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Capitalists in the old style (more-or-less) certainly still exist, they just aren't the majority anymore. This is a sociological phenomenon first noticed in the 1940s. The bourgeoisie capitalist class largely turned over the reins to managers and set themselves on other pursuits.

Even in large organizations where the owners still do play a semi-active role, most of the day-to-day decision making is (necessarily) is made by the managers. And frequently, even when there is an active disagreement between management and ownership, management wins out.

As a suggestive example, who benefits from mergers? Upper management usually becomes much wealthier, but 50-80% of mergers fail to add value to the company. [1] That is, capitalists lose out 50-80% of the time, but they still happen anyway. Consider the increasing complaints about skyrocketing executive management pay divorced from company performance, golden parachutes, or companies being almost seemingly deliberately run into the ground while the people responsible walk off richer and with a new job.

The power of the managerial class does not just extend to the corporate world either - government has been largely infiltrated by managerialists. Conservatives talk about the Deep State, liberals talk about the revolving door. Both are talking about the same phenomenon.

[1] https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-do-so-many-m...
I have seen companies drastically reduce their spend on Facebook in the B2B SaaS space. The ones that are left are in the process of rebounding to the same volume as Q1, but something like 60% of advertisers went from tens of ads to 0 campaigns. A lot of it is likely due to the effects of the pandemic, choosing to focus on channels with higher signal & better returns.
> What's the use in free knowledge

Wasn't this orange website supposed to be "Hackers" News?
Interestingly, “needing a kick in the butt to shake things up” is a kind of antifragile-ness property of our society, but not the good kind of antifragile where the system adapts in a certain direction based on what kind of kicks its environment supplies, just a dumb kind where any kick is sufficient to speed up the inevitable.
Did you even read the article ? It's incredibly well written with pros and cons of each tool. I know you have a hatchet to bury against Google but why don't you read the article first.
How is it possible that stitches and anesthesia can cost $19,000? That's absolutely insane and such a bill could easily ruin the entire family.

I know it's said every time these stories pop up, but I'm sure glad I live in Sweden and not in the US.
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I highly recommend The Emperor Wears No Clothes by the late Jack Herer for a comprehensive insight into the history and reasons for drug prohibition.

It doesn't touch just on the social implications like fueling police states and for-profit prisons while enabling a new form of slave labor, but also largely on the economic and industrial factors which came into play as well.

An old edition available for free online on Herer's website, and there is a link to a more recently updated edition on Amazon.

https://jackherer.com/emperor-3/
Reminds me of How tech writing ruined me as a letter writer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4dmufm/how_tech_writ...
This is a lovely tool, you can also implement automated builds and deploys using Github Actions to drive web-ext.

Chrome is pushing for manifest v3 and not seeking buy-in from the other web extension standard bearers. Also the new Firefox Mobile has incredibly spotty support for the API. Given these recent events, I worry that the cross-browser nature of this tool will be lost in time. And web extension development in general may be entering a dark age.
True but I feel that the market maker label gets applied pretty loosely nowadays, couldve been a firm that mixes in a lot of intraday position taking trades that blew up
Yes, they are. But those are general approach. While a good approach my implementation was custom made for the client's need, allowing to achieve a better performance.
Apple will probably never do that. They are probably painfully aware than iPad Pro and Macbook Air feature set and use cases overlap but as long as they keep each of them sufficiently different,they can sell you a laptop and a tablet.

Why would they cannibalize their own products while they face no competition in the tablet market?
Really? Walled gardens and monopolization of knowledge are good now?
NB: this requires a careful reading: the AWS outage didn't cause trains to stop running.

The NYCT authority issued an alert visible on their website and transit app about the A-line service. The AWS outage meant that they were temporarily unable to remove that alert.
The worst part is actually this:
"The hospital received less than half of what it originally billed, based on rates negotiated through his health plan."

If you don't have an insurance the rates are even more of a joke.
How do you vaccinate a billion people?
It's a smart way to at least make it a lot harder to take over a misconfigured domain this way, but like I said in another thread, I'm not sold on the idea that this is their responsibility.

That said, having some safe guards for a common pattern of misconfiguration is always good.
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I have one experience with that. Guy, late 20's or early 30's at best, ex-Googler joins a bank and becomes CTO. Pushes for them to replace Angular (which they went all in on, migrating from a set of JQuery UI components) with, drumroll, Polymer.

Nothing finished yet, performance issues (because guess what, polymer's routing turned out to be pretty much the same as a 'tab panel'), aaand Polymer 2 rolls around, backwards incompatible. Scramble to make all their components suitable for Polymer 2, and they're just about to sigh a breath of relief aaaaand polymer 3 rolls around and becomes deprecated in favor of lit-html at the same time.

Moral of the story: Ex-Google doesn't mean shit, and don't force the use of experimental technology for your whole fucking multi-billion company.

They should've stuck with Angular, it's fine, or migrate to React instead which has / is becoming an industry standard.
Interesting but doesn't allocation get slower as the heap increases?
Its been said before by some I went to high school with that now has a PhD in public health that America's Healthcare system is first and foremost about paying insurers and everything else is just considered a loss
Instead of dismissing and criticizing the question, reply with data, references or even anecdotal experience.
Really? Maybe to know of it, but to know the ins and outs? As an intern? Probably not. Also it's years out of date. Practically just clickbait.
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Thanks, the lack of NewPipe updates on FDroid has indeed been a problem recently!
Seems like bending over backwards to use Java. If you are using Java in a c-like fashion, what's so bad with C++ which is c-like by default and has some Java-like features?
If only lawyers can make justice work, you have a rule of law in the worst possible sense. Not only a US problem though.
So what if it's 2-4x the cost if it's clean? I assertthe externalities of pollution are afar more than 2-4x. I also strongly doubt that it _is_ 2-⁴x as expensive.
I would've loved to have Gitlab at our company, but unfortunately we're on a tight budget so they didn't want to go for anything paid.
Not really. I would prefer to keep my profile which has all my history, sessions etc instead of launching a new Firefox every time. Reloading extensions is really not that hard, especially with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-reloade...
Drug are "evil" in the sense that they could put at risk the money interested groups make off of the prohibition. When someone says "drugs are evil", just add "to you" to reveal the true intent.
Humanity does do not live in your idealised competitive global market. There is a very limited subset of US engineers who would relocate to China.
Unless you are already quite rich, you just are a a bike accident or diagnosis away from bankruptcy, a life of financial stress and misery and even death in the US. It's terrifying.

I'm an American who has been living in Norway for 8.5 years now. I am never moving back, unless there are some serious system changes which will realistically not happen in my lifetime.
Why real estate? Unless that is something you really want to be involved with, I suggest looking elsewhere (like broad index equity funds).

You might find https://reddit.com/r/financialindependence relevant to your needs.
There's a lot of people disagreeing here on the definition of "well," and it's interesting to see in real-time how the various assumed definitions result in assessments that are both valid and disagree with each other.
I'm glad I managed to get a keyboard second-hand for half the price. They seem to be quite durable, mine looks new.
I finally bought 7th gen iPad last year after Apple introduced Desktop 'like' browsing and iPadOS,

Then I got Logitech Combo Touch (sadly they were faulty so I don't have them). and be-hold trackpad and keyboard (which work 'nice' but very limited in support).

It's a GREAT consumer/entertainment device. even nice canvas for sketches.
But any other productivity fails deeply.

Here is a simple fail use-case (I think so):

Apple's own Pages.

* Try selecting text and copy/paste. (even with trackpad) sometimes the contextual options provide ANYTHING but copy/paste.

* Apple's FileProvider... I like to do something quite common to my computer workflow, work within a Dropbox folder.
This works nicely for few minutes, then you get a message complaining access failed and it closes the document (showing you tons of Conflicted copies).

So for me at least, even declared usability of iPad for any productivity is subpar to macOS.
(even with trackpad and keyboard)
Any time I encounter a page like this (I also got a paywall) I disable Javascript, and if it doesn't help I just leave.
>It's so much better than lugging around a 15-16" monster with you.

Exactly, but not everyone works on a remote machine. I would love to work on an iPad but can’t because Apple thinks those kind of apps don’t belong on an iPad. There’s no actual technical reason why I can’t compile code on an iPad. Imagine not being able to put groceries in a Porsche because the manufacturer doesn’t like the look of it.
Brilliant work! This game should be compulsory for all mechanical engineering students. It’s a good way to differentiate between function and ornamentation.
The "resolution" says they "only" have to pay 2.000$ in deductibles and copay now.

Just for comparison: a fully-fledged broken leg operation costs 3.000€ for non-insured people in Germany.

Isn't insurance supposed to bring things down to 0$ instead of copays that still surpass the actual cost?
Recent Modern Vintage Gamer video on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGAjhjp8dnI
>Nintendo has survived this long by not focusing on console wars for AAA titles.

Nintendo has a shorter history in consumer electronics than Sony and considering how badly the Wii U went down, I'm not sure if "surviving this long" means the same as Nintendo knows what they are doing. If you compare the sales projections and actual sales of the Wii U, it's pretty clear that they didn't understand the market at all.
I once bought a domain that I thought would be expensive for $150. I asked and was pleasantly surprised it was available for sale and cheap. So ask. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain.
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That's absolutely spot on! Thanks for bringing that argument up. There's a fine line between aesthetically pleasing but functional and artistically inclined and obscure when it comes to this, and it should really be up to the users' preferences. E.g. GMail got it right from the start: let the user choose their way of doing things. If the user wants 100 rows per screen or 10 rows per screen, who are you to deny the user? :)
- you can update whenever you want (or not do it ever)
- you can modify any part of the OS, no restrictions
- you can run any program you like: signed, unsigned, app-store, not app-store, etc.

==> the differences are there between OSX and GNU/LINUX
Stitches and anesthesia for 18,000$... Can't say that's cheap.
> The insurer paid $7,414.76 of the cost, and the Woodrums owed $1,853.45, which represented their share of the deductibles and copays.

Wait, what ? $1,800 for stitches and local (I suppose) anesthesia ?
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There's Pittsburgh. COL is significantly lower than SF. It's a smaller city and there are fewer jobs, but you some some headquarters there, like Duolingo, and several branch offices, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. There are several university, such as Carnegie Melon, which brings in AI and self-driving related jobs at places like ArgoAI and Uber. Being a bit of a university city, there are a ton of young people so that might help with the "plaid, hippy and Alanis Morissette" vibe that you want.

Outside the city is typical PA, so a bit redneck and change in demographic, but it gives a good amount of variety. Surrounding area has plenty of nature, if you're into that (biking, paddling, climbing, fishing, hunting, etc...). Weather is decent. Winter doesn't tend to snow that much (avg 28in/yr) and the temperature rarely drops below 0F. Hell, I'd say below 10F is fairly rare, maybe a few nights each year. The roads can suck, but you'll hear that everywhere.

PA state income tax is relatively low, even with the extra 1-2% municipal tax if you live in the city.
I'm too European to understand why this makes any sense. I think the problem is not really that the insurance doesn't want to pay the bill, the problem is that $18,933.44 for stitches and anesthesia makes absolutely no sense at all. Therefore, the resolution is not to negotiate with your insurance and tell them exactly what happened so that you can split the bill. The resolution is to negotiate with the hospital about the costs of stitches and anesthesia. In Europe (Netherlands in my case) the insurance usually pays everything (part one of the solution), which forces the insurance to negotiate with the hospital about prices (part two of the solution). Keeping most simple interventions low in costs.
The jaw surgery I underwent some years ago could have been paid like 5 times for this in central Europe. Absolute insanity
I don't even know what deductibles and copays are!

Edit: Of course I could Google it, and I have a vague idea. But the idea of even having to think about money for things like a kids accident seems completely foreign to me.

Edit: It does rather explain why the founder of the UK NHS called his book "In Place of Fear"
- raw, unshared access to devices.
- no more interrupts.

You can get really close to this via virtualization though.
Run a guest machine without operating system on the hypervisor. It doesn't even have to be low level code to get most of the benefits (for example MirageOS)
Are there any data what "routinely" means? It took me a couple of years of going from doctor to doctor and being treated as one of those drug seekers to get help. It was extremely painful experience and I had to go through it just so that a drug seeker won't get drugs prescribed if they could just get them on the street with much less effort? It makes no sense to me.
True that, but did anyone count how many tools created by hackers for hackers had enabled the furious growth of monstrosities like Google, Amazon, Facebook etc, which I guess can't be more opposite to ideals of hackers?

And on the other hand, did those tools empower hackers themselves? Other than quick and dirty prototypes, did those result in any products to empower common people? Last open source GSM phone project I was subscribed to lingered for years, postponed release for lack of funding and finally, I guess, was abandoned. But at the same time I see shop shelves crammed with dirt-cheap locked-down surveillance contraptions from big known corporations who shamelessly use FOSS tools in their development.

Or is it just an inevitable vicious cycle of all opposition becoming exactly the entity it opposed?
Last year, I wanted to buy an additional lightweight, portable computer that I could use for office work, as rebooting my Linux machine to work on Excel files (without breaking them in Open Office) became tiresome. I tried the iPad as well as the Surface Pro (6) and eventually decided for the Surface.

My main reason was that the Surface is just a normal Windows computer that can run any software (I even run Linux on it via WSL for when I need to do some light development work), while the iPad is a strongly locked down device where I have to rely on the app store to get and install software, and where I don't even have a real file system to work with (though I hear they improved this with iPadOS).

That said the UX and performance of the iPad is much better than of the Surface, which will often show stuttering and input delays if I open too many apps. In terms of productivity it rocks though as I can do all my office work and some development work on it (and it has a pretty decent keyboard as well).

So I agree with the author that there's so much potential for the iPad, I don't think Apple will want to unearth that though as they'd probably cut into their own Macbook revenue by doing so. Hence the iPad remains more of a "toy" or leisure device that's (IMHO) intended more for media consumption than actual work.
FrontPage wasn't exactly easy to use and needed special hosting. These days people have things like WordPress and Wix that are very easy.

Anything that needs hosting is going to be hard to use for the regular person.
There are very real structural problems in the US economy. Look anywhere and you'll find them.
It's not really the same hardware. It's similar hardware but with significant variations in power budget, RAM and disk size, connectivity, and so on.

This matters because the iPad electronics have to fit behind the screen, while the MacBook electronics live under the keyboard.

To make a PadMac the entire Mac electronics would have to fit behind a thicker unclippable screen, and the keyboard would have to be slimmed down to compensate.

Or perhaps the screen would be accessible over WiFi or even Bluetooth - but that would also affect the power budget and would have other issues. (Is a removable screen as useful as an iPad? Mostly, no.)

Building reliable clip/unclip connections would be an interesting problem.

It could probably be done, and I would be surprised if it hasn't already been tried.

But it's certainly not a trivial engineering challenge, especially given power and cost constraints.
Personally, I'd rather use Blender instead of having to fork out many thousands of $ for Solidworks, or Catia (where even available).

Especially when the other parts of Blender (animation, grease pencil) are already very complimentary to modelling and already support the right workflow(s).

You personally might prefer to use Rhino. But the vast majority of new users who come to the CNC places I frequent (eg PrintNC Discord) would easily choose a functional Blender over any non-OSS modelling package.
They are not mutually exclusive. I think that I could have phrased the "wall of text" comment a bit better.

Basically, I think we've all encountered sites that have huge blocks of text that could be broken into discrete sections (AKA "paragraphs").

Paragraphing is a bit of an "artform." All of the rules are heuristics, not "hard and fast." I feel that it helps my prose to be more readable, if I break it up.

One reason is that, even though I am fairly prolific, I am not a "top notch" writer, so I need all the help I can get.
We're talking about video editing, not screen resolutions.

The step to 1080p wasn't from 1600x1200, it was from PAL/NTSC (640x400 or 720x576). It was the biggest step by far.
I think am the target audience for this.

I do a lot of online meetings, and make regular internal presentations about our engineering work to the rest of the company. I have used OBS, and it does work, but it is complex enough and fiddly enough that operating it distracts me from my presentation.

This mmhmm app lets me do the key things OBS does – shrink myself to a corner of the window, with my presentation taking up the whole screen, jump to a live demo while keeping me in the corner — more simply, so that it is not a distraction to what I am presenting or demoing.

I use it every week. I work remotely, so these meetings are how I present myself at work. In that context, $10 a month is nothing; it doesn't even merit a second's hesitation.
This must be the freedom thing they keep celebrating!
Let's invest all our money in this company called NullPointerException!
Few things nerdsnipe the HN crowd like a misspelling, lol.
See Aleksey Shipilёv on JVM method dispatch: https://shipilev.net/blog/2015/black-magic-method-dispatch/
At this price levels, I bet there is a whole market in the US for do-it-yourself medicine (aka. snake-oil-selling).

For Europeans, this is shocking, I wonder if people in Asia or Africa have similar financial troubles if they ever need medical assistance.
> Isn't a MBP a very capable, portable, software development device?

It's the other way around: isn't the iPad Pro an even more capable and portable software development device? That's my whole point, especially since now you could develop iPad (non-pro) software seamlessly on the device without the need for testing on external hardware (since it already has all the bits and bobs contrary to the MBP).
I'm sorry, but I seem to not understand how that extension is better than web-ext. web-ext reloads the extension automatically when it changes on disk, "Extensions Reloader" seems to require you to either click a button to reload, or setup your build system to redirect current browser session to "http://reload.extensions", both inferior solutions to just using web-ext.
This is a product category that kind of exists. There are companies like https://nexdock.com making these "lapdocks" that work with phones, but also with things like Raspberry Pis. And then there are dozens of Chinese clones on AliExpress.

I'm personally using DeX (Samsung's desktop mode) on daily basis. It is a bit clunky, but better than owning, maintaining, and carrying a second big device. The "real computer" on my desk has only work stuff on it, and all my open source development etc. happens in DeX, mainly via the Termux app.
Oh definitely, but the article seems US-centric for some reason.
I would be interested in hearing more about this. Living in Japan or South Korea can be a very rough transition for some (I've witnessed my fair share of colleagues exiting Japan after only a few months). Mainland China would present many of the same challenges with the addition of living under an autocratic regime.
Everyone should get to pay the same price as Medicare. That simple change would fix a lot of problems.
Are insurance and healthcare companies trying to milk the system dry for the last few years before inevitable reform?

Because that's what these sort of prices look like - you see it in tech when a service is clearly on the way out, but still has a handful of enterprise customers left who are unable to migrate away quick enough.
Okay so I'm glad we've agreed that single-use food items shouldn't be a subscription...
Rebasing is very useful. For example, GitHub allows you to require that branches are “up to date” with (i.e. being direct children of) master before merging. This ensures that all changes team members makes in PRs are made against the latest version of master.