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> What would be the concession from the Chinese?

What concession? It's a clear market distortion that shipping rates across such distances are so ridiculously low. I'm not sure why anybody is supporting them. This isn't about Trump or not Trump, and always putting these issues in these terms is incredibly distracting from what's actually important. (And I say this as somebody who absolutely despises Trump.)
I think the logic behind it (which is somewhat born out by experience) is that without parking minimums, residents just use street parking. There's an externality there: street parking is provided as a public good so that people can visit commercial establishments, friends, community centers, etc, but if a developer can rely on the public good so that they can fit 50% more units into an area and reduce construction costs, they will. Then the public good is consumed by this private externality, residents take up all the street parking spots that were intended for visitors, and nobody's better off except the developers.

Much of San Francisco (where I've heard 50% of cars in the city at any given time are looking for parking) is an example of this problem. So are many immigrant neighborhoods where people double- or triple-up in units: street parking is virtually impossible to find in my neighborhood after about 6:00 PM.

The logic behind "abolish parking minimums" is that then people will live a car-free lifestyle and depend upon public transit, but in my experience that isn't true. Even folks who primarily use public transit and like to walk often own a car, if only for grocery runs and the occasional weekend getaway. Services like ZipCar help in that regard, but we're pretty far away from abolishing private car ownership.
I suppose you don't need IP to have contracts that prevent redistribution... I'm not sure that's what OP is going for though.
Ok I guess they're citing table 2 from this? https://escholarship.org/content/qt485983zw/qt485983zw.pdf

Which:

- Uses data from 2000

- Only looks at LA proper (not really meaningful)

- Still doesn't support their claim. Miami, Detroit, Dallas, Tampa Bay, St Louis all have higher lanes/person

I'm guessing they thought it showed LA being highest because it's first in the table and didn't realize what column it was sorted by.
> It's all a big dump, discoverability is bad.

I see it as easier to discover.

Imagine if you had to goto /usr/bin/output/user to find the whoami binary.

If you did, who is responsible for making those directories and what happens when you have a binary that could really belong in 5 different places?
I'm all for fundamentalism on that front but among the undesired consequences listed those that related to SSO and 3rd party auth are indeed problematic. Not that I think that the current protocols are holy and should be kept all at cost, on the contrary, I find the privacy issues in those solution very problematic.
I avoid using Facebook or Google auth for any 3rd party service.

Nevertheless, at least in enterprise environments, there is a very strong and justified need for federated auth. This is issue that must be solved to keep businesses and users secure.
I don't mind packages being installed sequentially, but I do wish they would be downloaded in parallel. It's very annoying to watch ~1500 packages, most of which are only a few KiB in size, download at the rate of one per second on a gigabit connection. (I'm on openSUSE, so zypper. I think yum downloads in parallel now after dnf improvements were merged into it?)
Thanks! Botched that one...
Seems more like a tangential complaint about general societal ignorance of that fact... and the title seems to be phrased as clickbait for people that believe in the cholesterol boogieman.
People put their lives and their children's lives in danger to illegally enter the United States, frequently paying human traffickers substantial money in the process, because the border and enforcement is weak. They know that if they can get past the border they have a very good chance of spending as long as they want living and working in the US.
Convenience is only part of the story though. Price matters - and for me at least it is often as cheap or cheaper as a single person in a car to drive than get a train. I live in London, I can train anywhere pretty conveniently. But, somehow, if I decide that I want to go to Leeds next weekend to see my friend - it's £100.

Well, shit. The train is more convenient - but that's over twice the cost of petrol. Now imagine that I wanted to take another friend with me. It's absurd. The same scenario, but to a friend in Rugby (about half as far, different train line) costs me £23. Bargain!

There are multiple axes on which to nudge behaviour - and one of them is definitely price.
The resolution should be restoration of reciprocity, like having China Post insist on commercial shippers having customs clearance arranged.

Other trade war elements like getting out of TPP and bellicosity in general have cost vastly more than the value of stopping drop-shipping Chinese eBay sellers, which is negligible in US China trade.
In my experience, most SaaS startups are all about "gettin' them logos!" The more "logos" (other well-known companies that use their product) they can pile up and tout on their website, the better. And so they'll make significant deals to get a well-known name signed.

And I'm not saying this is wrong or a bad approach, by the way. It certainly lends credibility if, say, Google is using my SaaS product.
How would getting rid of street parking mean third world traffic jams where people have to go to the bathroom in their cars?

Are you 100% sure that street parking is the only difference between these two situations?
> The man payed with his American Express and a few months later, Airbus called to tell the planes are ready for delivery.

Fake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A350_XWB_orders...
Nonsense, not everything from China is a knockoff and there are a lot of genuine non-copied products. How weird to think their economy is just "inferior knockoffs".
Climate change should be anyone's first answer.
The Internet Computer [pdf]
What's the advantage of using this over OpenCSV? Or over using open("spreadsheet.xslx",'r').readline().split("\t") to shove everything into a Python dictionary?

Right now, as a side project, I am using bulk data from the Federal Election Commission to find correlations between the number of campaign donations of a given amount and the number of voters that vote for that campaign's political candidate. I had never even heard of OpenCSV when I started, but I have been doing quite well with Python's basic functions.
Oh that's just great. So an MSRP of ~ $6375 CAD. They're beautifully done—guess it goes on the bucket list. Here I thought the wiring job on my AC30 was the nicest I'd seen in a long time (http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/ac30hw2_2010.html - also w/ tremolo and spring reverb tank)
It's the investigative and law enforcement side of the Department of Homeland security.
I grew up here. I live here. What makes you think it’s not dense? “LA” is HUGE. Parts of it are dense, parts of it are less dense.

When most people think of LA they need to think in the context of the entire county. There are ten million people living here, that’s more than the entire state of Michigan.
Aren't ocean vessels one of the most efficient forms of transportation in existence?
Many American cities have run down and hollowed out cores that are ripe for redevelopment. The challenge is to achieve a critical mass of housing, services and employment options that are accessible without the need for a cars, which requires committed effort.
Interestingly, two terms of Obama presidency have a notable dip in a number of processed applications: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/539/
I'd believe that under the Obama administration but it's a much tougher sell now.
Describing this as just "minification" downplays the compiler improvements, here.
Just on the open-source thread of things, one thing to note is that the "copyleft" regime depends on copyright to work. As do many of the schemes open-source projects use to monetize.

"Stealing from smaller creators" by the big guys isn't a problem I foresee getting smaller in an IP-free world.
> Um, no. It's objective fact. Whether it's a video game or R&D on drugs or semiconductors, it does in fact require the expending of limited resources. Are you for real? This stuff doesn't pop into existence out of thin air.

You can do a lot of normally valueless things for money, if somebody gives them to you for that, whether by legal compulsion or own volition. Not denying that. The question is whether giving money for that is a rational thing to do.

>It does not cover the step 0 of GENERATING that information to be copied in the first place.

I put that example exactly to demonstrate that it does not influence whether the person/business in question has his capacity "of GENERATING that information" diminished.

No, that person or a business is 100% capable continuing doing so in the same capacity.

The capacity "of GENERATING that information" gets diminished if it gets regulatory limited though IP monopoly (I copyrighted this mathematic formula/program, thus nobody else can use it in their mathematic formulas/computer programs)

China for example has its own non-insignificant pharmaceutical industry making original drugs, low profile semiconductor industry which nevertheless makes own developments, and gigantic videogame companies all with close to none IP enforcement.
The main use cases I can think of for a super fast and lean package manager are (1) speeding up docker image builds (only matters when new dependencies are added), (2) folks with slow / significantly metered internet connections, and (3) embedded systems / low resource machines.

Otherwise 20-60 seconds saved doesn't matter to me personally for a one-time event. I'm guessing it doesn't matter to the package-manager developers either.
There's a difference between agreeing on the idea, the execution, and supporting a person who says that idea. (and the story they try to sell with that idea)

A lot of people likely agree the imbalance was hurting us businesses. But fewer agree with how it was done, or want to support Trump.
Why they do not take advantage ov ivdep? I don't know. I thought it was because the size address was not a function of the iteration variable, but even by artificially adding the dependency (with a barebone vector implementation) does not seem to trigger the optimization.
Tesorio (YC S15) raises $10M Series A to help companies track their cash flow
I am still able to go on ebay and buy small items (usb cables, camera lens caps, plastic pry tools, etc) shipped from china for $0.80. Is this going to change?

What about the same situation for items shipped from Thialand or Vietnam? There's quite a few of those available as well.
Blockers have a negative effect on bone density and it is unknown if they affect brain development. I guess we will only really see the negative effects(if any) in a couple of decades.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/when-transgender-...
So is drop shipping from China now dead?

A major benefit of drop shipping from China was the pretty much $1 shipping for almost any item via ePacket.

Obviously the products are still cheaper, but with a 25% tariff on most goods, and what I can only assume will be a close to DHL price for shipping, a t-shirt drop shipped from China will probably cost more than one made and shipped domestically.

To continue to be competitive, drop shippers are going to have to think about bulk imports and warehousing, thus no longer being drop shippers.
The USPS has to ask permission from regulators to raise prices, unlike their more private counterparts.
Yeah, software patents are absolutely awful.

Source code is like a written recipe, you absolutely should be able to copyright it. But you shouldn't be able to patent it. All software patents do is encourage lawsuits and trolling.
One thing to note here is that roads and driving have been heavily subsidized while mass transit has been fought against.
Based on these benchmarks, you are including the time it takes to download packages, which is very unreliable since it varies widely based on mirrors. I've installed QEMU on Arch before in a much shorter time. Can confirm though that Alpine has very consistent download times, while sometimes with Arch I will have to change my mirror due to poor speed.
>What concession? It's a clear market distortion that shipping rates across such distances are so ridiculously low. I'm not sure why anybody is supporting them.

Come on, everyone supports ridiculously low costs on anything.
Increasing social and economic inequality.
First off, parking isn't flat & spread out. It is very often stacked & condensed into compact areas known parking garages, some of which sit under housing complexes and so take up no extra real estate at all. Presenting the square acreage of all parking spaces like this is a grossly misleading way of presenting the data. 10% of the raw acreage of spaces is very much not 10% of the real estate used for parking.

Second, there have to be many more parking places than there are cars, otherwise you would never be able to move your car. You wouldn't find another spot, because it would already be taken.

Third, even if we imagine a perfect system where you leave your spot, someone leaves their spot and takes your spot, leaving an opening for you, that would still ignore the fact that parking spots are not fungible. You can't interchange them, one spot for another, and balance the equation. The spot in front of your house/appartment is pretty much useless for nearly everyone else that isn't a neighbor.

I don't have any comprehensive solution to this problem, but what I am pretty sure of is that there's no single silver bullet solution that will massively improve the situation. (or if there is such a solution & I'm just not smart enough to find it, it's not going to be found in parking spaces.)
That’s fine, not what he was suggesting. There already is a security fee, so consultants don’t need to dream up how to apply one.
> The products of human creative toil should be kept and enjoyed by all, versus being locked-up being veils of secrecy that inevitably lead to their loss.

Tell that to Disney:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney_Vault&oldi...

UPDATE: Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20810558
I've even fantasized about a tax for the movement of goods no matter how they're moved or how carbon neutral the method.
> I love how thi

+1, also like how clean this theme is. Worships whitespace too.
>> It is crowded, unclean, slow, and noisy.

in North America it's also expensive and heavily subsidized by those who don't use it. With no judgement, both of these aspects go directly against the capatalist American zeitgeist
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It is very different. It's literally impossible for you to dispossess yourself of that derivative. So clearly you will still have it. It's not impossible for you to dispossess yourself of users' data. They're not the same thing.
The shipping industry is responsible for a significant proportion of the global climate change problem. More than three percent of global carbon dioxide emissions can be attributed to ocean-going ships. This is an amount comparable to major carbon-emitting countries -- and the industry continues to grow rapidly.

In fact, if global shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Only the United States, China, Russia, India and Japan emit more carbon dioxide than the world’s shipping fleet. Nevertheless, carbon dioxide emissions from ocean-going vessels are currently unregulated.

https://eu.oceana.org/en/shipping-pollution-1
Not sure about Flutter being held back by Dart. From my experience the language works really well for Flutter.

For example Dart has first class support for asynchronous streams, very useful for a reactive framework. Flows in Kotlin are still experimental I think?

The Dart version of async/await works really well, just what you need in Flutter code and simpler than suspended functions in Kotlin.

The cascade operator is since syntactic sugar and, again, simpler and lighter than Kotlin's "apply".

Then there are Flutter's killer features, mainly hot reload and soon the Web support. Is Kotlin.js in the same league as Dart? Honest question! Dart's
JavaScript support is very mature, with 2 backends: one for development and one for production. And what's the hot-reload story on Kotlin's side? I could not find an answer on Google, but I did find[1] these words from the "IntelliJ IDEA product manager @ JetBrains, co-author of Kotlin in Action":

"Flutter relies heavily on features that are only provided by the Dart VM. It’s not possible to add Kotlin support to Flutter without losing a lot of the things making Flutter attractive."

So from a marketing standpoint maybe Dart is a liability, but technically I think it's a strength. I hope marketing won't have the last word!

[1] https://twitter.com/intelliyole/status/1105493258954780672
He said 'in Europe' ;)
> I've found that most of the people who speak like pitaj are in universities and they make their money through some mixture of outrageous tuition bills that can't be dodged or government funding from taxes that can't be escaped.

This sounds like a personal attack and I feel your comment would be better without it.
While I don't agree with the GP, traffic in NYC is nothing like what it is describing (i.e., significantly better than the "third world").
Though some Irish members of the EU benefit, it harms the EU as a whole. That's why it's bad, not because Ireland is benefitting.
It's always cool to see my province on HN for this or that.

It seems that beekeeping has exploded in popularity around here in the last, say, decade or so. Driving around, there's a huge number of tents set up in canola and alfalfa fields to support colonies of Leafcutter Bees.
Given the numbers he threw around, he's talking about paying $2000/month, or $24k/year, for art. Finding someone capable of providing the art direction people seem to think he needs, as well as delivering all the art by themselves, seems unrealistic in any country.
And that is evaluated on a per market basis. The assertion that losing money on some services causes them to raise prices elsewhere is baseless.

Even if there was a mechanism the numbers don't work - there's orders of magnitude more packages sent within the US than into the US from UPU.
34 Years of Microsoft Windows Design History
Many scientists make similar decisions every day, in the sense they spend much of their writing proposal after for proposal for research money from organizations whose missions they feel deeply troubled by (chiefly military/defense in the States)
> Suggesting that Amazon aren't tracking requests to Cloudfront is ridiculous.

Counting a solitary log that an IP loaded a resource is hardly the tracking that is harmful. This is the absolutism that derails the discussion for me. In one step, you have forsworn any service which doesn't own it's entire stack from CDN to network switches to racks on the data center. How many websites do this? Worth noting that HN doesn't and is therefore allowing "third-parties" to "track" you. And yet you have no problem using HN.
Do you think 1 car generates the same amount of noise as 100 cars? 1 tram is not a replacement for 1 car.
> one thing to note is that the "copyleft" regime depends on copyright to work

The idea of copyleft doesn't. The particular implementation in our regulatory reality does, because RMS & others figured out how to hack a system typically used for rent-seeking and restricting innovation (thus lots of parties are investing money to preserve it), and use it for the opposite goal.
Street parking doesn't need to be free.
That does not sound like a rabid leftist?

- You don't want rent control?

- I guess whatever non-Pigouvian portion of tax/subsidy is also out of bounds?
There is a difference in it being "virtually" no difference, and there being no difference. Allowing a third part to handle TLS for you (as cloudfront/cloudflare and other providers often do) is undermining the point of encryption. For a static site that little difference but encryption herd immunity is still compromised.

Proper encryption is not just for important stuff, it's for everything, so that when we send important stuff it is not seen.
So the question is what are the appropriate consequences? This is a reasonable point of debate.

On the one hand the consequences probably shouldn't be nothing. On the other they probably shouldn't be irrevocably tearing apart their family, deporting the adults abroad sometimes to the wrong country and then losing track of their young children in the social services system, as a terror tactic to try and scare other visa violators into line.
Efficient per unit distance, yes , but they're also travelling more units of distance
My somewhat off-beat recommendation is "Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code". The sources to a 1976 version of Unix written in an archaic dialect of C and targeting a long-dead CPU architecture are obviously not of immediate relevance to the modern world, and may well not be to your taste unless you already have some sympathy with the idea of retrocomputing. But if you do: 6th Edition is small enough that you really can read through the whole set of sources and understand pretty much how the whole thing is put together; the basic bones of the design are not so far away from Linux, so it gives you a workable conceptual model of what the shape of the Linux sources are and what the various important parts are; the commentary is really good, explaining the inscrutable but nudging you to figure things out yourself too; and overall it is practice in reading a large volume of somebody else's code, which is something you're going to be doing all the time if you work on Linux or any modern kernel. You probably also want a more theoretical and general book too, of course.
I'm going to be honest with you, I won't sit through an hour and a half video that makes your point for you. I'll just say that the current president fired the director of the National Institute for Space Research (an MIT PhD) for saying satellite data indicated deforestation was on the rise, contradicting the minister of the environment. An Air Force official was temporarily put in his place. While the official is a PhD, he was found hastily after the also hasty firing

I think you'll agree that actually dismissing the director of an important research institution is very much more important than whatever new prank Boghossian has played on the “identitarian left”
Not more efficient than trains. Environmentally, we'd all be better off if goods to the US were produced in Mexico and shipped into the US by train.
>So is drop shipping from China now dead?

Probably. This is going to drop a lot of sellers off of Amazon and eBay, and likely have major effects on independent small business dollar/99c stores.
Even just plain old ground-level outdoor paved spaces often need rainwater management structures to meet code, which can easily cost more than the pavement itself.
Once the packages reach a domestic port, they still have to compete the same domestic journey as a local package.
VoiceOps raises $9M to help companies coach their call center reps
Your drugstore/gas-station anecdote doesn't quite apply here though. The ePacket delivery option comes with size, weight and cost limitations such that it's not useful for shipping retail quantities. It's almost exclusively used for suppliers in China to ship directly to end-customers.
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What is the UPU and how'd they get this power?
Part of the problem is that powerful civilizations, while pursuing science and developing reason in may respects, also involve powerful state or commercial structures which conquer, exploit, oppress and kill a lot of people - often in the name of reason and science.
powerpill and apt-fast are handy for this, though they should really do this by default, yeah.