skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While most want to live in a society that provides some base level of features, we have huge difference of opinion of what that is.

For example, police. If you legalized all drugs, you'd not need as many as you have. You could save money by not having their salaries, pensions, and benefits. You could also increase revenue by having reasonable taxes on the sale of the vice. Now you don't need to take land from people.

My whole point in all of this is that property taxes are not necessary. Rather they are used by people that don't want to think about ways to truly free their society. Those people limit building heights. They limit trade. They limit the very means that a state could make a reasonable income.
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It actually varies a lot by state.
In Florida, where I used to live, it was $25-50k lopped off the value of the house before taxes were assessed. Proportional to house prices, this was a lot.

In California, where I live now, its only $7k. Proportional to house prices here, it barely qualifies as lost pocket change that fell out of your pants and is rattling around the washing machine.

Of course those laws sometimes include other provisions, such as tax cap portability when you move (sometimes only for old/disabled/etc, depending on the state). The limits on tax rate increase might sometimes also be tied to this.
So, we write tests to deal with complexity, but we are also writing tests for trivial things because.. something something ninjas.. something something discipline..

So what's this got to do with selling TDD? You can write "placeholder" tests afterwards just as easily..
You're not "renting" from the government. You're paying for the ongoing services you use, which are connected to your property (roads, police protection, etc.). As to having other taxes pay for it--that just shifts the tax burden onto other people.
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Like income and sales tax? States with no income tax tend to have higher property and sales tax, and vice versa.

Or did you mean, why can't other people pay for that?
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That's a bit of a mixed bag. Once you do realize that 1 cm3 (1 ml) of water is also 1 g (as it's 1000g/1l = 1g/1ml), and that a 10x10x10 cm cube is 1 l (and is 1 kg), it does get powerful in unexpected ways ("cook half liter of water...hm, how do I measure...well that's 500 ml, so I'll just weigh 500 g, exactly the same thing"); and a 10 l bucket of water weighs 10 kg; similarly with other decimal units. This, I think, is intrinsically useful - how does this translate into US units, are there such simple conversions? (IDK, so this is not a rhetorical question)
Oh God prop 13 - the destroyer of California. I recently learned that, after winning, Howard Jarvis made this supervillain-tier exclamation (read in the voice of Cobra Commander for maximum effect):

> The most important thing in this country is not the school system, nor the police department nor the fire department. The right to have property in this country, the right to have a home in this country, that’s important.
Python 2.7 added a lot of backward-incompatible stuff over 2.6, so you could make the same argument about the Python 2 series vs Python 1.
What do you think would (or for you, should) happen if Orson Welles performed War of the Worlds today?
Adding onto this, is that it's not only a massive subsidy to homeowners, but also the many private equity firms that have purchased a ton of property all throughout California (where this is relevant because the private equity firm has the ability to outlive any one person).

Additionally, if you compare the percentage of renters in California to other states, it's often much higher, and this is a result of the fact that the cost of purchasing a home is substantially higher than renting the same home. Prop 13 enables this because these same PE firms who are able to leverage long term action are willing to prop up the value of homes in the short term since it is incredibly cheap in the long term.
Because such a scheme places property tax burdens on renters (a landlord would pass these taxes on). Those who rent tend to be less wealthy than property owners, so this winds up being a regressive tax.
Honestly, if you're recording terminal sessions, it's probably fine to not support Edge. I doubt any significant portion of your audience is going to be using it, and even if they do, they're going to be perfectly understanding when you say "sorry, Edge doesn't support SVG animations, use a different browser".

Shitty of Microsoft, though. If they aren't going to support it, it's not going to be widely deployed. I expect better of the new and improved Microsoft.
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Since it is much harder to get into the top universities and most classes scale their grades based on the history of the class, perhaps that relationship is the issue
What else do you think it applies to? The latest version of the law that I've seen says:

"(4b) ‘online content sharing service provider’ means a provider of an information society service one of the main purposes of which is to store and give access to the public to copyright protected works or other protected subject-matter uploaded by its users, which the service optimises. Services acting in a non-commercial purpose capacity such as online encyclopaedia, and providers of online services where the content is uploaded with the authorisation of all rightholders concerned, such as educational or scientific repositories, should not be considered online content sharing service providers within the meaning of this Directive. Providers of cloud services for individual use which do not provide direct access to the public, open source software developing platforms, and online market places whose main activity is online retail of physical goods, should not be considered online content sharing service providers within the meaning of this Directive;"
Different isolates can run concurrently on different threads, so pegging the CPU in one isolate doesn't block any others. Also, if a worker spends more than 50ms of CPU time on a request, we cancel it, terminating execution of the worker even if it's in an infinite loop. (Almost all non-buggy Workers we've seen in practice use more like 0ms-2ms per request. Note this is CPU time; time spent waiting for network replies doesn't count.)
> this seems clearer and reasonably painless

but gives the wrong answer, as you'll see if you try to sort [('a', 2), ('a', 1)]
I honestly don't know the details. I just think the idea is right. Homeownership by individuals is desirable but it's not desirable if big companies with deep pockets buy up all properties. We should have policies that put the home buyer with an average salary at an advantage over the big guys.
It might not solve all problems, but wouldn't you expect it to at least help dampen ambient noise from conversations, and visual distractions as well?
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I'm in the USA and I much prefer to use my personal Amex card whenever I can because Amex has always had excellent customer service. My cards have been used fraudulently a few times over the years and I've always gotten a call from a human about it explaining everything and the next morning FedEx delivers new cards to me. When ever I've called them, they handle my issues very well. I don't think I've ever had a bad experience with Amex.
I am sorry for not explaining the site's privacy policy.

I can assure that I collect no data about any user, there are no cookies what so ever. About the word counter, it uses 10 lines of JavaScript to look for the number of spaces in your text and that's all the logic that power this tool. When you save the content, it never leaves your browser.

Hope this clears you doubt.
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I found the way vocab is included in that book to be fascinating. The narrator simply places the definition directly into the story. This is often done to comedic effect, as a running gag, with the characters being accused of not knowing what it meant, and the adults being corrected.
Commissions are negotiable (it is even possible to complete a real estate transaction without a broker; i.e. 0% commission). And sellers don't pay points.
Your idea of learning from this is to say "What was he thinking?", which in your context is is a rhetorical question. You're not trying to understand the thought process, instead you're making a statement to imply that the leader wasn't thinking about the group's safety when taking them into the cave and is negligent.

This may or may not be true, or could be somewhere in between. But it specifically does not, and actually actively pushes against finding a solution that ensures this never happens again.

By blaming someone for an error instead of the system that allowed, encouraged and enabled them to make that error you end up not solving anything, and the same problems crop up again, and again.
There are two main factors contributing to this:

1. Cheats in video games often need to use techniques commonly used by malware and as such are often flagged as malware. This can be things like injecting data into other processes or reading the memory of other processes. Also the cheats often have ways of avoiding detection by the game's actual anti-cheat system, which again looks very much like malware trying to hide from an antivirus.

2. Public video game cheat sites are a great attack vector for anyone wanting to push out actual malware. But the same can be said of any site designed to share software that is generally considered illegal or unethical - public torrent and other piracy sites have the same problem.
Even worse for the managers, WFH would reveal how mostly unnecessary they are.
Oh, they have malloc, it's just kalled kmalloc.
Wealthy people are more profitable for them. Who would you rather have as a customer, someone who puts $3,000/month on their cars (warning you a nice 2% or so of that) and always pays, or someone who puts $500/month on the card and is likely to go into default due to overspending or losing their job or an illness in the family or something?

There’s no conspiracy here, any more than there’s a conspiracy behind the large discount you can get if you buy a year’s supply of toilet paper at once.
You have been posting here for nearly 2 years. Are you growing or do you just have a ton of churn in this team?
> Rainway also suggests that Epic, the company behind Fortnite, should “do a better job at educating their users on these malicious programs and helping them understand how airtight Fortnite’s systems are at preventing cheating”.

Seems like an iffy suggestion seeing as people don't listen to security-related warnings very often https://phys.org/news/2016-08-people-software-percent.html. Also if some of these programs actually work as advertised, then are Fortnight's anti-cheat systems really that airtight?
Hate? It's a fact that his company is turning the internet into shit, to a degree where I think the internet will be like cable TV in the future, with channels you subscribe to (channels = popular sites), and the rest of the internet will just die.
New Jersey property taxes are horrendous, but at least it keeps the schools good (also it's what allows NJ to have so many purely residential towns, where as in California, many suburbs need corporations located in them to support them financially).
Off topic, but the totally pointless animated gifs in this article are distracting and made it painful to read. I don't understand why they felt the need to make an article about a serious topic look like a teenager's tumblr post.
Plain text is small, and the smallest limit appears to be on the order of 2MB, which is enough to fit several NaNoWriMo novels. (And that's if you're storing them uncompressed.)

(source: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2989284/1223693, https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/quota-resear...)
GDPR is for the people, was passed over a year ago.

Don’t put all these things together.
Having worked in wework, open floorplans with 'pods', and the cube farm setup, I prefer the farm. The problem is that most cubes don't actually cancel out noise too well so you are constantly overhearing things causing distraction. There really is no substitute for uninterrupted silence which is probably not achievable in any office where the company is not willing to invest in individual rooms for each person.
Re: We were even so desperate to fix the economy that the government basically started cutting people checks.

That's pretty much how Keynesian economics is supposed to work: the gov't saves up during good times and distributes cash during bad times to get people to consume again. Otherwise, economies can get stuck in a circular rut where nobody is spending because they have no jobs, and there are no jobs because nobody is spending. (The problem is politicians don't bother to pay down debt during good times.)
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One of my favorite references on how California is destroying itself was Peter Schrag's book Paradise Lost.
Interesting, I never thought about the merits. Rome would have a very different history if they did this, I would love to know that alternative
Nope, the ADA requirement for transportation is that a company must provide "equivalent service."

https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/civil-r...

The relevant requirements are that the following must be equivalent for everyone regardless of disability.

(2) Response time (if the system is demand responsive);

(f) Reservations capability (if the system is demand responsive); (g) Any constraints on capacity or service availability; (h) Restrictions priorities based on trip purpose (if the system is demand responsive).
It's not easy to "just" switch languages. You also have to consider the ecosystem built around them. For example, I love NumPy and SciPy.

> preferably only one obvious way of doing it

I don't think that is true at all. Python allows you to perform many tricks, with overloading operators etc.
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> not to mention that building bootable images with your software on is not a very modern practice.

1. Why not?

2. Who cares if it's not modern if it does the job?

And they wouldn't even need to make a special app, they could just make it a webapp ergo make a 1-time image with a browser...
> I'd imagine most amex users probably have a mastercard/visa anyways

I didn't, for several years, until a Visa card came out with better terms (1.5% cash back) than the Amex variant I was using (1%).

Also, some companies provide an Amex Corporate card for travel expenses, and it's less convenient to charge things to any other card.
Which coincidentally just removed the ability to book Uber trips in app.
My problem with this statement from the article is that this kind of warning from a gaming company will be ignored by players. Players will just rationalize it as "they are giving a BS warning because they don't want me to cheat".
At the end of the day, our motive for serving the environment is so that it can serve us better in the future. Making the environment its own end instead of a means like this would be backwards - sprawl is much nicer to live in for a great number of people who don't want to be packed into tiny apartments and surrounded by concrete in every direction all day.
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The last time I checked, the only thing I could find were instruction on how to install the nVidia driver manually. Turns out nVidia has a repository for Tumbleweed! =D

Thank you so much for making me look it up!
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Worse than that, it's faceless people taking willing participants and turning them into amusement bots.
Are we all subsidizing people who use cash? Keeping large drawers full of valuable paper isn’t cheap, nor is insuring it against theft, hiring armored cars to move it around, etc.

There’s a lot of hand wringing about credit card users being subsidized by other customers. If it were that significant, we’d expect to see a lot of stores only accept cash and compete with other stores by offering lower prices. In my experience, cash-only stores are extremely rare.
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Some comment, at least?
They are a way to get card members that wouldn't otherwise be card members. The rewards are economic due to the delay between the cards receiving payment and issuing the rewards.

That's my understanding anyway. There is quite a bit written on why rewards cards are not free lunch in the end.
Yes, agree!
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-no-dea...

That's the "zero preparation" scenario. If there is no deal, no deal at all, then the existing flight approval regime ends and carriers are not allowed to fly from the UK to the EU .. or the US. https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/legisla...

Similarly if the customs arrangement is not sorted out, everyone travelling in both directions through Dover-Calais will have to clear customs. At the moment that will involve "operation Stack" all the way down the M20. Similar regulatory requirements problems will arise; direct delivery will almost certainly still be allowed, but "cabotage" rules apply limiting multi-leg trips.

We had two feet of snow earlier this year which resulted in Scottish supermarkets running out of fresh food for a few days. Snow melts. Brexit doesn't.

We had a civil war for forty years in Northern Ireland. The peace treaty stipulated that there must not be a border on the island of Ireland. The government is refusing to present a viable proposal for Brexit that does not require a border.
The pinnacle of climate control is the 1988-1991 Toyota Corolla. The controls are obvious, they literally point to what they are doing, while providing tactile control and feedback. Everything increases in intensity as it moves to the right. The detents that a switch pass through allow the user to have full control while keeping their eyes on the road. All controls are independent (fan, AC, heat, recirculation). In the Volvo and VW there is literally no way to have the fan and not set the desired temperature, which will automatically control the AC or heater depending on the outside temp.

They then made the same regressions as the rest of the industry and moved to a display with modal buttons.

https://imgur.com/a/nt0DwwP
The same argument can be made about credit card users generally being subsidized by those who pay with cash.
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Thanks for taking the time to educate. I had no idea.
I live in a city with a decent bus system, bike lanes, and where it's never too cold to walk.

Never used Uber but I have on occasion hailed a taxi or taken a local ride share alternative in a pinch.
Still waiting for the joke part...

Programmers have also lost a lot of respect, and are now seen as simple factory workers who glue things together according to best practice.
Why the assumption that the opposite sex is repulsed by "nerdy"? I honestly don't understand it.

One of the big reasons my wife and I are compatible is because we accept and appreciate the things that the other enjoys.

If you honestly believe it's "birth control for your face", have you considered that if you enjoy "nerdy" things like Google Glass, you're basically advertising a false version of yourself? Is it really a good thing if your partner's approval of you is conditioned upon suppressing who you are?

I'm glad I found someone who loves me for who I am, not the person I'm pretending to be to attract a mate.
So you're saying it's virtually impossible?

You're right, it was a different world. A different world entrenched in J2EE, ColdFusion, and classic ASP.

And yet, he/they came in and disrupted things with "10 hours a week" and a few good ideas.
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> I think you may be confusing the countdown clocks with the kiosks

No, I'm not. I know the difference between the kiosks and the overhead clocks.

> I simply don't believe that somebody could take the subway on a daily basis and think the countdown clocks are that inaccurate.

Benjamin Kabak, whom I linked above, has been covering the MTA and transit in New York for over a decade, in addition to being a daily subway rider. Offhand, I can't think of a single independent journalist who has more comprehensive knowledge of the minutiae of the NYC transit systems than he does, let alone a more established track record of documenting not only the visible problems, but the factors that create those problems. If that, combined with the other data provided, isn't convincing, I don't know what else could be.
I agree with this, but it's important that developing cities understand what makes Manhattan more family friendly than many of the urban centers being built up today, and that is family sized apartments (Something that you essentially never see in new larger apartment complexes where the largest apartment is a 800 sqft 2 bedroom apartments).

This is in my opinion why so many people are resisting the destruction of single family home neighborhoods, namely because there is a huge lack of the diversity of housing types within apartments, especially at more affordable price ranges.
When I was young and naive, I used to get lots of virus and malwares from cracks and what not.
I still have my iPad somewhere. If they'd made a VR mount for it I'd have absolutely had it strapped to my face.
Is there an app, like moves, that tracks in the background, without sending data to some server by default?
Moves had a nice array of third party apps, they all die off now as well.

Edit: Apparently there is Arc App https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/8vrwov/facebook_is_...
So, like... Europe.
A similar tool, but even simpler: https://txt.fyi/
I find myself thinking of how for a few years the local TV channels offered night time SMS driven chat services.

The thing was that said chat had a 30 second delay, because every message was read by channel staff before being allowed on the air.

On a different note, i can't shake the thought that there was an uptick of "pranksters" online after the whole Anonymous circus hit the airwaves...
Well, now that I keep my driver's licence and one credit card in my phone case, and have to make a point of carrying another card, any but a favorite shop loses out to someone who takes amex.
My rule is that you can’t drop a book until you’ve read at least as much as the most you’ve told someone else to read before giving up on something you’ve loved. Saying “Oh, Wheel Of Time is GREAT once you’ve slogged through the first three shitty tomes!” means you are fucked by this rule.

I am also pushing fifty and have read a lot, life’s too goddamn short to not give up a book the moment you stop giving any fucks about it.
Nonsense. We still read works from centuries or even millennia ago that continue to be lauded and enjoyed.
I feel cheated - my company card is Amex and I don't get any reward, I wonder if that goes to my employer.
The dry active yeast I use is just what I get from costco for very cheap. Lately I've got a good sourdough start going on (just got some from the local bakery and have kept it going). It's a bit more finicky in how long you can let it rise for, but I like the taste better.