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> This is identical to the ranking boost given to Google Shopping (for which Google was just fined 3 billion EUR), so you can expect the same result.

Isn't it different because (presumably) the AMP links aren't owned by Google?

The fine was specifically for anti-competitive behavior, i.e. consistently surfacing their own links over those of shopping competitors, which at least with AMP links isn't necessarily the behavior, though there is likely some overlap there.

Yup.

They'll get high quality games, 1-2 years after they have their mainstream release.

> Tons of amazing indie games make a pitiful amount of money. Mostly because of lack of exposure.

Is it lack of exposure, or extreme excess of supply vs demand? As a lifelong gamer, what I've seen is a ton of high quality content being released that I simply don't have time to enjoy. There are several orders of magnitude more decent games than anyone has time to play, and frequently very little differentiation between whole swathes of indie releases.

Yes, they lack exposure, but that's because the indie game market is unbelievably competitive, and as a result their game isn't worth that much. These game bundles are great for increasing numbers of sales, but at $0.50/sale - fees, they're still not going to be making much money, and they're still competing with 600 games this year for your attention.

This is just an extension of the many existing game bundles that are available, but with higher density and a lower price.

He's an easy target, and NPR has a very large political reporting apparatus that can't be easily changed to report on anything else.

Except the one the GP objects to: "Minimise the stuff."

I'v seen this extensively in multiple upper-middle income communities on the east coast. Houses that have tripled in relative value force their now retired owners to sell because they can't afford the higher property tax. Developers can buy above market because they demo the house and put down 2 houses that each sell for 75% the original home's value.

This scales for quite a long time, and is generally how suburbia transforms into, well, east San Jose.

It's not that homeowners make rational choices as a result, it's that over time they are pushed out and the rational choice is made by the larger market.

There are only ~20 buildings of 100+ stories in the world. The tallest building in the Bay Area is the Salesforce Tower at 61 stories, and there are only ~50 buildings in SF that hit 400 feet, which is about 1/3 the height required to hit 100 stories. *All stats from wikipedia

So in theory they would solve the issue, it's just that your solution dwarfs the number of humanity's 100 story buildings by a factor of almost 50.

I second the request. I spent several years as a K-5 teacher, I didn't perceive this dynamic at all. All US teachers are rightfully extremely wary of being alone with any child, and from what I've seen that is a concern for teachers of all genders.

I think your perception is stronger than the actual social effect - people who object to others not drinking are loud, but in my experience very much the minority.

I lived (well) in San Jose on <$65,000 pre-tax for 4 years, including picking up a degree at nights to the tune of $20K. I agree that it is some financial challenge, but it is nowhere near as dire as "paycheck to paycheck."

I agree with your larger point that a bachelor's degree is a better value, especially over the long term. Unfortunately a BS is going to take longer to get, especially in CA, where the education pipeline is overflowing and underfunded (but still very good value for money).

I think you're making a big assumption that you'll be accepted - anecdotally I've heard that they turn away many people who meet their basic acceptance criteria unless those people have a large amount of industry experience. As a result, it's pretty apples to oranges - if you can get into GT's OMSCS you don't need Lambda School, because you're already in the field.

In fairness, aren't movie ticket prices in NYC near $20? I haven't tried to see a movie there in >5 years, but at the time going to see one in midtown was ~$16.

The contest prize was $15,000, there were probably some ancillary costs related to running the event but still quite cheap.

> you are paid what you can be had for

> No lawsuit is needed to correct that.

If they can either get Google to settle or convince a jury they deserve compensation, they've retroactively increased their pay. It's a high and expensive bar, but if they clear it they get paid more for work they already did.

So to put it into the perspective you're espousing, these women are simply negotiating their rate after the fact.

The vast majority of student loan debt is already guaranteed by the US government: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S

So something like 77.5%+ of that is already bailout guaranteed. Taxes (or more likely US debt) will rise to cover it, which will have its own long term negative effects, but barring a US default that market is very well covered.

It's also very, very challenging to discharge US student loan debt, much more than housing debt. How that really works in the end, especially if a large number of people go into default, hasn't really been tested, and it will be a political hot potato when it does.

> The government owns student loans.

To back up your point, the US federal government guarantees the vast majority of the student loan market: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S

I believe the total student debt market is estimated somewhere between $1.3-1.4 trillion these days, so at least 77.5% backed by US taxpayers. I don't know what TARP topped out at, but I doubt it was 75% of banking assets.

> overpriced Vibrams

A particularly odd criticism, since Vibrams cover the same price spectrum as more traditional running shoes, and both groups are essentially centered on selling shoes for just above $100 (and have been for more than a decade now).

Beyond that, it was more powerful than many (maybe most) modern governments. It was an international power unto itself.

I setup my brother's small business stripe integration, and I wrote and tested the API calls to charge customers. Stripe doesn't know anything about his business except transaction sizes, and a bunch of info they definitely can't resell (TIN) or is already public knowledge (business name, billing address). I doubt they have anything helpful for pricing, though they might be able to analyze gross transaction rates and geography. I have never checked what their contractual obligations are with that data, I imagine if they started sharing it that would get out pretty fast, and result in them losing customers rapidly.

Having "permission" is not an applicable defense to a federal criminal charge, the law supersedes some random person (i.e. a LinkedIn user) saying "oh yeah, that's okay."

If it's illegal to scrape without permission, that makes the behavior of scraping illegal. They are not claiming it's a TOS violation, they're claiming it's a CFAA violation, which is a federal statue and (theoretically) applies equally to everyone.

The scale of government which interests people is a direct product of the issues that interest them. Want to influence school policies? Almost 100% a local ward/district issue. Want to have a meaningful impact on almost anything else? It all happens at the state & federal level. In some states (CA being a prime example), a huge amount of even normally local education policy issues have been taken over by the state because of the way schools are funded.

I have known plenty of people who went into local government and left after 3-5 years, because the fights are just as hard as at the higher levels, but the chance to engage in meaningful policy creation is almost nil. The professionals use it as a training/credentialing circuit, and the regular citizens generally seem to leave permanently.

You can cover >25% of the US population in just the top 3 states (CA, TX, NY).

The system isn't that strange, almost every business in the US is primarily regulated by the states. What's strange is that most Americans don't realize this.

It's not clear what exactly the outcome is in this case, but in many civil cases the US Treasury uses the penalties to repay the original injured parties. It generally doesn't cover all their losses.

My boot time on an SSD + i5 on my 4.5 year old desktop is <10 seconds. The same PC boots Ubuntu in ~5. ~2 seconds of both is BIOS boot time. I haven't experienced any annoying issues with Win 10.

Obviously, there is some variation in experience, and I doubt all of it can be chalked up to the OS.

Is there a lot of demand for these jobs?

In the US I would have to pay 1.5-2x that for housework, which puts it squarely into a category of value that I just do myself

Do you have a better source for this data than, well, a bunch of numbers you posted to HN? In particular, an explanation by a researcher or other expert who has actually studied the difference and can explain it?

It's very easy to draw conclusions from statistics. It's much harder to draw correct conclusions from them.

Netflix's recommended connection speed for 4k is 25 Mb/s.

So what exactly does "do something about it" mean in this circumstance? Is your download rate actually saturating your throttled connection?

> among relatively well-off 40-ish Australians

The same is true in the US. Note the ages and geographic locations of the people mentioned in this article.

Among well-off middle-aged (40+) Americans, in my experience it's more typical for people to compete to pay the ENTIRE bill, every single time, rather than attempting to share. Generally it's bad form to seem like you're competing to pay the bill, but very socially desirable to be known as someone who will pay the bill (and thus must have the money to do so).

Paypal was late, inconvenient, and (probably most damning) the brand became closely associated with scary things in the minds of many - freezing accounts, not giving funds to their perceived "rightful" owners, general legal troubles that cast doubt on whether you'd get your money.

It didn't really matter that those mostly happened to people moving 5-6 figures, most of the millenials I know actively avoid paypal as a result.