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A startup is a company which faces significant risk of its equity going to zero, which has also never had a period in which the risk of its equity going to zero was negligible.

Tesla is still a startup, so is Rivian

Google is not a startup, Bank of America back in 2009 wasn't a startup although risk of equity going to zero was huge, but it had a darn long spell in which the risk was nonexistent.
Just like how all SSDs will fail after enough writes. A problem that I will never stress over.

I have had many oled devices for many years and I have never once seen noticeable burn in like I have never had an ssd die.

I’m not denying it exists. But the scale of the problem and the time it takes to occur make it a non issue for most use cases.
My first thought too. Too many layers upon layers of technical debt to deploy a timely patch.
I feel like much of this has come to pass, in ways we didn't imagine. You can buy a microprocessor more powerful than the Xerox Star for pennies now and they're in everything. Some of them are Calm and unobtrusive, like my toothbrush reminds me to switch quadrants and brush for two minutes. All those "home assistant" speakers, lightbulbs, smart tv's and connected sous vide machines are kinda useful. Badges and phone numbers that follow your movements are here obviously.

But pretty much nobody in 1991 (except for notable fiction authors) understood the societal impact and weaponization of ubiquitous computing for surveillance, population control, ad tech, and the personal information economy however.
Someone mentioned that 3x before and it’s mostly due to megastores, not small storefronts.

When you can build a bunch of multiacre big box stores in each town I’m not surprised the US has way more square footage.
This comes from an episode of QI so I could be wrong, there's no evidence that alcohol kills brain cells. Pretty certain weed does?

Thing is alcohol (for me at least) is a great social lubricant. Weed is the complete opposite, it just makes me paranoid and awkward. I know beer is bad for me but I can't lie, I enjoy meeting up with friends for drinks and I've had some great times drinking.
And gets a new job, like everyone else. If your work doesn't benefit society then why even do it?
Amazon won economies of scale. The only thing worth selling in storefronts is services.

If cities want stores that sell things, they will have to subsidize them.
I see it as more 'what can be replaced/repaired' and how long of a timeframe that is, as to how much I concern myself with what I use. There are also well-made things that are cheap but the converse isn't always true. It's preferable to me to own things that last and don't require being gentle with than merely being cheap/disposable.

I bought a pair of Sennheiser HD-25 Mk. II headphones specifically because I appreciated that they're high quality (and I preferred the sound signature to previous Sennheisers I've owned), designed to withstand being knocked about and every single part is replaceable. The company has been producing virtually the same headphone and making its parts available for more than 30 years.

By purchasing such a product I'm getting something that I likely don't have to worry about finding a replacement part or the entire product in 10-20 years (already owned them for over 10 years).
Having it empty is a negative impact on the surroundings, not dissimilar to a bad smell or loud noises. It's perfectly reasonable for the city to have a say in this.
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Getting visibility within Steam itself is still probably the most effective way of increasing sales numbers - generally being featured/recommended within the platform is profoundly more effective than more organic marketing efforts (unless you really go viral on social media, for example).

Discoverability and viewership numbers for game dev streamers on Twitch are really poor. Of course it can have value as a marketing initiative, but you can also grind that for months / years without seeing a significant effect on sales - the return on time investment is probably not great. Whereas getting onto the front page of Steam (as part of some seasonal event, for example) can do more for you in a single day than months/years of streaming or social media.
You can bypass user login by simply removing the drive and access the data on it. This is not a bug or vulnerability this is completely normal for unencrypted disks.

Default options do not enable any drive encryption
Secure boot is as the name says something to make booting secure it has absolutely nothing to do with protecting data on disk from being accessed by someone with physical access to the machine.
> I am neither diabetic nor prediabetic and my normal fasting glucose is between 4.0 and 4.7 mmol/L, far into the healthy territory.

This is interesting to me. Can you share why you know your glucose levels if you don’t have diabetes issues? I’m sure there are other health issues that require monitoring but I don’t know of them.

Thank you.
It’s funny, I don’t think you’d say that about today’s Greeks.
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History has plenty of examples of the people wrestling some control back from the rich and powerful without resorting to a Revolution. The most recent example is certainly the labor movement of the late 19th and early 20th century which gave us unions, 8 hour work days, and the weekend.
> it is possible to give far better (technical support) to your customers, especially if you provide infrastructure services to your customers.

This is exactly why we want to do it. Being able to offer our customers a 100% vertical solution stack that we completely control & understand is a massive selling point in our industry (and hopefully others).
The synthesized speech in the video seems pretty realistic - does anyone know which software was used?
Does anyone know why these medicinal studies do not seem to use more modern statistical methods of observational causal inference?

I mean yes you can not RCT and yes a linear model should be the baseline, but then why not go ahead and do some synth control or double ML, or heck, take the survey twice and do some matched diff and diff?

Surely more can be done or not?
I do find it funny that many US-Americans online joke about the UK having TV licence by asking if we "have a loicence" for various unrelated things, while the US seems obsessed with providing driving licences for all sorts of every-day activities.
I am not even sure what sense does it make to sit on an empty property for five years.

Lower rent income is still better than constant 0. At least it covers necessary repairs.

One would expect that after some months of making nothing, the landlord would start to have second thoughts.
That sounds like a great way to get people to replace retail space with a more productive asset.
This policy isn’t just foolish, it is horribly corrupt.

“Help struggling property owners”

Real estate prices in Ontario have gone up astronomically, if you are a property owner you aren’t struggling since you own an asset that’s price has gone up significantly recently.
Conversion of water into money is arbitrary; people need to eat.

Food isn’t a luxury. It’s a biological necessity and it need not be coupled to financial markets. We’ll grow food because we must.

Remember; fiscal economics were sold to a dumber general public by then poorer educated, yet rich, men.

Anyone clinging to their ways as an economic philosophy is effectively letting people who hadn’t come up with indoor plumbing dictate who we are.
> When you self-host, the government has to come to you for your data.

Sure, but my ability to stop them is probably substantially smaller than, say, Amazon’s legal departments capabilities.
> I wouldn't bet on it, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/try-the-new-system-tex...

This would be the 2nd of 2 that I was referring to. The first would be Newtonsoft.Json.
> Before that, C# could be considered as a fork of Java, and C++ as a fork of C.

C# and Java might be eerie similar, but by no definition of "forking" might C# be considered a fork of Java. Maybe you could consider it a fork of C as its original name was "C-like Object Oriented Language" (COOL).
I personally would have a hard time not immediately applying violence to the accused harasser.
Yep, Paredit was my first thought as well.
They are completely 'it', you just don't understand how, and don't even bother to ask why.
If no one wants to buy you drop the price until they do. Not saying it’s a good policy, but it would drive down real estate speculation and lower rent.
If the Rossby waves begin to taper off what’s their plan?
They have been delivering to their commercial customers, however. Amazon's been taking deliveries of their new vans, and at least one R1T was sold to Blue Origin.
I find it pretty interesting that this comment would downvoted
For the last few years, DDG has been good enough for coding questions and for general use. In fact, it's been better for general use than Google for a while now.
This attitude is the reason why we have so much e-waste. We need to stop treating technology as disposable.

"The worst-case scenario is I’ll get a new one if it stopped working for some reason." Sure, just chuck it in the trash and let it end up in the ocean—or dispose of it properly and it ends up in an e-waste pile halfway around the world.
You really want to go down that path? Negative impact is pretty subjective. Maybe we should tax all the dog owners too? To offset the noise and dog poop that doesn’t get picked up?
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Just buy a Vampire v4, done.
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A Buchla/Moog-style hybrid! Thank you very much for sharing that one! Creates really interesting sounds.

Here is their playlist "patch of the week": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZphtLBSPXY&list=PL0jGFC0FWQ...

The first one did not get me, but the rest contains several gems.
I’m not an expert on the subject but I don’t think Texas is in as much of a bind as California.

There are two main water regulation systems in the US: riparian (eastern) and prior appropriation (western).

There’s are lots of variations and details but at a very high level the riparian system does not create vested property rights in water and so can be freely tweaked by the government. Prior appropriation, on the other hand, does create vested property rights which are then protected by the 14th amendment. This makes reform much more difficult.

Texas, being Texas, has an oddball hybrid system. My understanding is that it uses prior appropriation as an allocation method but riparian (state ownership) as a theoretical underpinning. Thus the Texas government should be able to modify the system without running afoul of the 14th amendment.
What if you drop the price to zero and still nobody has any use for it at the moment?
Tie it to a percentage of the land value.

So, units in areas of high land value get taxed more and more, incentivising either using the lot for something people want, or selling it to someone who will. Whereas units in areas of low land value get taxed much less, reflecting the higher difficulty in getting good value from it.
Where did you read that number (2B+ Covid infections)?
Your website goes down because there is a temporary power shortage.

Your website goes down because it lands on HN... but still, there is a non-trivial cost when there are no visitors.

Your website goes down (or worse: gets hijacked) because you forgot to install the newest security update.

Your website goes down because, at some point, you lose effort in maintaining it actively.

My opinion is that the best way is to host through GitHub (or a similar service). It is up, the way you want. Yet, if anything goes wrong, you still have everything, and there is little friction to push it somewhere else.

Sure, if you want to self-host as you have as a DIY project, excellent. For a reliable, safe, cheap, long-term way of sharing data, it is unlikely to be an efficient solution.
Exactly. Those employers who can’t find employees? Maybe employees should be less greedy?
It's human speech, not software :-}
Dermot Morgan died just after making the third series. Before Ted, he was best known for Scrap Saturday, a radio show that parodied and mocked the Irish politicians of the day.

Scrap Saturday was arguably a watershed in Irish culture. It was broadcast on the national broadcaster (RTE) that even today is criticised for being too close to the government. By making fun of powerful figures, it opened peoples eyes to how ridiculous and corrupt Irish politics could be.

Ironically, Fr. Ted was commissioned and broadcast on Channel 4 on UK TV. At the time, the talk was about how RTE refused to commission the series because they didn't want to mock the Church, although this has been refuted by the writers.

Over the course of two series, Dermot Morgan mocked both the political and religious establishment and brought both closer to the common person. Whether this reflected the changes that were happening in modern Ireland, or lead the way can be debated. But we're certainly poorer for his loss.
I cannot agree on this more. Also things you should never put in the name of a resource: its provider. I mean, why do you want to put in every Google Cloud resource the GGL prefix?
And last, if we are talking cloud let use tags to describe most of the useful metadata and make them 1St class citizens, although the name will always stand out more.
Does Volkswagen currently produce and sell more (pure) electric cars than Tesla? As GP said, regional sales numbers are irrelevant.

The established manufacturers obviously know how to make cars, but are behind on battery cells, packs, drivetrains and software. That VW currently out-delivers Tesla in some markets is not a rebuttal.

If they’re actually out-producing and outselling them globally, that would be an interesting development.
LEOs often seem to be exempt when acting in an official capacity. I’m not sure what the restrictions are—do they need a court order in a situation like this?—but LEOs are definitely allowed to break laws and buy illegal wares.
This would not work e.g. in my native city which lost some 12 per cent of the population since 1990. In such conditions, some properties will inevitably stay vacant for long periods of time. Fewer people, less demand for services.
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Maybe not for smaller apps but apps with large user bases are under different rules than the rest.
It should be noted that memory in cases where automatic memory management cannot be afforded, and concurrency only in what concerns in memory data structures.
This would pretty much make most dining too expensive for a lot of the population. Instead of a 15 to $20 meal now you're talking 30-40. And that's totally fine with me that's the way it should be cheap food is just hurting everyone involved people need to learn how to use their kitchens.
Assuming a copy of a game is pirated because they had to copy it to the device is disingenuous. How do you know they didn’t rip their own copy?
Nonsense, getting angry and salty is always the way to go.

On a more serious note, I wonder just how people end up with unpleasantness being the standard go-to behaviour when people behind the counter aren't just giving them what they want.

Surely at some point in their lives they must have noticed that being polite and pleasant is far more likely to get you what you want than acting like a dick?

Usually the guy behind the counter has no say on company policy, and going against it is very much not in their interest. They'll be even less inclined to breaking policy over someone that acts like an asshole
The Acorn Election was a budget computer from 1983, that's not really a fair comparison.

If you'd bought a typical Acorn in 1993, it would have come with either 1, 2 or 4 MiB RAM.

You can run the Acorn OS (RISC OS) on a Raspberry Pi.
> as the car business requires a lot of capital

And thus it's a bad business by definition, which doesn't merit billions of capital investments.

Even if the investment thesis is that the whole world is rooting for them, and government will turn lots of blind eyes because of the "green mission", and they'd be first in line ESG funds allocation of capital...

Still all those elements don't propel you to SaaS type margins such as Google or Microsoft or Facebook.

Frothy valuations for companies which are building stuff in the real world are driven by the promotional power of said stuff and the CEO marketing ability, in fact people are fascinated by cars, it looks cool and it's out there in front of you.
Absolutely. I’ve DIY renovated my whole house with hard-wired harbor freight tools, none have failed and cost a fraction of the price. My philosophy is if it breaks I’ll be the top of the line equivalent. So far that has only happened on my drill, and only because I had to go from 12 to 20 volts for more power. (Coincidentally it’s the only battery tool I own)
The police here send underage people to bars with fake IDs in order to try to punish the bars for serving the underage people the police sent. Really. The punishments are pretty severe, including losing their liquor license for some time or even being shut down entirely. So they are pretty rigorous in their ID checks. The system works, I guess.
Even if you're compiling dynamic libraries/.so's with a C ABI to be consumed through a C FFI from another language? That seems to be fairly common use case these days, and I don't see those issues there (unless I've missed something, which is of course very possible).
Dog taxes are actually levied in some places, including developed countries.

https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/pets-information-germany
See for example the Enterprise Source Licensing Program page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/enterprise-sour...

Allowed purposes for said licensing program includes “performing internal security audits of the Microsoft Windows operating system”.
You could the same with C++ or Ada, but naturally it will never be a thing in Linux.
If all the OS security measures are useless in the face of untrusted software, why were they introduced? Should we just run Windows 98 and FAT32 on our servers since it's apparently basic security knowledge that Windows NT's system of user accounts and permissions doesn't work?
> Your website goes down because it lands on HN... but still, there is a non-trivial cost when there are no visitors.

A bit of optimization goes a long way, but yes there are limits. Now the question is this risk worth mitigating? I think for small sites that rarely end up on HN, not more so than avoiding reliance on GH for example.
I imagine that the registry is optimized for many small values (eg a DWORD - 4 bytes). Most filesystems wouldn't be very efficient with tons of 4 byte files.
What is up with Medium requiring a google or facebook account to read posts now?
This was my experience, too. Contenteditable wasn’t as bad as I was led to expect going into the project. (It is terrible, but not the showstopper everyone says it is.)

The biggest problem I have with it is that layering on collaborative editing is nontrivial.
If you need multiple GB of RAM, you're probably doing it wrong.
https://hazel.org has been on this beat for some time as well, and have the proofs to back it up.

Hazel is a live functional programming environment that is able to typecheck, manipulate, and even run incomplete programs, i.e. programs with holes. There are no meaningless editor states.
I learned a long time ago that the most effective way to correct a vice is to play it against another vice, sloth being an easy goto. But in this case... I'm not a drug dealer, so I don't need to launder large amounts of small bills. But... if I wanted to launder a bunch of public ledger based crypto: instead of a using a loud and proud "bitcoin tumbler", I'd use something like satoshibet. Of course, that is likely why the original no longer exists - and I imagine anyone standing up a replacement (without a sufficiently invasive KYC implementation) would face similar hostility. Anyway, I expect that'll change when a state run satoshibet eventually emerges.
Canada had 47 million vaccinations (so ~23M if we’re assume 2 doses) with a total population of 37M. Google says “at least one dose” is 70% while “2 doses” is 54.4% of the population.

People are definitely taking the vaccination program seriously. The big question now is getting the final long tail vaccinated. While obviously there will be a subset which will always resist it.

The numbers coming out of the US show 99% of the deaths are unvaccinated people along with 97% of people hospitalized.
What happened? Mass exodus of people from NY due to covid
/ work from home?

Serious question, I haven't seen any articles about this so just guessing
After how many years of deployment into production?
Oh wow. I’m not sure where I got first series from. I must have binged in one continuous session!

Thanks for the history on a show I remember fondly from my youth. I love that :)
Meanwhile southern states that have tons of water like Georgia trying to grow almonds get under sold by California so what's happening there?
Presumably the vacancy tax would be tied to the value of the property. If the property really is worthless you won’t be paying taxes on it.
I've heard that bit about the value of buildings being impacted by units with lowered rents, but I've never understood why that wouldn't also apply to units bringing in zero rent.

I'm sure there are details I don't know, but naively it seems like enforcing those same valuation consequences for empty units too would incentivize filling units.
If you want to optimize your site for no visitors, you don't need to self-host it anyway.
This always bites me. I wish it could be opt out. I'm fine namespacing my s3 buckets with my region and account and I rarely ever use s3 domains
There are many great schools here. Some schools have a better reputation, but differences ar small.
Tax foreclosure and town now owns the building? Happens all the time with abandoned buildings (both residential and commercial) all over the country.

The thing though is that there are empty storefronts in very desirable locations including SOHO in NY. There is definitely lots of people who want to rent it - just may be not at 40k/month.
Part of a government's job is to play a role in shaping laws and society in ways that make it nice to live in, and if (for whatever reason) the current set-up is incentivising a lot of unused land even while pricing people out of the area, then taking action against it sounds reasonable.

It might not gel with your (I imagine) rightish libertarianish beliefs, but it certainly fits with the general idea of the role of government, especially local government.
I don't know the consequences of doing this but I think if no one wants to rent the space at any price then giving up the property seems feasible. The investment went bad. Unused land should go back to the community and be repurposed.
This is one reason I think urbit is cool - it makes self hosting way easier.

I run mine in digital ocean, but if you want to run it off your home network it’s basically just figuring out the vpn bit to safely get on your home network and everything else is good to go. You can also use something like tail scale or zero tier to skip the vpn part (but I know less about those things).

Hopefully in time even this will get easier with UI that guides you through the process.
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> Half of California's water usage is growing alfalfa to feed to cattle. Not half of agricultural usage, half of total usage.

Do you have a cite for that? The figures I’ve put half of the total usage at environmental, with agricultural use at 40% total.

https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2019/...

These figures appear to be recent and show alfalfa to be the third most water-intensive crop, with nuts getting a lot of attention because that usage has been going up dramatically over the last couple of decades as farmers planted new trees at a rapid pace.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-...