haroldp

This is very silly, and the evidence for it is in the world all around you. Walmart is cheaper for most things. If they did not in fact pass the cost on, then there is the idea for your startup business: a grocery supplier to small neighborhood retailers.

> if people have the option, they prefer the locally grown, locally owned and operated smaller stores that might cost more

If the close store is the same price, then for sure, everyone will prefer what's nearby. If it is one hundred times the price (hyperbole) then everyone will take the drive. At some point of price differential is the current situation where people who are already forced to have cars will frequently take the drive for less expensive groceries. It's prima fascia the case.

> grocery corporations will actively work to grow larger and close stores in Black neighborhoods

If black neighborhoods are underserved, go make a fortune in black neighborhood grocery stores or their suppliers.

> When Robinson-Patman was enforced, suppliers had to offer the same deal to all grocers

The law made it so no one had the position to squeeze suppliers for lower prices and as a result, consumers paid more for groceries. If the suppliers were shifting their costs unduly to small retailers, then there was a market for new suppliers. If retailers were a monopoly they would have raised prices, and that hasn't happened. The grocery market remains VERY competitive, with stores popping up and closing down all the time.

Of course. Or to put it another way, since we are already forced to have cars to get by within the current organization of cities, consumers recognize that they can save considerable money by going to a big consolidated store instead of a small local one.

Isn't this a roundabout way of saying that, absent government coercion, consumer preference tends to be towards buying cheaper groceries at a big consolidated store a drive away, than a more expensive nearby store?

Isn't the real boogieman here rules (zoning, parking requirements, etc) and subsidies (oil industry) than mean we all live in diffuse single-use residential communities and have to have cars to get to work/school/shop, whether we really want them or not?

It's always evolving, but these days the most common platforms attacking sites that I host are the big cloud providers, especially Azure. But AWS, Google, Digital Ocean, Linode, Contabo, etc all host a lot of attacks trying to brute-force logins and search for common exploits.

> I was a Young Libertarian in my day and I recognize the urge to blame lunatics who disagree with my politics

Reason is obviously a libertarian magazine, but the author is certainly not a libertarian.

I have long felt that the best way to optimize photograph JPEGs was to scale them to the right size and then have a human turn the quality down until just before the eye notices a decrease in quality, and this has worked well for me. But I have to say, you beat me in the two images I tested, one by 30% file size, and I could not discern a quality difference. Very nice!

Or maybe I have just been clinging to notion too long?

FYI, your tester did miss an image that my site was including via in the style sheet.

Continuity camera is great too. The mouse and keyboard sharing... works great when it works. Looking forward to that maturing a bit.

> But this does highlight one weakness of these FIDO tokens - you have to manually maintain a list of where you've registered them.

FWIW, I use KeePassXC as my password manager and tag each account that uses my hardware keys, so if lost, stollen or broken, I can quickly get a list of sites from which to remove that key. I always register two keys and keep them physically separate, so I can still login in the event I lose one key.

It never does. It just LEAPS out at you on a Tuesday morning, stabbing at your eyes with pink, serif, all-caps.

How about, "Coaching clients to ask for new DB fields instead of overloading existing ones?"

And now you have a new job: untangling garbage <a><em><em style="font-weight: bold;"><em><span>HTML&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></span></a></em></em> disasters and coaching your clients about keeping the text styles in alignment with the site branding. :)

> An election is a legal event and the constitution requires the states to conduct elections in a representative format, which is violated if they then defer to the electoral results of another state.

The history of the Electoral College seems very much at odds with that notion. Indeed, the current state of the Electoral College is at odds with it, since the states mostly switched to winner-take-all apportionment about 100 years ago, and now we regularly get outcomes where the winner of the popular vote is not the winner of the Electoral College.

It has always been up to the states how they apportioned their electoral votes, and it has gone through many different versions to arrive where we are now, including electors being independent of the actual popular vote, and allowing faithless electors. It was only in the late 19th century that states began apportioning all of their electors as a block to the winner, rather than by district. The constitution leaves it to the states.

I'm not responsible for what anyone else's goals. And I have never seen anyone advocate for making suburban houses illegal. I just want it to stop being literally illegal for people to use the land they own in safe and reasonable ways.

> The thing about density advocates which I don't understand is why they wall themselves off to the irrefutable, unquestionable, fact that the second anyone, anywhere in the world, has enough money they move to a less dense area.

That should continue to be legal. You should be able to buy the kind of home you want. That what overturning Euclid V Ambler would allow again.

> I also lived in Japan for several years. The very first thing people do when they get enough money is move out into a single-family detached home in an American-style

What's important to note is that Japan greatly liberalized their zoning, setback, parking requirements after their big housing crisis, and now a family in Tokyo earning median income can actually afford to own a home in the city. You can't say that about New York, San Francisco, London, etc.

Mainly, Euclid didn't want Ambler to put a factory in their bedroom community, so they used (abused) their governmental powers to prevent it. Ironically (or perhaps inevitably) the federal government forced them to accept a General Motors aircraft factory in their town to support the war effort during WWII. There is a historical marker commemorating the Euclid v Ambler decision at the site of the factory.

This is exactly what we need, but we can't have it. Though there is probably no single imposition keeping poor people poor than restrictions on land use.

No. It seems unlikely that the drone pilot would have all of that information beyond where the target was, that would be necessary to make an informed decision about participating in an extrajudicial execution of an American citizen.

> We've been ignoring the Constitution for a very long time.

Since Thomas Jefferson sent Navy & Marines after the Barbary Pirates without consulting Congress.

Obama ordered drone strikes that intentionally killed at least two Americans. One he copped to, one he denied was intentional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...

To my mind, that is exactly the sort of thing I'd like to be hamstrung by a fear of prosecution.

(Trump ordered drone a drone strike that also killed Abdulrahman's eight-year-old American sister.)

Well say I have U&P or API keys for some network service and I have a little shell script that automates it. I can save the auth info in the script or in a ~/.keys/ file or something and the file system permissions are all that's protecting them.

If my script could retrieve a password from my KeePass DB if it's unlocked, or ask me to unlock it, that would be cool.

Very cool!

Would it make sense to use this for storing keys used other shell scripts?

Does it support hardware keys?

Syncing via NextCloud.

The very best thing about keepass is that defines a standard and publishes a reference implementation that anyone can build a compatible client for. I like KeepassXC on MacOS and Keepassium on iOS and I keep the DB in sync between them with NextCloud. If I was working on Linux/Android next week I would pick the best clients there and arrange syncing myself, again, without a third party.

I read Infinite Jest on my Kindle without any problems. So long as the end notes are linked, it works pretty well. If I had a copy of Pale Fire where the poem line references were linked, it would probably be fine too.

> Those are the sorts of books they’re best-suited to.

Which is 98% of novels. e-Readers are even great for books with lots of end notes or foot notes. It's great for flipping between those. I had no problem reading Infinite Jest, for example.

I guess if my copy of Pale Fire had hyperlinked all the poem line mentions, I would have been fine. :)

Now I'm wondering if I could write a quick script to annotate mine thusly...

I would disagree strongly with this. :)

The e-reader UI is generally so much better than paper, if a book is not available for kindle, I'll usually find something else to read. Pale Fire is a special case book where you want two have bookmarks where you are currently working. I read Chuck Palahniuk's Diary on paper, and an e-reader would definitely have ruined it.

Technical books with a lot of charts, diagrams, monospaced code examples, etc can highlight the weaknesses of e-readers. PDFs are almost always better on a tablet.

But for like, words-in-a-row novels that don't mind being re-wrapped, there is no comparison, for me. e-Reader every time.