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> Well, sometimes information can cause harm. For example, revealing a terminal diagnosis to a patient could lead to suicide.

That is arguably, depending in the diagnosis, a good example of a time where suicide may be the good option, where postponing death magnifies suffering, and the only reason to keep the poor patient alive is essentially because we're too busy selfishly thinking about avoiding our own pain of loss to permit them to erase their agony.
> In most cases, if you find a price unfair, you wouldn’t agree to it, so if someone does agree, that’s evidence that they find it fair, which is evidence that it is fair.

Lol, no? It makes me wonder if the author lives in the real world. Accepting a deal does not happen in a vacumn and is in no way evidence of fairness. 1) it could be there are no other people offering what you need, forcing you to accept an unfair deal 2) it could be a trade union forcing unfair deals on a sector so you really don't have a choise 3) You may find out the deal is unfair after the fact because some new information came to light, and so much more
Because it's the most popular constructed language, and despite all it's publicity and fanaticism, it still didn't take off.

For me, there was something that just seemed off about the language. I mean it's usable and useful and all that jazz, but I just didn't like using it. In some ways, as a language, it feels unfinished, or unpolished, and it seems stuck in its ways. But then there are those who would argue anything different would not be Esperanto, and I can see their point.

For me, the great international language has still to be invented, or perhaps has existed for many decades, but has yet to go viral.

The whole concept of an international language might just be like religion though. There are some that will never embrace it. There are some that will prefer one over the other and never change, and some that might convert.

The solution to a universal language might be multiple universal languages (lol). For example, Occidental, Oriental and African. As long as they are easy to learn while being precise enough that miscommunication through ambiguity is difficult.

You start with the language that is local to you, thus giving you access to many people and local trading partners. Then if you want, you can branch out to areas that interest you. It should even be possible for someone from the African area to speak with another from the Oriental area if both have learned Occidental, for example.
I really have no idea what any of those acronyms mean.
> 7. If it’s so unfair, change your job

This is not sustainable on society level. Someone needs to do those jobs even if it's not you. If "the market" was going to fix this, it would have happened already.
I've been a UFO skeptic for quite some time, but the Ariel School Incident [1] is one that lives rent-free in my head. The eyewitness accounts make it even more convincing, because

1. They don't exactly agree with each other (which is to be expected since eyewitness testimony is extremely unreliable, it would be more suspicious if they id)

2. Many of these people repeat the story years after the incident, as grown adults. As far as I know, they haven't received a single cent for their troubles.

3. It's not like these kids had much exposure to the pop culture idea of UFOs - yet their drawings are very similar to what we think of when we think UFO.

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident
I find it interesting that to you, forcing cars to be safe to cyclists is a dead end, and it’s more realistic to double the amount of public paths everywhere in the city to have separate paths.
> If you aren’t paying for it, it is definitely temporary

the reason big SV VC are shilling web3 so hard.
As the article said in this conflict the military, technological and financial elements are intertwined. It is not clear that Russia is losing on either front currently. They are not winning either, at best it's a stalemate. What is clear however is that tens of millions of people in Europe are facing energy bills they can't afford and brownouts. This winter will be nothing sort of a humanitarian catastrophe. A recession is also likely, but the concept of recession, the macro numbers themselves won't paint an accurate picture because of inequality. What will likely happen is that millions of people will find themselves outside of the economy, without significantly affecting the macro numbers, so the situation is going to be worst in reality than on paper, but those who aren't affected simply won't care.

This is a sad and needless war Russia is forcing on us, but the truth is that they are already at the bottom and don't stand to lose as much as we do.

The bright side is that Europe can come out of this stronger, but only with adequate policies that don't leave people behind.
I've been super impressed with Zulip's thread system in technical chats. But how is Zulip itself in situations where you mostly want channel-wide banter, with the odd thread spawning off of that?
As if those countries had anything reasonable.

Why don't you look to Europe instead?
> The disruption and reintroduction of superstition caused by the protestant revolution (eg the burning of "witches") held back science by probably a century.

Witchhunts were bad, but this is really not correct.

For the specific case of the steam engine, Torricelli had made some of the most important basic discoveries in Italy[0], but these came to nothing in Catholic Europe because his discoveries disproved an unimportant minor point of Catholic dogma, so it was unsafe to continue work with them. (The existence of a vacuum was for some insane reason held to be heretical, so no actual research into devices that worked using vacuum, such as atmospheric steam engines, could be done.)

There was plenty of insane fundamentalism in Protestant Europe, but crucially, it was fragmented. The part that doomed science under Catholicism was not that Catholics were less learned or more supersticious than Protestants (because they really weren't), it was that in Catholicism there was a single person who ultimately decided what it was okay to think, and this person was just as dumb and fallible as the rest of us. In contrast, in Northern, Protestant Europe the baseline of education and knowledge was much lower, but every King or Princeling managed the rules of thought and discourse for their own domain, so there was always some place somewhere that was willing to accommodate new ideas.

[0]: Starting with one of the most important viewpoint shifts in science history: "We live submerged under an ocean of air."
It's been fine for us, just detach that thread or create a new one and link.
Not really, in the justice system you are put on trial on social media first and everyone believes what they want to believe rather than the decision of a court.

You’re stating that fact validation should have the same level of scrutiny as a criminal trial except instantly? How do you stop false claims from being amplified without being cautious immediately? Facts can’t be put on “criminal trial” or got to jail - the metaphor Zuckerberg used is terrible.
There is a middle ground.

“As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy.”

Some of the world’s most successful countries are run that way.

It is called social democracy.
Hotel sub-brands are often (usually?) to differentiate significantly in quality / service / price. I think it would be much more reasonable for a restaurant to decide they want to cater to both fast food and fine dining (or less extreme ends of the spectrum) and to offer two experiences under different brands, than to just chuck up different brands on top of basically the same thing.
If this is how you think academic conferences are, I can't help you. (Go ahead, go "learn" the forefront of research in a field of say mathematics "on the Internet".)
I'm not sure what this has to do with suppressing the laptop story
I don’t agree with you. If the employer experiences that people quit their job all the time they will increase pay.
Both Pinterest and Quora have unclosable popups, as do many news websites.
Depending on the size of the entity. Small organizations qualify for a discount in filing fees.

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/laws/micro-entity-status
The M is believe is a gender neutral title. And ze a gender neutral pronoun.
Individual "teams" are really SharePoint sites.
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It is all free market and fair capitalism. Yet many offered salaries, do not even cover basic expenses (rent, food, bills). And cheap underpaid workforce must be illegally imported.
Perhaps legally, these nitpicks are valid. Lawyers are nitpicky types. "Deception" defined in a legally functional way, tends to see things differently to average people using common sense.

I agree with the parent, there is a lot of similarity here. You may be right that cloud kitchens are more haphazard and veer into challengeable trademark infringement. Old giants like Unilever tend to be better at legal precision.

Besides that, they're both doing the same thing. They're using brands to obfuscate, artificially manage reputation, or achieve basic marketing goals... not tell consumers who they are buying from. It's all deceptive. Fake choice, fake competition, fake diversity. It's all abusive of trademarks. Trademarks are intended to help consumers know what they're buying, create some reputational accountability. Typical FMCG strategies, like unilever and these cloud kitchens, are all about neutralising this... allow them to enjoy positive reputation while neutralising the negative reputation.

All of this is standard strategy, used often. For example. You are going for a "normal" supermarket experience: Many options for cereal, cheese, detergent, etc. Choice. But, you still want 70% cereal market share to go to vendor A. Maybe it's an internal vendor. So, fake branding. Fake diversity. Create the experience without creating the experience.

As Cloud restaurants become a mature, they'll probably learn to avoid legal trouble. But, the game will still be the game. It's not cheating if you're drunk.

The post, for example, wants to know which brands represent which kitchens. He doesn't want food from the bad kitchens. Tightening up trademark infringement will not help him.
I would take this post with a grain of salt given it's written by a direct competitor who has many reasons to have a biased point of view. That they noticed people signing up in troves on their platform is a totally valid point. They do mention that fact, but a big disclaimer is the kind of information you'd like to see at the top of the article.
I think this, combined with Heroku, marks end of an era.

These tools built themselves on being free (as in beer) up to a certain extent, and now they're big enough, and trust their momentum, so they change their stance.

This will inevitably create some changes, both how they perceived and being developed, but we'll see...

However, web application development is much easier and scalable infrastructure is democratized now. Their moat may not be as robust as they imagine.

This will get interesting.
There are a lot of places where the employer just brings in new people when that happens. Again and again and again. The well of people desperate enough for a paycheck just never seems to dry up.
Yep. Is what I always do now.
And that's how Finnish does it :)
Cambodia's Fake Orphan Scam [video]
Not in all sectors. There are many low wage jobs that employeers don't give a damn about constant personel rotation because they always find people and the profits are up
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Change it slightly: choose one of these items, cook them and our delivery guy will come pick it up. If your cooking passes our quality check, we'll start directing orders of this item to you. You only have one job: prepare the same item, 24/7 whenever our app pings you. We'll take care of supply and delivery.
> Some people think that there’s a wide class of people, ‘the rich’, who are getting paid way more than their labor is worth, for doing trivial tasks that anyone could do. Think how bizarre it would be if the world worked like that. Why would other people be pointlessly giving them that money?

Because they own the means of production. Nobody should listen to this crap take from someone who clearly hasn’t even read the wikipedia article on Marx. You don’t have to be a full blown communist to understand that the capital/labour lens is incredibly useful when trying to understand economies.
Ask HN: Heroku free tier will be stopped, what are some good alternatives?
As Heroku mentioned in its latest blog post, they will stop their free plan starting November 28, 2022.
I guess some companies will take advantage of this and will launch a free tier themselves, it's a great time to do that, they surely will get a good amount of new users.
So what are some other good alternatives?
Using Firefox with the user agent changed to chrome seems to get around this
> Because they own the means of production.

so how did they get to own that means of production?
Specially no service you don't host yourself can be free. It can be paid by adds, but expecting someone else to run servers for free for you is insanity.
This thing looks a whole lot like the HP Prime[0] calculator. From the icons to select the "applications" (aka modes) and the pop up menus. That said the HP has a color screen and from the looks of it better buttons.

Too bad HP didn't care enough about calculators to make the prime live up to its potential.

[0]: https://hpcalcs.com/product/hp-prime-graphing-calculator/
It is relevant, but as it happens these days, you read only the first line of my comment. I was agreeing with you (I can read longer comments) and was thinking of ways how to resolve it if you want to pay nothing or much less. I never said they have to store anything for free (no one has to) but you can imagine some kind of glacier storage for $9/year or something; it seems they already do that but don't tell you about it anyway considering comments from others.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image...
You've changed your definition.

Advertising is a service, it is fundamentally no different than any other service. We may find it annoying or distasteful, but it is a natural good from natural actors in a capitalist system.
If someone is paying you, then you don't own the means of production - they do.
Well, in the vast majority of the cases, because they are related to someone who historically owned some means of production. Often originally obtained through imperialism or colonialism. In some rare cases, they were a smart person in the right place at the right time - or even more rarely, created some valuable invention or innovation (i.e. they created a new means of production from scratch)
I think the author's point is that all these factors (like the basic supply and demand in your first point) are what sets the 'fair' price.

If they don't, then their point is how are you defining 'fair'? Just a gut feeling?
> I wouldn’t call people lazy for being unable or unwilling to find out the objective reality.

I'd frame it differently.

Everyone has their personal lives to deal with, as well as their personal interests. Everyone has their priority queue to deal with their daily life. If no one ever watch a specific newspice then that person will be completely oblivious to it, and if they watch it then they have far more important things to do than fact checking something that's not even in their priority queue.

I feel that this problem is actually being presented backwards. People push stories because they want to force upon the public specific points of view over very specific topics. Call it editorialization, call it propaganda. It's the same thing. Failing to see a point of view pushed onto the public is not a problem from the individual's standpoint, nor something that affects people's lives. The only people that are impacted by this are those who stand to benefit from manipulating the public.
But there's no universally absolute metric for what it means to be "fair".

The best metric so far is that if someone else exists that accepts the deal, then the deal could be considered fair. It's essentially like in an auction (but instead of the highest bidder, it's the lowest bidder).
I think they made a mistake disallowing single user upgrading to paid plan.

Non-corporate users will migrate to Discord, Slack will cut resources costs = more money without new users. Everyone happy, just allow us to export data ;)
> Second, C has a tendency to be conservative, changing and growing very slowly. This is a feature, and one that is often undervalued by developers.

I really appreciate languages that do change slowly. One of the languages I really like is Kotlin, but it has the problem that there are new features every few months. This is a distraction most of the time and it leads to inconsistent code bases.
Precisely. I think the two biggest reasons that people accept job offers with unfair compensation are:

1) Desperation. People need to eat. If someone needs food, water, health care, and shelter they can be forced to accept a job, any job, no matter how unfair, to survive. IMHO all those things are human rights. If we make it official policy that those things are human rights, then people will only accept jobs that are worth it.

2) Information asymmetry. People do not realize what their labor is worth. Most employees do not know, in real numbers, the value of their own labor. If they knew that their labor was producing 10x value for the company, but their wages were only 3x, they would probably demand wages of 9x or quit. The company’s ability to keep that information hidden is essential to maintaining their labor exploitation mechanism.
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Uber-style ratings are awful for restaurants.
Uber Taxi is basically: you did your job, you get a 5. Any aggregate rating below 4.5 could just be a 0.

Uber Eats... you did your job, I got the right order, and it was delivered. Well that's just expected, you won't get any brownie points for that. What I review is the food. I have used Uber Eats probably a thousand times. I have never given anyone a 5 for their food. I want to use the whole scale. And I'm fine with occasionally eating something that I might score a 3 (using my own scale) if I'm in a hurry. But on Uber Eats (and all the other apps), absolute slop has a 4.7 rating in their app. I don't understand other people. They must be giving a 5 for something that is merely "fine" (I'm being generous here)? I'm sure there is rating manipulation going on, but it can't be that rampant. Apart from times when the order was wrong or something was missing, I stopped rating Uber Eats orders a long time ago, because that rating scale does not map well to mine.

Also, several times I have received a note in the bag saying "I hope the food is to your satisfaction and that you will give us 5 stars!". Big mistake.
it sounds like you're agreeing: the move was made by the brits because the former colony wasn't bringing in enough money anymore
Or not was there not an article on shortage of teacher recently or earlier in the summer on restaurant not finding staff.

When you are used to exploit your workforce and don't care for churn you probably won't change unless it's too late.
> We should take a page out of the semiconductor industry's book

I see this sentiment by programmers often. Programmers often have a naive/romantic view of what the semiconductor industry is like. If you've experienced how inefficient the meatspace operations alone are regarding what goes on to bring semiconductors into existence, even by meatspace standards, you'd wish you were surrounded by the kinds of peers who were dumping bloaty-by-nature Electron apps on the world. (That's before we even get to the software that those engineering orgs are cobbling together themselves, for a more direct comparison.)
Someone clearly didn’t watch the videos
How about we do that after we do the same for trains, and LEVs and bikeways and local insulation regulation and the local bans on solar and wind facilities and the property taxes that are 1000x for a solar plant compared to a coal plant and the taxes on rooftop solar and the free security for nuclear and the government funded price guarantees for nuclear and the free insurance for nuclear in the form of an upper limit for liability.
> In some rare cases ... contributed some valuable invention or innovation.

i would say this is way less rare, and is in fact, the majority of the reason why means of production is owned by those who do.
ISO is not free which is very cumbersome and why many ISO standards are not implemented correctly (like 8601). I consider ISO proprietary and bad for that reason.
I think any English speaker could tell you the difference between “the” and “a”. Even if it’s not in their immediate knowledge bank as a fact, they could think of a tiny set of examples and work it out immediately.
Depends on the job - if it’s specialized sure. If its not then no, they just hire the next guy. There’s always a next guy because there’s always a supply of people looking for jobs even at minimum wage.
there isn’t really a security concern here

See the other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614839
my first thought was: why not move to discord for you hobby project?
"First, it's really important to say that both Go and Rust are absolutely excellent programming languages. They're modern, powerful, widely-adopted, and offer excellent performance. You may have read articles and blog posts aiming to convince you that Go is better than Rust, or vice versa. But that really makes no sense; every programming language represents a set of trade-offs. Each language is optimised for different things, so your choice of language should be determined by what suits you and the problems you want to solve with it.

In this article, I'll try to give a brief overview of where I think Go is the ideal choice, and where I think Rust is a better alternative. I'll also try to give a flavour of the essential nature of both languages (the Tao of Go and Rust, if you like)."

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/rust-vs-go
This train of thought always strikes me as similar to religious thoughts.
"You think what the market does is unfair? But it is the market it can by definition not produce any unfair results."

Any argument about fairness is swiped away by explaining that this is just how the market works. But the chance that the market always produces fair results is very unlikely unless you come in with the presupposition that the market is by definition always fair. I guess if this is your only moral belief this starts to make sense.

EDIT: Use quotes to clarify that a statement does not express my personal opinion.
> will piss people off

Well it pisses off the people who aren't paying you anything.

It probably pleases the people who were paying you, because now they don't have to subsidise the people who aren't.
I cannot reproduce this on my account. Could it be specific to the US?
Discord seems like the best UX to me. Only things I can think of is some weird UX around new call features and search could be better compared to say gmail (although I generally have no problem finding things I want to find).