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That seems like a strange way to look at it. If we grant that part of the appeal of a Rolex is that it is out of reach of most people, $1700, adjusted for inflation, was out of reach 50 years ago. Today, a luxury good of that price is well within reach for a middle-to-upper-middle class person who cares to save for a little while. If Rolex raised their price that much to keep it too expensive for the middle class, that seems to imply a greatly increased standard of living for everyone.

Why not next Wednesday?

edit: /s

> They would get some government assistence with the condition that this was the first and only time that the governmnet would help.

We'll see how well that holds up next time those people need assistance. Somehow I don't see any elected politician telling his voters "sorry, we already helped you".

It's not "anti-intellectualism" to be skeptical of the word of someone who stands to directly benefit from the course of action they recommend. I'm quite sure that the ASCE is a fine organization populated by conscientious and well-meaning people, but there's a reason why scientists use double-blind studies, and why judges recuse themselves from cases in which they have an interest.

I agree that we shouldn't take skepticism of expertise too far, and I'm rather baffled at how you'd attribute the sentiment you're denouncing to my comment. What I want is more evidence from more sources. Only the most uncharitable reading of my point would conclude I'm advocating any srt of anti-intellectualism.

The only statistics I ever see cited are those of the American Society of Civil Engineers, an interest group with a vested interest in increased infrastructure funding. I'm not hostile to the idea that we should spend more on maintenance, but I agree that we need some data from a less obviously compromised source. And that is setting aside the problem that increased funding has self-evidently not resulted in better quality of infrastructure. Kickbacks and corruption are rampant in that sector, a fact made clear recently in my hometown and county, which has seen a raft of corruption indictments and convictions related to public works projects over the last few years.

Milo became less prominent after he got banned, but not necessarily /because/ he got banned. His loss of prominence followed an impressive string of self destruction, of which his banning from twitter was only one part.

As with many topics discussed on HN, a recent EconTalk episode provides a useful perspective!

http://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-traffic/

I've always been happy (well, happy isn't the right word -- accepting perhaps) to pay what I know is a 25-40% premium for apple computers over a roughly equivalent PC, because I know what I'm getting in terms of quality, and the software is far superior.

I'm far less accepting of a 100% price premium while I watch the advantages which caused me to love Apple have been diminished. Seemingly every move in the pro line over the last several years have been to take away things that matter to me (replaceable parts, good keyboard, physical keys).

It’s not a post. It’s a link to the account deletion screen on Facebook.

> The incorporation doctrine is a constitutional doctrine through which the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution (known as the Bill of Rights) are made applicable to the states through the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

The linked document contains a table explaining which parts of the bill of rights have been incorporated.

> The political gerrymandering cases decided thus far this term are a good example.

Masterpiece Cake Shop was as well. The court ruled in his favor, but was able to wiggle out of resolving the constitutional questions because of explicit bias on the part of the CO Civil Rights Commission.

The marketing name is different from software versions. The versions, while not entirely linear, do progress in a sane manner.

https://www.gaijin.at/en/lstwinver.php

StackOverflow's developer survey[0] would suggest that the original comment was incorrect. But I think it's an incomplete story for the reasons I and other respondents mentioned. The large supply at the lower end of the market depresses salary, but as one rises, salaries are in my experience comparable to any other widely-used language.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-salary-...

I don't speak for the parent (and I don't think the assertion is correct), but I will say that PHP jobs outside the valley are plentiful. A large percentage of those are legacy maintenance or development on unpleasant platforms such as WordPress or Magento, but there is still a lot of challenging and enjoyable work being done using PHP, and the improvements to the language over the last few years have made many of the old arguments against the language obsolete.

Is there any concern around having a tank full of gas so old? Do you add a stabilizer to keep it from going stale?

What makes it right or left wing bs? Can't it just be an incorrect statement? It could just be me, but I didn't detect any political undertones to the parent comment.

Thank you for the correction. Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment to highlight that anymore. I've certainly always rented whilst having primary coverage from my normal auto insurance and so the distinction wasn't especially important for me. That said (and again, I was incorrect in my first post), some/many credit cards /do/ offer primary insurance coverage for rentals, and anyone renting a car should definitely take the time to check before getting to the rental counter!

Rental car companies always try to sell you liability coverage for accidents and damage for about $25/day. Almost every major credit card already includes the coverage for free, so when you opt into the rental coverage, you're needlessly paying a significant premium for something you likely already have.

No no, that march is in January, but you don't hear about it on the news.

See price info without filling out the forms: http://www.mynutrigene.com/products

I kind of like this idea, but it seems so half-baked. Why not wait a while to get the product working before posting here?

AFAIK that only applies to hospital emergency rooms. Your local doctor certainly can refuse service if you can't pay the bill.

"Paying cash" in this context doesn't mean a briefcase full of $100 bills. It means direct payment from the consumer to the provider. That direct payment could be in the form of a check or credit card.

From the bottom of the article, since people are wondering whether this is serious:

> The views expressed in this article are not endorsed by and do not in any way represent the opinions of their employers or Leo Strauss. They should also not be taken to express the views of the authors.

Yes, and it's by far the worst thing about it. Reset your router while there's a cable outage? Sorry, no wifi until your cable company gets the internet connection back online.

Not really. While it varies, in most states the majority of the costs of roads are borne by users in the form of gax tax, tolls, and user fees. [0] In my state, (MI), the legislature recently substantially increased the annual vehicle registration fees to pay for infrastructure upkeep.

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/state-road-funding-2017

I've found too often that by the time I figure out it doesn't fit and needs to be exchanged, other sizes are sold out. It's doubly annoying because I either have to eat the cost of an item which doesn't fit or eat the cost of sending it back and losing the discount they give you for keeping everything.

I like stitchfix quite a bit, but I'm starting to become a bit disillusioned after seeing the small bag of clothes dropped at the Salvation Army which didn't fit or I didn't like and which it was cheaper to keep than return. At least I have a mortgage and this itemize deductions, so I can write those clothes off my taxes!

Next they should address the nightmare of navigating conversations had via quote tweets. It's like going down the rabbit hole, trying to find the beginning of an exchange. Never know how deep it is. Then once you've found the beginning, it's a long trek of hitting the back button in the browser or app to follow the conversation in context. Quote tweets were a good addition, but the current implementation does not work with the way people use them.

I appreciate what he's saying, but of course the proof is in the pudding. I hope that Cloudflare sticks to that course the next time the pitchforks come out.

It's pretty crazy too how Cloudflare came almost out of nowhere to now have power over, what 15% of all internet traffic? One hopes that events like this push development towards better resiliency and more decentralization separate from third party players like Cloudflare.

Can you identify any tangible negative effects on consumers which arose due to the purchase of NBC by Comcast?