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I agree completely that better price discovery would help the issues greatly. Many times the doctor's office will not even be able to tell you how much a procedure or medication costs until after you get it, which is nuts. If there were more competition in the medical world practices like this would quickly die out (imagine if a grocery store didn't post any prices for its items!)

Apartments don't have to be cramped, they can be spacious, and they don't have to be noisy, if you build them with thick walls. So the question becomes: why aren't we building more apartments like this?

City living (at least near me) is definitely worse than suburban or rural living, but I don't think that's an unchangeable fact. More and better dense housing, mixed use areas, public transportation, and public common space are all vital to a healthy city. I believe that the lack of these is what drives people out of the city and into suburbs.

If many countries near Russia prefer to align themselves with NATO and the west, how will violent behavior from Russia improve the situation? It seems like it will do the opposite.

>The only way to stop the Russian aggression is to negotiate with their government.

And get sent to prison? There is no negotiation in a country without free speech.

>Russia can do whatever they like to their people.

This is a callous viewpoint. My heart goes out to the Russian citizens living in an effective dictatorship.

As an American: I agree with your point broadly, but I would love to see the world punishing Americans e.g. through sanctions for an event like the invasion of Iraq or Vietnam, should it happen. Such unnecessary destruction of human life should be met with resistance on every level.

There's a famous scene in the movie "The Big Short" where a character is talking to a stripper about her investment properties. The movie is about the 2008 housing bubble.

Someone has to own the property, why not the person who lives in it?

At least social media has an element of democracy to it.

Big difference between millionaire and centi-millionaire or billionaire though. You can save a million dollars just by making the median American salary and making large contributions to your 401k over 40 years, due to the power of compound interest.

What is the difference between luck and privilege?

Well, retail and food service is a classic example of a high-turnover industry.

Seems like a cool DIY project if you get the time to do it!

When wordle first started to rise in popularity, I saw a lot of comments that the one-a-day format was too limiting, and people would get bored and forget about the site because one puzzle doesn't offer enough engagement. I think that actually it had the opposite effect, keeping people coming back every day. It just goes to show that what people say they want, and what actually works, can be very different.

I'd be surprised if you see that Rust code is significantly slower than equivalent C code; this isn't how it pans out in most benchmarks. The killer for Rust is executable binary size, which even with no-std and other tricks can still balloon to an enormous size.

Well, 1.1 is a rational number. It is the ratio 11/10. Web sqrt(2) perhaps?

You can get these low interest rates because the government subsidises them. If it were a "free market" so to speak you would not be able to get such a rate, and possibly would not be able to get a fixed-rate mortgage at all.

IRC has quite a few active users which is not what I'd call "dead". It's true that it's not as ubiquitous as it used to be, but it certainly still fills a certain niche.

Just curious, what does that $700 buy exactly? My power bill and gas for my car combined never exceed $200. I assume it's a cost of living difference?

Propaganda does not benifit you. It benifits the state. To think that the state's goals are your own is a symptom of being poisoned by propaganda.

Couldn't the FSF sue on their behalf?

>I also don't think we're going to go back in time and start cutting features out of browsers.

Well, there has been a recent spike of interest in small protocols (Gemini, Gopher). It's mostly limited to esoteric tech enthusiasts though.

But then why not use a mailing list?

The fed plans to raise interest rates as soon as early 2023.

You won't find much support for an opinion like that on a site named "hacker" news, haha.

A lot of backup services (tarsnap comes to mind) prioritize scriptability, as I imagine many people run backups from cron or a systemd timer.

To add: when you install software yourself you choose this, when your install software from e.g. a distribution package it is chosen by the package maintainers, and to a larger extent the maintainers of the distribution.

This is one of the big advantages of using a pre-made advantages of using a ready-made Linux distribution: beyond the convenience of having an installer or easy to install packages, you get some assurance that the system as a whole has been thoughtfully put together.

Arch Linux for example symlinks /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin and /lib to /usr/lib among other things.

In the US at least, the fed plans to raise rates by 2023.

This is true, but it's important to consider also things which might artificially constrain supply, such as laws that make it harder to build housing or policy which incentivizes buying homes as an investment. A commonly repeated statistic, there are more empty homes than there are homeless persons in the US (around 17 million empty homes vs. around 600,000 homeless).

If something costs tens of thousands of dollars, it must be looked at in terms of ROI, or otherwise be reserved for the ultra-wealthy.

This is similar to what e.g. the TikTok "for you" algorithm does, right? Interacting with content will make it more likely for you to see similar content in the future.

Cool site!