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by mikeash 7y ago
2,500 students in a state with a total population of less than 750,000 seems pretty substantial.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s exactly the sort of straightforward, low-key advertising I’d like to see more of. “We offer Service. Consider us if you need Service.”
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by mikeash 7y ago
Interesting clause. There’s no insurance and no guarantee of protection against anything. One wonders what stops them from keeping your stuff in a basket next to the mints.
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by mikeash 7y ago
If the summary takes precedence, then what purpose does the legal code serve?
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by mikeash 7y ago
Then go to a cashier. If your store doesn’t have any, go to a different store that does.
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by mikeash 7y ago
And if you use self checkout you’re avoiding waiting in a longer line for a cashier.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Sure. I’m just saying that the actual history of the past few decades in the US shows a stark contrast with these two types of regulations in terms of how they worked and the consequences they had. Regarding measures that appear to improve
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by mikeash 7y ago
“When we're talking about human lives, there is no regulation too burdensome or inefficient.” I recommend we ban all travel over five miles. This will eliminate all danger from air travel and substantially reduce traffic fatalities.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Extending this: there are services that will deliver your groceries to your house. If we go to a store and take things home ourselves, are we working for free? There’s no correct balance between customer labor and employee labor. Choose wha
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by mikeash 7y ago
Another way to look at it: burning a gallon of gasoline does damage which costs $1.50 to fix, but we allow gasoline buyers to pass that cost on to the rest of the world rather than making them pay for their own mess.
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by mikeash 7y ago
In theory, all regulations need to be carefully considered and walk a fine line in order to do more good than harm. But I was replying to a pair of comments talking about the practical history of regulations over the past few decades. That
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by mikeash 7y ago
The problem is that document delivery is still the main function, but the platform wants to be a fully capable app platform. Yes, it’s great that the web is capable of stuff like Google Docs. But all those capabilities are actually liabilit
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by mikeash 7y ago
I don’t have a particular opinion one way or the other on the idea that safety tends to revert. But given the past couple of years, I see why someone might think it is starting to revert.
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by mikeash 7y ago
But it’s ok on the other side?
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by mikeash 7y ago
You don’t have to use a model which allows this. Pay-per-placement, for example. You pay a fixed amount to put your ad in a specific article (or on the entire site or in whatever rotation people like) and then there’s no way to rip off adve
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by mikeash 7y ago
2017 was the safest year ever with zero fatalities in jets and less than a hundred fatalities total. 2018 saw a couple hundred deaths in jet crashes. Where does one get the idea that airline safety is regressing? Well....
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by mikeash 7y ago
It doesn’t seem very useful to talk about “regulation” as some sort of singular entity. When you talk about the positive results of deregulation, that’s all economic regulation. Freight being run on regulated routes with regulated prices wa
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, if the world had functioned just fine without atoms, and then atoms were invented and foisted on everyone for little gain.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yes! All the replies here are missing the point completely. It’s not that JavaScript is somehow uniquely bad among programming languages. It’s that the entire idea of putting a general purpose programming language into the system was a bad
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by mikeash 7y ago
This was only 100m. Those probably hit semi-regularly and would have usually gone unnoticed or at least unrecorded before modern times.
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by mikeash 7y ago
It’s never too late to decrease the damage being done.
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by mikeash 7y ago
We’re going straight from “we don’t really know if something is happening” to “it’s too late anyway so why bother” without going through the troublesome “we should try to stop this” phase.
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by mikeash 7y ago
No, people search for jobs just like they would anywhere else, and if they don’t find one then they get to be unemployed and broke. Homelessness is definitely a thing. If you can’t afford a place to live then you’ll just have to make do.
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by mikeash 7y ago
China is communist in name only at this point. The government is authoritarian but the economy works in a pretty familiar way as far as business ownership and financial transactions.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Regular foreign currency also gets taxed if you make a profit trading it.
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by mikeash 7y ago
The trouble is that software is rarely maintained in the same state. A landscaper will now your lawn. A programmer will replace the grass with rocks and snakes, tell you how much better it is this way, and get confused when you’re not happy
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by mikeash 7y ago
Yep, RPS is only interesting to the extent that the players are imperfect. It’s most interesting as an illustration of how bad people are at behaving randomly.
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by mikeash 7y ago
Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's
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by mikeash 7y ago
This is a link to a reference page, not a news report.
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by mikeash 7y ago
So, you test this animal and it’s within 2% of a known lion. How do you know the known lion is a lion?

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