> Why would we do something that benefits far away humans over something that benefits nearby humans? Don't help those foreigners (or people in NY)! Build a wall! Trump 2016! (Same idea, just directed at a slightly different target.)
You've misunderstood his sentence. He's not saying that we should prefer fixing things locally to fixing things globally. He's asking why we should believe that the tech elite can improve life on a global scale when they can't even improve it on a local scale.
If that's the question, the answer is pretty clear: we should believe they can do it because they already have and continue to do it every day.
And in spite of what the author claims, there are even solving some political problems. For instance, observe how Uber has improved governance in most major cities. AirBnB seems to be taking a crack at it too: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-27/airbnb-is-...
If this doesn't work then it will get killed for something to replace it with. I haven't heard anyone speak highly of forms after the initial positive start.
Which, ironically, is not obviously located. The link for their FAQ says "Demo". And it's in the main navigation on the top, instead of somewhere down the page where their layout is guiding me. Right before "Intercom Integration", they should really have another section which says "Do you have more questions? Try our FAQ!"
Instead, all of their navigation is guiding me to the sign-up button as a next step. It's a product page for creating and maintaining FAQs, and they don't guide me to their own FAQ - that's not a good sign.
I agree. I did eventually find the pricing info in the demo, but it's not at all immediately obvious that the 'demo' plays double duty as the site's actual FAQ page. And why hide pricing info in a FAQ anyway? Pricing should not be just in a FAQ.
Also, $7/mo seems steep to me, but who knows? To me the FAQ system seems to involve an excess of clicking/navigating.
Thanks I came here to complain of no pricing page also.
Shows how important conventions are.
"SlimFAQ is free for up to 20 questions. If your FAQ requires more, you can sign up to our standard plan that comes with unlimited questions for just 7 $ per month (annual payment)."
I could be wrong, but I'm almost positive the "demo" link just brought up the sign-up form before. Glad they changed that, maybe I should bring this up for every product featured on the HN front page ;)
The default terminal got a bit better in Windows 10. I've been trying to run stock for the last few weeks (rather than installing ConEmu (https://conemu.github.io/), which is what I used on Windows 7) and it's been mostly okay. They've still got a long way to go, but at least Copy and Paste finally works.
The weird thing is, I came from Windows, migrated to Linux in the past 2 years or so... been using Windows since 1996 prior... and I can't get used to Powershell. I just hate it. It's so fucking cumbersome. It definitely feels like something that was tacked onto a GUI as an after-thought.
And technically you should just use the 'ProgramFiles' environment variable, since the folder might be called something else if your install is in another language.
And Windows allows side-by-side installs of 64- and 32-bit versions of the same software; so installers should be aware of 'C:\Program Files (x86)' and 'C:\Program Files'; the first is for 32-bit programs on 64-bit machines.
I'd prefer opt-in, and a nice directory of robots you could essentially subscribe to. I did a little thinking about this a while ago when the Gunio robot was annoying some people about whitespace:
My wife and I opt out every time. Whenever possible, we just aim toward the line that's using the old metal detectors* (since the new machines are either slow or prone to breaking, this is an option most of the time). But when the only option is the new machines (backscatter or mw), we opt out.
FWIW, we have a friend who sells mw equipment, and he refuses to go through them for safety reasons. So even if I weren't opting out for moral reasons, I wouldn't go through them.
* I'm sure glad no terrorists are smart enough to do this.
Can't watch the video right now, but the summary at the bottom mentions France and Bulgaria - does it bother to mention the geographic differences between the US and those countries? I feel like a broken record every time this discussion comes up, but no comparison is complete without addressing the differences in geographic distance and population density that US providers are dealing with.
Every analysis I've seen does compare geographical differences, and finds that that's not a major factor. If that was a big factor then you would expect that either 1) the US northeast is a hotspot of cheap high-speed internet, or 2) there are no regional providers and the national providers are required to have the same coverage for all their customers. This is not the case.
Why doesn't NYC have 100 MBit to the home, when Singapore (population 5 million) does, and can get it for US$50/month?
Looking now, Cablevision serves the New York tri-state area. Their fastest rate is $45/month for "50 Mbps for downloads and up to 8 Mbps for uploads." Comcast has a much larger range. They offer 50 Mbit for $115/month and 100 MBit for $200/month.
Telia is a Swedish ISP. They offer 100Mbit for $50/month and 100/100 for $60. That's for the cities. So we see that a Swedish ISP can provide higher bandwidth, for cheaper, than two of the ISPs in the biggest metro area in the US.
I then pulled up Telia's numbers for the town of Skurup, population 10,000 in the Swedish countryside. They are limited to 30Mbit, also for about $50/month.
The south of Sweden is densely packed, for Sweden, with 290 people/sq mi in the county. The country is 54/sq. mil. That's about the same density as Pennsylvania. Is it possible to get 100 megabit to your home in Pittsburgh? For under $100/month? Likely not. Why not, when it is possible in mid-sized Swedish cities?
You've misunderstood his sentence. He's not saying that we should prefer fixing things locally to fixing things globally. He's asking why we should believe that the tech elite can improve life on a global scale when they can't even improve it on a local scale.