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>Land has value. It is not free.

And if you derive any rental income from the land value whatsoever, you are milking money from something valuable you did not create and did not make valuable. It's a purely parasitic form of value extraction from something that isn't free.

This is why the value of land improvements (e.g. having a nice house) should be untaxed, separated from the value of the land while the rental value of the land should be taxed at 100%.

And, until we do do that, we shouldn't pretend that rent isn't largely (i.e. ~60%) parasitic value extraction.
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The problem here is though, barely anyone has heard about this story and Prime Day is now over. I just sent this article to three photography friends, one of which works at a camera store, and none of them had heard about it yet.

The only way this deal was discovered it seems, is by careful watchers on slickdeals as well, so I'm going to lean towards this being a legitimate pricing error and not some attempt and sneakily generating PR.

The intentional PR being generated here will be Amazon going "fine, let's eat the loss and show that we put our customers first" instead of going "nope, cancel delivery and don't ship any more, then start requesting voluntary retrieval on the ones that have delivered!" which many companies would have to do but Amazon will likely lose less by letting customers keep them than they net in minutes (if not tens of seconds depending on how many actually shipped).
It's surprising to me that there are people who disagree with my opinion about this, but it suggests that my familiarity with Python has damaged my perspective. You're clearly much less familiar with Python (this code doesn't contain any list comprehensions, for example), so I think your opinion about readability is probably a lot more objective than mine.
Just give consumers access to a price list before service is provided. That will go a long way towards helping the problem.

(Not that you are going to price shop for every service--a trip to the emergency room for a broken bone wonte get shopped--but some portion of health Care is discretionary or is deliberate enough it can be shopped.)
Here's the perspective of (not casual) anime fans on the whole thing, if anyone cares.

https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2019/07/18/kyoto-animation-st...
You seem to be a bit out of touch. I'll leave it at that.
Probably.

I think it's a downward spiral, it only works because each player is forced to play along due to fundamentals of game theory.

So what we are seeing is that the methods become more ruthless every day, but everyone needs to conform, and it's a race to the bottom.

The end result is spending-fatigue and numbness in response to normal ads that are not hyper-addictive.

I also think it does not really pay off for publishers. It only really pays off for the middle men and those players who sell unethical products aimed at manipulation.
Well ... unless you want that exact hardware to move DCs.

Your decommissioning event had me in stitches. I might use that phrase in the future :D
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They do in the second paragraph
The other day I described a modern mainframe as something that resembles a cluster where CPUs are connected through very high-speed low-latency buses (to the point they can behave like a single-image NUMA machine or be partitioned into multiple smaller ones) connected to multiple networks of specialized computers each running their own tiny specialized OSs that manage IO over different buses. It's common for them to have hundreds of PCI-e buses (and cards connected to storage, communications, other mainframes - for failover or clustering - etc).

An x86 server is a computer built around its CPU. A mainframe is a computer built around its buses.
I’m around 33. Planning to retire by 40. Will do my own projects after that.
> This is the problem with stealing "easy money." It's hard to stop, especially if you don't spend the first portion of money wisely.

Plus there's a weird psychological effect in some people where they feel guilty and actually want to get caught. A few years ago I dropped my wallet somewhere, and someone picked it up and used the contactless cards a couple times. They caught him when, the next day, he was shouting and threatening people and generally acting obnoxious, and was arrested with my wallet (complete with my photo ID) still on him.

Why did the guy suddenly get himself arrested? Why didn't he at least get rid of the wallet first? Maybe there's no connection between the two, but people are complicated.
Doesn't seem fine to me. Denmark has some of the highest taxes on cars, high taxes in general, is overall expensive and increasingly has dysfunctional politics and uncompetitive infrastructure [0]. Part of the benefit of being a small country is that you can exercise a greater degree of control. With a suitably high tax rate you can lower the barrier to entry to increase participation and make the most out of your population. It if of course up to each country to select their model, but I don't see the endgame of Denmark not upgrading their infrastructure. That isn't something they can win at. Even the US arguably can't anymore.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Europe#/med...
Taking advantage of this "deal" is obviously morally untenable if you stop and think about it. Rather than posing the hypothetical of flipping it around between vendor and customer (i.e., "Would you be OK with it if Amazon charged you more?"), consider the case where it was a local mom and pop camera shop that made this mistake on its website. Then you would probably feel terrible about exploiting this and would be fine with the company requesting the merchandise be returned, say with a $100 store credit.

Now ask yourself why this scenario is really different from the store being Amazon from a moral standpoint. If you're being intellectually honest with yourself, you will conclude that it's the same reasoning that would support the idea that it's OK to steal from people as long as they are very rich and won't miss the money.
That sentence jumped out at me too. The intuitive thinking process - unverbalized or half-expressed leaps of logic making interconnections - I imagine mathematicians experience a similar rush of thoughts while solving or exploring.

All code boils down to operations that can be described mathematically. Software is applied mathematics (with a sprinkle of art, perhaps). I think the reason why some people feel that programming is not closely related to mathematics, is that programmers are thinking and working on top of so many layers of abstraction, it's almost like working with the "stuff of the mind" itself, with models, processes, flows, transformations, events, composing behaviors.

That said, I relate to what the grandparent commenter is saying. Software allows me to think with visible, malleable and "living" mathematics while building up a system, to ask questions and have a dialogue with it.

>> there's more ways to think about problems and solutions than..applying formal mathematics

I agree with this. Often a "looser" approach is needed to explore a problem space, and formal mathematics may not be the best medium for creative problem-solving. On the other hand, the qualities that are valued in software - types, functional programming, test-driven development, etc. - are all about proofs. Not necessarily mathematically rigorous, but the closer you get, the more reliable the logic.
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Anyone else having issue with the gmail site not loading. My account in non-gsuite and I don't see any official status from Google. Twitter has a few reports.
Java's checked exceptions are a failed experiment because of subclassing (i.e. eventually you get `throws Throwable` which doesn't give you any useful information). More precise exception tracking is essentially isomorphic to current Rust (Result etc.).
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there are state-sponsered media like BBC, etc.
it's nice, but not great for old hardware. quite CPU intensive.
I have a high deducible plan and think its a good idea that everyone gets one. It means you're much more aware of costs and much more careful. One of the reasons the total US healthcare bill is so high is that many/most people get lots of unnecessary tests, lots of marginally useful procedures and lots of expensive emergency work instead of trying to be healthy in the first place.

Finally having people feel the sting of the bills will hopefully pressure people to change the system that is both very inefficient and overpays doctors, drug companies and hospitals.
Major US cities are overrun by drug addicts suffering from severe mental illnesses, with literally thousands dying from overdoses every year.
Surely that should be "Humans have developed gorilla-like social structure."
Intellectual property issues once again. People think they own ideas and glorify themselves as originators. In reality once an idea is communicated it is free. All people can really do is add value to an idea by promoting it, framing it, demonstrating it, aiding in its application, and so on. Yet here intellectual property has scaled beyond mere value into critical relevance and even a person's identity itself. An individual went way out of bounds here, but some unworkable ideas about intellectual property helped to define the path. Modern cultures really need to come to terms with the nature of intellectual property in the Internet era. It's not just about protecting a mouse anymore.
Right, and it's not morally wrong for a mosquito to bite you, and no one would say that the bug "should have known better", but we do our best to prevent it anyway. Both entities will go precisely as far as we allow them to.
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Doesn't your argument work against encryption just the same? With such an argument aren't you actually punishing 99.9% of the internet population for what the 0.1% is doing?
Why are we waiting so long for cheap and everywhere electric bikes?
Ah, Nazis. Into the garbage bin this article goes.
Because PSF suggests it as go-to tool for env management
I have $6,500 deductable. It's insane how much work I need to do to get healthcare.

The biggest issue is price transparency. To get a price, I need the tax-id of the medical office and the procedure code. Often times the procedure code is unknown because I might have any number of different procedures, depending on what the diagnosis is.

So, I take my list of codes to the health insurance company with the tax ID and wait while they look everything up. This whole thing can take 2 hours.

That's if everyone knows what they're doing. Medical offices are so used to patients not asking about price, their back-office has no idea what to do when someone actually asks how much a procedure will cost.

Then there's the insanity of cash price being cheaper than the insurance price. So, I need to decide if I want to pay $600 and have it go towards my deductible or $450 and pay cash.

I agreed to pay $450 cash and no one in the office understood how to handle it. I finally get to pay the $450 cash and I still got a bill from my insurance for $600 because they also billed my insurance.

You get that? I paid cash and my insurance company still got billed.

Then we have billing errors. I got billed for things I never asked for and/or never received. More wasted time addressing that. Of course, back office is not used to patients reviewing their bill, so there's more confusion to deal with.

I also have an HSA tax free bank account that lets me pay for this stupidity tax free, yay! Dozens of more hours were thrown away trying to understand how HSA accounts work, what I can charge to the HSA account and picking a bank to handle the HSA account.

I spent nearly 100 hours in the last few years dealing with health insurance bullshit.

Imagine how many more wasted hours other Americans deal with.

Fuck this shit already.
What spin? You're the one getting confused about the point of the demo - to show that for very low byte count you can get a reasonably clean BPG image (when compared to JPG it's much much much better or can't you see?); so that people can be more informed about it's relative size/performance ratio at one data point.

I find it amazing that you seem to be adding in all sorts of nonsense about scaling images and filtering and such. It's not relevant to the discussion about at X filesize and res JPEG looks appalling and BPG looks pretty passable.

This is the widest distance between the two formats for sure, but if you want large hires images at very small file sizes BPG is a pretty nice format. As I go on to say the savings are outweighed by the cost of including the decoder plugin and the probably battery and memory cost this incurs.
This makes /some/ sense ... but it still smells of doublethink.
Amazon wants to give users $10 in exchange for tracking them all over the web
> All of this money and effort to create something that has never scientifically been proven to work

There are parts of the online ads business that are very scientific. They run A/B tests to figure out what will make them the most money, and they're very good at it. Amazon, for example: say you look at a blender there and don't buy it. Amazon has cookied you, and can then target that cookie on other websites, showing you pictures of the blender trying to get you to come back and complete your purchase. They have very good metrics showing how much they should pay for these remarketing ads, and they make a lot of money from it.

> Each article on a newspaper already provides the context.

The article you're reading does give some information. There are a few kinds of articles that people are especially likely to read before spending money ("what kind of phone should I buy", "which credit card should I get", "what do I do if I've been diagnosed with mesothelioma") and ads on those pages are worth a lot. But if you look over the front page of the Washington Post ("Opioid death rates soared in areas where pain pills flowed", "At rally, crowd responds to Trump’s criticism of Rep. Omar with chants of ‘Send her back!’", "House votes to kill impeachment resolution", "This German city had few foreigners. Then refugees changed it in some surprising ways") or any other general interest publication you'll see that most articles are targeted at, and going to be read by, a very wide range of people.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google)
A company I worked for (in São Paulo) had a couple failover setups for its Unisys A-series machine, one with a bank across the street and another with a near twin machine running in its factory in Manaus.

If, for some reason, an event decommissioned all three machines, having our computers back online would be a lesser problem - we would probably be better off learning to hunt and make fire.
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> Exactly, give it a few millennia, and some specie probably will end up like us in their own way.

I'm all for evolution, and I think animals have feelings and emotions and are smarter than they are often considered. But "they will end up like us" is highly unlikely as we know of no other such development in last few billion years.
This is also formalized in Dutch law. A consumer is entitled to the list price, unless there has been a "obvious" mistake. The classical example is an item being listed for €5,99 instead of €599,-
I work in Big Healthcare. It's unbelievable what this company wastes money on. It is my daily ethical dilemma. I came to the job to help make healthcare better and quickly found out that this is just a big, publicly traded company whose executives play up the "helping people" aspect but at the end of the day it's all about the money. It's funny because I have avoided the General Dynamics and Lockheed Martins out of concern for the ethics of that kind of work. But every place I have been has been ethically challenged one way or another. You would not believe how many companies are taking government money, for example. America is not the place you imagine it to be, it is truly fascism.

My health insurance costs have well more than doubled since 2014 thanks to ACA. I deliver that failure directly at the doorstep of Obama and his Administration as well as the gutless Supreme Court that could have struck down this awful handout to corporate America.

It's disgusting, completely disgusting.
I've been meaning to do something very similar to this for a while to see what hours people at large tech companies are committing at
I think Switzerland's train/railroad system is much more impressive although sometimes it seems a lot of money is spent on it.
Instead of X-Frame-Options one should use CSP's frame-ancestors option, it has wider support among modern browsers. But CSP deserves more than one paragraph in general.

He also missed Expect-Staple and Expect-CT, in addition to that, most of security headers have the option to specify an URI where failures are sent, very important in production environments.
Explain to my why you value life over principles in a universe that neither designates value to either? Having a different world view does not make a person mentally ill. Willing to die for principles means strong feelings, no more, no less.

You may find what he did heinous but violent behavior is not necessarily indicative of mental illness. It just tends to be a combination of 3 things:

1) value of self biology/life

2) value of others biology/life

3) strength of belief that ideology and impact of events supercedes 1 and 2

It is convenient to claim every violent person is mentally ill when the reality is moreso the 3 aforementioned precepts, and a short-temper/hot handle.
For one or two isolated commits, that is a fair question. But with hundreds I think it evens out.

A more detailed analysis could also take in account the number of changes. How many files per commit? How many lines, maybe?

The day of week is also a very interesting metric, that is very visible e.g. on github's timeline. I know my busiest days in terms of commits are in the middle of the week, a marked decrease on Friday afternoons, and if there are commits in the weekend, they most likely contain swearing in the message.

Edit: I'm betting Brad Fitzpatrick's pattern in Go (current job?) and memchached (not current job?) would vary in terms of day of week, not just hour.
Well, the actual comparison is between the cost (for ownership) of a 1 TB (refurbished) drive vs. 1 month of 1 TB of cloud storage.

The Author could have done it as the cost (for ownership) of a brand new NAS with 2x2 TB disk (which can be - just checked on tiger direct) around 350+65+65=480 US$ vs 6 months of 4 TB cloud storage 6x4x20=480, but the overall message would have been the same.

Imagine that you rent a car for 6 months and during the 6 months you pay rates equating the price of the car brand new.
As someone who approached this problem before, the document called "Principles of Operation" IS NOT the correct entry point.
The place I work at is about the same size as this office and only has one exit (and that's the main door). Many of the facilities I visit for work are similarly lacking.

Maybe the US really goes over the top, but there are plenty of places where I'd feel pretty screwed if some sort of disaster occurred.
That can be done with libraries.
I agree. This probably won’t be a full solution but at least it would bring a little transparency into the process. Usually going to a US doctor or hospital means to pretty much hand out a blank check telling them to take as much as they feel like and your only hope is that they won’t rip you off too much.
Price lists and comparisons are available for health insurance plans. That hasn't stopped premiums and deductibles from rising to the point of popular furor.
This is not a useful analogy; it is more of an excuse for not trying to think things through. Would this be a reasonable analogy for building a bridge?

If you don't have a reasonably detailed idea of what you want and how to achieve it, you are unlikely to get it.

https://dilbert.com/strip/1991-9-6
Microsoft is considering Rust as alternative to C and C++
> that's the whole reason they got rid of Google Maps

Is it? It was widely reported at the time (e.g., [1, 2]) that they were getting rid of Google Maps and creating Apple Maps because Google wanted to keep spoken turn-by-turn directions an Android-only feature.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2012/09/get_the_fainting_chair

[2]: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-jilted-google-maps-over-verb...
John Bardeen: the greatest physicist you (probably) never heard of
The opposite sort of thing happens on Airbnb. Most Airbnbs have/had strict cancellation policies, but if they screw up and you are out of accommodations last minute you can get a refund of what you would have paid, or at best alternate accommodations.
> They can buy a $100k (?) mainframe,

You'll find those on e-Bay. A new one will be significantly more expensive.
I can think of one Mark it might be!
tl;dr Rob Pike eats lunch at noon
How to create custom badges to use on markdown docs
> Japanese buildings also are massively lacking in emergency exits.

This does not sound right. On the contrary, I have always seen emergency exits in Japanese buildings.
Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It a Standard
This was not a price "mistake"!

This was a well executed marketing campaign - they are looking to see how much ROI they will get on such marketing move. By the next prime day there will be millions more people logged in - looking for super deals!!!!

Do you really think they dont have a complex system in place that would flag this huge price discrepancy 100x before the product ships out? I dont think so.
Instagram Hides Likes Count to ‘Remove Pressure’ on Users
I think this is the real answer. I've like hex tiles for a long time, but they don't nest properly like squares in a quadtree. I think someone at Uber decided to "make it work" because it looks cool. They traded one set of problems for another, and I think from a technical point of view they made a poor choice.
What you forgot to mention was that the bouncer does this for free and has a day job publishing tabloids.
> Math can't deal with imperfect input and/or side effects without turning into something else.

It very much can though.
Even a replacement is unnecessary — silphium was a commercially important plant traded in antiquity. It had well known uses in antiquity, was sought after (considered worth its weight in silver), was mentioned in literature of all sorts and appeared on coins. It’s also potentially where we get the heart symbol and its connotations in modern times (it is theorized to have been a contraceptive of some sort).

And it went extinct, and a we’re not quite sure why. Plants can be very useful and not survive attempts at cultivation before going extinct in the wild. It doesn’t need to get more complicated than that.
I write a lot of code at night, then commit during the day after a double-check.
How European firm Tüv Süd approved Brazil dam before it burst
I think it's may be helpful for education purpose
Stanford Dropout Raised over $100M to Reinvent How We Commute in Cities
It depends. Capella Tower has card reader access at the elevators, along with some other buildings. Many tenant spaces have card reader access as well, typically ones with health/financial records.

Note: I work for an electrical contractor and run work in Class A office space in DT Mpls
I wonder how much this is related to age.
And the cycle keeps going back and forth, on and on...
Please god no, it would be unbearable.

And they are called papers.
What on Earth is your argument? Everyone was experimenting with cabin pressurization - that wasn't even the first one. Are you seriously suggesting that that specific aircraft - a pre-war, single-engine piston craft - in any way influenced the design of the Comet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization#History