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Lot of countries prevent foreign persons or institutions to own real estate for 100%. There has to be a local partner who owns the place for at least 50.1%
This is much more effective than adding a law which can never cover all edge cases. And there are a lot of those which make it possible to buy property anyway even with the new law in place.
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I currently have a Dell XPS 15 (the model before all USB C ports) with 4k screen, nvidia, Intel quadcore. Replaced windows 10 with ubuntu 18.04, so far the best linux laptop experience I've ever had. Brightness keys work. Closing the lid suspends correctly. I probably need to look for a bath script to turn on/off the nvidia card.
Another reason pacemakers are not comparable is that pacemakers do not present anything like the potential threat to third parties that self-driving cars do. Two reasons we can say that with confidence is that, with pacemakers, the scenarios are simpler and we have good statistical data.
UK Gov Petitions site crashes after 600k back call to revoke article 50
Interesting to read this, it seems like there are already some rules that make renting a bit more difficult and less attractive.

I'd like to share a few points about what makes buying a house in Amsterdam (and the Netherlands in general) interesting:

- Amsterdam is growing and becoming the de fact European capital (english, tech jobs, etc) so it's growing a lot, and real estate prices are up
- Interest rates are very low (~2% on 30years fixed, if interests go down we can refinance after 5 years). So no risk of going up, and no risk of missing out when going down.
- 0 cash down necessary
- low cost of buying. We bought a "first time buyer package" for ~3000 euros which included real estate agent, notary, building inspection and financial evaluation. Only other expense we had was 500 euro fee for our mortgage.
- Practically no real estate tax (0.03789% of the official listed value)
- Prices are ~200-300k for a nice 1bedroom, 300-500 for nice 2 bedrooms. Prices seem reasonable compared to salaries.

So, in most cases, going from renting to buying a similar property is definitely worth it. You'll pay about the same monthly (all included).

To note, the buying market is pretty competitive (similar to SF) where people often over-big 10-20% on the asking price. I've gone to multiple open house, and helped ~5 other friends buy a place, and most buyers you see are young professionals / young families, and doesn't look like the market is saturated by landlords / investors.

Now, we looked into moving and renting our place in case we decide not to sell it:
- Can't rent on our mortgage
- We need to take a commercial mortgage, ~doubling the interest rate to 5%. This increase makes the monthly cost above what we would rent the place for

Those 2 last points to me make it clear that it's already pretty hard to just exploit the cheapness of buying/investing in properties and renting them (I looked myself to buy more properties and rent).

So this rule surprises me a little because the current housing market is already pretty regulated against renting and very supportive to buying. We definitely see much more owners, and much younger, than what we've seen on average in other cities we've lives (SF, NYC, Paris, Montreal).
That link suggests routing a user to a different page when they rotate their phone and not routing them back when they rotate it back. Rerouting a user just because they rotate their phone is a terrible idea.
I have this project where I will soon need a very thin organic electricity conductor. I will need a few mm^2 of it, and it doesn't have to be graphene, so I am not willing to pay much, and I am probably out of the target market of any such startup. Yet, I'm always tempted to search for a price.
If it is a 737, the airline isn't buying any extras for comfort, even though they might give it a fancy paint job. (e.g. it's like putting a padded seat on a torture rack)
> That might be OK for casual use but is a non-starter for anyone who deals with colours, photos or documents.

I think you just mean colors, but tried to find three different ways to say it (and kind of failed, because lots of people “deal with” document all the time and aren't concerned with color.)

At any rate, the light came be fixed at any supported point, too, the matching is just an available function, not something you are locked into. So for uses for which it doesn't meet your needs, you would just not use it.

> But look at the actual colour temp of an overcast sky

Not sure about handling the overcast part, but that's explicitly what this does otherwise.

> The latter has no place in nature other than fire. Yet somehow our ancestors managed to go to sleep...

Not sure what your point is, since the color of natural light just after sunset is only relevant here if you think humans are optimized for sleep at twilight. Which...they aren't.
You seem to assume that AV is a effective cure for people installing random software on the internet, but I have never seen proof that this is the case. Worse, there are many instances of poorly written AVs negatively impacting the security and performance of the system it’s supposed to protect.
Facebook flagged Christchurch video late because it wasn't a suicide
It is very difficult to predict in advance how flaws will be exploited but you should at least think very hard about how they might be exploited before announcing a policy. You should ideally have thought about it enough that you have the policy ready when you announce it and can explain and justify it, including all the details.

Good policy beats discretion reliably and consistently for reasons of dynamic consistency. If you find yourself announcing a policy when you don’t even have the details ready you are doing it half assed. You certainly haven’t had tax lawyers or economists with expertise in mechanism design look over your policy proposals. You are an unserious person, making policy up on the fly, floating trial balloons while running off your mouth, a Trump or AOC.

Cities don’t exist for rich people to exploit but if you build less housing than there is demand for the richest will, on average, get more of what’s available than the poorer.
Yeah this is a mess.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_K...

Sounds like it's time for a revolution and rewrite.
Scary parallels with the way Tesla is selling software updates to enable features. Let's hope consumers don't have to choose which safety features they can afford in the future.
All this 5G panic is ridiculous. If our protocols were properly end to end encrypted then it doesn't matter who makes the router.

The real reason is that 5G is not secure by design, just like 4G and 3G and GSM before. But the NSA wants to have the keys only for themselves.
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I'm hopeful that the "new" OneNote will follow the same type of iterative dev/release scheme that VSCode has used so well, but for now it is pretty barebones and missing a lot of functionality from the Office app.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of email servers are corporate servers, not in FANG datacenters.

3-5 years ago I probably would have agreed with you. Today I'm not so sure. And even among the companies running their 'own' email servers, the physical hardware is very likely in a Microsoft/Amazon/Google datacenter.
You took the words right out of my mouth
I got a friend that basically automated his job, the management was not pleased, and forced him to go back to doing it manually ...

He managed to get another job. But figured out he wanted to work with actual software development, and it also seems to be a shortage of software developers. But it was virtually impossible to get a job without a degree or experience. So he's now at age 45 enrolling a five year university program to become an engineer on paper ...
Well an article about the technical history of the screw driver would be interesting.
While not perfect it's absolutely commendable, compare this to the borderline criminal state of real estate market in places like the UK or Vancouver where foreign investors and corrupted politics destroyed and alienated the middle class population...Imho real estate should be absolutely outside the possibility of speculation and 'investment', a house is for a family/person to own and live in not some mega conglomerate side business of rip off rental and overinflated selling prices.
Why do you assume it's simply laziness? Regardless, it's not good.
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My argument is you don’t need to counter the original vote, only to make the difference between the two votes. It’s the sway that matters more than anything else.

Why there hasn’t been a counter pro-brexit petition yet I have no idea. Those numbers would be higher purely on the zealotry.
> literal rent-seeking

Ironically, although literally they are seeking rent they are not necessarily, economically speaking, literal rent-seekers. The economists' abuse of language remains an unfolding tragedy.

Economic rent seeking is characterised by seeking a cut of the profits without creating any new value. If you buy a new house and rent it out, you have just caused new wealth to be created and you are recovering the capital costs, so a reasonable argument can be mounted that it isn't technically rent seeking.

If you want to clamp down on rent seeking, the best and potentially only reasonable way is a land tax, so people can't profit off controlling an irreplaceable asset that doesn't require maintenance.

> This drives prices up for homes in the city...

One of several factors. Credit availability is also a big deal.
These ages really should be legally aligned. If you're not responsible enough to live your own life, you've no business telling someone else how to live.
I think a big part of it is because as an adult with the time, inclination, some money, and programming skills you're expected to just go off and build things.

I guess the same holds true for other adult things like paint-and-sips (you drink and paint a picture) though, so maybe you've come across an untapped market for bot-and-booze.
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I believe the Article 13 protests have so far been a very good demonstration of the mechanisms of democracy still working quite well.

Even though only a rather small minority of citizen has any interest in the topic, they have been effective in putting it on the public agenda. They organized (completely peaceful) protests. Journalists then covered those protests, even though their publishers' economic interests are probably on the other side.

The EU parliament, often decried as undemocratic, has taken a lot of interest. Opinion is now split, often within parties and groups. It rejected an attempt to hold the vote early and bypass the large protests scheduled for Saturday.

It's anyones' guess how this will end. While some of the statements, such as claims that protest emails are fake "bots" are obviously uninformed, I am similarly disappointed by the other side not recognizing some legitimate interests of creators and maybe trying to advance constructive ideas.
Making sure that building enough affordable housing is possible for developers to begin with is of course not something that a NIMBY backed city council would ever do.
I was actually going to mention maybe trying one of those cheap bidet add-ons, but then I thought about all the guests who won't know what to do with it and might spray the wall if they touch the control while not sitting down.

Agreed 100% re: Keurig. :)
Ryan originally wrote react-router but then it became part of the ReactTraining org. Ryan later left ReactTraining to do his own thing, and started reach.tech, and Reach Router was born. Now Ryan is back at ReactTraining, and we’ll see what that means for the routers.

FWIW, I use Reach Router for everything now and greatly prefer it.
The saying is letting the cat out of the bag.
But they noticed that most do not go back to their notes as much as they should so a general advice, while typing is easier hand-written helps you learn and retain better using less exposure.

Assuming a class isn't already being recorded (many/most at my university were), the best solution is probably to record audio on your phone and take hand written notes. Then go back and transcribe the hand written notes while referring to the audio in to the computer.
Having bid and won contracts, it is oft-gamed. but plenty of room in most reqs for a small player to slip in and win projexts if you are otherwise qualified and more flexible than the average goverment contractor. Not a dauntingly high bar honestly.
Why not make it a hundred years?
Build more housing, lots and lots more housing. Central Paris is beautiful and it’s almost uniformly dense eight story walk ups. Build new cities. It’s not like the Dutch haven’t built commuter cities around Amsterdam before. Do it again, taking account of the lessons learned from places like Almere.
It was extremely profitable for the company that ordered it which resulted in all these new orders that the article is talking about.
It's pretty common. If you have the time and space on a board, it's a good idea to fill the silkscreen with useful or important information.
It's the Hornsdale Power Reserve: https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/

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> And my point is outlining that it's "satellite technology" is complete bullshit marketing copy.

Actually, I have a friend who works at a company which designs extreme heat pipes and heat wicks for satellite applications.

He has a satellite-spec heat pipe specimen which he shows around with heat-sensitive paint to demonstrate heat transfer speed, and it's way faster than conventional heat pipes. It's almost instant. Don't know the secret sauce though.
Rent-seeking as an economic term doesn’t just mean that someone buys property with the intention of renting it out. It also has the requirement that the “rent seeker” then employs a social or political power structure to force users/customers into renting with no benefit.

I’m not thrilled about renting, but neither do I want to gamble on purchasing housing in an expensive market when I may have to leave my job or even the state. My landlord is taking that risk with her capital and therefore deserves to be rewarded for it.
I don't even know why you would qualify "incitement to terrorism" with right wing. Have you never heard of left wing terrorists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_terrorism
I was astounded to hear in the Radiolab podcast episode [1] that I do not own my own body or its parts. (If you listen to the podcast, the section on body/body-part ownership is just one of the several sections so you'll need to look for it.) The legal systems in the UK, USA and elsewhere avoid the question in part due to slavery's legacy.

The submitted article [0] and podcast episode [1] outline that generally it appears:

* people have rights to sell their own blood and skin tissue (but not other body parts), but never had property rights over those materials in the first place

* companies that buy blood and skin, and who come to possess other body tissue, do under circumstances retain property rights over that tissue

* there are many strange corner cases with germ line cells, embryos, transplanted organs, etc.

One strange example from the podcast ... if you yourself withdraw your own blood into a vial and store the vial at home, a person breaking into your home that takes the vial of blood cannot be charged with theft of the blood itself since it never was yours -- they may be charged with breaking and entering, but not theft. On the other hand, if you sell your own blood to a company, and then manage to take it back without permission, you are a thief since the company has property rights over your blood.

The implications in the podcast were astounding ... the article does a decent job discussing as well, but a transcript of that section of the podcast would have been a better post (can't find one).

[0] http://thestudentlawyer.com/2013/07/12/property-rights-in-th...
[1] https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/asking-friend
C-symmetry is already broken in SM, so I guess we haven't.
That might be true from the law perspective, but a major objection to copyright filters is that they go beyond the requirements of copyright law and ignores fair use. Youtube filter being a prime example.

If you include the above quoted snippet of the song in a youtube video, the probability that it will receive a copyright claim is close to 100%. Fair use is a legal defense that a person can use in court, but the purpose of copyright filters and thus the purpose of Article 13 is to resolve the issue in favor of the author before it end up in court. Article 13 in practice eliminates fair use.

Article 13 do not require copyright filters to consider fair use. If it did we would likely see a very nuanced discussion since it would force youtube to change their system in order to be compliant, but alas thats not the case.

If HN implemented a copyright filter we should expect from experience that such filter would not consider fair use, nor would it enforce copyright on the basis of proportionality. We could claim that this result is not the fault of article 13, but that is a naive perspective.
Usually, the only available information is the immediately adjacent carrier through which the call came.
This summons the image of modern day Anne Frank trying to find a long term rental through Airbnb, not finding any, and shaking her head.
Your online persona can just block anyone who harassing him. In real life, you can't "block" people...That why I don't get how harassment on internet can be a thing.
Just block them !
Yes, that’s what happens in a market where supply is growing slower than demand. Prices go up. See levels.fyi for an example of this in the market for software engineers.
I don't know a single person that uses the mark as spam option to "delete legitimate emails". In fact, almost everybody just leaves those emails in their inbox after reading them. A small fraction of users use the archive function.
I do however know lots of people (me being one of them) who use mark as spam for unsolicited emails. And no, spam is not legitimate, no matter how hard online marketing people are trying to make it so.
Voting age was lowered to 18 three years ago. https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/18%E6%AD%B3%E9%81%B8%E6%8C%9...
Normally major constitutional changes require supermajorities to pass
Yeah, Android One is a bit of a joke really. I got a Nokia 7 Plus on the promise that it would have fast updates, be bug free, and not contain any OEM modifications. None of those have really been true. Admittedly, updates are still a bit faster than the likes of Samsung and other big OEMs, but the process has shown that it's not as simple as Google rolling out the updates.

OEMs still make changes to it, and it still seems dependent on carriers pushing through the changes - despite buying a SIM free phone, I waited 2 months longer for updates, which seemed to be the case with everyone on the same network in the UK.

It's far from bug free, with a few updates in the last few months introducing new bugs. Again, it shows that this isn't an update coming directly from Google, it is at least in some part developed and tweaked by OEMs. In this particular case, the process showed that HMD/Nokia is severely lacking in development and QA expertise, as there have been ongoing issues for months with no fix.

They also introduced their own battery optimisation software a few months ago, which massively changed how the phone handled multitasking and background applications (effectively, it killed them all). And then this news that they're sending unencrypted identifiable information to a third party? These things shouldn't be possible if Android One did what it claimed.

I avoid OEMs like Samsung because of all the bloat and junk that they add on top of Android, but Android One is clearly not a solution to that. I would still prefer it in theory in the alternatives, but I'll do more research next time - if a company doesn't have a proven track record, then Android One isn't going to solve that.

One minor point - Nokia the company isn't involved in the Nokia Android phones. HMD is just a small company that licenses the brand. Admittedly, a small company that was founded by ex-Nokia folk and based across the road from Nokia's HQ, but it's evidently not a company with Nokia's resources or much of their expertise.
The problem really is that a multi-billion dollar company decided to release an app targeting children (youtube kids) and through sheer negligence choose to allow access to the worst kind of content through said app. Google easily has the resources to release a responsible product, but simply chooses to deny responsibility for any negative side effects of their products.
>I thought I had missed something there, but it looks like it's just a bunch of utility methods to reinterpret integers and convert them to longs (etc.)?

Yes, but it's also a new feature (along with dozens of others). The complaint I answered was that Java is stagnant somehow, when it has been evolving fast in the last 5 years, and is accelerating its pace (release cadenze) even more.

>Kotlin, on the other hand, recently added actual unsigned types[0] – taking up the same number of bits as the corresponding signed type, supporting the normal mathematical operators, and preventing unintended mixups with signed types.

Which, given that the JVM doesn't support them at the bytecode level (iirc), they also use some similar trick of working with signed numbers under the hood, just hide it better at the syntax level.
Lots of problems are merely I/O related, which can be solved just fine with Python threads. As for number crunching (let's assume that means CPU intensive tasks), you can always still resort to multiprocessing (which can also be combined with multithreading, I fail to see why such paradigms cannot be combined).
An ant farting in a hurricane.

It provides enough power to run he state for 6 minutes or so [0] [1]. Useful for peak lopping, but if batteries would be used to store renewables the bills would be about 20 times higher than they are now and Australia already has some of the most expensive power in the first world. South Australia is the most unhealthy energy market in the developed world, and several developing countries would be embarrassed by it.

[0] https://aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-... current demand is 1300 MWh

[1] http://theconversation.com/yes-sas-battery-is-a-massive-batt... 130 MWh of storage
> The reason that prices are going up is because a lot of people want to spend a lot of money for the real estate...

No. Real estate is 80% driven by finance and tax policy.

The condo craze is just like the big box and franchises hotel boom a 15 years ago. Lots of money flows in, and the buildings get sold when they start losing money around the 15 year mark when depreciation catches up. Many of the marginal “luxury condos” will be shitty rentals in the 2030s when maintenance becomes a problem, and you’ll see them rapidly go down market.

By that time, the money will have moved on the the next thing, and we’re all stuck with the mess.
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Doesn't much of this go away with hooks?

Before we had one hierarchy where everything was a component, logic and visuals.

Now we have two hierarchies where visuals are components and logic are hooks.
> Economic rent seeking is characterised by seeking a cut of the profits without creating any new value. If you buy a new house and rent it out, you have just caused new wealth to be created and you are recovering the capital costs, so a reasonable argument can be mounted that it isn't technically rent seeking.

These houses already exist though. What new wealth is being created by purchase with intent to rent vs purchase with intent to occupy vs the builder offering the building for rent?
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