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I’ve gotten those blue gel-impregnated foam toppers. I cannot abide a hot bed, and these have been fine.

I otherwise agree with OP. Firm inner spring with medium firm gel foam topper is both cheap and by far the best sleeping experience I’ve ever had. I used a cheap inner spring from wayfair.
This always feels so unfortunate. It's not that there isn't validity in the thesis, there is. It's just that I've worked with people that reason, "It's inevitable so why fight it? Embrace the ball and hack away" as an excuse not to do good work.
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+1 for this. Gives you immense satisfaction. Learn tools in the process.

"focus on solving problems"
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Thanks for those clarifications. That makes sense to me.
> the software was too large to audit

That part's probably true.

Try to audit something like OpenSSL.
Yeah, I used to walk to school when I was 7. It was only about 4 blocks away, and my mom told me to never deviate from the route she laid out for me, but it wasn't a bit deal.
This isn't so. Most employment is at-will. This works fine, because lots of laws govern what employers may do to employees, and anyway slavery is illegal so any employee may leave at any time. 95% of any employment contract is various attempts to get around those legal protections for the employee.

This is an especially pernicious case of the normal Stockholm Syndrome we see whenever the special status of corporations is challenged. No firm is 100% robots yet. If we withdraw our consent, they have to raise wages and improve working conditions until we relent.
Not everywhere has sites that are good for pumped-hydro storage, typically requiring an existing hydro electric dam.

Compressed air is very inefficient.

But the general argument is: we need to consider what is happening now, not what could be possible under some idealised hypothetical scenario. And right now more renewables, without more, or maintaining existing, nuclear means more base-load coal and more load-following gas.

The problems aren't really technical, they're political. Politics appears to be ill-equipped to deal with these problems.
> But having a house with 1,000 square feet per person (2015) versus 500 square feet per person (1985) is definitely discretionary consumption.

The linked article points this very thing out.

Specifically, it points out that nobody in 2020 is building 500 square foot homes, or shitty black-and-white televisions, so you don't actually have the choice to buy one.

> which I disagree with--somehow Germany manages with 75% of people not going to college

If every aspect of Germany society was magically transported into the US tomorrow, that statistic would be relevant.

It's not, though. The American wage-earner in 2020 has to live in the America they have, not the America that they wish they could have.

> but all the amenities of modern colleges are certainly discretionary.

Colleges don't allow freshmen and sophomores to opt out of paying for them.

> But most people who aren't on Medicare get their health insurance from their employer, and employers cover on average 70-80% of premiums.

Outside the tech bubble, they don't.

Great health insurance plans for normal people may cover 80% of the premium of the worker, but between 20% to 0% of the premiums of spouses/children.

This only marginally changes his math.
The business model for OS has been really tough historically, which probably has made raising money harder, so growing as rapidly as the SAAS companies therefore really hard.

It's quickly becoming clear (GitLab/Mattermost/Sentry) that there are some great ways to build enormous companies like this though. And, that's of course assuming you want to build a huge company :)

At a personal level, we found that this kind of business is just more fun to build... making cool stuff in the open and if we do a good job, getting inbound interest from bigger companies that have developers who need to use our tech at scale.

I don't think it'd work for everything - if you are a tool that developers don't interact with much, then I'd imagine it's tougher to build a real community.
Too many smart people in the US are working to invent things like the 'Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich'[1] rather than fixings these massive equity and fairness problems at the bottom end.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
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O7 Commander. I love Elite exactly because it lets me fly to those stars. Since we're still not at the point where we can go there in person, we can at least launch the game and dream about a future whete it's possible.
I suppose it depends on what OVH offering you buy. I have multiple servers at OVH with multiple years of uptime, but those are dedicated ones and not the cheapest Kimsufi offerings.
[Fermi Paradox Intensifies]
It would be interesting to see if the discontinuity was 6ft in the imperial units countries vs 180cm in SI countries.
Let me spell it out even more clearly. I have addressed the article in its entirety by pointing out it is NOT evidence or even close to being evidence.

It is an unsubstantiated claim on the internet from a very dubiuos source with clear ulterior motvie.

The bias comes in when one is determined to believe something it can be confusing as to whether some item or other in support of it is evidence or not. This isn't. When there's evidence I may change my mind but it's kind of idiotic to believe this stuff when we've been so roundly lied to before and by Colin Powell with so much more credibility, with so much more to lose. Anyway he did lose it all and on behalf of all such "trust me" claims and this kind of unsubstantiated claim can only work once when it turned out to be lies. Bet your life that this is not just another lie? The last one cost into 6 figures of deaths just spell out the stakes. (But obviously also a huge funding boost to the military industrial complex. Rising tides lift all ships and most probably believed the lie that incidentally was good for their careers etc.)

Demand evidence for incendiary claims. For me, I owe it my own self-respect. I owe it out of support for this "democracy experiment". We can't rule this out as a total and utter lie. We really can't. Maybe it isn't but damn. That kind of lie worked so well before. Colin took me in totally, I believed the hell out of that guy.
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No, they treated them as slaves because they’re not people; they’re Human Resources.

These managers or execs are outside of this scrutiny. They’re the slave masters and they don’t see that the greatest wastage is amongst themselves.

This kind of capitalism is highly American and a product of its success through exploitation. America didn’t come to be without the slave trade.
It's a remote incendiary device. That anyone can just buy and use to burn down any structure with no barrier to entry. That's the point. Why are people so obtuse?
It doesn't have to be. Fraud is still a crime. If I send the firm a BTC and they don't send me back a BTC worth of goods, how long will they remain in business?
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In utero phthalate exposure associated with increase in autistic traits in boys
Oof, OK, yeah, no one should have to be somewhere at 7:15AM. 7:30's pushing it.
Then it might be impossible to film Huckleberry Finn as well today.
Have you heard of Dolt? It's git for data.

https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt
> good news

Good news for who? The owners? The employees? The customers? The private equity firm?

Answers are yes, no, no, yes.

> Why do they seem to mess things up so badly?

They don't, but they probably aren't optimizing for what you are considering.
How is using your phone to light something on fire a great idea? It leaves a huge security problem in it's wake.
Video: https://streamable.com/b820r
It won't trick anyone with stereo vision, but the perspective correction provides all the depth cues needed to create a convincing 3D visual for pirates and non-stereo cameras.
While the last thing I want is a “War on Guns” because it will end up just like the “War on Drugs”. It will give another excuse for the government to enforce laws much more harshly on poor and minorities.

But at the same time, it’s just silly to think that a reason to own guns is in case the government wants to impose martial law. We are talking about the government with the largest military in the world - with tanks, jet fighters, bombs etc. The 2nd amendment is not going to protect you from a hypothetical fascist government.
On a somewhat related note, what is the best way for startups to work with DO to get free cloud computing? My product is a search and analytics engine for github and I would like to offer a free version for people to use and I would like them to use DO since I find it has the best bang for the buck.

I can see people that would like to use my solution to not need the bells and whistles of aws, azure, etc.

Does DO provide startup assistance like Microsoft, which gives free cloud computing? My goal would be to say something like try DO free for a week and if you like it, continue using them.
I question what these people value about cryptocurrency: with none of the autonomy, anonymity, or resilience present in initial pitches and offerings in the space, it seems like it's mostly valueless. Surely there's more to it than a cash grab that takes a massive amount of energy for these people, isn't there?
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> whose fiber optic lines were tapped by UK intelligence to avoid NSA laws against spying on americans

Who did you work for? This appears to be a 180deg misunderstanding of the 5 Eyes agreement. GCHQ is not allowed to spy on Americans.
Average height changes significantly depending upon your age cohort.

If few older people sign up to OKCupid, that would be a sample bias and the average height would be noticeable higher.

Edit: “Adjusting for age, adults ages 18-74 years with an annual income of $15,000 and over were observed to be 1.2 inches taller than those with an annual income under $4,000”, amongst other serious biases (whiteness, education) that affect average height the would be expected to be in OKCupid sample. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_11/sr11_224.pdf
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Macron-clarifies...
Interesting extension. I'm not from the finance field so I don't know the kind of regulations/standards are used. Do you happen to know?
AWS is infrastructure as a service (IaaS). You need to worry about load balancers, backup scripts, firewalls etc. Ie you need a plausible sysadmin to run it. Even Elastic Beanstalk requires some sysadmin.

Heroku is platform as a service (PaaS). It abstracts away the complexity of AWS. The base cost is more expensive than raw AWS but you don't need to source and pay for a sysadmin.

AWS, Heroku and DO aren't "better" than each other, they serve different use cases.
The German government and the EU as a whole is often much more focused on optics than data based solutions.
We know that math professors see the blank looks and droopy eyelids in their 8 AM and 9 AM classes. Why do they schedule those classes?
This reminds me of The Mill BLACKBIRD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBC5bwV5y0
"You've bought ten mattresses from them?! In how many years, and for how many people?"

In ~20 years. Most are still in use. Some were for my parents, for guest rooms and for flats that ended up being rental properties. I bought two mattresses last year, as we moved to the US from China (which has different bed sizes).

"Their quality is such garbage for all their products from furniture to glassware to lamps"

This is an overstatement. I and my family members have several Pax wardrobes that are still going strong after 20 years. And several Malm dressers that have lasted over 10 years. As long you assemble and install the things correctly, and make sure they're straight, then there's no reason they shouldn't last.

There are Ikea dressers which are less sturdy than the Malm, because the drawer runners are weak ball-bearing style ones, instead of the wheely ones on the Malm. (Ball bearing runners can be great, but the ones I've seen on Ikea dressers aren't designed to carry much load.)
> Back during Nixon times, the traditional media had a captive audience.

Possibly more to the point, Nixon attacked the traditional media and they were our sole source of news. So when he pissed them off he had no way of getting an alternative view point out there.

Trump has also pissed off the media of course, but now they no longer have a monopoly over what the the public gets to hear. He famously bypassed them with his tweats to get his own narrative out there.

That was enough to get him through the impeachment, because he it's allowed him to keep most of his base. Had he lost his base like Nixon did the republicans would have turned on him to put as much distance between him and their next election as possible, just as they did with Nixon.

But I suspect it may not be enough to get him past 2020. He has pissed off a lot of people. Pissed them off enough to make them want to vote. Using advertising targeted via the email leaks was enough get his voters to the ballot box while at the same time the other side of politics was asleep at the wheel, secure in the knowledge they would win, so they didn't bother putting a matching effort in. That ain't going to happen this time around. Trump has done all the hard work required to get the democrat voters to the ballot box.
perhaps median car is a better measure
I wonder how the photogrammetry aspect will intersect with intellectual property laws. The example used - scanning in a Santa Monica bar so that you can do reshoots without revisiting the location - would be an obvious example that might raise someone's hackles ("because it's our bar you're using to make your money" for instance). If you add that bar to your digital library, do you have to pay them royalties each time you use it? Is it any different to constructing a practical replica of a real-life location?

Can someone wearing a few cameras walk through a building and digitise it completely without getting the owner's permission? Here in Australia, "copyright in a building or a model of a building is not infringed by the making of a painting, drawing, engraving or photograph of the building or model or by the inclusion of the building or model in a cinematograph film or in a television broadcast," for instance. (Copyright Act 1968 §66)
It's a fair critique when he went from 4% to 19% in two weeks after spending 400 million on TV ads. I mean we all know the DNC will choose whomever they want because of their superdelegates, but don't act like democrats aren't starting to view him as their best option.

You aren't the victim of division, you are the creator of it.
You're being downvoted, but you are correct: driver and passenger airbags alone increase the price of a car several hundred dollars.

Until recently, I owned an airbag-less 1991 Saturn SL1, with the automatic seat belt, which was Saturn's very last-ditch effort to avoid installing airbags and raising the price of their cars.

Extend that trend across construction, transportation, electronics, etc. In many cases you literally cannot find an equivalent product sold or even legal to legal nowadays.
> Basically the effect of going away from nuclear is increasing CO2 emissions

Germany has been reducing CO2 emissions. Last year German CO2 emissions were shrinking by 7%.

> Macron wants to reduce nuclear % in power production of France. Which means more CO2.

When they increase renewables instead?
Speaking of the Wii, does anyone else wish that motion controls could just be removed from its existing library? Not only has it just a major annoyance in most games, but its basically locked into that hardware now.
> If you've ever seen an API gateway written using the same web framework as the other services, where in order to route "/external/order" to "/internal/order", the first step steps are e.g. "File | new | Controller", call it "ExternalController", make a GET method called "order", and in there code up a http call to "internal/order" ... you have a shantytown API gateway.

That's not a shantytown. That's an architecture astronaut utopia, creating according to the latest methodologies.
Because the nuclear power plants are old and new nuclear power plants are more expensive than new renewable.
I'm not sure if I'm reading your comment correctly, but in case I am...the "yield to the right" rule is only to break a tie if two people arrive at the intersection at the same time. Otherwise, the first to stop is the first to go. I haven't run across many people who don't play by these rules (or maybe my assertive driving style just means everyone else follows my rules anyway).
I pitched exactly this years ago when I was the founder of NoSQL.com
http://bit.ly/NoSQLPitchDeck

The problems with a 'Github for data' are the 7 'V's
Volume: too much data to have usable diffs and merges
Veracity: How do you know which branch of data to commit?
Velocity: The data coming in is a stream - batch processing does not cut it

Most companies end up creating a federation, not a true Data Mart.
Shorter. Different code coloring. I prefer %w where possible with or without Rubocop.
Is the mattress industry significantly different from furniture in general? In terms of rarity of purchase, huge markups, cheap raw materials, different brands at every store, and so on?

Back when I listened to the radio, there were literally mattress store ads multiple times an hour, all day every day. Sleep Train, etc. Is that the key to their "fantastic marketing?"
80 characters is best for those of us with disabilities who still rely on limited real estate screens.
The advantage is when a new person starts. "How does this work?", oh here is a link to a well explained document on this thing called "Rails". Oh you know "Rails" already, of course you do, that's why we hired you.

Where as with a customized "elegant" meta-programming DRY NIH solution unique to ThisCorp. "How does this work?". "Try to figure it out yourself. Jack has left and Ryan is too busy fixing production issues to help you".

Obviously if you have a team of Haskell compiler writing geniuses YMMV.
FreeBSD vs. Linux on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
This is just the typical diversion rhetoric. According to all IPCC reports I've seen, you can't accomplish with renewables without nuclear what you can accomplish with renewables and nuclear, yet all political bodies promote renewables and fossil fuels while pretending it's just renewables.
Ah the joys of societal chauvinism, where your opinion is a priori wrong because of what you are regardless of evidence or any massive benefits they could possibly get. And the kicker is if you ever point out that you are maltreated they will deny it while maltreating you for daring to point out their casual cruelty.
I would wonder whether anyone who willingly created such a backwards schedule could be fit to run a school, except I've met the people who run the public schools in this country...
I'd wager that the HN demographic skews just as wealthy as the hobbyist GA community. Indeed, your friend or coworker with a brand new Model X is probably wealthier than the person taking the occasional weekend flight in their used Piper Cherokee.
Is your name Ay-ayron?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
There is so much natural gas in Sibiria, due to climate change warming the permafrost, it will just escape into the atmosphere, before we come close to burning it all.
> I'm somewhat shocked that they do they not load those subsidies onto the electricity charge on consumers as a tax

German consumers pay 6.756 cents per kwh EEG tariff.
Stephane is legit.
Because old nuclear power stations are coming to end of life, and new nuclear power stations appear to be ruinously expensive. See Flamanville which was supposed to be finished about 10 years and €10bn ago.

The real idiocy in Germany was retiring the nuclear plants before EOL. If you’re trying to work out whether to replace old nuclear with new it’s much less easy to come to a clear answer. Britain has had the same issue, most people are quite enthusiastic about new nuclear but it’s just really expensive.

It’s the issue with most of these small-n construction projects. Perhaps modular nuclear can be a solution.
One of the many reasons I love sqlite and redis are because of the attitude of the developers. Sqlite has just an uncanny amount of testing, I wonder if it's the most formally tested piece of user software (outside of formally proven software and the space/medical industry I suppose).

And Salvatore (redis) has a way of simplifying issues that gives me a great deal of confidence in the decisions he makes and the code he writes. I really like the code and reasoning behind his 'linenoise' library in particular
It's hard to do with minivans, because the segment is pretty small.

But (assuming a 1996->2019 comparison) if you're looking at sedans, you can often go 'down market' for something that's objectively superior by almost every metric for very similar money.

For example, a mid-model Ford Taurus from 1996 (say $19K) is a much worse car than the base-model VW Jetta from 2020 that costs the same money. Slower, worse gas mileage, vastly inferior technology, safety equipment and so on.

Also let's not forget a good rate on a car loan in 1996 was 9%.
either way, loading fonts from google for every website is a stupid idea... it is why an extension like decentraleyes is a good idea (because most website don't think about the consequences).
I don't really buy that there's a bang bust here. Even in the narrow reference class of 2017 VC-backed unicorn IPOs, many other companies did perfectly well. There's no investing strategy that won't see some failures.
Should we not teach machines to do things, or attempt to do things, if they can't do a better job than humans?
> Heap et al have to scale to all of their users combined.

The hard part wasn't scaling the system to handle all users combined. The hard part was designing the system such that when an individual user runs a query, they would get their results back in a reasonable amount of time.

Having every user in a single cluster made this easier because an individual customer could make use of the computer power of a cluster that was sized to fit the data for everyone in it. In other words, if Heap doubled the number of customers, Heap would get twice as fast for everyone. That's not true for PostHog.

> Heap et al have to scale to all of their users combined (as you said, terabytes), we just have to scale to the biggest user.

A decent sized Heap customer had multiple terabytes of data with the largest being well beyond that. You're going to have to figure out how to scale PostHog to that point without the benefits of multi-tenancy.

> Once users get beyond Postgres, we have integrations with databases that can scale well across many hosts, and we provide services around this to help people size their servers correctly.

I think a cluster of servers that could churn through terabytes of data in seconds would be prohibitively expensive for any individual customer to purchase.