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> The general public is far more savvy about investments, risks, and bubbles in general than they were in the past.

I'd argue the crypto currency and ico hysteria of late proves otherwise.
Seems like there's at least one "third option". The rights of minority shareholders don't have to be as minimal as they are. How about "anyone who owns stock is entitled to look at the books?"
>I have a second building on my property and a separate driveway for each one are government overreach.

Increasing density has definite externalities. Traffic, street parking, and public spaces all get more congested. Plus a neighbor building a bigger building impacts my views and the light that falls on my property. We do need some way of balancing those concerns with development. IMHO, we've swayed too far towards one extreme. We should relax those restrictions while being cognizant that we don't swing too far back to the other extreme.
Who knows how to account for projects that span the inflation-addled 1970s?

I think British Airways could have kept the Concorde flying longer than they did if it were not for this incident:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590

which happened at a lower passenger*mile count than the 737 MAX accidents and would have required a Space Shuttle style shutdown-and-reform phase. Concorde's avionics and cockpit were completely out of date and fixing that would have been expensive.
You can use multiple #langs, in separate files. The name collision is unrelated to the #lang of the file. It is handled by the module system.
he is an exception and most billionaires don’t do this.

Citation required.
If it was user choice - this is fair. But a platform is making this decision for the users and in the process trying to extract value.
> the desire of landowners to keep poor people off their block

Well, can we come up with a more constructive and friendly way of doing this? It's not unreasonable for normal middle-class folks to not want to have to live in a problematic, crime-ridden, situation with high personal-security risks and property crime. That's why we pay for police, after all.
> Most people who criticize defense/police have no clue what it takes to keep everyone safe.

Yes and somewhat amusingly this is also true of most people who bash critics of defense/police.
> What other examples of laws outside of finance can you cite where individuals are restricted in order to protect them from other bad actors?

Controlled substances (ie: prescriptions,)
I think you're on to something. I've been working for as a contractor for a big health insurance company and that seems to be the impression for the purpose of my job: "Get the customer off the phone as soon as you can."

In more polite terms, "Try to escalate the ticket by 15 minutes if you haven't resolved the issue."
> In the righter-wing decades that followed its birth, we simply decided to walk back from the future.

Odd statement for an otherwise interesting subject. Pretty sure there were many reasons the concorde was retired and political stripes weren’t one of them.
The point I was trying to make was not to feel guilt for yourself, but you SHOULD be aware of the advantages the sins of your ancestors have given you. And I would argue you have a responsibility to make up for them, in terms of righting the systemic wrongs. It was not my intent to place moral culpability here, though I understand how its easy to read that. None of that means you need to have free floating guilt and anxiety. But an awareness should naturally lend itself to wanting to help.

The truth is most people aren't aware of history at all. So many believe, internally, that there is a natural order or a superiority based on the economic and social outcomes they see. The more one knows about the true level of violence even in the recent history of the US, the more outraged one should become.
> The only real downside to bodyweight training is lower back.

I learned this the hard way when I got back in the gym.
And you can't eliminate zoning as long as entitled busybodies are both complaining about other people's power tool usage and voting.
Call me an optimist but I think the public can handle the nuance of cases have dropped but still don't throw a crazy party until they are 100% gone or everyone is vaccinated. Also levels are 20-30% now but will continue to rise throughout the fall because there still are new cases and transmission even if RT<1.
> You have to consider risk factor also.

If we're considering risk, then Amazon and pizza delivery drivers, garbagemen, landscapers, fishermen, construction workers, and farmers all have higher risks on the job than cops do.

According to the BLS, the biggest risk to a cop on the job is their own driving and parking, followed by heart attacks from not eating healthily or getting enough exercise.

> This is very general statement. I have seen social-workers taking bribes

In general, social workers don't take bribes. Making life difficult for homeless people is literally the cops' job because being homeless is criminalized in most of the US.
I'm really surprised something like this hasn't been done yet.
I don't admit that.

However, even if that was the situation, "death" is strictly worse than "near-slavery", so you're still contributing to the lesser of two evils.
You can upload any image on my site. I convert to black/white and give you sliders to adjust brightness, smoothness, or do edge detection. Currently I only offer engraving rather than embossing but it wouldn't be too hard to emboss instead.
> My point is though, that doctors shouldn't blindly trust whatever a manufacturer tells them, if the evidence right in front of their eyes says different.

Just to be clear, you're advocating doctors eschewing published clinical data (including data from published trials and the FDA approval) on the basis of nonrandomized anecdotal data?

The issue here is that the manufacturers committed fraud - falsifying and/or misrepresenting clinical data. The courts confirmed this, finding them guilty of fraud, bribery, and more.

Unlike courts, a doctor is in no better position to such sophisticated identify fraud at that scale than a patient is. The pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers absolutely should be held accountable for that, but doctors by and large are not to blame for the fraud committed by pharmaceutical companies.
Artificial comes from a Latin root meaning “of or belonging to art”, which I found funny given your question
That sounds like a pretty cushy setup to me. What exactly is it you're lacking?
It’s more of a natural consequence of how the privacy rules work than it is an ideological commitment.
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I'd ask you to show me how and where backpropogation takes place in the brain. Then I'd ask how thin you're willing to stretch the "neural net" metaphor to re-apply it to biology.
Figma, squoosh.app (experimental proof-of-concept, but demonstrates a legitimate use-case), Autodesk. Fastly and Cloudflare has edge cloud-compute solutions that only support wasm/javascript.
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It's even in the damn title of the article!
Where are you from and which media outlets have you been consuming? From a local perspective, the national attempts to portray the protests are rather futile, since the area under contention is only about two blocks large [0] and it's not on most folks' daily walks. Even only a few blocks away, Portland continues life as normal [3], or as normal as COVID-19 will let us be [4].

To follow up on the grandparent's point, the local and imported police are not really doing their job when it comes to breaking up street fights [1] and are trying to pin blame on recently-elected politicians [2]. We're not a shithole just because the fascists have come to town to have fights, and definitely not just because some of those fascists are employed by the federal government.

So, yeah, where are you from and what have you heard? It sounds like you don't know much of anything of our local situation, from "the other end of the world", although Oregon's antipode is in the middle of the Indian Ocean and you probably aren't quite so remote.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/zJ6dNxf

[1] https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/portland-police-...

[2] https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/08/13/oregon-state-pol...

[3] https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/22/1962969/-The-most...

[4] https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2020/04/a-drive-thru-strip...
Fine - you might be ok to pay it. But think about 100s of millions of users who aren't ok to pay for it. Now they don't have much choice since Apple took it away.
I have had the same experience as you of thoughtlessly doing things that benefit others and had the same objection as you to his statement. For what it’s worth I think you are correct.
> abolishing all wealth-tests entirely would still be better

The problem is the cost of doing diligence. Not investor competence.

In public markets, the cost of producing reports on the issuer. In private markets, almost by definition, it's on the investor. Each investor must thus have the resources, legal at a minimum, to evaluate an opportunity.

Given these resources have a high minimum cost, an investor of limited means is faced with two options: forego the opportunity or gamble. When the latter is chosen, it doesn't just hurt the investor per se. It creates a fecund field for fraud, seedstock for scammers. (To say nothing of the fact that when retail investors lose money, it has social and systemic effects in a way that someone who loses 10% of their portfolio on a failed start-up investment does not.)

I agree that there might be room for a friends-and-family exemption. But private companies should not be allowed to solicit, directly or indirectly, retail investment dollars.
i was mainly joking because I think that most of the times when we peal back the layers of research we see that natural systems have adapted over time for certain reasons. Also there should be further research into how native people in northern climates adapt to low sunlight conditions given their location. Perhaps there are areas of the diet we are overlooking instead of just prescribing vit D as the only fix
The current Model S is actually on par with the model 3 in terms of battery and drivetrain. They continuously update it.

They stuck the Model 3 motor type into the front of the Model S and primarily uses that for driving. You get to use the less efficient induction motor in the back for high accelerations. The chemistry in the battery is also the same but in a slightly different format.

I have a Model X and it's also updated in this fashion. They have come a long way since the 2012 Model S.

I suspect they will come out with a 100 kWh Model 3/Y though and it seems that the efficiency/range should be compared to these as you say instead of the big cars.
Yes, Canada... a country with a similar healthcare culture.

What about Europe, Asia? They also have oxycontin. How about Germany, for example? How do they manage?

I've practiced both in Europe and in the US. I wouldn't go back to care for americans even for a million bucks. Healthcare culture in the US is incredibly toxic.
A lot of these construction companies have figured out that most of the labor is in the walls. In a square room, the walls are sqrt(2) of the area. Bigger rooms = lower cost per square foot.

Another hallmark of these houses are complete lack of trim. They're just big boxes.

A more future-proof way to get around these building code limitations is 1) attic space, and 2) higher ceilings. You get a better feeling of space, and you can get more board-feet of storage in the same footprint.

Seattle is also full of illegal remodels, only some of which a lender will balk at (source: bought a quirky home, the owners had to remove features for us to buy it).
Most of them probably did, because it was generally difficult to jailbreak the phone and there wasn't much reason to do so unless you were a hobbyist. App piracy was definitely a thing though, and I bet there were some people who did it because a friend told them they can get free apps, only to end up installing stuff that made the phone very buggy (which was definitely easy to do).

It's easy to say "well that's just their own fault if they installed something bad," but I don't think Apple really cares to argue with their customers over whose fault something technically was. Apple just wants their customers to have phones that are working well.
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The history of the automobile in America is longer. Until the 1940s you will struggle to find detrimental side effects of automobile adoption. The automobile did for the town what the railroad did for the city. The negative effects of the automobile on American society, as you rightly point, are an effect of the automobiles runaway success. We passed the point where the automobile was a net positive around the 1950s. This is when planners like Moses begin forcing further adoption, that was rightly opposed at the time.
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> A key difference in this bureaucracy is their speed of change. Companies can react rapidly to new technology, new scenarios, and they do so on an economic model.

Additionally- companies can react intentionally slowly to squander and choke new technologies and scenarios, also doing so on an economic model.
54% of San Francisco storefronts have closed due to Covid-19
Ask HN: Why is Enterprise software UX so bad compared to Consumer Software?
In my experience working for various companies, I’ve found the the software we’re required to use for various tasks always has clunky, inefficient, and sometimes just bizarre UX.

How did software that is so hard to use become so prolific in the B2B space?
Usually comments that highlight US misbehaviour are downvoted to oblivion.
I live in the Reno area, which houses one of Tesla' big gigafactories. While they pay well, they have a horrible reputation in terms of how they treat employees, working conditions, and five-alarm-fire changes. Clearly Musk is replicating how he runs his Tesla business with something much more high-stakes...
Sounds like a good idea. Coffee service will be challenging however!
I think you're actually confusing the concepts.

They talks about a more general concept of consistency that is per se unrelated to graph algorithms.

The examples they have use to illustrate the idea are deadlock detection and garbage collection in a distributed setting, which are two very distinct problems, in that the former will eventually converge, while the other does not necessarily due to the 2 generals problem (you could try to move all the information to a single node, and you can do so in practice, but because of the 2 generals problem you can't once your connections have a chance of being lossy).
I hate to say it, but did you read the article? Saying "Android has a sandbox" to my comment makes no sense in the context of the issue with Fornite's installer. The vulnerability there was specifically that the third-party app store did not run in a sufficiently sandboxed environment, allowing another application to swap out the app after it was downloaded but before it was installed.
farce but I like it.
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This is the rule for companies with a certain number of investors (500 IIRC). The problem is that producing the (audited) books is the most expensive part of being a public corporation.
Show HN: Opinion on website before launch? What did you understand?
It's actually under "Filter lists", not "My Filters" on my install.
How about Matt Levine's "Certificate of Dumb Investment"?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-09-24/earnin...

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1. Anyone can invest all they want in a diversified portfolio of approved investments (non-penny-stock public companies, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds with modest fees, insured bank accounts, etc.).

2. Anyone can also invest in any other dumb investment; you just have to go to the local office of the SEC and get a Certificate of Dumb Investment. (Anyone who sells dumb non-approved investments without requiring this certificate from buyers goes to prison.)

3. To get that certificate, you sign a form. The form is one page with a lot of white space. It says in very large letters: “I want to buy a dumb investment. I understand that the person selling it will almost certainly steal all my money, and that I would almost certainly be better off just buying index funds, but I want to do this dumb thing anyway. I agree that I will never, under any circumstances, complain to anyone when this investment inevitably goes wrong. I understand that violating this agreement is a felony.”

4. Then you take the form to an SEC employee, who slaps you hard across the face and says “really???” And if you reply “yes really” then she gives you the certificate.

5. Then you bring the certificate to the seller and you can buy whatever dumb thing he is selling.

6. If an article ever appears in the Wall Street Journal in which you (or your lawyer) are quoted saying that you were just a simple dentist, didn’t understand what you were buying and were swindled by the seller’s flashy sales pitch, then you go to prison.
But will you spend your life trying to be completely unaware of your color? Such is a possibility only afforded white folks.
There is a huge difference here; there was never a legal issue with bundling IE. The problem was that MSFT threatened to withdraw OEM licensing for companies that bundled alternative browsers with Windows. Monopoly wasn't the issue. Abusing the monopoly (desktop OS) to leverage influence on another market segment (web browsers) is what go them into trouble.
Where are you experiencing the construction of a bunch of five over ones? Definitely not Ballard, which is mostly townhomes. This seems to be a bigger problem in downtown Bellevue (I didn't know what five over ones meant before then!), maybe West Seattle?
> How about "anyone who owns stock is entitled to look at the books?"

Books and records inspections are expensive for both issuer and investor. For the issuer, it almost always requires legal counsel be retained.

If a company wants to raise private capital from retail investors, the JOBS Act created Reg A+ [1] for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_A#Regulation_A+
Will they use it somewhere even more devastating?
What happens when startup founders take a break from their businesses?
Slightly off-topic, but to me these kinds of articles always offer an amazing insight into how the average (okay, if they're literally average or not is debatable) American thinks cities and urban planning.

If you read a bit through the comment box, about half of the comments are from people scandalized and terrified that Portland will immediately turn into a huge dumpster rife with crime because of the new legislation. The gist of it is that having 3 or 4 apartments per lot (in a few select lots, mind you) will turn your city into a crack den.

That is a really quaint mindset. I can only imagine what those people commenting on the news would think about Paris, London or basically any major city outside the US where having dozens of apartments per lot is the norm and has been for decades or centuries.
If you take the packaging route, cross-distribution packages like guix and nix would probably be best.
The most obvious scams should be easy to identify, but if you think about how easy it is for even "accredited investors" to lose a lot of money. Just look at the list of people affected in Madoff's Ponzi Scheme⁰

Based on this evidence and many similar cases, I'm entirely in favor very stringent rules on who gets to place big bets on financial securities.

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0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal#Affe...
There is another way of asking this question: "Someone types the URL of your application in their browser and doesn't get the application page. How do you figure out what went wrong?"
What? Canada has a similar healthcare culture? Canada is one of very few single-payer-only systems. Canada and the USA have polar opposite healthcare systems.
There is another widely used standard library: containers. Which is much less opinionated and aims to extend the standard library instead of replacing it. In many use it in production, so it quite well tested and polished.

It is also true that the standard library is growing faster recently, so maybe this will become less of a problem I. The future.
Ok, you need in Sweden and Norway unless they make some kind of exception. And that probably wouldn't happen the way universities are governed here.
I like to compare the growth rates to iPhone. Apple had never to consecutive full production years of iPhone with triple digit growth rates. And by all measures iPhone growth was explosive in the smartphone market.

Given how much more difficult it is to scale car production than phone production, it is quite obvious that double digit growth is as high as it is going to get. But with even that growth rate, the market for new cars is going to look very different in ten years time.
I don't find the video fascinating, quite the opposite actually. Richard Feynman could have just explained the electrical force and left out the rest. When someone asks, `why does x work`, its a sign that they are curious and ready to explore and learn. Its an opportunity to teach and educate.

The whole video (to his credit, Richard did explain the concept well) focuses on how little the questioner know. It is a little belittling. If someone talked like that to me I'd have gone home and accepted the fact that I just would never understand electromagnetism and moved on.

A better approach instead of actually capitalizing on this curiosity and teaching the questioner, giving them just a bit more than the normally accepted answer so the curiosity lives on.
Using implementation to guide your test generation ("I think my code might fail on long strings") is fine, even expected. Testing private implementation details ("if I give it this string, does the internal state machine go through seventeen steps?") is completely different.
Syndicate (1993). https://youtu.be/ACVZ5b8wW14?t=5954

System Shock (1994). https://youtu.be/qKchS2GeimE?t=9
Of note, in california, every opiate rx is very rigidly traced in the CURES database.

I'm sure there's some complicated technical way around it, but it's not a willy-nilly rx system, at least in CA.

In general, the rule of thumb is if you need opiates, more that a simple vicodin or tramadol, we refer you to a pain management specialist.
At least from my point-of-view a lot of these activities went away as the feds started clamping down. When you can get a prison sentence for serializing URLs it just doesn't make sense to risk it anymore.
Yeah but that only blocks browser based ads - what Apple is doing here is blocking trackers at the OS level - this is what FB is complaining about since their SDK allows the device to be tracked - not just browsers.
I had a similar reaction. When I would see Pollocks in books, I would dismiss them as being overrated, but when I finally saw one in person, I was really overwhelmed. There's something about the presence of it that really pulls you in. Maybe it's the size of the pieces that does it.
Go price out a 1500 sqft house built in the 1930s-1970s today and you'll see that it's still significantly more expensive than it's inflation adjusted price back then, especially in the larger cities where there are jobs. And that 1970s house today is less valuable than it was back in the 1970s too, but that is harder to evaluate in aggregate. Jobs also used to be more distributed, so the need to move was less back then.

AC & Dishwashers are also only a few thousand dollars of value, mostly on the AC side. The rest are relatively luxury items.