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Crime went down becausr wr locked up all the Urban Youth scum. Now theres chatter of letting em out and going soft on crime. If that happens, crime will back up.

I would arguea HN thread about home security systems that shoot intruders upon home invasion would be tolerated on HN.

So self-defense / death alone are not enough to flag a comment. Political movements like ELF (Earth Liberation Front) used arguments similar to mine on why, for example, coal plants are legitimate targets in self defense.

The comment you linked was an (perhaps poor) attempt to prove the absurdity of free market ideology by taking it to the extreme.

Having recently finished The Rise and Fall of American Growth myself, I reached the opposite conclusion.

Yes, the decrease from 12+ -> 8 hour workdays helped health and thus productivity and growth as the author persuasively states. But in the final few chapters which look forward rather than back in time, it was my interpretation that the author sees trends in declining hours & labor force participation as headwinds to TFP growth.

It is naturally more inefficient to have more shifts and thus more people commuting, etc. The diminishing health returns from 8 - > 6 hour work days not being enough to make up for this loss in efficiency.

Blizzard has stated that StarCraft Remastered will incluve native support for FISH -- which is apparently a Korean server with ranked match making.

This presumably means ranked matchmaking is to be expected for Western players as well. Whether that included iccup or not, I don't know.

Do you really think the audio jack was removed because of thinness?

Have you seen the inside of a smartphone? Its not just about thinness. There is very little space for anything besides the battery.

Also, removable batteries and the audio jack get in the way of dust/water proofing.

You may think shrinkage is pointless, but that's clearly not what the market or the top designers think. Why do you want a giant, useless, 100+ year old analog port on your 2017 device? I don't. Its ugly.

Even dual 1080 GTX cards can't max out settings on the VR games currently available for Oculus / HTC Vive.

As for traditional usecases, I have a 3x monitor setup ( 2K@144Hz/4K@60Hz/2K@144Hz) and my 1080 GTX can't max out everything smoothly while I stream/record high-end games.

I would love it if all this was just vanity, but its my job. This stuff is an expense I'd happily avoid if possible. I don't own any nonsensical RGB lighted cases or non-essential peripherals.

Any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to die.

In the past, this was because of disease caused by pre-sanitation density. Today, it is due to below-replacement fertility rates caused by impossible to afford living costs.

So if you consider extinction a form of human suffering, 'traditional walkable cities' fit the bill.

The Linux Desktop was never a thing so how could it be killed?

They don't have their shit together because the stock has barely moved in a decade. If you think Wal-Mart has their shit together, you've either been living under a rock for the past 10 years or you're not very intelligent.

Here's a fun chart from Google Finance: 10-Year Wal-Mart vs Amazon stock performance:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

As someone who grew up in a neighborhood where Western Union/Money Gram were commonly used -- Only criminals use it. Full Stop.

Now, not all these criminals are violent or into drugs. Many were illegals sending money home. I get WHY they would use it, but it makes no sense for the US Government to even allow these services to exist.

That's like saying you don't understand why the government just sending Altay a $1billion check with the pre-condition that he spends it all gets a bad rap.

There's no reason to favor home ownership -- look at home ownership rates in Germany vs S. Europe. Then look at the health of their economies and living conditions.

More people go to college today so we're 4 years later into the labor force.

This will only mean something when we hit prime working age for millennials. Let's see the numbers then.

Huh? I never heard that being a thing. If anything, investors tend to reward lowering head count.

In a free market, if a company breaks its Terms of Service with me I have the legal right to walk up and shoot every Employee and Shareholder of that company (No limited liability in a free market -- that's a government decree.)

This is such a pointless post. Why did it do so well here? Did any of you LOOK at the post and the stats/chart?

2% down since the peak. Who cares. Look at that chart. Its not even noticeable.

Per-capita energy usage is already falling across the developed world. And that's just with current trends. We could easily tax electricity far higher in most countries, mandate higher efficiency (the US still uses giant furnaces and hot water heaters) and tax carbon.

Why do people on Hacker News seem so drawn to Nuclear? Its insanely expensive, it takes forever for a plant to come online, and worst of all for an industry that likes to remain 'boring' -- it draws too much public attention.

Why fight all that? WHY?

Who says its 'international waters'? The Western created UN shackle? Fact is America is operating thousands of miles away from its territory. The only reason to do that is hostility and Imperialism.

Who keeps their phone for over a year? No one rational, that's for sure.

If you think its wasteful to change your phone annually, you better never go to the movies, buy coffee outside, etc. The hours-per-dollar return on a phone is better than anything else you can spend money on save for a PC, mattress, and a few other objects.

Perhaps I'm guilty of falling for marketing definitions, but aren't we already down to 14nm rather than the 20nm the article suggests in the opening paragraph?

They knew that the laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer threshold on the size of transistor gates among conventional semiconductors, about one-quarter the size of high-end 20-nanometer-gate transistors now on the market.

My only experience with Flickr was uploading tens of thousands of images with links to my websites for 'link juice' back when Google was stupid and eas(ier) to game. Ah, the good ol days....

It mostly just confirms my belief that fully half of all white-collar workers in the developed world are adding zero value. They hustle for their first few years, then coast as old products sell themselves to old customers they already established relationships with in their younger years...

I can't fault them for not giving their all every day... I know for a fact I would instantly put in the minimal amount of work required after achieving tenure / seniority / whatever at a large organization.

But breaking backwards compatibility is just not something customers will put up with.

There's no reason to believe this to be an immutable law going forward for much longer. With more and more going into the browser & cloud, how much is really left on the client side to be backwards compatable with these days?

The first thing I do when I reformat is install chrome, login, and sync my Google Account. I have all my important documents on Google Drive, a full office suite in Google Docs, all my bookmarks, account logins, etc.

"All the news that's fit to print!"

The basics of search are pretty well established today. Just because it initially cost Google a ton of money doesn't mean it would cost nearly as much today.

This holds true for nearly every human endeavor.

I've argued for a long time that America is in a privileged position where we can literally see our own future: Japan

So when is Google+ dying. That whole project is such an embarrassment...

I used a fee change of a few pennies to get out of an ETF on a Verizon Wireless contract on two subsidized Blackberries back when smart phones first starting to blowing up.

The best part is, I didn't even have the credit for the subsidy so I had to give them a 2 year deposit on the full price of the phones. But since THEY (technically) changed the contract by raising my monthly fee from 5 cents to 8 cents or something, I GOT THE DEPOSIT BACK!

I sold the phones on eBay and made a lot of money (for a high school kid).

I think the charge was called 'federal universal service charge' and there was a whole guide on how to use it to your advantage. You had to sound really confident and have your contract open to the relevant clauses so you could confidently read it to them over and over.

This is his brother Erhan, but I'll pass on the kind words! Omer is back making first looks on the new MMOS.com YouTube Channel, check it out!

While nothing will compare to the 'first time', the bewilderment need not diminish to zero.

Ultima Online was my first and still favorite MMORPG back in the late 1990s/early 2000s but when I tried EverQuest for the first, the 3D world and depth of races/characters/NPCs blew me away.

Then I tried Dark Age of Camelot. The 1-world-but-3-continents/factions concept amazed me. There was always 'the others' and a sense of citizenship with the group of players I could actually interact with. Everyone in UO/EQ was a potential rival/friend. In DAOC I knew where my loyalty lied and the enemy was always clear.

Then I played Ragnarok Online -- my first Korean MMORPG. Again, blown away for totally different reasons. The music, the colors, the sprites, and GIRLS!! Lots of girls played Ragnarok. I didn't meet any girls on UO/EQ/DAOC -- 95% boys, 5% house wives.

Next up was Star Wars Galaxies. No more 'levels', back to skills ala Ultima Online but in a totally different and more complicated way! 3D persistent housing! Crafting! Dancing at the local cantina as a totally legit profession! Multiple PLANETS!! OMG!

Then came World of Warcraft -- nothing I hadn't seen before this time. But it was presented in the most streamlined manner and was the first MAINSTREAM MMORPG. Everyone my age was playing. I felt like the grizzled veteran of the genre/ I knew the mechanics. I taught my friends how to tank. How to heal. How to lead a raid, etc. Again, amazing for totally different reasons.

Sad to say, I haven't felt anything new since WoW. But I honestly don't think its because the genre is played out. Its just we haven't been shown anything different. That might change this year with plenty of promising games in the pipeline -- Shards Online, Albion Online, Camelot Unchained, etc.

If you still think the genre has hope, check out my ~1yr old website, http://mmos.com I hope to see you on my next adventure.