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> Perfect markets don't exist and can't exist.

Even diamonds are not perfect.

Perfection is good to have in models to demonstrate limiting cases, but not necessary to know the difference between situations where prices are allowed adjust and where prices are not allowed to adjust.

The "markets are not perfect" crowd loves to imagine the existence of a "perfect" and benevolent social planner who will always act according to their wishes. Let me know when you find one. (I know, "#realsocialism never been tried).

> Economic theory has never been predictive to any reasonable margin of error. And a theory that cannot predict outcomes is not a valid theory.

I find it ironic that you make this statement in the context of a clear cut demonstration of what happens when prices are not allowed to adjust.

There are a zillion markets across the world where one does not need to depend on the benevolence of the proprietor to get what you want or the benevolence of the customer to earn a living. Those get conveniently ignored.

If price controls worked so wonderfully, Uber, which was only an improvement on what was there before it and nothing close to "perfect", would not have become so popular. I would have loved for them to run a continuous double auction, but then nobody every gave me a billion dollars to burn.

> distortions created by the markets

By definition, distortions are created by interventions in markets.
What an incredibly shitty contract to be forced to sign.

Apple overstepped, and they are going to get reeled back.
> The Mac App Store gives a hint at what would happen if there was any choice.

There's a choice of app store in Android and almost nobody uses Amazon App Store, F-Droid, Samsung App Store and so on. It's great that they can exist, but I don't think the Mac App Store (which has been neglected since day 1) offers any guidance.

People mostly use what they know or are giving by default. In desktop, be it Windows, Linux or macOS, people aren't used to app stores.
That's not mac-specific.

My Pixelbook has a better trackpad experience than my M1 Macbook and it runs on Linux (ChromeOS).

The big problem is a lack of investment by either Linux or Windows. It's such a huge quality of life improvement that I really don't understand why there's not more focus.

The real downer on Linux for me (chromebook aside) is that it's hard to get good laptop battery life and even with all the tweaks, it generally still isn't as good as my macbook.

I'd give KDE and Okular a look. There are some rough edges, but I find myself missing it when I'm on my mac.

All my desktops run Linux though as it's a beast there.
It's expensive to have kids these days. Many would-be parents are holding off, and for good reason - at the same time, income inequality is at an all-time high since the great depression.

The government should fix this in tax laws or directly assist if they want more kids (at a moderate salary, the child credit disappears and AMT calc essentially kills your deductions).
CloudAlarm is presently in beta so there's no plan/pricing info available yet. We intend to have a subscription based model with plans to accommodate needs of individuals to businesses and large enterprises/universities.
Interesting. BJJ for fun (not competition - so start in position and do less full speed take downs) is probably one of the least impact inducing sports I've ever done. Of course getting bumped in the head can happen, but it's usually with newer people. I mostly stick to higher belts and people I know, and I can't think of the last time I got hit in the head.

Running and basketball I had to quit because of impact on my body overall, though not so much my head. Wakeboarding I quit b/c of a torn ACL and minor concussions in my 20s. Skateboarding is obvious lol. Surfing doesn't have very much impact, but in big waves there is a whole other set of risks.

Anyway, I was just a bit surprised by your comment b/c out of all the sports I've done, BJJ seemed like the one I could do for a very long time just by sticking with people I know and trust.
If people give that advice, ignore it. No matter what, you're going to get some unhelpful advice. Comes with the territory.

Similarly, just include your distro in any searches.
That would trigger a wave of countries who would like to imitate that by creating local competitors. If they fail so badly in korea, every country will want to replicate that.
Maybe. Ubuntu's gotten burned a few times in trying new UI paradigms, so now they're fairly conservative and have settled into a model where they make their money on the server.
Large part of TCP is dealing with dropped packets. Presumably you don't want that to carry that over to rail/road traffic :)
> Narcissism and self-centeredness are so normalized that the kind of man I am doesn't really belong. I think there are many men and women like I am who simply aren't attracted to the opposite sex in the form that they tend to take in modern civilization.

> On top of not being appealed by emotionally immature partners (with no useful skills), why would I want to bring a child into a world where their way of life is going to radically shift several times in their lifetime?

Consider therapy. Outside of your angsty high school years, these sort of thoughts are not healthy. Unless you're purposely going out of your way to inspire melancholy, you sound depressed.
Hobbs is a gem. I just listened to the episodes on Political Correctness (#123) and Cancel Culture (#125). So good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_Wrong_About

FWIW, my SO voted for Trump. We just don't talk about politics, and somehow manage to make it work.
I'm so very glad that hats stopped being an expected fashion accessory. I would be very annoyed if I had to carry one around all the time.
Just a nitpick, but Gb is usually used in networking & storage to mean "gigabit", which is an eighth of a GB, or "gygabyte"

Not to mention that these are frequently mixed up with non-SI units GiB and Gibit that are multiples of 1024 instead of 1000.

Storage size units are confusing =)
Whenever I hear about Allbirds, I can't but laugh and think about this site: https://vcstarterkit.com
I remember looking into this a while back. They made the whole line super hard to get your hands on.

Really curious on the decision making process throughout the line's lifetime.
I was full remote for some time before the pandemic. Remote jobs used to be easy to find in software. Now they're really easy to find.
The AGPL is also insufficient to protect your business from cloud providers (although it does grant more protection than the others.)
don’t want to 'press' your luck.
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Eh, after getting exhausted with forced Windows updates, I've run Ubuntu and Debian on a Lenovo X1C5 for years with basically no issues. The only thing that didn't work was the oddball fingerprint reader on the unit, which was disappointing but far from a dealbreaker.

Frankly, I was a little shocked it worked as well as it did. Hell, even my USB dock was plug-and-play, which really blew me away. I was used to Linux on laptops being a giant PITA, and yet...
It's Lubuntu, so I think the desktop is LXQt; I'd assume it's not that.

About the only unusual thing I can think of is that I'm trying to use dropbox. It dies periodically, so maybe it's hungry, but even without it running, less than a dozen FF tabs can bog down the machine (and I gave up on Chromium entirely).

Would totally welcome any tips from people confident I can do better.
You can do that and also not date people who are against LGBT rights?
We are talking about general fraud, not CFAA, which is a 'hacking' law.

The companies spying on me should be the first in line to be tried under CFAA
Wow that sounds like a fantastic failure mode for a busy freeway on a prime commute day when someone nefariously interferes with the system.
Perhaps so that they would need to be replaced by US troops now and destroyed later by US troops when they return, resulting in more money for the defense contractors? Arguably that’s essentially what the last 18 years of that war was about.
There is no way to "verify location" on a device that I own. My device can always spoof its location, does spoof location by default, and my device can run Zoom's code in an altered way.

IMO the best way to facilitate this is for the courthouse to deliver an officially-sanctioned device on the date of the trial to everyone involved (defendants, attackers, witnesses, jurors, judges, lawyers), that device come with its own LTE connection, and it be a federal violation to modify that device.

In addition, the courts should NEVER divulge the location of the participants in a trial or put it into any document, as that might put violence victims at further risk.
Some of supported cpus are much slower than some not supported ones.
Exactly - board members / senior executives are the people who can afford to invest in commercial real estate.
Most of those numbers don't seem particularly high.

The only one I thought was really surprising was: "A majority (59 percent) of Americans say that whether the person shares their views on having children is one of the most important or a very important consideration.", and that only because 59% seemed low.
Yeah, it's a stupid idea, but they are going all in with Teams as a big feature, after the past year and a half of remote-first work/school. I can only hope that the efforts to rewrite the Teams app to use WebView2 instead of Electron will have some savings in resource usage, but I'm not holding my breath. I thought the Lync client was bloated when it was doing the same things with a tenth of the resource consumption...

I expect that the more onerous hardware requirements that appear right now to obsolete older hardware will be rolled back, or will turn out to not actually be real technical constraints. You can still play most video games on a PC from a decade ago; hardware improvements have almost completely stalled out as far as the average user can perceive them, and it doesn't seem all that likely that that paradigm is going to shift in the near future.
Yes I read that principle description and that was my first thought.

One should not tell others that they are unreasonable and be reasonable enough to understand that someone might still tell them that they are, then act accordingly.
That statement might have been true when it was first written. It isn't anymore -- nobody is seriously using the 68000 in new hardware designs. Parts availability is limited, and is only going to get more so in the future.
An Introduction to Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
> Apple already exempts themselves from cancelling subscriptions without losing time remaining.

That hasn’t been my experience - do you have a cite for that?
> if [developers] don't need all the features

Some “features” are seen only by customers, e.g., managing all your subscriptions in one place. I can think of some services that would LOVE making cancelling a subscription more difficult.

I don’t care about apple’s cut. Allowing sideloading instead would have been a win win for everyone
But since probably 100x times as many kids play basketball or football than box, your odds are probably similar.

Also, I'd counter-intuitively bet that careers in boxing (when found) are longer lasting than in pro football. Pro football players get very moderate money for what tends to be extremely short careers that leave a lot of damage. My grandfather couldn't walk for the last 10 years of his life from football damage to his knees he picked up 60 years before.
I don't know, I think Trump was Twitter incarnate. It's the ideal platform him: shallow philosophy represented in short, attention grabbing snippets. Naturally, it's where he first grew into popularity as a political figure.
I was still expecting that Wikipedia would list the historical currencies in the area, and they did list some. Presumably there was continuity of culture over the centuries despite political bodies and boundaries.
I second this. YTMusic has amazing recommendations.
I am though more excited about the lossless and high-res lossless playback. I have a nice DAC and Sennheiser HD6xx that provide amazing listening experience in Apple Music. I have never found any other service that provided high res bollywood music. not even torrents!
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Agreed, except that you can buy a house for a lot less than 2.5k/month.
Careful what you wish for, old software had to perform well on very slow hardware, meaning it's blazingly fast on modern hardware. I doubt that (for instance) the NT kernel would magically become faster or better if it would be replaced with a "modern" rewrite, the opposite is much more likely.
It's actually common for sheep to be grazed under solar and it helps keep the grass trimmer. Or the grassland can be managed for wildlife and polinators.

My guess is that solar sites will be managed to improve soil quality. And eventually we will rotate the fields under solar to give the soil a rest. It is the perfect opportunity for a win-win.
Vandalism is, again a crime against property that is legitimately placed on the street or somewhere.

Ad biz is a business model, not property, and a predatory one as that. You are not obligated to enable someone else's business for free.

They are claiming their clicks and impressions mean something - its their problem to ensure they are accurate.

Imagine someone is doing a survey of sex habbits, and selling the results. Is it a fraud to lie? Ofcourse not, why should you be responsible for their profits.

The fact that people think they are legally obligated to enable this is really fucked up.
25 is actually relatively late to discover type 1 diabetes. It used to be called "juvenile diabetes", except (a) type 2 diabetes is increasing among children and (b) some type 1 diabetics do discover it later.

So he's going to be on insulin for the rest of his life. For reasons that are unclear, his immune system has destroyed the insulin-generating cells in his pancreas. They don't come back, no matter his diet.

He needs to watch his diet, not to prevent the disease, but to make it manageable. Details vary from person to person and depend on what type of insulin he takes (and how). He will want to watch his weight -- you can also get type 2 diabetes, which will make things worse. He'll need to take in carbs, but not too many... he's just going to have to learn what works for him, which is a lifelong process of discovery.

Fortunately, with modern techniques, diabetics can live full, healthy lives. It does suck, but it doesn't have to be debilitating.
And in cigarette smoking regarding the use of filters.
Yeah those retro-fits would be very expensive. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that insurance companies paid to rebuild a lot of homes out of materials that aren't suitable for the homes' fire risk. Though, I don't have a ton of knowledge about this.
Are you me? I used to stress so much and get very emotionally invested in decisions, then I'd get angry when I felt the wrong decision was being made. My last company finally broke me of that habit (but not in a good way). Now I get worked up way less. I'm still just as opinionated but once the decision is made I don't care anymore. I'll advocate for what I feel is the best path forward but I'm not going to lose sleep over bad decisions or pretend that the future of the company rests on my shoulders.

Honestly I was scared to make this change, for the longest time I thought my emotional investment was what made me a good developer, "I actually cared". While that might have helped the companies I worked for, it did not help me nor my general wellbeing. I'm much more laid back and I'm quick to say "I'll implement it however you decide" and not really care about the outcome. I'll aways warn about side effects or how a decision might affect us down the road but I don't get angry anymore.

If you find yourself getting angry at work about decisions or you get into heated discussions how to implement things (like I did) I recommend you consider taking a step back and realizing that it doesn't really matter and it's not worth getting worked up about.
>We need to flip the approval process on its head -- from "safe until proven otherwise" to "unsafe until (independently) proven safe". The tally of harm to all life caused by these chemicals is on a massive scale that any mass murderer would be proud of.

That isn't always practically feasible and its a really tough problem to solve. Consider all the ways a compound released into the environment can break down and how long it might take for any exposure or even low levels of exposure might take to have any adverse health affects. The type of evidence you'd need to gather to demonstrate any compound is fully safe with that bar would make it nearly impossible to declare anything safe.

Microplastics, PFAS, and other compounds with potential long-acting health impacts are very hard to predict far in advance. Strong evidence against any adverse health effects would take considerable effort to gather while in the mean time they would offer massive clear benefits and solve so many problems. Plastics have massively reduced costs in almost every industry and have become almost irreplaceable in some applications such as medical equipment (think packaging for syringes, surgical tools, or anything that requires contamination control). Yet how they break down into microplastics in the environment and then eventually bioaccumulate in our tissues through the food chain is something that would've been extremely hard to predict at the onset of their creation. Even now we don't know if they're necessarily harmful.
For the sake of your sanity, do not google "male virginity rates after introduction of the smartphone"
> It signals that you are uncomfortable, that you intend to leave soon, essentially that you don't enjoy being here with me.

Interesting. Never in a million years would I have taken that meaning from it. I would just think that the person is cold.
Their open analytics page shows the live HN traffic to their website, driven by this article - quite a peak from regular: https://plausible.io/plausible.io
I interviewed a candidate a couple of years ago who was, at the time, working on Intel's internal self-driving car team. It sounded like a totally directionless, amateurish also-ran catastrophe. Years behind the competition. I wonder if this product line was in a similar situation.
Even if they don’t directly own the land, at some point organizations likely service companies that would be impacted by a drop.

And once an organization gets to a certain size it just makes sense to run and buy your own properties.
Because I can't scroll a webpage without screen tearing.
> Google Shares owned by GWEI: 819

Those 819 shares are worth $2,371,005 now
We need to re-define what 'rights' mean in a digital age. The ideas of property rights from the 1800's are vaguely applicable in digital contexts.

Ultimately, we are the creators of the society we live in, so if we don't think laws are working for everyone, we should change them. We have tons of laws against price gouging, preventing businesses from fleecing customers, etc. Apple grabbing 30% of sales of a company is not something I support.
It might be centuries before AI is writing good novels, but music seems a much easier nut to crack. Hell I've seen people sit down at a drum machine and make something enjoyable for minutes in literally seconds. Music doesn't have to be complicated, let alone deeply meaningful, to sound good.

AI already makes cool art -- e.g. the Google Deep Dream videos.
Good luck going to Mount Athos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos#Access
Money is not an issue. But unless your a man, you can't get in, period.
Oh, you mean you want to live there. No problem, just change your religion.
"Residents on the peninsula must be men aged 18 and over who are members of the Eastern Orthodox Church and also either monks or workers"
Technically, we're part of the natural ecosystem as well...
> Banning funding that doesn’t exist for most projects isn’t harmful.

Yes it is, if you ever want to get funding. Right now, we are trying to figure out ways to fund FOSS/CC software/content. It's very hard. But at least we don't have legal restrictions stopping us from doing so.

> for profit companies aren’t going to give anything back without being forced to do so

We also have licenses for this. CC Share Alike.

The entire point of the GPL and Share Alike licenses are to force companies to contribute back to the commons and to operate on the same terms as the people making software/commons content. There are some issues that those licenses don't plug, like SaaS software. Those issues will be better solved by targeted licenses like AGPL than they will be by rejecting FOSS concepts entirely.

> Also, Blender isn’t getting funded by Epic out of the goodness of their hearts.

Who the heck cares? "Very, very few" is better than zero.

> We’re covering huge chunks of their labor cost for free

And I want to push back on this as well. How much of your software are you actually writing from scratch? The entirety of Open Source today is built on existing Open Source projects. Some of them were developed by exploited developers, some of those developers were compensated. But in every single one of those cases, your ability to even look for funding today is only possible because those developers in the past gave you permission to do so.

The fact that we're even talking about funding in any form indicates to me that you don't really want to live in the world you're describing. How would you feel if you went to put your current Open Source project on Patreon and found out you can't because the libraries it's built on restrict you from trying to fund its development?

It is difficult to solve the current funding problems in Open Source. But it is impossible to build a sustainable FOSS ecosystem on NC-licensed content. Not unless your idea is that every single FOSS project will reinvent the entire computing stack from scratch for everything they release.

What Non-Commercial license advocates are actually saying (whether they realize it or not) is that software built on top of the commons should not be funded. If people want a proprietary world and they want everyone to license every library they use, and they want copyright licenses to propagate down the tech stack like they currently do in the proprietary world of software, then they should just say that.
The title is inaccurate. There is no tabulation or listing of normal blood pressure by age on this page. The section with the that title says:

> guidance for normal blood pressure for adults varied by gender and specific age, but new data states normal blood pressure for adults as a collective is less than 120/80 mmHg.

I am not going to argue whether this is correct or not, but the title of the original article is misleading and too close to clickbait.
Gross Domestic Product, is a very gross way to measure progress as the name implies.

Robert Kennedy said in respect of GDP “It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life really worth living.” [1]

You have alternatives like the genuine progress indicator (GPI) that includes aspects such as pollution, criminality and health to the GDP. Most of all we can have many measures, we should not reduce progress to only a number.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FAmr1la6w0