krisgee

Perhaps the government should open companies that are meant to lose money and are tax supported (for-loss conpanies) that compete with the industry with solutions that are good for the people but bad for business?

Many government owned companies actually make a profit until private industry lobbies them into ineffectiveness. The US Post Office was profitable until a change lobbied by Fed-Ex and UPS forced them to keep 100% of their pensions available at all times.

Various crown corp electric companies were profitable in Canada and SaskTel, a crown corp telecommunications company is the last bastion of non-insane cell phone plans though I'm sure Rogers and Bell are working on it.

People just hate seeing the government make money. They see that things are good, say "hey, why should the government get this money" and then shut down the system that's working and complain when everything costs more because private industry is trying to squeeze every last cent out of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

This is one of my favourite things. It's an incredibly old, historically important text in a dead language and it's just a customer complaint.

"You have put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said, 'If you want to take them, take them. If you do not want to take them, go away'.

3750 years ago some dude was still showing up and trying to rip people off and pull the "cash in hand" choosing beggar play.

I thought it was going to be banknotes generated by ML based on the world's currencies.

That's associated with a big travel purchase so you can cut that possibility out pretty quickly.

It should literally remind you of the east coast cod fishery in Canada which was once the most productive fishery in the world and is now basically nothing.

It got wrecked by giant all in one factory trawlers out competing local boats, causing a feedback effect where to complete you needed trawlers as well helped along by a corrupt government that was willfully ignorant of the situation until (almost literally) one day there just weren't any fish left.

That destroyed an entire region's economy (a region I happen to be from), and has led to generational depression, joblessness and frankly hopelessness.

- A friend of mine, when showing him the statement 'x = x + 1' was confused; surely, x cannot also equal x+1.

I think the best thing that my CS 101 prof did was always refer to the assignment operator as "gets" so you'd say "eks gets eks plus one" out loud. It really helped divorce assignment and equality in my mind.

I dreamed myself a sci-fi miniseries and it was extremely weird so it's not just you. I work in games/entertainment so I assume it's just how my brain organizes stuff.

Seems like you need some kind of divine recognition, as otherwise you're just a dictator.

I'd argue you have it backwards there. You start as a dictator (you and a bunch of people who agree with you take over some part of land, congrats you're the King) then the legitimacy comes from you and your family holding on to it till everyone's used to it.

There is an (appointed) upper house in Canada and the UK at least, that in theory can act as a check on parliament.

If anything needs reform it's the fucking Senate. Basically the same problems as the US Supreme Court has where whoever's in charge when people die get to pack the upper house of government. I'd happily take at least term limits but I feel like it should either be elected or produced somehow via vote share during the parlimentary election.

Do you not have maximum time between election? We have that in Canada.

I still think it was a bad call allowing Harper to get away with prorouging parliament twice and giving the cons time to paint a coalition government as somehow "unconstitutional" and "undemocratic".

It's MORE democratic if anything.

Well the main source of turmoil would be in replacing the office since theoretically all the powers in the country devolve from the head of state.

I gotta say that I find the rabid anti-monarchal take a lot of americans have online kinda weird. I wouldn't say I feel "ruled" in any real sense by the British crown even though it is technically true. The Prime Minister and the House of Commons are where the actual legislative power rests and as much as the Governor-General is technically the commander in chief I highly doubt if she called for a revolution against the civilian government that would get any traction.

Furthermore I gotta say that given a lot of the other options I LIKE the hoky kind of odd but deeply rooted ceremony that surrounds our governmental proceedings.

Is it silly that the prime minister has to be presented to the Governor-General to get invested and leads a Privy Council (and for that matter is called a Prime Minister)? Yeah, but it's been WORKING that way for a long time and that inertia is important, especially I think nowadays with a lot of uncertainty from the largest democracy in the world.

Interesting my CS degree had a required introductory Computer Engineering course which itself had a pre-req first year course where we learned digital logic (among other stuff).

We didn't go quite as far as this book seems to but definitly got a decent grounding in how computers actually do their thing before it was back to theory.

Can journalist check Gamasutra nad gdc vault before writing blog post on genre

No because if they take time to do research they'll miss the views they could have gotten if they just slam out a piece and (basically) nobody is going to pay extra for a journalist who's also an expert on board game design.

It's the biggest problem with journalism today.

Just like how private sector health insurance isn't predatory at all huh.

These days that dispute is ridiculous - obviously prejudice and bias can be built into technological artifacts. It's one "if statement" away.

And with machine learning we're building our biases into the algorithms explicitly; see all those "resume parsers are racist" articles.

This is clearly an issue that needs to be dealth with but the problem is that it's not a problem we can engineer our way of, we need to confront the biases that we have and try and build ways to expose biases we don't even realize we have.

This is obviously quite hard and if I had a solution to it I'd probably be implementing it instead of waxing poetic on HN.

The stance they've taken is that as President they won't ban or delete tweets because they're matters of record.

There have been a lot of hints that after he's officially out the ban hammer is in play again.

I mean 5 hours is pretty much a days work realistically so if you look at it that way it seems pretty reasonable to me. Project 1 is basically a "you'll take a day to do this" project 3 is basically a week's work, etc.

If it comes with some instructions and hints it would line up with my estimates pretty closely, that said I've done a bit of this sort of work before so I might have less unknown unknowns in my estimate.

My god, Apple requiring a price for apps would be best thing that's happened to the mobile environment in AGES.

I'm a mobile game dev and I would sacrifice a child to go back to the days when people would pay 0.99 for a game.

I'd assume that the move would be to take the option out then file an anti-trust suit.

Even if they did this is now an argument that the app store review process is not "fairly applied" which will be noticed in the current environment.

Remote work also allows people to do that, but until the virus it hadn't really been considered as a serious option in the vast majority of workplaces.

Yes but the cruical difference is that now, if I ask for remote work to move and the company says no I have to choose between having and income and moving. With UBI they say "no" I say "ok" and have income to fall back on.

The key thing UBI enables is the ability to meaningfully make a choice to leave your current job if you want to without destroying your ability to keep yourself alive.

This makes me wonder if some new colorblindness glasses manufacturer is planting "viral" content.

This is it. Last couple of rounds of these "magic glasses" have also followed the same pattern, trying to prey on colourblind people's loved ones to buy them these expensive glasses. Everything I've read from people who've actually tried this says they're underwhelming, they work by blocking some of the spectrum around where you have issues (for instance I'm Red/Green so I have issues around those colours but especially browns and purple) so you can distinguish differences more clearly.

They do NOT let you see more colours magically, just distiguish the now reduced colour set better.

I'd love nothing more than some magical solution to cure my colourblindness, when I was a kid up till I was 15 (I got diagnosed really late) my top three careers were Astronaut, Military Pilot and Commerical pilot, if anyone remembers that one scene in Little Miss Sunshine that was very close to my reality. Unforutnatly until we start replacing eyeballs somehow it just doesn't exist.

tl;dr don't buy these, they're trying to use your impulse to do something nice for someone against you.

Oh please. There's nothing legally wrong with it but you'd have to be pretty dense not to see the moral issue with labeling something in a way that would signal it as "high end" to consumers while it's actually just being marked up 100x over cost or more.

Is there anything legally wrong with it? No, caveat emptor but I think you have to be willfully ignoring the moral implication to not see the issue with essentially abusing someone's preconceptions.

but for the average coffee connoisseur, excellent equipment is attainable for a few hundred dollars.

I think this is generally true of most hobbies (jokingly it's what I use to define a hobby, something that you can, but don't have spend at least 1000 USD on).

To pick one I recently started on you can get started brewing beer for under 100 dollars. You can get perfectly acceptable, even excellent beer using basic equipment. Then, if you want you can go out and spend thousands of dollars on pressure transfer equipment, kegging tools, stainless steel fermenters and etc.

But you don't have to.

Real Ale in a bottle would continue to condition slightly so depending on the yeast strain I'd expect bottled beer to change flavour slightly.

Also because of the way cask ale is dispensed it's pretty much always oxidized after the first couple of pints are pulled so that might be the change in taste you're noticing, since it's in the bottle it doesn't get oxidized.

The main ship itself is named after a Mind from Hydrogen Sonata and all the support craft on it are named after Culture ships as well. I guess the guy's just a fan?

I use Duck for most searches now but I find if I'm trying to ask a question or search weird error codes or something Google is still better for that. I still use duck to input but use the g! command.

Interestingly, he actually acknowledged this criticism in his own work, beginning his book with the following "plea to the Readers.":

This is the main tell of a snake oil salesman. If someone's selling something that works they don't need to load the pitch with their product's life story and "trust me" statements.

Same, the only time I used a TI graphing calculator was during one unit of high school math. I don't think we used them during the test for that semester either.

The general rule was scientific calculator only.