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> Why would I pay for a car and then have to rent another car?

I had a miser of an uncle that did lots of long road trips, but always rented cars for them, once impressionably do a back of an envelope costs breakdown of putting long road trip mileage on a personal vehicle versus per-trip rentals. Even assuming both cars got equivalent mileage (my uncle was doing math with comparable ICE sedans two decades ago or so), the maintenance subsidy of dipping into a rental fleet was much cheaper than the long term maintenance cost on a personal vehicle.

Even if you think my uncle's math was off one way or the other, I feel like it should be pointed out that "rent a car for long trips" isn't a new attitude unique to electric vehicle owners, and people have advocated it for a long time.

Similarly, my current employer and at least one of my past employers highly discourages using personal vehicles for long work trips, and beyond just the obvious liability issues, such employers have made sure to point out very similar logic to my uncle's that the increased miles on your vehicle is rarely worth the long term maintenance costs when rental companies have cheaper maintenance costs, because they scale maintenance across a fleet rather than a single vehicle charged "retail" costs.
You have to have the stomach for that... Personally, I couldn't get any real enjoyment out of a time period where I didn't know when/where/whether I have another job lined up, and opportunities to get truly trustworthy commitments on start dates that are a significant period of time in the future are rare.
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That’s not a good counterexample if that is what you attempted, for 2 reasons:

- An index is redundant information but dropping it and recreating it is not “repairability” as in “I read and amend a text”. You compare apples to oranges.

- What I wrote still applies to an index, so that’s orthogonal: a binary index will be more efficient but harder to repair than a text-based binary index.
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All that work just to have your misinformation trivially filtered out.
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Or, possibly, one could object to threat inflation and using words to mean whatever you want them to mean, rather than the commonly accepted definitions.

There's enough bad in what Trump says (not as much in what he manages to do, and so far at least his foreign policy is... not great, but better than the dumpster fire that other candidate oversaw).
Holy shit, that is so impressive. They didn't even have Newton's law of gravity yet.

Once we had Newton's law of gravity though, we knew the distance, radius, mass, and even surface gravity of the moon. Would you say it's fair to say that by then we knew in principle we could go there and walk there?

(P.S. I assume you know this but the way you wrote your comment makes it seem like our measurements of lunar distance are nearly as inaccurate as Hipparchus's, when we actually know it down to the millimeter (thanks to retroreflectors placed by Apollo, actually). The wide variation from 55x to 64x Earth's radius is because it changes over the course of the moon's orbit, due to [edit: primarily its elliptical orbit, and only secondarily] the Sun and Jupiter's gravity.)
Presumably because it would require actively polling patients to monitor their outcomes. Its quite common that you don’t hear much from those who get better, only from those who continue to seek treatment. And of those who stop seeking treatment you don’t know how many are actually better either.
For monkeys, we're pretty damn clever aren't we? The lesser apes don't make war nearly so complicated.
I remember listening to a segment on NPR where it was claimed this was already solved and the "sonic attacks" were actually caused by a specific species of cricket:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/25/7049036...
Right because that wouldn't become a massive problem at the worst possible time.
Why is the article assuming away the obvious solution?
Tax the flea market and everybody still wins. Or leave the flea market untaxed as a public good, and raise property taxes to account for how the flea market cashlessly raises quality of life.
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This is both true and hard to deal with, because sometimes these bricklayers will a) assume everyone is trying to be a bricklayer, and b) will actively attack non-bricklayers because of the perception that they're being made to look bad.

I honestly don't yet know how to fit everyone together.
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The truck would have to get 50-60 miles to the gallon to even begin to be competitive with a VPN.
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As someone who worked in a computer store... I got really tired of hearing people come in demanding service because "they need their computer to make money."

If you can't live without your computer, you should have a backup waiting and ready to go in case your primary fails. If you're going to lose $500/day from not doing your work, doesn't it make sense to spend $500-1000 on a backup system?

I had some lady tell me she was losing $3000/day and needed her computer fixed urgently. Her work didn't involve any intense computational work, so I pointed her to a $500 machine that would do the same work. She got so offended that she could have saved $8500 by having a backup machine, but she opted to go without her computer instead for 3 days. I put her right at the back of the queue like everybody else.
It is called "Nodes".
Again, with the demonizing PHP as a staid old language to stick with.

So silly, and completely incorrect, as PHP frameworks and the language itself continue to innovate and keep
Up and in some cases are cutting edge.
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Thanks!

We have a "trend" visualization: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qg54b6owdatznmm/Screenshot%202019-... Is that like what you're looking for?
Shake was the best of its time, but nuke is much better than shake ever was and touch designer is much better for real time experimentation.
How can this be true when it seems the deadliest attacks really are coordinated through end-to-end encrypted platforms such as WhatsApp? I'm not in favour of backdoors, but I have a hard time believing that I should rationally fear the government of most Western nations more than the people who carried out the Nice attacks when it comes to my personal safety.
That makes sense, unless he was so sloshed that he had no idea what he was doing!
Funny thing I found out about this recently - my country has a tax model where very small businesses (defined by revenue < threshold) only pays a small flat tax - comes down to a few %. You cross that threshold and you're in the standard tax brackets which is a big jump + regular accounting, etc.

So this forced me to settle for a number at which I'm happy with my income and I can have a clear goal for that year - once that is achieved other things come in to play.

This seems basic and maybe it's just me but I never really had an idea of what I wanted to make, what is "enough" - I would just say yes to any opportunity that came my way which paid more and kept plowing forward - but there is a limit to how much you can do and it's hard to guess it before you reach it so I ended up pulling all nighters and working through weekends more than once. Now that I have my limit it's actually pretty easy to reach with ~210 regular work days according to my current rates for a really easygoing client - this leaves me with plenty of time for other stuff - if I find a better paying client I just work less for that year - I like this model.
Correct, I just roll my eyes whenever this is quoted

But if people disagree they can go ride a bike without a helmet, people in the transplant list will thank you.
Is there somewhere I could read some more on this point?

I was under the impression that iMessage was end-end encrypted. So unless Apple has a secret backdoor built into their systems, nobody should be able to access those messages correct? Wireless carriers are just sending my encrypted messages over their networks.

What am I missing?

Do you believe my cell service provider could decrypt my HTTPS connections to my bank?
Apple are harvesting just as much data, they're just being less evil with it... For now.
Most discussion of backdoors these days is no longer about weakening the encryption itself, but prohibiting its private use. It's about data retention, key escrow, key disclosure and man-in-the-middle attacking everyone like Kazakhstan is trying to do.

Cryptography technology is public knowledge now; there's no putting the cat back in the bag, so now it's about making the non-government approved use of it criminal / basis to assume guilt.
Which functionalities would you point out as the most important in Superset that are missing in Metabase?
I'm working with comscore right now (an aggregator of stats for advertisers) and can confirm it's all a house of cards. there's no quality controls or oversight into what's reported.
There's loads and loads of literature on this, but I never felt it as strongly as with Angular. No matter how you represent the data, you want one layer of the code to be responsible for final dispensation on the organization and data munging (maps to arrays, arrays to maps, undefined -> empty set, etc). Everything else in the system should treat those fields in a homogeneous manner, and if you don't like the way the data is shaped, you know exactly where the problem is.

ORM or not, there's going to be a clear spot in the code where any mismatches between the backend and the frontend will be found. Or you're going to play whack-a-mole forever, and ramping up new employees will be a strain.
Like flipping any coin. Gotta match your risk appetite with the value of the gamble.
It’s not good advice. It’s misleading, a poor generalization, and entirely misses the point of what an MVP is.

An MVP is not defined by time to build, but by the minimum necessary to build to make the very first sale. MVP is the minimum necessary to capture the Minimum Viable Audience. That could be a landing page or it could be a spreadsheet or it could be a complex app. It could be a game demo. The point is only build the minimum to be able to capture a customer and iterate.

An MVP is not associated with a time frame at all. YC is wrong. Just read The Lean Startup which popularized the term.

As a founder I’m pretty sick of these unrealistic platitudes tossed around by VCs and accelerators. It’s not educating anyone.
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Thanks for sharing this information. This is pretty much consistent with my experience from visiting Apple Stores for repairing my MBP.

I'm especially enraged by 2: You visit the store with a broken machine costing upwards 3K (including the Apple Care plan) and you have to put up a little play to make yourself likeable to the genius. This is not serious customer service. I expect my case to be examined seriously, without prejudice and without me having to outguess how Apple works to get the service I've already paid for.

I'm also curious on whether Apple encourages geniuses to be unfriendly via incentives/counter-incentives. E.g. would the genius get a sale bonus if they get me to buy a new computer/tablet/phone after our consultation? Would a genius be penalized if they approve more free repairs than what some sort of AI algorithm predicted?

PS. If you have a source to cite (so I can share it elsewhere), that would be most welcome.
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Service will always be great in the location where the executives who can fire the service people live.
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I wonder how many of these extraordinary leak prevention measures would be necessary if Apple manufactured their devices in the US or Europe? The temptations for the workers would be the same (big payoffs are a universal temptation), but there might be more of a cultural barrier to overcome. Also I'm fully willing to believe that US authorities would prosecute the crap out of someone stealing from Apple, whereas in China the penalty seems to be that you lose your crappy sweatshop job and have to walk across the street to get a new one.

Apple broke up the supply chain (and probably not a small number of bones) for the time being in China, but it will grow back. The money is too tempting.
I mean, not being able to sign up is fairly problematic.
I think you are right, this might be the main reason.
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Indeed it isn't even one. He says right there, "temporary Cabin".
Would you trade another 9/11 for backdoors? Genuine question.
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Sounds like they need one more app : Google SocialPlusMessagingFace3dScan.
If you are a single dude partying with 3 hot chicks, you will get them a ticket to the moon if they so desire!
He was probably way too drunk or he just did not care!
Yes, and the distinction is completely artificial. Worse, he gets the relationship between property and law exactly backwards. Property rights, even for what some here are calling "excessive" property, were not created "by the public" (meaning by legislators) through the passage of laws. Rather, property rights existed first and laws were passed to rationalize the abridgement of those rights when they proved inconvenient to those in power.

If you take someone else's property for your own use by force without their permission, they are perfectly justified in using force to take your property without your permission. That is the fundamental natural law which underlies property rights, as well as all other natural rights: reciprocation. It doesn't matter who the property belongs to, how much other property they have, or who is doing the taking.
Unless there is some way of encrypting data all the way to the display controller I don't know about.

That's kind of what HDCP is, so it could be done on an embedded display too.
Apparently no one is motivated by social or environmental impact
You're more likely to find items made in low-cost countries those lines, though. I had Sport jeans fall apart much sooner than I expected (which for gauze-thin linen isn't that much to begin with), while E.Zegna stuff has been going strong for 10+ years now.

But at least it's not Armani Exchange, which is H&M quality at best.
This is a fascinating article that is well written and has a lot of interesting information.

However it feels like he is falling into the same trap that most of the media falls into constantly, thinking that AI & Software are easy.

If he thinks the F-35 was hard to launch with all it's software that's nothing compared to an autonomous combat swarm with all the features he's talking about. You can't rush out stuff that controls machines killing stuff.

My guess is he's more of an aviation guy than a software guy so this stuff somehow doesn't seem as hard as it is.

He also mentions the USAF has had a lot of black programs but then continues on with the thesis that they're ignoring this as opposed to continuing to develop in the black.

Also these swarms will be least effective in the kinds of operations we've been mired in. It's a lot easier to set a swarm in motion with orders to clear the sky in a WW3 scenario than it is to have them try and shoot a particular pickup truck filled with civilian-clothed possible enemy combatants in an urban area in Afghanistan.
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I couldn't agree more. Talk is cheap. Take that that extra responsibility on and prove to everyone, including yourself, that you're capable. Use the experience and knowledge as leverage with your current employer or a new one. It's a lot easier to ask for a raise or high pay showing what you have done than what you could do.
I agree with you.

Unless you had like, a lot of money.
that is because it is a bit click-baity :)
smaller than average brain size? yes. caused by 'sonic attacks'? who knows, could be anything.
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Personally I've always considered clothes (or "garments" if you prefer) to be a necessity and as long as they were comfortable, fit ok, and lasted a good while to be sufficient.

Style is pretty far down on my list of wants. Levi's and a good T-shirt are enough for me, but no so much for my wife. She complains on occasion about my lack of interest in style and status symbols.

The best dressed man I've ever met was the owner of Hennessy Cognac. I helped build custom cars for him and his son back in the `70s. One day I commented on how nice his suits were, and that I'd not seen him wear the same one twice.

He told "I wear a new suit everyday. I have three tailors in Italy making them for me. They send me swatches of material each week and I select those I like."

I commented "You must have a closet bigger than our house." and he told me "No, I give them all away after I wear them. I'd give you one if you were my size." He went on to say he donated them to places where they could help those who couldn't afford a nice suit and needed one to get a good job.
I don't really trust any browser extensions at all these days
> The risk, he said, was acceptable because “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.”

There's a good reason not to use encryption schemes that have backdoors, they aren't safe and this pull quote betrays the fact that Barr knows that.

I'd be willing to wager that the government isn't going to use backdoor-able encryption because the risk of failure is too great. While not being critical to national security, safety in storing your medical, financial records and your conversations with other is mission critical to citizens. Hopefully folks on capital hill see that.
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I like to believe we could prevent another 9/11 without government mandated backdoors.
This isn't anything new. A buddy of mine ran a "company" that sold backlinks (mostly low quality garbage) about a decade ago -- the company was making 7 figures yearly. At around the same time, I figured out how to game the StumbleUpon algorithm and was selling front page spots (for like $1k a spot) with my sister.

It doesn't surprise me that this is still happening. There's money to be made, but there's a lot of risk involved with greyhat/blackhat business models. Being young and dumb helps.
It is fair to assume that the general public knows very little about how many dreadful criminal activities they were able to avoid because they could tap into some conversations early on: massive shootings, terroristic activities, nuclear weapon programs of countries that should not be trusted with them, drugs that may have killed users and mere stupidity that may have started new wars.

I think that the only way agencies were able to keep postponing the end of the Patriot act and related laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act ) is presenting massive evidence to the congress of the tragedies they were able to avoid with the power granted by those laws.

Somebody that was publicly martyred by a country of great power makes more noise than a war that was avoided.

Weakening strong cryptography is not the solution but I think we sometimes grossly underestimate the other face of the coin.
> If enough goes wrong, you will get called back to work.

True, but if you're good at your job, then this should be a very rare occurrence! It's still well worth the trade-off.
The scary thing is that tick-borne illnesses have exploded even within NYC in the last 3 or 4 years. I got bitten looking for morels this spring in one of the NYC parks, and even though I got the tick off within an hour and haven’t experienced any symptoms it still makes me nervous that I haven’t taken the 21 days of doxycycline.
I give my boss/coworkers my wife's phone number when I go on vacation. I tell them you have to talk to her to get to me. I then put my phone in airplane mode 95% of the time and use it as a camera. I'll occasionally undo airplane mode to upload photos or check the internets for something, but vacation for me is usually unplugging as well.

I've yet to be called with this strategy.
Honestly all of these are incredibly interesting. Have you thought much about the implementation for each? The shoe installer is something I see being fairly tricky. Which one of these would you want to see first?
It's entirely possible their current job is done at their maximum effort without burning themselves out. So asking them for more isn't going to do anything long-term.
Or even nothing goes wrong suddenly. Once, I had a vacation planned for six months and had to spend the long weekend cooped up in my hotel room overseeing a complicated migration.
since when is universally agreed upon:
1: ever/any single instance above nuclear household, a thing
2: demonstrate why it even makes sense to ask that?
3: what in the f/h is happening here. am i on reddit? i literally screenshot this and a later discussion for off hn topic on "what is happening at HN"
4: hostile HN takeover via brain vomit commenting?
Let's face it: nuclear power is hideously dear and far from ideal
Actually no, it's amazing one. This is how markets have been for thousands of years, within walking distance of the homes of the people using them. But yet it isn't compatible with modern "advances" like zoning, parking lots, and NIMBY driven politics.
A nice side effect of this is, if you're making multiple six figures, your chances of being asked to work on bullshit projects that don't matter is much lower, and you can basically pick and choose what to do, and _tell your boss_ what to do as well. Money is not just compensation, it's also a powerful signaling mechanism. People just assume that if your time costs a lot, you must be super good. This is _mostly_ true, but not always. Some people get paid a lot for no apparent reason at all. The inverse, however, is often not true (yet the pricing signal is interpreted exactly as you'd expect): there are lots and lots of great people who are severely underpaid. Some are victims of circumstance, some just consider pursuing top dollar to be "beneath their dignity", majority (anecdotally, I don't have data) are just too lazy to do anything about it and change jobs once every 2 years as they should.
> In the 6 years since, has there been a followup that shows that this malfunction was intentional, i.e. not a bug?

Why assume it's a bug? That should be for them to prove. And why would there be a follow-up if they never get prosecuted in the first place? Follow up by who?

> And any documents that describe the intended malbehavior?

Selling devices that betray their owners isn't enough - they'd have to also be incompetent enough to create documents that is what they intended?

Just what kind of insane standard of proof do you require for a prosecution to start (not convict, start)?
Why do they need toll booths to add cameras?

What prevents the surveillance state from just putting some cameras on the highway?
They are rational for individuals acting in their own self-interest, and that's what economic theory is based on.