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> Free market (as imagined by Adam Smith, Hayek and others) does not mean that greed and income maximization is everything. (...) Without ethics neither democracy nor free market can exist.

In real markets, there are feedback loops that are much stronger than individual ethics. Under intense enough competitive pressure, unethical actors outcompete ethical actors, because the former can sacrifice more human values.

> in the society that accepts unethical behavior both democracy and free market will rot

Unfortunately, in a society that is less accepting of unethical behavior, that is still only one input to the economy as a system, and to the extent the society is malleable, the input may diminish.

Consider the following mental picture: imagine society's ethical standards as a tilted landscape, through which the river of market activity flows. In a maximally amoral society, the landscape would be so that the river flows straight. The more ethical/moral concern the society has, the more meandering the river becomes. Now two effects happen: one, a strong enough river flow will outright cut corners and flow over some bends. This can be compared to companies acting unethically and getting away with it. Second, the current will erode the landscape over time, bringing it closer to the amoral straight-line terrain. This can be compared to effects of competitive pressure described above, when viewed over longer time spans.
Are you into fashion IRL? I mean for a lot of people, flaunting their online looks is important, it pleases them - and they see others rocking a unique skin and appreciate that as well.

I mean I play FFXIV casually, but there's a huge subculture in that game for making looks, combinations and colorings of its huge library of clothing items.

All I'm saying is, withhold your judgment a bit on things you're not into yourself.
I think cosmetics are a much better alternative to purchasing advantages (that'd never work for a PC game anyway) but keep kids away from gambling absolutely.
> The IETF QUIC isn't finished. Periodically the Working Group thinks it has stopped fiddling with the low-level bit layout and is ready to focus on polish, then somebody finds a show stopper that means revisiting the low-level bits. Maybe 2020?

Ah yes you're right. Also Mozilla (M. Thomson, Ed) is on the author list there so I expect they will support it when it is finalized.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-quic-transport/

Hopefully then they also support DNS over QUIC, I expect they probably will once QUIC is finalized. I think DoH is just a stop-gap measure to be honest.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-huitema-quic-dnsoquic...
This might be a good starting point: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-50-most-read-mcsween...

This is one of the all-time classics though: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-sea...
Why is annual energy growth rate or industrial growth rate assumed to correlate to the speed of space travel?

Just because we build more power plants or sell more tractors doesn't imply a corresponding improvement in spacecraft technology.

The Wait Calculation seems to make even less sense than the Drake Equation - which is at least correct in theory even if the actual variables have so much uncertainty it is useless.
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> But what's the appeal in x86 without expansion ports?

You may have easier time trying to run some alternative OS such as one of the BSDs, Haiku, ReactOS, or even Windows.
I wonder when someone in power finally recognizes that Magic the Gathering and other CCGs, especially their digital versions, are essentially gambling machines.
"I wonder if the reluctance of the gaming industry to tackle gambling is willful or due to ignorance of the issue. "

This must be sarcastic, the entire monetarization model depends on being gambling and -unregulated- gambling at that. No laws, no deposit/spending limits, no gameplay limits, no age restrictions, no regulatory reports, no compliance, no declared 'return to player' (save China), No Taxation. It's a loophole.
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Nobody posted the obligatory 'in mice' yet ?

... in mice.
Unless the technology has improved I would say that most systems are not much better than a CB radio.

The external microphones can be subject to a lot of wear and tear, external noise. I haven't any knowledge of a system as sophisticated as recording voice and storing, let alone pairing an audio segment to data on the pos. But rightly identified as a perfect opportunity to label training data, and you wouldn't think it would be too hard to deploy, at least in a limited capacity for the initial training and validation on this project.
The author has created a text editor which uses immutable data structures s.t. he can do fast undo / redo [1]

[1] https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig
What’s a year’s notice going to do for anyone that 60 days doesn’t already?
I don't understand how physicists cannot see the obvious: the size of a proton appears not to have a fixed/natural value. It seems to depend on the quantum state of their system, energy levels, and the coupling partner's quantum state, energy levels and mass. "Physicists finally nail..." sounds like a part of a joke: "Physicists finally nail the coffin with the research funds shut"
When it’s an online game played with friends, many will want their character to look cool/unique just as much as they want items/equipment that may give a competitive advantage
What are you saying? Uber matches you to a willing driver to pick you up for $X, it's a competitive market so whatever "algorithm" you think they use it's the market that decides the price, but the driver "should" get $Y? Well you are free to tip $Y-$X to the driver then. Why don't you try that next time?
Blech. Torulf Jernstrom. I'm surprised they left that one up. It's not going to age well.
I wouldn't say it was exactly left behind, because the average consumer will not really benefit from anything over 1Gbit. 1Gbit is already enough to saturate most consumer harddrives.

I run 10gbit inside my home and it didn't even cost me that much (if you go with 10Gbit fiber instead of copper) with the sole reasons of getting quicker transfers between my PC and NAS. My NAS has 4 SFP+ ports and functions as a switch. I bought second hand PCIe SFP+ NICs for $40 each and matching transceivers for $15 each. 10M of fiber costs less than $10.

There's no point in going higher, because 10Gbit is already way past the sequential writing speed of the drive array in my NAS, and it's pretty much saturating the NVMe cache drive in the NAS or the NVMe storage in my PC.

That's not to say you can't go faster, because 100, 200 and 400Gbit are very much possible and in use in datacenters and the like.
We currently have a drastic under provision of a good to the tune of 3.5 million homes in CA alone.

This under provision is not because building new homes isn't profitable, it is because realtors, landlords and homeowners are actively blocking new supply in order to extract above market rents from desperate people.

Adding a rent cap of MORE THAN DOUBLE inflation will have no affect on supply, it is ridiculously profitable to rent out your property right now.

CA would have to do something like cap rents at less than $500 per bedroom before profit margins would affect supply.
A while ago I noticed that a small child in my family had a jigsaw puzzle with a Disney princess on it and since that seemed unexpected, I asked how that came. The answer was that they didn't gift it to her but she wanted it herself. They were surprised themselves but argued that maybe it's really something that girls/kids like.

I couldn't help saying that it's hard for children to not like them when the other side is whole departments of grown-ups doing nothing but engineering the best ways to hack a child's brain :/
Thanks for sharing this, I haven't seen this video before but it i mind blowing.
They're definitely a thing in the US, maybe not Panini brand but there's a huge collectors market for baseball cards. Some have a resale values of hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

I was never into these though, it's very much dependent on your own networks - is anyone else collecting them. I did have a short spat of Magic the Gathering though, but never to the point where I bought things off the trading market. I did sell off two rare cards for 30 odd euros apiece, which paid for most of what I had spent on cards. That was nice.
No, you did good! He needs to learn how to handle this and you're right there guiding him.

I have the same situation with my six-year old son and Rocket League loot boxes. He wants to spend all his limited money on them, I think he's wasting it, especially since I see the disappointment when he doesn't get the things he want, but that's a learning experience. It's worse when he once in a while gets a cool skin, because in his eyes it makes it all worth it.

I see the money I give him as teaching opportunities. Kids will get in touch with these mechanics as they grow up, and now you have the chance to talk to him about it. Discuss it over and over, it's not a one-time thing, and you've made no permanent damage. Let him know you think it's not worth it, but I wouldn't put a permanent ban on it, as it may make it even more appealing. If he wants other (real-life) stuff later, remind him that he already spent his money on loot boxes and I think they will lose their appeal a bit.
I believe the comment doesn't add value becase;

a) It's supposition presented (somewhat aggressively) as fact.

b) It's the same old trite "Apple is doomed" prophecy that is trotted out every time there is a product announcement.

As to your comment;

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
The elephant in the room is that UWB positioning is indeed very precise, but only if you have a number of well-positioned beacons with known precise locations working together. The article is all giggly about the rosy future, but having worked with UWB (specifically, the Decawave chips mentioned in the article) I would be much more restrained with predictions. Yes, this is really good technology, but nowhere nearly as easy to use as it seems.

I'd be very interested in technical details: are they using 802.15.4a? Do they use the spectrum above 6GHz?
Ulgy to some, beautiful to others. I am from the latter.
Without evoking Godwin's law, just think about it: China is a dictatorship oppressing free speech and many of their citizens that don't share the official views, torturing them, closing them in concentration camps etc. As a politician, you should know better how to express your admiration for progress.
Imagine if the "trusted domain" used for the whitelabel site on a subdomain was google.com.

Constantly referring to "Google's algorithm" misses the real issue. Google can do whatever it wants. Google can "trust" anyone or no one but itself.

Google has all the traffic, not the coupon websites.

Do we need laws that govern such middlemen?
I'm well aware of the various W3C's and WHATWG HTML specs (see my site at [1]); that was kindof my point ;)

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/
Persistent data structures are thread-safe and are useful for concurrency. That's partly why they are a core part of functional programming languages like Clojure and Haskell. Persistent data structures are also useful for version control.
Most new (first time tenants) will get a cliff rent with next few years of upside factored in. But this will benefit existing tenants. I still think right law to change would be to allow high rises and right government intervention would be to create large scale new units
BEAM doesn't do everything containers or a container orchestration system can, but in view of my relatively short time as a regular Erlang programmer (definitely less than 10 years), the spirit of tidepod's point accords with my experience (with a weaker interpretation of his term "node clustering"). BEAM and OTP don't do automatic load distribution between nodes, but can be fashioned to do so easily with application support.

We never used pool. The nodes were mapped onto heterogenous machines sharing the host with a 3rd-party daemon. It's configuration changes even took place through a module update hook written in Erlang itself. We both deployed new code and distributed work "manually" across them entirely on OTP.

[NOTE] It it surprising, or was to me, that there are problems with having a fairly small number of nodes fully connected. I'm lucky enough to have avoided learning this the hard way, but imagine this could serve as a painful backbone to an "Erlang deployment war story".
Honestly those boosters are a scummy product and we would all be better off without them.
The article says the ship was purchased via "crowdfunding" in 1948. How retroactive is that word?!
There are people alive today with a grandparent born in the 1700s - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/heir-raising-experience/ (at least true up to a few years ago).
Tell the truth, your lie will be detected sooner or later.
I am trying to work this one out - I think it is a company trying to wriggle out of paying death-in-service benefits - this would not be a international news story if it was not for the prurient aspect.

Sex is described here as "normal" in relation to "dangerous activities". If he had been powerboat racing, I doubt the company would have been held liable. I mean you don't actually have to die at your desk to die "in service".
> And let's be honest, my salary won't change one iota if I get another few citations. The idea that this is somehow selfish is really bogus. Citations aren't worth that much at all.

IF you already have a permanent position and many papers. While you are still a young researcher with fewer publications, hiring committees definitely are also interested in whether your papers are highly cited (see also the whole notion of "impact factor" of a journal).
> The US was not deterred by Pakistan having nuclear weapons.

Because they were not there for resource. Iraq would have been another story: getting oil from a radiation scorched area is not fun.
That's the thing though - games nowadays are ridiculously good. Doesn't mean they're successful, but they're good.

And they don't even HAVE to be good - I mean pubg looks and runs like shit but it was ridiculously popular. Fortnite's popular battle royale mode was more like a weekend project (iirc), but it had a benefit over pubg in that it had a big professional studio behind it that was able to scale its production up enormously once Fortnite took off.

And Apex was developed from scratch (or well, probably based off of a lot of work done for Titanfall) and intent. Another example is Overwatch, which was salvaged from the remains of Blizzard's Project Titan.

Anyway long story short, a lot of these games are really really good. And that's also why they have microtransactions (according to the manufacturers / publishers) - they take a lot longer and cost a lot more to make. They (feel like they) have to earn money from a game for at least one year, preferably more after the initial release / purchase. (one year for the annual game series - CoD, Assassin's Creed, FIFA, etc, more for the longer term ones that will likely not get a sequel like Apex, Fortnite, even Minecraft).
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That's definitely a huge problem for the USA, on many levels. However, people in the USA don't regularly self-immolate to express how badly their compatriots are treated, and this happens regularly in Tibet. One would think this would give the Western world a good idea of how oppressive the Chinese regime can be.
For what it's worth, I'm in my 20s and love IRC. I do also use matrix and xmpp, but they aren't as fast and comfortable. I love how irc logs work. I have everything stored locally and can search it very quickly with grep. I'm always frustrated with the search of other things, both for being slow and for not finding what I know is there.

Stuff like multi-line posts and markdown are nice, but none of that is worth all the good stuff you lose from irc.
That sounds overly optimistic. From what I know, 15-20cm is the best accuracy you can achieve — which is still fantastic, mind you.

There is a lot of confusion around UWB positioning. Some articles describe TDoA (time difference of arrival) systems, which can indeed be very precise and the device being positioned can be low-power, but these require a nwetwork of beacons with precisely synchronized clocks, which is very difficult to achieve in practice.

Also, the DW1000 chip is a power hog. Yes, if you compare it to a GPS receiver it is still fantastic, but in low-power devices it is not easy to manage. As an example problem, you can't power a DW1000 from a coin battery: the internal resistance of the battery is too large, and it can't deliver the peak current that the chip needs.
This submission has uncommonly high upvotes against almost zero HN discussion
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Yes, it does. As currently written, it expires in 2030.
Laws restricting what the government and private entities can do with data almost invariably (e.g. the GDPR) just have a blanket exception for security services.

Very long term we might trend away from that, just as eventually countries which had outlawed capital punishment "except in times of war" realised they had no intention of doing it in a war either so many of them began removing that caveat. But today this is the case with every such restriction I've seen, it either says in the law itself that it doesn't apply to security services or there's a superseding law that says the security services needn't obey the data protection rules.
"What happens to the firemen and teachers?" is a more important question than "What happens to the tech workers?"
Physics and chemistry has plenty of overlap, you even have physical chemistry and chemical physics.
Let's be clear here: the content doesn't rank because it's on a subdomain or folder of the strong domain, it ranks because it's there AND gets lots of links from most/all pages of that strong domain. The links are the relevant part, you'd have similar (albeit not as strong) results if you had site-wide links from top domains to your separate domain.

Google already has a rule to deal with this: buying and selling links (and, by extension, renting links) is against their guidelines. They just don't enforce it for big publishing companies.
I looked at the author's blog financial samurai and my impression was that all articles, including this one, were designed to sell the idea of investing in houses in what it calls the heartland of america with a crowdsourcing platform the owner probably owns called fundrise.com
Shall we just ban entropy then?
This is a very familiar model for Apple. It's how they approach innovative new hardware development as well. For example with retina Displays they paid for the tech development and even bankrolled construction of the manufacturing facilities in exchange for exclusive rights to buy their output. They did the same with lots of things.

This is the same approach. Bankroll the initial development costs of the game, in exchange for exclusive rights to 'buy' the product (user attention).
At a maximum 5% increase per year, it takes 37 years for a $500 unit to catch up to the $3000 market price. So this law doesn't help that much with that particular case.
It's willful and there's seriously smart people and engineers that crunch the numbers and do customer testing to optimize these. It came from mobile and Facebook games (Zynga) and made the transition to console/PC games about ten years ago, in the west it was popularized by Team Fortress 2, followed by multiple games, e.g. FIFA and Mass Effect 3.
Any sign of negativity - complaining about your prior job, or worse, the people there, is a huge red flag in an interview. They don't know you, so they only can assume it's as likely you were the problem.

Interviews are, fundamentally, sales propositions. You shouldn't outright lie, but you don't need to focus on the negative things either. People on the spectrum (as many engineers tend to be...) find this kind of stuff very hard. But for most people, it's fairly normal to sugar coat things to keep the social machinery flowing. It took me a long time to learn this.
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Naively I thought it was apple watch + healthcare::
Fashion smells like classism to me. I don't see anyone below a certain tax bracket playing the fashion game. Fortnite has already become kind of classist, with the well-off kids bullying people who don't gamble their parent's money for skins. I think the whole system is name-brand evil.
> How does a free market self-regulate this problem?

On a free market, if someone has it and someone else wants it, that's all that's needed. A truly free market can not self-regulate against gambling, drugs, child pornography, or slavery.

> What is the competitive advantage of not providing chance items?

Engaging on these practices isn't exactly riskless. State legislators could decide that "chance items" are, in fact "gambling". And that your company has been doing that to children. So a lot of "fun" can ensue: mass-action lawsuits, cessation of activity in a whole country, incarcelation, etc.

The "competitive advantage" is that your competitors might simply become illegal.
me too, but when I click for the text version 9 times out of 10 it doesn't bring me to the article but to a page with links to some of the recent articles that often does not include the originally referenced article
From the medium article they link they show that most of the visits come from search though
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The speaker mentions that Redis, MongoDB and background jobs were replaced by Erlang.

What does he mean by that exactly? Erlang provides some persistent state storage? Or is he just saying he used Erlang database drivers to access Redis / MongoDB?
Wouldn't surprise me if both were true, and they A/B-tested it by region.
I don’t think the analogy carries because there are no “default” clothes. You have to make some sort of decision about what to wear, even the decision to avoid fashion trends is a form of fashion itself.
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro 'triggering' fear of holes
No, my next phone will be a linux phone.
thunderbird has a primordial matrix plugin already, but it’s very much a proof of concept. there are plans to make it much more :)
This completely dismisses any tangential factors, of course. Going earlier might be an advantage, as new ways to kill each other (or kill Terran ecosystems) emerge.

Going later to optimize for time is one aspect of deciding how to spread throughout the galaxy. Another question might ask, which is the most risk reducing strategy? And the answer might be completely different.
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Do really think so? I mean it's not completely awful, but I don't think Steve Jobs would have liked the camera cluster that looks like it has just been stuck on the back.
Maybe there isn't really a problem with all of those games. To adults it seems ridiculous to spend money on virtual items, but to be honest, a lot of other things kids would spend their money on also seem ridiculous.

If those games cost a lot of money to make, perhaps it is fair to ask for money for some items.
In Austria, for a few shining years, we had "build my burger" where you could use the order terminals to create your perfect burger. For a year I ate a mess of three chicken patties and lots of cheese on a daily basis.

Sadly, they got rid of it.
Does anybody knows the artist who made the "slamm" phone poster on the article illustration ? or where can i find it ? I really like it.
I'd probably be happy with "update", which is similar to Clojure's API for its persistent vector and map.

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/update
it depends on how you define progress. someone can see progress where others see things moving in the wrong direction or even backwards. it's an opinion what progress is.