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Recognized the username. Blown away that the same person leading Redox-OS[0] is also in a leadership role at System76!!!

[0] https://github.com/redox-os/redox/graphs/contributors
What are you teaching a victim when both he and his bully receive only the same general kind of feel-good therapy?
I suspect the benefits accrue mostly to the owner of the restroom, as they can cut back on trash removal.
Good idea to add this in!
In the US we call those shop vacs.

They're a little harder to move around, that's why most people only use them for heavy-duty cleaning.

(And yes, I clean my fireplace with one.)
It's for some weird reason an Asian thing. Go to a bakery in China or Japan, buy 3 pieces of pastry, and you will walk away with 4 plastic bags.

It's especially annoying in Japan, as they also have super strict garbage policies and no possibility to dispose of things in public. That by itself is a great idea, if only they would stop giving me so much unnecessary garbage to carry around.
I'm posting in the Linux thread because it's probably annoying to some to see 'but I moved to Linux' threads throughout this comment.

But the original post is very sobering.

I left OS X a few years back when the new laptop came out. Partly the whole USB-C thing I suppose, but I felt that there was pretty good hardware around and the new MBP didn't really shine (and was fiercely expensive). So I made the move to Ubuntu on some new Lenovo hardware (Carbon X1).

I really look forward to the twice-yearly Ubuntu releases. More of the same, rarely any huge new surprises and just generally more polish. I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 immediately once the 19.10beta came out and it seems speedier.

I'm sorry to see Mac users get so badly burnt but I'm very glad I made the decision to leave when I did.
Ubuntu 18.04 using 2x scaling is broken in lots of little ways for me.

From the simple (boot screen runs at 1x so text is unreadable) to the wierd (VirtualBox tangle of bugs), to the frustrating (dolphin file manager, which I use to avoid UI bugs in the gnome file manager).

I found workarounds for some issues, and maybe they are fixed in the next LTS, but there is no way I could recommend 18.04 with 4k to a non-professional.
There are a lot of *.amazon.com internal subdomains used for employee resources and infrastructure. So I think they just want to keep that reserved for very specific things
I been using this on my phone for a few months now. ECL is a bit more fiddly / less forgiving than clisp, but easy enough to get the hang of. Nice to have a REPL with me wherever I go. It gets used surprisingly often - moreso than all of the other apps I've installed, except HN (of course!).
Dude, well met.

I don't mean that Chinese people are mysterious. I know they're human just like you and me. If anything it's the intense humanity of China that makes it so fascinating (to me.)

I'm basically agreeing with you that "reality is far more complex."

I'm saying that reality is hard to grasp because of the size, duration, and intricacy. Trying to understand China is like trying to understand Europe only without all the history books. (Chinese history has been relatively sparsely known in the West until quite recently.)

I used to be like, "Damn the evil CCP!", and now I'm more like "Just stop doing the really fucked up stuff, okay?". I still believe that Communism as a world view is barren due to its denial of God, but that is a whole 'nother story. I'm willing to withhold judgement of the CCP's legitimacy as a government provided they stop oppressing people.

Really, I'd like China to put itself in a better position to criticize the USA's mistakes, so we enter a virtuous circle where we are challenging each other as nations to be better than we are. There is all of the Solar System to explore if we can stabilize things here.

(In re: Tibet, are you aware of the history of how Hawaii became a state? The Queen of Hawaii didn't exactly volunteer...)

I will say that despite the very human problems that China has had over the centuries it still encompasses tremendous wisdom, both in practical affairs-- Confucius --and metaphysics. In my opinion the wisest written document in history is the Tao Te Ching. For example, Ch 17, in a single sentence, devastates all Western ideas of political power (and most Eastern ones too.)

> With the best leaders when the work is finished the people all say, "We did it ourselves."

G. I. Gurdjieff wrote, "The energy of the West must be guided by the wisdom of the East or the world will destroy itself." He meant more than China by "the East", but certainly included it.
Please help me understand the subtleties of your comment: he is paying millions in taxes, she is paying thousands and the problem is he is not paying enough?
Specifically:

"In 2016, a report published by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth concluded that "there is unsettling evidence that society is still following the 'standard run' of the original study – in which overshoot leads to an eventual collapse of production and living standards".[45] The report also points out that some issues not fully addressed in the original 1972 report, such as climate change, present additional challenges for human development."

Also Al Bartlett: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

Transcript:

https://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_populati...

Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8

Previously mentioned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552490
Agreed! If Apple caves in to Chinese pressure on this, what else will they do? Does Xi Jinping's brutal authoritarian regime now effectively make decisions for Apple abroad, since they can always threaten to cut Apple out of the lucrative mainland market?
We call distinct bodies of land part of the continent? Ok...
Yeah, this introduction/launch needs a lot of work. I've read over the first paragraph or two and all I see is buzzwords: "turn-key", "orchestration", "cloud", etc...

If you can't explain your value proposition simply and concisely so anyone that is not familiar with your product ecosystem can understand, you have a big problem in your hands.

This product seems like a simple scheduling tool, but your marketing jargon fluff piece says otherwise.
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“What dangers do physical pentesters of color have to consider?”
My father, a marine who fought in Iraq, said the same
I've loved my Oreck upright vacuum, so when they came out with their cordless vacuum, I jumped on it. It uses a disposable pod to contain all the junk, and it has plenty of power and a long lasting battery.
Mind sharing what thing you are fleeing _to_ Wordpress from and why? Genuinely curious.
I've thought about the UX issue, and I believe a big problem is they've overloaded the existing Privacy tab. It worked before only because it didn't do a whole lot. Now that it's essentially an integral part of the OS experience, it really needed to be broken out into its own dedicated preferences pane like Notifications.

Look at the Notifications pane and how it's grouped by application, with many options to the right. It offers far more information and control, and has visual indicators. That is what the privacy UI should have been like.

Current solution is half baked and no one can argue otherwise.
I can't say for sure but I'm dubious. I saw some BO CRT internals and it was more on the over engineered [0] custom designs than stamping somebody else's work. But maybe it varied over the years.

[0] to the point of causing electronicians headaches because the technology used was too peculiar
Bazel is just the open source name of the internal Google build system, it is the same codebase.
What exactly are you arguing? That we shouldn’t examine the evidence of how Brexit became public issue #1 when it barely registered in polls a few years earlier?

The validity of the vote is simple: it means exactly what Parliament decides it means at any time. Referendums don’t become law automatically, and Britain doesn’t have a constitution that could force it (unlike some countries like Switzerland).
I'm not a macOS user but from what I'm reading, it seems Apple turned something akin to SELinux on by default but let users define the policies on the fly.

I remember a lot of headaches with SELinux on Fedora desktops years ago. It was not fun but I could always disable that if I didn't feel like fixing the policies myself. Lately, things barely pop up.
Target Powerpoint users, don't forget about Google Slides users but target Powerpoint. The probability that Google Audience Connect will die a slow death due to negligence is high. Don't try competing with Google, all you need to do is outlast the useful lifespan of Audience Connect.
Frankly, I find it much more dangerous if e.g. OneDrive deletes my desktop randomly or if MacOS doesn't let me log in. Stuff like `rm -rf folder` I still have to type myself, at least.
This reminds me of the fascinating NYT story about the lead up to the original iPhone announcement event: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s....

A choice excerpt:

> The iPhone could play a section of a song or a video, but it couldn’t play an entire clip reliably without crashing. It worked fine if you sent an e-mail and then surfed the Web. If you did those things in reverse, however, it might not. Hours of trial and error had helped the iPhone team develop what engineers called “the golden path,” a specific set of tasks, performed in a specific way and order, that made the phone look as if it worked.

I guess I post this here as a means to say, while what OP is talking about certainly sucks, Apple seems to have a long history of this. Doesn't make it better, and certainly what he's outlined seems extra bad, but not completely unexpected.
Oreck makes good cordless vacuums.
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As others correctly pointed out, I'm referring to the parodic panel game "Mornington Crescent" from I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue; the "game" is ostensibly about making moves from tube stop to tube stop while obeying an immensely complicated set of rules which are written down in full in a gigantic book... which doesn't exist in the real world.

The Wikipedia article is fairly anodyne, but the talk page was surprisingly acrimonious on the topic of whether this joke is a game, or whether this game is a joke; ultimately, the side insisting it is so a real game seemed like they were attempting to prevent Wikipedia from "spoiling" it by stating outright that there are no actual rules:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mornington_Crescent_(game...

... which reminds me of the surprising persistence with which some people tried to get Wikipedia to state that drop bears are real:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Drop_bear/Archive_1
While on the subject, on Linux I've also noticed that Xscreensaver (or GNOME screensaver, can't remember which) sometimes goes straight into the desktop after wakeup for a few seconds before the lock screen prompt actually appears. You can even run programs. Really bizarre and feels like this issue has been present for a while now. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?
Japan has dozens or maybe even hundreds of different Kit Kat flavors that cycle into and out of production over the seasons.
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> If I have a good reason, I can toggle a setting and install APKs built by anyone. If I have a good reason, I can wipe my phone and unlock the bootloader to literally replace and de-Google the entire OS.

This is not possible for many (and I suspect the majority of) android phones.
"Why not tax it all as income?" is the point folks are trying to make. Treating "Real Work" > "Capital Work", because income is income.

You might argue, "That'll dissuade investment!", but when $17 trillion in negative yield bonds [1] (a third of the bond market) are communicating, "Hey there, not a lot of investment dollars needed kthx", that argument falls flat. Your investment dollars aren't needed. There is nowhere productive for them to go. So why have public policy treat their income differently?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/negative-yield-bonds/
Does the article seriously quote the non-effective rates as the wealthy paying more?
> Predictions about warming and sea level rise? Those are accurate.

Which ones? Satellite data projections, NOAA, IPCC estimates and wacko reporter/activists all say very different things. Looneys regularly say crazy things, like the Marshall Islands[1] won't be there any more. Al Gore used the words "20 feet" in his wacky documentary; that's certainly not right.

Intelligent people, with Ph.D.s in numerate sciences even, have exhibited horror when I bought a condo a kilometer from a shore (63 meters above sea level mind you; I like hills and ocean views); they really think I'll drown in my old age! The disinfo out there being put out by activists is at least as bad as that put out by oil companies or whatever. This isn't helpful. And the error bars on the scientific consensus don't inspire a lot of confidence (or sufficient horror, apparently) either.

People on here regularly confound weather (aka hurricanes and such, and what they experienced when they went to the beach), which always happens, and which doesn't even jibe with climatological predictions, with climate. Also political/military problems such as the ongoing nonsense in the middle east are confounded with "climate refugees" which is also not helpful.

The reason stuff like the ozone worked out reasonably well from a political point of view, and was eventually more or less mitigated is there weren't crazy people exaggerating things.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/risin...
If it was optional and the company offered optional Saturdays at 20% more to balance out everything.

There are a lot of advantages to a free business day.
Two paragraphs later:

> When assessing the total tax burden facing different U.S. households, looking at federal, state and local taxes is instructive. The federal system is more progressive than state and local systems, but combining them — as the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has done — doesn’t change the story: the higher your income, the greater your tax burden. Harvard economist and top Obama adviser Jason Furman confirms this by combining federal taxes and transfers with state and local taxes.
>Nobody is force-feeding anybody. TV news is dead, the newspaper is dead. People read the news they find interesting.

Newspapers and periodicals still set the tone at higher echelons, richer/older/more socially standing demographics, politicians, journalists, academics, and so on. Whether in print form or web format doesn't matter much.

And TV still has a stronghold in most families. Even with the internet, people watch more TV now than they did in the 70s and 80s ( https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-... ) -- and it's not all Game Of Thrones and the like.

But the point is rather moot, as the force feeding doesn't need to happen through newspapers/TV. The web, and even social media, would do just as good.

The main thing is to have the same narrative fed 24/7, with small diversions (e.g. everybody agreeing that X is the enemy du jour, but disagree on being hawks or doves against it. For even more fun, usually the "doves" don't promote a much softer touch that the hawks, just disagree on the details and subtlety).

>If you really think the reason people prefer read US-weekly to civil wars in foreign countries is because "The Man" then you're in for a rude awakening.

Not sure what the above means.

But people don't even care about civil wars in foreign countries, until their government decides to be involved, and to the degree that it reflects one or another partisan view.

There are tons of civil wars and atrocities Americans don't know and don't care enough to learn about. They just take a second hand opinion on the ones they are told, from one of the opinions on offer -- if there wasn't one, they'd be blissfully discussing some actor's divorce, The Joker or whatever the media bring up next.

World affair savvy, the public, is not. Heck, most couldn't even name the name of the Vice President, or their Senator, but they can still manage to mumble that "X" (enemy du jour) is bad, because this or that news item caught their eye, it's what's talked about in editorials, and social media viral stories, and so on.
I would really appreciate if you could share some of your findings there.
Yes, these are hilarious. First time I encountered them and was splattered with water, I thought "I must've just been pranked.. where's the candid camera at?".
Where are they gathering it from? Seems overpriced for reality compared to census data and friends that have recently leased in both areas.

Seattle definitely is more expensive for a 1BR than either ex-urb: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-now-m...
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How far does that argument go?

If Buffett's secretary pays $20k in taxes, and Buffett pays $21k, is that fair because he's still paying more?

How much lower can his tax rate go versus his secretary's rate before it's unacceptable?
Daily reminder that Bloomberg published “The Big Hack” a year ago and haven’t redacted it or made any updates.
If your hands is covered in fecal matter, means you didn't wash.
And THAT is precisely why the wealthy pay lower taxes!
> You should care if what they are doing is against your belief system.

I think it's a legit question how far you take this though.

Do business with nazis? Fuck no!

Do business with someone with different ideas on the ideal rate of taxation? Seems ok to me.

Somewhere in the middle things are a bit murky for me, to be honest.
You never know, they’re app might get the Google Reader app treatment
For all those wondering, this bug has been fixed https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/pull/331
Wall Street "incentivises" the people that are there to supposedly make them accountable. Personally, that's where I believe the problem begins.
That's the thing: "open source" is not a movement. And ESR wouldn't be a particularly charismatic leader (he's more of a controversial one).

Open Source would never be where it is now without the Free Software movement (which is an ideological one). Maybe some corporations would still promote the OSS approach due to its economic benefits, but probably not. It likely wouldn't have the same midshare among developers that it has today.
IMO, if you're looking for low cost, the Ikea 365+ knife set is the best thing out there. It's 3 pieces for $30 and comes with a Chef's knife.

The steel is mediocre, but not so different from high end German knives (if you want good steel, Japanese is the way to go).
Apart from the fact that an Android that has side-loaded malware probably(1) won't shoot five innocent bystanders, I think this is a good analogy.

(1) Probably. It's an open source OS, so no telling categorically what hardware it's driving ;)
The important fact is "[percent] of their income" much of the earns at the top end get shifted to capital gains which aren't counted as income and get taxed much lower.
Exactly this. Keras made TF easy.
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~30 year stagnation is OK? Their 30 year postwar expansion was made possible due to American investment.

The Abe government understands this and is attempting to lure foreign work albeit slowly. It’s hardly an example of cultural or economic dynamism the United States is.
Yes, that is me. Here's the right link though ;-)

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/graphs/master
Percentages are fair.

Charging more tax based on an enumeration like gender, race, religion, or income is actually a violation of the 16th Amendment.

It also happens to be Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto.
I’ve formed a lot of companies with them and never had lousy customer service.

YMMV but you are right that they aren’t a government agency.

They provide a legal agreement template between founders as well as registered agent services.
Someone previously mentioned on HN that the extra packaging is due to Japan's humidity.
While I understand being annoyed at these neologisms, they do add information: the writer didn't just didn't just feel interrupted and patronized, she felt interrupted and patronized in ways that fit into specific patterns of gendered behavior.

That is highly salient to her experience.
Correct. The tax rate on the richest few thousand is at a historically low rate. In the great depression era the tax rate was very high for the wealthiest in the nation and they have been very successful at lowering their tax burden over the years, to where we are now, where the billionaire class is paying a much lower effective tax rate than ever before. Taxing the ultra wealthy at a much higher rate can fix our deficit issues without breaking the economy and taking money out of small businesses, for example.
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I'm not sure what you're referring to, but the source it cites is this:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/55413-CBO-distribut...

I can't find the word "effective" in there. It just quotes the tax rates.

EDIT: I see what you are trying to say now. And the answer is no, it quotes the effective rate.
> I had a turning point with climate change when I realized carbon emissions almost definitely won't transform Earth into a martian wasteland incapable of supporting life. The natural ecosystem adapts to ice ages, meteors, and other world altering events, and the planet without us would probably revert to something lush and diverse in a few millennia.

No. Depending on how bad warming gets, it will take on the order of millions of years for biodiversity to recover. The worst mass extinction was the Permian-Triassic where something like 95% of aquatic species and over 75% of terrestrial species went extinct. That took a long, long time to recover from.

You are correct that life will probably go on without us. But what I think a lot of people fail to realize is that we're looking at the collapse of human civilization somewhere on the horizon, and human extinction after that if we don't change course.
cron stable? I remember having to add a cronjob to touch a file every 5 minutes and having Nagios monitor that because occasionally it would just stop processing new jobs and have to be restarted

That may have been a Centos5/6 specific thing and it was probably caused by too frequent -HUP ing it, but it didn't feel like the decades made it that stable..
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It's 12 times and leaves quite a mess
Glad to hear that. I certainly like working with laptops, desktops, and servers across a wide spectrum of hardware - from the Galago Pro to the Thelio Massive
Capital gains are lower because because corporations pay income tax on their earnings already.
I'm not sure if you actually read most of what I said or are just responding to the part where I said it was easy, but, at least on android 9, it automatically takes you to the setting as soon as you try to open an apk, acquiring which, is pretty much exactly the same as downloading an .exe file on a computer. Depending on your browser, it will even ask if you want to open the file upon completion, thereby taking you to the 'enable apps from unknown sources' option without even leaving your web browser. I like to have faith that most people capable of downloading and opening a file from the internet, should be able to read a message pop up and tap a toggle button.
Hm. The CBO report uses the phrase "total income", which I would expect to include capital gains. But it does not explicitly define it as far as I can tell. Do you have a citation for those numbers not being inclusive of capital gains?

EDIT: It does define everything at the end. Total income in this context does include capital gains.