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You don't need taxes for roads or electricity. In the same way we don't need taxes for grocery shopping, or education.

Workers indeed show up and make things run, but only because they voluntarily chose to agree to a contract where that is their duty. If they don't like the terms of their contract, they can not take it, renegotiate their current one, find a new one, or take on risk and start your own income. You can't "accidentally" fall into a job.
Don't the flashcarts count as breaking DRM and thus not allowed by the DMCA?
This will be Stuxnet.

This has nothing to do with a geiger counter or measuring radioactivity.

Watch the doco Zero Days. It's an ok round up of Stuxnet.
There is a suprising amount of work you can do with resistance bands. That used to be the powerlifting equipment of choice before dumbbells and barbells became fashionable in the bodybuilding community a century ago. You can hit everything olympic lifting hits. Great reading here, along with tons of examples of workouts and movements:

https://yoga-horizons.com/pdfs/Fatmans-Guide-to-Cable-Traini...
To the OP's credit, I think there's a difference between "a company can continue without filling a specific role for a very long time, while a worker must find a job quickly" and "a company can continue without any employees for a very long time" which seems to be more consistent with your lockdown example.

The OP's position is IMO wrong in that (rational) employers aren't incentivized to wait for the absolute lowest-price worker because of opportunity cost. Consider the example of a successful restaurant looking to fill the role of 'marketer'. The company is already profitable and could continue indefinitely without filling the role. However, the company is looking to fill this role precisely because it believes that it stands to profit a lot, and every day that the role goes unfilled they're losing out on that profit. So here the worker has some leverage. Further, the restaurant isn't the only game in town, the worker can have offers from multiple employers and parlay them against each other for still better offers. The wage ultimately depends on the size of the opportunity (the company won't pay the marketer 100% of the opportunity or it won't be worth hiring them) and the supply of marketers. Ultimately, the restaurant wants to hire the least-expensive marketer (ignoring variance in worker quality for sake of argument) without waiting too long (losing out on the opportunity). This is what a free market looks like--the OP is arguing that because an employer can theoretically avoid bankruptcy indefinitely without filling the position that the market is not free, but I think they misunderstand what "free market" means.
People can resolve conflict without it turning into an argument, which is exactly what that sentence seems to be describing. I wouldn't describe them as arguing.

Is that couple having an argument or not? Doesn't this depend on how "argument" is defined, which was my original point?
A Key2 is my daily, but there's a backup unlocked Titan running Lineage ready to take over if it dies. Now the question is, once this hardware becomes available will I still need it or will the Key2 power though.

Although being able to load GSIs on the Titan feels amazing!
We all know each other reasonably well, but we will be laying out an agreement that we all have to follow. The initial contract was just "we're in this, for better or worse, through the whole academic year."

We had a number of conversations before deciding to "pod up," and certainly before contracting with a teacher/tutor, so we have a sense of each person's risk tolerance. We agreed we were close enough to take this first step, and we'd iron out the rest later.
This is funny, but to give Danny the benefit of the doubt: he presumably means there are horizons out there in cryptocurrencies and finance that aren't approached by also-ran "fintech plays" or "another cryptocurrency"...
I'm upset, after using the platform for a decade, that they remove negative reviews of properties. I learned this recently. That included some of my very tame and reasonable reviews.

Makes me want to short the stock when it IPOs, after its initial run-up out of vengeance.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but now they really do seem to be open to the idea of full dictatorship.
Non-jealous, compromising people tend to have longer and happier marriages? Sounds about right.
How about client state? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070495

"Would His Highness kindly abdicate in favour of his son, the heir to the throne? We have a high opinion of him and will ensure his position. But His Highness should not think there is any other solution."
I have some ideas about why the last released Antibody data from NYC was in mid April. I'm pretty sure it's to do with politics and not science. Herd immunity is a bad look for a politician. But that is pure speculation.
Keep in mind that "free market" and "perfect competition", whilst commonly used interchangably, are in fact distinct terms. Few standard economic texts even mention "free market" whilst "perfect competition" is a standard microeconomic term (along with monopoly/monopsony and oligopoly/oligopsony), referring almost entirely to marginal value analysis, price/quantity behaviours, allocations of producer/consumer surplus, and deadweight losses.

"Free market" is a political term regarding the level of government regulation.

Neither "free market" nor "competitive market" adequately describe all (or even significant) levels of power differentials between economic (and social) actors.
Turns out a lot of education is just child care. And now parents are having to see it firsthand instead of offloading it to a professional.
It would be weird to expect young children to sit in long Zoom meetings. Are people actually doing that? I have 3 kids, the oldest two are elementary-school age. So far virtually none of their online learning has been video conference based. The younger one would sometimes do Zoom calls with his pre-k class at the end of last year, but it was just a few minutes to see his friends and sing some songs, not really about trying to learn academically. Both of them have online based activities assigned by their teachers, though. They are self-paced, somewhat gamified learning platforms (kind of like, but not actually, ABCMouse.) It's at most 1 hour a day for the younger one and maybe 2 for the older one, including 20-30 minutes of reading time. This year they are both doing in person classes two days a week and the rest from home, but again no Zoom meetings. The teachers are teaching the other half of the class on the other two days so couldn't really do in-person stuff anyway.
That's over your entire lifetime, not a few weeks after getting infected. You don't have a 1% chance of dying in a car accident every time you drive.
This makes me wonder how accurate float bulb based fuel level sensors really are. This sounds like a major problem and the solutions are interesting but potentially even better than what we are used to.

My 1990 Toyota never read full. The buffer on the fuel sender was so extreme that by the time the needle made it to the "F" I had already burned 1/8 of a tank! My current car warns me when I have about 50 miles of fuel left, I wonder how much historical data it uses in that calculation.

None of my motorcycles even have fuel gauges. I just keep an eye on the odometer and when I stop to stretch my legs I give the tank a shake or a peek.
That sounds like a win-win scenario. In cases where robots can do things so efficiently that no human could compete when the minimum wage is a living wage, robots will can do the jobs and anyone who could only have done that job will be OK. In cases where it's cheaper to pay people a living wage than to have robots do it, people can work for a living wage.
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it'd be great if some serious science/politics show hosts an extended debate from both POVs and have a serious scientific conversation about what's next in covid? herd immunity or not?
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I wonder how many people complaining here take their phone into the vehicle, or use Google Maps. Sure, the data from the car (whatever is included there) might give some additional insights, but these are very local (i.e. status of the car and perhaps lane assist) compared to what Google/Apple already collect anyway (i.e. the "big picture", which is far more valuable). At least here you get something tangible out of it: Lower insurance premiums (if they were higher, nobody would buy the freakin cars and I am pretty sure using this data for insurance quotes must be an opt-in anyway)
So the fields would be left fallow if governments enforced their laws properly?
Black swan is by definition a rare event. Note what I wrote - "mankind can predict .... with very high likelihood".

Scientists and academics are fully aware of such things, and have developed theory to deal with them, have statistically quantified them, and empirically measure them.

This is what 99% of popular press forgets that have little understanding of practicing statistics or what error bounds or uncertainty means in precise terms.
> Sometimes I wonder what happens if humans go extinct. There may be a new civilization by ants, spiders, or insect descendants.

Well, in that case, we didn't really go extinct. The distinguishing feature of our kind is our rational faculty, allowing for discourse with others to explain our past actions and future intentions, that grows our self-consciousness (self requires an other[1]) and births civil society. Not our genetic makeup. If some insect species develops self-consciousness and civilization, I'd argue that we ought to recognize it as of our kind. Moreso than, say, apes who are closer to "us" genetically.

[1] Hegel. Phenomenology of Spirit, 1807. "self-consciousness achieves its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness… A self-consciousness exists for a self-consciousness. Only so is it in fact self-consciousness, for only in this way does the unity of itself in its otherness becomes explicit for it."
FITS is very domain-specific for astronomy. It's not at all common in the wider scientific community.

I used to work on on of the larger imaging tools, supporting over 150 scientific file formats. The vast majority, over 80%, were using TIFF as a container. The next most popular was HDF5. FITS was not something I saw commonly, and we were getting images from researchers all over the world.
>As I understand it, an economy with powerful corporations and relatively weak workers could still satisfy the definition for 'free market';

Sure, this can be true.

> in other words, power dynamics are orthogonal to market freedom.

No, they are certainly not orthogonal. One needs to only perform a simple thought experiment and increase the corporations' power to the point which constitutes a monopoly, to see immediately that they are not orthogonal. Do the same thing with increasing the power of unions and workers and you will again quickly leave free market territory.

It's a bit astounding to make the (false) claim power dynamics are orthogonal to market freedom.
Technically it benefits those with share of productivity be it income or assets or in enough debt that the diminishment of existing value helps them more than it hurts.

The people that applies to may be largely rich in any given instance in practice but this bit of pedantry is important as "rich" are not homogenous in their interests.
This post is precisely the issue. The risk for everyone is not 1 in 200. That's what makes this complicated. I'm really struggling with this. How can we reverse all the fear that has damaged our society and given people a sense that they need to exaggerate the danger? Folks don't have capacity for risk analysis or understanding basic statistics, even on a message board like hacker news.
they may know better than you how to use resources available to them in their position.
Leads into serialization/deserialization and allocator overhead when using pipes.

I usually went the route of parallelizing using the shell (xargs -P) or using multiprocessing. I typically had tens to hundreds of thousands of objects in S3 to process.

But one neat trick that is pipe-like us using subprocess to do the gunzip step -- subprocess.Popen('gunzip -c ' + filename, ...) -- this would offload work from the python process and give me a decent wall clock speedup.
If you look at iFixit teardowns, even the front camera modules are practically the full thickness of the phone, which is much thicker than a MacBook lid.
I agree this is already the state of affairs.. some people generate more goods/services/value than they consume (and build wealth), others do not.

I think everything would still work out fine with a UBI because we’d still have the most market forces at play (compared to all other social welfare/safety net/redistribution schemes). If it turns out the UBI is too high, the people who produce will have to raise prices for goods to find equilibrium again. If it’s not, prices will stay the same (or drop). Overall though, it’s the most efficient way to make sure nobody starves, even those who for some reason or other just can’t compete in the future economy.

I think once we have a UBI people will look back to the days before it like we look back at the hunter-gatherer days today, “I can’t believe in the early 21st century everybody HAD to work, just to survive!”
compilers are not at a point where they do a great job of leveraging SIMD in general, and definitely not where they leverage AVX-512, but hand written intrinsics with AVX-512 can attain amazing performance.
I’m actually okay with waiting for shipping time too. What I can’t stand is not knowing the final price and hidden processing and shipping fees that make me just abandon the cart.
A tactic that most of the colonial powers used was to divide local ethnic/religious groups and set them up in opposition to each other, the concept being if they fight each other they won't fight us. This meant that areas that were a united people under the Ottomans found themselves suddenly split into fractions with borders between the colonial powers imposed on them. Think of it as the colonial version of gerrymandering.
> how do you expect an almost toddler to react when forced to sit in front of a screen?

I'm sure any parent will say that it is impossible, and the issue is not the screen, but sitting still.
I am in fact surprised that the teachers even asked to make video calls at that age. I don't know about USA preschools but here 5 years olds don't study sitting on a desk all day long, so I don't know how they can expect a kid to do that at home.

When my daughter (preschool age) had to stay home because of the virus, the teachers started to send us videos of activities to do at home, but those were for the parents, not for her.
Their response _allowed_ them to keep the number of people who contracted down.

As of now, the US has more than 100x deaths per capita from covid than New Zealand because of measures like that.
>but enrichment is a nation-state level project
Thats what this man of science said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69UpMhUnEeY

>is unlikely to escape the notice of the world's intelligence and energy agencies
Thats how Iran and Stuxnet came together.

Some history
https://www.miningreview.com/uranium/avoiding-covid-fatigue-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Namibia#Back...

Teflon as mentioned in the Youtube vid at the beginning also demonstrates another way to enrich uranium. Are those the only two? I think not.
The only possible good thing is it collects a large number of highly resistant young people to speed herd immunity.

But really this is just greedy colleges being greedy.
Rust and Swift are not in the same arena as C++ and Zig. The former offer memory safety and the latter don't --- a critical distinction, since the main reason Rust exists is to provide memory safety in contexts where C++ has traditionally been dominant.
Very odd to hear from someone who lived in both. I’ve lived in both as well.

> More private toll roads in the USA.

And more public. More roads period. The interstate highway system is one of the modern wonders of the world.

> Public housing is more common per capita in Australia.

I’m not sure if this is true, but I’d argue it’s not a good thing.

> Australias national broadband network (i still can't get fibre here in the USA but i had it in regional Australia), etc. Again i'm not going to keep going except to say that i've lived in both nations and it's really obvious.

This is an extremely strange one. Internet in Australia is so bad it’s painful. The national network is a joke.
You know who else literally was open to the idea of full dictatorship?
This could just go in circles. What benefit does a job that doesn't provide enough of a wage to survive actually provide to the employee, except a way to waste their time while they accrue debt and wait for an emergency expenditure to bankrupt them?
Please don't use HN for partisan flamewar. It's predictable, therefore tedious, therefore off topic here.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It is definitely a confounding variable in the context of the question at hand (posed by the GP commenter): why inequality is a bad thing, and whether it is directly responsible for the "shrinking middle class" going to the "lower class" instead of the "upper class".

Historically, the middle class has been shrinking because the upper class has been rising. Insofar as that hasn't been the case since 2000, it's not because of the mere existence of billionaires, it's because of a specific type of financial instrument (in one case), and a one-in-a-century global pandemic (in another case). The mere existence of Bill Gates et al did not cause either the credit default swap crisis or COVID-19.
I meant pointers versus types such unique_ptr and shared_ptr
The question I've never found a reasonably answer for is this:

Whats the exit strategy? What has to happen for this to end?

For what I've read there's a good chance this virus will stay with us for the long term, just like the flu.
Waiting for the vaccine is kind of like hoping for a miracle, as it might not even work. So when will all this madness end?
Anybody know how to disable the 4G chip permanently upon buying a new car? Are they making ECUs require the 4G chip to be active?
False equivalence
The heat also might have an anti-viral effect, as cold viruses tend to flourish in the colder than internal body temperatures of the airways. It can act like a localized brief fever, but even hotter.
It's a little unclear to me, but I think looking at just output from generation is not fair to solar. Solar has 2000 MW of installed "embedded" capacity. This is cheaper for the grid since it doesn't have to go through as much of the distribution network, meaning it has less efficiency loss and doesn't require transmission capacity. Solar makes up 60% of the embedded capacity[1] (where is the embedded hydro coming from?? lmao). It seems embedded capacity reduced demand by 5TWh in 2019[2]. Comparing this to "actual demand" from the same chart shows that it was roughly 5/140 =~4% of the supplied electricity.

Let's say it was 20% of the GA in the summer and 0% in the winter for a sketchy 10% average of the fees. This doesn't seem too far out of line, although it is obviously a few times higher than the others, but it's not far enough out of whack that I think calling it peanuts is justified.

1: http://ieso.ca/en/Learn/Ontario-Supply-Mix/Ontario-Energy-Ca...

2: http://www.ieso.ca/en/Corporate-IESO/Media/Year-End-Data
If I'm allergic to peanuts and the price of peanuts is $100/pound, the value of a pound of peanuts to me is still $100... because I can sell them and buy something I'm not allergic to.
Well the lockdowns were intended to "flatten the curve" in the short term not impose China style draconian limits on personal movement until there is a vaccine 18 months later.
> Guam’s minimum wage is on the low side, about $1 higher than the federal minimum.

There are, if I counted right, 19 states and all other federal districts except DC and the Virgin Island at (well, below for American Samoa) the federal $7.25 level (American Samoa's level is also a federal level, but it's federally set lower than the rest of the US), and a few more states at the same level as Guam; so it's pretty close to the middle, not really much on the low side.
But we also don't know what antibody/T-cell levels, which btw testing for Tcells is not widely available or commercial, would = herd immunity. So there is no result that would prove herd immunity.
There was an article about a quite healthy looking PCA in his 30s who was intubated and essentially wasted away to a startling degree during his COVID convalescence that really drove that home for me.
The only arguments for minimum wage that I've ever seen, are those that claim that under certain conditions minimum wage may not be noticeably detrimental. What you never see is the minimum wage actually make a lick of difference to any metric that matters (like unemployment rate, or poverty rates, or income rates, or whatever else). Never. And I'm serious about this. Have you ever seen a region that adopted minimum wage, then come back a year later and show, for example, that poverty rates have fallen as result? Curious.

So you have a policy that cannot demonstrate it actually makes anything better, sometimes can be demonstrated to not measurably negatively affect anything, and frequently actually hurts.

Policies like minimum wage, or rent control, are not really about facts. They are driven purely by emotion and ideology.
> you are bound by the Carnot efficiency, which is at most 35% no matter what(in reality more like 20% or so)

Internal-combustion engines are not limited by the Carnot efficiency; see page 4 of these slides. In fact, latest-generation Priuses gets almost 40% thermal efficiency on the gasoline engine, and large diesel engines -- thanks to lean combustion (favorable ratio of specific heats for the gases that push on the piston), no throttling losses, higher compression ratio -- do even better.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f8/deer11_ed...
Palestinians are a distinct ethnic group that happens to speak Arabic
Under the current government system, they clearly provide value - otherwise they wouldn't exist. Whether the government is complicit in their existence is another matter entirely - but they're not just making money appear out of thin air. They clearly provide value in streamlining the spaghetti nest of the tax code for average consumers.

The issue is with government enabling the monopoly.
That crossed my mind as well, but if this were the case, surely a member of the opposing party would fund such a study. Given that this also hasn't happened, I wonder if there's another reason. Is it not as simple as paying 1K random ppl $100 to come in and take a test?
> So a lot of mistakes that are used as boogeyman to convince people to use Rust are barely problems you really face.

The Chromium team does not believe you.
https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
The market can remain irrational far longer than one's ability to remain liquid :-)
I'd argue that the economic sense distinguishes market price and individual value (market value === marginal consumer value), but that much political-economic rhetoric, particularly from free-market fundamentalists, does not.
Those aforementioned products are designed for prototyping, for production Atmel chips are fairly competitive.