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The price has been "spiraling out of control" for the past 30 years, at the same rate almost the entire time. Saying that it's the ACA's fault is to lie by omission, because you're blaming the past 10 years on something that's been a trend for 20 years before that.

The fact that you now have to buy insurance is a separate issue from whether the costs have been spiraling out of control, because even if the prices had remained flat since 2009 your personal experience would be that you're spending more than you used to. That's not "cost". If I walk to work, then start driving a car, and then replace that for a truck, I don't say that "gas costs are spiraling out of control." You're conflating two things and think you made a slam dunk case. You didn't. It's embarrassing.
It is becoming more and more dispiriting to see how FOSS is used to build massive empires of surveillance which gather oceans of private data with almost no oversight. And the strategy that has become well-established now is to build a 'product' using FOSS and then lock them up behind a bootloader or a key. Rampant proliferation of binary modules built on top of the Linux kernel are simply not addressed because of fear that it might drive away companies. But how is it fair to all the people that play by the rules and contribute code because Linux uses GPL ? The situation in routers is pretty much the same regarding binary modules, and locked down devices are becoming the norm now.
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The software is expensive and restricts your rights if your time have no value
That's a great point. I get a lot of additional value from FOSS because it's not dead set on roping me into some proprietary lock-in scenario. It far outweighs any inconvenience I experience.
Quite possible parent was heating the loop water with their a/c which the North-facing residents extracted running their system in heat mode.

Which makes it all an incredibly inefficient system to move heat from the sun-facing side to the north side because you’re not allowed to prop open the damn doors.
Normal people worry about having a good job and saving for retirement. People in that world worry about things like UN Sustainable Development Goals. It’s a weird status thing they do, and I’m not sure we’re better off for it. I guess it beats the castle-building days of yore.
If they really wanted to survive, they should have prioritized colonization of Mars over their silly interspecies zero sum resources-based conflicts.
TBH, I'd be the complete opposite if I went into an office. Checking out early on Fridays is pretty common in a lot of places.
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> although hard-core Haskellers will object that it hides what really is going on

I've never seen anybody say this. Many people say that when learning you must avoid it a few times to understand it, but I never saw anybody claiming it hides things for experienced developers.

Also, I think the idea is very far fetched, expanding do notation on your head when reading code is one of the minimum skills to make proper use of the language, thus it can't hide anything to hard-core Haskellers. Anyway, if you think your program is better structure using do, use it and don't stop to listen to criticism.
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I'm not sure why everyone goes so crazy over tmux, I've been using screen for 20 years now and it's generally installed everywhere by default, even on remote servers I don't have root on, so I don't have any real reason to switch. 99% of both of these things both do what I need daily, so I usually don't use tmux unless screen doesn't happen to be available for some reason and tmux does. But more power to the devs for wanting to rewrite screen to be more modern with some additional features.
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"The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts (formerly part of the town of Dighton). The rock is noted for its petroglyphs ("primarily lines, geometric shapes, and schematic drawings of people, along with writing, both verified and not."),[2] carved designs of ancient and uncertain origin, and the controversy about their creators. In 1963, during construction of a coffer dam, state officials removed the rock from the river for preservation. It was installed in a museum in a nearby park, Dighton Rock State Park. In 1971 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)."
Using make as a command runner (instead of an actual build system) feels bitter-sweet. I do that. I no longer trust make as an actual build system (too easy to be incorrect, dynamic targets requires gymnastics or makefile generators). But, as a user, make feels very familiar.
Like most memes and quips, it's a funny and apt observation... that generalizes too far and should have been a lengthier article with examples and suggestions of how to better manage FOSS projects to make projects more appealing, instead of just a fit of anger.

And a street piano you could own... arguably better than merely renting one.
The suez canal has two lanes going in opposite directions, you can't therefore tug a ship from both sides so there would be no way to balance the forces.
I think the defining theme of this decade will be "how do we establish trust digitally?" This entire article is based on an assumption that knowing who can be trusted as an expert is easy but it's increasingly hard when all of our media is digital and can be manipulated by those with an agenda.
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GPL, especially GPLv3, have always been contentious.

There was also very recently a high-profile issue involving it and a ruby gem used by Rails that caused a lot of headaches for a lot of people, so it's top of mind for many.
You’re right! I sew infrequently as a hobby. I always thought my waist was just above my hips. When it comes to sewing, it’s actually closer to my belly button.

The size of the clothes also need to account for the fabric type. If it stretches x%, then you’ll want to maybe make it smaller, so it stretches to fit, or it will look frumpy. If the fabric doesn’t stretch at all, you’ll need to make sure there’s enough ease in the garment so you can bend and move your arms naturally.
It’s actually not true at all that C++ developers are lower paid. Rather, their pay is highly bimodal. Most work at all FAANGMULA companies is C++.
From my experience on short stints in Dubai, and Qatar, single house residentials can well be both. Lots of villas there built with foam concrete exterior walls, in which you are living like in a thermos, and which still look rather conventional.

Their highrises are probably a bit more avant-garde than American ones, but nevertheless they sell like cookies.
"A scientific body to which had been confided the government of society would soon end by devoting itself no longer to science at all, but to quite another affair; and that affair, as in the case of all established powers, would be its own eternal perpetuation by rendering the society confided to its care ever more stupid and consequently more in need of its government and direction.

But that which is true of scientific academies is also true of all constituent and legislative assemblies, even those chosen by universal suffrage. In the latter case they may renew their composition, it is true, but this does not prevent the formation in a few years' time of a body of politicans, privileged in fact though not in law, who, devoting themselves exclusively to the direction of the public affairs of a country, finally form a sort of political aristocracy or oligarchy. Witness the United States of America and Switzerland.

Consequently, no external legislation and no authority - one, for that matter, being inseparable from the other, and both tending to the servitude of society and the degradation of the legislators themsleves.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not content myself with consulting a single authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognise no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others." - Mikhail Bakunin, 1870
Ah yeah I should have mentioned that its PoS and that PoR is not really a thing anymore[1]. It's proof of stake that makes the actual blocks. The research rewards are just added on top of staking. Even all the project just suddenly shut down or something crazy like that, the network would keep on going just on Proof of Stake

[1] It was around for some time technically alongside PoS, but this was removed over 4 years ago. Not sure how long it was a thing since I was just learning about Gridcoin when it was removed
Wouldn't that need accounting for relativity? Distance to the gravity well (sun) affects the physical passage of time for you. Perhaps that's doable, but you can't count a sequence of numbers off and call it a day.
Makes sense to me. It's science and if you disagree with science you're a science denier by definition.
Well, ideally your spotify artist page should contain the genres you're tagged with, along with some info of how that came to be, and even a way to request a change to those. But they don't want people to game the system, and also not let competitors know how they do things (I'm guessing).
Imaging doesn't necessarily produce 'images' in the common meaning of the word.

You may think that those 'images' of proteins you see sometimes are 'real images', because they are grey and grainy, but they are just computer-generated diagrams.

I'm not really sure if this comment has any substance. What do you want/expect to see?

"have used a method called atomic-resolution electron tomography to determine the position of every atom in a nanometre-scale sample of a metallic glass" assuming the accompanying diagram is exactly that, it's as much of an image as you will ever get, of anything, afaic.

Edit: formatting
As plato would say the wall is choosing to hold us up. We may not understand why but it continues this way. At any point this could change. It wasn't until the theory of gravitation that we were able to define our obvervation as a general law.

"Newton's law of universal gravitation is usually stated as that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers"

This is still a law. We haven't proved this to be true even though it looks to be true.

Laws can get superseeded.

The phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called phlogiston (/flɒˈdʒɪstən, floʊ-, -ɒn/)[1][2] contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory

Another example is Luminiferous Aether

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

They are just theories in the end where most are probably correct somewhat.
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I agree 100%. But see: https://wiki.haskell.org/Do_notation_considered_harmful
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How did this even get to the Supreme Court? This was a 9-0 decision because it was such a clear cut case.

> Noah Duguid sued Facebook under the act because he received several text messages from the company, alerting him that someone had attempted to access his Facebook account from an unknown browser — even though Duguid never had a Facebook account or gave the company his number. Those messages were sent to him using a form of automated technology, but one that did not use a random or sequential number generator.

It's obvious that companies should be allowed to contact you for a good reason if your number was entered into the system by someone else. Whether it was done by a robot or a human doesn't matter. The offender here was whoever put Duguid's phone number into FB's database.
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this is a very obvious strawman... if you’ve been treating people poorly for decades you too may discover that publicly playing devils advocate for a convicted rapist may be the final straw.
"Move slow and make things" seems like a credo for developer-run Open Source software projects. The software ships when it is ready, not when a commercial entity needs it to.

For a tech business, "move slow and make things" can only be a joke. But for a developer collective, it can be real.
Whew! Thank goodness!
Screen is incredibly inefficient though.
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"it has forced english speakers to become so adept at vowel-reconstruction that one could pronounce words with completely arbitrary vowels and still be understood."

This was still occurring before people were able to widely hear other regions' speakers, though.

However things like cough, plough, although, thorough, etc having different, -correct- pronunciations are due to English taking in words from other languages.
I'm some ways, I get your analogy, but I think you're making an assumption that it doesn't support.

Open source software is rarely "here's a free chair, that also doesn't have splinters." It's far more often "Here are some free blanks for a chair I made. It's not totally finished, so you'll probably need to do some work on it yourself. But the joints are easy to dis/re-assemble, so feel free to examine it all and modify or replace them to meet your needs. Also, don't sue me."

In that context, it's much more understandable, not because anyone's wrong per se, but because fundamentally the expectations are mismatched.
Judea Pearl also wrote a great layman book called “The Book of Why” that I highly recommend.
> Twitter people are stupid

Some are, some aren't. Sometimes stupid people make non-stupid posts. Sometimes non-stupid people make stupid posts.

This one clearly is a stupid post.
> Does Ontario not have any of those requirements for commercial or residential?

Last time I checked it no air leakage testing is mandated:

* https://www.barriersciences.com/blog/potential-changes-ontar...

* https://www.reminetwork.com/articles/canada-wavers-on-airtig...

I'm not in the industry, so only know about the rough outlines through casual interest.
Maybe yes, and it is also free like in free puppy, but guess what: The expensive puppets needs house training as well and they bite too and more worrying their previous owner refuses to agree that he has sold it - and he bites.

My qualifications: I've installed and supported Oracle databases for customers for years and I frequently wished they were Postgres.

Also more expensive pianos generally won't play automatically either and if they did you'd probably pay for them to stop sooner or later.

Software setup and installation is in many ways an art. Sometimes done on site with the customers watching, other times meticulously crafted as install and getting started wizards or whatever.
> Where do you currently place the camera?

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But yes, with the current setup you can't get perfect eye contact in all scenarios. It works surprisingly well in multi-person conversations though, as you can clearly see when someone shifts their focus on you vs. someone else next to you.
It seems this tweet is about someone trying to hand off maintenance of a free software project.
I don't think the answer is to step on the rights of people, I think it's that culturally we have to expend a lot more effort on challenging ignorance and elevating the voices of reason.

I also think we have to stop promoting ignorance and bad faith actors at the same level of people coming to the table with real knowledge and a good faith desire to engage. The current media landscape features a lot of promotion of people promoting misinformation to argue with actual experts because it's entertaining. But the effect is corrosive. On the personal level more people have to push back on the same phenomenon.
People hold authority to a much higher standard, or at least they should.
Expertise is dead.

The internet allows you to quickly get to the level an expert explains in public.

Life on Venus... Slow for the internet, but commentators explained months before the media did why it was nonsense.

Weapons of Mass destruction, these days you would get someone on 4chan getting photos of weather balloon stations pretty quick.

Experts are far below hive minds and we can all access hive minds 24/7.
Except 90% of the bulk is development dependencies that never make it to the user.
Just to add that all disciplines have more than one current of thought and the expert's advice is influenced by his affiliation. It is a difficult to find someone who is skilled enough to overcame this problem.
Ask HN: How do you build a community of developers inside a company?
Imagine a dozen or so frontend developers working in a huge corp. Each works as a part of a cross-functional team, and communicating with other teams is usually not required. Maybe 3-4 of them talk from time to time, but others have no regular interactions with other frontend devs inside the company.

Problems with this: code-review process is whatever you want it to be, solutions are not being reused across teams, virtually no knowledge exchange, no opportunity for individual growth.

I feel like noone wants the situation to be what it is now, but the inertia of the status quo is too strong.

What would you do as one of those developers to break the trend and revitalize the frontend community inside the company?
Infinite loop will stay up for years too.

Running "in the background", handling of stdin/out/err, logging, detaching from tty, creating a new process group/session, closing fds, and much more is handled these days mostly by systemd. No need to put all this into your program at all.

I'll give you that signal handling still needs to be done in the target process, if the defaults don't satisfy you.

But you really don't need anything special anymore to make any old script into a daemon.
I shudder to think what a "sewage farm" is, but I imagine it is something mundane that just happens to have a name that makes Americans think, "why on Earth would you farm sewage?"
About 10 years ago you had 998 doctors prescribing Oxy willy-nilly so... what are you saying?
Humans struggle with causality. Even those whose professions are dedicated to understanding causality struggle with it. That's the reason we have heuristics like the "5 whys" that only occasionally work. Consider the following philosophical problem:

An inattentive headphone-laden jaywalker wearing black crossed a road at night and was killed by a drunk driver speeding in a large SUV. What was the root cause?

The amusing thing about this question is that if you actually have an answer, it reveals more about your biases than it does about the situation and potential solution(s). Various people will chime in about the latest thing that annoys them...whether it is inattentive pedestrians, jaywalkers, pedestrians wearing black at night, drunk drivers, speeders, or people driving cars that are too big and dangerous. But all of them are wrong because there is no discernible root cause.

The problem is that we don't have multiple realities in which we can control each factor involved. And even if we did, it is entirely possible that if you can isolate and control each factor individually, that the accident still wouldn't have happened. Sometimes it takes a confluence of factors for an event to actually occur. And people's obsession with finding a single cause for complex phenomena hinders their ability to actually find fixable solutions.
NYT calling for more regulation as usual.

Fools will always find ways to lose their money. The way the market is regulated now, it is hard for honest people to raise money on the markets (the original purpose of stock markets), but scammers are still there.

If stock markets weren't horribly over-regulated, would the VC industry even need to exist?

Why must every part of the world be regulated into safety for the common man? Stock markets were once powerful tool. With power comes the ability to help, but also hurt one's self greatly.
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Isn't Airtable effectively a strongly-typed spreadsheet? It forces you to chose the 'field type' for everything.
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