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> 1% of products have [...] 99% of products and services [...] plumber productivity would go up 50% [...]

Did know that 97% of statistics are made up on the spot?

The problem with your fictions here is that they're based in a world with a lot of advertising. In your fantasy, people just sit around dying of thirst because there's nobody to advertise water at them. But in reality, people would still find ways to get what they need.

I find great new products all the time despite living an ad-free life. I find them through friends. Through internet discussion like Hacker News. And through sites like Wirecutter and Consumer Reports. I don't find my life particularly lacking.

Would ending ads mean it would be harder for businesses to manipulate their growth numbers? Sure. So I can get why you feel panicked at the thought. But you're used to a world where everybody's burning investor money to get attention, so it's required to do the same. Maybe think about the world where nobody can do that. I promise you, it'll keep on turning.
Isn't this the trap that most startups fall in? "We don't have the money but we do have the engineers, lets build our own in-house solution for cheaper"

20k per year seems like an incredibly reasonable price for a managed distributed cloud store, especially when considering maintenance cost.
Um. Phonebooks are a form of advertising...
I'd rather be worried about whether advertising is (cost-)effective. Couldn't there be an advertising industry bubble? I block all ads online nowadays, but when I didn't, I found it hard to believe that they could be worth the money.
Kubernetes is a transpiled Java project, so yeah, Java-like features would definitely make it easier :P

I think idiomatic golang works pretty well without generics in most cases, the big problem for me is that functional programming is essentially impossible without them.
Indeed. We remove advertising, how many folks lose their jobs that are allowing them a level of self-actualization where they can analyze advertising effects on society at large?
NYC isn't the only model for density. Small houses on small lots can and does create lots of housing in places that don't typically come to mind when you think of dense (as this blog points out, Provincetown MA is one example: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20141104.php#.XUHrGO...)
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Am I wrong for believing that the author has drastically oversimplified their argument to make it seem like walls were the downfall of the roman empire? I've studied the fall of the roman empire for years on and off, and am no expert, but in decades prior, not once were the existence of walls ever mentioned as the reason for the downfall of society.

Some societies have over-relied on such defenses, true. But that is not the same as a pure causation. In those situations the problem is cultural, and either the people have become lazy and or divided.
Yeah this is what I’m picturing, although I’m all for creative misinterpretations!
My rule of thumb for selecting technical books on the library is: if the title says "basic", "fundamental" or "introduction" then it's in depth and there are pre-requisits; if the title says "advanced" then it's content-free bullshit.
7 -> 7+/P -> 5 -> 5+/P -> 3 are all in the works already and that's just TMSC
I think the site would require that the visitor give consent when they visit.
Every single day, new people are born who actually do not know what Coca-Cola is and thus have never bought a Coca-Cola.
I honestly wish I could get a data only phone without a dedicated phone number. I get an average of 10 calls a day from random spammers claiming I'm owed $5,000 to IRS etc...

Only thing stopping me is a lot of companies have moved to 2FA via my call phone number as opposed to an authenticator app.
> Why do buses not count?

I think at least in some places in the US, this is a class thing, though few people will admit it. Buses are associated with lower-class people, whereas rail (especially heavy rail) is associated with middle class people.
Even with Wagyu and Kobe, the whole cow isn't getting turned into premium cuts of meat. Burger and sausage are going to be a byproduct of the parts that aren't high margin proportional to the demand for the rest of it. Kind of like how eggs are so cheap because they are a natural byproduct of the chicken meat industry and the insatiable American lust for all white meat breast. I wouldn't be surprised to see an effective advertising campaign to make burger et al more "premium" as plant based substitutes take off and the price go up as a result of that. Kind of how Angus cows got to be big in the first place.
You don't think they have ever tried that. They stopped ad spend in certain locations and in those locations sales went down.

People don't have time to research every single choice in their lives. At some point you just go with brand trust. When I see Uncle Floyd's Cola and CocaCola, I just go with what I know. Advertising establishes brand trust.
Wikipedia provides more value to me than Google, and it doesn't rely on adverts.

And static websites with mostly text are very cheap to host now, and there are lots of people willing to share their knowledge without adverts. That was how it was usually done before the rise of web advertising, and old-fashioned websites still exist. You don't even need search engines to find them; there are volunteer-run directory projects like Curlie (successor to Open Directory Project and DMOZ).

Bloated websites full of video and megabytes of Javascript are probably too expensive to host without adverts, but I think the web would probably be better without them. I'd miss Youtube, but how many Youtube videos are really the best way to present the content and a good use of your time? A non-commercial web is possible.
I think the second version of the Impossible meat is pretty good and tastewise is a decent substitute. I've had it as a burger and also in a burrito (Qdoba has the impossible meat now). For the burger you can still tell a difference but I don't think if you handed me two burritos, one with ground beef and one with Impossible meat, I would be able to tell a difference.

I think the next sticking point will be price. Impossible burgers still cost more at the moment. But if the price of Impossible burgers comes down or if the price of beef goes up I think you would see a change from a novelty item to a true alternative.
I’ve not considered coke to be a luxury product before. But if you mean that it’s not a necessity, it guess... maybe?
It appears to be an error. My guess is that this was composed using a correction system that failed to recognize the plural of bio and substituted the best match it could find. I have this problem of pluralized forms of informal words not being recognized on my Android thus triggering substitutions that do not make sense.
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If you honestly believe the harming/killing of animals and plants are equivalent, come by my place later. I've got some hedges in my front yard and a dog. I'll get out the hedge clippers and we can demonstrate there's no real difference between cutting parts off of a bush and a mammal.
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Even if there are parking spots for everybody, if even a few of those new people actually use the train (as opposed to use it once to say they are green but never again) there are less cars on the road.

We don't need to get everybody to get rid of all cars. We need to make sure that everybody has a reasonable opportunity to not use the car.
I wish America would group TV ads together, it would make them much easier to skip and would remove the need for forced cutoffs (you really notice them when watching on non-cable sources)
I'm going to go for the check, because its something I can frame.
So you think the reason the Soviet union was less colourful was because there wasn't ads?

You realize that advertising isn't what created coloured paints or what allows us to plant flowers right?
What happened to our dreams of Real-Time collaborative writing?
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Generics and Interfaces solve different problems
but what is the benefit? How does your code change. Generics are a tail abstraction. Its the last abstraction that you are able to make to your code to reduce boilerplate. This usually means that is the least useful and in generics specific case the boiler place it reduces is minimal.

Its lack of impact is why I dont really care about the subject. Adding or removing generics to a project matters little. So why bother complaining. The class creation and encapsulation choices are much more impactful to future code edits.
On one of the podcasts I listen to (The Morning Stream), one of the co-hosts (Brian) has been on Weight Watchers for I think all of this year. One thing he has noted is that, assuming all else is equal (bun, toppings, etc.), an Impossible or Beyond burger costs many more 'points' than a regular beef burger. (One of the goals being to stay below a particular points limit each day.) That surprised me, until he explained that the plant-based burger is high in carbohydrates, which contributes to its high points value.

So I disagree that this is the end of an industry. I think it's the beginning of change in an industry, but not its end.
Chiming in here as a Swift dev - I find its generics system incredibly helpful and end up writing something that uses generics about once a month. To those Go programmers who think they will never use them - it’s worth a little learning, and once you do you will find more ways to use them to make your code more applicable.
Thoughts on NYC Subway ads? They are sort of entertaining sometimes, when there isn’t cell signal underground.
There is a wide range of aggression in advertising tactics, and the arguments made in the article apply in proportion to that aggressiveness. It is not necessary to eliminate all advertising to start recognizing and addressing these problems.
Because bugs due to missing {} happen, and are a royal pain, the rule is that any nontrivial statement; especially any multi-line; must have braces.

Also, given the amount of patches I have to read, uniform style really does matter. Unconventional style breaks the flow and detracts from the important bits.

Also, I'm not aware of a lint like tool that works on diffs. Many of the patches never get further than my MUA.
Agreed on vegetarian products not automatically being healthy (or tasty for that matter). Likely not the point of your post, but cholesterol is only found in animal products, so I don’t think you’d be injecting that with these burgers, though they still sound unhealthy.
And why is that land used for livestock? Much of this is land in the west, and there's not much else you can do with it. You can't grow crops on it - not enough water. You can't even grow trees on it - not much land got cleared of trees to make room for grazing. All you can do is run some cows or sheep on it. And, behold, it becomes part of this huge acreage used for cattle.
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I think their G11V3 computer design is pretty out of date now.
Let's see:
1. Private labels enjoy about 10% extra margin. Amazon is currently scaling private labels and exclusive products(same thing), like mad.

And any major corporation can use the same supply chain to make the same private label goods. All commodity products are a race to the bottom.

2. Low margin doesn't mean a business is bad, just hard. Walmart is an amazing business, with low margins.

Not a bad business, but low margin businesses don’t command the multiple that Amazon has.

3. Let's say amazon creates a system that can supply everything, to your home, in a few hours, at the lowest price. And customers will really like that.

Yes and then you increase the marginal cost for shipping....

How many other companies can build that ? maybe 1-2 in the US.
So now you have a duopoly.

You don’t need many companies to erase margins if they are competing on price.

4. Amazon controls demand. In the internet age, that's the most important thing.

Amazon doesn’t control demand. But Amazon retail has the highest marginal costs of any of the tech companies including Apple. Netflix, Google, and Microsoft (software not hardware and cloud) have much lower marginal costs. Software has basically zero marginal costs.

Could they manufacture their own products ? be responsible to purchase inputs for their manufacturers ? Build something like AWS for manufacturing ?
Who knows.

Apple is considered the best in supply change management in the world. They have huge bargaining power because they sell a lot of a few goods. Amazon would be selling a relative few of a lots of stuff.

5. Amazon is growing rapidly in B2B. Not sure, but i believe products there have much higher margins.

Businesses have an entire procurement department to make sure they are getting the lowest prices. Those margins should be even lower.
You're shifting the conversation though, this wasn't about what your priorities are it was about whether or not the products provide value. You claimed they don't, you are now saying they do provide value?
I'm not sure if I totally understand your point. But from what I'm seeing on the graph, the temperature coloring is only present when the average temperature is above 70 (in red) or below 50 (in white). So there is no coloring around the edges in spring/fall for many graphs because the average temperature is likely between 50-70.
It is, unfortunately the majority of plants die at the hands of livestock. To reduce the needless killing of plants, improve your health and the environment is surprise.... to eat less or no meat.
There must be a way to do advertising that respects the consumer, and doesn't use some form of sketchy manipulation to achieve the desired goal. And yet the vast majority of advertising is (to me) offensive.

> Anyone who hates advertising this much should show their commitment by working at an organization that does not advertise.

That's a rather childish and immature rejoinder. The world of employment simply doesn't work that way, and people's job mobility is not infinite and frictionless.
As a doctor, I'm all for banning soft drinks, recognizing that it probably will never happen.

But, the health externalities associated with drinking such beverages should get priced in and be used to offset eventual health complications. This is not easy because no one likes taxes, but you get what you pay for.
excited to see the new search engine you build then!
How do you define "Something useful" though? The advertisement money eventually makes it to Google, broadcasters, sites, TV-channels, sports events and people running those organization in term gets more money to spend on [Potentially useful stuff]. It's not like the money magically vanishes to never be seen again, and business to business transaction like this make the money flow faster instead of slower.

Economy is basically production vs consumption, money is just the grease to keep the cycle flowing, to follow the money isn't getting to the base cause of our problems.
I don't have kids and white-list my parents. If I had a SO I would white-list them too. This group of people presumably understands me well enough to not call me at random times unless it's an emergency.

By white-list I mean it doesn't auto-hangup, but I see the call, so I call back if it's one of the above. If it's not one of the above I don't even see the call. I still don't enable phone ringer sounds or vibrations a lot of the time. That sh*t scares me enough that it could cause me to fall of my bike, crash a car, or something else dangerous.

By auto-hangup I'm talking about everyone else. I simply can't work if people call me when they feel like without knowing what I'm actually doing. I might be standing on a cliff, trying to merge onto a highway, or trying to saw a piece of metal, and that's the wrong time to yell "HEY! What's up! Did you see my e-mail?"

> detail about how you did this

Twilio. You can write scripts to forward calls (or not) based on time/date, or even receive and play back some "interesting" recordings if you want to get back at spammers.

If you just want simple call-blocking with white-listing there are some apps on Android that can do that as well, and you can disable the blocking when you have a calendar event.
Probably yes: https://medium.com/@arschles/go-experience-report-generics-i...

Many smaller projects would benefit too. I would like to build a typesafe tree for an efficient sorted map, and to be able mergsort over multiple trees of different types. It would allow some extremely useful channel combinators for doing rather common things like safely shutting down a service with some background processing. Often these things leak and a often I find myself spawning more go routines just to map between types or to stop generic interface types infecting the rest of the API.
How long does such a model expect the trees to keep the carbon captured? Most (non-rain-)forests burn eventually, so for a long-term solution, we need to make sure that the carbon that is captured stays captured. I saw some mention of special grass as a good option, since it stored most of its carbon in its roots.
I was on Amazon to buy the book 'Getting Things Done' by David Allen. And I stumbled onto some really odd reviews that didn't make sense. So I parsed the reviews and did some basic analysis.
Though it was really hard to find anything.
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"That would be a waste of money. Building transit lines without people to ride them means that they reach their end of useful life from old age without serving enough people to be worth them."

Agreed. Forgive me - what I meant was, build new transit lines on point to point routes that already make sense, then in-fill the intermediate stops as needed.

Those in-fill stations can then be the anchors for transit oriented, high density development which completes the cycle because the line is already in place.

I think they have basically succeeded with this in the University St. Paul <--> MPLS lightrail route. The route already made sense point-to-point and now they can choose the intermediate stops that make sense to organically grow the corridor.
Livestock don't usually have hands but you get the point.
C++ solves all problem that can be solved with Go, but with a lot more features.

Why are we not using C++ where Go is currently being used? By your logic, this shouldn’t be the case.
>But are these plant burgers actually claiming or marketing themselves as healthy?

Yes. A snippet from the top paragraph of Beyond Meat's Product Page:

"Imagine your favorite meaty dishes[...]while being better for you [...]"[1]

[1]https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/

Edit: Beyond Meat is not claiming they are healthy, just that they are healthier.

Edit 2: Looking farther, they also state that they are "IMPROVING HUMAN HEALTH" on their about page. This would likely still fall under that they claim they are "healthier" rather than healthy, though.
Absolutely bytecode was already an old idea by the time this work took place. (And Wirth, Franz's advisor, wrote compilers and books using pcode).

The novelty was in using trees for the representation, and recompiling the entire Oberon system not just a single app. Later work by his students (Vivek+Chris iirc) looked at using arithmetic encoding to further compress things. Also Michael noticed that it prevented malformed programs, as his interest in security grew.

Another branch of the family tree worked on more compiler optimization friendly IRs, such as typed SSA instead of bytecode, and applied it to Java. The idea being to be able to do more upfront optimization work, and still transmit a safe representation that was cheap to verify.
Maybe we could genetically engineer a new kind of tree with undigestible wood, to replicate this era to deliberately sequester carbon.
More than the technical aspect of it, you may have less jerks in your life (lucky you).

There a people who will take any occasion to phone. I had a client who phoned 5 min after sending a mail to check if I saw it. Some would wait a few hours before phoning.

After a while, more than any change in what I use, completely blocking work calls outside of the duty team and ignoring mails/message/ whatever when off was the most straightforward way.

I don’t even have to hide my phone number anymore, it’s just dropped and they have to go to the support team if it’s really something important.
If every company stopped advertising then google and facebook and twitter will disappear. Are all these companies pure waste? How do you fund a replacement for them? Should these services be provided by governments?
My job is talking to start-ups and established companies that want to grow. It's not a fiction to say that most companies don't grow if they don't promote themselves.
Didn't Arby's just recently release a "meat based vegetable" as part of their marketing campaign.
"What can be done about it?
I honestly have no good ideas"

One possibility would be setting up some sort of cloud/container solution that isn't really trying to TOR is up, but does manage to obscure and filter traffic enough to harden us mortal targets.

Up from there, perhaps there is some tarted up proxy as a business model that supports doing social media and searching in a low-fingerprint way.

These ideas must have been explored already, so tell me who has some good products, HN.
I hate when acronyms prevent people from understanding important parts of an article. Here you go.

TSMC = "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited, also known as Taiwan Semiconductor, is the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry" (from Wikipedia).
Can you provide some resources on what makes you think Kubernetes is a transpiled Java project?

That's definitely not the case from what I know/understand...
There are lots of employers that can't be centralized in downtown areas, like

- schools

- hospitals

- malls/retail

All of those things need to be close to residents who don't necessarily live downtown or on major transit lines. And they're also all expensive to move. How many of them are well connected to transit today?
The Learning Funnel
> It will give the Russians access to S400 telemetry of F22 and F35 planes...

Thx a lot - I now think that I understand the issue => it's once more a reminder for myself that often nothing is as simple as it is presented. Unluckily none of the news I read/watched about it mentioned this and I did not think about it.
Yes, but they are so adorable!
I've been listening to the fall of Rome podcast. Never the walls have been mentioned there either. It seems a cheap try to make a political argument.
Right? At least a cow has a chance to run away. But a carrot - it’s stuck in the ground, no legs, no sensory apparatus. It doesn’t have a chance.
They'll even let you pilot it!