the city pissed me off. They where everywhere.

This is subjective. I live in a city that has at least five brands of scooters, and I work downtown where they are most densely clustered. (Not only that, it's a popular area with tourists, so it's an eternal September of scooter use.)

Some people here feel exactly the way you do; others think they're great. Some people consider them a nuisance to pedestrians; I walk on the same sidewalks and rarely experience a need to step around or over them. Some people feel terrified and menaced by them; I use the same streets and sidewalks, and for me, scooters barely register next to the danger posed by cars. Some people think they take up an inordinate amount of space; I think you could fit all the scooters in the entire downtown area into half a block's worth of street parking. You think they're toxic and don't improve society; I think they decrease the number of car trips and (in combination with Lyft/Uber) make it affordable for a lot of young people without tech jobs to live in expensive cities by making car ownership less necessary.
The context is that people's adblockers, noscript/umatrix, and Tor add-ons were not working.
I couldn't disagree more. All people are capable of monstrous things in the right circumstances.
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN, and please don't post in the flamewar style here generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it.

It sounds like you'd prefer a straight donation approach?

My concern is stickiness and commitment. I don't want people to show up once, chip in $6 and then disappear forever.

I want people to get engaged longterm and evangelize the platform / cause amongst their own contacts.

I'm open to better approaches for getting more people onboard and active.

Thanks again
In my case it was an easy decision: at the time I installed the panels I locked in 20 years of subsidy-fixed pricing for the electricity they produce.

But I'm up here at 56 degrees north, and the question is not so much power during the night as during the winter. I need the grid, and so does everyone else, and the stabilization services that go along with it. So that sets a price floor.
Both of these are true. I can't believe anyone thinks that my hobbyist purchase affects the transportation business model of Bird. That's like thinking cars are putting buses out of business in Chicago.

I've also rented a couple Lyft scooters out of convenience, as you said. They certainly feel worse, now that I'm spoiled, but the convenience of just dropping them off is a huge win.
Why consume economic output to visit elderly people? Why not create societal structures so that elderly people have relationships like the 90 year old Italian men I see in the local park who smoke and yell at each other all day?
Although, then you have to exert your own energy, which many people find untenable.
The publisher didn't authorize HN users to copy the text into the thread though.

While I have you: could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh god, please. Yes! I am sick of all the same looking pages, all streamlined. Does anybody remember the classical frameset from the 2000s? Left Navi frame, top frame, main frame. So boring. Everybody had it. It's the same today.
I don't think any convincing would be necessary if the help were simply cut off in high cost of living areas and only available in lower cost areas.

This will probably not happen any time soon because it's politically incorrect to effectively admit homeless people don't deserve to live in high cost of living areas, but it would certainly be more effective in helping people materially. Not to mention, people in lower cost, yet populated, areas probably don't want them there either and will fight to prevent this from happening (NIMBY).
We all know about vanity metrics. Sometimes startups consume themselves with vanity goals when things aren't going well. Why? Maybe to feel some sense of accomplishment? It's harder to admit failure. Maybe the CEO saying I'm bored is a forcing function that will work as well as saying we have a month of cash left?
But that’s not the case. When FB announces 3 months ago they were holding back $5B for an estimated fine, their stock was up 10% that day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742270
This has been done before and has a very dark history. Deeming someone criminal and in need of remediation has been an integral part of some very grim historical events.
I’m pretty sure I know what you’re arguing for, but how does one avoid it becoming a system whereby undesirables are vanished? Is there somewhere that has a humane and fair system?
Can you please not post duplicate comments to HN? Repetition lowers the signal/noise ratio.
The Hollywood ending defines them and probably always has, so far from recent. It's been a standard for everyone to take the piss out of as long as I've known of movies!

It's one reason I miss a healthy British film industry - sure those mostly ended happily, but rarely so cheesy, except some from the 1940s. Yet there was a decent proportion of surprise unhappy, cynical, tired and non-endings too. A twist would sometimes be something you actually didn't see coming, rather than a "surprise" set up from the start and regularly telegraphed like a five year old keeping a secret. :)

It's not that I dislike superheroes. Well, didn't used to. The whole Marvel universe thing started off well enough. I enjoyed Wolverine, Iron Man, Deadpool 1 plenty, and some others. I really like roast lamb and mint, but getting it for 2 in 3 meals would cure me by boredom within weeks. Maybe it's just too large a proportion of the canon. Except it infects all genres... Wolf of Wall Street? Great Gatsby? Chernobyl? Superhero movies - in style, in script, in camera work, and in tropes used. Now that's putting lamb and mint in with my choc cake and just spoiling every meal.

Chernobyl was the surprise disappointment. It didn't need to deviate so far from reality - the affected were dangerously radioactive too? Not in our universe's physics. Nor be quite so McCarthy child's comic book (and wildly inaccurate) in representing the Soviets. That kind-of suited Stranger Things, though even there it was rather overblown, or Bruce Willis' Red, but not here. Legasov was the superhero - except he didn't actually tear down the whole Soviet system in court, nor get arrested by the KGB after the show trial. The plant manager (I forget the name) was the absurdist villain, missing only a white cat. Do as I say or I will throw you into the reactor Mr Stark. Oh wait, that was Serbina in the helicopter.

Chernobyl was clearly set in a comic book universe. It would still have been bloody good, and well made without any of that bullshit. The attention to scenic correctness and actors resembling the real people was remarkable. Spoiling the plot for a ha'p'orth of reality then.

Suffice to say, I don't think we're going to agree, but it's been a fun back and forth. :)
Who is "you" here? The user? Zoom?
>We don't need jobs in outdated, polluting industries

Man, we don't need jobs at all. I want to live in an all-renewable automated world. But I realize that's not realistic in the short term, and it will take decades - perhaps even another century - until that desire is realized. Hence my reservation.
Previous Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, decides to helicopter drop money through printing press at zero interest rate.

Electric Scooters drops from the sky. Now what?
I wonder how people would feel about ethanol plants fired by wind farms.

The one built near my family home is coal fired and the idea of growing crops to be turned into car fuel is ... less appealing.

But if you had electric or ethanol powered tractors growing biomass to ferment and distill into more ethanol with a plant fired with wind, maybe there are some different environmental considerations there.

For one it would be carbon negative or neutral if you considered that the fuel is all going to be returned to the atmosphere.
> Localizing our entire energy dependence has got to have some serious national security benefits.

It's estimated that we spent $6.8T between 1976 and 2007 on the US policy of always maintaining an Aircraft Carrier on station all day every day in the Persian Gulf, to insure the free flow of oil.

https://offiziere.ch/wp-content/uploads/US-miiltary-cost-of-...
The posix subsystem was a thing even when xp was around
He's using it correctly here though: the risk is that if you provide housing to the lowest rung while making the next group down pay $1.5K/bedroom/month, some of the next group down will decide that they would rather become part of the "lowest rung" group rather than pay the money. It's like the phenomena of people committing petty crimes so that they can get a warm bed and food in jail.
And when FB previously announced they expected a $5B fine, their stock was up 10% on that day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19742270
What do you mean about the “zoom case?”

Zoom did control the localhost server, and setting a CORS header would have helped mitigate the attack.
The point wasn't a new front-end. From this Wired article[1]:

> But there is one thing about the wiki that he regrets. "I always felt bad that I owned all those pages," he says. The central idea of a wiki – whether it's driving Wikipedia or C2 – is that anyone can add or edit a page, but those pages all live on servers that someone else owns and controls. Cunningham now believes that no one should have that sort of central control, so he has built something called the federated wiki.

So, in short, the point is decentralization, so the Wiki belongs to the people and not be under any one entity's control.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/
Then why have the PAC at all?
that report puts a 76,800 square foot foundation (so perhaps triple that for total land usage) at $250,000. Is that anywhere remotely in the realms of reality for an area that might actually get permitted and connected at the other assumptions they've made?

It wouldn't be in my country (UK).
To be fair, this is a slightly different issue. External websites can presumably link to file:// or localhost URLs (the one in your comment works fine from the HN website), but they can't transmit any information about the resource back to their servers. That's also true of images (unless the server serving the image allows it via CORS).

An evil web page at example.com/evil can certainly contain an img tag for http://localhost/me.jpg or http://dropbox.com/private-photo.jpg. You will see your private images displayed on their web site, but while that may be disturbing (or even useful for phishing), the evil web page cannot transmit the image data back to itself. For example, it can't use JavaScript to load the image into a canvas, base64 encode the canvas, and POST it back to itself, because the canvas will become "dirty" as soon as the image is loaded into it, and the browser will not allow JavaScript code to dump a dirty canvas to any inspectable format.
That sounds more like Bern or Paris (where their is a lack of free public restrooms) rather than the USA. What am I missing?
> often the children don't want to live where the parents' home is located

I lived with my parents during college. It was expected because they couldn't afford to pay for a dorm for me.

I think it delayed my growth.
The Ampera is a plug-in hybrid, I think? And the Ampera-e is the pure EV version that is basically the Bolt?

Here's an interesting article:
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1115366_opel-to-swap-am...

[The new electric Corsa] will supplant the larger Ampera-e electric car, which launched last year to great enthusiasm in some markets but has since appeared to be in very limited supply, according to numerous complaints by interested buyers.

Just 1,971 units of the Opel Ampera-e were sold throughout Europe, according to JATO Dynamics.
Solar & Batteries work great in California when peak demand is when its hot. In the frozen North though its different, esp if you want to replace gas/oil heating with heat pumps, peak demand would be cold nights in January.
It's a great achievement to produce 100% of your electricity from renewables but this title is misleading. Cars, planes, trucks, etc, still run on fossil fuels. Costa Rica also heats water with gas, like most countries.

Also, Costa Rica has always been a low emissions country. In 2014 they had 1.6 per capita, well below the 4.3 world average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I believe some networking equipment let you go to "www.routercompany.com" that loads up the router's config webpage without having to remember its lan IP.
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Meh, I'm moving out of the area, but if I weren't, I certainly would. I have mentioned it to a lot of people at church though, and they seemed to not care. Apathy is unfortunately all too common.
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I belive the Ampera was a hybrid, Ampera-e was the pure electric version (and hence the Bolt), and it never came to the UK.
Knight Capital also didn't know what version of software their servers were running, didn't know which servers were originating the bad requests, had abandoned code still in the codebase, and reused flags that controlled that abandoned code (another summary: https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2013-10-22-how-to-lose-172222-a-s...). I'm not sure what you can infer about the risk of a rollback in a less crazy environment.
Its perfectly legal to discriminate if there is a bona fide occupational qualification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bona_fide_occupational_qualifi...
That's dedicated to hosting something online. I've referring to something that runs on your desktop. Something accessible only on your desktop and not the outside world. Like old school desktop apps but with a twist.
> But for people who don't, what is the functional difference between a SSN today and a national ID, apart from SSNs being broken for such a purpose?

There have actually been requirements enacted prohibiting SSNs from being used for anything other than social security, but they haven't been enforced, and that's the problem with SSNs.

The answer isn't to have a national ID, it's to get rid of SSNs, or at least restrict them to social security.

You shouldn't need a SSN to open a bank account. The bank should issue you a bank ID (i.e. a debit/credit card) which allows you to get/spend the money you've deposited. You have a credit card number, you have a bank routing number, what do you need a SSN for? Only surveillance, nothing else.

If you stop using SSNs for anything other than social security, you can't have Equifax. Databases tracking everything about everybody are not required to exist, do not benefit people, and national ID numbers only exist to enable them.
Wonder how much of this can be attributed to suburbanization

Also, having had grandparents who were quite lonely in their later years, a lot of this can probably be attributed to a reluctance to move out of their house and into group living situations specifically for the elderly (such as assisted living). If you are not very mobile and staying in a SFH, it can be a 30m ordeal just to get up and use the landline. And traveling outside your home requires someone else to drive and help you get in/out of the car.
In the ideal case the IPC mechanism is just a block of memory shared between processes running simultaneously on separate cores, so there is no need to context-switch. You still want some sort of kernel-based blocking semaphore to avoid busy-waiting when the IPC queue is empty, but since it's only used when the queue is empty it isn't part of the performance-critical path.
I have compelling reasons to choose to live in a penthouse suite in Manhattan. It has a beautiful view. Gorgeous amenities. Private parking. Really, it's the best. However, I can't afford to, so the way society persuades me not to live there is that they kick me out, since I didn't pay for the place and don't have any claim to it. This does not seem entirely unreasonable to me.

I get your point: it seems like a moral good in America for people to have some inalienable (i.e. "not required to pay for") right to have some control over where they live. But it makes zero sense to have a black and white rule that everyone has a right to live anywhere they want. Do I have a right to take up residence inside your living room? Your home? Your porch? A public school's playground? The middle of an interstate? A public park? I think the reasonable answers to all of those are "no".

The US is geographically sorting itself by wealth. You used to have pricy neighborhoods but any given city generally had some amount of property available across a range of income levels. With the transition to a service economy, this is less true over time. Now entire cities are becoming uniformly expensive.

The reality is that I no longer think it's tenable to say that someone has a right to live in Manhattan regardless of their income level. The way things are going, it's probably going to be the case that the entire city limits of SF, Seattle, and NYC will go that way.

Does it suck? Yes. Can it be solved at the city level? I don't think so.
I'm not convinced this is true in general. Depending on how complicated these passes are, if you were to write the compiler in a language that allows you to combine them at compile time it would be entirely possible for the compiler(The one compiling the compiler) to cut out of the inter-pass crud.

https://d.godbolt.org/z/w9At24 I hacked together this to show what I mean, i.e. Composing working functions with templates, which the compiler can then optimize into just a function call like any other (i.e. This can be used to minimize runtime scheduling cost)
Which level?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_TkbPZXkAITIol.jpg

There is zero impact to Facebook from this fine. They are celebrating with champagne and looking at new yacht prices in Menlo Park.

Nobody goes to jail, everyone keeps their jobs. They only broke Democracy, it seems like that would be the one crime you wouldn't just get off scot free for. The FTC is complicit, we don't seem to have a functional regulatory system in this country any more.
What is the foot dragging on the momentum of Thorium generators?
The American system is pretty messed up compared to the rest of the world, but I think the elephant in the room is that if you are insured and have money to spend, I think the American system is better just because you have more options and can see specialists quicker.

I broke my ankle in a really bad way rock climbing two years ago. When I first broke it, my health insurance was Kaiser, an HMO, which is a decent example of how a government healthcare system might look like in other parts of the world (you cannot just go see a specialist and everything is controlled by referrals). I had major trauma in my ankle that required surgery, but Kaiser won't even let me see an orthopedic surgeon. Their policy was that since it was foot injury, I would only be able to see a Podiatrist, and I had no choice in that matter since I had no control over which kind of specialist I could or coudn't see. When I talked to my orthopedic surgeon friend about this referral to a Podiatrist, they thought it was crazy.

I went to see that Podiatrist and they basically told me that my ankle was screwed, there was not much they could do for me, and that I will spend the rest of my life in pain. I think in another country like Canada or Britain, that would probably be the end of the story.

I am pretty young, so I didn't want to give up just yet. I went and got a second, third, fourth, etc... opinion from other doctors, just paying in cash outside of my insurance. Eventually, I switched insurances to a PPO plan (just a regular Obamacare plan) and found my way to The Steadman Clinic in Vail, which is where a lot of pro sports players get orthopedic surgery. There, a surgeon recommended a procedure where they use stem cells during the surgery to rebuild dead tissue. I was able to have that procedure.

Two years later, my ankle is still pretty messed up, so I went to that doctor again, and he recommended a third surgery to clean up a bunch of dead tissue. From the time when I decided to see the doctor again to the time I had the surgery was 1.5 weeks!

All this is a great example of why the US system is bad overall, but actually good for the patient if you have money. I have seen like 10 orthopedic surgeons for this injury and have had 3 surgeries, all because I was motivated to try to get better and to try all options. I don't think I would have gotten nearly that much or that good of care under a government plan. The amazing thing about the US system is that if you have money, and you want to try stuff, you just can! There is noone telling you otherwise.
Citation needed.

I think you should seriously reconsider your position.

There is a chronic inebriate apartment building downtown Seattle that makes no moral judgements about "stopping drinking" etc that LOWERS COSTS (with studies to back it up) for the community.

People with problems get a permanent address. Ambulance and police calls drop as they aren't chasing these guys all over town.

Think again.

MAYBE your position is more about being judgemental about their moral state then actually whats good for them and the rest of us.

EDIT -

Just to be clear. If someone is too far gone (and many of these guys are) then we need to start funding involutanry commitment beds.
For property-based testing of concurrency & nondeterminism, look into dejafu :)
It's pretty much a non issue. Battery recycling is going to be a great business once currently produced batteries start reaching their rather long end of life. We're in a weird situation right now where we are producing vastly more than just a few years ago so the recycling market is lagging the production market by about 10-15 years or so. However, lithium is easily recovered and the incentives for recovering it are very high given how scarce and expensive this stuff is.

Solar recycling is much less of an issue since we're mostly talking about silicon. There's probably enough precious metals involved that recycling them after a few decades is going to be a thing. But compared to the extremely dirty business that is coal mining this is a complete non issue.
>the coastlines are at sea level

You don't say!
You might be interested in the sun seeker duo. It's in the ballpark for personal air travel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA4XeMddMY

In flight charging (refueling) could be a possibility too.

The drone based solar planes can stay up longer than 5 days. I think the defense companies can keep them up for months.
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Not any more than it should be shocking to a forum of computer scientists that police agencies have tools to query a database and produce visualizations.
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That is the case. A $5B estimated fine puts a rough ballpark on the potential fine. I.e. it's likely not going to be over $10bn. That could easily bump the stock up, with extra potential upside due to the uncertainty of what the actual figure will be. That is, could it be $8B? There is extra uncertainty priced in which has now been fully lifted.