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> couple of K a year at uni which I'd have survive without and never a dime since

And tuition ?

> your parents controlling your life past 21.

I think you have some kind of archaic idea of what parents supporting their child looks like. My parents let me pursue my dream (tbf conveniently it was in STEM) and funded my undergrad and masters.
It cost them their life's savings, but it comes with an understanding that I will support my brother's education and we will support them in retirement.

I've been away from home for 8 years at this point, and I can't think of any major restriction on me, as a result of being financially dependent on my parents.

As a family, it is a win-win. My parents get a better retirement through me, both me and my brother can get educated debt free and if anything goes wrong, it would delay our plans but won't destroy us financially the way a $100k loan would. (my parents' annual income is ~12k)

> at 15 I was ready to operate independently

If you still believe that, you might have some maturing to do. Every person I've known at 15 has been too young to live independently without screwing themselves over in some way or form.

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> individual freedom to the maximum extent

I have to ask. What are these things that you felt you couldn't do when you were financially dependent on your parents / living with them.
Many people want to change things for the better instead of leaving and I'm sure you could get your point across without being condescending.
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I noticed the same thing. Japanese items are among the most beautifully packaged in the world I find, though the waste always troubles me.
Just having undifferentiated “paid time off” means you don’t have to look into the employee’s personal life. It preserves your colleague’s privacy, has fewer bureaucratic entities involved (insurance co, HR, usv) and you don’t get into any argument about the legitimacy of an illness.
I can reproduce it.

I'm on Firefox Developer Edition, 66.0b9.

I went to https://meta.sr.ht/ and tried to tab through the site. Here's a gif: https://i.imgur.com/2dQL2C2.gif.

Explanation of gif:

I clicked on the search bar, then clicked on the site, then pressed tab repeatedly.
A highly ratcheted round can easily change that.
The UK system is good, but there are still robocalls and scam calls occasionally.

If you can make your scam calls from a foreign telephone network with spoofed caller ID, or your scam is good enough you can profitably do it from prepaid anonymous SIMs, regulators claim they're powerless.
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Thanks for this rundown! I'm especially attuned to your (3) and (4); we've run into a lot of CS teams creating "liaison" roles with sales/product/engineering, and even in some cases with finance teams re: categorizing causes for churn and such.
Is this generating a lot of revenue for the service providers? I think it must be or they wouldn't allow it to go on. Surely if one provider marketed themselves as blocking robocalls, they would get a large influx of business.

IIRC one of the main selling points of gmail when it started was that it had a much better spam filter than other services at the time.
My Pixel phone already does that fairly well. I think it might be a recent Android feature?
"Like it or leave it" is a false dichotomy and a formula for throwing the baby out with the bath water.
The Elm plugin for IntelliJ is really good.
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I'm not sure how this makes the case that these things should come out of the federal government's pocket. If CA/NY want to levy a tax for mental health...then they should do that. They shouldn't get to arbitrarily take part of the federal government's revenue to accomplish it. At least, I don't see how you're making the case that they should be able to.
Between this and email, I wonder if we need to start over with an opt-in system for contacts. I know that brings in a whole mountain of other problems. But maybe if we slowly adapted to that rather of the mountain of problems with our current blacklist (if that) approach, the outcome will be preferable.
This has existed for the better part of 4 years BTW. No idea why it’s suddenly newsworthy - slow week?
I guess I am getting old, my first thought is "my efficiency would suck". Still I wonder how a speed considerably higher than the highest speed limits I could find in a google search was determined.

Is there particular energy threshold for impact they were looking at? I am not sure that speed is survivable in any front end or offset crash with current technology but a crash where the car spins of control and doesn't impact anything won't much care unless the speed they picked is at the threshold for the average car to lose total control at.
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> as you're no longer directly tied to the AST of the input language

This is the case with closure-based approach too, and indeed was one of the main motivations to switch away from AST interpretation.
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Small makers might not have the resources to effectively police Amazon's massive inventory, and some brands might abuse this power to squash smaller competitors.

I just bought a small physical device/tool for a particular task. (Magazine reloader.) Apparently, this small niche manufacturer has serious problems with Chinese knock-offs. However, all of the knock offs could be found with a simple generic search on Amazon. Furthermore, most of the knock offs really relied on also knocking off the branding of the original, so searching on the brand name very specifically found all of the knock offs.

So this can cut both ways. Strong brands, even from small manufacturers, can cope without Amazon's intervention, but this could well raise the barriers to entry for new brands.

It's really Amazon's job to keep fakes out off of its platform, and I think they should do the work themselves.

I ordered 1 Gerber keychain multitool from Amazon awhile back, and I got 3 of them. The runner who grabbed the box didn't realize she/he grabbed a pack of 3. If they are operating at a pace where they get quantity wrong, just who at Amazon is going to take the time to inspect items and distinguish the fakes?

This can be a serious problem, with potentially health damaging effects. There was a problem with knockoffs of a leading brand of electronic hearing protection. These knockoffs had electronics that were too slow to clamp down on noise signals, and so could actually amplify quite dangerous levels of noise for a few milliseconds.

Just last night, I was watching a YouTube video about knockoff green laser pointers. It turns out, all of the cheaper ones tested leave out a necessary filter and so leak a lot of energy as invisible infrared light. This can be quite dangerous, as it's potentially eye damaging and yet invisible, so it's far too easy to expose yourself from a back reflection, without even knowing it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/420214/the-danger-of-gree...
It's both actually. Different cultures have had different approaches to raising a child.

Painting it as black and white doesn't help.
Are you saying you disagree with the statement?
I've always wondered the same thing - My theory is that at normal freeway speeds, the indicator points more or less at 12 o'clock, which is easier to see for a driver.
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Rethinking 21st century higher ed
I have noticed traditional university education is starting to be heavily questioned right now looking at the emergence of alternative education startups such as https://www.makeschool.com/ and https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/ and people dropping out of uni to learn from online courses.

I defined a few ideals for what university education needs to be like in the 21st century: https://medium.com/creativitycontd/rethinking-21st-century-university-education-ea8366ad3640

- Academic education should be decoupled from applied education. But both are necessary.

- Applied education should not follow academic education. Both should be interlaced.

- Professors should do research and teachers should teach.

- Universities are the home of academic education, not general education. There should be space for the latter as well.

- Holding offline lectures is inefficient.

- Get rid of degree requirements.

- Creativity should not be valued less than logical thinking.

- Academic scores are not ideal for quantifying potential.

- Signalling should happen on a more granular level.

Give it a read and let me know what you think.
I don't like the attitude "If you don't like X, go somewhere else". It's probably the easier route but maybe they are happy at Amazon in other aspects so why not improve that? And how do you find another better place?
Been experiencing robocalls too. I use Hiya, but it's not a complete solution. Now I just let every call I don't recognize go to voicemail unless they call twice. It really sucks for the elderly, the sick, and the otherwise vulnerable because they're more desperate to hear from a doctor or caretaker or somebody without saved contact information / less technically savvy or on a landline / otherwise more likely to fall to these scams.

I'm wondering, is VoIP easier to call block than general call service? If it is, the inability or unwillingness by the telecoms to address this issue might prove to be a systemic disadvantage (though I'm pretty sure they make most of their margin nowadays from selling cellular data).
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Google voice seems to do a great job filtering out the spam. I can't remember the last time I got one with my voice number.
slicing a cucumber is a common feature of youtube videos demonstrating how sharp knives are. (I spent a completely unreasonable amount of time watching knife sharpening videos on youtube a couple months ago)
Don't try to intentionally misrepresent me. You know that's not what I said.

I'm saying that if the army shared the goal of mass shooters - to kill as many people as possible indiscriminately - guns would absolutely not be their weapon of choice; and if the army switched weapons from guns to poison, the magnitude of violence would be amplified, not reduced.
It was an issue from the outset. By 2016, Apple was claiming 90% of Apple chargers on Amazon were fake. If there's truth to that, it was way past being an "issue" then. I'd consider 5% fakes of a popular product to be a serious issue.

Edit: I'll concede that it's been a serious PR problem for Amazon only in the last 3 years. It's been a problem for brands, sellers, and buyers for much longer, and Amazon has known about it for more than a decade.
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So you're upset that you have to actually pay the high taxes you voted for, and because of that, you want to move to a low-tax state to vote for the same policies, because you're bitter about having to pay the taxes you voted for? F that. Stay in your high-tax state and deal with the consequences of your own decisions.
> it is the policy-wise correct way to do taxation.

If your intent of to artificially promote low tax and spending at the state level, yes; if, OTOH, you want the federal government to be neutral on state policy the correct way is full deductibility.

So, yes, it's “policy-wise correct” for the misconceived policy goals behind it.

> Under the old system, state goverments, by enacting an income tax of their own, could essentially steal part of the federal government's tax revenue.

More accurately, under the old system states could tax as necessary to support the spending policy which create the environment in which people in the state are able to earn income without the federal government artificially disincentivizes policy that produces better net results if it happens to require higher taxes. (And, because it didn't even abandon deductibility but limited it to a fixed dollar amount per taxpayer, artificially discourages policy not just by the level of taxation, but the distribution, on top of artificially punishing states for a high local cost of living, where if they tax the same share of the same real—based on local costs—income as a lower CoL state will see more money taken by the feds.)
No reason to link to blogspam. The actual release of information is here: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-project-zer...
I sure don't. I'd like to, but most Republicans seem to want me to die. They vote out the very existence of people like me, denying our right to safety and to live as freely and openly as they do. So it's quite scary, talking in person with people who encourage me to commit suicide based on my beliefs or identity, and even pass laws that seem to serve no purpose but to cause pain to others.

I'll be here to talk to Republicans, or anywhere really. But they'd have to meet halfway and stop the intentional causing of pain on minorities before that can happen.

The last time I sat in a restaurant with Republicans they both encouraged me to stop breathing and kill myself, because "that would be the best thing for the environment right?" as I wouldn't be exhaling CO2 any more. No thanks. I've tried hard but it's too dangerous.
The standard time frame is 45 days.

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Google is being more than generous, doubling to 90 days.
Recognizing that fact, many people spend quite a lot of time, thought, and energy to make it less so.
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Is there a law against this or something?

Common sense? In what universe is that a solution?
Make it mandatory $10000/call fine + prison sentence and teach users how to get a money trail.

Then the hunt will get efficiently crowdsourced.

After few well publicized cases the problem will greatly diminish.
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Thanks for your reply. I agree it's easy to judge unfairly from a few-minute video. I do wish I could have sat in a corner the whole day judging instead :)

We had to do the peace of mind thing a few times with certain clients. We would just roll our eyes and bump the bill. One client one time asked the lead that day if we could all bring in chairs one at a time to avoid scraping a narrow door frame, instead of a perfectly safe two-chair carry technique he just saw me execute but understandably looked a little risky. As he was asking the lead he must have sensed something cause he quickly turned around and caught me making a face. He made a point of giving everyone a big tip in private that day except me.
In my country tuition is a loan. It's not archaic to say that if parents control your money, they can control your life. Some might not use that, many will. And what do middle-upper class parents control when they have the power to? Start with the most important things in your life and work down - who and how you date, what career you pursue, where you live, on and on. If you've never met a person whose parents held the purse strings and used it as power over them then you have a lucky group of friends.
Hey there's another solution. A solution that has provided with much of the worker rights we have today. Unionizing.

These mothers should definitely think about it and push for more changes to the work force. The 40 hour work week officially started in 1940 - there's no reason to keep that as the standard anymore.

I hope to see a rise in people demanding more rights for the working class.
Someone posted “Study reveals billions of tonnes of microbes living far beneath Earth’s surface” (independent.co.uk) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18656700 – months ago, but it didn't get any traction. Shame, because it's a fascinating topic – so trying again.
The issue is not of value depreciation; anyone willing to drop a few thousand on a new car understands it. New buyers are pissed because they lost the opportunity cost game. They wanted their new toy NOW, and are crying because they're out thousands of dollars because they couldn't wait.
The phrase 'not merely' implies 'both'.
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So if my much-suffering parents leave me some money upon their deaths I shouldn't take it, and that in some way makes me equal to the kid who went to the ivy league school and had a job with a major firm due to father's contacts but took no money? Problem clearly not solved. I can see zero reasons, moral or otherwise, to not take my parents money.
Some caveats and related advice, having been on the product side and two different customer-facing sides:

Integrate support engineers at least part-time into the product engineering teams. Support engineers who don't know what product is doing can duplicate or complicate product work.

Invest in paying and training the support engineers. Don't pay them well and they'll either transfer to product engineering once they get competent or jump ship to someone else. Poorly trained support engineers who "have commit access and can write fixes" will invariably introduce new bugs that will block product work.

"Don't distract product from new features" is a great goal, but recognize that it's a goal, not a law. There will be fires that product engineering will have to walk into and put out alongside support engineering, especially if your product is more than an small-team app, exponentially if the problem comes about due to systemic design problems on the product side.

It will be tempting to outsource support engineering to save money for in-housing product. Don't. If anything, outsource low-hanging product work before any support work. In-region support engineers make everything about firefighting smoother and customers in every geo will appreciate it.

Incorporate support pain into your dev process. That's not bug metrics—measure the _pain_ your product causes customers. Feature requests are pain. Insufficient docs are pain. Licensing issues are pain. You can insulate product from customers, but don't insulate them from the pain the product causes customers. Use it to help guide the roadmap and you'll find low-hanging fruit that product never considers because, chances are, they aren't interacting with painful parts of the product (otherwise they'd already be addressing it).
Even if the tax is progressive and not related to consumption, why should the federal government foot the bill? That state-provided mental health service wasn't the federal government's idea to build.
Not just the back button — as you scroll it reloads, causing my default reader mode to restart.

Absurd for a page of text — don’t they want me to read it?
Yeah but at a very different tax bracket.
Mainly that it is a simpler system that is easier to control with less bureaucracy. Today it would probably also hold to money transfers out of the country.

I'm mostly a proponent of a minimalist government, pragmatically speaking. I'm a proponent of laws and systems that increase personal liberty and minimize bureaucracy. I accept that there may be some distortion and it isn't exactly fair. But the deductions in the current system aren't exactly fair either.
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The outfits doing this don't tend to be the wealthiest and won't be spending insane amount of money with Google anyways since they're relying on phone advertising.

And anyways, Google isn't some new organization struggling to keep the lights on. They're pretty far in the black and they can afford to forgo a little bit of revenue if it means they can improve their product moat.
How do you choose which crypto-friendly jurisdiction to start your company in?
For the first time in years, Apple is hiring more software than hardware people
Ask HN: My dad just retired. What should he do?
My dad is a Physics grad who has spent his entire life in Accounting and Taxation. Is fairly OK with tech but took early retirement since he wanted to "try something else". This has mainly resulted in Netflix so far.

I am seriously not sure how I should advise him on what he should constructively do next to remain engaged and active (mentally and physically).

A lot of my friends are in a similar situation with their current parents. Feel like for this is starting to become a problem for all recent retirees! (Just tech savvy enough to browse apps/web but not motivated enough to learn programming)

P.S. We end up going into these deep topics like Universal Basic Income where his perspective from age and experience brings new dimensions https://twitter.com/jharohit/status/1097852468048814080?s=19
Is this really standard at any tech company? When I was at Google they had some deal with a local day car franchise, but it wqs just a discount or something.
The Denisovans are said to be the missing link to the Asuras & the giants as documented in the ancient Indian / Hindu epics like Puranas, Raamayana and Mahaabhaarata.

For example Ghatotkacha was one such huge & brave Asura who could kill humans by the 100's. There have been many others, like Kumbhakarna, Bakasura, Hiranyakashapu etc. These are so old that their remains even if found cannot be dated with modern carbon dating or studies via DNA analysis.

Researchers estimate that these events are at least 20,000 years old. At least!
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