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Amazon would have used city services without paying for them. Who pays for these services? The people, with their tax dollars..

A partial truth is often the best lie.
Hot take: the likely response from AAA publishers will be "that's OK, we don't sell games anymore just LIVE SERVICES"
> negative externalities that Airbnb has on rental vacancy and land values

Is that an externality of AirBnB or poor city planning? Cities are eager to build offices and advertise to attract tourists, but convince themselves they don't need more residential construction. Fixing the underlying cause will work better than banning the symptom.
> Are you surprised that the biggest (i.e. most successful drug companies) have the highest profit margins?

Not remotely surprised, because you're misrepresenting my quote. That's not what it said. Read it again.
Besides your product, I thank you all at Stripe for setting an example of what real API/SDK documentation is.
> I think that so many of the practices (like version control) have become so popular that reading an argument for their use seems superfluous.

This made me laugh - not because you aren't right (in theory), but because I just took over a project from a big four consulting company. When I asked about the location of the latest version of the code (after looking in VC and not finding it)...answer: on the production server. "We could have checked it into VC, but didn't want to take the time."

I've seen at least n=6 of these in the past couple of years.

Sometimes the oldies are goodies.
No one is entitled to any of what you describe. I believe that is the problem. The feeling of entitlement endemic in our society/culture/species.

If you can't afford it or access it or demo it or feel comfortable with your purchase then do without.

You aren't entitled to someone else's property.
We've got like 200+ of them in the office (current and last gen mix). Mine's a 6th gen & spec'd pretty heavy judging by feel but haven't checked tbh.

They seem very good on failure rates compared to previous fleet of laptops (Dell latitudes - jikes).

Need for a eth dongle is a little meh. And Ctrl and FN is switched which is stupid (think BIOS can swap it). Otherwise seems solid.

No idea about nix compatibility.

Works well for a Excel road warrior - can't comment as to creative types.
You say "economically" as if there was an alternative to stopping global warming. The shipping industry won't survive catastrophic climate change.

That being said, if you google around a bit you find a number of studies showing how 100% or close to 100% renewable energy can be achieved with today's technology. There is for example

http://energywatchgroup.org/new-study-global-energy-system-b...

or this (just for Germany)

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...
> ... software allows abstracting out any form of repetition without needing to make it a process.

This is backwards. Software enshrines the repetitive business process and (hopefully) automates it as much as possible. This is happening regardless of whether that business process was defined before the software was implemented.
Couldn't agree more! ... I just had to laugh to myself at how this, THIS is why functional programming is so... rarely adopted. Like, "referentially transparent functions"?! What happened to `website.run.now!`?!
I remember the fury of one of the top VW executives when he discovered that DHL developed their own vehicles instead of hiring VW to do that.

Good for DHL. I would buy such a thing if they sold them to consumers.
Some interesting tidbits on cigarette litter in San Francisco.

A study commissioned by SF Public Works in 2009 determined that the direct costs for cigarette related litter in San Francisco could be remediated with a 22 cent per pack tax. The actual tax in San Francisco is 85 cents per pack known as the "Cigarette Litter Abatement Fee". The 2009 study claimed around 30 million packs/year are sold in San Francisco which would be roughly 25 million dollars a year in taxes collected for this purpose with an estimated cleanup cost of only 7-8 million. So not only are cigarette smokers already paying for the cleanup they are paying nearly four times the actual cleanup cost for their litter.

The 2009 study: https://sfpublicworks.org/sites/default/files/tobacco_litter...

The tax: https://sftreasurer.org/cigarette
So by this logic, allowing people to breathe and use the bathroom is a government subsidy, since its a passive policy that doesn't charge you what you would have to pay everyone in the world to let you do it? And where did the "owners" who would have to be compensated get the land and materials that they now own? Wouldn't that also count as a subsidy (every material item was at some point pulled from the ground, even though I don't feel I've been compensated for these externalities).
I agree. It's done, ostensibly, to distribute the cost of creating and publishing the standard. This is not being done correctly, access should be generally available to safety standards for reasons of promoting safe practices.

No or very few individuals pay for personal access to standards, it's a business expense paid paid by you or your firm. Allowing non-profit use would not change their main source of revenue.
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I’m pretty sure this priest does not exist.
True, but only by the standards of traditional photography...

The standard iPhone lens (26mm) has always been pretty much normal for phone camera lenses. When Apple introduced the second lens (51mm), they called it "telephoto," even though that focal length is pretty much dead-on the traditional definition for a "standard" lens. No traditional photographer would call a 51mm lens a telephoto lens.

So, for people who grew up with phones as their primary cameras, the new 13mm lens really is the first thing that they'd call a "wide angle" lens.

/end_nitpick ;)
I'm guessing they opted to use ui-mask instead of an HTML5 element so they could support older browsers?
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You are correct, at the expense of conversation.
Central London was a surveillance state more than 20 years ago.
Then you should look into Scala
I have no doubt writing fiction isn't easy. I'm just saying that in general, a math book like I mentioned takes more time and expertise to write than fiction. Not in the first place because it requires that you have at least the level of expertise of a graduate student (which is 5 years of study). I'm not sure what Ulyssess being intensively studied has to with it. The only thing which makes a math book easier to write is that it's more accepted to distribute the work between different writers.

Some caveats apply: Many professors have teached a course repeatedly, at which they have such a level of mastery of the subject that they can just bang out the theorems and proofs (I've had one professor who wrote the 300 pages of lecture notes during the course). When the book actually contains new information, it takes much longer.
Wow, this was seamless. It auto-detected my lightning wallet, and the purchase was instant.

As far as I know, this is literally the only way to get Bitcoin on lightning directly with USD.
Nuclear would have been a good solution if we started thirty years ago. By today we don't have enough time to go 100% nuclear before we emitted to much CO2. We have less than ten years of current emissions left if we want to stay below 1.5°. Building nuclear power plants takes longer than that.
I thought the impossible burgers were worse for the environment than beef, and worse for you. The appeal was always 'ethical'.
They are specificly using that word to get the same errendous implication. They aren't subsidizing trucking, but saying they are instead of 'our roads get worn faster' makes it easier to lobby for changes or money to improve the road.

I.e. You are demonstrating the exact same error but don't seem to understand what's going on with the use of the word.
NYC, one of Airbnb's biggest markets, has been cracking down hard on illegal short-term rentals. Bloomberg has an article today about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21015849
Good. That's a lot of oil that would need to be burned that this is replacing!
I love the redesign. I used to spend way to much time on Reddit, the redesign fixed that.
The optical approach works extremely well.
https://youtu.be/eSQoG2gDMuk
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Are you trying to imply China's disregard for human rights is on the same level as USA and Japan?
> all vehicle drivers must present a valid driver’s license to the military security officer stationed at the gate, and may be required to state their destination and reason for visiting.

So, not just a town, then.
That's not even that impressive and pretty standard for the industry. The relatively pedestrian Mazda3 resists 18,239lbs, which is 6x it's weight.

Just about every family sedan on the market does >5x body weight.
I'm torn. These were the only reason to tolerate fast food as a kid, and made crappy burgers a joy. But I suspect that BK just did marketing analysis and figured out it was not worth the small incentive. The environmental impact is pure post-fact marketing.
> The optimizer will now convert calls to memcmp into a calls to bcmp in some circumstances.

What is the improvement from that change? I thought they were essentially the same.
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I like FP, but cautious as there aren't many big applications (open source or private) that are written that way. Am I wrong?
What about "The Design of Everyday Things" strikes you as stale? It's been a while since I've read it, but I don't remember feeling that way when I was reading it. That being said, I was just getting started, so I was doubtlessly lacking context.

Can you recommend a book akin to Desi...Things that you feel better describes "modern" design?
fyi, methods being attached to structs/whatever is a property of single dispatch object systems, but not multiple dispatch object systems. The coupling/attached relationship derives from single dispatch systems privileging the first argument of the method.
What do you feel like you need if Stripe gives you capital for your future receivables for you to go hire more engineers?
The sign is the crucial part of feedback. Negative feedback is what maintains stability. The more you do something, the harder the pushback. Think of e.g. friction. Positive feedback is what makes a system go boom. Think of a chain reaction in a nuclear bomb.
I never said that. I just don't find the "if everyone did that" argument very compelling. For instance, if all 7.7 billion people lit wood fires every day, we'd have ash constantly falling down on us and the skies would be darkened, but we don't need to feel bad about setting the occasional campfire because the reality is that most people aren't going to be lighting fires all the time.
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By some weird circumstances, I ended up with 5 whole days to kill and nothing else to do. Instead of a netflix binge, I want to do something productive.

What itch/problem do you want to see go away or what solution do you want to see built ?

or to put it in reverse, if you had 5 days, what would you build ?
That just sounds like a deliberately obtuse misreading of the parent's comment.
It costs 6kW to refine a single gallon of gasoline. We can shift our energy away from the refineries as their demand tapers off.
> [Chief Product Officer] Mr. Gaybrick and Stripe president John Collison said it had no plans to go public.

How's that possible? At this valuation they aren't looking at acquisition, right? VC aren't investing to the tune of $250mm (in this round alone) without an exit strategy, right?

What exit strategy if not IPO?
These days? All we get is pedantic quibbling over what counts as "surveilled"

Or how good of an investment the surveillance tech companies are. Posts or comments about surveillance countermeasures are significantly more likely to be flagged.
There's a common saying that the best camera is the one you have with you. We're getting to the point where the one you have with you is more than good enough for many situations anyway.
Yeah I'm worried this will actually be worse for indie developers than the big gaming publishers who can afford always-on servers and subscription based models
Is the Mazda3 roof made out of glass?
Had a very similar experience around that same time. However, Adyen provided much nicer built in reporting features than Stripe at the time which made Finance happy.
Basically, Byrnes is looking like a duck, quacking like a duck, and swimming like a duck. I can't see the SEC sitting this one out.

How soon until Overstock throws Byrnes under the bus too? They made the decision to make the dividend tradable day 1, after Byrnes left, as more sane leadership took control.

Also, Adam Neumann took out a ton of private loans using private We stock as collateral. What happens if the IPO busts?
The battery’s purpose is to provide power during peak hours of demand, to enhance grid stability and deliver juice during black-start conditions in case of emergency. The system is expected to peak-shave about 8% of Dalian’s expected load when it comes online in 2020.
Pretty sure it does for movies, or at least you need to go through hassle to play it in your preferred form factor.
> 1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20....

That article compares the footprint of building a new car vs keeping and existing already built car, not ICE vs EV lifetime carbon footprint. The actual reduction in lifetime carbon footprint for an EV is around 50% vs and ICE, as described here:

https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachael-nealer/gasoline-vs-electric-...

Not sure if you'd call that night and day, but it's pretty huge.

> . But there's no doubt that the EV is a huge improvement in use, and switching a large portion of the trucks in our cities to EV would be giant win for air quality.

Indeed, and by consequence, it should reduce the rate of respiratory illnesses in cities caused by particular air pollution today.
On the "melting and re-solidifying salt" thing, I had no idea that was a thing. For others similarly ignorant, I found this great entry on thermal energy storage. (sure, I was aware of heat exchange and thermal energy generation, but as a medium of energy storage at massive scale, that was new, and fascinating) Anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage
Airbnb has the benefit of a much better UI and UX compared to several over hotel aggregators like booking.com or expedia, or even domestic ones here in Japan like rakuten or jalan.

The only thing that annoys me the Airbnb booking experience, is that it's not really a booking, it's putting in a booking request and then waiting for the owners to approve. Compared to regular hotels.
You're right, but given that this is the current psychological reality, comments like the parent are useful feedback for sellers and creators to know these motivational tipping points if they want to expand their business in the future.

Of course if they so choose they should be free to keep themselves to a premium boutique industry, and should still receive legal protections for doing so.
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Visa IPO’d during the Great Recession in 2008.
PDF: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/2898375.2898379.
If GitHub Wiki could get image pasting like issues, or GitLab Wiki could make it your own domain name, something simple like the wiki could be really useful for non-techy crowd that wants a simple web presence where they can insert/update/delete content.
I've had several MBP 15 inchers and just bought an X1 Carbon, Gen 7. I knew I was going to run linux on it.

The X1 is probably less hardware, but it's also less goop. Touchbar? The whole experience is quieter, more minimalist, and in some important ways more refined. I would say the main reason to get a mac is the OS, if that's what you want. For me, though, Mac OS is same story w/r/t to goop. Much worse, actually. With Mac OS I increasingly felt like Apple had forgotten that it was my computer. That I owned it and they didn't get to say what I did with it and when I did it. I was an interloper lucky enough to be a user of _their_ system.

The carbon is also suuuper light and has great battery life if you get the dumbed-down screen (which I have and which is great, imo). So far, I'm very happy with it.
Because people want to know what happened and how. Otherwise liberty, accountability, and self-determination go out the window.
PM on Stripe Billing here! Happy to help with any of your questions re: migration or Billing functionality.
Those people are divesting of risk.
Many???

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ipo-shortcut-a-direct-listi...

> Slack Technologies Inc. is set to go public on Thursday using a nontraditional process called a direct listing. Only one other big company, Spotify Technology SA, has gone public in this way.
Look at stats for other luxury vehicles. They have much lower crashes per millions of miles driven.
Argubly, there are still economies that rely on horses. Havasupai still gets all their mail by mule, in the USA. Its a matter of scale. There will always be use cases for electric, ICE, and even beasts of burden.
What are some of the better ones to start with? I've tried Erlang and F#, but the hardest part is figuring out whether I'm writing code that's too procedural.
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It would be nice, but I doubt the chargers they install will be available to the public. R&D for installing them is good, but will probably trickle down a lot less/slower.

Also those 100k will be on the road only by 2030, and 10k by 2022 according to the other tech-crunch article [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/amazons-climate-pledge-com...
A successor to par2 that works cross-platform, is maintained, works with UTF-8, works with directories, works with thousands of files, and is a single binary.

I don't care about the specific code, Reed-Solomon, LDPC, whatever, just something to easily shield my files from bit-rot (aka soft errors).

pyFileFixity, rsbep, par2, par3, QuickPar, MultiPar etc. are not the solution.
What does that mean? Something that is read only?
There are many towns in the Rocky Mountains whose populations are around 600 people and whose primary industry is tourism. 1/3 doesn't sound high for places like that at all.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2198726/did-airbnb-kill-mounta...
I'd rather tariff external corn than subsidize internal corn. That would mean we make enough to support ourselves but don't pay tax dollars to support someone selling their corn to other countries.
Functional Programming is not just for Haskell; modern Java has lots of pretty decent options so I feel like their Java version of the code is a bit of a straw man. Here is how a more modern code style in Java 8 (which is years old now) might look. Notice that the logic for this problem is 7 lines of code, with one line being the closing brace.

https://gist.github.com/haroldl/aee6a407a01131345fc4ecb1b9c9...
Nearby someone recently died in an accident at an intersection where the speeds don't exceed 30mph. It wasn't head on.

If we can stop these kinds of deaths, we've made incredible progress.
> They aren't subsidizing trucking, but saying they are instead of 'our roads get worn faster' makes it easier to lobby for changes or money to improve the road.

That money they are lobbying for comes from their taxes, especially if it's local roads, so yes, if the trucking company isn't paying for the damage, the taxpayer is indirectly subsidizing them.
Don't fall into the trap of "This is criticism of something popular merely because it is popular"!

Hehe, no offense, just talking to myself.
I was going to argue that it would be better to simply not use a shell for that, but

> decades ago

Frankly, I can only imagine how the environment then would be. Thinking back with your current experience, what do you think you would have done if you had to fix it again?
Highly recommend this text and Uri Alon's work in general for those interested in diving deeper into this subject.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439837171/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
Whether or not there's a priest, he just might manage this, if he's clever enough.

But unless he's been getting seriously technical, that's unlikely.
That blanket statement is either not true or incredibly sad: certain ThinkPads might have a great Linux experience (I still don't know which exactly, I am guessing the ones certified by Ubuntu should be alright), but random ThinkPads (even trusty T-series, nevermind random hipster tablets and cheap models branded with the same name) still have major issues like suspend/hibernate and dealing with external displays and docking stations. Then that "smooth" Linux experience includes the common issues, like dealing with Bluetooth, that are common to all manufacturers and distributions.

Do your research before deciding on an exact model.
After writing that, I wondered about how we always portray "paradise" as a desert island, beach, tropical exotic location far from civilization and 'unspoilt', and portray a dystopia as a heavily urbanized and dirty city full of neon signs and billboards and industrial pollution.

Then the we talk reverses that, as if industrialization and capitalism as if bringing more products into our lives is making life better (read: closer to paradise), and so advertising and marketing are the heralds of all that's good about the future - if only you'd simply concede to stop whining and pay attention - it's for your own good after all.

I can't deny the short-lived excitement of novelty, but perhaps if we overall stopped making daily life so dystopian and unpleasant, we'd have fewer dreams of escaping it. What would a country look like if tens of millions of people didn't spend decades looking forward to retirement and gambling to get there quicker and dreaming of travel and products as temporary escapes from such unpleasant daily surroundings as need escaping from?
I don't really like 'where n' afterwards instead of say 'let n' at the beginning, but I'm not very familiar with haskell (really just enough to know the first line is a type signature) and I found this ok. Maybe objective C is better though.
Why would you want to be less informed? Such information shouldn't be sensationalized or exploited for profit, but nor should it be suppressed. If you choose to kept in the dark - which is not the same thing as choosing not to look - then you are inviting deception and exploitation.
Tech aside, NYT is clearly in the realm of "the media".
Correct, but it won't stop someone from killing the backend/origin server if it is known.
> There are entire IT departments at companies like Disney, for instance, that are de-facto off limits to American workers.

what I hear from people who work or used to work in IT at Hollywood media companies is that Disney is not alone in that
I didn’t claim a dichotomy I said they’re both true.
I love it when your investors are also your biggest customers, they know if they get your revenue numbers they can flip the shares at a massive multiple of those revenue numbers. Its like guaranteeing a 10x

And the founders get paid twice or thrice!
It's an active policy decision in any country where a proposed "polluter pays" type law has been voted down.
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I may just be not familiar enough with them but I think FP tends to be a bit weaker when it comes to supporting code contracts which is a bit of a godsend when working on large projects - that said most also have very resilient type checking rules which can be used to the same end.
> Most people don't live within 15 miles of an Amazon distribution center

May not have a huge impact on your overall point, but bump that number up to maybe 20 miles and I actually would bet that the majority of Americans at least do live that close to an Amazon distribution center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon_locations#Fulfi...