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I disagree with the idea that traditional legal financial services commit less fraud than cryptocurrency scams do. They just get away with it easier.

> Normally these frauds are recognized for what they are quite quickly and the courts and regulatory bodies can clean up the mess and rectify the damages to those who have been misled

That just comes off as total BS to me. How many regular people were awarded damages after the 2008 meltdown, which was due to massive fraud in the mortgage industry?
In terms of computing, anyone knows what’s the spec and what’s the software stack like? Assembly machine codes?
It only creates a monopoly for other's books. No one is stopping you from creating your own book and giving it away for free. It's kind of like the plagiarism rules from high school.

You really should consider the other part of the equation. Authors need to eat. They can only eat if publishers pay them. Publishers will only have money if readers pay for the books. No "monopoly" means no paid authors. Oh maybe some rich people will write as a hobby but not the ones who need a day job.
Every app I have tried is inadequate. Sometimes the best route is going the wrong way on a quite residential street - of course apps don't condone this. Google Maps lets you plan the route on your larger desktop screen then send to phone - nice feature - but then its planning is weird - even when I ask for a bike route and turn on the bike layer it doesn't follow it. It needs options to let you go bike paths vs distance - for me bike paths is more important.
> However having Nano as default is the better choice. You as an expert know how to change the default.

Speak for yourself. It's not better for me and I had to do some googling to figure out how to change the default when it was changed to Nano. I'm not an "expert" in any sense, but I'm sure a lot more comfortable with VIM than Nano.

Also, I'm not sure most people setting up VMs newbies, at least in the way you're using the word. I have no problems with Nano being installed as the default on some distros. I just wish it weren't on the one I use!
In case 2 you should email hn@ycombinator.com. We watch for those ourselves and unban such users. Inevitably we don't see them all, though, and emails from fellow users are super helpful in that case.

Moderation is guesswork, and even if we guess 99% accurately about which accounts to ban in the early stage—a necessary thing to do, because otherwise the site would be overrun with spammers and trolls—that still leaves quite a few false positives who later turn out to be neither spammers nor trolls.
Land tax is a better then income tax, because it is more efficient. UBI is better then 100 different need based programs because it is more efficient. But government/politicians do not value efficiency, they value bureaucracy. So they will stand in the way of anything better. Clearly what we need is a UBG, Universal Bureaucrat Guillotine.
The problem is information wants to be read and be free. Copyright is a wall around information that has already been thought of and recorded.

Pirate Bay is exactly like a local libruary which is like a book store. The only difference is physical books vs digital, if you have to give it back and when and the cost.

Book stores will let you violate the publishers copyright as long as you don't leave the store. Want to read that entire book, sit on a chair and read.

A libruary will let you read at the place or at home but you have to bring it back in a week.

Piratebay lets you read it forever but it's a digital copy.

All scenerios you can read without paying.
The healthcare costs for Alzheimer’s will be in the trillions, if we don’t cure it.
Gnu's flagship product has been Emacs since day one, so those folks using any flavor of vi would be sorta like Microsoft doing Windows development on Macs.

That said, it probably happens.
... are you sure rent hasnt gone up massively over the past decade? I feel like it has.
What scares me is that most of us measure truth in terms of "how many people upvote/like this tweet/thread/post," which further promotes fake news that go viral. It works like this:

1. Say something that clearly will make the news, regardless of it being true/false.

2. By the time people try to debunk it, it has already made its impact and served its purpose.

3. Even when the truth comes out, since it's usually boring, it won't make the news that much.

4. Congratulations! Now you have further strengthened the Internet "echo chambers," which means those who heard the false news are not even interested in hearing the truth.

Another thing that worries me is that "quiet people have the loudest minds" (by S. Hawking), which I interpret as the silent, lurking community members who don't stand up to correct a wrong (e.g. out of fear of getting downvoted/grayed_out, or simply because they don't want to get involved in discussions, etc.) IMO, they are just as blamable as those who publish lies.
For a start, laser printers have become incredibly cheap. I bough a Brother all-in-one color laser printer about 10 years ago and it's still going. I don't print much so I think I've only had to replace the black toner cartridge once in that whole time.

Unless your primary printing activity is printing photos, there's not much reason to buy an inkjet printer these days.
The point about it not mattering so much whether you’re taxing the supply side or the demand side is that higher prices ultimately lead to lower sales, effecting the producer.

That’s the whole point of a carbon tax — to make carbon unaffordable. While at first that will likely be “regressive” (since most consumption is carbon driven), over time it would lead to decoupling carbon from the supply chain through innovation.
Haha, so would I. I think I'd instantly suspect I've fucked up in some dramatic way. But HN is usually civility > truth. The community values politeness over correctness.

Useful to know that characteristic. I use a personal user-moderation tool built by a friend to remove these people from comments. I actually really like these threads since it lets me identify people with lower thresholds for truth and lower thresholds for what they'll amplify as truth.
>its affect on comments is an emergent property reflecting the subjective sentiment of the community.

Thank you for making this point - you stated it perfectly. Regardless of what you think downvotes "should be used for", the fact is that they are used to "downvote", whatever that means, and that alone is valuable.
Yes, but with a twist. OSS in itself behaves like a public good, but most business models for OSS and closed-source software revolve around bundling to create excludability (since software is de facto non-rivalrous). That makes them club goods.

The most effective excludability is SaaS offerings, because total exclusion can be enforced easily. That's why hyperscalers make far more from OSS than companies devoted to it.

(btw: the snowdrift docs are really impressive, kudos)
A large proportion of the UK had milk delivered by electric vehicles 'milk floats' when I was a child in the 1980s...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
Exactly. If the publishers could, they would make libraries buy five copies for every one they lend out. People need to stop letting the publishers' PR teams convince them that they care about freedom or knowledge or anything other than increasing their profits.
If we are comparing this thing to the ISS, an emergency return from the ISS would take just under five hours. So someone with an appendicitis can probably get home before dying. Much further away than a few hours and otherwise routine medical emergencies start get much more difficult.
But a consumer cannot just unilaterally demand that a business should use a different business model more to the liking of the consumer.

Lets say I hire a plumber to fix my sink. Afterwards I refuse to pay because I have decided plumbing work should be free and plumbers should instead make their income by selling branded merchandise. This would just be breach of contract.

The plumber is not a psychopath by insisting on getting paid according the originally agreed contract. Maybe the plumber don't want to make income by selling branded merchandise but just want to get paid for plumbing. That is not for me to decide. I am free to look for a different plumber who will work for free.
If you read the thinly veiled political pieces on this site you would never expect anything different. For a site mostly aimed at start ups and technology this site has a very large anti business view branding the whole with the happenings at outliers within the world.
This is a silly argument. His assertion that the union isn't "interested in helping cops" is ludicrous, his actual points completely contradict this (e.g. their pension). Also his notion that "real unions" are about "public interest" is similarly nonsensical -- unions are primarily about benefiting their members, as they should be.

He also completely misses a much stronger point, which is that there is a crucial difference between private-sector unions and public-sector unions. Which is that private-sector unions are necessary because there's no other mechanism for employees to reach a collective agreement. But in the public sector, there is: the ballot box, i.e. all democratic policy ever. Collective decision-making takes place in the legislature.

In this sense, there's an argument to be made that police unions, teacher's unions, etc. are unnecessary and fundamentally anti-democratic. If Coca-Cola workers go on strike that's fine, we can just buy Pepsi. If police and teachers go on strike, the nation suffers -- government unions essentially break the democratic social contract by declaring "we disagree with the democratic decision of the people and will hold the city/country hostage". One could make the argument that in the private sector it's simply negotiation, while in the public sector it's extortion.

Now it's not actually that simple in practice -- after all, democratic representation and legislation often doesn't work as well as it's supposed to. But then again, police and teachers' unions seem to be arguably just as bad of a mess.
Indeed! A few points just so people who haven’t heard of LVT before don’t walk with easily addressed misconceptions:

1. The government today assesses land value. It also must assess the value of far, far more nebulous things that can be hidden, transfigured, created/destroyed, or moved offshore. Yes more importance would be tied to this singular assessment, but this assessment is singularly easy to assess!

2. The price/value itself would be set by the market. The assessment of that value, of course, would be by the government and you are correct there is risk of differential here (though mitigated by point 1)

3. Lastly, because land cannot be created, destroyed, or moved, a tax upon it is uniquely unable to either incur inefficiencies (deadweight loss) or to be passed onto tenants/consumers. This is contrast to every other form of taxation, which incur inefficiencies then get passed onto the consumer in the form of price increases anyway.
tbh, I don't really understand why Coors would be such an advantage. It's not like the visiting team doesn't also benefit from the additional ball flight.

Do you think it has to do with roster building? Like the Rockies don't spend money on pitching because pitching has less value at Coors, so they load up on offensive talent instead?
> Registering an account through a VPN is an automatic shadowban

That's not true.

New accounts are subject to extra software restrictions because of past abuses by trolls and spammers, though. I don't see any way around this.
Excellent! I have no contracts with any publishing house, and I doubt that IA does.
Because you cannot communicate with your hands, and use tools at the same time.
The threat of starvation forces pumas to hunt against their will. Should we start setting out food bowls for the local pumas?

We should absolutely force people to be productive members of society if the alternative is to steal from other people so that they can sit at home all day.
Thanks for the post. I'm a big osmand user, but have never tried BRouter. Is it significantly better than the built in routing?
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You don’t think very clearly if you think prices magically raise.

There are still market forces and people retain freedom to move.

“Predatory nature of those in power is put in check” UBI puts it in check by allowing the market to solve for everything while guaranteeing a minimum market participant power for all members.
I think the life expansion is merely a byproduct of other things that have ultimately led to a higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s and other amyloid plaque based diseases.

We have a few factors that have greatly attributed to this increase in life and increase in mental illnesses: decrease in tobacco (specifically smoking) use, increase in processed food eating, increase in life sustaining medicines, decrease in overall activity.

Tobacco: on one hand we know that smoking raises chances of having a shorter life span as it really accelerates cellular inflammation and deterioration. (1) On the other the stimulant aspect of nicotine helps the brain continue to stay active and helps resist atrophy. Personally, I notice more and more people I interact with on antidepressants. My parents and grandparents generations probably suffered the same levels of depression (more or less) but moderated this with smoking.

Processed Foods:
Modern processed foods started to flood grocery stores after the Second World War and became the staples of the American diet. Natural fats were replaced with unnatural and chemical based preservatives were put in many goods to increase shelf life. We know empirically that these foods also (like smoking tobacco) increase all cause mortality. Alzheimer’s prevention advice typically advocates for a diet removing such items. (2)

Better Medicine & Decrease in Activity: these two factors may need no introduction but we know that the older we get the less stem cells we have and the worse our cellular health is overall. Moderate Exercise helps slow the death of such cells. (3) Again, this is circumstantial, but all of the people I personally know with Alzheimer’s and other amyloid plaque based diseases did not lead active lifestyles and I would define their lifestyles as quite sedentary.

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098701/

(2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer's#Epidemiology

(3)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/4776345/exercise-aging...
I mean, did not reasonably and responsibly took over anything. They decided that they don't care and can do what they want and acted surprised when rights owners objected.
It’s not an elite group. I used to believe as you do, to a lesser degree. But even if that were true, you aren’t meaningfully disadvantaged by not being able to flag things. It’s like a super-downvote. You don’t even have downvote at 0 karma to my knowledge. There are karma tiers for feature unlocks, but they are pretty low, like 31 or something for vouch? I know there’s a link on HN with this info.

The lack of negative interactivity for new and lower karma accounts is meant to be a kind of training wheels period, where if you get karma, you’ll implicitly learn what is acceptable at HN, and until you do, your ability to embody and enforce the ideals of HN is limited to positive or neutral actions of upvoting and posting.

Here you go, courtesy of HN user minimaxir

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
'The death rate in the US is now substantially higher than in Europe.'

I used the term most of Europe and especially the UK.

Let's, instead, say 'parts of Europe' and 'the UK' and these figures paint a different story.
I like this a lot, but I am also desperately in need of it having a better permissions model---right now you can only restrict caps to "all logged in users" and not "just some logged in users", which means there is no way to have authenticated guests / cross-institution collaboration.

I'm so sad every time that restriction makes me fall back on Google Docs.
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And don’t forget, streaming service Quibi, with its focus on ten minute shows, failed to pull viewers away from the series and movies on HBO and Netflix that require much bigger time and attention investments.
> just use jquery

Not that well.
I guess the amount that will generate GDP growth..

In the end, it probably doesn't have to be perfect, just better than status quo.
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To add a small bit of context for the last point about funding. A $7B reduction in funding sounds like a lot, but during that same period student loan debt increased by $760B.[0] On the balance, the reduction in state funding seems like an insignificant piece of the puzzle.

[0] https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/state-of-student...
I agree that people should engage more, to avoid the case where a comment is downvoted but it's not clear why from either the comment itself or its replies, but I think that case is somewhat rare. More importantly, complaining or positing reasons oneself that inevitably portray the downvoters as irrational doesn't help achieve that goal.
Given by whom? Economics is regarded as one of the major social sciences.
I can't see your logic.

If someone is making ends meet by working at your (illegally low) wage, then having that wage _plus_ UBI means that they are UBI rate / existing wage times better off.

The wage's percentage of total income dropping is a red herring.

No one will be pushed to work more when they have _more_ resources at hand.
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Hey HN,

When we went into lockdown, my friend Jason and I started looking for meat and produce so we could eat healthier meals with our families - rather than my go-to's Chef Boyardee ravioli and instant ramen - since it was already looking like we'd be in it for the long haul. However, our delivery go-to's had limited supply (I didn't want to go out because my parents are at-risk) and a lot of meat/produce subscription box services had just started waitlisting, so we started to look into farms and found some great ones that delivered straight to our doors. Since I started buying meat from farms, I've had the best meat I've ever had in my life.

When we realized that lots of people were probably in the same boat as us, we wanted to share what helped us and started to put together a database of farms that 1) have online stores 2) where you can get meat, produce, and/or dairy 3) and deliver straight to your door.

We also have >30 filters for everything from the kind of meat/produce/dairy/prepared good you're looking for to the breed, how it was raised, where it was raised, diet, preparation method, etc. You'll find some interesting products trying out the filters: we had a lot of 2am cravings adding farms that sell lamb raised on their mother's milk their entire lives in the Rocky Mountains (I didn't even particularly like lamb - now I do), forest-raised Manglitsa pork, and cave-aged raw milk cheeses.
Cory Doctorow makes all of his books available on his website in DRM free formats, as well.

In fact, there's a DRM free audiobook available from his website: https://craphound.com/unauthorizedbread/
Along these lines, it might just be easier for you to change your site's name and trademark it this time (should have done it the first time). That's probably cheaper than hiring a lawyer or waiting for the other party to sue you.
Same here in Los Angeles. I think only the Bay Area is available during the beta, and then the other cities will rollout in the fall when iOS 14 GMs.
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This is mistaken. Writers write. It's their calling. Plenty of writers have been "insane enough" to write and publish without a business model for as long as written language has existed.
I think there are several slightly different variations, but generally a trampoline is something like this pseudo-code:

while (next_fn_to_call != nullptr) {
next_fn_to_call = next_fn_to_call()
}

So each function potentially wants to call a new function once it's done, but you don't want to blow the stack (or maybe use a stack at all) so it returns that function (pointer) rather than calling it. Then you need a little loop to call the return value: that's your trampoline.

The article is potentially a bit lower level given it's talking about things down at the CPU level, but I imagine its a vaguely connected idea.
Zoning laws have a restrictive effect on supply, which in turn has an effect on prices.
Electric milk delivery trucks ("milk floats" [1]) were a common sight in the UK from the 1950s until the 1980s, when doorstep delivery of milk started to decline.

There are still a few around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float
I'm not really talking about 20-something software developers in Silicon Valley. There are things that keep people in jobs they don't like.
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On average, Rockies players are better acclimated to playing at altitude; consider that they sometimes play back to back home series against different teams, while visiting teams play at most one consecutive series in Denver. This is why visiting teams tend to send their expected starting pitcher to Colorado a couple days early.
Thanks for making and sharing this, it looks very promising. I'm gonna try integrate it
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AFAIK the borrowing was still limited in time and with the DRM protection.

Whoever "took" the book at that time lost the access to it long ago already, thanks to the DRM protection remaining and working.

Edit: answering "I'm not sure I'd call what they're doing "DRM". Read the court case: explicitly Adobe DRM technology for encrypted e-book formats is mentioned, implemented in different e-book readers and used in this case.
In what ways have regulations increased costs?
I'll try to remember that in the future. I don't see #2 very often, which is a positive of this site. Usually it seems to be newer accounts or infrequent posters which makes sense.
4. Coasting. Plenty of people just want to live and not do any work. This has obvious detriment to the economy as they are just parasites.
Nano's not really a programmer's editor. It's fine for writing short shell scripts and configuration files and you can't beat its ubiquity and user-friendliness but it lacks the tools and customizability most programmers prefer for production coding.
Everything that comes out of these pods tastes like plastic to me. I can't see the attraction.
Thank you! Good job on your site as well! I really like clean and simple layouts.
Ngo might be our nation's finest working journalist. That will make you many enemies and will not be good for your health.
A barber-shop? Vandalized?

Someone had a bad-hair day?
Read this as part of Cory Doctorow's "Radicalized" compilation. The whole set of short stories are awesome. If you're enjoying the excerpt, I suggest just buying the book and starting from the beginning.
I am now ashamed that I upvoted the previous HN submission. I wish I could take back that upvote, but unfortunately too much time has passed since then.

From now on I will be more careful about what I upvote.
> This is how Internet Archive’s lending library works, and has for more than nine years.

Wow. And why do you think noone sued for nine years?? Maybe because as long as the IA behaved like that it was legal but they changed how they work because of COVID and became a pirate site overnight. They basically said "we do not know how many physical copies are languishing in closed libraries so we will just pretend there are infinite copies". That is of course nonsense.
Your link marks the claim as "mixed truth", which is different from the "no evidence" in your comment text.
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