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> do you have any clue about this specific measure?

Any price control inevitably has negative consequences in the market. This is practically a law of economics.

> Its limited to buildings that are 15 years old or older, and it limits rent increases to 8% annually, which in practice is about 1 - 3% of all lease agreements in CA, a very small amount.

If it with have such minimal effect why even have it?

> Commercial construction loans are based on the 15 year revenue generating potential of the proposed building, this law was created specifically with that in mind so as not to interfere.

Then it's not as bad as it could be. Doesn't mean it's justified.
Today I had yet another user complain that our program didn't do the right thing, when in fact it was doing exactly what the user had told it to.

The issue seems to be that while this dialog is crystal clear when you read it slowly and understand all the words, most users appear to read what they think it says, and select the dialog option according to that.

It's not a wall of text or anything, it's a medium length sentence on the form "Select Yes to [...], press No if you want [...]". I ran it past the support guys and they thought it was clear as well. But apparently it's very easy to get wrong.

In all cases the users go "oooohhh, that's what it's saying" when they get told to read it carefully, and after that they select the correct option and make the program do what they want.

I spent a fair amount of time figuring out the most clear and correct way to present the choices, but apparently I failed hard... oh well, that dialog is getting rewritten tomorrow!
It wasn't that the car had problems per se, it was just that it was so obvious that they had taken cost cutting a touch too far. The manual choke was a good example, you had to remember to engage it before starting the car and gradually turn it off. The tires were held on with only 3 lug nuts. The exhaust manifold came out through the wheel well, which eventually destroyed my car - it developed a leak and started the rustproofing material on fire.
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Sounds like a way to build character :) though I can imagine what my now 2 year old would do with that.

He prefers the bus anyways. No need for any seat belt at all.
Millikan's original oil drop experiment had that problem ...
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You have, at this point in time, only three comments on HN, all related to Snowden, and are obviously using a throwaway account. You are also advocating heavily that the report, prepared by intelligence agencies in the US government, should be given credence, while you have developed none yourself. Really hard not to imagine you as a disinformation account created by a three letter organization.
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There's a human hack where once you predict/guess/use insider info to get one thing right before hand, you will get some percentage of people who blindly follow you and can explain away any and every incorrect future prediction. I've seen it happen from QAnon all the way to "insiders" "leaking" information on what would happen each week on Survivor.
How current is this impression? There continue to be first-rate Fortran compilers that probably win on numerics for exactly the reasons you state, but I would be surprised that PL/I has a toolchain that's kept up with modern architecture.

String handling, on most modern toolchains, mostly goes to inline functions or builtins that the compiler has been (rather pragmatically, if a big disgustingly) made aware of. It's very unlikely that strcpy or memmem is going through external linkage.
At the cost of further increasing the price of rents across the board due to limited housing supply.
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The first house I ever owned was a condo I bought in 2005, way out in the sticks, because the further I got from the city the cheaper the houses got, and because I had a strong suspicion that housing prices were too damn high.

By the time I had to move to CA for work in 2009 of course the market had crashed badly and the condo was well underwater, not even counting the $20k I had put into the kitchen and bathroom.

It was a $185k 2BR 1.5BA unit, with a condo fee of $300/mo and a monthly payment (principle + interest) of $980 with a 3/1 ARM at 3.5%. I got lucky because the rate was indexed to the LIBOR and it was being manipulated to ~0% back then, so my rate stayed super low even though it was adjusting every year.

I put the unit on the market for $165k for two months and got zero showings. So I offered it for rent at $1400 on Craigslist and it was rented that weekend.

I just sold the property last year, to the person who was renting it (and had been for 4 years) for $185k. I gave him the last 4 months before closing rent free because we closed without any broker (no commission) and because I didn’t have to do a thing to the unit pre-closing, seeing as how he was already living there.

Not all landlords are scum out to make a buck on the back of tenants they never met and don’t care about. Not all landlords are even in it because they initially set out to be! And very few landlords are being “fed” half of someone’s paycheck, but more like, covering the costs plus a few percentage points, as long as nothing unexpected happens.
That's not true. Spotify purchased an app that did just this by buffering into playlists that updated while they downloaded and then they promptly killed the app. WatchOS 6 also includes the ability for third parties to stream directly and Spotify has publicly said that they refuse to use this until Apple changes their App Store policies.

It's completely do-able and Spotify has the capability to do it, now and in the recent past.
There's an easy answer for this, although it's uncomfortable for the Epsteins of the world. Simply formalize the entire process. Have a dedicated system for handling not just Very Important People, but Very Rich Assholes. When VRAs want to give money, make it clear that the money will be marked as from "an anoymous piece of shit" rather than "a generous donor". When they want to walk around the lab, make it clear that they'll be wearing a nametag with "VRA" printed in big red letters.

Sure, take money from child slavers if you must, but don't glorify them or even give them the decency of polite society. Mark them for who they are, if you know it.
I am not sure voice based AI is up to the task. Even with a headset/mic Google Assistant and Siri have problems with more complicated commands.

I am not sure how well the tech will hold up to the effects of wind, car engine sounds, screaming kids, customizations (hold the pickles), accents, etc.

What I think will happen is that they will roll out this technology, and then be faced with a bunch of irritated customers re-doing their order at the payment window because the voice AI completely screwed up their order.

I think mobile ordering through an app is a much more viable option.
It's less a culture of I-know-something-you-don't than a culture of someone-may-know-something-I-don't. I don't understand your implication of intellectual delusions of grandeur here; I see it as the opposite.
Spotify being a baby is an anticompetitive measure by Apple? That's a hot take.
> Boomers were handed a golden egg, and managed to nearly destroy it.

In point of fact, the policies which did that were adopted while the balance of political and economic power were in the hands of the Silent Generation, but it took a while for the effect to be fully felt and the Boomers were the last generation to have most of their working life before the wheels fell off.
Not in isolation. But if building restrictions and zoning restrictions were lifted, and supply could meet demand, then rent control wouldn't be necessary, because the landlord wouldn't be able to get away with doubling rent.
time to figure out how to jam these signals. I don't want my 3d location tracked by every guided missile out there
uh, can't agree there. i will absolutely blame voters, myself included, for voting in apathetic politicians. pointing fingers like this is the mindset that gets nothing done in this country.
This point wasn't clear to me reading the article. I got the impression that many of those bankruptcies were independent owner/operators but that the reporter was trying to downplay that and rather let us believe these were large operators on the brink of collapse.
That is not at all what that ruling says. The ruling just upholds an injunction until the case is decided. It
explicitly does not pupport to provide any precedent on the legality of scraping.
Sparrows are eating a great deal of the produce grown in California, let's remove them to end food insecurity.
90% are not full time .
> I can hardly imagine how can LSD be used to control somebody rather than to free him

But you're a rank amateur. The CIA used University and Medical Schools, plus some believe (and I am one of those "some') they also used Nazi research. Shit an argument can be made that they "know" exactly the psychological profile of people that are prone to mind control, and contrary to popular belief people can be hypnotized into doing things they normally would not.

The US Army [1] researched BZ (which makes LSD look like licorice you give to kids) for TWENTY Years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Quinuclidinyl_benzilate
Does it work with West Nile, Zika, EEE and other mosquito borne diseases too? If so that’d be even better news on top of good.

Do the downvotes mean this blood medicine does not affect these mosquitoes?
Except that it is. They say so themselves and also mention that is totally OK with failing.
Curious. Why don't you like Asana? What do you prefer instead?
Are you being intentionally obtuse? If you never have to worry about the battery on the watch, what's the need to sympathize? You say "it adds to the list of devices [I] worry about" but I'm explicitly telling you that it doesn't add to that list because I don't have to worry about it.
I'm not sure when the last time you tried the assistant was, but Google's speech-to-text is getting ridiculously good. I think most of the time, it would be able to get even complicated orders correct.

Anyways, I'm sure that for the 10% where it doesn't work, they can install an interactive touchscreen for correcting orders (or have an app). And for the 90% of the rest, they save a ton of money by having computers do the task instead of humans.
The risk pool could be different. If its people that can't hold full time jobs driving, that may speak to the state of their health.
> The previous UK law, RIPA, was abused for investigating minor crimes such as fraudulently obtaining disabled parking badges.

I understand that you're trying to illustrate a larger problem, but that example is likely to get you zero sympathy from anybody, anywhere.

I know that US ISPs have an established pattern of "just handing over" browsing history, but I have no idea what CF's track record is like.
Considering how hard it can be to find someone at Home Depot(who isn't occupied with someone else), I think I'd rather find the items myself. I'd prefer to have fewer expert level employees who I can consult with than more human-directory but otherwise useless to me employees.
I just went shopping online for apartments in SF. If I were to move there now, a 1 BR in a very nice luxury tower in Nob Hill will run me about $3,700/mo. And let's throw in, say, $200/mo for utilities and expenses? And let's give a very generous $1000/mo for food expenses?

According to a tax calculator, a $200k salary in SF is about $130k/year take home, or about $11k/month.

After rent and expenses, that's still $5,100 in disposable take-home pay every month. That's not scraping by.
This certainly happens on older iPhones. People also get grease on it and it’s hard to remove. The new(ish) sapphire front elements make scratches much better.
The reason the market is not working is because of onerous regulation by the government in the first place.
The point is finding planets aside from our own.
Apple did submit a proposal based on the then-new blocks extension in 2010: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1451.pdf

There was an analysis of this and the C++11 lambda specification done shortly after at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1483.htm, but it was inconclusive and there doesn't seem to have been any followup since then.
Siri and Google Assistant are much more (intentionally?) gimped than the state of the art. But I don't have any faith in McDonald's version either.
The sort of evil hack that can occur, was not possible until it became possible for the control systems of industrial settings to be hacked, by foriegn or domestic elements. I live in a place that has very inconsistent power and i use a UPS to feed my router, that is also a way to mitigate a hack of this sort. Keep in mind that power generation has to be hacked and manipulated, and the major hack would be a followup or an opportunist piggybacking on the first attack, sniffing the DSL environment for open router ports, and exploiting.

have a look here Re firmware and model compatabilities:

https://openwrt.org/toh/start

this is a table of compatible devices and firmware. The site itself is about open WRT and hosts "apps" to run on your router as network services. It is possible to turn your router into something other than a router [including a paper wieght if your not careful] so read up on what you have, what you want to do, and what you need to do that.

keep in mind im trying to be as general as possible, so you need to do a bit of reading about your router, and what options you have.

make sure you have a backup router, and or all your ducks in a row, as you will not have a router if something goes wrong. The revert feature is usefull if you have that sort of router, the feature itsself is not a bad[evil] thing, the problem is that sucessive power cycling can revert your router to factory configuration and leave your system quite vulnerable to followup attack. this is why you make sure you know what you are doing, flash your router properly, configure it to be secure but open to you , then flash it again with the same firmware and configure it. if it all works properly, you will have a router that reverts to a secure firmware and configuration, instead of factory firmware.

such a router will have two instances of flashed firmware and you can toggle between the instances by flicking the power switch [3times] rapidly so you produce 3 boot failures. this is true in the case of linksys routers and many others but not all, so read often, implement successfully the first time.

The sort of evil hack that can occur, was not possible until it became possible for the control systems of industrial settings to be hacked, by foriegn or domestic elements. I live in a place that has very inconsistent power and i use a UPS to feed my router, that is also a way to mitigate a hack of this sort. Keep in mind that power generation has to be hacked and manipulated, and the major hack would be a followup or an opportunist piggybacking on the first attack, sniffing the DSL environment for open router ports.

so how does this fit into the original topic?

When you interrupt power and cause blackouts you create an opportunity for F.U.D. secondarily messing around with everyones router at gross scale furthers the FUD and opens the door for MITM and consequent manipulation of psychological/ emotional state.
Landlords who choose to increase rents at the maximum rate permitted each year do so at the risk that they will be undercut by competing property owners who do not do so. Given this, I think that your property management company is offering you bad advice.

Most landlords already increase rents at the maximum rate that the market will bear. Capping annual increases at 7% just ensures that in a year when the market would allow landlords to get away with increasing rents by over 7%, they won't be able to do so.

I do not follow when you say that the strategy of increasing rents by the maximum amount permissible is necessary "because larger adjustments cannot be made if and when necessary due to market conditions". In what scenario would larger adjustments be necessary? If you made a viable investment in a property and are currently renting it out, wouldn't rent increases just need to equal inflation in order for you to maintain the same level of profitability? Sure, increasing by more than inflation allows you to increase profits, but I hardly see why maximizing profits should be seen as a necessity---especially when it comes at the cost of pushing people out onto the streets.
i feel like people take it personally when it's pointed out that political will in the US is, for lack of a better term, pathetically low
I would love to hear your perspective on why Joi Ito is a hero.
Be careful with nonsense in those security question answers. I've hear many are plain text and if you tell the rep, "it is just nonsense," they can say "yup, sounds good."
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In Australia we just elected a former CCP rep: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-11/gladys-liu-chinese-fo...

It's happened on both sides of politics: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-12/sam-dastyari-resigns-...

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> Imagine a spammer having millions of active email addresses with first/last.

Don't they already? There have been SOOO many breaches in this area that I rather doubt there are many active emails that don't have some publicly available dataset linking them to first and last names. The valuable thing here is linking that data to the LinkedIn profile ID.
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This is an additional comparison I found with other languages.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
I can read between the lines an assumption that Uber will do the bare minimum required by law while exercising all restrictions on drivers they are legally allowed to.

How can they be for self-organization of drivers (as states in the release) while battling in other state courts for prohibiting unions?

If they want to allow drivers to also drive for other platforms (again, from the text), just don’t enforce such clauses in employment contracts.

They’re talking about all the changes they supposedly want to see while the only thing stopping it from happening is Uber deciding not to.

As if being an employee must mean a rigid schedule and inflexible working hours.
I own a condo too. And if I move I probably won't sell it, but rather rent it out until I move back (while living in a rented place of my own). Individual home ownership is not a problem, it should be encouraged. The problem is people (and REITs) who lever up with a bunch of properties to be fed half of people's paycheck in the manner described.

I will nitpick and say that paying your mortgage is not a cost. That is equity you're getting.
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> or in this case, Toronto

Yeah, roaming around Toronto on a bicycle in summer is fun. In winter? Not so much. (I've done it, when I was younger, poorer and single.)

Riding a bicycle (or scooter/motorcycle) when there's ice/slush on the roads is uncomfortable and dangerous, which unsurprisingly is why very few people commute by bicycle year round in Toronto.

I'll believe governments are actually serious about combating climate change when they start offering serious tax incentives for people to work from home or local co-working spaces.
Much better article about this direct from McDonalds - https://news.mcdonalds.com/stories/company-news-details/acqu...

@dang can we get the URL changed?
Rent doesn't get changed daily, only when a lease is up for renewal.

Rent control deters the creation of new housing. This reduce in supply raises the price, which is bad for the poor - exactly the people it is meant to help.
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> but feels oddly synthetic

I think it's viable to determine the level of knowledge an author has on a topic purely based on the number of times the word 'technology' is used. In this case - this is almost certainly written by someone with little to no actually knowledge of the topic.
The thread boundary restriction for catching panics was lifted quite a while ago with std::panic::catch_unwind: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html

Do note the caveats in the docs though. It isn't guaranteed to catch all panics. Indeed, unwinding can be disabled completely with a compiler option (instead, panics will abort).
He was an early investor in Six Apart and Technorati, was one of the top 100 bloggers, and was one of the first to clearly articulate the ability of the Internet to change society. He was also on the board of Creative Commons, ICANN, Mozilla, etc.

Also his sister is one of the top Internet researchers, and iirc she has said that she became interested in the field because of his early entrepreneurial career.
Yes, but Orwell wrote about it intelligently. If he had let a million internet users comment in his books, they wouldn't be worth reading either.
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Recipe for disaster: The meteoric rise and ongoing demise of Blue Apron
Not all regulations are equal. Merely because some past law was bad does not mean all future laws will be bad. Saying that rent control is bad because past zoning (or other law) was bad doesn't make sense.
Amazing how the world has changed. Not too long ago it was hard to introduce code that wasn't closed source.