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Angels in America: The Complete Oral History (2016)
>so at the end of the day, I don't oppose some sort of national healthcare, but I don't really see any personal incentive to rock the boat. possible outcomes for me range from "about the same" to "a lot worse".

This answers southphillyman’s question about why people like their employer health plans. Because they don’t want to help pay for other people’s healthcare, especially the sicker population that isn’t condoned off into white collar employer health plans.

The tax advantage is also a handout to big businesses, that people who are lucky enough to be employed by them get to enjoy and support, at the expense of the rest of the country.

So summary of US healthcare political situation is everyone is all talk, but when it comes time to vote, nobody wants to pay more in taxes in case someone else gets to benefit more from it than they do.
> Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost

"Why didn't we invest in long term issues?" (say virus research...)

Because I can make lots in finance this quarter."

As I understand it humans have (at least) 2 really big problems in rational thought: 1) A bias towards the short term and 2) unknown unknowns (cue Nassim Taleb)

Never attribute to higher order stupidity that which can be attributed to lower order brain functions.
Trump has plenty of employees in his businesses, and support from lots of business folks. I would expect Trump to cut his nose off to spite his face at any moment ... but not if it meant using the federal government to side with a labor movement like this. He has likely made that choice already with his appointments.
I tell people I've never worked as hard as I did the morning shift at taco bell.

Just being treated like a human with independent thoughts and needs is a huge benefit in so many workplaces. There's a level of just violence and mistrust in the "normal" working world that is terrifying if you haven't experienced it, and jarring if you haven't experienced it in a while. The bean-counters who make up the systems where in human labor is a cog are really creating skinner boxes. The larger scale the corporation goes the less emphasis on empathy and human needs. You become a bit that can either do the work or can't.

Our cold "efficient" corporate machines has actively done everything it can to take humanity and empathy away from every process. Consumers are numbers on a dashboard. Workers are line items in an S-1. As much as people like to claim otherwise, the companies actions never take a hit that they know doesn't have a benefit elsewhere. Amazon is a big pioneer in the space - take something and remove all human decision making from it, automate it and then move onto the next thing. Now they apply that against hundreds of thousands of warehouse employees.
In general, you are correct but it is very location dependent. Low income in SF is anything below $82k according to HUD
Kubernetes: The Universal Control Plane
That's not a blog post, that's just marketing material.
The exact issue I'm addressing is where a library wants to specify that it can only be used with a version of clojure later than 1.2.0 (in this case). The problem the author is talking about is when a library forces a language version on its users because it either specifies no version at all, or has to specify a specific one.

I'm not sure I understand how `:scope "provided"` plays out if two dependencies say they want different versions of clojure, but that's also relevant.
> Better Trackpad

After using the Dell for a month and finally sending it back, I can tell you that this was the deal breaker for me.
This always seemed particularly bizarre to me in the Clinton and Bush eras, where US politicians were vocally obsessed with small business (I think this has faded over the last decade, and the Republicans in particular seem to have totally dropped it as a talking point). Encouraging people to form small businesses while opposing policies which would actually make this feasible always seemed odd.
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I was wondering the same thing. As combos of common names and providers, it seems extremely likely that many of those email addresses are valid addresses belonging to real people.
The terminology is fine. "Why haven't you already done X?" "We were doing Y, we thought it was more important."

There is more than one way to refer to this familiar situation. I could say "opportunity cost," I could say
"priority," I could say "limited resources." I could pick one of those and say the others are all wrong, but what do I gain by doing that?
I have owned two Airs. Macbook Pros are so thin and light these days that I don't understand what Air brings to the table anymore. I mean, a 13" Macbook Pro is 3 lbs.

Ideally Macbook Pros would be thicker and heavier for better thermals and performance, and then Airs would have a purpose again.
Absurd.

If anything, it is the UI of Synctying that allows me (sometimes) to try and protect some directories.

When the same thing happens with Dropbox, all my computers automatically lose all files because there is no way to force a one directional sync to one specific directory.
I don't understand, wasn't

> it was that the core team consider releasing "core" language features like Unicode support as first-party crates

what you were asking for?
Cloudflare's main service excludes video.
Not sure, I know that newer versions of thunderbird and k9 do, but you may need remove the account and re-create it; I didn't test changing the settings myself, I just deleted the old accounts and re-created them as IMAP / oauth.
The northern part of the US and lower part of Canada is going to have starlink in theory this year. Hugesnet is pretty terrible but might be workable. Or maybe try putting a cellular phone as a hotspot on hosted to the top of a flagpole might reach service..
Universities and Economic Growth (2009)
You appear to consider "Emacs" and "GNU Emacs" synonymous. I explicitly do not.

Hemlock is not a reimplementation of GNU Emacs; it's derived from earlier Emacsen, just as GNU Emacs is. Hemlock in particular is based on ZWEI, and was in version 0.99 around the time that work started on the GNU Emacs project. It's a slightly older sibling of GNU Emacs, rather than a descendant of it.

GNU Emacs has undoubtedly become the de facto standard Emacs, but I don't see why that disqualifies other branches of the Emacs family tree from using the name that all of them inherit from the venerable TECO implementation.

My point was that Emacsen have already been built in Common Lisp, but that they do not serve as substitutes for GNU Emacs--a point with which you appear to agree.

Maybe we even agree on the reason why: because no Emacs implementation can substitute for GNU Emacs without supporting its ecosystem. The amount of work needed to do that would be enormous, whether the proposed substitute is written in Common Lisp or in something else.
I find out that Columbus guy was a real prick

Interestingly, if you read contemporary accounts from the time of Columbus and shortly after, you discover that the allegations of his atrocities were actually mostly made up by his former first mate who had him dragged into court on made-up abuse charges in order to get control of his ship. This is the reason the history books of the last century didn't paint him as a horrible person.

But political correctness isn't about finding the whole truth. It's about finding the easiest, most profitable truth.
> 16:10 aspect ratio.....

MacBook ( Pro, Air or just MacBook ) has always been using 16:10 ratio.

16:10 on Dell is something new in the PC space that everyone is making a big fuss about it. Although I hope this change will finally run across the industry so we are back to 16:10 instead of stupid video consumption orientated 16:9 Ratio.
That really changes the interpretation of the article. @dang, can we update the title so it's not misleading?
To be fair UTF wasn't intended to unambiguously denote bytestreams. At least that wasn't it's main purpose.

I much prefer alphanumeric only passwords to passwords that are required to have weird symbols.
Now that we're talking about B2, has or is anyone using them for latency-sensitive small-file object storage? I'm about to take the plunge and set up benchmarks, my use-case is that I want to store and serve ~ 500k small files (30b-1MB) per day to website visitors. So far B2 support has told me that it shouldn't be a problem, and early benchmarking indicates the same, just curious if anyone had stories from the trenches.
"Your lines of code contributed is negative! Why do we pay you? You should be paying us!" - No one, I hope..
Why no lockfiles? I'm sure there's a reason, I just don't know what it is.
That's right. The impossibility of causal paradoxes has nothing to do with relativity, it's a consequence of basic logic. ((P AND (NOT P)) IMPLIES Q) is a tautology of propositional logic, so if there were ever a physical situation in with P and (NOT P) were simultaneously true then there would remain only two possibilities: either 1) propositional logic is not an accurate model of reality or 2) no proposition is false. Either way, all of science and math instantly go poof.
I can see that it's not a necessity for many people, but I still have a 2015 13" Macbook Pro with MagSafe in addition to a newer 15" Macbook Pro, and my experience using both every day is that I positively mourn the difference.

I'm shocked that Apple has not taken it upon themselves to ensure that there's a usable magnetic adapter for the USB-C port, under their brand or through a partner. I've tried a couple of third-party adapters that were utter failures. I hope somebody succeeds someday, preferably Apple or with Apple's blessing, because I would be very slow to try another third-party adapter otherwise.
As far as I know it was fixed, but yes it was last year or two (the receive only setting is very new). I had similar issues in the past, though.
I don't think a single trivial misdeed but really a culmination of things leading up to it and the scale of it all that broke the camel's back.
I'm agreeing with you, but I'm putting a reality spin on it. It's OK to have macro views, but you can't change anything without understanding psychology of the two scenarios for the average person.
I always try to use them. It's going to be mandatory says MS:

"Although the semicolon isn't required for most statements in this version of SQL Server, it will be required in a future version."
FWIW, I really hate IDEs (usually ported over from other platforms with little thought) that use function key shortcuts for commonly-used actions. I instantly remap "run" in every IDE to ⌘R.
I don't think we have a single f-string in the entire Python 3.7 codebase in the project I'm working on. They seem rather useless to me. I often pass a string like 'this is a template with {var}' into another function that uses .format(var=something) to fill out the template. This seems impossible with f-strings. On the other hand everything that f-string can do can be just as easily done with .format, except in a more explicit and Pythonic way.
I've read a few comments here that Tim Bray would be better off staying at Amazon to make change from within.

This morning I attempted to renew a domain at a GoDaddy subsidiary, and as I scrolled down to look for the contact information I saw that GoDaddy appears to be registered in the Cayman Islands.

I'm genuinely curious (I mean that) to ask if the same question is asked of companies that go offshore. Isn't this all about tax evasion? And, shouldn't they be asked to fight for change from within in the same way?

I honestly think many people on HN would support overhauling our tax code alongside a corporation with deep pockets. So why not?
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Yev from Backblaze here -> Glad that you took a look at us in the past, excited that this announcement will warrant another look! :)
Costco serves a limited range of items to middle and upper middle class areas only. As it already fulfills this segment of the population that can pay a little bit extra for quality, no competitor to Costco exists.

The same dynamics exist with Nordstrom/Apple/Trader Joes. There’s a few brands that can afford to offer more quality and better paid workers, but they don’t exist in poorer parts of any city, and there’s only one of each type of store.

Everyone else has to offer the lowest prices.
When are you even seeing the lawyer’s car? They don’t typically do housecalls.
Terrance Tao takes on the same attitude that he won't read your paper.
$50k/year where? And where did you get that number? I know someone who made $23k last year, less than any of their several employees. If not for his partner's job, he'd be flat-out poor.
Canadian minimum wage is relatively high (and your statement is only true for Ontario, btw. In other parts of Canada, Amazon warehouse worker minimum pay is 150% minimum wage). When viewed through the lens of the reality that is the American workforce, things look very differently.

In the US, Amazon warehouse workers make more than double the federal minimum wage. They make, at minimum, more than double the wage of an average McDonalds worker. They make more than Starbucks store workers, more than most construction workers. Even in Canada, Amazon warehouse workers make more than your average Tim Hortons worker.

Warehouse workers also get the same health insurance that Amazon SWEs get, which is better health insurance by far than even most white-collar American workers have.

>The majority of their employees are unskilled labour.

Unskilled laborers getting double minimum wage and great benefits seems to me to be a good thing for society. It baffles me that people are trying to decry this.
so the new
-macbook air has very poor cooling and throttles the cpu well below max capacity.
-macbook 13" now costs 1800 solely for an up to date processor, a whopping 400$ to add 16gb of ram, no speaker upgrade, no 14" screen, no mini-led
-macbook 16" seems like a good option but I returned it because it's just too heavy more unbearably so than the previous 15" I spent 3 years with. It is also already deprecated since the 10th gen upgrade and mini-led are around the corner
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Scrutiny is probably the wrong word, but Amazon faces far less practical opposition compared to Walmart.

With Walmart, people will both be mad at them and oppose their stores, warehouses, etc.

With Amazon, anger stops at stage 1 usually.
I don't think the argument was that redlining was an example of why capitalism was bad. I think the argument was that discrimination and redlining is an emergent behavior/intent of the complex system that is our society. Clearly the complex social system doesn't have a single controlling entity and is instead driven entirely by the actions of individual participants. Just like redlining is an emergent behavior of our society caused by the aggregate total of individuals acting in the society (the "bad actors" in your terms), so too can aggregate behavior emerge that puts pressure against workers upskilling.
Dare mention that and you'll be hounded out "stop talking politics"
You are moving the goalposts. So the high end version of the laptop is “pro” but the cheaper one isn’t? Doesn’t this follow for other similar ultra books?

Why does a computer have to be cheap-ish to be “pro”?
Doesn't this show that the executive layer of Amazon isn't as clever as they appear? Employees can organize easily on Whatsapp or any other platform. In that case, Facebook has all the data and Amazon doesn't have any insight. Facebook then can hire any disgruntled but competent employee easily.

The lock down also signals weakness and insecurity. Amazon pays at least market rates and people want to work there. In case of a strike, they can hire new people with no training because workers essentially shop all day, a skill that is ubiquitously available

What do they fear?
This type of disinformation has a history; look at so-called "red mercury" during the Cold War.

An adversary does not need to actually believe everything you say, in order to decide that it's worth looking into what you're trying to hide. This distracts some amount of resources from other investigations, and potentially exposes some of their assets if you've built artificial channels for them to follow.

On the other hand, it's also potentially a great way to find the credible/gullible folks within your adversary, to which you could feed other misinformation later on.
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I guess it depends on where you live. I'm going by the definition based on the income ranges in the city/state where we grew up where "middle class" is significantly higher than the rest of the US. If you prefer to average across the entire US, then sure, I'll be happy to edit that to say "middle class". However, I don't see how this is anything but a nitpick without addressing any of the content I wrote in my comment.

Also, others have pointed out many examples where it's possible to hire many workers but still not be in a high income bracket.
The GR happened because it wasn't clear what maintainers should do regarding alternatives init systems. Were they required to support them? Should they just focus on Systemd? The result of the vote was maintainers are required to support Systemd, but should accept patches to support other units.
Nah. IME it really is just line length.
Interesting. Implementation wise, is it some form of Minio gateway + hardware?
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Lower middle class in America is 30 to 50k.
I've lived in Florida, Indiana, Texas, Colorado, Utah, California, Oregon, and Puerto Rico. As I recall we had to pay for garbage and recycling everywhere.
> This gets to the heart of the idea of "privilege", and why it can be so difficult to see yourself as privileged. Because it often involves nothing more than being given a basic level of trust and respect that, once you have them, can seem like a bare minimum, not something that you would need to fight for.

I've wondered since coming to this country how such a large collective delusion continues to persist. The part of the world where I grew up, it is not unheard of for people to get stabbed for having a fresh loaf of bread or a big bag of potatoes. Don't get me wrong, it is a great ideal and I support it ...but it is not realistic. The very concept of the weak simply ASKING to be granted the same power / privileges is outlandish - how do 400M adults collectively delude themselves into believing this is true? Based on my observations, SJWs are the modern day gestapo. They do not get their whims catered to because they are weak and we are idealistic, but because they will witch hunt individuals and businesses into oblivion within the public eye and they are therefore dangerous, for example.

What is privilege? Is it even inherently immoral? How about inequality (of outcome, not of opportunity)?

Most importantly, how do we still not have a clear set of goals for when we know we "reached" it?

Repeated sweeping, collective laws and actions based on something so vague are truly vexing.
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Depends on the area. The national median doesn't really give you insight into whether someone is middle class or not.

I'd also point out it's 15% higher than the median. How small do you feel the middle class is? You mentioned "lower middle class"; I only see them mention "middle class".

But even for the lower middle class, it rather depends on how you choose to count it, no? I've seen some economists define middle class as the middle 60%. Given that range (~$46k - $140k), they're in the lower end, if you want to hold them to that statement (that they never made).
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https://old.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_... (the Google+ links won't work anymore, of course).
I'm just speaking his language to deflate his ego a little bit by showing him that his point that RAM = money has no basis in reality.
Honestly just sounds like lower middle class in America and nothing to do with the job. We don't do a great job taking care of people. Drug user, violence, psychological issues and domestic problems are rampant.
The UK continuously votes to reduce healthcare funding relative to the rest of the world, so it's either "no funding and thanks" or "no funding".
I'm shocked that so many bright, talented engineers go to work for Companies like Google and Amazon and Facebook. While I'm glad some see the light about the real mission of these companies (it's not about "connecting people", "providing delightful customer experiences", "doing no evil" or any of that BS) and ultimately quit, but what concerns me is how so many clearly incredibly bright and talented people are able to ignore so many red flags and go to work for these companies. Google and Facebook are about acquiring personal data to sell ads, that's it! You're not adding value, no matter what interesting, complicated, bleeding edge, world-class problems you're solving. The world is worse off for all of it, and you're helping.
I personally have a list of tech and finance companies I've resolved to never work for, and anecdotally I know other engineers with similar lists.

Amazon is near the top of mine for its harmful business practices and open contempt for its workers. The former Amazon employees I know tend to describe the experience of being an engineer there in less than favorable terms (and as engineers their experience is obviously going to be much better than a warehouse worker's).

Maybe if companies like Amazon which treat their workers poorly were to face a kind of engineering labor boycott, they could be forced to behave more ethically.
Forcing work during a pandemic that might kill people without providing them PPE or making changes to operations is the literal height of insanity.

Amazon has been a subsidized american corporation servicing chinese interests for 2 decades; the US goverment recieves hundreds of billion in chinese bond purchases a year and for the privelage of having this subsidy the Federal government the federal government in turn provides a subsidty to amazon in the form of forging anti-trust prosecution against amazon for running a retail division that ran a loss for 2 decades while prosecuting wal-mart.

End of the day, best way to handle this is to make an app for it. People run it on their phones which everyone has, and they co-ordinate and vote that way as a single block and as seperate groups.