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This is me reading between the lines -- so maybe not the parent commenter meant at all! -- but I think the point is that all sorts of grudges, prejudices, and regrets naturally expire through generational turnover, and in a world without aging that natural expiration won't be there to help society put the past behind us.
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Maybe you'll be renting from one of HN's many "entrepreneurs" :-)
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In principle, you an end the regress at any point with subsidies. Ramifications are manifold, I've no idea if it's a good idea, and it's not what's being proposed, but it seems a potential way out of what you've described.
There's proof that this solution works :

Something similar was done for a large percent of housing in Israel , in the 50-80's. Israel was a newly formed state, with massive immigration coming with pretty large economic challenges. And yet it worked out pretty well - and housing wasn't a big problem - and everybody could get a place to live.
While RTFM is technically a correct answer to any Emacs question, the reason for purchasing a secondary resource is that the author has presumably curated the documentation for a particular audience.

I agree that Emacs documentation is very good, and once I recently got in the habit of C-h'ing for answers rather than Google'ing I became more productive and can work more productively with the WiFi on my laptop off [not having the temptation of HN among the productivity enhancements]. But this doesn't change the fact that better explanations are possible and that a teacher is often better than a specification. Experts can contextualize a problem, and that has added value.
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It comes from academic material, typical neoclassic economics textbooks teach this so I assume its from The Wealth of Nations. By increasing the minimum wage it locks out a portion of employees from being employed where the marginal product of labour is less than the minimum wage.

Because of this there are actually tonnes of papers studying its effects:

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w0846.pdf (one such paper)
This is great. Is it a quote from somewhere?
> If I want different outcomes I acknowledge I must make different choices.

Would love to see you try and sell this in Iraq, for example. An extreme but it illustrates the flaw in your theory.
I think one red flag that people often miss, or make excuses for, is this: management not treating a coworker fairly.

When you're not treated fairly, that's clearly a red flag. But many people see coworkers treated poorly while they themselves aren't, grab a beer after work and talk about it, commiserate etc. but don't consider the possibility that maybe they themselves are next.
Yeah, let's subsidize Walmart employees with tax payer money instead of letting the poor guys pay their employees themselves. It's not like they are billionaires or anything.

What should rather happen is the exact opposite! If you work for Walmart you shouldn't be able to receive any government assistance at all because you are already working and the point of working 8 hours a day is to be able to feed and cloth yourself and if you cannot do that with that job then that job is of no use to you or anyone and should therefore stop existing.

But if it turns out that the employer or whoever benefits from that job desperately needs it, they will have to pay the employees a livable wage.

What should definitely not happen is that the tax payer ends up subsidizing privately owned businesses without getting anything in return.

And if it doesn't sit well with anyone that people get money for nothing (which is the argument pushed for EITC) then let the government employ them to do something that is at least remotely useful to the taxpayer that is footing the bill. Even just sweeping leafs off porches is better use of money.
Intuitiveness is subjective. Take cursor movement for example. I understand now h,j,k,l is a remnant from historic keyboards, but when I started learning vim, I couldn't fathom why 'h' moves a cursor to left and 'l' to the right, though I got used to it eventually. The emacs 'C-f' for forward and 'C-b' for backward were definitely more intuitive. Of course, depending on the mode, some emacs commands can be cryptic and leave you with a painful pinky, but they were definitely more intuitive to me.
Making money off land is actually more feudalism, not capitalism.
Then it is different that the situation in Spain, even when gay marriage was legalised, the adoption was done only by one of them as a single.

The law had to be changed to have into account there was a couple and give the child the protection if the legal progenitor died.
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Calling gold coin a true money is so funny, because it doesn't have inherent value by itself. It's only have value because people agreed to exchange things and services for it. Like a printed money. And if someone thinks gold coins didn't lost value over time...
What the heck is this "asses", it must be a yesssss, yesss
It really is. Since using Haskell, the type systems in the mainstream languages I've used have seemed sorely lacking.
> The richest country in the world celebrates trailer parks.

So what? The only difference between a trailer home and a traditional home is one is built on a frame that can be moved and the other has a fixed location with a foundation. What's wrong with that?
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I've been through a few startups, but one experience really has stuck with me. I was an early employee in a turnkey software startup built on ideas from a moderately noted researcher in the field the software was designed to sell to. I had known the researcher off and on over the years and he had been brought on as the CTO with the investors bringing in an outside person they knew as the CEO.

They were still in "stealth mode" at this time, taking some earlier work the researcher had spent time on and hardening it for general commercial sale. This was the first red flag I should have seen, instead of taking the time to reboot the product and start it over for a modern market, the development team was spending a year doing bug fixes and cleaning up broken research code.

Not long after starting I went with the CTO to a trade show for market research and meet and greets with some industry partners. He booked us a lavish 4-star hotel and during a week-long trip maybe spent 2 hours at the show. He couldn't get out of there fast enough and instead wanted to rent a conference room outside the city and spend the week brainstorming product ideas. Remember, he had directed the dev team to not develop a new product but to merely fix and update his old code. He then described some new ideas that I recognized as being more or less exactly like a competing product. I asked him to describe how we would differentiate it from that product. Instead he claimed it was a totally different idea. Red flags #2, #3 and 4

And it went on a for a while, intense conflicts between the CTO and the dev manager put development work into a holding pattern, lack of a good sales strategy, and so on.

Eventually there was complete turnover at the C-level and the investors brought in a new team, they asked me to stay on while they rebooted the company so I did, and we did better, almost turned it around. But by that time we were stuck with a huge legacy codebase dwindling investment dollars and a host of other problems that we could never seem to shake.

Despite being a bad experience, I learned more from that failed company than I've learned in the other 15 years of work. Observing so many failure modes happening all at once, and seeing how a pro-team might go about a turn-around has taught me an entire business school's worth of street smarts.

I'd almost recommend riding a company down like that to people serious about startups so they can learn the same things, but to be honest, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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Imagine tons of winning lottery players getting together in one spot. It would look like the only way to get ahead is to win the lottery if you're looking from the outside in.

Mix in a few thousand lottery winner wannabes and the analogy is complete.

My advice: just ignore it, survivor bias is a thing that is very hard to quantify without having all the numbers and for every lottery winner there are large numbers of also-rans that did not make it.

The media magnifying this effect certainly does not help.
> That's why it should probably be a government entity.

Or, you know, a non-profit organization.
Wow, what a really mean-spirited comment, and it's the top one (at the time of writing.) -- did you consider what you said here before writing it? Let me propose a rewrite:-

'If you can't afford to buy this, the official emacs GNU documentation is great - [link]'

Instead you first admit you haven't read it, then imply, but in somewhat weasel words, that it doesn't offer anything beyond what the official documentation offers.

I'm a long-term emacs user and I can tell you that while the official docs cover a lot, they provide more of a reference than a guide, so a book like this is really worthwhile.

Keep in mind the author would have dedicated enormous amounts of time and effort to writing this, and technical book writing is very rarely a profitable enterprise.

I think we need a bit more kindness towards people's work (as well as _constructive_ criticism of course) - how do you think the author might feel reading this on such a prominent tech website? Imagine it was something you worked on for hundreds of hours, dismissed in the top comment, how would you feel? We're all humans, and empathy is already lacking enough in our industry, so think a little before posting next time.
I grew up with wild strawberries growing in my back yard. You could eat them, but they were sparse, the size of medium-sized blueberries, and tasted similarly to a green modern strawberry. I'm quite happy with the $0.98/LBs modern strawberries I can now buy at my local grocery store. (Less intrigued by the $4+/LBs organic ones they try to sell me.)

I watched a TEDx talk (I think) by some lady talking about the pre-human-intervention foods and how this one's toxic and that one's gross and so on. I've been unable to find the video since, though. If anyone knows the talk I'm talking about, I'd love a link.
Is it legal to be a cash dispenser?
A great book and accompanying software imo lacks just 2 things.

1:the building of the Nand gate itself
and
2: the building of a flip flop.

Both these tasks can be easily accomplished with reference to the book 'Code' by Charles Petzold (http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...)

and software such as this http://logic.ly/
I have been to boot camp. I speak to a lot of mobile home park owners.
When frank talks about raising rent, it's typically because the parks are mismanaged by people who don't know what they are doing. In areas where there are multiple parks, rents hit a plateu because of competition.

The other issue, not mentioned here, is that it's really hard to build a new park. No city wants them so they won't allow them. Effectively there is a cap on supply and demand is growing.
Why not? Where is the problem legalising it?
Define "better".

If you want something more efficient/performance, C++.
If you really want to get into game programming: C++.
If you're still learning basics about programming: Java.
If you want something that's memory managed, and easier to write: Java.
> Have there been successful efforts elsewhere that have helped moderate the negative effects of such rapid changes?

Redlining definitely worked for a long time.
See also: Community Land Trusts http://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/clts/index.html

There are a lot of ways to hack our legal and financial systems to literally make the world a better place. Problem is: they don't make anyone rich.
If doctors don't earn much more than baristas, why would I even bother putting myself through the hell that is medical school, free or not? I could skip it all and make almost as much pulling espresso shots. It makes no sense.
Whenever I start to feel this way, it's a good time to read some David Foster Wallace:

"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious. They are default-settings. They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing. And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default-settings, because the world of men and money and power hums along quite nicely on the fuel of fear and contempt and frustration and craving and the worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the “rat race” — the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing."
> only 5 out of 180 FISA orders were authorized by 215

If you have a statute that you believe allows you to surveil the entire population, how many orders does that require? As opposed to ones that require some standard of suspicion for an individual or group.

I don't mean to imply there aren't other programs or theories of authority, but that this statistics tells you exactly nothing about the importance of a particular provision.
What are proven strategies for getting people to download your app?
Context: A friend and I are developing an app which we believe will be a big hit with business users.

How do I get my first early adopters?
What strategies would you employ if you want to get the "word out"?
I want to get my app talked about on news/tech/business sites, who do I reach out to on those sites?
Where can get a 3rd party to review my app and test its functionality?
What marketing other marketing materials would I need other than a live demo and a strong pitch to convince 3rd parties to talk about the app?

I'm new to this and I would be very grateful for any advice you can give.

Thanks!
A keyboard with symmetrically placed C and M keys is another piece of Xah Lee's sound advice: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html

I've been using the MicroSoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 for several years and it has improved my touch for M and C. Recently, I've been applying that on my ThinkPad [chosen because of the symmetric layout] and am removing some additional bad habits related to left-C right-C.
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(dang: this article's from 2014)

Two questions. First, can you provide proof for the efficacy of your methods? What have you been able to do (in a tangible sense; how much money/time have you saved) that wouldn't be possible without this method? Even one of the writers of the Agile Manifesto badmouthed his own work a little while back because he realized something was wrong (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9538858).

Second, I don't like the idea of hiring people as independent contractors instead of employees. They lose many benefits and end up giving you most of the control.
Look up the chattel crisis of the early 90s. Most of these people do not have the funds for a mortgage and can't be underwritten.
If you do a "helicopter drop" the money is created by the central bank out of thin air which is basically why it tends to increase aggregate demand. There's more money but prices don't adjust instantly so more stuff gets bought.

Raising the minimum wage does the opposite. Hiring workers becomes more expensive and 70% of that increase in prices is empirically passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. So now the money to price ratio goes down and aggregate demand decreases. Your plan was tried in the Great Depression and it backfired spectacularly.
I have alot of idea's, but as a full-time developer, it's hard to get a team to trust and spread the word about them. Knowing there's a millionplus people ready to copy paste and invest a few dollars or a million or more. The funds i dont have.

So yes, i feel like im missing out, but more like not having a chance to miss out.
Or better yet, build islands around it so they have no access. (Of course I am just joking here)
Living in a maabara is considered good housing? Have you been in a rakevet building recently?
I used to feel like that when I was younger. Now many years later I haven't accomplished the goals I set years back, but I feel happy. I spend my days working on interesting problems and feel I'm learning so much all the time.

I'd say the key is concentrating on what you're doing that makes you happy. If coding is your passion and you're coding 50 hours a week now, you'd probably do the same if you were rich and famous. Or maybe you wouldn't have so much time for coding with everything else coming your way.
Doucouliagos and Stanley published a great review in 2009 with the key figure being a scatterplot of study size vs elasticity (elasticity = change in # jobs / change in min wage) [1]. This looks like a funnel centered around the true value. The funnel is wide where N is small and narrow where N is large. Two conclusions from the figure:

1. The true elasticity is ~0 (maybe ever so slightly negative). Only small increases in minimum wage were studied, so this isn't an argument in favor of drastic raises, just an argument that small raises don't hurt under prevailing conditions.

2. The funnel should be symmetrical because random error does not favor higher vs lower elasticity. Instead, the funnel is bent, which is evidence of strong publication bias in favor of results of the form "increases in minimum wage decrease the number of jobs."

FWIW I don't think minimum wage increases are a great way out of this mess because I think reduced workweek and basic income / minimum income / EITC are all better options. Still, I think this figure is pretty convincing evidence that economists place too much faith in their neoclassical model.

[1] Page 33 of http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.398...

EDIT: added conclusion, fixed possibly misleading wording
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No, the real difference is that trailers depreciate over time, while houses (and property) appreciate.

Mobile homes--when purchased--are not an investment in the same way real estate is. Think of them more like automobiles that wear out and eventually have to be replaced.
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You could argue the same about other benefit claimants, but this is besides the point. Most of the welfare budget is spent on pensions.
Well then you'd have to mandate equality of who gets offered application engineer vs application programmer, or you'd be back in the same position as you started from..
Looking forward to this. By "very far along" do you mean in terms of specification, implementation, or both?