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> Methodology

> Results are based on searches of Apartment List users occurring between June 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. We include data from both registered and unregistered users. While registered users are uniquely identified, unregistered users who perform multiple searches may be counted multiple times. For users who search in multiple locations, we consider the initial search location to be the primary one. Each user’s current place of residence is defined by the IP address from which the user is searching. All results are aggregated at the metro level, using Census definitions of metropolitan statistical areas.

I forget what its called, but this is the sample population problem where all of the sample is based on people who voluntarily come to a website. This can substantially skew the results, IIRC.

For example, I can't determine if the study demonstrates the impact of Paradise, California being completely evacuated. It's a bombed out ghost-town and probably 20,000 people have moved some place else, even if to nearby Chico, Red Bluff, Redding, and Sacramento areas.

I also wonder about other factors. California has a looming tax-base problem in that new company formation outside of tech and biotech is slowing, new small businesses creation is slowing, the number of public employee pensioners is rapidly growing and the pension fund is backed up by tax dollars, should the fund lose money in a downturn. Most of the people leaving the state are taxpayers and not government employees and the rate of business exodus continues to grow, even for capital-intensive manufacturers but including large publicly-traded companies such as McKesson.

Gaining a better understanding of who is leaving will provide a far more valuable insight into how this activity is going to affect the state than just broad stats on where people are leaving and where they are going to.

I will probably never spend the time to find and delete them.

> “If I want to actually do something with my data, I have to warm it up and move it through the data center,” he said. And when you empty the email trash, you probably aren’t actually erasing the data. Multiple copies of even decade-old emails are stored on servers around the world...

I guess it's just as well, anyway.

The title:

> The environmental cost of keeping mail and files online keeps rising

Makes me think I'm going to read about all the terrible stuff that goes into storing so much useless data. How many semiconductors are manufactured to store my and everyone else's never-to-be-read-again emails? How many HDD arrays, tape backup, enclosures, racks, packaging and transportation of all that stuff, cement, steel, heavy construction equipment, data centers, fiber cables, exchange bandwidth, employee labor and management planning, waste disposal, negative return mineral extraction and environmentally toxic precious metal recovery that can kill workers and drains into rivers, lakes and the ocean.

From the third paragraph, on:

> The problem is that all those messages require energy to preserve them.

Nope. The article is only about climate change, the only type of environmental issue humanity is to be concerned with.

My ignorant 20th-century man corrected title:

"The climate change cost of keeping mail and files online keeps rising."

> This article quotes a 5% margin. I know food industry margins are low in the first place, but as a business owner in a different field I'm left wondering why anyone would even bother. The same business prowess and attention to detail you need to make a buffett run profitably could get you very far in another industry.

This is because you are assuming entrepreneurs act only for the purpose of profit.

Entrepreneurs act for the same reason all people act: to achieve their desired ends. These ends are established based on emotional desires, which do not necessarily correlate with things like maximum ROI.

> If you were to have it your way, and abolish public schools, what would you propose as the alternative if anything?

Yes, only listen to the history that the obedience centers have provided you to memorize. It is well known that such centers do not teach critical thinking, because for certain you will place John Taylor Gatto into the category of "conspiracy theorist" as evaluating anything you have not been provided for memorization will require critical thinking (even, you know, looking at those funny numbers placed in the text).

I'm not a central planner but I know that parents work to make certain their children are educated. I cannot tell you how USSR best converted its empty grocery stores and rotting field crops into stocked grocery stores and harvested crops other than to say remove the interference of the government and let people choose.

Developing nations commonly have privately funded schools operating on shoe-string budgets that outperform pretty much all of the "indispensable and irreplaceable" inner-city (and ignored rural) public schools.

Public schools are thick bureaucracies that reward employees for seniority and people who know how to follow orders and fill out forms. They have no accountability when they have a failing product (human beings!) and all employees get pensions and are nearly impossible to fire. The service is provided free of charge while taxing nearly as much money as desired.

They attempt to measure school results through standardized testing, which operates under the assumption that there is a standard person we are all supposed to be become. Then they teach to the test only, so despite where a child may have interests, the test is all that matters so the school can get better funding.

Teachers receive special training so that they understand how to have more influence over a child than the child's parent. They go to conferences in Florida to learn this wonderful skill.

This is completely your own assertion and suggests a lack of understanding of property rights. How can I talk about property rights under the assumption that they apply only to me, unless I believe that I am the only one in the universe with property rights?

Property rights also apply to Stripe, in that the company, as an asset itself, can be restricted by its owners to conduct business in some certain way.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Stripe's policies will have more to do with the credit card companies than Stripe. Then, further, the credit card companies act as a cartel by using the government to prevent anyone else from using property to create a competing service by making the ROI on creating a competing service worse than other investment opportunities, or even just blocking it outright under some nebulous "shut down for accounting irregularities" or "insufficient consumer protections" nonsense.

Are you suggesting people have never learned anything without going to public schools?

I'm not talking about something distant from my personal experience: I spent 13 years in public schools and it was a hugely counterproductive experience.

Nothing crushes the desire to learn faster and more effectively than public schools.

The Register article makes gives no indication as to the number of users having trouble with the current issue.

My single issue with LastPass is that they don't offer an APK download options separate from the Google Play store, so my slow and steady migration will require, at some point, migrating to a different password manager.

I made a trouble ticket regarding this issue and they informed me they have no plans to offer a separately downloadable APK.

Perhaps add an enterprise tier that includes lots of buzzwords in its description on a dedicated page.

Ancient man squatted to take a leak? That's not what I do in the forest...

See: SCOTUS decisions.

> And yes, the structure has everything to do with it.

So, why are those humans over there struggling while the humans over here are not? What lead to this? The humans in the U.S. used to be very poor. How did they grow so rich?

> We just don’t think about it and most of us just don’t care. I did care more when I was younger, but rose glasses tend to fall when you grow up. I now leaning towards capitalism when I will treat you as bad as the law allows me and extract as much money is possible as it is a fair game.

> Welcome to corporate America.

Why is it that kids in Africa are going to die but not kids in the U.S.? How has such an incredible disparity in wealth come to be? Isn't the incentive structure of private capital ownership a pretty big part in this?

> Turns out it’s not actually an improvement though.

I have been to several. If you are trying to make some sort of direct comparison, your argument seems inadequate, as there are so many differences impacting economic activity.

Nearly all critical infrastructure in the form of homes (zoning), roads, water, and electricity and related services are centrally planned.

It is almost impossible to do anything outside of a municipality, which didn't used to be the case.

Without this central planning failure it would be impossible to "take advantage" of any market, as home builders would just build homes until the "launderers" run out of cash.

> But hey, that jump you took to that conclusion was spectacular. You missed your calling.

> "How they can the be the ones we look to for preventing illness, when they don't even have a baseline understanding of nutrition?"

> This thread is unbelievable. Have all the rational people left HN?

I stated doctors receive zero nutrition training.

And thanks for the personal insult.

My understanding is that doctors receive zero nutrition training, including ones that graduate from Harvard. How they can the be the ones we look to for preventing illness, when they don't even have a baseline understanding of nutrition?

On the one hand, the medical industry is tied so closely to government that they are even granted immunity for FDA approved treatments. A policy which basically assumes nobody makes mistakes.

They have made the requirements to bring a drug to market so onerous that only the very largest companies can afford it.

The regulatory infrastructure is heavily influenced by non-medical industry industries, such as the alcohol industry's non-stop lobbying to make and keep cannabis a schedule 1 drug.

This all stinks so badly my default position is to hardly trust anything coming from the establishment.

Anyone trying to make claims outside of establishment channels is generally a near lone voice that may or may not understand what they are talking about. Gauging their claims becomes very difficult as often it is not even legal for others to test their claims. I would basically have to become an expert, myself, to actually understand either side of a claim.

To make matters worse, everyone in the world is now an independent expert everywhere on everything and they can insert themselves into every conversation. I find most commonly people outside the U.S. commenting on things inside the U.S. while clearly not having one clue about how the government activities make the whole thing look and smell like a waste treatment facility.

Then people come up with the stupid terms, such as "anti-vaxxers". This term is now used against people who simply believe the government has no power force people to receive injections. Government forcing this kind of thing is going to get a bunch of people really screwed up and killed, largely because nobody anywhere in the process is ever close to being individually accountable (e.g., if somehow a court rules in favor of the harmed parties, they just get paid from tax dollars, not corporate profits, corporate assets, individual assets, and certainly no jail time for anyone).

Edit to add:

I remember reading the following quote from a parent who chose chemo for their daughter:

"We basically tortured her for two years and then she died."

It's a very different take, but it's real.

I think this occurs within some time frame of the event, and even then only among the better known, funded and "court approved" historians. There will be outcast historians that plug away at recording various facts surrounding the event (e.g., continued investigation into whether FDR was intentionally bellicose, was it truly necessary to nuke Japan, was fire bombing the German civilians tactically useful, etc.).

Assuming word-of-mouth promotion doesn't do anything beneficial for the app makers.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/24/oakland-official-thre...

About 10 years ago I looked into creating my own ACH system so I wouldn't have to use an intermediary (this was because I was going to be doing high dollar, low quantity transactions).

Because I was going to be setting up an import operation, I wanted to understand what my liabilities might be if a customer either didn't actually have funds in their account or they were fraudulent.

A key concern was the amount of time my company would be liable for the funds transferred to it, because even a single reversal would cause a serious problem for the company.

I learned that the receiving institution can initiate a reversal, and there is no time limit to establish when they can no longer do this. So, theoretically, they could just reverse all transactions for a year, or however long, and my company is on the hook for all of this cash.

Worse, my institution is what's actually on the hook, because they automatically send the money that the reversal is requiring. It seems you are doing a more technical analysis, but the issue comes that if you are a small business unable to deposit $1,000,000 in a CD as a security against such misfortunes, then you are locked out of getting such a service.

Or at least this was the case ~10 years ago.