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Hijacking for another Dune-themed game: anyone successfully played Emperor: Battle for Dune on Windows > 10? Easily one of my favorite RTS's all time, but not as nostalgic as Dune 1/2/2k or other RTS's and definitely won't get the remaster/remake treatment :(

>$3M or $500K

Alternatively, renting or staying in a hotel/resort is _significantly_ cheaper than $500k, even amortized over 10 years. TBD how much you can sell your timeshare back for at the end, but I'd argue the risk + the significant upfront capital + not getting to put your crap in your expensive rental™ makes it a tough sell for all but a small niche.

>let market decide not folks on HN

I'd point out that a number of the threads on this are more upset that this seems to be a timeshare system that dodges regulations around timeshares, just as Uber is a cab system that dodges cab regulations and AirBnB is a BnB/home rental. It's more anger that these startups raise massive cash to distort the markets in ways that have some advantages but aren't always long-term positive, and it takes regulation too long to catch up. Comparing regulation dodging timeshares to iPhones feels disingenuous.

- Richard Feynman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. 1939), Princeton University (Ph.D. 1942)

Agreed that credentials aren't required for a pass to the genius club, but I didn't read that in the post above either.

I'm curious if you actually think there's a real equivalency between choosing to eccentrically live in a van despite having more socially acceptable alternative options enabled by a salary far above the median vs making desperate moves to keep a poverty-low-but-not-the-absolute-lowest job that is designed to force turnover for all but the "highest performers." I understand there's a lot of hyperbole in a topic that deserves way more nuance, but IMO trying to make these seem the same causes more damage than anything else, since it drives this negatively reinforcing cycle where the effectively disenfranchised group of poverty wage workers somehow has a real stake at the table.

Second the option to reset, but there is an "private session" mode in the nav menu that seems to not track your listens the same way.

Netflix and the video streaming services are the worst here. I hate my Netflix recommendations, and can't get out of them.

They're nuts.

Ah yes, the quantum DOM.

I loved Scoot when I was in SF. Except after it rained. Some Bezos-bald tires on those things.

You're all over the comments on this article dumping on Tesla's quality, but evidence seems to be anecdotal (in the form of comments on a forum for this article).

Also last time I checked, the big automakers investigated and then abandoned Toyota's manufacturing strategies, and it's the Korean manufacturers who have taken top quality marks lately while Toyota has fallen. GM and American manufacturers may have improved, but are still straight garbage when it comes to quality control... I dare you to buy a Buick.

You might be write, but as you said it's best to say that kind of things after you are proven right, and anecdotes and comments in a forum are hardly proof.

To me, at least, there's a difference between information I willingly, if unwittingly share on a social network vs having the government unwittingly and unwillingly collect information indiscriminately. Furthermore, Facebook, Google, et al do not have SWAT teams that can be sent to smash open my door and flash bang a baby based on what they find.

I'm not saying I think it's good that private companies collect all of our data (and personally the info a CC company has creeps me out far more than FB or Google), but I can choose to stop using their service and greatly minimize the amount of data they receive. There's very few caves in the world where you can hide from the US Government.

Yah. We should make regulation for this kind of behavior.

> The difference between reading and managing servers is childhood.

That analogy is crap. Is the difference between reading and launching people into space childhood, too? We don't blame authors for kids who can't read any more than you can solve technical illiteracy by bludgeoning software authors. Can we help? Yes, certainly (and check out https://www.cs-first.com/en/home if you haven't). But throwing shade isn't going to magically make an entire class of folks learn something they don't care about.

Not to be overly melodramatic and totally dodging the contents of the article, but aren't we already in a social dystopia? Is there any way of qualifying "how dystopic" a society is?

I wonder how hard it would be to convince folks to drop their expensive setups in favor of nearly $0 static sites, as well as how much up front cost they'd be willing to shovel out for the transition. S3 + CDN (+ Lambdas optionally) feels really ready to me for almost any straightforward "website." For most things GitHub/Lab pages is an easy path to that.

Glad someone beat me to it.

Teaching kids to code is similar to teaching just about anything else: get them to have fun and find how it applies to them, followed by how to figure out what they don't know, then how to keep going when things are frustrating and they want to give up.

More practically, the kids who are into games have probably already figured out how to write Minecraft mods or something, so introing them to something like Code Combat is a fairly natural next step. For kids into music, try http://sonic-pi.net. Sports? Maybe wade into statistics/data analysis and show em some moneyball or fantasy football. Lego Mindstorms-style stuff is awesome for just about everyone because of the tactile aspect, and moving from that to playing with simple electronics can be done with gentle happy path introductions.

Also be aware of where the falloffs will be. Lots of kids can change the color on a prebuilt object on Khan Academy, but going from changing a field to starting from scratch on a new idea is an incredible. Teaching debugging and figuring out how to solve something you haven't seen before is more important than anything else.

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Fun fact: that 600k studio apartment might seem outrageous now, but in 30 years at 6.6% it'll be $4,345,645, and your grandkids will get a nice $16,267,583 500sqft place to hang their hats in 50. Get in while it's good folks.

This comment is pretty funny juxtaposed with the one above regarding heavy copy in advertising.

I think that's pretty clever. Spent 15 min talking about it with coworkers today though, and IMO the challenge with something like this is identifying and specifically addressing the problems it would be trying to solve rather than boiling the ocean and hoping it does the "right thing".

I've been thinking about 2 as a potential path forward for journalists/journalism. Is there a reason to continue the monolithic paper over directly funding individual journalists?

I think there's a cool idea in a platform designed like this... somewhere in between Kickstarter, Patreon, and NPR, but with a whole bunch of tools for news consumers to discover, read, and support both journalists and stories they're interested in. Things like supporting and discovering topics like "local region politics", "travel", or "technology", while allowing journalists to describe their backgrounds, political leanings, etc, might be a way of addressing trust and transparency in journalism and journalistic leanings while also allowing a range of opinions and perspectives on one platform, rather than being driven solely by editorial control.

Does anyone know if H1B's are exempt from California's Labor Codes? Looks like there's quite a few that fall short of 2017's required $88k[1].

1 https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

Why not both? Feels like only doing one is like only putting airbags in cars when seat belts are also effective. I don't get why there has to be only one approach to solve societal problems.

Not OP, but here's some unsolicited thoughts.

While it's true that criminals, by definition, will break the law, all laws are not treated equally by individuals. Millions of people litter or speed despite the law, but I imagine not all who speed in a car also rob banks. It's my understanding that psychological, social, and legal thresholds are not the same for all people, nor are they binary (there's some really great research into ethics thresholds if someone knows of a link). Sure, adding an additional law might not deter the truly determined, but what about those who have a lower threshold for criminal activity? Why not call all manslaughter murder? Would those who commit suicide with a firearm (half of American suicides [1]) choose a more difficult and less immediate method?

So the question might be, how does changing a law affect those thresholds? Maybe we don't stop determined criminals or mass shootings, but maybe we can make a dent in the more than 20,000 Americans who choose to shoot themselves every year, or make a difference in urban gun violence.

That said, I personally believe that American society is probably too violent and too committed to gun ownership change anytime in my lifetime. We as a society value arguing about gun ownership over actually taking steps to reduce gun violence, or even gathering data on it. The folks that crack me up the most are the ones who say things like you can take my gun from my cold, dead hands because that'd somehow be a check on government power, despite the fact that the federal government possesses tanks and stealth bombers and whatnot. Bonus points if they also think net neutrality is bad, even though open information is demonstrably better for civic checks and balances.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

I'm more afraid of the 10TB/s self driving car DDoS.

To be honest, TodoMVC is the idea-that-needs-to-die™ for SPAs. IMO, if all the framework needs to be able to do is described by TodoMVC, you probably don't need a framework at all. It probably takes way less time to write a todolist in a vanilla language than to learn an entire application framework to build it.

I'm wondering if there's any correlation between idea "quality" and how far down the first supportive comment is or the ratio of positive to negative comments in general.

It appears some of their assertions are correct, if the response disproportional. The inability to see gray area is typically a large part of the problem in a lot of political discussions, and the blogosphere is always the worst when it comes to painting something nuanced as black or white.

I have no idea why I'm responding to this.

FWIW, the time spent in JS is only telling half the story. In that first example, React spends half as much time painting and rendering as Vue; the DOM diffing is more js-time intensive but results in less DOM thrashing. Interesting to watch how poorly it seems to scale; I'm wondering if web workers in future React versions will change that story.

Definitely reading too much into your comment and not responding just to you but the hiring post trend, but IMO all of those scenarios are conflating mismanagement with bad hiring. Have a rock star coder who can't communicate (I'd challenge whether or not that was possible another time)? Put them in a position that minimizes the amount of communication they have to do or set up a structure for their inbound/outbound communications that works for everyone. Great communicator? Have them figure out how to facilitate that person who can't communicate. Great team player? Have them work with the team and don't make them outbound.

Point is, effective team building doesn't end at offer letters. Hire for fit, then fit the hire. Train up. Just because someone is weak in some area doesn't mean they can't contribute meaningfully given the proper resources and support, nor is a strong hire going to succeed without the same carefully tailored support.

Those billions are relative to the amount of money they made though. A crappy analogy is a bank robber who steals a million dollars from 10 banks, gets caught at the last, and has to pay back 2 million dollars.