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I'd recommend listening to Episode 468 of Planet Money: Kid Rock Vs. The Scalpers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/11/28/671580422/epis...

Concerts and events have high fixed costs, so, like airlines, it's typical for them to engage in price discrimination to maximize profits. If there's assigned seating, they charge more for the best seats. But they also want the best fans (usually high-energy teenagers) to have access, so they need a way to get cheap tickets to those people.

Plus, if you go to a concerts or events from cheap tickets, maybe you'll learn to like concerts and events and end up being more likely to splurge on expensive tickets later. (Many symphonies and orchestras offer discounted tickets to students, youth, or under 30/40 for this purpose.)
France Took One Look at Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non'
I think that's just a matter of perception, my point remains that is someone really didn't give a shit, they won't even bother posting "RIP".
Do you have any evidence to back your assertion that team sport is necessary for childhood character development? How about your implied premise that team sport does a better job of improving physical health than individual sport or non-competive physical activity?
“OK, the cost of setting that bone just went up $900.”

That’s probably what they would do. We know that they don’t base prices in any kind of rationally economic way.
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Peanuts increase nitrogen and probably no nothing for micronutrients. They may allow time for the underlying rock to transfer minerals to the soil which are consumed more heavily by the opposing crops, but they probably won't do anything for the issue reported in TFA.

Having more corn doesn't mean that the corn or soil has more micronutrients. Corn is nitrogen heavy, so rotation makes sense if yields are all you care about.
> AMC and Regal would ultimately figure out that If they were serious about a subscription plan, it would make more sense to build it in house/keep it limited to its own brands, rather than paying a middle man for customers that might not have chain loyalty.

Yeah, from the start MoviePass reminded me directly of that quote attributed to Steve Jobs (about Dropbox) that the company was a "feature", not a product.
Sure, if you're looking at it purely from an academic perspective, it's not terrible. but from the prespective of a person who needs to get from LA to SF and is deciding what mode of transport to take, the excuses for why it's more expensive aren't very relevant.
> Hillary Schuler-Jones, a Breg spokeswoman, declined to answer questions about the price of the Deluxe Shoulder Immobilizer. “It is important to note,” she said, “that Breg’s customer is not the patient, but the healthcare provider.” In most cases, “we don’t sell our products directly to patients, and we therefore don’t have a patient price list.”

This is pretty infuriating given that the article previously said that Breg directly billed the patient in a "surprise billing".

A company with seemingly no connection to the hospital directly bills the patient $200 for a $12 item and then when asked about this by a journalist says "We don't sell direct to patients" and refuses all further comment.

If they don't ever sell direct to patients then the bill must be fraudulent, sent by an imposter.

Curiously enough last year I received one of these sorts of fraudulent scam bills. A traffic camera ticket. It had my name but no street identified, no license plate or car description, no drivers license number, and no photo of the alleged infraction. The mailing address was to a location far away from the city, neither location which I had driven in recently, and the company I was supposed to write the check to didn't have a lot of information about who they were online. I was not allowed to contest it unless I signed an agreement to accept private arbitration results. I went to the city it allegedly came from and asked at their courthouse about it and the clerk told me "You are required to pay this" but said she was not able to verify anything about the ticket, give me a license plate number, or the name of an intersection or photograph, referring me instead to the arbitration and saying that "privacy laws" prevented her from saying anything else. So I didn't pay it, ignored it and never heard about it again. As far as I'm concerned it was a scam. If it really came from the city it was unconstitutional because there was no due process. It also wasn't served, it was mailed bulk rate and not even registered, which such mailing is not a valid server process in this jurisdiction.

Given that this company Breg says they don't sell to patients, the patient has a legal basis for refusing to pay this bill claiming to be sent from them, because the company itself has claimed in an official statement to a journalist that the bill is fraudulent.
Right. Thank god I don't have to think about breathing or making my heart beat.
>> Keep in mind that movies on flights are sometimes edited and they don't tell you. They especially remove any scenes involving plane crashes.

Huh. Never knew that.
But with solar, both options are available. I’d much rather have that flexibility without being forced to swallow a huge nuclear project or even small mini reactors infesting my area.
I’ve been working on a similar solution for Flask in K Health. Currently we have great serialisation / deserialisation from types to JSON, next step will be creating OpenAPI documents
Firms don't want you to know it, but they are struggling to hire competent IT professionals to an extreme degree. Recruiters are being regularly ghosted (like they used to do to candidates) and turn over is increasing. That's why you see them resulting to tricks like this. One thing to keep in mind is that most managers working today cut their teeth when unemployment was at 10% or so, as such they really only know about bait and switch tactics and the stick. Carrots aren't something that really fits into their mental model.

In short, to anyone reading this. Now is the time to make your move.
Wow, thank you, I will
Hopefully. I find it to be more ergonomic as it requires fewer steps and only a single device, the mouse. Just select text and click wherever you want to paste it. The only problem I've found is, as the article notes, with some "smart" text GUIs like some textareas in some websites and any text in a browser's web inspector. I have a clipboard manager that synchronizes both clipboards, so in those cases I can just Ctrl-C and then paste with middleclick.
Haven't most airlines had this for a long time, for any flight over about 5 hours? Or, for any plane bigger than a 737 / A320.

(Or is this just because in Europe... well, because those criteria mean a flight out of Europe.)
Our company is one. About 20% of our sales are outside the US. We ship international shipments via USPS exclusively because it has always been the best value.
As I said in a previous thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799295

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*-4 points by patientplatypus 18 days ago | parent | favorite | on: The Next Recession Will Be About Sovereign Debt

The next recession will be caused by poor crop yields due to environmental destruction. It will also cause famines and wars globally.

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We have maybe one or two years left, up to five maybe if we're lucky, until the entire social system collapses. It will be dark and sad and scary.

I'm sorry you guys.
I can see why other people want me to have that experience, but not why I would want to have that experience (as a consumer). Then again, I'm not exactly a representative sample.
You should check out Flask-Rebar, I am using it a lot in my projects and it's very nice. Does all of this automagically.
That’s closer, but I also think it’s wrong to look at the brain as a GPU of general mind stuff hooked up to a CPU of attention.

I think it’s likelier that each portion of the brain fires away at up to whatever its natural “throughput” is (some activities more or less parallel), and conscious awareness just happens to feel like a single global mutex.

I guess this is a game you can play where you keep refining the analogy until it’s too complex to help, but I don’t think the linked author’s analogy is good or useful. Better to just say we can’t be consciously aware of two things concurrently. It’s not a hard concept.
There are a variety fraudulent shennanigans that this agreement facilitated such as people in China shipping random packages to the US so they can use the tracking details to validate fake reviews.

I purchased a temporary replacement phone via a website that claimed to ship domestically in the United States when it was actually shipped from China. There were several issues with the phone, but to return the device I would have been on the hook for over $100 in shipping. The credit card company refused to help through their purchase protection coverage because I had not returned the device.

How was it ever in our interest to force our e-commerce retailers to subsidize shipping for Chinese e-commerce retailers?
People intuitively know this. That's why they invented gates and exclusivity. Take e.g. rich people who want to have their own exclusive areas or ultra high cost metropoles. These act as natural gatekeepers for outsiders to keep the corruption away. At least that's what they hope for.
Pretty sure if you go through the effort to challenge such charges you can get them changed. https://www.vox.com/2019/3/22/18261698/how-to-fight-expensiv...
I carry a lot of guilt for having "oh, blockchains could help" thoughts quite a lot. A federally supported blockchain used as a public notary and other official functions, as you mentioned, seems like it may have a place in the future.
We already had this, it was called Hack. It mostly died an ignominious death because it was created by Facebook and people were worried Facebook would steal their IP if they used it. It was still awesome, though.
We will never know what other disasters we fortunately avoided though. And the automotive industry would have kept pushing gas cars, and we would not have averted global warming. I mean... here you are, saying we have a disaster looming, and what kind of car do you drive? Just playing the odds, probably an ICE car.
Not even close to enough.
I know the concern is about parcels specifically, but doesn't this agreement also cover all international mail?

Is the US going to be essentially cut off from international mail delivery until the USPS can negotiate pricing and a contract with each individual country's postal service (i.e., not in place over Christmas)?
I think there's an important point here, but twitter is a terrible medium for making that point.

Maybe if you have something important to say, don't say it on twitter.
Sorry, I mixed that up. Flagging 30, downvoting 500. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
At Daqri we called this "remote expert", and it was always one of the potential products with the highest demand.

My favorite use-case is that in nuclear power plants, they have two people do everything - one to do, one to watch (not in a big brother sense, but more in like a pair programming sense), but this means two people in an irradiated environment. With the AR tech, the second person can be in another room.

(Although you run into other issues, like no wifi (or power!) inside reactors; although apparently leaky coax is a really effective solution to the first)
Yeah I feel FastAPI will become the new Flask in a few years. The growth this year has been amazing. I wish I had started my project with it, but I am still using Flask. I found this nice extension though called Flask-Rebar that does a similar task with Marshmallow.
New York Uncovers $1B in Sackler Family Wire Transfers
Californias poverty rate among highest in nation once again
Well... sort of. There's a major difference in that restaurants usually don't have the ability to directly control how many people enter and how many people leave. So pointing out that there's an in/out inbalance is useless, as you say, since there's nothing that can be easily done about it, and that's obvious, so the person asking the question probably didn't want to know that.

In the case of eating, you can control directly how many calories are coming in, and you have at least a little control over how many calories are going out. So in fact CICO is very often useful: it's a kind of promise that if you cut your intake sufficiently you will lose weight.

It's true that certain diets will make you want to eat more calories: but the promise of CICO is that if you ignore what you are inclined to do, and simply focus on your intake, you will lose weight.

Obviously you are better off adjusting your diet too, but that's because doing so makes it easier by burning slightly more calories and making you slightly less hungry. What you're doing is a sort of sociological analysis: figuring out why people eat too much. Sure, if you can come up with tricks to eat less that help dieters, that's great, but people who want to diet fundamentally have to learn to ignore the instinct to eat and limit their intake.
> If you don't like a story you see on HN, your choices are to ignore it or hide it.

Upvote stories/comments you do like.
PS - I can't actually offer an AMA - there's things I can't or shouldn't talk about - but I am absolutely up for questions :)
There are some interesting ideas here, but the implementation appears to be missing in action:

https://github.com/php-plus/engine

I have some concerns about how some of the features might be implemented -- particularly the "readonly" property keyword -- but it's impossible to say for sure without seeing the code. (And I would be very disappointed if it turned out that the implementation doesn't exist yet.)
I quite like this as a good resource:

https://agilemanifesto.org/.

Whatever gets the work done and doesn't cause unnecessary burdens while adding no measurable value is good with me at this point.

I'd make do with anything but Agile, which needs to be shot.
Out of a cannon.
Into the Sun.
I’m always hungry. There is hardly ever a time that I feel completely satiated. In other words, there is never a time that I don’t have a drive to eat too much. It takes constant discipline to keep my calorie balance in check. As humans, we all have the mental capacity to not give in to our lizard brain.
When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
The most interesting thing about this whole thing is how irrational the public market can be, especially at a time when there’s so much scrutiny on private valuations. I don’t remember the highest marketcap the company reached but it was skyrocketing at some point despite never really having pivoted on its business model.
The Mosquito also known as 'The Wooden Wonder' - fastest thing in the sky til the Germans got the Me-262 off the ground.

Didn't do well in the far East because of humidity but they cracked that later.

Brilliant bit of engineering since it used a lot of equipment/skills that where under utilised at the time they started building them.

With the F18 and the Lightning one of my top 3 favourite military planes ever.
Check out Amtrak's Coast Starlight https://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train
Isn’t there a similar, sort of inverse pattern with laws and enforcement?

The name escapes me, but it’s about the fact that once, even though laws were passed, it required personnel to enforce it, so there was a sort of a natural equilibrium between government and citizens. But now that we have all this technology, law enforcement can enforce even the pettiest of laws...?
I'd love to see some more details on the tooling they created to generate OpenAPI schemas by extracting types from their code.

Related: are there any good Python libs for doing request/response validation based on OpenAPI v3 schemas?
Obesity worldwide is not exactly caused by simply eating too much food as much it is about eating junk that is correlated to obesity.
Students would just give their cards to their friends who were staying at the game.
I'd love to explore other lives, and I sort-of have. But with a family, the reality of our economy is that there isn't any support for that. Just throwing away good medical insurance is enough to stop most people. I know from experience it only takes starting over and going broke once to really regret ever thinking it was a good idea and romanticizing how "interesting" you are. I speculate based on extrapolating my experience that you probably get more time to learn how to weld race cars and art as a software engineer than you ever would as a welder.
Actually, Deutsche Welle is the only German public broadcaster that is not funded by the radio fee since it's our international broadcaster. It's just illegal for the government to tell it what to broadcast.
That is still part of your BMR or if you are exercising part of the increased calories out.
Which is ironic considering the relative risks here.
No, it turns out that the adherents of the religion of "love thy neighbor" and "it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" have no problem with our economic system.
Yeah, I replied to another commenter, but I have some of the syrup left over and I'm sending it to be tested. Turns out the folks who discovered this have publicly-available testing. I'm thinking that the limited duration is a good thing. Fingers crossed.
I wouldn’t consider 200ish calories “major”, in part because the typical weight loss plan includes a deficit of at least 500 calories/day, but mostly because it’s straightforward to turn a 500 calorie deficit into a 700 calorie deficit to accommodate the adaptation. Adaptation isn’t meaningless but it’s also not offsetting large deficits the way many people think it is.

As for obesity happening due to 100-300 extra calories per day, yes, but also not really. If a person’s intake is 300 calories per day over what’s necessary to maintain a healthy weight, then they will put on weight until TDEE (which increases with body mass) catches up with their intake and they land somewhere above their healthy weight. It’s not an unbounded growth unless caloric intake is also growing continuously. I would imagine it’s quite common to see obese people eating 300 calories over their current TDEE but also to be 1300 calories over their healthy-weight TDEE.

Also don’t forget that the 300 extra calories is after the metabolic adaptation from eating a surplus. So if an individual will increase TDEE by 200 calories in response to a surplus, then they’ll need to eat 500 calories above “real” TDEE to see a 300 calorie effective weight gain.

All this is to say that obese people are generally eating quite a bit more than just 100-300 calories too much per day.
In another article, they have to explain kelvin, "that is, degrees above absolute zero". Imagine it's helpful for younger children.
> "coffee-table book–size slab"

...an egregious and tortured alternative to using actual units. They made it coffee table sized? They made it book sized? Do all "coffee-table books" come in the same size? Are they using the coffee-table coffee-table book from Seinfeld?

It's worse than a "Library of Congress" quantity of information, or a "football field" of land area.

Would it be so hard just to say "square centimeters", or the more America-friendly "square inches"?
I have leftover potassium bicarbonate from when I was making wine. I use it as an antacid, mixing it with water. It tastes like absolute shit, a little less so if mixed with some baking soda, and does a pretty good job of helping my heartburn.
> Wow, it's almost like there's demand

Demand was never the biggest problem.

No major region or state in the US can do high-speed rail as easily or cheaply as Texas and they're still struggling to push through comparably modest roadblocks there. They're looking at more than a decade on a very simple line just from Dallas to Houston. It looks increasingly like the Texas line has a good chance of being constructed. However if it was that difficult for Texas, California can forget about it (unless the Federal Government gets involved and becomes belligerent, which I would favor).

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/high-speed-rail-proj...

If it were as straight-forward as spending a reasonable sum of money and building the rail, the US would already have numerous prominent high-speed rail routes.
ive noticed a lot of old accounts with one or two posts and no other activity for months or even years, suddenly posting really spammy submissions and engaging in karma cadres, as well as abusing the account profile to post things that are not normally profile related, but are likely signs to ID compromised accounts to each other.
> Applications should respect OS configured settings.

Why does everybody misses that part?
If you've been personally advocating against the inertia of your team for a long time, I think that lends weight to the idea that "we" (the team) don't care about the issue so much. You do, but not the team you're part of.
Surprised you're being downvoted. This is a good response to OP, and I completely agree with it. I'd also like to add, I don't understand how the "credentials" earned from these bootcamps are rated so highly in some peoples' minds.
> Acessibility matters.

Okay, but there's no reason accessibility needs to be tied to one clipboard and not the other.

And the system that automatically copies because it thinks I might want to paste is the worse one.

Shift+Insert is a good paste combo for terminals, but I prefer that to use the same clipboard as Ctrl+V.
> faster-growing, larger, longer-lasting vegetables are better product

Whatever product fits into the economies of scale, and selective commoditization solely for the sake of profit concentration not nutrition or environment.

But back to the idea of measuring everything. These are the counterpoints I can think about regarding measuring and controling:

* Measuring and controlling cost resources, some less, some more. E.g. It is easier to measure yields than to measure nutrition.

* There is imperfect knowledge on how to respond (control) after a given measurement, or even what measurements are important. E.g. Premature optimization, Goodhart's law, lack of certainty regarding nutrition.

* There are conflicting interests on what the result of controlling should be. E.g. more profits or more nutrition?

* Under appropriate circumstances systems can respond to variability or keep functioning without human control or input. This is resilience. E.g. Pollinating insects, edible weeds.
Funny, this is more or less exactly how we write our reports. But I've never heard of 'BLUF'. It seems to be the most logical way in which to write a report given that attention decays over the reading of a piece and that active voice trumps passive voice when writing about real world events and situations, it simply makes the writing more compelling.
Wouldn't this just encourage lots of people to not buy a full price ticket and just wait in the lobby for the discount price?
Well, popcorn in a movie theater also costs 10x more than it should, because they have you as a captive audience.

And it doesn't help that the price is basically opaque and paid for by insurance, for a person who doesn't care about the price at that moment.

It's a ridiculous system.
Tech giants Alibaba and Tencent present similar risks as Huawei
The minor difference between the weekly calorie expenditure of the average person and the morbidly obese is mostly meaningless. It’s much more about how much they eat.