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When I was an engineering manager at Google, my group would look more closely at impact than we would at output. In fact, if the output ended up being more technical debt than durable improvement (the proverbial "I'm gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!" effect that Dilbert spelled out), we would count that against the engineer's evaluated performance. And it would usually take more than 2 months to determine when that was the case.
> In terms of living space, the quality of life for the middle class is worse than 100 years ago.

most urbanites of today don't own a chicken, let alone a cow, in 800's standard they're worse off than serfs.
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The article describes negative effects of inflammation which persists long after the underlying condition has been addressed, due to persistently elevated levels of the HMGB1 protein. It notes that "anti-HMGB1 treatment given several days after a serious illness can reduce cognitive decline in mice" and proposing that these results might some day be replicated in humans.
TBH, I don't think it was that, it's just ... a lot of the answer, despite its thoroughness, came off to me as unproductive and (for lack of a better term) condescending and unserious. The answer focused on a bunch of uncontroversial points (the questioner's later comments confirmed this, that s/he wasn't some no-gov extremist), then quickly shifted over to assuming away all the controversial stuff. That doesn't feel like it's a real attempt to untangle the issue the questioner was asking about.

At the same time, most of what you said was still relevant and true, and my disagreement does amount to an objection to your logical jumps, so it's probably an unfairly high bar I'm setting here.

With that said, I think, to address the core confusion, and contribute to the discussion, you'd need to answer "why insurance specifically"?

Yes, people insuring dangerous things is good. Yes, everyone (with a few caveats) needs to buy insurance. Yes, non-discrimination is good.

None of that gets you to "therefore, we obviously need a commission to set rates", which I think prompted the question.

As (I think) the questioner notes, everyone needs to buy food. Where's the commission that approves increases in tomato prices? I'm sure some stores would like to overcharge minority groups, but competition, and the threat of lawsuits, tends to take care of that.

A responsive (not necessarily correct) answer would look more like:

"There can't be meaningful competition in this arena, and cost of coverage is easy enough to estimate, so we've gone with a model of fixed prices."

Competition in the insurance market is pretty intense, though, so that wouldn't be a satisfying explanation.
Why wouldn't buying political advantage be just as bad under socialism or communism, etc?
Inflammation is catch-all term that in this context can only mean "excessive immune activity", just like "protest" in society can mean a bunch of things. Hence, the only safe thing to say in the general case is that it depends!
« Euclidean - state your axioms and let users derive the rest. Easiest for the API provider, but hardest on the user. This is the most common form of documentation. You see it all the time. Each entry point in the API is sort of explained, but there’s nothing tying the whole API together. »

I agree that the last sentence describes the most common form of reference documentation.

But I think characterising it as "state your axioms and let users derive the rest" is too generous. Typically what you have to do isn't so much "derive" as "make educated guesses".

As far as I'm concerned, the problem is that most of this documentation _isn't_ stating its axioms. It's much more common for each function to have a description in terms of definitions and concepts which aren't further defined. And very often if a piece of behaviour doesn't have any knobs controlling it, it doesn't get documented at all.

I dislike the dichotomy presented here, where this form of bad documentation is on one side, and "A FAQ, recipes for common tasks, and working code examples" are on the other.

Those are all fine things to have, but they're not really a substitute for setting out directly, in the reference documentation, just what it is the software is promising to do.
There are exponentially more people today. In 1850 there were 23 million people in America, today there are 330 million. There was a 15x increase in population, with more than that in the city centers.

Texas had a population of 212k in 1850 and 29 million today. How can you compare the size of a house or land ownership then to today?
Peter and his former student Dan McCarthy have done a lot of work on CLV calculations.
> How do you know that?

I admit that I don't. I am guessing that such things are at present beyond AI/ML. An AI/ML-generated review I would expect to read like... well, like obviously-machine-generated text.

> Also, even if AI/ML are not being used to generate fake reviews, they sure as heck are being used to determine the search ranking of products stuffed with fake reviews.

How do you know that? They have a ranking algorithm, sure, but why do you think it's AI/ML (by normal definitions of AI/ML)?
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So no Risk and no Chess for you?
SI'm afraid that day will never come. BS in that space is just too deep. Valuations are imaginary, people involved too delusional and none of these projects are based on anything real.
You can calculate the game-theoretic value of all of the properties (I'm a little surprised that no one seems to have actually done this AFAICT -- maybe a project for next weekend). At that point the game reduces to pure luck: players who land on properties whose list price is less than their game-theoretic value will buy those properties and gain a (small) edge. The auction clearing price for rational players will be the game-theoretic value, which will have no effect on the outcome. The rest is pure luck (modulo some other obscure rule that I've forgotten then allows players to make decisions), and that is the overwhelmingly dominant factor.
Google Fiber is essentially dead. It halted expansion in 2016 and has only supported its existing locations since then. Even for a company as rich as Google, it wasn't financially feasible for them. How are companies smaller than Google even supposed to compete?
I've been looking at Dart lately and it seems like a pretty awesome language. A weird mashup of Java + JavaScript, but I agree its something else that has to be learned. I think flutter would probably have better adoption if they chose something more mainstream.
I've never succeeded in that with semantic css either
I'm only betting small amounts and money I could lose....but I bet a 6 month put option using robinhood app on SPY and VTI and it's ready made me a good chunk of cash.
If the Wuhan authorities quarantined everybody that traced back to attending the mass dinners at the same early stage in the same way that the Italian and South Korean authorities are doing now, then the people infected in Hubei be at 60,000 or so now.

The quarantine came in too little too late to control the situation in Wuhan, and only helped to contain the virus in other provinces of China, not fully contain it.
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Exactly. This problem is not new. The issue is that people feel like they should have easy access to truth and that is just not the case, ever. The best we can ask for is a good way to do research to try to discover what is true, which is what the internet is for and basically what we have now.
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The N95 masks require training, and they're not for everyone. It is possible for young children to suffocate because their lungs are not strong enough to pull air through (it takes some effort).

I have asthma, and even a few hours of wearing a procedural mask, let alone an N95 mask are very taxing. Maybe for brief periods in public... But sweat transmitted by hand onto a surface is enough. Sewage in a building is enough to infect residents that don't otherwise encounter each other.
...and the US is so in love with “freedom” they don’t even stop you from selling yourself into slavery, and it allows restaurants to poison you as long as you agreed to it in the fine print.

Oh, they do? Well then I guess the world kinda agrees on the logic of such situation, and it’s really more of nuanced differences of degree.
Mobile:

Too much.

Web:

- Syncing:

1. Very often hangs on "slow" networks. Syncs for minutes at a time and stops the browser from loading new pages (annoying)

2. Mangles bookmarks. Merges folders I don't want merged and adds bookmarks I've deleted before

- RAM creep

1. Memory leak? Firefox consistently takes up more and more memory the longer I use it

2. Poor suspend/dump functionality on Linux. If you have multiple tabs open, Firefox can quickly freeze your entire system (swap makes no difference). I have to use a 3rd party addon to have inactive tabs "suspended" so my system doesn't freeze

3. Unlike chrome, I don't think Firefox runs seperate processes for tabs. OOM killer never triggers.

- Slow

1. It's just slow. Even on a great laptop with a gigabit connection, it's slow.

- Long startup (self-explanatory)
Of course it is. The only thing that it really is too much of right now is money looking for something to do. I think they are better used making some founders rich, even when the business case is a long shot, than inflating the stock market even more.
The thing is, you don’t need to make it impossible, just difficult and officially say that it’s “unsupported” to make it a non-starter.
Since they have many very cheap games, they'd have to exclude them from this fee. I think the 30 day return is better because it's simple and easy to understand.
Pretty much this. I’m building a WYSIWYG note taking app that syncs with GitHub, sort of like Prose.io but more focused on the note taking than CMS part (although the option of publishing notes would combine these two).

I think there’s two benefits of isomorphic git for this use case.

1. It’s more api agnostic: if I wanted to support Gitlab, I wouldn’t have to write substantially more code tailored specifically for Gitlab’s API because it speaks git. You would only have to switch out Github's auth for Gitlab's auth. I also found that add multiple files and versioning them with Github’s API is a pain; they’re remaking a client called Octokit but it’s pretty underdeveloped right now.

2. Offline version control: you shouldn’t have to be online to take notes. With isomorphic git I can add and commit, and then push back to GitHub later when I have Internet. Fun fact: to get git to work on the browser, the author of isomorphic-git wrote a library to port NodeFS commands backed by IndexedDb. This means you can also have offline image drag-and-drop.

There are some minor issues with isomorphic-git when I checked a month ago.

- Largest one is only fast-forward merges are supported; not sure how to get around this one besides cloning the remote Github branch and maybe manually merging files.

- Another one is a bug with git init followed by git add remote and git pull which leads to a reference error because no local commit has been made yet; you can imagine a user who immediately logs in with Github so you want to sync with a pre-existing repo.

[1] https://github.com/isomorphic-git/lightning-fs
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I guess they are going to use Huawei? LOL...
Compared to what, Chrome? It took them how long to get position sticky, backdrop filters, etc? Meanwhile Google views web standards as their property they can willy-nilly do with what they please.
Yep. That's a 100 years of Edward Bernays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

That's the guy who started it all.
Insurers sank Connecticut's 'public option.' Would a national version survive?
Well, let's not get into a nationalistic debate. I don't even live in the USA. Meanwhile, refund abuse is a major topic of the OP. Unfortunately, other consumers tend to eat the cost of abusers just like how Gog is left pleaing in the OP.
While true, in almost any iterated trading game major disparities emerge — a point Monopoly makes well.

In real life however, these disparities are only a problem if people leverage them against others.
People don't generally put candles on their furniture, cigarettes are often smoked on chairs.
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Fair point, but WHO don't really seem to think that's the case. Dr Bruce Aylward (team lead of the WHO mission) noted that based on the large amount of disease screening that’s been done in China so far, there does not seem to be a huge number of mild cases that are going undetected. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/coronavirus-spread-i...
It's not so crazy to me that we try to maintain the same quality of life. Watching the meter and waiting until 9 PM to wash your clothes is a pretty sad state of affairs. Sweating through your clothes in a heat wave because everyone else wants AC is even worse.

Are we really ready to admit that the late 20th century was peak civilization? It seems to me we have solved all the wrong problems with technology (nitrogen fixation, disease, etc) that put natural checks on population several hundred years before we were ready to actively plan and manage population. As a result, all the problems introduced by overpopulation that are fundamentally unsolvable are getting worse and worse.
Really convenient.

I use KeepPassXC, but Firefox PW is streamlined very well.
The problem may be more widespread than first considered - flame retardant chemicals are mandated for large categories of children's sleepwear. Surely direct-to-skin contact (absorption?) is at least as great a threat as off-gassing chemicals from a sofa or mattress.
Thanks for the Github links. I would like to add https://github.com/mplatzer/BTYDplus
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A bunch of rich people competing with one another even though they have everything they'll ever need is pretty realistic too.
It all boils down to this. Their hardware has always been great. They need to get the software support; this should be their primary goal.
The problem with this is that is requires people to have Chrome installed. That's a awkward dependency to require for a stand alone app.
People always need textiles. People will always like textiles that are flashy and look cool. What's so wrong about making cool woven textiles with modern practices given they mostly don't exist anymore via traditional methods outside of living history pursuits like the SCA and living history museums?

I for one would love to have something akin to my winter Carhartt gear with some cool woven scene on them instead of plain, boring, without-imagination black. I'd even be willing to pay a 10-20% premium for it and order it months before the seasons I'd be wearing it in.

The only real place you have cool customization like this still going on with any regularity is sneakers.
Yeah uh, poor choice of words on my part, I guess that's why I'm not a writer. I have a bad tendency to use "fun" as "interesting" rather than "enjoyable", should probably be more careful about that..
There's a lot of strategy in Monopoly. People who don't think there's strategy in Monopoly in my experience are people who don't understand the value of trading, and have largely played games of it where little to no trading was done.

If you can't imagine trading with another player in a way that would give that player a Monopoly, you haven't exhausted the strategy space of Monopoly, a seminal game in the history of board games that all 3M/German/Euro-style strategy games of today owe a debt to.

I'm going to stop because I feel like I'm falling into a bizarre habit of only commenting on HN when Monopoly is brought up negatively:)

edit: if there's an obvious, unstoppable winner at any point in any game, you are allowed to stop playing.
"Same" just isn't as fun as saying "Isomorphic"
There's plenty of cases where inflammation is not helpful at all, such as arthritis and psoriasis. When the body is attacking itself in an immune disorder, there's really no down side to preventing the body from attacking itself. Unfortunately, such disorders become more and more common the older you get, so you can think of it as the immune system accidentally triggering rather than it triggering too much on some particular thing.

It's true, though, that for really severe inflammation disorders that doctors start prescribing systemic immunosuppressants, which then result in the patient getting real illnesses more often. Often the patient has such a bad condition at that point - my psoriasis leads to skin flaking off in bloody patches and smearing blood on the things I touch and my hands feeling like sand paper to other people, for example - that they prefer this overall.

Even the localized topical immunosuppressants like hydrocortisone cream have negative side effects like skin thinning, but I think everyone using those agrees it's better than the extra inflammation.
I would argue that if I hold 2 of the yellow and 1 of the green properties and you hold 1 of the yellow and 2 of the green in a 3+ person game, that we do have an intentional action that can leave us both better off.
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If you follow the actual rules, the game rarely lasts more than an hour. The main rule that no one follows that speeds up the game is auctioning a property when there person doesn't want to buy it.

It forces every property on the board to be owned with just a few times around the board.
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Actually, the axed "Prosperity" set of rules for the original game was cooperative.
Everything I've seen so far either has a huge learning curve to do right/well, breaks over time, or both. If there is a product out there that solves these, that would be nice. I'm skeptical, but I'll ask around...
They found the plans for this in their archive. It had just been forgotten about. People are always finding forgotten treasures in the back rooms of archives, because they're full of ancient stuff and actually getting the right pair of eyeballs to recognize the importance of old stuff is really hard.

Digitizing everything helps, but the enemy is still volume, time, and money, and digitizing costs even more money.
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So, it seems that "r > g" is less of a question and more of a generally accepted statement. I'm not an economist, but a cursory review of economist whitepapers (here's one[0]) indicates that most don't dispute the "r > g" assertion, but instead just say that "this is a reasonable state of affairs", or "it's a problem, but the solutions are worse."

[0] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/yes_r_g_so_wh...
Good to know we do it right.
> my intentional actions (successful business)

Your intentional action is to start a business. Whether or not it will be a successful business and actually "generate wealth" is to a large part dependant an chance.

Also, honestly, "It's not a zero-sum game" is beginning to sound like a religious mantra. Of course you can define "wealth" however your want and for the right definitions, you can certainly pull ever more of it out of nowhere. The set of natural numbers has no upper bound.

However, many extremely relevant kinds of wealth absolutely are zero-sum: There is only so much time in a day, only so much space to live in, only so many natural resources and only so much waste the planet will tolerate. If some class of people control disproportionately amounts of that, it will absolutely reduce the wealth of those who don't belong to that class.
Not sure what your are trying to say, but geography disagrees.
I should also add this will likely all be moot once ASICS take-off.
> There's so much fake news out there about this

This is a key part of what makes this case so much more worse than SARS

Worth noting SARS started later in the year too
It's good across projects/teams/job too. You know what everything does.
You don't have to learn every btn--rounded--primary thing for every app you work on.
Removing bats would create millionary damages in agriculture and would hit specially hard the tropical fruitculture. Kiling millions from famine and collapsing the ecology of tropical rainforests just to avoid a disease with a 96% probability of surviving is a really bad idea.
You first DOJ. These folks want back doors so they can read everyone's traffic, but once you put a back door in an encryption standard, it affects everyone.
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Huh? Edge integrates better with Windows in various ways. So it makes sense to use Edge on Windows. Google Docs is one of many online office suites like Office 365. Google Docs came before Office 365 Web so people may already be used to that one. I fail to see the mental gymnastics necessary to have this all make sense.
Yes. Also, if you're not serverless but are containerized, ECS/Fargate has a simple workflow through the console that in turn runs Cloudformation and sets things up (VPC, gateway, load balancer, security groups...) with sensible defaults. You do still need to learn how to lock things down, inbound/outbound rules especially. For pros, the console is simply not the way, but for your first Spiffy Dockerized App, this is great.

Also, the new Amazon-managed firewall rules for web-apps are killer for app developers who are not security pros![0]

Lest this sound like Fanboyism, our long-term strategy is Firebase, calling AWS APIs when necessary :)

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-managed-rule...
This feature makes it a very progressive library for various stages of development. Inline earlier, then gradually extracting the style for reuse in later stage. Besides, their documentation is really good for one to learn those newer css concept.
This is what drives me nuts about baseball. Yes, you are right. That is standard gamesmanship.

AND THAT IN ITSELF IS LUDICROUS.

What other sport allows the field of play to be modified to fit one style of play or player? Can you imagine a basketball team raising the rims 2 feet so that Giannis couldn't dunk AND IT BEING ALLOWED? Or a football team growing the grass to 8" so that a team with fast wide receivers would be slowed?

To me, baseball's rich (sarcasm) history of allowing random-sized fields and wall heights and open or closed roofs and watered or unwatered infields means that the more Circus-like elements of the sport are allowable. I too like some of this "gamesmanship". But I have a hard time understanding the difference of the allowed gamesmanship (stealing signs from second) and the disallowed and disgraceful gamesmanship (using ALLOWED in-clubhouse video to determine pitch sequences).
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I'm not.

There's no meaningful preparations for avoiding what is essentially a really dangerous variant of the common cold at an individual level.

Now governments and the medical field should be preparing for it. But most of that is logistical problems (e.g. number of hospital beds, preparing quarantine plans, test kits, etc).

You can order a bunch of masks if it makes you feel better, but countries with common mask usage are still seeing a large scale spread so YMMV.
Thanks for pointing out the typo! It should be updated now.
The Spotify desktop client is architected such that each pane in the main window is essentially its own separate webapp, complete with duplicate (and triplicate, quadruplicate, etc) dependencies. They did this so their various teams don’t have to talk to each other.

Desktop Spotify has been a resource hungry mess for years now. It used to be known for prematurely wearing out SSDs by constantly writing stuff (cache I think?) to disk.
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