rossenberg79

More common than you think. People who do clever things for stupid reasons, I.E. a developer who prematurely optimizes or uses unnecessary technologies

There’s just no reason to. Someone will fuck it up, and it will not have been worth the effort anyway.

Having to do fares in the bad part of town is the reason my brother carries a loaded gun under his seat while driving for Uber.

You nailed it. Aside from that anyone who is serious about search is going to run it through an OCR and get the raw text anyway. Why bother doing more work?

Does anyone know how this image was produced? Is it a filter of some kind applied over a real world image? Maybe could be done on a video?

This would be great for a Lovecraftian horror movie like Birdbox, when you want to give a glimpse of what indecipherable monster the characters are looking at just before they go crazy and kill themselves.

That could be a good compromise.

If their comments are consistently good then they should stand on their own merit. Else you just get idol worship and groupthink.

Names are not as useful as you think.

If this really is what you want then I propose eliminating usernames entirely. Just enter a password to log in if you want some continuity.

People rarely refer to each other by name here. It’s not important. Only content is important. Besides, a username in no way verifies your identity, you can say you are whoever you want to be.

A true non-discriminatory environment is also an environment of no mercy. All opinions are permitted, even ones you will find incredibly vile and threatening.

So think carefully when you ask for this kind of environment. I think what some people are actually asking for when they say "non-discriminatory" is an environment where people who do not accept minority members or opinions are not welcomed.

Examples of disasters isn't enough. There must be some technology involved in the article that shows how future disaster is being prevented, otherwise it's just needless clickbait. We already know about climate change, not really anything more to be curious about there. I have flagged the article.

The ads are there so you buy stock in Boeing.

If you want to understand how to make people’s lives better, first you have to go out and actually live.

Scrappy college kids making a startup don’t know how to live, they’ve just barely lived. And a lot of professionals in tech have no lives outside of work and tech: Wake up and go work in tech. Go home and go read about tech. Attend a party and talk about tech.

How can we expect these Silicon Valley people to create anything that makes life better? All they can do is make cheap permutations of the same tired ideas that have passed through the lips of wanna-be gonna-be entrepreneurs for decades. Ask them: This product makes my life better? Better for what exactly?

Here’s a man who understood that life is a bit better when you can bite into a tasty and juicy Vidalia Onion. This is something you can only know if you stop and take some time to live.

License plates not being required will lead to abuse of driving privileges, an imbalance.

So a postmortem basically.

You blew it. By posting this article and getting to the top of Hackernews you may have alerted their attention and they may rapidly change everything to not seem like copyright infringement. Then you might have weak or no claims.

Why is Elixir always being paired with Phoenix? Can’t I just have a backend API running on Elixir and a javascript front end to interact with it? I’d prefer a simple React, Postgres, Elixir stack (REP).

As westerners I feel this is natural to think, and makes sense to us, but having been in China several times I'm not so sure.

The value systems in Asia are far different, and people are much more collective where as we are a more individualist society with different thoughts about individual freedom.

I doubt China could have become as strong as it is today without it's long history of authoritarian regimes, and I feel that many in China believe this to be true. The growing dissent may not be a sign of what's to come but may simply be the growing pains of a totalitarian regime moving into the 21st century. I do not agree with Chinese government but I never underestimate it. There are some smart people working to keep over a billion people under control and productive, and I'm sure they will ultimately find a way that keeps them like that, and can be accepted by it's citizens.

I give a fixed cost so materials cost x 2 is usually a good starting point for a minimum price, then add on if you think it's going to be very labor intensive.

Aside from the things mentioned: Like software, wood is something that is around us everyday, but very few people really stop to think about how it's assembled. Wood and technology are things we can never seem to escape in human civilization.

People see computers like a black box that does magical stuff, in the same way they will look at a curved wooden chair and simply sit in it, without thinking how it got to be in that shape and how the carpenter knew it would be a safe design for holding a person's weight. People also don't think much about the types of woods used and their special properties, similar to how people don't think much about technology stacks and why certain applications work better than others.

In wood working it's also common to make other tools and jigs out of wood for you to use, to make other kinds of cuts easier. This is the same as writing smaller programs that do one task to help accomplish other tasks. A woodworker may use a series of tools and jigs to produce some end result the same way a programmer may pipe different programs together to make some end result. Each tool is a lot like a discrete program with input parameters that applies some effect to a piece of wood, and their combination allows for the production of a multitude of wood works.

Also, when you get good enough at building furniture, you will begin to wonder why people would pay so much money for something you could easily build yourself, similar to how people wonder why pay for Dropbox when you could just mount an FTP server on a filesystem and use some version control. $400 for a coffee table is ridiculous, I could build the same thing for maybe $100 in wood, and probably better, because I can be sure it wasn't mass assembled by a crackhead following basic instructions in a sweatshop.

I started by watching Youtube videos. My first project was a modern bench built out of 2x4s, I picked a project that didn't require too many tools or advanced cuts of wood, and could be put together with wood glue. I also learned how to sand and finish wood to a professional finish. I then built this same bench again but better, learning from mistakes I had made. Then I went on to learn how other tools worked like jointers, planers, routers, bandsaws and learned about joinery. I then kept doing more advanced projects and seeking out more exotic woods to work with, such as walnut.

There's not much failure in woodworking as a hobby, if what you build isn't great just toss it out and try again. It doesn't matter much if you're just building cheap pinewood prototypes. Perhaps the only failure would be like losing a finger on a table saw or ruining very expensive wood.

There is no power imbalance except for the ones you create for yourself. A company doesn’t have much power over an employee willing to walk away for some other job.

I woodwork at a local makershop, I started out making random things for my home and when I no longer had ideas for other stuff I wanted I’d make things and give them away for free to friends.

Eventually other people wanted to know if I can make them custom pieces so I began doing it for money, mostly to cover cost of materials and a bit of time for labor.

Not making big money from it but it’s fulfilling work and good to know I could still have a place in a world with no technology. Surprisingly, woodworking shares some things in common with building software.

Without a strong profit motive would companies still have much incentive to pour 100s of millions of dollars into R&D for new drugs and treatments though? How much progress in healthcare is driven by the fact there’s a lot of money to be made, and how much does the US’s high prices basically subsidize cheaper healthcare for the rest of the world?

You are stating that this is the reality as if it’s a certain thing.

I don’t have reason to believe my insurance will suddenly drop coverage when I need it. I don’t think that’s a huge risk.

Your hypothetical world isn’t all that safe either, because when the government says no, that answer is final. There is no other option, there is no other way even if I wanted to pay. That’s just as bad as coverage being dropped, and perhaps much more likely given my faith in the government to do things efficiently these days.

So what? I accept the risk, like any other risk in life.

Not sure why those risks mean I have to get on board with a complete overhaul to something I don’t believe will work, as if that will be less risky.

I don’t believe in universal healthcare, and none of these approaches do much to convince me.

I’m in agreement that the current situation is hot garbage, and it’s shitty for a lot of people. However, my insurance now is good enough for me and my family. Sure, it’d be nice if it was cheaper, but whatever. As I get older I find I can’t be bothered to lay awake at night worrying how everyone in the country gets healthcare anymore. I’ve simply accepted that this is the world we’ve been dealt and everyone needs to find their own way to survive.

My main concerns are 3,4,5,6. I don’t see them as “fallacious”, I think it’s naive to assume universal healthcare will work exactly as planned with no unforeseen consequences, and I’m generally suspicious of people who do not list the risks along with the benefits.