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>A doubling of the minimum wage would likely increase by expenses by 35% - assuming the minimum wage didn’t impact where my food was purchased. This is why there a large fields of economic theory that warn against minimum wage hikes.

Right. Because it's savage towards profit margins they tell you that they'll be forced to lay people off to scare you... even when they won't do any such thing.
Yes, it's a textbook example of moral panic and the WP article says so. I was primarily pointing out that to most people, especially in Japan, the image of "nerds fawning over stylized drawings" sounds about as innocuous as "Catholic priests fawning over little choir boys".
Okay, so I have a question. A lot of folks are saying this is anecdotal. Which is true. A hand full of hearsay. Probably just a bunch of jackasses talking crap.

But, how many stories like this are needed until it's no longer anecdotal? I keep seeing people on HN say "Anecdotal! Doesn't matter!". I mean, so is the story of someone getting hit by a car and breaking bones. If they say "high speed vehicles hitting someone can break bones", it's easy to say "Anecdotal! Many people are around high speed vehicles and don't break bones!" Which is true too.

So... just saying. I've been doing data science on and off the last 2 years and the number 1 task is cleaning data. Which, in itself leads to problems. All data is anecdotal, except its collected in one place. Maybe the whole unbiased collection plays in, but no one is truly ever unbiased towards anything.
It's a intentional failure designed to trigger after a certain amount of time... sounds like a "bomb" to me.
I definitely did. Once in three years project senior being acutely needed during his vacation? Sure. Every time senior is in vacation? No.

There being once a week release that needs senior involvement each time it happens so it surely hits also vacation? Badly organized.
> My personal thought is that we should lower minimum wage, but combine people who work under an income level benefits.

Huh?

It sounds like you're saying the government should subsidize even more shitty, low-paying jobs, but I can't be understanding that right...
This one, I believe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18008123
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Agreed, but revenue is the clearest indicator of consumer interest. As long as the revenue is growing, there's no real risk that companies would stop making games.
That applies to any license, doesn't it?

Congress could abolish the public domain or ban stuff like the GPL.
Really it is worse than Bezos. While there are legitimate things to blame on him a delivery centered infastructure is more environmentally responsible than a retail one - moving N pounds of stuff is cheaper than N + the weight of a human and their separate vehicle. Even if we make optimistic assumptions of public transit use there is less stuff moved around.
This guy isn't a scapegoat.

Managers might be negligent, but he is still responsible for his illegal actions.
Ya, rabbits can die of heart attack if you startle them
> People don't realize how much maintenance sewers need.

I think about this in relation to modern society often these days. So much of the machinations that keep things running are invisible to the daily user.
My understanding is that the MS Word HTML renderer is based on ~IE5.5.
Interesting sideeffect of Dijkstras rant :)

"Imagine that you’re writing code with goto, and somebody shows you if and for statements."

10 for a = 0 to 10

20 if a = 5 then goto 40

30 next

40 end

50 print "5"

60 goto 30

I lack imagination.

That said, algebraic effects sounds interesting indeed.
To me it falls into that category of things that you don't know what you're missing until you use it.

A visual client just makes much much easier to visualize the state of a repo immediately, the relationship between branches, and individual changes over time. You see a commit from another branch in a list and you click on it; it's instantaneous and the diff is shown in a window. Doing the same on the command line takes a bunch of arcane commands and is extremely longer to execute.

Some things like interactive rebasing are also much easier (you can double check diff as you go, again with a click). Committing just hunks of a file is also much easier.

Some people are comfortable with the command line for everything and that's fine. But the reality is that certain actions are so cumbersome to execute via the command line that some people can never be bothered with them. In that case a GUI helps immensely.
Relying on the free market and speculators to fix this problem sounds both realistic and incredibly dystopian to me. Sure, the market is efficient, but that does not mean it works for everyone. An imaginary efficient benevolent government would use the same prediction models to provision for extra food for the downtrodden instead of trying to exploit the demand they will create for profit. The free market solution really hurts the people that do not have the disposable income to "invest" in the market.
>The economy is booming in the Bay Area, but at Patatas Neighborhood Kitchen, located in this small city just north of Oakland, owner Marcos Quezada recently eliminated the dinner shift and laid off six of his 10 workers. He struggled with the decision but felt he had no choice after Emeryville increased its hourly minimum wage on July 1 from $15 to $16.30, the highest in the U.S. “I just didn’t see how I was going to survive it,”

Then perhaps he shouldn't be having a business in the first place? What was his scheme, get his profits (or barely even) by paying people a pittance?
Where are you quoting these figures from? The minimum wage is considerably higher than Rs. 100 per day in most parts of India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_Wages_Act_1948

Rs. 200 is not a big amount. Of course, the real comparison will be with respect to the cable TV rate, and the Netflix rate might not be low enough to be a better option.
I doubt anyone would think you a heretic for believing that about pure carnivores like cats.
If someone blows all their money on a long-shot chasing the dream of video game success-story, that's their prerogative. I wish them good luck and hope they're able to at least turn out something innovative.

It sort of reminds me of the music industry. I used to DJ in a college radio station, and remember the boxes upon boxes of dreck we used to get from record labels. For every successful pop-band, rapper, alt-rock, or electronic-music act you can think of there are dozens of dullard derivative wannabe copycats who utterly lack the imagination to put out something novel and stimulating.

I think the same dynamic applies to computer games. The good news is that the truly innovative stuff will never die, regardless of how many AAAA games flop. People want to do this stuff. It's OK if most fail, it's OK if most can't make a living out of it.
"How much do you earn, mr business owner?"

Answer: "I make -50k per year".

Small business owners aren't the winner. Raising minimum wages don't hurt Walmart or Amazon - they do though, destroy the small guy. Amazon doesn't raise their pay to be nice.

"20% of small businesses fail in their first year, 30% of small business fail in their second year, and 50% of small businesses fail after five years in business. "

https://www.fundera.com/blog/what-percentage-of-small-busine...
Yes, but some of the rationale is up to dispute, or simply out dated. For example, there is not an email client these days that do not render rich text/HTML. Those who do not, will convert it to plain text. Nothing to lose.
>> Packet analysis was seen as the worst thing in the company

Wow, that is just insane... "We want you to put a nail in that board but, by god do not even think of using a hammer". That must be the worst case of "security" by obscurity I have ever heard. Was this one of the bigger companies or a smaller firm? I wonder what kind of decision making process leads to such policies.
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I'm surprised by the recommendation to use format=flowed. I set up thunderbird a while back to use the recommendations from the LKML: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/email-clients.... Doesn't format=flowed mangle patches?

I've also disabled wrapping (as recommended in that document), however I'm not a big fan of it. I do think that plain text wrapped at 72 or 80 characters looks much nicer. I wish thunderbird allowed me to select portions of the text to wrap, or to disable wrapping for selected portions (e.g. a code snippet). Is this handled better in other email clients?
> I am loosing more and more confidence that these "package the world and freeze everything in place" distros are the right choice for end users.

I'm there with you. I use a rolling distro (Arch) and I update all packages to the latest versions whenever I'm bored. I do this because I can't remember the last time something broke this way. I've been doing that for ~6 years on 3 different machines. On the other hand, a lot of my friends use Ubuntu as their main OS and they constantly have mysterious issues with software, trouble installing stuff (a ton of things require binary-only vendor-run PPAs which then often have out-of-date versions), etc.

So I'm wondering, at least for desktop use-cases, what exactly is gained there? I would've thought that freezing all packages and issuing a release would allow a much more rigorous QA process and make the system rock solid. But somehow a huge company (Canonical) cannot make a system that is as stable as orders of magnitude less popular, volunteer-run rolling distribution.

Something just doesn't add up to me there. It could be a bias of my sample, or Canonical just not caring much about the desktop experience anymore. (I run a lot of machines on Ubuntu LTS and for the server-side it's pretty good.)
wow, thanks for the pointer!
I don't believe that a business would keep an employee around for a minute more than it has to. I have zero sympathy towards "job creators" because they wouldn't hire people if they could avoid it.

Rent is expensive just like college is expensive because we have artificially limited supply and made home ownership desirable.

We talked about trickle down and look how the speculation has turned out. Higher minimum wages will lead to inflation and lower employment but it is worth it imo. We are externalizing the costs from employers which makes no sense.

If someone is working full time, they shouldn't need public assistance for housing or food.
No, an easy solution is to make it worthwhile to work by increasing the minimum wage.

The bottom has been so eroded that full time at minimum wage works out to $14,790/yr--and you seriously want to lower minimum wage? Less than $15k for an entire year of someone's life is less than how much my salary has increased in the past 3 years (w/o a job change). The idea that people still want to cut minimum wage and cut benefits is disgusting.
Will the US break up tech giants?
I want to call attention to the "oxidized" part of "oxidized LDL" as that's what makes LDL so dangerous. While pathologies of LDL and fat hog the limelight, it's important to keep a close eye on the third villain in the fight against AS and that is immune system pathologies mainly chronic inflammation.

Immune cells kill using peroxides, superoxides and other free radicals. Anyone with an over-active immune system that's triggered easily — allergies, chronic stress, sub-optimal sleep, genetics, exposure to pollutants, metal ions etc¹ — you're better off reducing immune system activity.

So yes, eat less fat but also focus on the immune system. A study found 29% of Japanese babies less than 1 year old had fatty streaks and they were not spending the first 11 months chugging slurpies and McDs.⁴

TL;DR:
Dietary fat and adipose tissue/adipocytes involved in AS are two different things⁵, and try not to get oxidized to death by a glitchy immune system while busy chasing fats or the latest fad diet. Fats are just one piece of the puzzle.

---

¹Mechanisms of LDL oxidation: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.cca.2010.08.038

²This means sleeping better, reducing stress, taking anti-oxidants, reduce insulin triggers i.e., reduce food with IF/ADF/CR³ and reduce carbs

³Intermittent Fasting/Alternate-Day Fasting/Calorie Restriction. This study finds ADF to be superior to CR; if you can stick to it, that is: Differential Effects of Alternate-Day Fasting Versus Daily
Calorie Restriction on Insulin Resistance — http://sci-hub.tw/10.1002/oby.22564

⁴https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812791/ - conjecture is the mothers were smokers, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644569/ for more info. Pollution should be focused more strongly when it comes to heart health, the evidence is clear.

⁵Any excess energy gets stored as fat, so reduce fat intake but increase protein or carb intake to compensate? No dice, the body will generate fat for you in the form of adipose tissue which will lead to AS in the presence of an unregulated immune system.
Lower minimum wage and subsidise starving employees with benefits?
That means you want to give more welfare to the corporations.

Basically you are a capitalism extremist, pushing towards income bypassing the working poor altogether.
I'd bet everyone that plays the lottery, gambles, or wants a 4hr work week feels otherwise.
The most important takeaway is not all the rambling on the EV, but the conclusion.

I live in one of those dense cities (Paris), with bike lanes and good public transportation, with several micromobile electric transportation offerings, and it's great! For most people living there, buying a car just wouldn't cross their mind. Parking is hard to find, stupidely expensive (as it should be), roads are congested, and shrinking (thanks to our mayor actions), and cars upkeep is prohibitive.

Most people do take public transportation to vacations as well. I'm in the minority, borrowing (I'd loan otherwise) an ICE vehicle for holidays, and I'm very happy with that.

While some people think EV are the second coming of cars, I'm starting to question their ecological benefits. Sure, they aren't burning fossil fuels to move every single day. But they still need batteries, in high quantities, for which the current method of production isn't exactly ecological. Plus they need lots of metal/plastics. Not ecological. Then you still need roads and those roads maintenance. Not ecological as well.

While I love EV for their low pollution and low noise, I still think we should probably focus on not using cars in the first place unless there really isn't any other choice.
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I have, and did not enjoy the experience.
Here is original statement I reacted to: "once you're senior enough, you are never 100% on vacation. If enough goes wrong, you will get called back to work."

If fecal matter hits the rotating turbines often that you are never 100% on vacation, then you have fecal hitting around all the time. It is not like seniors would be on vacation 50% time of year.

> Often times, theres an issue with this or that feature in production

You should not have often issues with features in production. You should have them once in a while, rarely. The situation that seniors are always desperately needed to fix crisis during their vacation requires workplace that is having crisis pretty much all the time.

Capable management does not generate projects that are in crisis all the time.
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Work in fields like healthcare, governmemt, finance, law or defense and you will see Excel spreadsheets are used for just about everything. They are simple to create, simple to use and offer very advanced controls for a fraction of the time and cost it requires to development a sufficient framework for the data in-house or configure an existing solution.

It is very easy to train people on how to use excel if they are willing to invest the time to learn formulas, and once you learn VB, you will be tempted to do most data presentation in Excel.

That said, just because most people know how to use Excel does not mean they are technically capable of setting up things like version control, backups, validation or security. A lot of users I have worked with in addition get their files from someone else, who may not even work at the company anymore and they have no idea what is or could be running in the background or how exactly the calculation in certain cells is done. Further, it is very common that one technically capable person creates an excel that becomes a crux of an internal process simply because it is the easiest thing to use, once IT governence policies are put in place, it doesn't help because they damage lies in the fundamental data they started with.

Tl;dr it is more common and innocent than it seems.
>I just can't stress this enough: if you're reading an economics article that relies on anecdotes from owners in the service industry, DO NOT READ IT!

And similarly, if you find an economics article (or paper) that relies on statistics, and general principles, DO NOT READ IT!

Generally, avoid economics as a source of market insight altogether...
> having your existence be dependent on some entity you have nearly zero control over sucks and is stressful.

Like your employer? Yes, it does suck, but there aren't enough well-paid freelance gigs.
>anecdotes
>guy who sacks over half of his staff

The real question is what the competitors will do.

Every change in economic policy, and in market situation, causes some participants to benefit, and others to be hindered [1].

When a business fires some of the staff, it may either end up improving efficiency (good for the business and the customers), or may open up a part of the market for competitors (good for the competitors and the customers). Watch the trend: if the competitors step up, build out, service more customers, perhaps even hire more staff, then the increase of minimum wage was good for the economy as whole. It would indicate the change closed up an existing inefficiency - people's effort, money, resources was being used suboptimally.

However if you notice the trend of the competitors not expanding out, or perhaps even undergoing the same contraction, then you read it as a signal of the economy being hindered by the change. It would indicate the change increased inefficiency - people's effort, money, resources starts being wasted.

I'm gonna preemptively note that the later scenario[2] would be consistent with the theory of several competing schools of economy.

--

[1] Obviously it's not a zero-sum game, but there is always a degree of give-and-take.

[2] It gets even more complex when businesses skirt the legally mandated minimum wage. Some work lines are partially exempt, like waiters. Some businesses hire undocumented workers, exploiting their aversion towards going to authorities.
> Why is plain text preferred and by whom?

Besides making phishing easier (by disguising links, unless you hover over them), what exactly does HTML add?

Most people simply bang out a bunch of text without any formatting: what does wrapping HTML around that add? I have yet to see a layman someone add useful typographic flourishes to any business communications. Any "advanced" formatting has always come from marketers.
Yes.

I don't usually express my opinions on nutrition, metabolism and/or health in general in the open, because I know they go against what is currently mainstream and they would be met (as elsewhere in this submission) with extreme resistance. I can't blame the others, though, as I once was in their same position and know how it feels when deeply ingrained ideas are challenged from the outside.

I have learned to live without the need to be "right", or to educate others when they don't want to be. It is enough for me to apply what knowledge and intuition I have gained over the last years for my own health and well-being. If, at some point, someone wants me to share that knowledge, then I will gladly do it.
I knew this working in healthcare 10 years ago.
I've been enjoying "The Elements of Programming Style" by Kernighan and Plauger. Don't get put off by the references to Fortran, what they say applies to any language.

"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman is another standard.

Martin Fowler and Robert C. Martin are both prolific.

Coding takes practice, so once you've got some ideas on what you want you want your coding to look like add them to your practice and see how it goes.
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It would be amazing to hear some feedback about this project!
Plus this kind of "Not on AWS" restriction goes against Freedom0:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)."
I do not consider all 3rd party places as untrusted (this sort of thinking leads to walled gardens) and i'd put these under "downloading from trustworthy places" in the sense that they are more of a way to download something and less a source themselves (e.g. you can download a pip package from both a trustworthy developer and untrusted developer). Of course the more layers between you and whatever you want to download, the harder it becomes to judge things.

For example i'd trust an apt repository or pip package developed by -say- Blender developers, regardless of it being a 3rd party repository or delivered through pip.
May because your boss sees you as an asset? As 'his' asset. And once you decide to grow out of that role, he'll slap you right back to 'where you belong'.

I'm being a bit uncharitable with my perception of your story, but it shouldn't be a stretch to believe that given how tech workers are generally perceived by 'business type folks'.

As I see it, his response shows his complete disregard and lack of respect for you as anything other than 'his IT guy'.

I'm way too proud to continue working with someone that thinks of me that way.
>>>Yes, raising minimum wage will make a minor increase in unemployment, and will make a bit of hardship for a very small number of restaurant owners, those are valid points, that in my opinion are not terrible enough to keep the minimum wage low.

Whats your plan for handling the resulting inflation, and the 2nd-order impact that rising prices has on both people on fixed incomes (retirees) as well as savers (destroying the long-term economic power of frugal citizens).

Also, below is a paper from 2014 that studied OECD economies and concluded minimum wage hikes cause unemployment, with their model predicting $10->$15 hike would result in a 3% unemployment increase. But hey, studies can manipulate the data to prove what they want. Check out the 2nd link to the SF Federal Reserve, which comes to similar conclusions.

[1]https://www.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/jrge/article...
[2]https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
No. They withdrew the 500 and 1000 Rupee bills in circulation in 2016, which was around 86 percent of all the cash in the country, which is the 6th largest economy in the world at present. But cash circulation is almost back to normal by now.
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Canada has a stupid system of high milk prices to keep legacy dairy farmers in business (quota system).

With that, 4L of pasteurized fresh milk (in bags) costs CAD$4.39 retail, or a little over US$3.25

It might be a slight loss leader for grocery stores, but that’s the price when governments ensure farmers get a “fair” (high) price without direct subsidies.

It’s still a very stupid system because it’s incredibly regressive.
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Depends on the weather. If it is hot, the sweaty human will win.
I guess he was extrapolating and referring to the idea that carbohydrate consumption is the root cause of most, if not all, modern diseases. An idea held by many, including me.