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>> My understanding is fires are getting worse on the west coast thanks to climate change

So, without taking a position on whether fires are getting worse, how would that matter for the insurance markets?

There's a price that would make it work. Risks are higher, price of an insurance policy would be higher.

Insurance companies, left to their own devices, wouldn't leave markets due to that, insurance companies would price risks accordingly, which is the thing that insurance companies do. That's the positive externality of insurance companies, they give you information about risk.

Insurance companies leave markets when they aren't allowed to accurately price risk, which the state of California will not allow them to do.
“De Moraes’ critics claim he has abused his powers and shouldn’t be allowed to unilaterally ban social media accounts, including those of democratically elected legislators. But most legal experts see his brash tactics as legally sound and furthermore justified by extraordinary circumstances of democracy imperiled. They note his decisions have been either upheld by his fellow justices or gone unchallenged.”
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The original article was about how Nestle uses more sugar in products sold to certain poor countries, not about consumer trends in those countries.

According to this - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/sugar-con... , countries trending lowest per-capita consumption of sugar tend to be the poorest. Exceptions are in latin America.

Higher inequality does not predict more sugar consumption either.
> “Casablanca is best described as cinematic magic that occurred accidentally on purpose,” writes [Alan K Rode, biographer of the director Michael Curtiz]

This is also the message of Umberto Eco's essay called "Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball" — https://biblioklept.org/2013/05/26/casablanca-or-the-cliches...

> Casablanca brings with it, like a trail of perfume, other situations that the viewer brings to bear on it quite readily […] it probably made itself, if not actually against the will of its authors and actors, then at least beyond their control. And this is the reason it works…
The quickest way to disabuse yourself of this notion is to login to Facebook. You’ll remember that Zuck makes money from the scummiest pool of trash and misinformation the world has ever seen. He’s basically the Web 2.0 tabloid newspaper king.

I don’t really care how much the AI team open sources, the world would be a better place if the entire company ceased to exist.
I’d work for puppykillingmachine.com if you paid me enough.
there is no way of avoiding it man. You invest in tech and you get skynet, you invest in biology, you get biotics... tough call for me. as i like the brutalist design of terminator but being passed around amongst famous historical figures as their f#kboi for eternity has its own appealas long as you never run into Seth Rogen...
From TFA:

> The data varies by record. The database contains names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers, and more.
I for one welcome our new Skynet into existence.
I can always see the opened camera in Edge browser, and sometimes I can't see it in Chrome browser, I may need to find a way to fix it.
AI didn't make Google search bad. That's way, way off the mark. Google made Google search bad.
https://highergroundlabs.com/
I don’t want to wear headphones. I want a quiet working space like I do when I work from home.
Spill the beans. That statement by itself sounds like the byline of a 5G/flat earth crank.
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Great observations regarding personal/back-and-forth, I skip those too as a reader yet get caught up in it sometimes when I post a top-level thing.

> weak signal of popular consensus

Basically what I've been using it for recently

> but it's not always clear why some comments get downvoted

Yeah this is what mainly prompted the question - there's a stylistic component. Yet sometimes people just post funny comments that are out-of-character for HN but funny and it will be upvoted, I am often confused by it too.

The greyed-out comments thing I think is hilarious, it seems like an idea that comes up in a product meeting to take up whiteboard space or to lightly joke about implementing.
One of the older and more entertaining names is Rubber hose encryption.

When faceless Zombie thugs of a military junta beat you with a rubberhose you can give up successive passwords to deeper and deeper "secrets" until finally(???) your embarrasing stash of midget donkey necro porn is revealed!! .. and no one can ever establish whether there is yet another password that hides your local contacts in the resistance.

The success of this may vary in practice and black site .. but mathematically the theory is sound.

Today we have the less evocative name Deniable encryption.

Fun Trivia:

Rubberhose (also known by its development codename Marutukku) is a deniable encryption program which encrypts data on a storage device and hides the encrypted data. The existence of the encrypted data can only be verified using the appropriate cryptographic key. It was created by Julian Assange, Suelette Dreyfus, and Ralf Weinmann as a tool for human rights workers who needed to protect sensitive data in the field and was initially released in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption

https://theconversation.com/profiles/suelette-dreyfus-1102/a...
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There are several specialty domains in software development that would benefit immensely from a true multi-year apprenticeship program. That said, people tend to gravitate toward software that doesn’t require that level of commitment to make good money quickly. I don’t know that we actually know how to do apprenticeship in software, culturally.

It is why we have chronic shortages of expertise in some software domains even though they are extremely well paid as specialties.
Haha, I used to harass bands I loved as well. Like you, I got mostly positive and polite responses. I suppose my emails were constructive and kind so they appreciated it and reciprocated to some degree.

I learnt a fair bit about music from some of these exchanges. It was good fun. A relic of the old internet says I guess. These days you’d just look for content on YouTube or something instead. Still awesome in its own right, but different.
The ban on renting single family housing is just pure classism used as a way to ban people who can't afford a downpayment on a SFH to live in the same neighborhood.

This is a supply issue and thus why people should be considering joining YIMBY Action.
Those board positions are likely high single digit hours per month commitments. Binge watching a Netflix show level time commitment so not exactly comparable to over-employment.
> ... And that just means that the debt is growing faster than the economy.

Just like in the EU: they've been hiding "growth" behind public debt. But that's fake growth, where nothing of value is created.

And there's a limit and that limit is now being reached. They'll kick the can down the road a bit more but... Out of the 150 cases or so throughout history where public debt reached crazy level, there's one case where it didn't go to complete shit: Japan.

And somehow all these geniuses at the bar are certain they'll manage to pull a Japan and not fail miserably like in the 149 cases where the state did default.

We have monkeys at the helm and it's going to end up ugly.
I love SeaMonkey, but I do wish it could handle more modern sites, maybe with Goanna?
For those of you wondering who the fuck this is or why it matters here is the public version of things at the time:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/friendster-fires-dev...
It's fiscally unsustainable if more people want to live there than there are housing units, and prices climb forever.

Having denser housing in some places does not mean replacing all housing with high density.

There are a lot of density options between single-family home suburbs and high-rise towers. Look up "missing middle" housing.

The biggest offenders are actual urban areas that should be cities but try to act like suburbs. Let cities be dense, and it will actually take some pressure off of the suburbs. People who work in cities end up living in suburbs even if they don't want to, and then commute in every day and clog up the roads. Most US major cities are still well below major European cities on residential density.

If you want rural to remain rural and suburbs to remain suburbs, then let town centers and metro cities fill in density for those who want to live there.
Also, when you hear real WTFs, try to keep a straight face.
I think this is an important point since the cost of money is a big part of building and buying housing. There are other nuances contained in this exchange too.

But beyond cost of money what, if any, specific argument are you making regarding housing? Lower subsidies in hopes the market follows? Further restrict the money supply to try and contain inflation? There are lots of second order effects that are too broad here, like high interest rates acting as a de facto subsidy to the wealthy (who then, maybe, buy more real estate, etc...
Finance is not investing. Please talk to people who work in the field before you make the jump.
Well, clearly the leaders at Women Who Code were not effective despite fairly high comp, otherwise rhey wouldnt be closing.

I get the talent pool shrinks. I still believe that you should be able to find an intersection between the subsets.

I don't think giving up salary entirely is the right move, but it does seem a bit hypocritical for almost your entire org to be volunteers then shut down the entire org because you don't have options but still collect your salary. I don't have any details on the specifics but I find it hard to believe that the org can't make some adjustments (unless leadership dug a deep hole) and that none of the volunteers already in the org couldn't be trained to fill the role. We're talking about a non-profit, not a Fortune 500 company. It's like selling girl scout cookies rather than used cars - it's much easier to get donations than real selling.
Lol let us know when you find that unicorn. So hard to find ethical operators in IT.
How about legalize the high-rises - and especially things like 3 and 4 story buildings with commercial underneath - and see what shakes out?

It's difficult to say how much demand there is for that kind of thing if we've made it illegal in so many places.

I don't doubt that many people have a preference for more suburban type places, but even those could be a lot more flexible and adaptable. A 4-plex here, a corner store there... that's not big city stuff. The city I live in is about 100K, and we have corner stores from back when they were legal when it was more like 10K.
> How lucky? The chance of getting picked was 0.06% — 60 times worse than the odds of getting into Harvard, about twice as unlikely as catching a foul ball at a baseball game, and on par with having a birthday on February 29.

What kind of nonsense-comparison is this? It's apples-to-oranges because applicants apply to multiple jobs.

In contrast, nobody has a hundred (legitimate) applications to Harvard in a year, few will attend multiple baseball games every week, and nobody gets to constantly re-roll the date of their own birth!
Thanks for the wonderful ideas!
Whenever I read
"It's estimated that there are around X ys in the observable universe."

How in the hell could you figure that out, when there are a lot of things
in physics and astronomy that we do not yet know how works, nor how they
are composed.

It is the ultimate "estimate how long it will take to implement this computer system based on this napkin drawing I made in 3 minutes ago".
Seems like a nightmare for context switching and staying abreast of the background info specific to each org.
> This is a supply issue and thus why people should be considering joining YIMBY Action.

Yup. I'm an introverted software guy. I am not 'a natural' at political stuff, but that group has given me so much help; it's great.
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I agree that anything suggesting you'll get a high-paying job as a coder (or "SWE" to sound fancy) after a short bootcamp is misleading. I've seen those before. I really feel like a proper bachelor's comp-sci degree made a huge difference for me, even though I also had to self-teach a ton of stuff.

Not sure if Women who Code made any such promises. There are plenty of lower-paying coding jobs or jobs that involve coding as a useful skill, and a bootcamp can help with that. Or, maybe someone has the CS background but not the practical skills.
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You think it's rent seeking as a block, and not a supply problem?
And that number immediately triggers my "Nice neat power of 2 answer? Seems unlikely..." suspicions. :-)
> mature audience

> seem to genuinely want to have a discussion around its merits

So true, and I think that's what overall makes HN worth it in a way that Discord or Reddit are ultimately not. Heavy moderator culture tends to render human beings at their worst: Authority for sport, conformity for survival - it's an ugly way to exist with others.

The baseline respect here out of mutual intellectual curiosity is huge. Thanks for your comment!
> I currently tend to believe that as far as abiogenesis/evolution goes, life was "seeded" in some way on the planet, i.e. given a head start vs arising spontaneously from primordial soup within 800M years.

It really depends on what you think the seed was.

The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and we have pretty good records of life on it and the evolutionary steps that took place going about about 3 billion of those with reasonable evidence of life for another billion before that (the 800 million years later part that you reference).

So, if life got seeded onto the planet, it happened before then and would have to have been in the form of small carbon-based molecules.

There's some debate in the field if life evolved genetics first or metabolism first. But the 'seed' would be the same in both cases, it's just that the pathway to get to modern life would be different.

The most compelling case that I'm aware of for these small carbon-based molecules to originate somewhere other than Earth is this paper: https://biologydirect.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/174...

Essentially they show that genomes have been doubling in size on average every 350 million years or so. If you project that math backward, you end with life starting, not at the beginning of Earth, but at the beginning of time, coinciding eerily with the Big Bang.

That points to a theory that carbon, water, and other elements we thought developed later might have been created earlier in the universe than expected. That would then point to the building blocks for life being essentially 'seeded' everywhere in the universe. Waiting to wake up as soon as conditions were right.
The only problem with the argument against it based on baryonic asymmetry is that if you cut a knot in half and look at one half of it, there's an entire other half you aren't seeing.

With this in mind, this idea is particularly fun if paired with something like Neil Turok's CPT symmetric universe (i.e. the other side of the knot).
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Interaction with an expert is extremely discoverable, and eliminates the need for many traditional interfaces anyway. Think about trying to book a holiday online and navigating all the interfaces for flights, accomodation, tours, etc. Versus going to see a travel agent, where you can loosely describe what you want and walk out with exactly what you need having interacted with zero graphical interfaces.
The infrastructure necessary to build suburbs is expensive: roads, water, sewer, electric, etc. It takes a very long time to pay off in taxes.

Denser areas bring in more tax revenue with fewer miles of infrastructure. There are good Strong Towns articles about this.

Rural areas have the same problem, but often the houses are on wells and septic tanks. The roads are simpler and cheaper and can get by with less maintenance.
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When you dont like what you see there is only one answer.

You start your own thing.

Tech, is no longer a capital intensive endeavor. You can pin your costs to your customers and grow at a reasonable pace.

This is how the first bubble started, how Web 2.0 kicked off. Go forth and build something you love.
I've made it to the bonus level. It's so paranoid, it refuses to answer most questions. It's "real" inasmuch that it exists, but if you mean "real" to indicate that it's at all useful as an LLM, then nah, it's not real.
The person being interviewed in that first link seems very biased, and obviously is for the authoritarian actions of the current Brazilian regime. She seems to take the stance that the secret unilateral censorship orders are “technically legal” while Musk and others take the stance that they are in conflict with Brazil’s own constitution. But leaving aside legality, obviously secret censorship orders based on political speech are very anti democratic - in the least such actions must be done in the open in full view of the public and not based on the sole judgment of one person. Even if it’s technically legal it should be debated and the law should be changed.

As an example of Aranha being biased, take this bit:

> So at the moment when were were managing to finally hold the main leaders of this attempted coup accountable, Elon Musk and Michael Shellenberger came onto the scene to attack the institutions that are prosecuting them, to usurp their power so they can’t convict them anymore. That was clearly their short term goal and in the long run Elon Musk obviously wants to be a player in the international far right and interfere in elections around the world, especially in the US.

What evidence is there that Musk wants to “interfere in elections”? If anything, he is seeking to remove interference from elections by advocating for less censorship and more neutrality.

Shellenberger didn’t “come onto the scene”. He’s been doing great research and journalism for a long time. Also pointing out one factual error that he readily admitted to doesn’t invalidate everything else the Twitter files uncovered. Even if you dismiss Shellenberger, there’s everything Glenn Greenwald has reported on what’s going on - is he also looking to support a coup? He faced attacks on his journalistic freedoms from the previous (Bolsonaro) administration and now the same from the present administration, for brave reporting.

Take that interview with a huge grain of salt. It’s Brasil Wire - which is a leftist (and therefore pro Lula) organization, and they’re not shy about their ideological bias:

https://www.brasilwire.com/about/
There is not one secret code. This is an engagement trick. We are being tricked into helping them debug. Fun!
You’re forgetting that the people living in those towns don’t want you to suddenly increase the housing stock by 5x and with it the class sizes.

Why should a minority of people, especially those that don’t even live in these towns, dictate how the town will be changing?

If dense housing is the bees knees, make people want to live in cities.
> I don't end up with hair of various lengths

Look closer, the hairs are random length. You have to wait of course for them to reach natural max length, and then you'll see a randomized mix of lengths.

If you are always clipping hair they will almost all be at one length because > 90% of them are still growing and then getting trimmed. The rest (a minority) have recently fallen out and are just getting started and will be shorter.

Does that make sense?
Spam I both downvote and flag.

Shills I downvote, and flag if they're blatant.

Zealots (people who are here to spread propaganda, rather than have a conversation) I often downvote. They may have a point (the first time they post), but they Just. Won't. Stop. They won't listen, either, or respond in good faith to peoples' arguments.

Bad faith replies I downvote, and flag if it's blatant.

And when I think about that list, it sounds a lot like the HN guidelines. I wasn't deliberately modeling my voting on the guidelines, but I think there's a basis in the guidelines for my approach.
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Top features like admin system and payment support attrat me more.

I am wondering what kind of custormers are you looking for.

For people can code like me, I haven't found out how simple the API is.
You are going to have to cite "Many people love the suburbs" part. Most people live in the suburbs because that is the only cheap option available and that's because of zoning doesn't allow any other form of living.

And when cities do decide to upzone, they tend to centralize high density towers in one part of the city.

There are countless studies on why suburbs are just one big ponzi scheme. Strongtowns is an advocacy group that is trying to show more light into this issue.

Most of the tax revenue comes from downtowns where there are more density and more economic activity. Meanwhile a lot of the infrastructure cost are sunked into the suburbs that contribute little to the total tax revenue. The situation is even worst in California due to prop 13.
Mind sharing the source on that report? Where was the link to it published?
There is nothing in the link that you posted that demonstrates a direct causal link between NCIS and the increase in female applicants to forensic science programs? The closest thing to a claim is a handwavy "...inspired in part by..." with no substantiation whatsoever.
The woman in the article was driving a car, so no?
Yeah, there are a lot of [gx]ooglers on this site, so the massive downvotes were not asurprise. I also acknowledge my comment was against site guidelines (not contributing to "curious conversation"). Yet still, I feel compelled to speak my mind because I have direct firsthand knowledge of Thomas Kurian.. and yuck. Nothing is special or surprising about that one.

Best wishes to all personkind,

M.D.

p.s. Even Dang gets downvoted sometimes, although to be fair, he doesn't engage in this sort of thread. *Shrug*
I found the latency to be very reasonable and for most of the conversation near instant. Only one or two "awkward pauses". I also really liked that I could interrupt and she would pick up on the new thread.
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