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Crime went down becausr wr locked up all the Urban Youth scum. Now theres chatter of letting em out and going soft on crime. If that happens, crime will back up.

I would arguea HN thread about home security systems that shoot intruders upon home invasion would be tolerated on HN.

So self-defense / death alone are not enough to flag a comment. Political movements like ELF (Earth Liberation Front) used arguments similar to mine on why, for example, coal plants are legitimate targets in self defense.

The comment you linked was an (perhaps poor) attempt to prove the absurdity of free market ideology by taking it to the extreme.

Having recently finished The Rise and Fall of American Growth myself, I reached the opposite conclusion.

Yes, the decrease from 12+ -> 8 hour workdays helped health and thus productivity and growth as the author persuasively states. But in the final few chapters which look forward rather than back in time, it was my interpretation that the author sees trends in declining hours & labor force participation as headwinds to TFP growth.

It is naturally more inefficient to have more shifts and thus more people commuting, etc. The diminishing health returns from 8 - > 6 hour work days not being enough to make up for this loss in efficiency.

Blizzard has stated that StarCraft Remastered will incluve native support for FISH -- which is apparently a Korean server with ranked match making.

This presumably means ranked matchmaking is to be expected for Western players as well. Whether that included iccup or not, I don't know.

Do you really think the audio jack was removed because of thinness?

Have you seen the inside of a smartphone? Its not just about thinness. There is very little space for anything besides the battery.

Also, removable batteries and the audio jack get in the way of dust/water proofing.

You may think shrinkage is pointless, but that's clearly not what the market or the top designers think. Why do you want a giant, useless, 100+ year old analog port on your 2017 device? I don't. Its ugly.

Even dual 1080 GTX cards can't max out settings on the VR games currently available for Oculus / HTC Vive.

As for traditional usecases, I have a 3x monitor setup ( 2K@144Hz/4K@60Hz/2K@144Hz) and my 1080 GTX can't max out everything smoothly while I stream/record high-end games.

I would love it if all this was just vanity, but its my job. This stuff is an expense I'd happily avoid if possible. I don't own any nonsensical RGB lighted cases or non-essential peripherals.

Any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to die.

In the past, this was because of disease caused by pre-sanitation density. Today, it is due to below-replacement fertility rates caused by impossible to afford living costs.

So if you consider extinction a form of human suffering, 'traditional walkable cities' fit the bill.