jasonwocky

Other people are not books, and they deserve better than to be treated like books.

If I saw something with my own eyes, but didn't capture a video recording of it, I could argue that I have knowledge but not proof.

Or maybe there's nothing wrong with my logic. Maybe there are other forces at play that, when all mixed together, result in companies sometimes seeking cost reductions, and sometimes not seeking cost reductions.

Parent was looking for an example to explain a possible situation, not a dynamic that the entire world must obey at all times.

One situation: if they believe that their competitors will follow suit. Unless an insurance company concocts a way to lower costs that isn't easily replicable, they have little incentive to do so. Otherwise, they're just triggering a race to the bottom.

In the abstract, it's possible to have knowledge without having proof.

These rights have nothing to do with the U.S. Bill of Rights. For one thing, it concerns consumers' relationships with businesses, not citizens' relationships with government.

>If the end result is failure, the company goes bankrupt

In my experience, that rarely holds true in the non-startup world.

I assume sunchild called it "harder" to spot talent simply because the increased accessibility of tech means there's now more crap to wade through.

> It's common to pay around $1,500 per month in condo/coop fees on top of your mortgage, and that's for a 1-bedroom.

Maybe in Manhattan, I suppose. That's a pretty broad brush for the rest of NYC. I pay less than $700 in co-op maintenance for my 2-bedroom in Brooklyn.

For the uninitiated, those fees go towards property taxes (which co-op owners don't otherwise pay), some utilities, things like elevator maintenance, groundskeeping, doorman, building superintendent, etc. If the building has an outstanding mortgage that has to be paid down, that comes out of there as well.

"Better schools" pretty much correlate directly with "pricier neighborhoods" in NYC. The elementary school in my neighborhood is fine, but I plan to be actively involved in my 3yr olds education. I don't love the situation, but I'm not too worried about it.

At the high school levels there are the magnet schools, which your kids could potentially attend regardless of the neighborhood that you live in, but getting into those is somewhat merit-based.

It's a pretty massive lifestyle change, but there are crazy positives. Everything I need is within walking distance of my apartment. When my daughter goes to the playground, it is packed with other children for her to play with. There's a great library system, and there are plenty of child-friendly events to attend. From a professional standpoint, there are always meetups and events going on that are but a subway ride away.

I used to live in NJ and never thought I would like living in NYC, but now that I have a daughter I can't think of any other place that I'd want her to grow up in.

I'm a developer with children in NYC. If you don't want to live in another state, Brooklyn and Queens are fairly common options for tech folks who work in Manhattan.

Commuting from Brooklyn (which isn't technically another city) to where I work in Manhattan takes about 45 minutes. That includes the walks to and from the subway. It's a quite pleasant commute...I live far enough away that I basically always get a seat on the subway and can comfortably read on my way into work.

If you live closer to Manhattan, the rents go up and the commute gets shorter, but you're less likely to get a seat every morning. Standing isn't that big of a deal, but it makes it tougher to read sometimes.

I'd say 45 minutes each way is pretty easy. 30 minutes and under can be tougher and more expensive to pull off.

Walks to/from the Subway in Manhattan are typically less than 10 minutes, almost no matter where the office is. There's a lot of tech in the Union Square area, which has a ton of subway access.

In Brooklyn, depending on where you live, it can be a bit more of a walk to the subway, but I've never had more than a 12 minute walk and today I can do it in 5.

Thanks. That makes sense. My brain farted and I couldn't make the leap after "What's wrong with killing trees? You're just taking CO2 out of the atmosphere."

Killing trees takes CO2 out of the atmosphere? I think you've got this backwards.

Sure, it wasn't great code, but this also sounds like a flaw in the static analyzer. It should have been able to tell that the variable was being synchronized on, and recognized that using Boolean.TRUE would have been an unsafe change.

Also the book "Erlang and OTP in Action". Great next-step book after the PragPub one (or even just skip the PragPub one).

>I have mixed feelings about this idea. SOPA is awful, but political neutrality is an important principle.

I have a hard time seeing why "political neutrality" is ever an important principle, but especially in this case, Wikipedia would be acting in what it considers to be it's own self-interest. What merits are there in any entity remaining "neutral" in circumstances like that?

Even before Chobani, "plain yogurt" took up plenty of refrigerated shelf space in every supermarket I've ever been in. I doubt that was for 1% of America.

>It's about scarcity: apparently the founders think that finding an investor with 500k is harder than finding the tech guy

Sure, and this article looks like an attempt to educate the tech guy, thus making "tech guys who don't properly valuate their contribution" more scarce.

Yeah, to me it sounded like little more than "Marketing is bullshit and anything it touches becomes bullshit by association. And by the way, I don't have to prove any of this."

Is it possible they're contractually obligated not to discuss licensing specifics with the public?

Ah yes, because today's demographies without easy access to birth control are rocketing past us in fitness.

Increased female reproductive choice (of whether and with whom to mate) yields an upward trend in fitness because it results in fewer, better cared for offspring.

I'm in the same boat as many of you, paying the cable company for internet access and relying on Netflix and Hulu for content (I subscribe to Hulu plus, though I confess I was largely looking for some way, any way, to give Hulu some of my money for the service they provide me).

My question, though, for others like me...how many of you have more than two adults and/or teenagers in the house? Right now it's just me and my wife and my young daughter. I remember growing up, though...in my family, we had multiple TVs in the house, with everybody often watching something different. Cable TV provides the bandwidth for that, but I was thinking it may be awhile before cable internet provides enough bandwidth for that use case.

Of course, it could be that as this generation of new parents gets used to not having a cable bill, families may grow used to watching TV together or watching it less overall. That might be the greatest contribution that TV-over-Internet provides us, in the long run.

Yes. Another way to put this is that there's a difference between "designing to be sufficiently performant" and "optimization".

>I hate it when some "authority" tries to prevent me from doing something "for my own safety" - NO, instead, tell me what the risks are, and how can I prepare myself to deal with them, and then let me use my own intelligent mind to make the final decision.

My problem with this approach is that I predict that many who would join you in these decisions are going to lose out. However, you all still retain the right to vote in the future for forms of restitution to be made to you by the government.

So Wall Street gets richer, some of you do well, and I'm at risk of helping support those of you who don't.

Find a way to guarantee that I won't be your insurance policy, then I'll more fully support your right to take risks.

Nearly all waitstaff in the US will be making more than 7.25/h. If "not tipping" suddenly became endemic, I imagine plenty of waitstaff would be forced "onto the streets".

Waiters and waitresses typically make more than minimum wage, once tips are taken into account. A cut in tips due to Groupons yields an effective cut in salary. Minimum wage is just the floor.

> And I caution everyone not to fall into the mental trap of overvaluing mass at the expense of momentum

Aha! But the formula for momentum, P = mv, shows that momentum increases linearly with mass. So it's impossible to overvalue mass at the expense of momentum!

If this goes mainstream, I can imagine the hotel lobby trying to beat AirBnB over the head with this issue. Perhaps even doing their best to instigate legal action by the government for potential violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.

> The horrific notion of criminalizing a consensual economic intercourse between two adults...

Was that intended to be a double-entendre?

If you're getting by in NYC without a car, then the car is unnecessary, whether you can afford to park it or not.