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> It might also be true that neither the buyer not the seller, in any transaction, are happy about it as such.

"Happy" here is used in a very specific sense: If two parties engage in a transaction without coercion, it must be because they are both made better off by the transaction or they would both be less happy without the transaction.

This is where "gains from trade" come from.

The ability to make this statement disappears the moment either or both parties are required to participate in the transaction or are required to engage in different transaction.

The argument of the grandparent is that just like in any transaction, there are two parties to an option being traded at a given price. One party believes it's a good deal because they think the price they paid is low enough to accept the risk-reward balance and the other part believes the price they received is high enough for the certain payoff to cover the reward-risk balance they are giving up.

They might both be right because the reward you seek and the risk you can bear is a function of your current endowment in human and financial capital.
Isn't the ball terribly unbalanced? Trackball users often "throw" the cursor, where the ball rotates freely at speed, and it would induce an awkward wobble with an unbalanced ball.
Well, it can’t be 50-50 bet ever since there’s the time decay. 33 percent is the best bet to win!
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I'm sure about two things when it comes to climate change: 1) even the deniers now realize bad time are coming and 2) we have absolutely no intention of stopping it.

We'd be better off if we immediately started working on mitigating this disaster (resettlement plans, replacing lost agricultural output, etc.) than pretending like we're going to make a dent in the severity of the changes.
Lol... Twitter has already showed that their free speech is not free speech in their platform. If they can censor the free speech of a Head of state, they should be ready to obey directives from a state
> I’ll answer your question with a question, how do you measure productivity? What percentage of productivity is contributed by labor, and what percentage by capital? We’re going to need this number if we are to answer your question anyway.

I personally don't really object to being paid the same as everyone who shares my job title and does substantially the same job as me, provided we're all making the same (and proportionate to hours worked). This was based on your statement that 'I do think its better to earn your own wage rather than an average of all wages. After all I contribute my own productivity, I don’t contribute some average negotiated productivity.'

> That seems reasonable. I think Jack Welch had a similar policy.

For a lot of people, that doesn't seem reasonable at all, but ultimately, you are entitled to your opinion. If you have first-hand experience working in a fulfillment centre and your opinion is that these stories aren't representative, then I will bow to your experience.

> You said you’re on the same team and have the same interests. If you have the same interests why do you have separate bank accounts?

Can we skip past the point where you try to get me to say something and move to the counterpoint you're trying to set up? The original statement was not me, actually, but in case it's one of the below, then I'm not arguing, but feel free to add what you need to make your point:

- if one person 'earns more' then they should have the right to 'spend more'

- if you want to spend your money differently to someone else then you don't have the same interests

- how I spend my money shouldn't be dictated by other people (with provisos around tax, etc.)

From my perspective though, the main point that I wanted to raise with you was the first one, that no-one is being forced to join, and no-one is losing any right to negotiate individually, so why shouldn't the people who want to unionise be allowed to do so?
I'm from an Eastern European country so I don't need telling on the good/bad sides of dictatorships. The problems with enforcing democracies in places where the populace is not ready for it are apparent worldwide. That's not a jab against democracy per se, but you need the right environment for it.

India is not really in that category since they've been a democracy for a while, but still not long enough to be ingrained in their psyche. They have ethnical and other social issues that few other countries have (at least when it comes to scale).
Thanks for the feedback, octostone! I'll keep this in mind and definitely fix it, if I do move to another ESP.

A bit of context: I set up the landing page with some basic copy two days ago (February 1). I saw this Ask HN on the front page yesterday (February 2) when it was about 7 hours old, so I made several edits to the copy to make the message clearer, before sharing the link here.

So, I was plenty surprised by the number of subscribers‡ I got from this comment alone. Thank you to everyone who subscribed to be a reviewer!

‡If anyone is curious about my numbers, yesterday, I got 17 subscribers, currently at 20 subscribers!

In the spirit of transparency, these are my current numbers for https://guide.ayewo.com/:

- 164 Visitors
- 20 Subscribers
- 12.2% Conversion Rate
Turning a XSS Attack into an Account Takeover
nixbuild.net ("Nix Builds as a Service") can run any Nix build with fs randomization similar to disorderfs:

https://blog.nixbuild.net/posts/2021-01-13-finding-non-deter...

It isn't enabled by default but can be turned on with a setting:

https://docs.nixbuild.net/settings/#inject-fs-randomness
Idea #67 of the day: Let's ruin a perfectly well preserved vintage car.
You can put structure to social media posts
>>even the deniers now realize bad time are coming

Hahaha...

I take it you haven't spent much time in the MidWestern US

We're still very much in the "I still see snow, stop talking about your hoaxes all the time" stage here.
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This can be said for every democracy. Democracy is always chaotic in the short run and organized in the long run.

While authoritarianism is organized in the short run, but collapse in the long run as no one person lives forever.
The incumbent government is as totalitarian as it gets. There's no democracy left, let alone free speech.

https://scroll.in/article/832961/finance-bill-in-one-stroke-...
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Decentralized and dead-simple interface (but not protocol sadly).
This post is a wonderful read, and paints a very interesting picture of diverse, tolerant and absolutely detached-from-the-norm fediverse community.

There are two really interesting paragraphs here that deserve some reflection:

1) "It actually baffles me why so much of the Mastodon userbase can be traced back to the Tumblr/Twitter leftist crowd, when Fedi’s beginnings were on a network largely consisting of ultra-right people thrown off Twitter"

2) People come in waves, and most leave again when Twitter and Tumblr rights its wrongs. I’ve seen this happen multiple times.

Those paragraphs have interesting observations on the potential and practice of competition, and what the fate of a service like Twitter will be if it upsets too many users all at once.
Threads on this topic pop up on HN every few months. To me seems pretty clear that in most companies the structure of the product team seems fundamentally broken. I feel very sad for people who do not see the value in having a PO or a PM on their team.

To use buzzywordy language, a PO is not supposed to micro manage the developers but to give them a framework and the freedom to move within it and to make sure the product is moving in a cohesive direction that makes it objectively "better", whether that is more sales or better customer satisfaction or whatever.

IMO The PM's role is to find that out and communicate the value of the product to the market and figure out how to do that.

I've worked at places where neither role existed and the developers led the show, this always resulted in actual customer needs getting ignored, massive misunderstandings on what issues were critical and which weren't, believing the customer was a high-income tech-savy 30 year old with a 15" MacBook Pro running Chrome.

If the companies customer is that, then great! But for most companies in the world that isn't the case.
Of course there is often opportunity coming out of catastrophe, though I doubt the displaced people would see it quite like that. In reality, sea level rise (barring any sudden shifts caused by ice shelves collapsing into the sea) is a slow process. Places will become uninhabitable in stages, first of all not because they are under water all the time but because the frequency of flooding is not economically sustainable. For some coastal populations that does not require a lot of rise from where we are today. Then you may have only 10s of cm of permanent water building up over decades and centuries. It’s a protracted process of inundation and it would be many generations before The Lost City of Venezia might be a tourist attraction, with an interim period where it is just a mess.
I was hoping this was something fancy Anti-appStore but it is Anti-open-the-app-store-automaticcaly.
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An Amazon Echo works great as an advanced alarm clock: the new editions have a visible clock that you can turn off at night, and you can listen to music or podcasts without having to reach to your phone.

Phones are noisy, and phones are distracting: how often do you need to quickly check the weather and instead you read your notifications? Keeping it in airplane mode at night is a big life improvement.
I am not a native speaker of English and yet somehow find myself writing my todo lists in English.

I produce little more texts in my native language than some social communication.
As the docs mention, the effect is only material when there's a non-trivial number of union elements. For unions containing only a handful of elements the effect is inconsequential.
Strangely enough, HN was a lot more attractive before I retired :-)
I don't get it. The author has an issue that one of the biggest servers hosted in Japan and used mostly by Japanese users has content that is perfectly legal and socially acceptable in Japan, but questionable in the USA? Is this a new norm on the internet? Should we all follow American legal and social conventions everywhere?
Totally unrelated question: according to Sphero website they charge you specifically for 1y/2y/3y warranties. I think in the EU at least this is not legal, 1y warranty from the producer is mandatory, and in some cases it must be 2. Obviously, covered by the price of the good.
They compare observations to the predictions from several sources - SROCC, AR5 and an expert consensus, and found reality was worse than any of them.
> ...it isn't the worst India has seen.

Wouldn't be surprised if you are part of the 80%.
There are counterfeit N95s on Amazon, too. I think the Korean ones from [0] are the most legit. They sell them on Amazon, too, and they have nice packaging, which is hard to counterfeit as it's too much work and requires quality details. They also have non-certified ones, which seems pretty good, too. They fit well, and don't touch your lips, i.e. the mask doesn't get wet unlike the surgical ones. My favorite is Gerson 2130 N95 I managed to buy on eBay last February for $2/pcs. They are cupped, they don't touch your mouth, and leave space, and have larger filter area and are easier to breathe without vents. They don't leak air either. I use them for at least 16 hours a mask without deterioration - expect the rubber bands, which are the worst part. My other favorite is Moldex 4800 N95 [1], but I buy them at nearly $10/pcs, and they are rare. They last the longest, fit perfectly without much need for adjusting via metal bands, can be taken off and simply hang on your neck, and their lace is adjustable plus they look very cool.

In other words, we do have great technology here in America - probably the best respirators on the planet. I'm not sure why 1 year later we still can't produce enough and I see all medical stuff outside of COVID-19 units wearing plain surgical mask!

BTW, I did manage to buy FFP3 on eBay recently for less than N95s (most people don't search form them, I guess) - they are almost the equivalent of N99, i.e. they offer even greater protection than N95. So, try that, too.

[0]: https://soomlab-korea.com/

[1]: https://www.moldex.com/product/4800-n95-airwave-pleated-easy...
"Wouldn't you just sell your house and move?"

Thanks Ben
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I am generally against censorship, but if Twitter wants to be consistent, they should comply. These "protesters" took over Red Fort in New Delhi on Republic Day, quite similar to the riots in the American Capitol building. Many policemen and women were beaten up and pushed into deep ditches. These rioters are egged on by countless woke accounts on Twitter, they are effectively inciting the violence.

Again, if it were up to me, I wouldn't censor a word. But Twitter did huge amounts of banning and censoring in the Capitol's case, so it makes sense for them to do it here. Otherwise this exposes Twitter's behaviour to be nothing but a cover for supporting the owner's politics.
No.

I always wonder in discussions like this how much more common they make the issue seem, because people don't exactly start threads saying "Ask HN: I don't have anxiety, and everything is great, is that common?"
> ActivityPub is such a horrible protocol, and Mastodon has butchered it so much, it’s impossible to make an interoperable implementation without man-months of work

The interesting thing is that ActivityPub's predecessor, ActivityStreams/OStatus was already butchered by Diaspora back in 2010. The other two implementations (StatusNet and Friendica) couldn't interoperate with it correctly. According to a person on their team, they never got it to work with the regular protocol so they rolled their own changes.

The other implementations were terrible as well, including the reference implementations. I believe one of the working implementation had even rolled their own crypto, making it impossible to use OpenSSL or any common library if you were writing a competitor. I only got it to interoperate with it after rolling MY own crypto, which of course was impossible to release.
I am surprised what a discussion an article can kick of which sole purpose is generating views for people.ai...
Then from the internal market economics PoV, here's how it looks:

Engineering: costs (salaries + infra) are covered by revenue (services rendered to exec team).
Executive team: costs (execs salaries, expenses to pay engineers and sales for their services, accumulating interest to be returned to investors if any) are NOT covered by revenue (which comes from customers).

I find this decomposition incredibly neat and enabling solving the right problems.
My first bout with anxiety started when I got engaged. Heart palpitations, had to wear a Holter monitor for a week, the works, but everything checked out fine... Skip a few years and then decided to buy my first house. I'd been staying up for tons of hours trying to bank a bunch of cash for the down payment. Was working on a project that was make-or-break for a local startup, the guy before me didn't care enough, but I wouldn't let it fail, stayed up for 4 days building it and BOOM, crippling anxiety again. Different though, couldn't take full breaths of air this time. But in both cases I wasn't getting enough sleep. Got some sleep, talked to my doctor, then my dad, and then I was fine. Used to stay up for 2-3 days during college all the time so I really didn't think much of it. Sleep is huge.
I also prefer to order direct, if possible. If I think I might need to return it, Amazon.com is the way to go (or Bol.com for local stuff). It's always a pain to return to the manufacturer, they're incentivized not to take back the return while a retailer is incentivized to take it back.
Well, unfortunately, you can make everybody happy. Why join Mastodon if all you want and need is Twitter?!
What a weird hate piece against every "bad internet archetype". So from what I gather the problems according the author are:

- The alt right

- Japanese nationalists

- "Woke" and "cancel culture", racism against white people, shitty minorities

- Gargron and the devs are "assholes" (but also "non-developers" forking the project to "cult their way" into it?)

- Mastodon users treating the fediverse like Twitter and failing to develop a culture of their own?
> Why does China govt hate them so much, uncut version?

Not sure anyone but Xi Jinping can answer that, but I think the main issue is that Islam is incompatible with the CCP. I think most belief systems which assert that morals are objective are similarly incompatible.

You cannot believe that the CCP is the final arbiter of moral good if you believe that god is the final arbiter of moral good. And the CCP cannot accept any other final arbiters of moral good than the CPP because then they can't run rough shot over their population.

Just to clarify, I'm not religious myself, but I do see morality as objective.
Most people don't need to be on call. Personally, I don't want to turn on my laptop when I'm with my family (much less get up at night) just because some manager has had an 'incident'.

I hope you get appropriate compensation for being available round the clock.
It's not 50/50 but you can win 10x sometimes..

What people can't accept is that there IS some people who have made consistent gains on options. You just don't have play all the time and you should always have many factors lined up to you.
Elsevier.
"don't you think people aren't just going to sell their homes and move?" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-w-pdqwiBw
UK coronavirus variant develops vaccine-evading mutation
The Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP was a big attempt by the US political establishment to economically isolate China with most of Asia. Unfortunately, because it was also designed to bypass the US voter, it was not very popular.
In the 1980s/90s, a medical degree was the “sure bet” way to a six-figure income.

The result was a huge flood of doctors that were...not the best, and some fairly dodgy medical schools.

Of course, this also ended up pushing malpractice insurance (and tuition) into six figures, so I guess we achieved balance.

We’re starting to see some similar stuff, going on, now, in software development. There’s some...not the best, engineers, out there.

I know that E&O insurance isn’t cheap, but it’s a tiny fraction of medical malpractice insurance.

That may change, as Big Data, terrible security practices, and ML/AI are starting to make the old adage ”To err is human; but it takes a computer to really screw things up.” kick into overdrive.
I suspect customer as product owner works really well for consulting, imagine all the billable hours
My $2 book purchase anecdata from last summer runs counterfactual to yours. The product never arrived and within 48hours of complaint the cash had been returned.
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny sentenced to 3½ years in jail
Direct link:

https://exposing.ai/
Not quite the offending hashtag is:

"#ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide"

So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi.

It remains to be seen if 'genocide' used in any other context would elicit a take-down order.
Don't believe everything you read in the media. We had elections in 2019, possibly the freest and definitely the largest elections on the planet. No large scale violence, vote rigging, during the election, no violence after it. The Election Commission is very well-funded, has an army of volunteers and they make sure that citizens even in the remotest of areas get to cast their vote.

There are 1000s of problems in India, but democracy is not one.
It is sinister because re-education camp is a euphemism for concentration camp.
Twitter should safely follow the future FB path of just turning off the algo amplification (recommendations, likes/follower counts) on all political content. Its not a big revenue source anyway and all it seems to produce in terms of outcomes is people attacking each other 24x7.

Let politics happen in the voting booth and parliament.

Ofcourse Narendra Momeme and his fan club owe their rise to social medias algo amplification design, as much as anything else, so its going to be interesting to see where the story goes.
The Fediverse is great - everybody is segregating into their little private areas. I for one can’t stand woke people and especially the leftie-commie people, and there are servers which they steer clear of.

There is absolutely no reason to subject yourself to the company of people who you disagree with.
I had a Curve (colour, no 3G), it was amazing having access to email in my pocket.

However Blackberry's problem in my book was they marketed it at Corporate IT, and corporate IT is universally shit, I assume my (dinosaur) company had standard policies - which meant massively locked down, you couldn't install any apps, so there was no way an "app store" would have succeeded selling things like angry birds.

This left space for those with power in the organisations to get an iphone, enjoy playing silly games, see the potential of all the other apps, and then order IT to make email work on their phones so they didn't have to carry a blackberry around.
China should be in deep shit internationally for creating covid 19.

The UK should be in deep shit internationally for letting numbers get so out of control that we're a breeding ground for new versions that are more transmissible and vaccine resistant.
Working with Spring after a previous role using Http4k. I went from having everything be incredibly explicit and easy to understand, to magic everywhere. Many of the out of the box things work, but when you need something even slightly different that hasn't been accounted for, it is incredibly frustrating to find out how to resolve it.
> So this is the government tamping down language which they deem destructive to them, particularly, one individual i.e. Modi.

But it's not the government "ordering" anything, it's the court. That's the inaccuracy. Court is totally separate from the government.
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I think you're conflating "bigger monitior", "higher resolution", and "high-dpi".

> But it is not uncommon to see a website on a huge hi-DPI monitor in such a way that a heading takes 1/4 of the screen height
> if you buy a bigger monitor, everything just gets bigger, including most of fonts, unnecesarily.

I don't think this is the case at all? The web and browsers handle DPI scaling incredibly well. I don't think I've ever ran into an issue with it. Remember that Apple has been shipping high-DPI monitors for the past 15 years, and I've never experienced these issues of a website of a website not handling this. More or less, the browser completely abstracts this away - you have to purposefully screw things up to render things at different sizes depending on DPI.
I used to suffer badly with anxiety (and depression) for years. I was fortunately able to get the help I need and eventually recover. Around the same time I had about a month off work.

The day of my return, as I drove in, I noticed I felt physically sick. It took me a few moments to realise it was anxiety, and that I had forgotten what it felt like.

I handed in my notice 3 days later.
Setting up better ventilation also helps people feel in control and actually makes a bigger difference.
But math does cover the evolution of quantum state entirely. And that evolution doesn't resemble "lands on one of 6 faces", it resembles "6 orthogonal states", and this picture is accurate and quantitative. "The universe stops when I look at it" - that's what math doesn't predict even remotely.
(edit - to be clear, 'from what I recall' of reading the book. I was never there!)
Did you use https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/ ?