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Ask HN: College doesn't allow purchasing items with Sales Tax?
I am part of a Student Life club at a Community College, and proposed and won funding for a project. After winning funding, however, I learned that the school does not allow clubs to purchase anything that has sales tax on it. As far as I know the school is tax-exempt, but not even having the option to pay sales tax on an item?

Anyway, I am still working on the project, but am now concerned about finding places where I can buy parts without sales tax. Does anyone know what this might be about?
“So, I just erased our JIRA database”
I visited that very glacier with my father. The historic extent of the glacier is clearly marked. That evening he still insisted global warming was made up for a political agenda, simply natural variation, etc. There really isn't much
you can do to convince some people.

Also FWIW, I think the bigger concern in Central Asia is water security. I don't think Canadians will be in as difficult a position as those in Central Asia without them.
The intersection of <people who use Electron apps> and <simultaneous multi-user systems> is likely small enough to ignore.
Take out the first part; it's still ambiguous but it's an improvement

"US aid could pay every Afghan household an average salary for 14 years"
Well, this is one reason why some companies insist on grilling candidates on "academic stuff".

Guess what, sometimes it's needed. Even knowing that a given data structure exists is sometimes enough.
We will include support for more runtimes and language versions in the future.
Can you provide evidence to this claim? How exactly are we equipped to deal with what in particular, to what extent and for how long?

Such dismissive optimism needs to be either justified or smothered, unless you forgot a /s of course
This is the thing that really scares me about burnout. You get so mentally exhausted, that you are unable to think straight enough to pass an interview even if you would have enough skills to blow them away after a couple months of rest.

I was in a similar situation, basically not recognizing the signs of burnout until layoff time, and it took me 4 months to be able to properly interview (fortunately, the economy was down so it also took 4 months to be able to schedule any proper interviews anyway).
It's interesting but without large, long term longitudinal studies making health claims is shaky at best.

It might improve specific health parameters but whether those improvements translate into a longer and/or healthier life can't be assumed.
If it is string-based meta-programming you find ugly (as many do as first), consider the alternatives are maybe not much better in practice.

https://forum.dlang.org/post/l5srs7$2m3$1@digitalmars.com
As a digital nomad, I have no long-term home. I literally live in Airbnbs. I tried finding a policy to cover me, but none exists. Policies also vary a lot with burglaries - eg some require signs of forced entry.
Nothing short of sublime. Thanks for sharing.
I recently tried to book over AirBnB just for the convenience of it.
They requested government id and a new photo of me for verification. They also (indirectly and insidiously) asked for my permissions so sell all my personal data listed in the ID (biometrics, height, skin colour, ID number etc). Of course you'd have to read the privacy policy to know this, and many people don't. Also their facebook login asked for a list of all my friends as well as all my likes. What the hell does that have anything to do with them?

I just booked off their platform. It was easier and cheaper, and definitely more private. I also wouldn't recommend anyone to get vendor-locked so hard as to have their livelihood depended on this company's policies.
The one making the claim has the burden of proof. And following Hitchen's Razor: What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Saying that is an alien probe it's not an argument, just an untested hypothesis. What follows on the paragraph is an argument, albeit a bad one.
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What can you screw up that requires re-cloning the repo rather than just a reset --hard?
>Is it possible to build software successfully with agile processes? Yes.

not really. Until of course your software is simple - ie. 1. doesn't have any significant internal nor external dependencies being developed as part of the same project/during the same time and 2. any feature can be done by a one "full stack developer".

Agile/Scrum don't provide for dependencies management, and when implemented thorough and correctly the Agile/Scrum actively and severely impedes dependencies management.

>The point is that, blaming agile for your failure is about as pointless as saying agile is a saviour.

I'm not blaming Agile. The Agile in our case of various mildly to really complex enterprise software projects worked exactly as designed - ie. practically halted down any progress of the projects.

I'm blaming the people who decided to implement the Agile/Scrum in our company when it is an obviously unsuitable process for any minimally complex projects.

Besides the above mentioned dependency management issue, the Agile/Scrum main effort is directed toward dramatically lowering of the latencies in the dev process (which main effect is totally transparent always up-to-date status - management's wet dream, and boy, did we have it!) while promising bandwidth/throughput (productivity) increase at the same cost (i.e. the same developers/teams).

The fallacy of "it is possible to pick all the 3 at the same time" - the lower latency and increased bandwidth/throughput while keeping the same cost/hardware - would be easily recognized by any normal engineer in the context of a normal engineering problem. Yet when it comes to process management, many otherwise reasonable engineers do unexplainably believe in the pixie dust of Agile/Scrum.

When somebody says "we're successful and we're using Agile/Scrum" it has always (until it is 10x dev case described below) been the case in my experience that hey do have significant deviations from a complete thorough Agile/Scrum implementation and those deviations provide the "breathing windows" which allow for their survival.

Another situation of "we're successful and we're using Agile/Scrum" is that the companies employing "10x" developers, like Google, FB and many well-funded hip startups can allow themselves to decimate the engineers' performance/bandwidth/throughput even by say 5 times (by the combination of factors like open floor office, Agile/Scrum process management, etc.) and they would still be left with effectively "2x" performing developers which still allows to be pretty successful. Similar scale decimation of performance/throughput of a typical "1x" developer at a typical BigCo like say ours naturally leaves you with "1x/5" :)
An Open Letter to Michigan's Governor on the Need for an Open Data Law
> Its seams like the volume of people using youtube-dl is just so low comparatively its not on the "radarr" at youtube.

youtube-dl breaks all the time (but fixes get pushed upstream quickly). I don't know if this is intentional or accidental, and I won't speculate. However, it's a constant game of cat and mouse.
It's worth noting that trading spikes in advance of public availability of news doesn't necessarily imply illegal activity. Overheard conversations between strangers, for example, are fair game.
it's not free, it's taxpayer-funded. the money came from other people.
There's another part of this story that doesn't quite add up. Airlines, in general, like to book round-trip flights rather than one-way flights. Not only is a round-trip flight generally less expensive than two otherwise equivalent one-way flights, but sometimes it's even less expensive than either one-way flight booked alone. So why would you ever get a refund for cancelling the return leg of a round-trip flight?
Why don't they just assign a new one from time to time? It's just a number after all, much easier to change than fingerprints.
"It is the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy or a girl: True" that one seems a bit inaccurate as a father can have both daughters and sons while his DNA does not change. I know what they actually mean and how it works but their wording is a bit strange.
That data does not look suspicious at all. A very quick google search shows this article [1] that was published around the same time as the start of that growth.

[1]: https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/01/09/why-canopy-growth-...
> Expecting people who are just living on a UBI to move somewhere with a low cost of living also seems reasonable to me

Not unless you are providing means-tested relocation assistance (which is against the spirit of UBI), and ignoring that UBI and the associated taxes to fund it will:

(1) reduce CoL in high CoL areas and,

(2) raise CoL in low CoL areas.

And assisted relocation actually magnifies this effect.
Don't agree that this is clearly a "name and shame" situation. Even if the candidate is the aggrieved party here, there may be repercussions to one's reputation to reveal who the company is... Especially if its a "he said, she said" type of situation with minimal proof.
"Isn't blaming their parents' character flaws for the adult children's character flaws just a way to avoid responsibility by those adult children?"

No. That's not how it works. Understanding a cause of a behavior is not the same as denying responsibility for the behavior. This sort of thinking is what leads to the (extremely flawed) conclusion of "I was abused, and I turned out okay, so your behavior because of your abuse was your decision" thinking.

What you're doing here is victim blaming. If someone abuses you, this is not your fault. If, because of this abuse, you have social problems you're still going to have to figure out a way to deal with these problems. Understanding the root cause of the behavior (ie; my mother molested me, thus I have a strange view of sexual norms, thus I engaged in abusive sexual behaviors) can help in the treatment of this behavior. In fact, I would go so far as to say that understanding the root cause is almost always needed in order to treat the behavior.

You make the extremely flawed assumption that by exploring an understanding of causation (abusive parent in this case) that the person in question is not working on fixing the flaws. These ideas aren't mutually exclusive. And for many people, groups, including reddit groups, act as a way to work through their problems with others capable of relating to their situation.

If someone's entire course of action is "my parent was abusive, so I'm going to keep engaging in this behavior because now I have an excuse" the problem present is this person's continued desire to behave poorly. It doesn't absolve the parent from their portion of creating the problem, nor does it absolve the person in question from engaging in the behavior.

Tl;dr- No, none of your points stand on their own.
A free one-day vacation where you have to spend most of the day doing job interviews is a shitty vacation.
That's not a general conclusion he's pushing, it's what he thinks would be a likely conclusion if two other hypotheticals are met:

"if it is indeed less than a millimetre thick, if it is pushed by the sunlight, then it is maybe a light sail"

It's not clear at all that he think it's likely that it's less than a millimeter thick or that it is a light sail. That's simply "the only thing that came to his mind" to explain the additional force(s) working on it.
So, the evidence suggests climate change causes societal collapse?
Yes but they are now E2E encrypted. Apple rolled out "Messages in iCloud" recently which preserves E2E encryption and excludes messages from regular (not E2E encrypted) iCloud backups.
As an aside, and since there are some googlers here, the heading animation on the blog has some issues in Firefox. They are super annoying. Would be nice if google supported all browsers.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/MgsfH8GZndCdyBjeA
I believe this is called portage. Turns out its complicated to manage and comes with costs.
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these are strong points.

i wonder if there can be some kind of (potentially algorithmic) metric that tells us how much of an article is unsubstantiated? we already have opinion pieces and editorials as categories. can we use such categorizations to indicate some measure of trustworthiness of a given article?
On iOS they have Shortcuts that can do something like that too.

It's real limited in what it does, but it can turn wifi / bluetooth / other stuff on depending on time, location, the usual stuff.

I would love to have a real "Tasker" type app for iOS, but I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
Are we?

First, weren't those past changes much slower, thus giving much more time to adapt?

Second, wasn't the world much more sparsely populated, meaning that if your area's ecosystem changed it was often feasible to migrate to a most hospitable currently unoccupied area?

Third, if they did migrate to someplace that was already occupied and those already there objected, nobody had weapons of mass destruction. At worst, one group would genocide the other, but it wouldn't spread beyond the disputants.

If a climate change induced resource problem leads to war in our times there are weapons of mass destruction, and those wars could be very devastating and draw in others.
Not all languages are the same, C++ is vastly more complex than many other programming languages (arguably all of them). The only reason to keep learning C++ after years of practice is the sunken cost.
If I offer MongoDB as a cloud service with a homegrown web interface (e.g. mLab) then I am required to release my web interface?
I get the "global" part, but what makes you think the current climate change will be permanent?
I'm glad you're proud of your grandfather, but your emotional attachment to him does not strengthen an argument that capital is not required to start a business. I don't mean to be dismissive of his struggle in any way and I am aware that the Japanese occupation of Korea was atrocious.

> Contrast this with the numerous situations where industries are socialized, but into the hands of a different class/identity group, then proceed to decay.

Dude, I am not advocating socialism. You are repeatedly attempting to frame this as capitalism vs socialism and that is just not even related. I am pro-capitalism as much as I am pro-gravity but also pro-facts, truth, and realistic personal financial advice.
You are just incorrect. For example, Airbnb was required to comply with host registration and caps on short stay rentals in San Francisco (e.g. discussed in [0]). Airbnb is legally required to demonstrate its own compliance, separately from what laws govern hosts themselves.

It seems premature to claim whether Airbnb is subject to more laws like this or not. Many cities have enacted new regulations or sued Airbnb over failures to comply with existing laws, and it seems like a complex legal issue still in the midst of being hashed out.

[0]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Airbnb-loses-th...
That's the problem. They talk about raising tax on billionaires, but when the number come out they hit people making $300k a year, good money no doubt, but these are your doctors, small business owners, etc. that are still paying income taxes.
1. vote 2. don't vote populists

Poe's law again. What's up with these posts?

Voting, at its core, is a popularity contest. How exactly do you NOT vote for populists?
I believe this exact issue was just voted on in the British parliament. I fear they disagree with you pretty damn conclusively:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46899466

PM May's interpretation merits repeating I think:

She will "continue to work to deliver on the solemn promise to the people of this country to deliver on the result of the referendum and leave the European Union"

Having watched the video, it might be relevant to add the response was applause. It seems to me that when push comes to shove, the conservatives seem to be operating under the conviction that another "Exit EU" referendum would have the same result. Whilst I have no way to know if that's right or not, I would argue that they do represent the majority of the people of Britain and therefore know better than I do.
Interesting fact, but honest question: What's the usefulness of this distinction?
> but you generally don't have the rights to the software or firmware that runs it

Legally this is correct in certain jurisdictions. But I'd say this is similar to arguing that you have no right to know the ingredients in food you buy.
>Better would be to use the legal system to recoup your costs. This way you don't accidentally recoup your costs from an innocent individual with zero oversight.

Or strand someone that fibbed about their experience, that then writes a suicide note (after throwing screenshots of the emails and cancellation up on their social media) claiming you stranding them in a city far from home with no money and no way home was the last straw and then commits suicide in front of your building

Or someone that comes back and sets the building on fire "with nothing left to lose".

Or waits for the person that interviewed them to walk out of the building and assaults them. Or follows them down the sidewalk and shoves them in front of a bus/trolley/train.

There's a bazillion reasons why this was a horrible idea for the company to do, if it is a true story.
Kinda a weird speed for an alien artifact too, though. One would expect for it to be launched. Humans may in some sense have a small time horizton, but you have to have an absurdly long time horizon to fling probes out into the universe at the local average speed and expect them to encounter anything, since by definition of "local average speed" that's literally the speed least likely to encounter anything. In some sense, that's actually literally the least likely velocity I'd expect to be an alien result.

(And it's also conceivable that humans have bizarrely long time horizons, if the future of all intelligence is moving into a machine intelligence on a computational substrate as fast as possible. If intelligences subjectively experience hundreds or thousands or millions of times faster, it's like dropping the speed of light by the same factor, and it still takes all the same amount of energy to launch probes. I'm not saying this is inevitably true, but I do think there's an excessively strong bias to assume that humans are as bad as possible in every possible way.)
Let's not look at Shkreli like that. He's a guy who opposed FDA approval of a drug. Not based on its effectiveness, or medical benefit, but because it would interfere with his profits from a competing, inferior drug.

This is not someone who has a strong history of "the right thing to do".
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Your denominator is too large. Children would not be receiving UBI, presumably.

Also the numerator could be increased via a wealth tax on the top 0.1% or so.
Big companies have legal, HR, and compliance departments who know that it's not worth nickel-and-diming on petty shit.
At the sandboxing level, it's already possible (you can upload any binary and fork/exec it from one of the supported languages). That's made possible by gVisor, which is the underlying sandbox technology used in GAE and GCF.

As for making that an actual product, we're working on that, too. Sign up for the alpha here:

g.co/serverlesscontainers

Disclaimer: I work on GCP.
> Ask a modern American, or anyone really, what the justification for entering the war was and they'd probably say to stop Hitler.

I'm pretty sure this is false and that most people know the US entered WWII because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
There's a much better interview here:

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/06/interview-with-the-astrono...
I've had similar Airbnb experiences as you, and I'm convinced that Airbnb has the worst customer service of any company I've ever dealt with. I've never felt more defeated, humiliated, and powerless as I've felt when dealing with them. I used to think, "those people who have problems are just exaggerating, or they're problem customers." Nope, Airbnb will screw over everyone, and make them gag on cloying "community" marketing in the process.

I like the idea of Airbnb and many of the apartments can be great, but boy do I wish Airbnb would die a cold, harsh death.
Attach a microphone with USB or Bluetooth, and then turn off or detach it when done. Same for a webcam.
People who are too poor to afford popular current housing also having more stable income reducing the risk of renting to them might well make serving that market with units that are less expensive than the minimum on the market profitable, reducing the floor price in private housing markets.
Being a Harvard astronomer in and of itself doesn't make one's arguments any stronger. What a silly headline.
Red Hat Legal feels that AGPL stops at the tarball boundary, and the preamble isn't binding[0](2009).

[0]https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2...
YouTube updates policies to explicitly ban dangerous pranks
For context, Seth Schoen is not only very tolerant, one of the least racist USAns I know, but also Jewish.
They've been retreating for 15,000 years or more. At what point do we say "this is where they should stop"? The high water mark for inter-glacial sea level is quite a bit higher that it is now:

https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/climate-change/changing-ice...
The straw man of banning gambling everywhere is not what this is about. Sure, consenting adults should be able to indulge in vices, but we should regulate them to reduce the social harm they cause.
Oh, but bullshit. Comparing altruism to narcissism is so entirely self-centered, it fails to encompass the sheer idea of the fact that people do things for other people that bear no benefit to themselves.

And don't even start the whole "But you feel good about it" line. Do I feel accomplished from writing a supportive message? Not particularly. I wrote it because I saw it a good thing to do, because I'm that kind of a person. I'd keep doing it even if I'm going to be dismissed or disparaged half the time.

The kind of reductive argumentation you express, at best, prevent proper self-actualization – and at worst, prevents its development in the first place.
The whole point is that it's not supposed to change, unlike your name, address, gender, occupation, and everything else.

Which makes it all the more ridiculous that as an immutable identifier, it's also supposed to be a secret.
I would love to use this to let my clients fill out my contract forms. Right now I make a little form for them to fill out then I hand bomb the form. I Fill in additional company information then send it off for a digital signature.
Anyway I we can work on getting my forms digitized.
How did Google monetize in the early days?
I'm curious how they made money in the beginning before they were huge. Was it always from ads from day one?
There is probably also magnification effects from bots scanning the market for anomalies and piling on.
That quote is specifically in answer to it being a millimeter-thick light sail. An object that size that is only a millimeter thick... yeah, I might agree with his "much more likely" characterization, if the object has that shape.
Wow it would suck to live in China