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Though I am skeptical of the bad rep MSG gets, I find that I can get the same umami flavor for the most part from using nutritional yeast. I like the fact that it gives me control over the umami aspect of what I'm cooking without altering the salt content. That let's me control the saltiness of the food with actual salt rather than adding MSG and hoping I'm not oversalting for the sake of having that "secret sauce" effect MSG imparts.

I have no idea if it's truly healthier than MSG (the claims on both substances are many and varied, both heavily skewed by questionable research), but it's a great ingredient to cook with.

(Full disclosure, I'm not a vegetarian/vegan, so no bias there. I know nutritional yeast is usually tied to that group, but I'm just a person who likes cooking with just about everything I can get my hands on.)
anecdotally i'd say that coffee people tend to buy excessive amounts of the one coffee brand they like, they mess around and buy a lot of samples/get gifts but they only have one or two blends that they really like
==could you at least explain why you think there can’t be such people?==

It's not that there can't be such people, it's that there hasn't been any credible evidence provided to prove there actually are such people. That both sides of the political spectrum use the same language is pretty strong evidence that there is broad support ideologically for a simpler tax code.

Bringing up Grover Norquist seems like a red herring, as he is himself a lobbyist. His organization, Americans for Tax Reform, describes itself as a group that "believes in a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today." [1] Yet, they are used by rayiner as an example of an organization ideologically opposed to simpler taxes and tax filing. If anything, we should be adding ATR's own $5 million of annual spending to the total lobbying dollars being spent against a simpler system.

==should mean more changes to tax collection soon.==

This is the central point. The tax code was just completely overhauled and it included almost zero simplification, even though it's main proponents used that exact messaging in their sales pitch.

The article suggests that the lack of action is, at least in part, because of lobbying. It provides the evidence of lobby spending related to this topic and the ultimate death of those bills. The also have a quote from Former California Republican legislator Tom Campbell, he says he "never saw as clear a case of lobbying power putting private interests first over public benefit."

[1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Tax_Refo...
Pretty sure asian in this case is limited to east-asians, in which case you’re at a meager 1.7B humans
OT but have you found a good case for that model?
Mostly just a very simple point: If you're an employee at a company, you have practically no right or expectation of privacy (applicable to this conversation).

There are a few people in these comments saying things like "but the employer can still read your messages" or "companies should adopt matrix because it can do true E2E encryption of DMs between just the people in the room." That'll never happen in a typical corporate setting.
The flipside being that you are making the argument that private entities should not be allowed to choose what content they host. You worry about flat earthers censoring non-flat earth depictions, but a much more realistic threat is flat-earthers forcing their insanity to have a larger share of voice than they should by strong arming platforms and people that know better into giving them a microphone, because were they not to do so, they would be accused of "censorship".

No one is saying the NZ video should be purged from the internet. But it is foolish to equate censorship with private social media companies scrubbing it from their sites. You are welcome to search out other venues that host the video, or host it yourself. Your rights are not being infringed upon if Twitter and Facebook won't.
Have kids and you’ll suddenly understand what all the fuss is about. That said, if our kid had to pick between an iPad and an iPhone he tends to prefer the iPhone (we just don’t give him one!)

I personally have started using a surface for non-coding work and enjoy it for taking notes. It’s worth a try for that use case.
> lot of men wear makeup as well

I was in Seoul a few days ago and I didn't notice any makeup on men.

I had heard that standards of appearance are high there, so I had this expectation going in. And it was certainly true of the women, though I didn't notice this being true of the men, except maybe a certain more fashionable crowd?
"Bro, just write the app, let me worry about the rest!"
Time was, the advice was that clicking unsubscribe links only confirms your mailbox is active and you get more junk. Does that still apply?
It's more pleasant to stand a laptop on my lap on the couch than to keep gripping a tablet. And almost all the tablet cases are terrible floppy messes (especially Apple's with their weak magnets and poor angle choices)

This is the main reason I don't "get" tablets. They're just more uncomfortable to use for me. You have to keep holding onto it and you get gorilla arm vs using a trackpad.
Do you choke when it rains?
Correct. My assumption is that Apple didn’t want to spend the money to redesign the cases and add the inductive charging necessary for the newer Pencil.
And they'll move out of the cities into suburbia in their 30s, as they always do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47529562

Over the past decade, about 550,000 more Britons left London than moved to it.

This trend is not unique to London; it is seen in many big US cities, including New York, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles.

...
People arrive in their 20s looking for jobs, then retreat in their 30s. Although it seems more likely they they only retreat to "commuter" distance -- in London that's about 40-60 minutes from a main rail terminal, which of course leads to increased pollution.

...
The vibrancy and job opportunities offered by our biggest cities appeal to students and young professionals. This shapes these cities in terms of the shops, bars and other facilities they offer.

But among older residents, the desire for things like more space and a less urban environment grows, and many move out.
I'm pretty much double 24... my usual work machine is a big Ubuntu box I built, with 2 big monitors. I'm stuck working on my MacBookAir for some time and it just sucks. Not because the MacBook sucks, but it just sucks working on a single small monitor, and the machine itself is slower at everything. Working on any laptop is just a big step down from a real machine for me. I can't even imagine working on an iPad, though for what I do (devops) it would be impossible (I assume)

I have no idea what the appeal is, there's none at all for me, but there must be a decent sized market out there. It's interesting to read the other comments and see what the appeal is for them
In the late 1960's, in Johannesburg, my friends and I discovered a "hack" for payphones. In those days and at that place, people paid per-phone-call, so finding a way to call for free was great for a bunch of crazy teen-agers. What we discovered was that you could use a grounded wire to fool the phone company into thinking a coin was dropped into the coin slot. When the recording said "please deposit ..." we would scratch the wire to a metal part of the mouth piece. (There was a small hole in the plastic of the mic for some reason - that is what we used). The "ground" was the metal cage on the overhead light. For some reason, the scratch produced simulated the signal of a coin drop. Many silly school-boy prank calls ensued. I hang my head in shame.
Many corporate/enterprise environments, in particular those involved in regulated activities (e.g. finance) require visibility of all work-related communications, to ensure employees aren't committing any crimes.

This isn't limited to, but includes monitoring of all activities when on work properties. Video cameras, desktop monitoring, HTTPS interception, IM logging and phone recording, and more.

EDIT: as other comments have pointed out, this essentially boils down to "do not expect any privacy at work" (you have no privacy on employer owned devices) and "do not do any work on devices you expect privacy on" (your employer will install their middleware on your devices, or you may be violating laws)
Backups are still a hard sell for management, though. No matter how many companies die a quick and painful death when they lose too much business critical data, the bossmen just can't wrap their heads around spending $100k for what they perceive as no benefit.

Same problems with buying things like antivirus software or even IT management utilities; when they're doing their job, there's no perceivable difference. It's only when shit goes sideways that the value is demonstrated.

Hell you could take this a step further for IT as a whole; if IT is doing their job well, they're invisible. Then they can the entire department, outsource to offsite support, and the business starts hemorrhaging employees and revenue because nobody can get anything done.
BD-R is only plagued by delamination, which is gradual and can be countered by ~yearly visual inspections looking for delamination combined with some redundancy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVs4ZqWgN8

I don't think he aimed for 4 products in a specific line, so he'd probably be miffed about how many variants there are between each.

I think the 4 iPads would be forgivable if there was consistency between the various product lines naming. iPhone _ Plus vs iPad Pro vs iPhone XS Max? That by itself is 3 different "descriptors" for their big screen devices (granted, Pro is less about big screen and more about spec stuffing, but non-tech consumers I know think iPad Pro = big screen iPad = expensive iPad).
People shouldn't drive drunk, but disabling the airbag when the driver is drunk is not acceptable.
Not a "younger person" here, but I don't want a life of car dependency and social isolation either.

But small town life (ours has pop. around 5000-ish) is pretty good! We have the high street (and a modest-sized supermarket) within 10 minutes walk, a variety of community activities to be involved in, and nature (including protected reserves) pretty much on our doorstep.

And most days, the car doesn't leave the driveway. The area isn't "depopulating rapidly", like many more remote rural areas; the challenge, rather, is to manage growth such that the community is not overwhelmed by it.
Ok, I understand what you mean now. Yes it's strictly an unnecessary qualifier, but does make the intent of the move clearer.
It isn't censorship. Free speech does not equate to Twitter/Facebook/Google having an obligation to host any/all content someone might post on their site.
I bought the Apple Keyboard cover. Covers both front and back (and includes a keyboard obviously). I've never been a fan of cases or covers (my iPhone has been naked since I purchased it) so I'm probably not the most qualified person to ask about cases :).
VTVL (vertical takeoff, vertical landing) rockets have been talked about since sci-fi in the 30s and seriously since the 50s. We only just started getting real ones (SpaceX, Blue Origin), though in the 90s there was a prototype called the DC-X that proved the concept at a smaller scale. You can find DC-X videos on YouTube.

The fact that something was talked about long ago and we don't have it yet doesn't necessarily mean there's something wrong with the idea. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to just do the engineering, which with high-capital stuff means it also takes someone being willing to pay for it.

Of course the other case is things like net-positive fusion where people have been doing the engineering but it's f'ing hard. Still given the progress that has been made on fusion I get the sense we could do it if we spent more and put more parallel effort into it.
Yeah, pretty low quality submission. But Apple fans will upvote anything.
I wonder if this is the reason: "It has long been hunted as a trophy species..."

Usually it is the individuals at the top who give/sell access to their friends for trophy hunt expeditions. Having a chance of cameras filming it would jeopardize that and would expose the corruption.
I find nutritional yeast tastes cheesy. It's just not the same as MSG. I also find that MSG goes a long way... just a dash in an entire casserole can elevate the taste without going into salty territory.
The MS in MSG is for sodium, so yeah a large dose hurts.
"MSG good or bad?" isn't the main question. "MSG vs salt" is.
Using a VPN
Which would show join the test put forward.

Agree with your point but the way you got there doesn't add up.
Show HN: Transistor, a Python web scraping framework for intelligent use cases
Lustre.
Ask HN: Possible to get Rust job without C++ background?
I have been learning Rust in my free time for the past 6 months. I would love to be able to find a job that works with Rust full time as I'm bored with the .NET stack that I have been doing for the past 8 years. My worry is that, from my understanding, many companies are using Rust to replace their C++ code base however, I have very limited C++ experience. Is it worth pursuing Rust in the hopes of landing a job with it? My other thought was to learn Go, as I know there are some Go jobs in my area and they seem don't seem to require C++ knowledge.
It tells that in the 1950s, many white Americans were racist.
Spending a ton of $$ on push notification services that charge per subscriber?
It depends completely on the quality of the palm rejection. Apple's laptops have comically large trackpads that are impossible to avoid, but it's never been a problem for me thanks to the good palm rejection software.
> Superconducting maglev would be a win for acceleration/deceleration as well

This limitation isn't at all technological. You just can't accelerate or decelerate much faster than today's high speed trains without causing discomfort to your passengers. And the radius of any turn increases with speed. Otherwise first you just produce noticeable discomfort while turning, and beyond that you risk derailment (no matter the rail type). So you're basically stuck with having really long and very straight stretches of rail where you have to gently accelerate and decelerate. On any short trip this would kill any economy of high top speed.

> I kind of feel that in general it'd be better to replace planes with trains

The advantage of flight is that you are free to take a more or less straight path between the 2 points without caring about what's below. But with any kind of land transportation you need to deal with rivers, mountains, lakes and seas (not to mention oceans), cities and other man made structures, etc. Without a breakthrough in engineering I don't see how you can go from London to Los Angeles in a reasonable time.
Not to mention "Asian Glow." There are a number of health experiences that are personal.

Clumsy attempts to make across-the-board statements about healthy or not will necessarily fail in these circumstances.
Do you have any plan to make this works as a progressive web app? Would really enjoy having this on my phone, and optionally have it works while offline (with cached files, etc).

Thanks for this, I've been using it since yesterday :)
>We really do have to radically re-think our cities

Yes we do, but the solution isn't less lanes, more public transit, and more bike paths. The solution is double to sextuple decker streets with matching parking. The solution is to make cities even more car friendly. Not everybody has the luxury of being physically fit enough to bike, or so time-loose to tolerate the inefficiencies of public transit!
Right now is it generally recommended to use Riot or is RiotX stable/good enough? Also is RiotX like a beta channel, so when it's considered complete/stable will an update effectively replace Riot with RiotX for all current users?
And their compare tool only lets you see 3 at a time [0]. Its too much work/thinking needed to tell the models apart.

[0]https://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/
> I'm curious what statistics you are looking at.

Population data is provided by the Census conducted by Statistics Canada. Housing data is from the Housing Market Stats provided by CREA.

> I honestly would be shocked if rural regions were growing in Canada

For some perspective, Canada defines urban as 1,000 or more population with a population density of 400. Everything else is rural. This may be surprising as many consider a small farming village with 1,000 people to be rural, but officially such a community can be considered urban.

All regions, including large cities and rural areas, are growing in absolute numbers. My above comment was speaking in relative terms, where population centres with more than 100,000 people now represent a smaller portion of the population than in years past.

Were we have seen the most growth is in communities with 1,000 to 29,999 people. Technically urban, but probably rural from the perspective of the comments above. Such communities are certainly not what most would call cities.

> From my perspective, the Golden Horseshoe from Toronto to the Niagara region has been intensifying non-stop for decades and is unrecognizable from 30 years ago.

I see the same thing, but I would argue that the "Rural Renaissance", as CBC put it in a recent article about this shift, is relatively recent. The early signs were only starting to become visible in 2016 data, and I would suggest that only in the last year or so that the housing data has flipped. Much of that build-out you speak of happened over the last 30 years when cities were growing by leaps and bounds.

I will reiterate that all communities types are gaining population in absolute numbers as Canada's population grows. What has changed is people are more likely to take an interest in communities that are not large cities, which is a change in behaviour to previous decades.
I know it's partly snark, but I think Google is not actually that good at it. Not because they are complacent, but because search is a hard problem and there is no objectively 'good' results to any arbitrary query.

There is a tradeoff for any given user between getting the most popular results and what could be the most 'accurate' result. I find myself using several search engines depending on what I want (apart from Google/DDG, you always have the option to go directly to amazon or StackOverflow for instance), and am pretty happy about it.

But saying Google is good at search is a bit like praising Wallmart for being good at retail. Sure, they are to some extent, but there are clear tradeoffs we need to be aware of.
I had an iPad mini, used duolingo, memrise, and watched videos on it while in the subway. The battery lasted forever. It was great but definitely not a necessity.
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I wish my city was capable of fixing problems, instead they have a knack for making things worse.

Right now I take a bus to a transit centre, then another bus to work. This works well for me.

There is a new LRT (Light Rail Transit) line under construction with a station in walking distance from my house. The LRT line will go to downtown, but not to my work. So I will take a train downtown, then a bus or another train to work.

This all sounds good, except for three problems:

1. Based on information from the City, the train will actually be slower than the express buses that it is replacing. It also doesn't go to the same places which means that some trips that can be done by one bus will require transfers. I expect that with the slower train and worse transfers, it will take about 15 minutes longer to get to work.

2. The city is revamping all the bus routes to fit in with the new train line. Unfortunately the revamp is scheduled to go in "mid-2020" whereas the train is scheduled to start operating in "December 2020". Everything they've shown about the new bus schedule shows no routes from my transit centre to downtown and they haven't said that they will keep the current routes until the train is operating.

3. The city has a very poor track record when it comes to LRT projects. The last line they built was supposed to open in spring 2014, but didn't open until September 2015 and even then was operating in a degraded capacity. Problems with the signalling system are so bad that the city is STILL trying to get it working today. The latest news out of the new LRT project is that they are delayed - nobody is saying by how long but one city Councillor is estimating that they are at least a year behind.

If the new bus routes go in and they don't maintain service between my area and downtown, it's quite likely that I will need to start driving again. I don't want to do this, but I'm not going to spend two hours for a trip that was previously 45 minutes either.
I'm 34 years old.

I have one of the new 11" iPad Pro's that I use as a consumption device and it also replaced the Moleskine I kept in my laptop bag for notes/diagrams/whatever.
Many, including myself, still are. We like to be around our own and no amount of school-age propaganda and government force will change that!
for a software develop what is the material difference between a pro and and air? the higher refresh rate of the pro?
> 4 separate iPad lines, plus extra screen size variation?

Yup, confusing, I agree. They could do three which wouldn't be terrible, and I'll explain why: because [cont]

> How is an "Air" variant useful?

the "basic" iPad went back to an older design for the display to cut costs, it has a non-laminated display that can really bother you if you are accustomed to the more recent iPad models.

If they were still selling the 1st/2nd gen iPad Pro models this wouldn't be an issue, but the 3rd gen iPad Pro had a massive price jump that puts some quality of life features like a laminated display behind said price jump. Bringing the "Air" line back let's Apple have a middle tier of high quality tablets between the entry-level and (for most) overkill.

Ultimately the iPad Mini remains as it always has, the 7.9" variant of the larger standard iPad (Air) Model. If Apple wanted they could simplify down to three product lines: iPad (9.7"), iPad Air (7.9", 10.5"), iPad Pro (11", 12.9"), but I guess marketing research probably suggests that keeping the Mini separate is good for product awareness.
A dead effort?
As dang points out in this thread, The Tech Model Railroad Club was formed in 1946[1]. The TMRC dictionary was first written in 1959.

http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

The TMRC, which is generally cited as one of the origin points of MIT hacking culture, defines the following terms:

HACK:
1) something done without constructive end;
2) a project under-taken on bad self-advice;
3) an entropy booster;
4) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack.

HACKER: one who hacks, or makes them.

This predates the news article by 4 years.

Also, you can't be a 'so-called hacker' unless people are already using the term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club
EKM does not provide the same security as a password manager for the content (i.e. Slack messages and passwords). In this case Slack is still able to request a key from the KMS in order to perform operations over the messages (search, archive etc). Those keys generally have some sort of expiration on them by default (hour, day, etc) before they're rotated. However, during that window the key could be copied and used w/o the "reason" being logged. More realistically, the security threat is that there is a bug somewhere that while the data is unencrypted in memory it accidentally logs some proprietary data into a secondary system that is not encrypted with the same EKM system... EKM is a bit of shell game but everyone loves some good security theatre.
is it a private repo? this is asking me to login

https://gitlab.com/k7db/k