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If they bring permanent change to the market and lead to the elimination of rental brokers entirely, I don't care what replaces it.
Do you know the percentage of users that use ad blocking on YT?
> This is correct in almost all cases (outside of highly commoditized goods) and it's crazy how people don't understand it.

What are you on about? Of course McD will change prices relative to input expenditure. You can even see this across all the countries they serve. If there were to be a significant impact on margin, they can increase prices.

All fees are passed onto customers, that’s how you calculate profit margins.
In Singapore the state builds housing and sells it to citizens cheaply.
> The OS hides the details of the hardware and provides an abstraction for user code.

Unless it's an exokernel based OS, which goes out of its way to not abstract the hardware as much as possible, but to simply safely multiplex the hardware. The thought being that user space libraries will do a better job with abstractions that actually assist the applications.
Yes, all these car companies have oddly interwoven histories now. Chrysler is, of course, American automobile royalty. Fiat bought it with Chrysler's own money. Peugeot and Citroën are storied French brands that survived with state assistance. Opel and Vauxhaul used to be GM.

I learned recently that Volvo is now Chinese (Geely), Land Rover, once British and later BMW, is now Indian (Tata), and French Bugatti is going to be a joint venture with Croatia (Rimac).
Correct. A democratic polity can elect a government that then rescinds, either formally or de-facto, the possibility of democratic transfer of power. Immigration pressure has been seen in numerous instances to drive politics rightwards. Fascism is not a unique state of government, but simply a point on a continuum that can be arbitrarily difficult to turn back from. The point of no return is impossible to discern before it is past.

Hungary is in a condition where the government in power is eroding its democratic institutions. Many US states, similarly, have enacted or are in the middle of enacting measures aimed at making it harder for a certain class of citizen to vote. Are Hungary and these states Fascist? By formal definitions, we can never declare any particular government fascist unless they agree, in public. But their actions are characteristic of fascism, and move society in that direction. The practice of hiding behind a formal definition is itself characteristic, post WWII.
Uber forced the taxi game to change where no regulations could due to lobbying.
>"Even you can't seem to engage with it as anything but a farce. I have to wonder why."

No need to wonder, it's because I see it as a farce. The idea that the top / bottom aspect is something that needs to be re-evaluated because it implies hierarchy is something so inconsequential that I just can't bring myself to take it seriously. And, if you really wanted to flip the hierarchy then you've got the same 'problem' just in reverse.

I know you really want to change the way people think but adopting the term "Super-Saharan Africa" is just going to make you look strange. I guarantee you no one will think "oh, this person means the southern part of Africa, but from the reference point of the equator to the South Pole." They're going to think "Wait what? A bigger Sahara? Desertification? What?"
You can monetize your videos from day 1. Just line up sponsors. If you want you can embed ads for your sponsors.

Oh, wait, you mean you can't monetize without exerting some actual effort? How is that Youtube's fault?
Just a quick caveat that for non-consumer contexts, completely offline stuff doesn't cut it. The enterprise customers we have do want to get status reports for the devices (e.g. battery level, lock/unlocked status, which code was punched in...etc). There are good reasons for this, especially considering some operate fleets of 10K+ door locks across 3 continents.
Stop letting perfect be the enemy of good.
Brokers taking money from renters is ridiculous and should be done away with. Landlords hiring brokers to deal with vetting and showing an apartment and all those logistics seems pretty reasonable and up to the landlord if they feel it’s worth the value.
"more about control"

Control what though?

It's a carbon tax on jet fuel. Makes sense to me that some folks with some connections could get themself exempt (even if unfair).

But I don't see anyone else paying any more or less under "control"... those folks are still going to travel.
USA is a big place, but OP is talking about NYC specifically before COVID. At that time you were liable for the full amount until the end of the lease. Landlords could sit on empty boxes and sue you for the entire amount. Whether they want the hassle is up to them, but you couldn't compel them to do anything.

It does sound unfair, but see here for supporting sources https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tenants-right-break-...
Their point was a bit more subtle, it meant that EU carriers would effectively be penalized relative to non-EU carriers operating in the EU, because other agreements precluded applying the tax to those (non-EU) carriers.

Means they need another tool.

The exception for private jets seems hard to defend though, whether business or pleasure.
In Amazon's case it's not using VC money to outcompete similar businesses, it's using their own money to demolish any competitors in the thousands of niche categories they sell products for. The diaper.com thing is the most popular example, Amazon tried to buy daipers.com, daipers.com said no, amazon sold their own diapers for such a low price they were losing money on each sale in order to put diapers.com out of business or nearly out of business. Forget how it ends, either diapers.com went out of business, or they had to sell to Amazon in the end for a small percentage of the original offer
There's something to be said for a healthy respect for what you don't understand yet, particularly dangerous situations.
It's obviously a one way trip, no one would expect to return home (at least, not to the same home that they left, in 2000 years, human civilization may not even exist when they return, they could return to a planet colonized by Apes... hey, they would make a great movie!).

But one-way trips have been proposed for planetary colonization as well, and there are a lot of people that would be willing to make that trip.
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So, I misread the date at first as being in 2013. That totally explained using Mark Zuckerberg as an example of an inspiring leader. For 2020, that seems like an odd choice.
I agree with the exemption for Cargo. Some things do depend on quick transportation and plane is the way to go.

Now, for Private Jets? Yeah that's ridiculous.
Nothing less would be expected from the European Commission. Not once have they declined to brown nose big business.
Then they have the gal to accuse others of being corrupt.
For me, the site rendered dark gray text on a dark gray background and is a chore to read as-is. Outline.com fixed my issue with it: https://outline.com/YSYgsp
1. Speech rights (or any rights) stand on their own, they're not predicated on trust or distrust.

2. The corporate structure of those companies is information that is available from sources other than the US government.
Singapore has “social housing” except the government builds the housing and sells it to people for cheap: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-singapore-plan-for-publi...
Yeah, as a fellow Boston renter, facebook and craigslist are the way to go. Still no human required, no fees, good response rate.
There are certainly some interesting additional conditions the GPL creates by taking the license away if you violate certain clauses. Regardless, the interesting part of this is that this looks different from the user's point of view and Microsoft's. Sure, 5 lines out of 10,000 is probably fair use. For Microsoft, their system is using the whole code base and copying it a few lines at a time to different people, eventually adding up to potentially lots more than fair use.

The question on this one will be about the difference between Microsoft/Github's product and a programmer using copilot's code:

"If I feed the entire code base to a machine, and it copies small snippets to different people, do we add the copies up, or just look at the final product?"
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It's amazing how much better these tools could be.

For instance you would think they'd make finding the correct entrance for deliveries easier, because a failure or delay there results in failed deliveries but they just let it carry on going wrong randomly, without making simple adjustments to guide new agents. This means as a customer that you can have food delivered fine for a while and then suddenly have a failure as an agent drives round and round your building looking for the right entrance.
GPS is often only an approximation for the needs here and many of the drivers cannot read English well (or prefer not to until it's too late!)

I ended up banning one such company after their agent took two orders for the same (large) estate to one side of the estate (where the other customer lived) and then denied that it hadn't been delivered incorrectly. In a somewhat farcical manner, despite the track record of many hundreds of pounds spent with them and even seeing that the postcodes did not match between the order and the delivered location given in the receipt, they said that "too many refunds had been requested in that area", and ignored the concept that it wasn't an optional refund (ie goodwill) but a complete failure to fulfill the contract.

After a lot of time-wasting by them, my bank agreed it was a broken contract and did a charge back. They are now a customer down for something fairly easy to get right, with the permanent loss of that income stream.

It wasn't worth it on a financial/time basis for me, but out of principal I wasn't going to let them get away with it.
Google could easily figure out how to distribute the bandwidth and storage costs of that were a priority.
> Your comments are the perfect example of the short term positive news wave they can generate. Thank you for validating.

This kind of lazy snark comment degrades this community.
i don't care if a tech company extracts a fee, as

1) the process will likely be much better then texting a broker: virtual apartment layouts, ability to see profiles for roommates, no bait and switch of "that unit just got taken buuuuuuuuuuuttttt i have this crappy one that is still available just for you!"

2) the fee they charge will be less than brokers. no way would someone handover a month's rent to some company who's only interaction with you is via chatbot

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i have nothing against brokers. but if these companies innovate and force the brokers to actually provide value again in the internet age, then that's a win for everyone.
It would be interesting to learn more about these systems in the context of today's systems (say, a cell-phone receiving GPS signals), in terms of power received, bandwidth, signal:noise ratio, and so forth.

This kind of comparison can be really enlightening, especially to younger folks. (I'm not one of those folks ... I find it simply amazing how the tiny antenna in my cellphone can receive GPS signals at enough power to be useful for decoding position.)
To be honest this is one of the more real proposals I've seen for an Interstellar probe, and there are still many problems to be worked out as both the paper and the comments here point out.

I admire the optimism in the paper though, even if its misplaced. Maybe pooling together resources in the scientific and engineering communities to develop an interstellar probe system could give a working result, but there are some significant hurdles to overcome first. It would be a big project, taking many years to see fruition, but at the same time it could also be a game-changing development and a hugely inspiring feat.

Could we see probes in other star systems by 2075? I think its not an unreasonable suggestion.
Shouldn't you always care what replaces it?
On the other hand, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

I think I'm limited to my experience. I graduated into the 2008 crash. But since then, the housing market has gotten crazier every month, the stock market has too. I know it will crash some time. But back in 2010 my boss was renting because he was sure it was all about to fold. I've make 100k in equity in the since I bought.

Maybe Irrational doesn't mean wrong if enough other people are irrational too...
Now, the wall simply reads, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”
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Work at McDonald's but I wear different hats /
They said, the risk is all here /
We could be jacked up, levered up better for here /
I can't count the dollars I have saved /
One by one they all just fade away
> Surprisingly, this amplifier only produced 20 watts of power, not much more than a handheld walkie-talkie.

Humm I thought actual radio power of walkie-talkies were in the mW range (for regulation and power consumption reasons).

But yes, 20W of radio power is not little (actually it is a lot)
The no thanks attitude might be at odds with a healthier environment. It’s like the tragedy of the commons.
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Come now, people. How else will these poor oligarchs afford to fly to davos if they have to abide by the same rules they want to push on the plebs?
This thread is reminding me of one of my favorite Clarke books, which partially explores this theme: The Songs of Distant Earth [1]. Is there such thing as a singular human civilization, once it become split by great distances and millennia?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth
The citizens of the world who believe in universal human rights should gather consensus with the world lest they have nothing to do but continue to talk about how much of a bummer things are on a HN forum.

Of course, international rights also need international enforcement, since a right without enforcement is just a nice thought. Perhaps we'll also have a world order to enforce these rights.
Unrelated as I'm not saying anything is perfect or aspiring to that - I'm just showing the pattern of how the business operates.
Whoa. Do you have any links I can read about this? That sounds incredible
Unanswered question, as far as I know: is a trained model a derivative work? If the model accidentally retains a copy of the work, is that an unauthorized copy?
Yes, but he didn't send federal agents around to people's houses to confiscate any gold they might have. Prior to that executive order, presumably, most Americans kept their gold in bank deposit boxes.

In my opinion that executive order should have been overturned as unconstitutional. But Roosevelt owned the courts.
> "who hires pays" principle for brokers in the renting market basically made the renting "broker fee free" for renters.

How can that work? Landlord (absent regulation) set the rents as high as they want/can get away with. What's the difference between 100/month rent + 50/month broker fee, and 150/month rent + "zero"/month broker fee?
> I'll take this over the anti-encryption campaign the FBI has been on for the past 10 or 20 years.

The problem is that these things go hand in hand. The criminals wont buy from the poisoned channel if they can get the security they need from the standard consumer models. If you go to T-mobile, and you get the option everyone gets and it is end-to-end encrypted properly and there aren't any remote exploits then the criminals will just use that.
The line is blurred even in conventional kernels, e.g. ioctl.
> It's a carbon tax on jets. Makes sense to me that some folks with some connections could get themself exempt.

Hilarious, that's corruption, plain and simple.
Open source is about love, sharing, helping out the fellow coder. Coderz of the past hated all this licensing and copyright BS. Your code, used to train this NN, is making the world a better place, I'd be content with that.
> I'm very interested indeed to know how exactly you arrived at "everyone would need to carry an additional document"

This is in reaction to the proposition to not denote sex in ID documents at all as is proposed elsewhere in this discussion.

> First of all I guarantee that we are not from the same country nor do we share norms

You are assuming a lot here, both about where I am from as well as what my norms are. Don't do that, both because where we come from is of no concern but mostly because it makes it much more difficult to have an open discussion.

> Second of all, it's not the norm in Indonesia to (for example) recognise same-sex marriages, but I fail to see how this is an argument about those in such marriages owning documents that reflect their union (or making their own decisions about where they can take those documents to and what workarounds they might need where their validity is not recognised).

In which way is this related to my suggestion that it is not up to you or me to impose our standards on e.g. Indonesia? If the fictional couple in your example were to go to Indonesia they would be treated according to Indonesian norms no matter what their own ideas would be, just like they would be treated according to Swedish norms in Sweden, Indian norms in India and Russian norms in Russia.

> And finally I frankly do not understand what your point is with the police officer. What exactly happens to an unconscious woman in a street in Indonesia found by a police officer with an X in her passport as opposed to an F (or with no passport at all, which is by far the most likely option)?

If the woman with the X in her passport were to look somewhat like a man [1] she could end up in a holding cell with men. As to whether it is far more likely she would not be carrying a passport at all is doubtful given that she is travelling abroad and as such will be carrying one by necessity. In many places it is mandatory to carry ID, both foreign and domestic, at all times.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27773590
Alternatively, and depending on the severity, they can recognize they've hired a bad (apple|fit) and separate, possibly update the hiring process, and move on.

While adding in new technologies isn't always a bad thing, having nothing but a desire to do so is classical Resume-Driven-Development. If your firm is in a business position such that having all the latest, greatest tools is a good thing (hard to imagine industries in which this is an unqualified good) then keep on trucking. Otherwise you may find yourself needing to have adult conversations with $RDD_DEV about just what it is that makes the business money, in light of technical decisions that cost additional time, have larger TCO, and so on.
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If you read my posts you’ll see that I addressed gravity, weather events and policy.

The claim I make is that it is not an argumentative fallacy to appeal to the advice and knowledge of a large majority of experts in their area of expertise. For instance, note that I don’t appeal to climate scientists for advice on how best to implement policies to reduce CO2 since they aren’t policy experts. It is reasonable to appeal to their authority on the necessity of doing this though.
Non-criminal privacy focused people are much more likely to use standard devices with publicly known apps such as Signal. You couldn't buy this phone in stores, it was specifically distributed on the black market.

It wasn't a good choice if you're privacy-conscious anyway, since there was no source code available, so you couldn't check it actually does what it claimed.
I'm saying it will be extremely difficult to find human candidates that haven't been constantly exposed to man made pulsed emf fields that could serve as a control. So how do you study this now without controls?
The exemption for cargo appears to be because they lack the means to enforce it for carriers operated by non-EU carriers within the EU, due to other existing agreements.
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> If you ask them to make you a bathroom without any waterproofing they'll ask you if you've gone mad and tell you that you NEED waterproofing, because they understand that you don't want your house to rot.

Nowhere did I suggest otherwise.

> I've ever had working with them tell me that they care about understanding.

They care about understanding to complete the task at hand. I have never met a contractor that got emotionally invested in whether the cabinets you picked out were the cabinets of your dreams. I've met many contractors that were, in some ways, invested in the buyer being satisfied with their job, but that's not really the same thing.
In this case it's relevant, because the Phorge page links to the parent domain for the "Phorge is developed and maintained by The Phorge Team" line. Makes it a bit harder to trust said maintenance.
That is a risk I know I'm taking.

Though I've been tempted to write a paper for C++ to make it defined behavior. I know it works in some form on most implementations even though it isn't legal. Thus there seems to be some other use cases for it that could/should be formalized. If anyone can give me other examples of why you want to do this and what the rules are on each platform I'll take a shot at it.
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I know what you mean. I just feel demoralized and beaten down.
That’s basically crypto cashing out service, not a transaction with crypto.
> To be clear though, just because igloohome's lock is technically offline, it does not mean it's necessarily secure if there is a hole in their API auth.

Sure! But it sure cuts down on implementation complexity, and complexity is where security goes to die :)
I ran into this yesterday. It wasn't entirely clear it was a scam, well to me, at first. The first clue was "sorry, no in house viewing, we had son and 2 friends die from COVID, please understand". Yes, that's a big red flag but sounded like a legit excuse to me. But, at least it got me suspicious. Next was in their email they claimed to be working for somecompany.com but their email address was soomecompany.com. Finally the location was on redfin as having been sold only 4 month ago and the rental price was arguably 20% lower than it should have been. I can't prove it was a scam but I passed. It was frustrating to me that there is apparently no public online way to look up the owner of a property. I suppose there's some reason for that.
Brussels eurocrats might enjoy comfy flights.
> writing code, and dreaming of a decent Transformers movie before I die

Have you seen Bumblebee? I don't know what your idea of a "decent" Transformers movie is, but if you still like the original series there's a lot to like about Bumblebee, including character designs, voices, and dialogue that are close to the 1980s originals.
Came here to promote Mullvad as well. Not that they can’t point back to your up address or some such but since you can login to the VPN using a unique identifier instead of an email address and password it’s a pretty decent way to decouple it from your PII.