alistproducer2

I remember this. "Be careful what you wish for" is going to be a running theme for the next couple of years. I suspect a lot of folks are going to be wishing things had just been left alone.

I'd love to see the financials that justify the move.

Run a Google search of HN, time-scoped for when the fake news stuff was popping up. I remember there being quite a lot of discussion about software to combat it.

I don't believe I'm missing the point you're trying to make; on the contrary, you're missing mine. Selling costs create and artificial floor. It's a pretty simple point that is in no way mutually exclusive to yours.

From the sellers side, the agent makes sense. Although I would argue a flat or time based fee is more appropriate than a percentage of sale price. The buying agent delivers relatively little value once the purchase agreement has been signed so I would argue they are essentially rent seekers.

It's certainly not the only factor is cost increase, but that cost will almost certainly be passed onto the buyer if the market will bare it.

touché

I'm old enough to remember what it was like trying to use the Internet on a 2.4 baud modem. Pictures? Yay right! People born in the mid-80's like me are in the remarkable position to be old enough to remember the old world yet young enough to fully embrace the new.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.[0]

-MLK

[0]: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....

This may seem off topic but bare with me for a sec. I've been shopping for a house and have started to learn about how real estate transactions work. One of the things I was surprised to discover was the amount of selling costs produced by middlemen (9-12%). Given the pricing of homes, this is far from an insignificant cost. From my calc considering current interest rates, the breakeven time for reselling a home at the price you bought it, is ~ 7 years. Sell before that and you have to jack up the sale price to try not to lose a sizable chunk of change.

As I buyer I'm constantly reminded that they are free to me, but as they say "there's no such thing as a free lunch." These costs are just passed on to the buy via a higher price; hence the [now] fallacious "home prices always rise."

If the cost of housing rises with each transaction, then it seems logical that the economy must grow to support higher wages to support higher costs of living, right? This got me wondering how much of the necessity for growth is a by-product of unnecessary middlemen taking cuts of various commodities?

How can telling your employees "move or leave" be good for morale?

Great point.

Absolutely. The only time a person's bias matters is with an opinion piece. If supported facts are laid out, who cares about the author's opinions?

I hope this isn't too off topic, but this is the first time I've read swift and, to my eyes, it looks gorgeous. I had no idea iOS apps could be written in such a nice looking language. I could never stomach Objective-C.

I'd like to attest to this idea but with mushsrooms. at sub hallucination doses, mushrooms are like really awesome weed.

From my experience, there's almost no such thing as good political discussion via the Internet. I browse headlines from various sources.

I'm firmly on the "I can get political news elsewhere" side.

I'm going to agree with u. Focus the ire on those who deserve it.

I would argue that numbers skimmed from retail stores are the stores responsibility. Even in a large store there's aren't that many POSs. They should have a procedure for checking the POS before close or on open.

it's because general political topics aren't considered a good fit by a lot of people and lots will reflexively flag them.

As an example of how despised political discussion are, a chrome extension I made to filter stories (mostly political) made it to the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611

This would really benifit from an explanation of what I'm seeing. can't really upvote it without knowing what's going on....

Since I've moved to an all-Kodi household, this is definitely interesting to me.

Why all the 3D hate? Does no one remember watching Avatar for the first time? 3D, when done right, is AMAZING!

thanks for the suggestions. I tend to avoid forEach because of the memory overhead (adds function calls where not really necessary). I guess I'm old school, but never got around to using includes. It's been on my radar for a while. I've always tried to write code that is as portable as possible, even though now, with evergreen browsers in the lead, it doesn't really matter as much.

If you check the code, contentScript.js:28 that line removes the meta data line, which contains the number of comments. One could easily parse the comment line and use it to rearrange the some, as opposed to deleting it. Fork the code and give it a try!

Yeah, I ran into something similar. I had "president" on my list and it blocked a story on the president of a company. It's kind of trial and error. That's why I find it useful to see what stories are blocked so you can get a sense for how well your filter is working.

I actually thought about something similar last night. Have a project that had a plugable DOM parser so people could build plug ins for various sites.

if you don't mind, could you add that as an issue to the repo. I already have a contributor so maybe someone could pitch in and make it proper cross platform.

added a GPL. thanks for reminding me.

I feel both of you! Feel free to fork it and make it work for whatever site you want. The code base is pretty straightforward. You'd just need to change the DOM logic (which is about 2 loc) so it should be pretty doable.