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0x4f3759dfon The cold blue light of modern touchscreens poses health problems

I use f.lux and an extension called 'deluminate' which saves my eyes from white webpages at night

0x4f3759dfon Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners

Censorship resistant money is a nice use case. The lightning network will create microtransactions, I imagine devices negotiating for bandwidth and paying few satoshis for the privilege. Its too bad there is such an energy requirement built into the system, that's my I'm keeping my eye on Chia.

0x4f3759dfon The Ratio of Workers to Retirees Is Plunging Across Developed Economies

The first generation of migrants will mostly fail to get jobs[1] and become a burden on the welfare state.

1) https://www.ft.com/content/022de0a4-54f4-11e7-9fed-c19e27000...

0x4f3759dfon Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

NPR interviewed the author of Real Food, Fake Food. Basically everything is fake, olive oil, fish, Parmesan cheese

http://www.realfoodfakefood.com/real-food-fake-food-book-by-...

0x4f3759dfon Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

Copenhagen is nice due to the efforts of Jan Gehl its an interesting story to read up on.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: Anyone else using Hacker News as a `dopamine hit`?

If you use http://hckrnews.com/ you won't miss anything. Since you've turned the site into a bad habit, moderate your consumption with a rule like 'I only read it on the weekends'

0x4f3759dfon The world's smallest desert is in Canada

The Athabasca sand dunes are also visually interesting http://photojourneys.ca/2017/12/31/exploring-saskatchewans-a...

0x4f3759dfon America’s Millennials Are Waking Up to a Grim Financial Future

"Usury is the operating system of the [American] empire" - heard this on a talk recently and it seemed to have some truth to it. Sorry about your situation.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US?

Yes that's a major reason people move to the suburbs (but not actually why they were created in the first place), but on the other hand you can build a safe town where the buildings are close together.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how to invest and build wealth?

The greater point is if you become a landlord, you get rich with the bank's money.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US?

Jim Kunstler's podcast is good when he doesn't veer off into peak oil civilizational collapse speculation http://kunstler.com/writings/podcast/

Granola Shotgun https://granolashotgun.com/

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/

I really enjoyed the books 'The Great Good Place' by Oldenberg , 'Streets are for People' by Rudufsky and the Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler

0x4f3759dfon Qt for WebAssembly

People argue that we will just block ads at the transport level, but I don't see why the site won't just add an extra hop and serve the ads from their server.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: Who's starting new towns in the US?

The founder of Dominos pizza built the city of Ave Maria, FL -- It gets high marks in the child safety/friendly category from the local press but feels suburban to me. The most famous example is probably Seaside, FL built buy Duany Plater-Zyberk, it was the set of "The Truman Show". The story is interesting they had to fight all these dumb zoning laws (eg. The Fire Department buys the biggest truck they can find and then think that every road in the state must accommodate it) -- DPZ has other stuff worth checking out: https://www.dpz.com/Projects/All

My favorite is in Jakriborg, Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakriborg

You learn about this sort of stuff if you are plugged into the urbanist blogs / podcast scene

0x4f3759dfon Qt for WebAssembly

Somebody is going use a technology similar to this to defeat ad-blockers.

0x4f3759dfon The Collapse of a $40 Million Nutrition Science Crusade

Whenever low carb gets popular, industry is threatened and spins up some FUD as illustrated in this talk 'Undoing Atkins: A Cautionary Tale' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIegMp5cWBY

Keto sub is really growing fast, up 400k this year http://redditmetrics.com/r/keto

0x4f3759dfon The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for public transit projects

A self driving car takes up as much space as a normal car. People tend to know how much the new lightrail is going to cost but don't know how much it costs to turn a two lane road into a three lane road, or the general costs of the automobile infrastructure. When I went digging around I found each traffic light pole unit cost $150k, so a normal intersection is $600k

0x4f3759dfon Elon Musk emails employees about 'extensive and damaging sabotage' by employee

There's $10B in TSLA short positions, when the numbers get this big its not unthinkable.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: How did you deal with the fact that you were growing old

Many of the downsides about 'being old' can be staved off with proper diet, fitness, (don't smoke, don't do drugs) moderate alcohol, and some common sense like don't destroy your knees with running. If you are fortunate by the time you are old you will have wisdom and grandchildren.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: Will Microsoft ever become cool again?

You left out that .NET Core is just as fast as Node.js [1] and .Net runs on linux. Its pretty cool that I can write Linux programs now even though I am terrible at c (to my neverending shame).

1 https://stackoverflow.com/a/44093694/73804

0x4f3759dfon Google Renounces AI for Weapons, but Will Still Sell to Military

>China or U.S. having it, same difference.

I think there's a big difference here.

0x4f3759dfon Google Renounces AI for Weapons, but Will Still Sell to Military

China is a leader in AI and they will develop AI weapons (does anyone doubt this?) Isn't the logical conclusion the country with AI weapons will become militarily superior to one without?

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?

It seems like a good way to learn Python, but after you've learned enough you will lose interest in maintaining your friend's web store for practically no money.

0x4f3759dfon Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds

Is it unwise to buy the first version of car? Seems like you wouldn't want to buy something until they get the kinks out, maybe a few years after production.

0x4f3759dfon Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

1) ASP MVC .NET Core 2 project 2) Get a linux vm 3) Write a WSL Script to push to linux vm (lftp + sshpass)

0x4f3759dfon The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 People

This reminds me of Professor Doom's rantings like this one

"Illinois University: Cut Faculty Pay To Zero" http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2018/05/illinois-univer...

0x4f3759dfon Can we start calling JavaScript EcmaScript?

and crypto

0x4f3759dfon SoftBank Will Invest $2.25B in Cruise

Did anyone watch GTC 2018?

NVidia has a self-driving software stack that they can drop into a 3D sim. Same stack works in the sim (ie real world has a real camera, sim world has a sim camera, real world has a real lidar, sim world has a sim lidar...) They will drive billions of sim miles with their stack.

Hour 1 Minute 58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95nphvtVf34

0x4f3759dfon How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

Jordan implicated Harry Hopkins and other high officials in the transfer of nuclear and other secrets to the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Racey_Jordan