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Every time I see this posted, I ask about noise. Dense housing near rapid-transit, particularly rail, has led to lots of people getting exposed to massive volumes of noise, even at night. This is the type of long-term negative that get people to move out to the suburbs (e.g. self-defeating the policy) or call for more construction such as sound walls. You can see Reno for a perfect example of this. Everyone moved out to the burb, traffic sucks, then they ended up just building sounds walls anyways.

Does any piece of this legislation deal with the inherent problem of rapid-transit noise + dense housing?

I just worked 10 years at a public state University. The inefficiency, cronyism, and often blatant corruption is staggering. At least with respect to universities, there is some magic bank of "misused" money waiting to be tapped. But it is in no one's interests - not the high paid administrators, not the powerful local real estate developers and other businesses, and not the state and national politicians who generally work out a way to personally benefit from those big expensive projects.

Fun example of inefficiency, - 2 units at university using same enterprise software package - I propose consolidating to one license, 1 server, both departments split cost. - Both department heads agree, both IT depts agree, campus IT agrees - cancelled last minute - that was 7 years ago, by now both departments combined (not each) would have saved $250k

When we get to that level of a flaw, it is nice to remember that technically our own hollowed constitution is simply an illegal overwrite of the Articles of Confederation.

This is all just fluff PR. Follett's continues to have a near monopoly on campus book stores and Pearson has outsized influence given demonstrated (in)competence.

Want cheaper prices? Cut those 2 out, put out more public bids for service, or gasp if you are a 23 campus university system maybe negotiate on behalf of all 23 campuses instead of 1 by 1. Microsoft gave umbrella rates for all of the CSU system, so why not ask publishers to do the same?

General question for any pros on here, when querying for a read only report, is it standard practice to map from a viewModel/dto to a domain model? Seems a little counter productive to me (for reports) as viewModels will typically have extra concepts foreign to the actual domain model (eg pagination)?

Totally get the benefit of DTOs for create / update, but it feels like an unnecessary step in read operations.

This article is too busy looking at the trees to see the forest.

Three of China's top 5 trading partners are the US, Japan, and South Korea - it's economy has thrived for the last decade+ because of those nations most impacted by North Korean threats. China may not have that much leverage, but they know where their bread is buttered. More importantly, China wants to be a global power. The US government policies while directly failures vis-a-vis North Korea, also highlight China's impotence to other players on the world stage. To take that final global power stride, they will need to deal with North Korea at some point.

Bigger picture, I feel like whenever these kind of analytical pieces surfaced in the past, they rightly always included a point about proliferation, something that seems missing these days. If the world moves on and grudgingly accepts North Korean nukes, what stops Japan from getting one? How about Taiwan or South Korea? Same concern goes with Iran's program - what stops Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Egypt from getting one?

It is a slippery slope argument, but the consequences of the number of nuclear powers doubling are pretty dang grave, maybe it is one slope we can keep an eye on.

Brilliant caption to the jobs graph.

After 15 years of PHP I went to .net last year. Their are many things PHP gets right and IMO are still better than ASP. For example, configuration is silly weird and complicated in ASP net core, php.ini still handles all the main settings just fine even after all these years.

Auth0 and Okta have tons of docs on this. Even if you don't use their services, they have much to read.

Also, here is a good recent video for ASP Net Core 2, that includes extra things like HSTS, etc. Even if your not in ASP, the concepts will be relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2iCddrJRY8

It was a probably a combo of things, but the images of Ukrainians tearing down statues of Lenin right after the winter Olympics (in Russia!) has to be near the top.

So, it sounds like their would be no visual or noise restrictions or barriers? Haven't studies shown those are real problems (or at least, we need X hours of sleep)

The Byrds, Turn! Turn! Turn!

May I just point out that Microsoft in ASP Net core is really pushing everyone to JWT (for web api / spa anyways).

I am just trying to build apps, I could care less what protocol is in use, as long as it protects the users. Over the last few days of research (including coming across this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13865459 from a few months ago) I can't help but feel a) trapped into using JWT and b) that is probably the wrong thing to use and I am going to regret it.

Things like Lasik, Invisialign, and plastic surgery prove the market can work in healthcare. They are relatively affordable and good service is easy to find.

I will admit that these may work because they fall into the area of human vanity, and our current image obsessed society may be driving that behavior.

But then, doesn't that hint the total healthcare market could work with similar market adhering dynamics as in Lasik (its easy to get a quote and find a competent doctor) and a long run advertising campaign, a la brushing teeth back in the day, to get people to have regular checkups rather than ER visits.

Well, one, China is already number 1 in PPP.

Two, they are already setting up parallel institutions just to prevent being IMFd that (see AIIB).

Third, they already have numerous renminbi trading deals with several countries where goods are exchanged without ever being converted into dollars.

The suicide rate for teens, especially teen girls, has risen along with the explosion in social media https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/teen-suicide-cdc-study....

Instinctively, above cyber bullying and public body shaming, it is these kind of ad / algo quirks that would seem like a key contributing factor. As the author points out, the constant barrage can't help but make you consider your own body.

The fundamental unacknowledged problem with Keynes is it relies on natural rate of inflation, which only happens with population growth. See Japan's continual stagnation despite endless amounts of inflationary policies.

The 4 main econ drivers for the US over the next 20 years - China's ascension to number 1 world economy, pension and social security debt and lack of funding, the toll of automation and the gig economy, population growth (or lack thereof) in the US and other major allied nations.

We will embrace keynes as solutions to those problems, because that is what those in power know and are comfortable with. The fact the 2008 crises didn't end in 1930s like depression will all but assure them they are right. The question is whether or not that was a one-off lucky "save" largely successful because of the global coordination that went along with American policies (China, Japan, and Europe), and if so, will that global coordination be done for future economic crises, which seems unlikely to me based on the totality of global history.

Some comments as watching video...

Corporation as AI is good analogy. But as with many, he stops short and repeatedly just says corporations. Please, every large group entity - governmental bodies, unions, non-profits - is an AI. And with/in those groups (and corporations) are also competing AIs.

Comments about weaponized social media: It is odd that we in the West don't want to acknowledge / know / accept the US government and US tech firm roles in the Arab Spring and Ukraine. If we even go further back, really Wikileaks were the true pioneers in weaponizing social media.

Their is some measurable chance the NFL and football disappear w/in 30 years. Sooner or later a college / high school will lose a lawsuit for a player w/CTE, and schools will have no choice but to stop participation. Once that happens, talent level and interest in the sport will die off. Kinda silly cities are in such a rush to continue building new stadiums.

The unspoken elephant whenever these studies come up is skiing and snowboarding. Lots more participants, and I bet the concussion rate is similarly high over X number of visits. Damn well better not make me wear helmet though, my worst injuries came when I had one on (overconfidence syndrome)

This could be one of those things that definitely grabs developers attention in a good way. I disagree it needs to be for all Office apps - if it was just Excel and Access that would be plenty.

As the MOOCs found out, you can't just "replace" certain societal services - especially those beset with volumes of regulation and numerous groups of powerful stakeholders happy to reach out to politicians and the public (AARP, Insurance, numerous govt entities, drs groups, nurses groups).

2/3 of healthcare is paper pushing, the easiest thing the tech community can automate is boring old CRUD paper pushing. I hope one day we as consumers have the chance to get a USB stick to store and retain our own medical records. Walk into dr's office / hospital, hand over device, boom their is your whole history including previous surgeries, allergies, etc. Whatever is done gets imprinted on device, walk out with an updated history. That is some seriously productive low-hanging fruit.

Key takeaway (spoiler)

> King and White determined that it only took three stories in small outlets to boost public discussion of a given topic by 62.7 percent on Twitter. The same number of stories also swayed public opinion by about 2.3 percent in the direction of the stories' ideological positions. So media may not be able to change our opinions very much, but it can certainly change what we're talking about.

These statements + the 60 minutes piece awhile back (https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/brain-hacking-2/) make this a very likely outcome. I wonder what the equivalent warning label + restrictions will look like.

I seem to recall one of Jon Skeet's abusing C# videos with something similar. He has 4 or so up on YouTube, each is an hour and totally worth it.

Nice idea, but she outlined more than enough reasons not to do it. Political (Israel-Palestine, China-Taiwan, Ukraine, etc).

In my limited experience with automating international shipping I seem to recall UPS treats Guam, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin islands as countries (and our local CRM treated them as states).

There are so many controls that HTML is missing - date pickers, menus, menu flyouts etc.

The other day, Troy Hunt found a leak from a coupon website that was storing customer CVVs. If a doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc was similarly negligent they could be financially ruined (at least here in the US).

The industry may not face anti-trust issues as much as civil liability issues.

It was all the rage on Twitter when it changed. They should have just made it a Halloween thing and walked it back next week :)

In fairness to the outcries, I still miss Outlook's Gold icon. More than once have opened Outlook / Word when I meant the other.

Just a minor clarification to your point. In "industry" towns like the Bay Area, Detroit, and Chicago - corporations are definitely the powerful non-state actors.

Outside of those though, their are many cities of considerable size where local developers hold the most sway. These local developers behave and are motivated by different things then the mega corps.

And that is the exact same calculation the local transportation agency makes every time their is a car accident with fatalities on a major undivided highway / road. Roads become known as dangerous (eg Blood Alley, officially the 126 is Southern California), and clearly the govt could step in and install some Jersey barriers. Yet they don't, because implicitly the cost of X lives per year is not worth it to society.

Problem is easy to identify - We are using waterfall for massive scale urban projects, and getting the known associated problems. Add to that massive corruption and cronyism.

The fix is not clear. Can't just drop in agile, every attempt to legislate away corruption fails.

I wonder if this will spark student athletes in major football and basketball programs to follow suit.