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What? Her landing in "utopia" is not nearly close to the ending, nor is it magical: at all times the heroine has the option to voluntarily join this utopia and she consciously chooses to remain in the "outside world" to fight its demise.

And she doesn't magically crash there, the actual process of her getting there is narrated in what is probably a good 30 pages.

Using an analogy from a false representation of the plot to imply that the author intentionally recognizes flaws with her philosophy is definitely not the most objective review of this book, to put it nicely.

Have you even read the book?
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I grew up in SE Utah and have lived in DC/Maryland for some years of my adult life. To people like me, the 1300 acre parks a a very far cry from "nature". Probably just that perspective.
Ask HN: Dishwasher or Hand Washing Dishes?
Am trying to decide whether to buy a dishwasher or continue hand washing? Any experiences?
> Most of IF games have puzzless very different from the ones from the graphical adventures as the text medium can set really complex interactions.

I used to think this but do you think most text adventures wouldn't work as graphical adventures? Most text adventure puzzles I see are "USE X ON Y" (or the verb required is obvious), nothing complex, the same as graphical adventures. I think All Things Devours would work, except it might have to be turn based.

> Check out All Things Devour and Vicious Cycles, both have time travel mechanics.

Are there good examples without time travel, magic, cartoon logic, sci-fi etc.? My theory is something like this has to be introduced because there just aren't enough interesting "USE X ON Y" style puzzles that haven't been seen before or are too silly/obscure e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle.
Pretty much every policy those types push is meant for us and not them, I wish more people recognized that.
Does this handle updating plugins? Because just the 'plugin search / plugin add' isn't that interesting to me; I don't use package managers for discovery and since git plugins are so simple I don't see a large benefit over downloading a binary to ~/bin. But, I never remember to keep those manually downloaded binaries up to date, so if this handles that I'd be more interested.
I can't decide between the "Rational Goose Secrect Society" or the "Just Squirrel Whisky Club". The first one is NOT A SCAM, but the second... well, whisky.
taking a mortgage is less risky, because it removes uncertainty over the future cash outflows for housing. It fixes your house payment and interest payment.

renting is actually more risky, because you are left exposed to interest rate risk, and housing market risk, etc in form of ever increasing rent prices.

in my opinion the proper solution would be increasing property taxes across the board and spending that money locally on schools and other community reinvestments, applying them on market prices and heavily taxing investment properties in single family homes (second and third house, house in title of LLC/S-corp, etc).

also tax heavily houses located in restricted zoning areas, like Palo Alto, CA. If NIMBYs don't want to see new housing in their backyard, they gotta pay up even more on market prices of their homes.
provide tax incentives for YIMBYs
Two citations from Malhotra et al. (2004) [1] come to my mind here:

First, "any act of data collection […] is the starting point of various information privacy concerns” (p. 338).

Second, privacy can be defined as “the degree to which a person is concerned about the amount of individual-specific data possessed by others relative to the value of benefits received” (p. 338)

This explains why we are so sensitive if random people take pictures of us, without our consent. Usually, there is nothing we can gain, but a lot to loose, under some circumstances. In Social Media, it is necessary to acknowledge both sides of the trade - users also gain something, which is why they/we are more willingly to give up some part of their/our privacy. This is also the case, to some degree, in public street surveillance. It is not the case, however, in random street photography.

[1] Malhotra, N.K.; Kim, S.S.; Agarwal, J. Internet users’ information privacy concerns (IUIPC): The construct, the scale, and a causal model. Inf. Syst. Res. 2004, 15, 336–355.
What’s your opinion of uniswap, flash loans, and daos? These are the strongest use cases I know of. Would you mind taking a look at some of my other comments in this thread related to money games in traditional finance and let me know your take?
Continuing the hypothetical situation, let's say the company closes one major deal per month. The people who did not go on leave participated in 8 more deals. It's not discrimination, just being present should improve their future job prospects. Every deal means more contact with customers (who might later want to poach them), more likely they participated in some last-minute crunch time projects under the boss's eye, more unique circumstances/negotiations they had to navigate. Of course, if they are incompetent, more chance for that to be revealed as well.
> Raise interest rates on debt. This will cause people to pay back existing debts. At the same time, print money and give it out to everyone. This will give people the money to use to pay back their debts, without screwing over the people who didn't take out debts to begin with, because they still get the money.

This absolutely does screw over people who didn't take out debt. Yes you gave them money, but you also devalued the money they already had. And you have just driven up the price of houses and assets even more.

> Instead of having asset prices fall to parity with wages and consumer prices and causing everyone to default on their mortgages, we need wages and consumer prices to rise to parity with asset prices.

You can't just raise wages and consumer prices without raising asset prices - the people who are getting more wages would either loose that money on higher prices of goods or invest in assets - driving up their prices.
Posting like this to HN will get you banned here, even if you hadn't gotten your Scott Adamses mixed up.

You may not feel you owe someone better, but you owe this community far better if you're participating in it. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules in the future, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: turns out I had to warn you about posting personal attacks just a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29311314. No more of this, please, or we'll have to ban you. Please don't post any more flamewar comments, either—for example like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29259077. All this is emphatically not what the site is for, and is not welcome here.

Edit 2: I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29335724 and hope that Scott hasn't seen how rude you were, so we can all feel slightly less ashamed of this.
A personal friend is this form of executive assistant. I think that's effectively exactly what they signed up for - a very wealthy couple pays them to do whatever needs to be done. Delegating everything explicitly seems like it would significantly reduce the value of an assistant.

My understanding is once the trust is built in these kind of roles, the assistant is a professional/personal boundary crossing extension of the employer and is prized for their ability to resolve concerns without those concerns having to surface. Agreed that it can be a demanding, temperamental, unpredictable job.
> Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime.

"Crime" is a word with bad connotations, but what it actually means is "whatever your government doesn't allow you to do". Being able to do something that a government doesn't want you to do isn't prima facie wrong or immoral in most of the world. Even under more benign governments like the US one, there are plenty of normal activities that it doesn't allow for various bad reasons (war on drugs is a good example). Technically, bypassing the restrictions on drugs, avoiding capital controls or straight up confiscation of deposits, opting out of local currency devaluation, etc. can be "crime". However, it is actually good that crypto makes that possible.

Is crypto a good tool for that, long term, from a technological standpoint? I am not sure. But the author is clearly sneaking in connotations here.
I really hope things go this way...

What I expect though, constant ramping up/down of traffic light 'danger' codes for years, and using the pandemic as a means to force more surveillance onto us (through vaccination QR codes, mandatory tests, automated contact tracing etc).

A bit like in the years after 9/11 when the 'terrorism' topic on the news was constant vague unspecific warnings and colour codes. Even now, still, 20 years later they are still adding more surveillance (the EU here is planning to ban un-backdoored E2E encryption) even though the courts themselves have confirmed it was illegal and didn't actually lead to major foiled terrorist plots. So all this surveillance was basically for nothing. Trillions wasted, so many liberties given up. I mean, 9/11 was terrible but it led to a push for safety at any price that is totally unachievable. A lot of the measures imposed were either theater or done for ulterior motives.

But in the mean time the whole surveillance industry has become so big that its continuation has become a goal of its own, it's 'too big to fail' now, too many people get their livelyhood from it, too much lobbying from the companies involved. Now they have the covid train to jump on as well.

Now, in contrast to what the article says, I have to say that we're not at the point yet where we can let everything slide. The Netherlands did that a month and a half ago and the autumn ramp-up totally caught them off-guard and things went real bad real fast. But I do agree with the article that eventually we'll just have to stop making a big deal about it and just let it become a normal illness.

Like the article says, severe illness is highly curtailed by the vaccines, and the upcoming medication will probably do the same. These effects will multiply to reduce the number of severe cases significantly and eventually we'll get to a point where we just don't have to worry about covid overwhelming the health system anymore and should be able to get on with our lives. We may need to increase the capacity of the health system somewhat though as even with these measures there will probably be seasonal peaks.

But I doubt that the powers that be will be willing to let us go back. They'll be worried they'll be blamed for another wave, there's the lobbying from the pharma and surveillance companies for more money... Politicians love introducing new things but they're not so good at getting rid of them when they're no longer needed. The same way that no politician wants to be seen to be 'soft on terrorism', it'll probably be the same with covid due to all the media attention it has received.
Most people don't go to college and even if they did, you need to start teaching these cognitive skills much earlier.
I think the parent is suggesting you've moved out of "backup" territory, into archive and/or disaster recovery territory.

I agree with you problem description and approach. I'm less sure I agree with your terminology choice.

I use a software raid 1 pair of external usb drives on a wifi powerpoint to take a once a week snapshot of my backups, and the drives are only powered up for ~1 hour a week. Not guaranteed protection agains ransomware, or me fat fingering a "sudo rm -rf / tmp", but "good enough" for my home/personal stuff. I also have monthly and yearly snapshots of my backups in AWS Glacier. I sometimes colloquially refer to all that as "backups", but I can see your parent posters point that I've gone way beyond what "backups" covers in this paragraph.
Again, the issue was discovered within seconds at most, there very likely is a sensor which told the pilot that the cover was on, but there wasn't time to do anything with that information besides eject.

Of course instead of relying upon the pilot seeing that error message you could instead disable the plane so it can't even start trying to take off. But then you run the risk that your $200 Million dollar plane will be rendered inoperable by the failure of a $20 sensor which is obviously undesirable in a war environment.
I love this idea. It's thinking long term and beyond your own life (which is something we should be doing in everything we're doing with our lives.)
Anyone using m-disc for archival?

Write-once seems valuable in the age of ransomware.
Well, apparently worldwide population will peak sometime and then slowly fall. The mitigating factor being that it probably won't happen in most of our lifetimes yet. That said, some countries might experience their population plateauing sooner than others. So perhaps if we kick the can down the road for a while longer, it will indeed have been enough.
I just run them under the water and that's it. There is no good reason to wash dishes other than to make them look presentable to guests. And in those cases you can just wash them ahead of time if needed. Dish washers are mostly a waste of space in my opinion.
Sounds like the real solution is to stop extracting gas/oil/coal from the ground entirely and also plant new fast-growing carbon-rich trees, cut them down, convert them to inert carbon (timber? charcoal? oil?), store the result (underground? as furniture/housing? somewhere?) and repeat the cycle as many times as possible in as many places as possible.
no 4th party
The vast majority of government policy is written by and intended to benefit those that already have theirs. People these days seem to think politics is some kind of moral battle, when it’s really mostly just people trying to protect their wealth.
I trust publications with product-independent ads and paid articles. Generally these publication shouldn’t profit from promoting a particular product. That can include free samples and any dependence on a manufacturer’s good will.

An example for relatively trustworthy reviews would be (German) Stiftung Warentest (“Product Review Foundation”)’s https://test.de, you can subscribe to all articles for a monthly fee or buy them individually.

No clickbait, no pop-ups, just no-bullshit, user respecting, fairly objective tests.
> NASA satellites have been observing increased green cover on land, which is thought to be due to intensive agriculture to feed growing populations and ambitious tree-planting programs – for example, the so-called “Green Great Wall” in China.

> The cooling effect from greening is less significant in tropical forests with high leaf areas.

Does this mean that cutting down the Amazon rainforest to use the land for farming is net-beneficial for slowing down climate change?
There's a lot to be said for taking control and building it yourself.

We live on tank water and I monitor our 3 tanks using influxdb and grafana on an ec2 instance. It's absurd overkill for the job, but man it is reliable since no-one but me ever makes any changes.
> This is a legitimately genuine question: if you're treating TypeScript as just type annotations on an otherwise regular-old-JavaScript codebase, then why are you using TypeScript rather than just JavaScript with JSDoc comments?

TypeScript is way easier to write, and allows to anotate more stuff. We do have some JS that will stays as JS that's anotated with JSDoc, and it's a worse experience than TS.

> Also, I can't quite tell. Are you defending TypeScript's brokenness by suggesting we just don't use all of its advertised features?

I'm defending the usefulness of the tool, but not its marketing. I think the approach of trying to cover every single usage of JS is not the best, and leads to some complex features and weird edge cases like the ones you mentionned. But for typing plain JS, it works very well.

I guess we get a lot of value from TS because static typing is easy when your code wasn't that dynamic in the first place.

> If TypeScript advertises a feature, shouldn't that feature, like, actually work?

Fair point. I honestly don't know what a codebase that doesn't really benefits from TS looks like, but from your description I can see that their claims are a bit too much. I consider TS as part of a campaign from Microsoft trying to regain mindshare and/or control of developers, and thus always took their claims with a grain of salt.
> I'm afraid you're stuck with our judgment about what's substantive, if you want to keep commenting here.

For this and various other reasons, I honestly don't. I'm done.
My remark about "not hitting people who own one property which is their primary residence" doesn't say anything about second or third property owners. I'm against harassing two-property owners with taxes and even three. Some people have reasons for living in two places and don't want to rent: they have their things there. (I think I said something to that effect in my original comment.)

I'm with you about the undesirability of these investment firms who hog up properties; the tax structure could easily be set up to squeeze them out, while encouraging the small owner rentals: people who have two or three places.

These firms are basically parasites who contribute to the housing problem as much as home flipping speculators. It should be entirely unprofitable for someone to have like twelve properties. We simply cannot have that in cities where affordability is spiraling out of control.

Maybe once upon a time chains of managed condo buildings and such owned by big companies wasn't a problem; it could be high time to crack down on it.
The state-sponsored cybersecurity threats I most want to know about are the ones from my country - because that is the state most likely to harm me and my family.
Then you don't understand the purpose of TypesScript - which is to retain JS syntax while grabbing the lower hanging benefits of a type system. There are many tools to catch errors (for example, unit tests), and the type system is just one of those tools.

The proof is in the pudding. I've been writing JS (and a bunch of statically typed languages) for over twenty years. Large JS codebases have become possible now thanks to TypeScript (an example is VSCode). If you look at any large JS ecosystem project today, chances are that it's written in TypeScript rather than in vanilla JS. People are adopting it because they see benefits.

If you've used TypeScript over the years, you'll also see that many major releases catch a set of new bugs in "strict" mode (which used to successfully compile earlier). That's the team fixing some of the issues you mentioned.
You're right that nothing happened -- supply chain problems only got worse. Buttigieg became the poster boy for out of touch, incompetence, failing up, promoted beyond ability, etc.
The need I was referring to was the need to stop coal burning, but your point is taken about Australia's foot dragging on that.
Yeah, but all our major party politicians in Australia get big donations from the coal and oil & gas lobbies, and a lot of the conservative politicians have direct or indirect business links. So the whole “net zero” thing isn’t something their hearts are really in.

Hopefully things will change a bit with the election early next year - the opposition party that actually did legislate an effective and workable price on carbon back in 2011 looks like they might get back in (the scheme was repealed by the conservatives as soon as they got back into Government in 2013).
Do you really think that it is NOT bad for a society to demoralize and demotivate the people who might otherwise be very productive knowledge workers? There are arguably two goals to the public education system: giving a minimum education to everyone and raising up lower class folks who can't otherwise afford an education. It sounds like you only want the first one.
Dishwasher: saves you effort.

Dishwashing: when you have all of your best ideas after a long day.
I grew up in Texas too. I can remember loud parents crying about censorship for certain books. They were always just one or two at a time and everybody thought they were extreme wackos, but the school district has to avoid controversy before lawyers get involved and really screw it up.
tutors are the best when used wisely but the worst when they become necessacity.
one size fit for for for all doesn't work, will never work.
quality of teachers matters most than than anything.

readiness of the kid is as important as the quality of teachers,
rest is just bunch of opinions
This is still missing the point. The way to improve PM accountability isn't engineers fixing them. It's the organization's and leadership responsibility to ensure PMs are held accountable.

Engineers would be far happier if they don't have to do good engineering and can do away with shitty software without accountability. But there are checks and balances to improve engineering quality, and those aren't created by PMs. It's the engineering org that champions good engineering practices and accountability and post mortems. Same should be done in PM organizations.
For some odd reason my company chose the play framework + Java. It's one of the most baffling choices I've ever seen. I've actually managed to get the Java plugins to work with sbt, but it doesn't understand when a Scala object is imported.
> I also have a copy of his backup passphrase for mutually assured destruction

I have two friends who've given me private key fragments (from a Shamirs Secret Sharing setup) with the explanation "If anything happens to me, you'll work out who you need to talk to and what you'll need to do."

I haven't done that myself, because I don't have any need/desire for anybody to decrypt my backups once I'm not around. That might change if I end up with dependants one day.
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Yeah, there comes a point where someone must accept defeat regarding the Bay Area's unaffordability. Mega-commuting for more affordable housing sounds appealing on paper but quickly gets draining and is unsustainable, from both a personal and environmental standpoint. I used to commute 50 miles each way every day for a few months back in 2015 and ended up sucking it up and paying the higher rent to live closer to the office due to the effects the commute were having on me. I believe part of the reason why San Joaquin County had so many foreclosures in 2008 was because of mega-commuters dealing with $4+/gal gas for the first time.

I don't mind doing a long commute once or twice a week, especially when I have flexible work hours, but anything more often than that becomes draining.
I’d recommend getting a job or at least starting the process. As you go through the motions you’ll be deciding if it’s something you actually want to do or if you want to keep pushing.
local politics is the only way
Some people --> tons of normal, non-ADHD people
Yes and you should read the book "The Other Side of the Story: A Secret War in Hong Kong" by Nury Vittachi to learn what the mainstream media wasn't telling you about the whole Hong Kong situation.

My Hong Kong friend who is pro China lives in an appartment complex where lots of yellow vests also live, and prior to the NSL every day he feared for his life, fearing that his neighbors would find out that he's pro-China and then do something to him. So much for the western coverage of the yellow vests being "pro-democracy, pro-rule of law, pro-free speech".
Consider getting in to hardware. Far more interesting.
True, I already have a cleaning service. They come every two weeks and clean the house. Honestly, I'm not satisfied with instacart and all the hidden fees they have/had (last time I used). What is interesting about an individual is they will learn your preferences and have more context in ones preferences as time goes.
As it should. We have a house shortage.