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I moved here from Boston.

It honestly didn't seem all that insane to me, because Boston is crazier in nearly every dimension. The peninsula at least has 3-lane boulevards with a reasonable road hierarchy and traffic light timings. Boston has cowpaths branching off in every direction, controlled by stop signs that can literally back up for miles. The peninsula has block after block of Eichlers on 1/4 acre lots. Boston has mid-rise row-houses on landfill in the Back Bay, quickly trailing off to historic old houses on 1.5 acre lots 10 minutes outside of the city. The peninsula refuses to let you put in an in-law unit or cut down a redwood tree without going through an extensive permitting process. The Boston area might refuse to let you put in new window panes if you live in a historic house (my computer teacher lived in one from the 1730s, and it still had all the original glass - which back then was hand made and tended to flow like putty - because it was considered a historic property and she couldn't modify it). The peninsula is due for a natural disaster in the next 30 years. In Boston, as my wife puts it, every winter is a natural disaster. BART has a problem with homeless dudes and property crime. The Red Line has a problem with trains losing the 3rd rail and running 20 minutes late. Caltrain electrification is stuck in limbo. The Big Dig has ceiling tiles that fall down and kill people.

Of course, the flip side of this is that Boston hasn't grown since 1950, and is around the same size as its 1910 population. San Francisco will probably meet a similar fate when the tech boom peters out.
What is "first world lifestyle"?
I think you're missing the point of what Teenage Engineering is trying to do. For as simple as the Korg Vulca series is, it's still an synthesizer first. You need to have some familiarity with electronic instruments to understand the controls of the Monotron that you mention:

Pitch
Rate
Int.
Cutoff Peak

Compare that to the controls on the Pocket Operator:

Sound
Pattern
BPM
FX
Play
Write

If you were handed one of these with no experience making music, which one would you be more likely to get started with? Heck, the Pocket Operator even has cute animations that go with your beats!

I have tremendous respect for Korg, but I think Teenage Engineering is prioritizing fun and accessibility in a way that I haven't seen in my 30 years of making music. This may be a fluff PR piece, but I think they deserve a ton of credit for making something as intimidating as electronic instruments so downright fun and adorable.
Half of this wall of text is just the poster saying they like Dish for the hardware.
I upvoted it because I found the article very interesting, and as you said, very "1970", and I hoped someone would say something pertinent here. Thanks. :)
Also worth noting that the FIRE data and the other source I found aren't measuring the same thing -- one is speaking engagements, one is professors getting fired/not promoted. (Thanks, btw, this is a cordial exchange of views and info even though we disagree.)
Grimes’ first album is also all garageband. Great entry point for music making.
The life style of a well-to-do member of America or Western Europe.
If you are down-voting this, you should probably take a hard look at your thought processes.
> The problem is that we see how hard it is to see such a liberation/democratization campaign through. (Iraq, Afghanistan)

I don’t think Iraq or Afghanistan is a fair comparison to Hong Kong regarding the progress or prospect of liberation/democratization. For one, Hong Kongers have been used to elections for almost 30 years now (since 1991), have practiced free press and rule of law, and mostly free of corruption, so I think Taiwan may be a closer comparison in terms of how liberation/democratization of Hong Kong would become.

The recent frustration towards elections in Hong Kong (which is also one root cause of the on-going protests) is that the elections are far from representative or universal suffrage (half of the seats in the Legislative Council–the functional constituencies–have pretty limited representation, while the Chief Executive is elected by a pro-Beijing committee of 1200 out of a population of 7M+), and that some elected members of the Legislative Council who are pro-Hong Kong got outright disqualified. A liberation/democratization of Hong Kong means such issues are fixed, which is more like Taiwan than Iraq or Afghanistan.

> Great, what if the people are trigger happy xenophobics?

I would say that xenophobism would not be a problem in Hong Kong, because the pro-democratic (and even the localist) camp cherish cultural values and core values (e.g. democracy, freedom, and rule of law), and ignore differences in ethnicity or origin. For example, Edward Leung, currently in prison but was a key figure of the localist group Hong Kong Indigenous, was born in Wuhan, China. For another example, Nabela Qoser, a Pakistani news reporter who speaks fluent Cantonese and long regarded as a Hong Konger, is called a heroine by the pro-democratic and localist camp for asking pointed questions towards the Chief Executive (Carrie Lam) during the most recent press conference on 22 July.

By contrast, the pro-Beijing establishment (and anti-democratic) camp is in general more xenophobic: quite a number of their supporters are against the presense of non-Chinese (in terms of ethnicity).
Last year, my entire track team had to sign up by QR code.

Personally, I think that QR codes will only ever become more ubiquitous- there's plenty of easy QR code generators out there- as people move towards mobile devices and things that have always-accessible cameras.

Not many people like typing in long URL's to get somewhere.
Whereas your response pretty much boils down to "don't worry about physical reality, just lap up the self-promoting feels of the megaconsuming 1%"
Can you give an example or two of how you effectively turn your Kindle highlights into flash cards?
Ambitious projects and optimistic predictions have seemed not-unusual among big-name AI people, since the start.

Marvin Minsky predicted emergent behavior and recursive effects much sooner. (I think this was in all honesty: not realizing how complex the human brain, and not knowing how hardware would develop.)

Douglas Lenat apparently thought commonsense knowledge and reasoning would be easier.

Ray Kurzweil was often making predictions about hard-AI accomplishments just around the corner, which we're starting to see much later.
Are you going to save money by moving to the cloud?
Cattle ranching in the Amazon is the main responsible for deforestation, responsible for about 65% of the land deforested.

So a simple economic solution to the problem is to stop buying so much beef and the deforestation would reduce drastically. Why would they continue to chop the forest down if they have no economic incentive to do so?

The excessive consumption of animal products in the west is the main reason why this "3 football fields" a minute thing is going on.
> Toilets, along with a few other plumbing fixtures, have a "UI" that has not changed much for over a century.

The human bottom hasn't changed since time immemorial. Plus, every human has similarly shaped buttocks.

Computers interact with the mind, this means they are subjective, it's a moving target.
Debatable, a large issue is land use and for all the land we have here in the US alone large swathes of it are used for single family homes promoting horrible density. We dump carbon into the air, have less arable land, and destroy more natural habitats than necessary because of poor planning and regulation.

There is more issues to be solved, yes - but reversing wasteful land use is a HUGE component of preserving our planet and quality of life.
It's not the only difference. Dividends are paid to the shareholders of record as of a certain date. Buybacks effectively benefit all the future as-of-yet-unissued shares, e.g. unvested stock-based comp (which makes it a beloved thing for corporate executives who get their majority of $$$ that way).
Funny thing is I still have the credit monitoring service I got for free from the PSN breach settlement...
Yes, some of those things (not the hotel room though, a debit card will do just fine for that) become more complicated without a credit card. But that is because you are, essentially, asking someone to loan you money. As soon as you start doing that it's reasonable for them to want to participate in a system that helps them understand how risky you are.

Plus, all that being said, you can still do all those things without a credit card. It'll just be somewhat more complicated.
> LinkedIn shows >25000 tech jobs in the state, many well into the $100k range (remember, extremely low cost of living).

They don't even have to be in the state, right? Because the core concept was that a remote-working code-slinger could live anywhere.

Another neat point about Rugby: it's apparently got gigabit ethernet service through North Dakota Telephone Co, although you'll pay $220/mo for that service.
Why would we want that? Does anyone want to discourage companies from growing?
Not until you simulate a second antenna and electromagnetism.
A giant ponzi scheme then? When it finally hits a brick wall, there are going to be that many more people on the earth to suffer the consequences. There has to be another way.
And average wage is a bad metric anyway - a more appropriate one would be median hourly wage, which is in the neighborhood of $18/hr[1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
To be fair the comparison isn't between growing your own and buying in a grocery store. If you get anything useful out of it then I think that's arguably a better use of water than a lawn.
Thank goodness that has stopped. They are not materially different from dividends, besides being more tax efficient.
This is just false. Lots of real estate organizations require a credit pull as part of your application. You aren't renting from the owner/landlord but from the property manager; there's no notion of just "pay a bigger deposit to make up for your lack of credit history".

It's also pretty much impossible to get through modern society without a credit card if you want to do anything crazy like, rent a car or reserve a hotel room.
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I have bad news for you about every other open source company...

Seriously, I’m not saying they’re paragons, but who the heck is? (Profitable companies only, please.)

What is definitely the case, however, is that 10/20 years ago Microsoft would not even be writing that article, they’d have their own competitor, with weird lock-ins and missing features that was tightly integrated with some GUI panel in Visual Studio.
No, the model was to pay $X unless there's a tip, in which case Tony takes it and pays $X-$tip (unless the tip is over 100%?). Management is taking tips, which is hella illegal and has been (to varying degrees) for quite some time, certainly since before DD existed. tl;dr: wage+tips, not wage-tips.
Could dead bugs blind a self-driving car?
I think it's because our telecomm tech still sucks. It's not as good as real life and it has bugs.

Until we can smoothly emulate meatspace with VR, I don't think you can replace face-to-face interaction. If you can't do that, then people will still want to be close to jobs and similar businesses, so they'll continue to urbanize in a natural distribution.

And even if you had your new VR tech with enough bandwidth to run it nicely, you'd still need to be able to provide it to your offworld coloni--I mean rural exclaves.
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This is true!
Schools are more expensive than residential property tax raises — this is due to state-mandated limits on property tax rates, rate increases and such (prop 13 related.)
Consider the environmental transparency: instead of utterly devastating an environmental region as does cities, encourage each family to own a mostly-untouched >5 acres, the high-efficiency home sporting solar roof & rainwater collection, wireless/satellite high-bandwidth internet, home & prolific electric car chargers, optimized Amazon/etc delivery, home/neighborhood schooling, work-from-home norm, etc. Environmental impact? between normalizing practically everything environmentalists call for (I'm not one), and there being not much of an environment to impact (have you seen the Dakotas?), the neo-futuristic American lifestyle can be achieved while minimizing environmental footprint/impact without the hideous expense & annoyance of overpopulated cities.

I think you massively overestimate the rural "subsidies". Make it easy to move rural and "go green" with minimal regulations, and you may find the problems nearly solve themselves.
I think you'll find that not everyone wants this lifestyle, and trying to force everybody into it because you want it is a silly form of reductionism.
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There's a substitution effect. If zoning restrictions are relaxed and developer turns an acre into a 50 unit condo complex, that developer reaps a huge windfall. But everyone else who owns an Eichler on a 1/4 acre has fewer buyers competing for their property.

It's sorta like when labor unions go away. The company that hires non-unionized labor at half the price and double the productivity reaps an enormous windfall. So do the employees, who were presumably in other, less well-paying jobs. Everyone else who chooses not to play the new game ends up out of a job.
Cody! I love that guy. His vids are so refreshingly insane and hackery. I'd suggest nearly all his vids.

That said, the guy seems like he has some psychological issues. I hope he gets the help that he deserves, if he isn't already.

Cody, if you are out there, you rock man! Keep being Cody!
JVM: Lightweight Threads and Delimited Continuations (Project Loom)
Reminds me of slime molds. They are large single cell organisms that have multiple nuclei. A "supercell". I always wanted to keep one as a pet, but I can never find one despite them being fairly common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold
You are ignoring the fact that not everyone's circumstances and opportunities are the same. You keep saying "easy" as if its an objective fact. Saying "I did this thing with these limits so anyone can" is dishonest and the implication meant by that is hostile to others.
There are 20-some people running...I wouldn't call them a presidential candidate yet...more like presidential hopefuls.

And because big pharma seems to always win.
What was the particular reason given?
Lots of good advice from a wide spectrum of HN. I am currently going through this as we speak. I am at the very early stages of Customer validation phase. I have mouths to feed and and hence need my job to keep me alive while I go through the whole startup phase. If you can get your hands on these two books, can’t recommend them enough;
Ready Fire Aim- teaches you the mantra about selling first right from the get go. Also lays down actionable strategies to find your customer, how to sell them, how to price your product.
Running Lean-Ash Maurya. Think of it as an amalgamation of Lean startup by Eric Ries and 4 steps to Epiphany by Steven Blank. Again the emphasis on customer development aka idea validation. You need to solve a problem that is worth solving. If you don’t have a problem that a customer wants solved, you don’t have anything to sell. Simple. The guy offers a lean canvas which you can use to develop your business model. Worth checking out.

Beyond these books, a few resources worth following are GetLatka, product habits by Hiten Shah and anything by Patio11 who was doing SAAS way before SAAS was even a term. One of the very early advice that Ash Maurya gives in his book is tat all the early stages of the startup phase can be done while being fully employed. ESP, the product/solution fit. Once you have validated the problem after countless customer interviews, you can start working on the actual solution to the Problem that you just validated and iterate on the build, measure learn loop. By the time you get to this stage, you are already a team of 2-3 early cofounders working out of an office space and ready to take in some external funding. When you get to this stage you can confidently quit! Good luck.
EDIT
MVE- minimum viable employment. Find a place that can employ you for your existing skills, pay market which provides you with the necessary resources(time) while you are involved with customer validation(problem/solution fit).
Someone did an experiment where they talked Spanish into their phone, cold, and the ads started showing up in Spanish later.
Reminds me of the other fake-but-now real holidays made up by tv shows and other groups. One example that comes to mind is Parks and Recreation making up "Galentines" day, and it's pretty much a real holiday by now.
One of many hidden gems in this piece:

John F. Kennedy was the President at this time, and had tapped the phone of Alvin B. Cleaver (Internal Communications Director for the CIA). Kennedy believed that Cleaver was stealing his ham sandwich from the White House Kitchen, and vowed to catch him speaking about it over the phone. Instead, he heard a highly sensitive conversation that Cleaver was having with Dulles. In it, Cleaver said," yeah Allen. I've stolen John's lunch again haha, he doesn't even know. I'm going to keep stealing it until he launches a full investigation. Then I'm going to plant a hidden camera and catch his reaction as [I] dump all the stolen sandwiches on his desk at one time. I'm going to call the new show 'You've Been Cleavered'.
>> you can still do all those things without a credit card. It'll just be somewhat more complicated.

You certainly can't show up at a hotel and check in without a credit card at any hotel I'd consider stay at

You also can't rent a car from a major carrier without someone's credit card securing it
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No because it's wrong. The correct way to say this is that by doing a buyback it allows stockholders to realize their taxes at a later point in time since capital gains are only realized at the time of sale. Dividends are immediately taxed at the capital gains rate which is the same as the LTCG rate.
For arid locales, I completely agree. I live in Denver, which gets something like 20” of precipitation a year. It’s basically a desert.

As far as I know, most of the tap water here is extracted from the Denver basin aquifer. There was a Denver post article a while back that claimed this aquifer would be depleted by something like 2050, and that some communities on the western edge of the metro had already gone dry.

While projections like that are difficult and a newspaper isn’t a journal, this is still pretty terrifying.
But everybody has a green lawn. It’s part of my lease that I have to water the lawn. I really think we ought to follow Albuquerque and have gravel and cactus everywhere...
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> If you've ever asked yourself why health care is so expensive in the US, don't overlook the safety standards and the legal liabilities that medical practitioners incur. Look at the value of settlements in US courts. Practitioners require expensive legal insurance, and they'll charge you for it.

Texas did some malpractice law changes back in 2003. It would be interesting to see if in impact their health care costs.
So the 18 core chip is 5.48 times faster than the 4 core chip in multicore performance and it has almost the same single core performance as a i3 chip which is purely optimized for single core performance. Just by looking at the core count you would expect it to have 4.5 times the performance. Very impressive.
Here, have a small embeddable Javascript: https://bellard.org/quickjs/
What you will may be subjective, but your ability to bend others to your choices is not. Thus I'd argue power is objective.

Righteousness occurs as a value assessment within a moral framework. When all values, including opposing values, are of equal worth, we have a framework of amorality, which cannot ever produce a judgement of righteousness or wickedness. In other words, the term itself reduces the frameworks which fit. All of the remaining frameworks require active choice (as far as I understand).
Is that a Youtube for Kids competitor with no ads, and only pro-social educational content?
If you think we can't sustain every couple/person on earth having a single family home then you're agreeing with my statement.
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I love the quote at the end:

> In 2014, I attended TED’s main Vancouver conference and watched the opening talk, from the MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. In his closing words, he claimed that in 30 years, “we are going to ingest information. You’re going to swallow a pill and know English. You’re going to swallow a pill and know Shakespeare. And the way to do it is through the bloodstream. So once it’s in your bloodstream, it basically goes through it and gets into the brain, and when it knows that it’s in the brain, in the different pieces, it deposits it in the right places.”

I'm on the fence about whether people like this are delusional and actually believe that someday we will swallow a pill that can teach us language or whether they're deliberately pumping hype for funding. I lean toward the latter given that this idea is so deeply and thoroughly absurd I can't believe anyone with any knowledge at all of learning, neuroscience, or information theory could possibly believe it. It's much more ridiculous than the "water memory" claim around homeopathy given that the amount of information we'd be talking about here is orders of magnitude beyond what one might imagine a homeopathic cure would need to convey (assuming homeopathy worked).
I grew up out there. Lots of those 100k+ jobs are oil jobs. It's hard work, even if you aren't working directly on the drilling rigs.

It's incredibly easy to move there. My hometown of ~1,400 has something like a couple dozen vacant properties right now which you could probably buy for $150k or less because all the townies are moving out to the lake. But once you're there, there aren't a lot of good paying local jobs, there is very little to no culture, very few amenities. Not much to do unless you're into hunting and motorcycles. There's a reason it's sparsely populated.
It's easier to colonize Mars. No planning board.
For IntelliJ try codota.com which trains AI on semantic models of the code
What incentive mechanism are you proposing? (Real question, not rhetorical)

Generally, when people ask for an economic solution, they’re looking for a proposal to change behavioral incentives, rather than proclamation of the desirability of someone’s pet cause (as noble as it may be).
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The real address must be an unguessable identifier in order for this to qualify as a petname system. So change the IP/host in your example to a UUID/GUID and then "test123" would qualify as a petname local to the system (but not the user).

Think of petnames as a local DNS/namespace system that maps user-friendly names to user-unfriendly unguessable designators.
Every model is an approximation :) I don't work at HBP, therefore can't speak for their implementations. These are the SoTA of nm engineering. What do you mean by compartmental simulation?
Plenty of resources exist. But they’re boring/not flashy.

The government isn’t going to get away with hiring entire teams based on looks and then have a marketing line item for free fancy lunches for people that are definitely not starving.

Choosing Wisely is a broad approach that is somewhat like you described.
The market isn't a living body though, and it's not about whether it's good or bad, only that it helps. In this case, GDPR-style regulation only helps big companies that already have lots of users.
Completely off topic, but it took me more than 2 minutes and more than just one comment before I understood the word Amazon correctly. I though about some Jeff bezos announcement about deforestation.