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JBReeferon Ask HN: What programming language should I learn next?

The weird thing about Scala is it's so nice and pure except all of the Object methods from Java, which sort of break the whole FP thing with it. I really want to love Scala, but it always feels 9/10ths of the thing.

JBReeferon Brazil waives visas for visitors from U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan

There's nearly a million Brazilians in the US, including nearly 100,000 in NYC alone [0].

Protip: Go to Carioca in Astoria or Copacabana on 39th Ave. Holy shit Brazilians can cook.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Americans

JBReeferon California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes

Isn't the stereotype of SF arrogance? Most of the smartest people I've met work in O&G or aerospace, in places like Texas and Connecticut.

JBReeferon California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes

As a New Yorker, this comment is hilarious. Madison is about a third of the size of SF. As a polite reminder, SF is a little more than a third of the size of Queens, and fundamentally still kind of a small town compared to real cities. It's about the same size as Hempstead, NY which is certainly a small town. Hell, I bet more people bike to work as a % in Madison than in SF.

Lake Nebagamon WI is a small town.

JBReeferon Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s

It's $9.6 million per life. They have a really nice set of guides here [0] on how to use it. There's a high and low value and also injury costs. Also, there's a cost to lost travel time.

[0] https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/economic-values-u...

JBReeferon Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December

I wonder what the dollar value of that is. I know that even fairly recently Tumblr was valued at $0

JBReeferon Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

Wells should have been shut down, and I say that as a libertarian. They should have been shut down for this alone: https://consumerist.com/5283290/affidavits-on-how-wells-farg...

JBReeferon Tesla’s Troubles Mount: Shuttered Showrooms and Sinking Shares

1: Money fixes this, the others have more money than you can imagine.

2: Tesla self driving is statistically shit, the only two players that count are Cruise and Waymo, and only one of those makes cars. Either way, we're really far off from most people caring outside of HN

3: Electrify America in the US, and a bunch of public stations in Europe. It's a fancy plug, I don't get why people act like they're unobtanium. You can throw one in a Target parking lot and boom, extra customers for an hour or so. I bet they'd even pay for the installation.

4: Sure, I'll give you this one

I love America and American cars, and I want a great new American car company. Tesla is acting like a Silicon Valley parody, and needs to get their shit together. If they can, they can use their brand advantage - they're the new, true Cadillac - and mindshare to kick serious ass.

JBReeferon 2017 saw highest rate of death due to alcohol, drugs, suicide in US history [pdf]

What's wrong with Ketamine? It's not particularly addictive, and it's worst side effect is kidney damage (which can be quite severe). Are you sure you don't mean Heroin or Fentanyl? Those are the worst of the bunch.

JBReeferon 2017 saw highest rate of death due to alcohol, drugs, suicide in US history [pdf]

Those evil robber barons, directly colluding to get me to drink IPAs with my friends after work! The evil! The horror!

JBReeferon China denies two million people detained in Xinjiang concentration camps

China moves fast. They move fast to build rail, to build cities, and to intern people.

NYC learned the lessons when we went through something much (much!) smaller with Robert Moses destroying huge swathes of the city, so now doing anything takes forever. That's a feature of representative government - I get to complain about the new bike lane bioswale design, and they have to listen. This is slow. They don't have the same official processes in China, so they are fast, in both wonderful and horrible things.

JBReeferon As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills

The ECS one is weirdly difficult to set up. If you just want Docker Repo (ECR) -> deploy with some config -> expose a single ingress point it sounds perfect, but I had a TON of trouble with it recently

JBReeferon Green New Deal Is Feasible and Affordable

OP is referring to the enormous riots and rollback of similar policies in a much, much more liberal country.

When people talk about CNN being fake news, they're talking about this article. This is only feasible in the minds of people on HN/elites. People in the rest of the country, not so much. It's fascinating to me that in an era of staunch conservatism this is treated as something approaching possible.

JBReeferon Yelp Fired Manager After He Didn't Take Calls, Check Email 24/7, Lawsuit Claims

Judaism does that, but most of my Jewish coworkers have just taken PTO for the minor ones. Purim is fun but no one expects off for it!

JBReeferon Indonesia reports reduced deforestation, triggering carbon payment from Norway

US emissions are radically down though thanks to efficiency and moving from coal to nat gas + renewables. We're down almost 20% from 2000.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-...

JBReeferon Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejected from a protoplanetary disk?

Huh, literally never thought of it that way. We put a ton of trash into space - someone is probably, at some point in the future, going to say "what the fuck is that" when Voyager goes flashing by!

JBReeferon Researchers Find Further Evidence That Schizophrenia Is Connected to Our Guts

Eh, homeless people are occasionally right and a little less hysterical. Twitter is the equivalent of a small dog yapping at the homeless man yelling at a bus stop.

JBReeferon Facebook labelled 'digital gangsters' by report on fake news

I think there's a political bias at play - fake news is usually attributed to the Right, and HN seems to be a lose coalition of progressives, neoliberals, and a few hard left who all dislike the Right.

People can get blind about things that achieve their goals

JBReeferon Experimenting with Bluetooth in JavaScript in web, hybrid and React Native apps

https://hub.docker.com/r/selenoid/firefox

Like that?

JBReeferon Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

LIC is essentially a neighborhood cut from whole cloth - it used to be all taxi yards and vacant warehouses, bit of high end printing.

No one lived there until very recently, and the people that do are rich as fuck - it's basically a discount Midtown East. The poor people who live in the nearby projects came out strongly in _favor_ of Amazon opening up and lobbied the city hard - turns out Amazon also needs janitors, cafes etc.

JBReeferon First U.S. Coal Plant in Years Opens Where No Options Exist

$245 Million for a _17_ megawatt plant seems insane - the Georgia and Kansas plants both are in the neighborhood of $2.5 billion a pop, and are ~50 times as powerful. I get that economies of scale are huge in power and that Fairbanks isn't exactly Georgia, but wow.

JBReeferon The Roomba lawnmower is finally happening

The USA is literally the definition of a First World country

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

I get what you're going for, HN loves to hate on the US.

JBReeferon Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing

Aren't almost all of the software engineers on those projects writing tests and formally verifying software?

JBReeferon Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store

Why does everyone love this phone so much? Clue me in?

JBReeferon Preparing for Prison (2016)

see other sibling comments that argue against this

JBReeferon Apple Leak Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone

I’m still holding out for USB C - I desperately want to live in a single charger world