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Thanks for the completely uninformed prognostication on my future income! I will definitely not keep it in mind.

I don't understand people who say this. Have you ever tried to hire?

I'm 28yrs old and I make ~$400K/yr. That doesn't happen when there's some major abundance of talent sitting around.

Right, but normalizing to the price of bread and milk is even more ridiculous than normalizing to the federal budget, which is not excellent for this purpose, as you point out.

The CPI is composed of much more than that: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2016.pdf

This reminds me of the phrase "if you only have a hammer, every problem is a nail".

Poor people buy less stuff, and presumably rich people get rich by not buying more stuff commensurate with their incomes

One implication of the above statement would be that everyone is now buying less and yet somehow the economy is growing? Those two ideas aren't strictly necessarily opposed to one another but it certainly doesn't seem like a good place to start. The economy could only be growing through investment if this were the case.

Even the falling fertilizer consumption might be explained if poorer people are shifting to more processed junk food.

Is there any junk food that isn't composed of organic matter primarily? Most "junk" food in the US that I can think of is corn based which would of course still require fertilizer...

China, the country != Chinese (Asian?), the race

Or more importantly in this case: sell high, buy low

He's going to agree to one after leaving? As a part of severance?

Only Apple could get shat on for using appropriate but obscure terminology.

That seems like an odd cost increase. How do you figure it would lead to a tripling of op costs?

This is true if you only consider the first order effect of copyright.

However, the second order effects would lead to, for example, significant decrease in investment of the creation of any work that has marginal production of near $0. Why would Disney/Marvel go to the effort of creating the Avengers movies when those movies could be shown freely by movie theaters? They, of course, would not as there would be no way to recoup their investments. Now the millions of "the many" who have freely exchanged their dollars for movie tickets are worse off. Nobody wins, not the few and not the many.

Why would GRRM write the next two works in ASOIAF if ANY publisher could take the text, print it and sell it without remuneration to GRRM? At best he would because he's already rich but would he ever have in the first place?

The winners in your world may very well be Amazon and others with the easiest/best distribution platforms at the cost of the creators and in turn at the cost of all as the creators no longer create.

I'm told that Amazon and Booking both have huge production Perl code bases so some major orgs still care about it

That could very well be an affect of long term acclimation.

There's a big difference between seeing high concentrations of carbon dioxide as indicative of poor ventilation and seeing high concentrations of carbon dioxide itself as detrimental to cognitive function.

Very valuable to know. Thank you.

Way OT, but, I'm interested in why you and the parent comment are writing Netflix with a capital "F" as NetFlix. I've not seen this in any of their branding or collateral before. Is there a specific reason for it?

You're making a very large number of assumptions. In particular #1, #3 and #4. None of these are clear.

It's all in my head?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629960 (now deleted)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19629995

I think wrt NYT, the facts are all true but purpose should also clearly be a part of it. Imagine a headline which said "Trump kills man on White House lawn with Colt .45" and the man was attacking him with a machete.

When many (most?) people are aware of the prior tariff tirade by Trump and not everyone reads the meat of an article, I think it's irresponsible to not include the _why_.

It seems most posters didn't really read the article as the tariffs appear to be in compliance with a WTO ruling on something illegal the EU is doing wrt subsidies to Airbus. Unsurprising that the NYT and HN goes with the lead that Trump is unilaterally fucking up world order yet again but in this case it doesn't seem so deserved.

I really wish both groups (the NYT and HN) would be more nuanced when it comes to Trump. Otherwise, we all end up justifying Trump's and other Alt-Righties' claims of bias.

Tried to create an Outline but it seems WSJ blocks them. Very interesting article wrt economics of buffets in NYC. Apologies for paywalled link.

I do not want my buying habits mined , bought and sold, etc. They are my property and not subject to the whimms of amazon or any other company.

In order to make a purchase of X it is required that another party exists to make a sale of X. Let's call this transaction A. Why do you believe that the metadata of transaction A is owned solely by the purchaser and is not equally owned by the seller?

Even further, is there really a differentiation between the purchaser and the seller? It's really just an exchange of a good or service for dollars where the "buyer" is the one with the dollars and the "seller" is the one with the good or service.

Yeah the listicle type results have really started to increase in search relevance for me. ESPECIALLY when I search on mobile. I think mobile Google Search is a truly awful experience with an extremely cluttered results page that I can never properly navigate.

What!? I've lived in the Mission for 5yrs and know plenty of others who also have. Never once been mugged our had my house broken into!

The car thing, though, everyone in SF who street parks has had their window shattered and car scavenged...

No. Uber gets location data FROM Foursquare.

EDIT: That is, the API call doesn't include info about the individual. Foursquare wouldn't know who the individual is for whom the request was made. Except, perhaps, in rare circumstances where they tried correlating them, themselves. Even then, Uber mostly uses it not to understand where a user is but rather the types of locations at a given address.

Feels a bit like correlation vs causation. It's unclear what the mechanism of action in GvH would be and it's also clear in this case that GvH was not necessary.

Not even an Uber or Lyft? Never purchased a product through Amazon or similar? You've never had to enter your credit number into your phone to be used in any way?

You didn't pay attention to the key part "to a third party". Most of the larger companies don't use third party logging software, AFAIK.

When I worked at Uber we used this an it was internally called "uChat". I have two things to note about this:

1) When uChat was first rolled out the team who ran the rollout did everything they could to make it seem as though they had created uChat from scratch and that it was an internal tool, even though everyone knew it wasn't. The rollout was comically inefficient and the platform didn't scale at all to Uber's size. The uChat team then tried at an all-hands to talk about what a great job they had done building uChat which was followed by a slew of questions around all of uChat's massive failings such that the CEO started grilling them a bit. It was both embarrassing and strangely funny to watch what was either their total lack of self-awareness or their blatant misrepresentation of everything they had done.

2) When I left Uber in November of last year, uChat was still pretty dysfunctional. I use Slack today in my new role and it's a MASSIVE step up.

People that stare at the screen all day long are sophisticated enough to know that a matte screen is just better.

I always enjoy it when someone arrogantly poses a subjective statement as fact from a position of arbitrary authority. I like it especially so when there are a plethora of reasons against their position as in this case.

I actually prefer it even. I don't like the mushy keys on the prior MacBooks.

EDIT: That said I find the touchbar to be a gimmick and not something I really like using. It's not much of a downgrade as compared to function keys, however.

You're thinking of the AirPower not the AirPods.