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It's not communism rather that same tendency that both communist and non-communist powers often display once they reach a certain size: the tendency of large bureaucracies towards increasing their own power and influence at the expense of the people they're supposed to serve. By declaring this tendency communist we blind ourselves to the fact this can happen to any bureaucracy whatever labels it gives itself. This can happen to the most cut-throat capitalist business as well as the most oppressive communist state, it's the nature of large organisations in general.

The British government hasn't built an illiberal surveillance state because it sits in the private clubs of London dreaming up ways to oppress the plebs for its own sake, it's done so because there's a lot of bureaucratic incentives towards this behaviour and the sum of millions of individual cogs without malice is the path of least resistance. It's why the police go after people over jokes made in poor taste on Twitter while burglaries might go uninvestigated, signals intelligence is far cheaper than actually investing in proactive policing and boots on the ground. Add that to the fact that people are easily scared and gaslit into giving up their liberties for promised safety and it's easy to see how these things about. Nothing to do with communism, although historical communist regimes often displayed this behaviour to a high degree.

The cure in my opinion is a government based on the principles of subsidiarity, decisions should be taken as close to the people they effect as possible at the lowest practical tier of government. Decentralising government as far as we can (preferably to council or even district level) and making it intentionally difficult for government entities to consolidate power in a meaningful way is how we prevent abuses of power to begin with, we must treat political power as we treat enriched uranium: incredibly useful and vital for civilisation but also very corrupting to biological life if not handled with extreme caution. The road to Hell isn't just paved with good intentions but sign-posted and landscaped with them too.
Awesome, this is actually useful!
To be fair, this guy was almost certainly only adopting the flat-earth premise for publicity (and possibly funding.)
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Your response is not only hyperbole, but also not very consistent with, like, reality.

If you've really used .NET "from beta", you'll know that the platform became a snoozefest around 4.5, only to be revived around Core 3.0. "Insanely rapid platform churn" it is not.

And abandonware? Silverlight, sure, not much future in that (although it still runs fine on its own) but how is Adobe Flash doing these days, talking about "other platforms".

Or Java Servlets? In-browser applets?
So what other compiled languages would be an improvement to .NET's ones?
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That's a good point I don't see mentioned much about choice of tech stack and impact on career.

It's not so much about the technical merits of the stack itself as about what kinds of companies and projects use that stack, and sometimes it might be worth learning some technologies you might not be particularly invested in if you want to work at those companies.

It's not easy to switch stacks either - yes you can learn a new stack but you need those golden "years of experience" in your resume, making a switch an expensive and risky proposition, so you need to choose wisely.
IIRC, I’ve seen posts about them doing just this. I have no idea if it is true, though.
> A company built it, then sold it to Microsoft for more than $10 billion.

Didn't Discord end up ending talks with Microsoft and staying independent? I don't think this deal ever actually went through.
I will work on that! Thank you for the feedback!
But if those who are older need even less risk, the good option still isn't picking individual stock.
When I help people in forums or social media, I don't do it for future people. I do it for the person I am responding to. If someone else gets something out of it, that's great, but I didn't aim it at them.

And so I don't care if it disappears the next day. I just need that one person to get what they need.

Worrying about the future in that situation is just going to add friction and make me more likely to not answer at all. Not everything has to be optimized to death. Sometimes it's okay to just do the easy thing.
I think, you missed the point and it's off topic what you say
> And yes, "relationship" technically includes any kind of relation between two persons, but I think the context makes it clear that I'm talking mostly about friendships.

Well, no, a relationship is a relationship and a friendship is a friendship. Both the original post and the discussion are about maintaining contacts with people which is broader than strictly friendship.

> To me a business relationship is a business where you don't really care about the person but about the business/work potential. Of course you can make personal relationships in business, but those are different things.

I don’t see things this way. Business relationships remain interpersonal relationships. While these relationships keep a level of formality and distance they remain meaningful. I will send a card for meaningful events in the life of the customers and coworkers I have known for a long time. It is never strictly economical.
> Honestly if city employed people to remove the snow from the sidewalks and sent me a bill like they do trash collection I would have less of a problem with them. That is not what they do though...

I'm not kidding - the other day some kids walked by and asked if they could shovel my sidewalk and driveway before I got the chance to do it myself and I just paid them to do it. How cool is that? Why do you need the city to solve your problem here? If money isn't the issue... I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

> Solve that problem by getting teens off the road.

How can you do that when they have to drive everywhere? Do you not see how circular this is? Once they grow up they become adults, and then they die on the road too as yet another leading cause of death.
What makes Roam‘s backlinks more useful is what I think of the "write in to pages" pattern. Because on the linked page, the linked items are not actually links but fully transcluded blocks. If there‘s 10 levels below, they are all included in the page. My Roam content is 90% nested daily notes, but a lot of time is spent on pages that have 0 content. The backlinks area is the collaged together page.

All other tools i‘ve seen fall flat on this because they implement backlinks as links, not block transclusion portals.
Norway is also the country where several of these sports originated. Slalom is a norwegian word. Cross-country skiing developed to a large extent in Norway, etc :)
Critical theory comes from the Frankfurt School, I think Horkheimer defined it. Mao has nothing to do with it.

This sound much more conspiratorial than what it actually is, which is a bunch of sociologists doing research and coming up with ideas that describe reality how they interpret it.
I got acclimated and the incidents involving aggressive drivers piled up to the point where I made the decision to stay off the roads. During the summer we have a steady stream of experienced dead cyclists here. Usually a hit and run.
>Depends on your definition of significant and sidewalk. It does add cost, so it's not insignificant (you can observe it with confidence).

What a bad-faith definition you're using here. By this definition if you reimbursed a road worker for a penny they dropped during their shift building the road it'd be a significant expense.
I think the larger context is that you need to pay a fee to upload an app and have it reviewed. If you don't want to shoulder the cost you need to reimburse yourself through advertising income if you want to have it available for free for yourself and your customers.

So I don't believe this is a harrowing mistake...
I could see this being helpful with staying in touch with people you don't want to be friends but you want to keep up to date with professionally. Using this for your personal life is just sad.
It means you can tax car usage more heavily than would be the case if you just taxed their electricity consumption at the same rate as electricity used for other purposes (like home lighting and heating), in a way analogous to how in the UK petrol and diesel used by cars is taxed much more heavily than petrol used for other purposes (eg heating, or agricultural vehicles). This is useful because it discourages heavy use of private vehicles and especially of inefficient ones (compare the UK or Europe to US car usage, culture, and vehicle preferences -- I can't help thinking US cheap gasoline is relevant there).

In the UK, petrol is taxed much more heavily than electricity currently is, incidentally.

But mostly this is about the fact that currently petrol and diesel taxes bring in a lot of money, so if we don't shift that onto "extra taxes on electric vehicles" then there's going to have to be a rise in general taxation -- which is generally not popular.
The point is what to do when electric cars are the norm and there is no fuel tax to pay for road maintenance?
An easy low-tech hack for this would be to take the same approach that the Friends showrunners used for naming episodes. Unless otherwise specified, the notesystem operator should be encouraged to use lazy placeholder titles like "my note about using ML to name notes"
>Electric cars were obvious, but Tesla was not an obvious play. In hindsight, it might seem so, but in the beginning it was far from clear that Tesla would dominate the space. Additionally, time will tell if Tesla's stock stays 8x higher than its pre-pandemic price.

Tesla's stock price isn't really related to the fundamentals. It's a meme stock that, as you note, benefited hugely from the increased retail interest in stocks during Covid. Even if the GP got into it by looking at the fundamentals their profit is (mostly) because of its status as a meme stock.
Please no speed cameras though. I would like to not escalate surveillance in society.
Not just that but if something is on the stock market in 2022, the big gains have already been extracted. The people with large amounts of capital privately invest then use the stock market to cash out.
Hence why it is still a PhD issue, however I think it would be quite cool instead of trying always to fit a keyboard into portable screens.
I mean, if you're the one coming up with the strategy, and someone else says "yeah, that's been tried a few times and never worked", I think it is then on you to explain why This Time Things Will Be Different!
The article mentions your first point, and also gives some statistics that deaths to drivers are also up.
The car shortage is relative to demand. Demand isn’t just from new drivers, it’s from people using the extremely low-interest loans available combined with an influx of stimulus money across the economy (filtered down to some consumers) to upgrade to new cars. The chip shortage, among other shortages, is also constraining supply of new cars.

It wouldn’t necessarily increase the number of people walking or fewer cars on the road. The net effect is a shift to newer and more expensive cars among drivers.
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Completely agree here

> Also, fantastic music

Sonic 2 (especially Chemical plant zone) is among my favorite game soundtracks.
The quote is for a report into "road pricing" [1] by which they seem to mean mean pricing individual roads, rather than roads collectively.

Right now, the country has a variety of toll roads, toll tunnels, toll bridges, congestion charge zones, low emission zones and suchlike. They can have complex pricing schemes - higher for more polluting vehicles, free at evenings and weekends, free for wheelchair users, higher during rush hour, free for taxis and busses. Dozens of schemes across the country have different ways of paying - and often the money goes to local, rather than national, government.

So I think a mileage tax was not in the scope of the report. This was a report specifically asking "what if all roads were toll roads?"

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmselect/cmtran...
The recent Joe Rogan extravaganza brought this all out as well. I know nothing about virology. I listened to that controversial virologist on his podcast and still know so little. But then on HN it seems there are apparently numerous experts on the subject, or so they think, who are dead sure censoring of the dangerous Dr. Malone is necessary. It seemed every bit as tribal as twitter, but with a better vocabulary.
I hate when a service normally sends emails from Service Name, but then once in a while they send an email from Firstname Lastname to make it look personal. It's not going to work, but it sure is annoying.
The Irish elk, now extinct, was quite an impressive sight, with antlers wider that it was tall.

The Irish elk stood about 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) tall at the shoulders and carried the largest antlers of any known deer, a maximum of 3.65 m (12.0 ft) from tip to tip and 40 kg (88 lb) in weight. For body size, at about 450–600 kg (990–1,300 lb) and up to 700 kg (1,500 lb) or more, the Irish elk was the heaviest known cervine ("Old World deer"); and tied with the extant Alaska moose (Alces alces gigas) as the third largest known deer, after the extinct Cervalces latifrons and Cervalces scotti.

It was not just native to Ireland, but many skeletons were found preserved in Irish peat bogs. The Irish elk had a far-reaching range, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to Lake Baikal in the East.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_elk#Description
Good, that is what I made it for - to be used.
I sold one domain years ago on eBay

Ended up selling to a person whose last name was the name I'd registered for a group (the initials we'd chosen happened to also be a last name in another country)

Didn't make "much" on it - but it was pretty simple: post on eBay, have person win auction, receive payment, enable domain transfer, it's now theirs (I presume - it's at the very least no longer mine)
Because pedestrians have the intrinsic motivation of not wanting to die.

This question baffles me because where I'm from, hitting a pedestrian or biker with your car, the car driver is almost always 100% liable. And it works. Cars don't want to hit cyclists or pedestrians because they don't want to pay, and cyclists/pedestrians don't want to hit cars because they want to stay alive.
Oh another gross lie among the very many you've told
This is how human mind functions. If we remembered everything we ever did, we'd have so many thoughts it'd be hard to think more. That's why we have this garbage collection system that helps us forget unimportant rarely thought about information. You'd think a note taking system should be the secondary space for all that discarded information.

This is not a problem specific to bi directional linked note taking systems. Anyone who takes a lot of notes knows that majority of their note database is never touched again. Most notes have a very limited time span after which they are just garbage. Note taking systems are not optimized for this. They try to be a "second brain" excluding the forgetting part. It can't be done no matter how you organize or connect your notes.

After a time you'll realize organization of notes is an unnecessary burden. If you really want to find a note, you'll almost always use search.
I have not been in stop-n-go for two years on major highways. Before that would happen on a monthly or maybe even weekly basis. Seattle area.
Maybe salt?
What stack would you suggest for this? Or what are the recommended approaches to achieve history/versioning of the data? EventSourcing/CQRS is one that I know, but are there other ways to achieve that by using Postgres?
I'm happy he was able to do well with his purchase - you obviously did well selling it for 5k :)
Rush hour traffic is always going to be a bell curve. Fewer total people driving just makes the bell more narrow. 8:30 - 9 will always suck but 10 might be okay now.
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great read and great attitude, but saying "anyone could do it if they just worked as hard as me" is so banal. You're training 33 hours on a bike in a week --- most people who try that will just break down. Then you transition to extended periods of time at 400 watts --- most people couldn't hold that for 5 minutes no matter how hard they trained. Obviously hard work is good but you still need to be a genetic outlier.
I wonder if there is a multi-arm bandit hidden in there somewhere.

I guess the short form video and the "skip past it" culture lowers the risk of exploration -- it's kinda the opposite of that notorious Netflix optimization challenge.
Seconded. If those people have HN accounts, it might be interesting to see how their earlier HN discussions could have lead to this viewpoint.
I don't know what it is in me or how it got there, but I seem to be thoroughly convinced that I'll only be bothering people. When I rationally think about it, even emotionally, I disagree, yet I cannot shake the instinctual feeling.
I can't teach anyone anything. I have doubts that anyone else can do it, either; but can only speak to my own experience.

I can provide lots of assistance to those who are trying to learn.

We tell people "Edumacation" is going to happen to them whether they want it or not; and then they have to sign up for more "or you'll never have a good life" etc. It seems that we've lost the reason why we do these things. It's just empty ritual.

Things are this bad in famous, expensive upper class schools; imagine how bad they are in poor to normal elementary schools. We got kids with failing grades because they never got a (theoretically school provided) chromebook, never got a login to "the homework sites", or can't get reliable connectivity from home or school. They may or may not know the material they were supposed to learn but who cares about that? As long as the attendance records are good the school gets paid.
I think you're the only one to mention JSON or serialization at all. I do believe I already said websockets were the innovation, but they really literally did not exist 15 years ago for us to use. Elixir being distributed is nice. You still need the logic to get the change into everyone's session. You're just not using an external DB, cache layer, or work queue to do it.

It's amazing, really, how people feel comfortable condescending to others who explain how we did things before the current technologies existed as if we could never grasp how the new technologies improve things. Yes, this is nice, but it's evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Why did they leave it to rot did it not make any money?
Please sandos
While the situation here is better than elsewhere, don't be fooled. There's plenty of group think and (self) censorship going on around here too.

Give any human the ability to down vote and a reputation number, and comments will automatically converge to some kind of social standard.

HN is mostly filled with people with an interest in tech, finance, and getting rich off tech. That allows for deeper discussions on technical topics and startup finances, but when it comes to politics there's not that much difference between HN and your average subreddit.

Facebook is a "shouting into the void" platform, kind of like Twitter but without the length requirement. In my experience it's never been possible to have any kind of reasonable discussion on there.
It's probably valid but on a quick reading I don't see a lot of depth or a clear understanding of "what the magic is".
I don’t see the logic, can you explain this more?
Is there a tcl implementation targeting javascript that has upvar and uplevel and can access javascript objects?
The site doesn't ban, the users gang downvote you into oblivion for political views unpopular with west coast liberal values. Oh well - 95% of posts aren't political anyway. And other than that, the discussions are fantastic.
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They should earn $15/hr. The faster we impose a global minimum wage (or harsh sanctions on violators) the better.

Also surprised there aren’t more content moderators. FB (just FB alone for now due to them being a monopoly) should be required, IMHO, to review every piece of content before it is shown in a feed using human review. We don’t let movies get shown before they get reviewed (e.g. PG13).
Can you show me this crosswalk on Streetview? I'm trying to get an idea of the kinds of environments people are talking about in this thread (I'm non-American).
Exactly. GP assumes there are only two alternative goods, but like almost every well-intentioned idea it doesn’t actually take into account human behavior and how artificially changing demand for one thing can have really bad consequences.
Also "bayt" means house in arabic as well.
We're in all-caps italics territory so I'm not sure how helpful I can be, but I just want to stress the fact that as a modern human we all have to rely on organizations and companies outside of our control. Things like IRC, in 2022, are for software developers to talk to each other. Things like Discord, are built for my mid-twenties friends to talk to each other. If I moved to IRC for the control, I would have no one to talk to!
I get why someone may need tools like this, especially if they are in sales or a similar profession, but I can't help thinking how disingenuous this is.

Moreover, it's easy for me to sniff out and block people who try to keep me "engaged" with systems like this.

If you want to engaged me, I hope you have a specific reason to do so.

If I want to engage you I will just do it and you can bet that I won't waste your time on idle chit-chat.

Otherwise, I have friends and family that don't get enough of my time as it is.
I don't know, personally I would need more information than the median age in order to be "worried" about anything.
I think there is some interesting thoughts in this post but gets heavily muddied by the example and by the time difference of the when the original books were written vs how society operates. Yes history mimics itself but our systems are quite different than back then.

I do think that use Joe Rogan as the canonical example is difficult given how fraught his situation is. He almost serves as a de-facto source of information for large swatch of the population and does it for his own benefit intentionally exploiting information while washing his hands clean of any responsibility.
Most of the people they're talking about are either paid actors (or artists hoping to make a killing on NFTs). I mean, they literally make their living by reading a script in front of a camera. That's what they're famous for!
Explain to me why XHTML did not stay with us?
I got a domain transferred to me for free (minus the 1-year extension I had to do when registering a domain with that registrar) because the registrar was holding an expired domain that happened to be my name.

They had a policy of doing a free transfer (with 1-year registration) if you could prove you had a reason for it to be yours.

My credit card info with the name matching the domain was a simple no-brainer

(oddly enough - for close to 5 years after I got the domain, I'd get 404 hits in my logs for sites about WWF (this was pre-WWE rebranding) wrestler pages ...apparently whoever'd had it before me was a huge pro wrestling fan)