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> A local Indiana city will absolutely be able to completely fuck with Netflix access of their residents ... they could just legally implement a 100% sales tax on streaming services sold to residents of their jurisdiction

Population of local Indiana city as a % of Netflix global consumer base?

What would Netflix's response likely be?

> the residents may have little recourse

What would you do if Netflix increased your subs, because your municipality told Netflix that they need to charge you 100% sales tax?

What would you do if Netflix didn't even give you the option, and just cancelled your account for you, and gave you your local officials name, telephone, address and email?
I know of one "secret gym" that's extremely well ventilated, everyone wears masks, and everyone is socially distanced. They don't do things that require spots, etc. I think it's pretty safe. Only 6 people are allowed in at one time.
As much as I am a libertarian on allowing people to choose what to eat, the outrage reminds me of an addict being told they need to cut down/remove their addictive substance.
You're outraged about something you're "tired of"?

You mince your words a lot mate.
1. Listen to music

2. Enjoy said music

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Yeah, I think we'll eventually get to the point where junk food prices in the externalities and it'll go back to being a relatively rare treat (i.e. sustainable). Currently sugar is artificially cheap. The cost is just being kicked down the road, coming back in the form of health problems and hospital bills.

That sugary drinks are similarly priced or even cheaper than a bottle of water is completely backwards. Soda, juice, etc should be the expensive option (which they are in the long-term!) and water the default, smart choice both in terms of health and immediate cost at the counter.
I was under the impression Steve was (rather unhappily) forced into this position because of the state of native apps by launch. Can't remember where I read this or I'd gladly link it.
Market cap is not value.

Market cap is opinion.

Hence, Apple.
I wish I could give you gold for that comment, thankfully we aren't on reddit
Best features to paper books are the deep focus that they confer, the durability of the books, ability to scribble on them, make outlines. You can also share paper books with your friends or even sell them. Ebooks aren’t bad at all because of the portability but theres something we loose compared to traditional books.
> But a key attribute of an emergency (by definition) is “new”

I think perhaps a better attribute for what you are going for is temporary, and temporary is relative. The changes due to the emergency of COVID-19 are temporary, but longer lasting that some other emergencies, like a fire for example. Although I've now gotten used to fire emergencies lasting weeks, which is entirely new as of the last few years.
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I mean, maybe, but it's not news.
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It is counter productive.

The GPL is a work of genius in part because it encourages use and propagation.

Creating a stupid license blocks even legitimate users, which prevents the social program from progressing.
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Has Tesla shown an ability to evolve with the market for over 40 years? What is their moat?
'Recite long passages from memory' is still entirely a thing when there's a practical reason (actors in stage plays) or somebody's just really into something (see people who can quote literally everything in several movies from memory). It's just no longer the first step that comes before anything else.
How are tacos unhealthy? It is mainly just meat in a corn tortilla.
I make sugar-free pastries at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol
It seems terribly unfair to call it profound ignorance. As you say, it's a values difference. If you remember learning about "individualism", that's what it means; it's the idea that the collective doesn't have unbounded authority to tell individuals what to do.
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By some, you basically mean libertarians right?
This is funny and also sad. I don't know if DFW would love it or hate it. Great art piece. I really value this work. Thanks for making this.
Yeah, as a former powerlifter I would really be missing my gym buddies if I was really into it now.

For now it seems like indoor gyms as we know them today are probably a bad idea. Hopefully due to a combination of better mitigations in the gym itself (sure put the squat rack in a giant bubble), decline in case counts, etc means the day where going back is not too far away (fingers crossed).
Some quick googling says 35k murders in 2019 for a population of about 9M. So, in mexico city, over 99.5% of the population follows the law that says you can't murder people. Not sure what your point is.
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How does a caused harm argument apply to the scenario being discussed (the CA DMV under the DPPA law)?

That's a very generalized axiom that doesn't even define what would be accepted by a society as falling under the protection of privacy. so we could accept it as true and discuss it's limitations and scope, but the axiom itself does not address whether the 'selling' of data under the DPPA is wrong. For example, is everything protected under privacy? Can I claim that my salary should be private from the government so that I don't have to pay taxes?
> doesn't like giving up control after whatever "emergency" situation happens

I genuinely don't understand this fear re: COVID.

Why would governors want keep gyms and restaurants closed post-COVID? What do mayors gain by forcing people to wear masks post-COVID? It's in the government's interest, as an institution, to open things up ASAP. They're hemorrhaging money.

The things I'd actually worry about -- using COVID to justify suppressing protests and speech, for example -- aren't happening even now.

The only way this theory makes even the remotest bit of sense is if elected officials are malevolent villains hell-bent on literally any arbitrary form of control even in cases where it undermines their own self-interest and happiness. Believe it or not, governors and mayors enjoy eating out, some go to the gym, and no one enjoys wearing masks.

I do believe there's a very real danger of emergency powers being extended indefinitely in general. But not in the case of health orders related to COVID. Because the powers being exercised aren't the sort of things even the most power-hungry person would want to enforce indefinitely. There's just no motivation to do so. And, for anyone not experiencing a literal and extreme psychotic break, lots of even completely self-interested incentives to get things back to normal.
It’s not like a powerful state is harmless. Ask all of the countries where the US tried to “bring Democracy”.
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There could be a couple different usages of "essential" in this case. There is the services that are needed to keep people alive, then there are services needed to keep people healthy (including mental health), and finally services needed because taking them away would induce a large amount of non-compliance with the public.

Then there is the twisting of "essential" -- the home center needs to say open because if a pipe busts in your house you need to get replacement parts to fix it. But most people go to the home center to pick up materials for home projects that they can now do because they suddenly have a large amount of at-home time on their hands.
A homemade pastry has fewer preservatives and additives, you have greater control over the contents, requires a time and effort investment, and is not heavily marketed with prominent placement in grocery stores and appealing, colorful packaging. There are both nutritional and psychological differences between the two that make the homemade version effectively much less unhealthy for you.
(2000B value - 100B assets) / (70B cashflow) = 27 years investment payback. At this point I think he did 100/27 years=4% interest rate per year. However, that would be for the simple interest case, i.e. not taking into account compounding.

However, for the cumulative interest rate, you would normally do ln(2)*100/27 years = 70/27 or a 2.7% YoY interest rate.

As a general trick: if you want to convert payback time to cumulative interest rate, use 70 instead of 100. There was a TED talk on the topic iirc.
Seems like a good idea on paper but somehow the poorest of the poor smoke.
A comparison of the current share price relative to the per-share earnings (PE ratio) for various tech companies.

(Numbers pulled from Google Search)*

Facebook PE ratio: 32.50,
Apple PE ratio: 35.48,
Amazon PE ratio: 126.70,
Netflix PE ratio: 82.61,
Google PE ratio: 34.46

At least within FAANG, Apple's share valuation is still quite reasonable when compared to income.

A couple of others.

Microsoft PE ratio: 36.80,
Tesla PE ratio: 984.47

*I've edited the post to source all numbers from Yahoo Finance.
Wrong. It's not a luxury product when 47% of the population choose to buy it (US).
Warning labels aren't going to do anything aside from trigger busybody soccer moms when they go to buy their kid's cereal because they won't stop screaming for it. Taxing it is better, but still ultimately is not going to solve the root problem, which I think is the government's over-subsidization of corn and the overabundance of HFCS.

Ban HFCS/similar garbage sweeteners in all food products, and incentivize farmers to grow something other than corn. Give them grants to build all-year-round hydroponic farms to grow vegetables or something. And then from there, I think we can start to address other ailments like school lunches and the like.
People shake their heads when the kids watch a tablet during breakfast, they'd also shake their heads if the child misbehaved and disrupted their own breakfast. Sometimes there's not a third option. Most parents would be delighted if they could simply ask their children to be well-behaved and eat in a crowded public space.
Timelines can have milestones instead of dates, as you say. It's still a "timeline" because it's a sequence of events ordered by (indeterminate amounts of) time.
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It seems like an acceptable level of risk to me as well.

But is it an acceptable level to all the people you counteract with say within a week?

Is the cashier at your supermarket, that lives with their 6+ family members, ok with you doing this?

Is your elderly neighbour that also uses your elevator OK with this?

This is the moral and societal conundrum we are in.
> People need specific indoor gym equipment if they lift, which is a very valid form of exercise. Or, you know, if it's raining or thunderstorming or a humid 100°F outside.

I've been lifting for 15 years, mostly in the gym. The last couple of years though, I've realized how much you can do with bands. You can't beat them on cost and convenience in the realm of home gym equipment. The only thing you can't reasonably do with them are squats. Deadlifts can be substituted with pull-throughs which are a better posterior chain movement anyway. Yea, you might have to do more reps. That's infinitely better than nothing.

Unless you're a competitive strength athlete, or trying to be one, not having access to a gym is frankly an excuse. In my younger days I used to have a very rigid mentality when it came to strength training which eventually led to burnout and extended vacations from the gym. Having mental flexibility instead of striving for some notion of perfection is what's kept me in this game long-term.

EDIT: typo
Our only hope now is that Google downranks them, until they fix the web interface.
Thank you, I hadn't heard this term before and it's great to have a name for it!
It took Apple 37 years to reach $1 trillion market cap and 2 years to reach $2 trillion.

What happened?

Keep in mind, in 2020 more than $6 trillion has been committed to economic stimulus (Congress + Federal Reserve). Along with 0% federal funds rate, you get liquidity that boosts the market overall.
There are two ways to make money off a stock - either Apple can keep growing or issue dividends.
I wouldnt worry, they’ll get so much screen time throughout their lives that they’ll develop an aversion to it
Hi, Martin from Quell here. Glad you like the sound of Quell, and totally agree that coaching on proper form is going to be key. We absolutely plan to make it so that, to succeed in the game, you need to be hitting hard, fast—and with good technique. We'll be coaching our players by analysing their form and giving them clear guidance on how to improve, as well as providing training throughout to make sure that they stay on point. Love the idea of using minigames to keep reinforcing this!
this comment is the best illustration of the western's individualism culture.
a) It's not for the DoD using Huawei equipment, but for doing business with companies that use Huawei equipment.

b) That there is an espionage threat doesn't mean that the DoD might not prefer accepting some of that threat in exchange for supply chain stability temporarily.
http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/languages/software/ca_tre...

Looks like this data structure was out in the late 90s (author is co-author of 2017 OP):

[1]: Faster Concurrent Range Queries with Contention Adapting Search Trees Using Immutable Data, Kjell Winblad, 1998
That's a lot of revenue
I'm amazed no company seems to be interested in filling the market niche for physical keyboards.

I swear swype typing seems to have gotten progressively worse since it's early days, I suspect as machine learning from public data is relied on more than personal mechanics.

And also as the pool of users became more diverse, especially older (fat finger users like my parents) and less tech knowledgeable (ie don't use shortcuts or "hidden" features like swiping the spacebar, etc).

I used to be able to rely on muscle memory to swipe, but now that just seems to beg for the wrong result.

I know I'd pay a premium for a blackberry or htc tilt-2 style physical keyboard.

At this point, I'd almost go back to pocket typing with a physical dialpad and T3, circa 2000 style.
Revenue or profit?
One way in which I've found the two to be incredibly similar: they're both very good at throwing me into the flow zone. And I love being there, which is why my full time job is basically programming all day long.

They're different because you're solving pretty different problems when you're doing them. Drawing well requires honing the particular set of fine motor skills which allow you to set down lines smoothly. It also requires you to be able to visualize shapes well, and to develop a good aesthetic sense. These things are for the most part nonverbal, and require a long time to master. When I'm drawing, I'm not really thinking as explicitly about what I'm trying to do as when I'm programming. It's more seat of the pants, because you can't put a line down 100% in the way you'd like to. And you're not really trying to anyway. You adjust here and there, but ultimately "right" is just a subjective feeling. Programming isn't fuzzy like that -- there are particular bounds to what the the compiler is going to let you do, and there is often a well defined "correct" behavior. The problems you're solving in programming are much more easily verbalized.
Yes your last sentence is correct. It is very obvious what's happening, yet even people here on HN (who usually challenge this kind of populist stuff) don't seem to understand it. It's very intriguing.
Quest is not a screen. It's a computer with a built-in screen. iMac for your face. Quest with a link cable is still not a screen, but a computer running a kind of "remote desktop" software.

The computer part needs an account. Virtually all software for it is paid, and it is genuinely helpful for non-technical users to have a "cloud" account that ensures they won't lose their games even if they sell or break the device.
Here (SF), my understanding is that day care is only able to be open of they are serving essential workers.
It's not 1:1 with the narrative you lay out, but there are tons of parallels with Clay Christensen's Disruption Theory[0] ... basically that a successful business misses a new technology that cannibalizes them from the bottom up and they go into a slow death spiral because of their inability and unwillingness to adapt along the innovative axis.

[0] https://www.christenseninstitute.org/disruptive-innovations/
I missed a zero, but you missed the point completely.

A wealth tax is simply about higher taxes for those with assets. The compounding nature of that tax reduces the taxes over time so there is nothing to complain about in terms of "compounding".

This seems way less egregious than property taxes, which don't go down, are assessed regardless of how much equity the owner has, and are directed at assets that often have far less liquidity than stocks.
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>I have never understood the demand for timelines. Pandemics do not care about calendars, and expecting our response to a pandemic to have an expiration date struck me as both folly and hubris of a lethal variety.

I'm sure the legislature will have no problem forgoing a game of golf with lobbyists in order to vote to extend a bill that gives government more power. They have no problem doing that every time the Patriot Act comes back up.

There's no good reason emergency measures can't have sunset clauses.
Is chess better than Minecraft?
I studied engineering with a European-style curriculum, which starts with groups, rings, vector spaces, linear transforms, eigenvalues, etc - and only then proved that matrices can be used to represent any finite dimensional to finite dimensional linear transformation, and mostly went on from there. It did seem roundabout at the time.

But then, everything was using the same terms, and was relatively simple and straightforward. Fourier transforms? Laplace Transforms? They are all just linear transformations. Functional analysis? It's a lot of inner products, hermitian forms and eigensystems but we were familiar with all the properties, so we only concerned outselves with what's different about it (e.g. the spectral theorem). Coding thoery? It's finite fields, we did those in linear algebra, now it's just applications. Stationary distributions on markov processes? It's application of linear algebra+probability, but works mostly the same whether it's discrete (and representable by a matrix) or continuous (when it isn't).

The syllabus for engineering students was basically the same as for math students, except we only covered proofs in class & homework (but did not have to be able to reproduce them in tests), and that we mostly went through a simple logical progression of ideas rather than a historical one (e.g., cauchy's theorem of analytic complex functions was essentially a two-line application of Green's theorem in the plane, and we spent ~30 minutes discussing it; math students spent ~6 weeks proving it in the way Cauchy historically did, progressing from simpler to complex structures)
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> Yes, the app store was genius.

Meh.
make was genius. Makefiles were genius. pkg_install and pkg_add were genius. PMS was genius. RPM was genius. FreeBSD's ports tree is genius. pkgsrc is genius. Like nearly everything Apple ever did, AppStore is not at all original, not remotely the first, not by over a decade. It is really no different from any other binary package manager. It is Brew for iOS.
I do believe Apple's stock has also increased almost 20% since they announced their 4 for 1 stock split (less than a month ago).
The great-great-grandparent post from this one (by
jacquesm) already raised your point and doubted that it is enough. I'm not claiming an opinion on whether this claimed reputational damage qualifies as an injury.

I'm just saying that an injury is required in principle (with an appropriate citation), because the great-grandparent (by vijayr02) didn't think that was the case.
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California, especially southern California, is not the leftist stronghold Fox News wants you to believe it is. Some politicians are better than others, but the democratic party is firmly neoliberal, pro-big-business, and generally reactionary. See California Über Alles by the Dead Kennedys.
How about both? I have older children 21 and 22, and I have some new ones, ages 1 and 5. I have always done as much as I can with my children. I also have learned to set them up with an activity and let them go at it without my constant supervision. They don't always look for outside answers, but instead figure it out on their own. I was anti-TV and computer with my older children, but I still allowed it, and they are doing great (one a physics major, the other in medical school). My current children seem to be doing just fine too compared with their peers.
I want a progressive tax on businesses, to encourage large companies to break up into competitive units.
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I think it's fine yeah, I think it's fair to recognize that Facebook has had some privacy issues, but 1) it doesn't mean that it'll impact you if you just create a simple account and 2) it doesn't mean that FB will have more privacy issues in the future
Some limited discussion on this from a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188791
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One other thing that makes comparison hard is the changes in the tax code. PE ratios in the past were based on certain corporate tax rates, which have been reduced significantly. Something like after tax PE ratio might level the field when comparing PE ratios across time.
I'm curious why you call it malware? You can visit a website, find a recipe you like, click a button, and the recipe gets copied to you recipe box. It's like Evernote, but is specific for recipes. Then you can edit the recipe, create meal plans, etc.