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If you permit enough new housing to satisfy demand, that would also solve the problem. As long as insufficient new housing is being built, prices will go up on market rate housing. The lucky few who manage to get into price controlled housing will have better prices, but everyone else will face higher costs or be unable to live in a region entirely.

One thing is for sure: as long as any private housing ownership is allowed, rich people aren't going to be the ones left high and dry.
The AC-130 seems to be a low flyer as well (not like the a-10, but still), so mostly runs night missions and with other planes flying as support?

I am not an expert at this stuff.
Conflating anti-lockdown accounts and misinformation/violence is the motte and bailey fallacy that got them their clicks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
> 100% alcohol (impossible to obtain unless your a pharmacist because all non-drinking alcohol is poisoned so you can't get drunk without paying a liquor tax)

Only ethanol needs to be denatured. You can easily get 99.953% pure isopropyl on Amazon, and it isn't poisoned because isopropanol is already poison.
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I like Sean Carroll's post from 2009 on this topic (and some comments there are interesting):

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2009/12/15/who-are...
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In popular cities around the world zoning is the main factor limiting housing supply. Governments are actively intervening to constrict supply.
Matter/energy transportation (Star Trek style) would likely kill you and then create a clone of you at the destination that would think it is you. Dimensional transport (Stargate style) is the only type of teletransportation that I would consider. It might also be easier just to tell people to watch The Prestige to understand this.
It's not abandoned. I was there earlier and it was full of people having fun and exercising.

People need the space. It's not fair to force a whole city to live their lives entirely in 25m2 apartments, if more apartments are built, there's a chance more will go to speculators. I, and a large portion of Berlin, would rather force speculators out.
2nd’d. The “All Hands” presentation to communicate “Our Tenants” is a classic fail.
Sheet metal roofing is gaining ground in my area (USA Southeast). There's a little catalog of colors available from every supplier, they all cost the same so just pick one! ... most people seem to like dark red, dark brown, and black; still. I cannot comprehend it.

15 years ago I put a white, metal roof on my house, my summer cooling costs are half or less my neighbors' with the shingled roofs, and they've replaced their shingles in that time frame.

The crop duster aircraft also use my house as a navigation marker and we get to see them frequently.
It's a bit more complicated. The human body is not simply a CPU and memory executing dumb instructions (well it KIND of is at some level), it's impacted HUGELY by environmental variables. Suppose you're from the 1700s and your clone behaves badly in his diet (fast food is helluva drug), develops hypertension, some form of brain cancer and starts hallucinating. It's most definitely the same you. Because in the 18th century there were no fast-food chains in the 1700s.

My main point is it's not as cut and dry. Yes the body is essentially a machine "executing" your consciousness. But that consciousness is self-modifying, and modified by the environment.
I appreciate the argument, and it holds merit, but I also think that the H-bomb is such a key difference. It’s essentially a stalemate, whereas other periods of non-war* have arisen out of absolute conquest.

* Non-war, I think, is a less charged term here, “peace” sounds like an unmistakably good thing, which it isn’t necessarily — or at least there is a long debate to be had about that as well.
These kinds of arguments are pointless because laws need to be simple and avoid unnecessary cliffs in defining who or what is being affected.

The law is not going to work if it says “the most profitable companies need to pay for 2 people when 1 will do”. And then how does it work if profits fluctuate?

It is simply much easier for the government to pay to accomplish whatever goal it wants, and at the same time does not obfuscate the price of achieving that goal. If the government wants to help deaf people be employed, then the government should pay an interpreter to help the deaf person be employed.

Is that not much simpler than arbitrarily requiring various other entities to comply with nebulous requirements and then spend resources policing them?

Of course, it is cheaper for the government to do the latter, and then spend more money policing them since in the former situation, it is easy to project how much the government will need to spend, and in the latter, the government can use some bullshit assumptions to make up whatever budget they want.
> The tweet can very easily be misinterpreted by someone who does not get the joke. [...] [M]any decentralized communities may also not want to host jokes about self-harm or suicide.

The end effect of this is that it reduces speech to the lowest common denominator.

Software and mods who are given 5 seconds to pass judgement on something don't have the capacity to properly assess things so it's easier to just default to banning.

If Jonathan Swift were alive today, he's be permabanned from Twitter for promoting eating Irish babies.
Apple Watch does this job well too.
I don't know about repeating patterns, what I see with containers is sort of novel but has its roots in competition between time sharing systems and transaction processing systems.

I've never used Multics but it seems that the guys who wrote unix and VMS and other mini computer OS were time sharers. One box, lots of users, how do we stop users from stomping on one another. The final paradigm was that your programs can pretend they own the whole machine and the operating system handles keeping everybody safe from one another.

This is fine if everybody runs single programs but eventually hits the wall when you need competing environments.

Personal computers and networking fixed that, but now I want to share my running program, I need a server again. A big, shared machine only my environment clashes with yours, so containers are born. They are networked personal computers in conception.

The other pattern is transaction programming. IBM mainframes didn't really do time sharing, you write up your job and schedule it. Some jobs are then triggered by conditions or events. Its more like a domino stack than processes trying to pretend they are the only thing running. AWS lambda functions are the modern equivalent but without the safety of proper queues that something like CICS provided. They will get there.

For some problems, you need interactivity. For others, you really want transaction processing. I think transaction processing is really underutilised in modern systems as we all scramble just to make stuff work and the time sharing and personal computer modes of thinking dominate the problem space.
A lot of name dropping to cover his butt, management doublespeak, and a disregard for the substance of klabnik's post: that AWS is unduly influencing the Rust language.

Niko is now an engineer at AWS so I guess he can't bite the hand that feeds him.
I agree. All US companies should be required to fully withdraw from countries with active dictatorships.

Unfortunately, US companies have lost all trace of ethics. Most product companies now have planned obsolence, and use regulatory capture and abusive patents to grow revenues rather than putting customers first.

We are truly in the twilight of the free market.
There are other ways to include them and improve their lives.
Only on HackerNews does someone read this story and decide the handicapped retail worker is the bad guy.
This is not only the territory of dubiously useful counterfactuals, but also doesn't square with the actual history of the day.

Some of the faults I see with this way of thinking:

A. The pieces of modern 'combined arms' forces, like tanks and war planes, were not advanced to the point where they could achieve the 'combined' part. The entire reason why these weapons work so effectively in modern doctrine is that they operate together with infantry. Tanks of this era were brand new, extremely experimental weapons. They moved at the speed of a 100+ year old tractor. This is not a weapon yet capable of being deployed en masse and just winning the war like that.

B. To suggest that these weapons were 'capable' of winning the war, but just weren't deployed correctly or in enough numbers is to project incompetence on to military leaders of the past. Clearly they did try these things, and they did not work. There was no reason to expect that if tanks with 1918 level technology didn't achieve much success, then they should have just tried throwing more at the equation, or to expect modern combined arms doctrine to just spring out of their minds fully formed.

C. It's been touched on in the (very good) original post, but the land of the western front, torn up by artillery and barbed wire, was not the suitable environment for mechanized warfare to be developed. Doctrine can't spring forth from nowhere to solve a problem. It has to accompany these changes in military technology under conditions that allow commanders to experience what this technology is and isn't good at, and 100 year old trucks were certainly not going to be great at blitzing across crater-strewn Flanders.

D. You suggest this all may have been a matter of no ready-to-go industry existing for these new weapons. I would argue that if there was ever a thought they had a solution involving these tools, the massive armament industry of WW1 could easily have been brought to bear upon making them.

Now I am really, really far from a military aircraft history guy. So I don't feel super comfortable commenting on the air theory, but from my limited reading I believe the problem to be one of engine design and general new-ness of these things as weapons themselves (just like tanks).

The Wrights flew their powered plane in the end of 1903. WW1 is almost exactly 10 years after that. Again, it is unreasonable to expect the technology to be at the point to support modern doctrine. These were brand new, and engines were simply not both strong and light enough to create the kinds of war planes you'd see in the next 30 years.

To summarize though, again, I think the most salient point is really just that people of the past are often not as illogical about these things as you might expect. They wanted to end the war. If there was even a sliver of a chance of any of these weapons being 'the' breakthrough, they would have pushed the technology as far as it can go to find it. The fact that they did not, is evidence enough. If the solution was simple, it wouldn't have been a stalemate.
If the price goes up any more than inflation long-term, we've still got a problem.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Besides, the article this very comment thread belongs to also says "Efood drivers, which the company claimed had lower ratings, received a message" so what are you arguing about exactly? You're shooting the messenger.
> his meme favors certain immutable characteristics as inherently providing victimhood status.

And that's why Antonio García Martínez was considered fair game. He's not considered Hispanic (though anti-Communist Cubans rarely are) because he's also Jewish. And I'm sure that was a big motivator behind the mob that wanted to eliminate him from Apple.
No, with sufficient supply all owners/landlords will have to drop their asking prices. Problems tend to arise when a portion of landlords keep their prices artificially low.
lol all of this advice is tailored towards crazy people at crazy companies. in a sane work environment it works quite logically -

1. You have an employee who has been with the company for years and thus has lots of hard won experience and knowledge about the particulars of your company

2. They have already been groomed for and shown potential to perform well in a lead role

3. You promote them to lead and pay them what they are worth, knowing that paying market wage is better than taking a gamble on a new hire and paying them market wage anyways.

its worrying that this kind of weird political shit always ends up highly voted in comment threads, because it colors your expectations. work for good, trustworthy, competent people, forget about this meta scheming bullshit and focus on doing your job well.
I concur. I'm not a coder but I do review things every 2 months as part of the release cycle, and whenever I see mistakes, especially silly mistakes, I don't feel smart at all, it doesn't even cross my mind.

I feel, in order: disappointment - because how could they make this stupid mistake, then anger - why the f do I have to waste time to correct stupid mistakes, then a bit hateful - we need to fire this person and hire someone competent, then sometimes a bit scared - what else has this person got wrong and I missed, then a mix of all of the above.

What would make me feel good, as far as reviews go, would be to say "hey, this person did this way better than I would have".

Can you tell I hate doing reviews?
You raise property taxes to pay for it, you don’t cut anything.

You build it in zoning that is designated for housing.
In Star Trek, this is handled by the Heisenberg Compensator https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Heisenberg_compensator
Land is limited for political reasons.
You wear watch while cooking?
On your first question the major problem was not necessarily speed, which did improve a bit for example the French Renault FT could make a bit over 4mph, but instead endurance. They were never able to solve the range and reliability problem given the technology at the time. This meant that even light tanks like the FT only had an operational range of about 40 miles. Breakdown rates were also incredibly high, and during the final offensives of the war in 1918 the British rapidly ran into a situation where they had to deemphasize the use of tanks simply because they did not have enough that were running.

Suggested readings: (this is a mix of books and articles)

* The Infantry Cannot Do with a Gun Less: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918 by William Sanders Marble

* The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War by Timothy T. Lupfer

* The Marne and After: A Reappraisal of French Strategy in the First World War by Douglas Porch

* The Evolution of British Strategy and Tactics on the Western Front in 1918: GHQ, Manpower, and Technology by Tim Travers

* Operational Art and the German Command System in World War I by Bradley John Meyer

* Not Glamorous, But Effective: The Canadian Corps and the Set-Piece Attack, 1917-1918 by Ian M. Brown
>She said Apple had begun trying to reassign her after she complained that the company’s work on the minerals was not, in some cases, leading to meaningful change in some war-torn countries"

What other geopolitical problems does this person think Apple should be tackling other than resolving tribal conflicts in war torn central Africa? The Taliban? Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women? Haiti’s poverty?

Ridiculous.
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I can think of a brilliant use case, but it's the only one I can think of offhand.

For the disabled, particularly blind people, it would be great to have interactive voice stuff if that whole ecosystem were really fleshed out. Some of this exists but a world of audio books, online banking, interaction with social media, all with interfaces optimized for voice use/audio listening would be great.

Interacting with a screen by having some software read it to you just seems incredibly clumsy.

Personally, I think the hands-off case for automotive use is dangerous. Talking on the phone or listening to email while driving is sketchy even though you're still gripping the steering wheel. AM/FM radio interfaces were perfected 75 years ago.
I’ve been in tech lead roles for many years now and I agree with almost everything in this post. 80% of Insights often come early after transition because you can more clearly see the contrast. The other 20% usually comes much later with deep reflection and when you’ve been distanced from the work.
If the news broke out like this, you can bet there was a complete diplomatic breakdown.
Stuff like this doesn’t happen. Cost concerns, etc is just smokescreen.
It happened because it was not handled diplomatically. A huge problem.
France is right. If it cannot trust it’s allies, then what are her diplomats doing there?
> He does not need the interpreter to respond to that speech.

How familiar are you with the deaf? If this was a lifelong affliction they (likely) won't verbally communicate and even if they do it's not something that can be parsed clearly enough for retail.
Jobshaming men isn't very nice.
> your comments fall on the wrong side of "Don't be snarky" and "Please don't sneer."

I politely disagree.
I just use the default reminders or notes app for any kind of lists. Easy to share when needed too.
> Progressive taxes on investors can mitigate this and make home ownership more affordable

In Germany home ownership is not seen as strictly positive in the same way it is in the US for example. Many, perhaps even the majority, of Germans go their whole lives as renters.
> What's next, muslims who eat pork won't be allowed to enter the prayer room? Funnily enough, being an arbiter of religiousness is blasphemy in islam.

Apples to Oranges, I think, given that both these cases deal with medicine, while your example does not.

To be fair, it could be on the basis of method of administration - I could see someone having religious objections to injections while not having objections to orally administered medicines.

In any case, if your religious objections extend only particularly to the COVID-19 vaccines, there's a good chance that you're not exactly being honest and trying to abuse the rules.
I don't mean it as condescending. Most people are not aware of how they private information is stolen all the time. Before the GDPR, I think most people weren't aware that cookies were used to spy on them.

Let's take another example: harmful chemicals. Most people aren't aware that chemical X or Y is harmful until it becomes a scandal, at which point the companies switch to another that also hasn't been tested long term. In that case, like with privacy, I don't think the people are at fault. People assume that companies aren't going to abuse them.

That's why I don't agree with 'Obviously if you are sharing an account nothing is "private". Doesn't this go without saying?'. People have some expectations that sadly don't reflect reality, so in cases like that they need explanations.
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I've been saying this for years as a critique to psychology studies. Do you really expect desperate people getting paid peanuts to yield quality results?
'“A lot of this, I believe, is a hesitancy about the vaccine, and so that’s a separate issue than a religious exemption,” he said.'

Shouldn't that be the issue worth addressing then?
Even if the author shared a single Amazon account with his wife, there's still a difference between the two scenarios.

If his wife logs in and opens up a private wishlist labeled "Liz Presents", she is choosing to spoil something for herself.

If the Alexa says you have a notification (with no more detail) and then immediately spills the beans, his wife did not choose to be spoiled.

So yes, it's very much not hyperbole to blame Alexa for spoiling this secret.
Then what account should you use? Who has multiple Amazon accounts, and isn't that even against their ToS?
> jEfF BeZoS Is aLwAyS LiStEnInG To yOu!!1!!!!111!

> As long as he gives me cheap same-day delivery, IDGAF.

for lower and lower quality of items, with less of a real selection (go look at electric kettles - there's 50 different brands - with weird names - but the kettles all almost look identical). Also the while prices creep up as any competition gets annihilated.

The high cost of cheap shipping
Actually I wonder if that would not fall under Article 27 of UN's Universal declaration of Human Rights:

"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits."
Government intervention is literally the reason the market is "not doing it"
Tempelhofer is an enormous asset of the city and turning half of it into apartments would be a disgrace.
Would you ditch Apple if you had a customer service experience and it took 3-5 minutes longer?

Fixed it, and maybe. A decline in customer experience provides incentive for Apple to optimize the slower customer service folks out of the picture.
And so does your phone and your browser and every other device you allow other people to use. Is it a leak if you allow your wife to use your phone and receive a notification?
I think that very much depends on whether government owner housing is a last resort for the poor or open to wider sections of the population.
I think I've just been in the Amazon ecosystem too long, I can't really figure out which part is surprising that it could be considered a 'leak'.

1 - That Alexa has access to information about any particular Amazon user? To me the registration process and features of the product make this extremely obvious, but maybe its not?

2 - That Alexa will send audio notifications related to the status of the account its linked to? This is the only thing that I feel is of any possible surprise. Most of the marketing around Alexa products show interactions initiated by the user.

3 - That 'private wish lists' aren't excluded from the full set of notifications? Amazon just calls them 'wish lists' and to me they are just cached shopping carts. I don't really see them as any more sensitive than any other information in the account.
If you want to work on this: https://mycroft.ai/
The FCC just makes decisions, we're talking regulations here, not laws. They justified it with "preventing spam" and enabling competition with unregulated OTT apps.

I'm glad that Twilio fought for Title II governance: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/60001324418.pdf

Where was everyone else?

As far as the sanctity of the U.S. Mail, it only applies to sealed envelopes/packages, and Congress can ban items from the mail (e.g. lottery pamphlets, spurious tokens, gasoline, etc.)

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/96/727/
There are markets where being seen as old-fashioned is fatal, so this might not be irrational. Just because it's internal doesn't mean they're not worried about the wrong people seeing it in an old-fashioned state. People who worry about that (for good reason or not) don't always have a boundary on that concern, and sometimes internals leak.
That might be me being misinformed about them, but when I think about vaccines I think about think like polio and how they almost don't exist anymore.
Interesting, my thought is opposite, that not much has changed - download, unzip, modify (optional), make menuconfig, make, make install, fix grub config, profit. :)

EDIT: it is true however that someone has shown me the steps, I would have wasted a lot of time without their guidance.
The problem with this theory is that people thought the same thing before WW1.

Know who was the biggest trading partner for France and Germany in 1914? It was each other.