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Compounding this frustration (on iOS at least) is stuff like "force touch" and hidden toolbars. Depending on how hard you press a button you might get a totally different UI interaction.

Are others good at knowing exactly how many newtons of force it takes to follow a hyperlink instead of triggering this horrid mini-preview window? Maybe that's why Jonny Ive made millions of dollars while I work like a stiff for a living.

Want to open a new tab in mobile Safari while on a webpage? Oh I must tap the invisible button bar at the bottom. So obvious.

I just wish Apple et al. didn't force these choices on us, that we could disable silliness like force touch and hidden toolbars. But alas one cannot.
I pay 20 times what my neighbor pays, and the other neighbor pays 40 times as much, for the same services. How is this remotely fair?

Even worse, I can find you homes in California that are valued over $4MM that are paying less than $1000/yr in property tax (buying that property new would be about $50,000/yr).

How is this fair?
Check the title.
> I believe the tax can only be passed on to children. Not “relatives” in general.

I know a nephew who got it.

And of course, corporations. The horrors of an elderly Google being taxed out of their home in old age!

And don't forget the farmstead discount, which Apple executives love using for their mansions.
You don't know this and you can't claim this.
> The hardware is transparent, literally, it has a clear protective coating on the hardware which allows visually verifying everything

Right and that's bullshit. How do I know you aren't embedding a advanced joule thiefing silicon die disguised as a pull-up resistor to manipulate usb communication or even interface with the micro in a backdoor?
“The Good Place”
Netflix was the top stock of the decade
Only met him once, but the man was a giant of computer science.
There was a time when I used a South Asian VPN service for YouTube, and I saw a lot of "single woman in your neighborhood" ads. I guess either that was the norm in South Asia, or that's what VPNs are for...
The crazy part is how expensive CAD software is. AutoCAD can be thousands of dollars a year and was created [1] 37 years ago!

The age of the product would surely reveal the difficulty of creating a competing product...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD
Actually, that's a very good point. There are some important restrictions regarding airspace but there are legal ways to get up in the air by yourself without any training

Good call out there
Force touch is the best evidence we have that designers have lost their power at Apple.

The best thing Steve
Jobs did was hire serious designers and defend their ideas against the rest of the organization. That’s clearly not happening anymore.

My guess is that “Designer at Apple” became such a desirable title that the design roles have been taken over by wannabees.
> Owners who purchased before 1978 pay proportionally less in property taxes than those who purchased after 1978.

It's even worse than that, since prop 13 isn't a one time thing. Just like rent control, you lock in whenever you purchase.

My neighbor pays double what I do for effectively the same house. It's totally unfair to them.
I did nearly the same thing for a long while, except it was Dynasty Warriors 3 on the TV and Mr. Show reruns on my computer. Although Newsradio is a show I rewatch and use as a background show often.

I felt very similar, like it was a zen feeling. I didn't get a similar feeling with another game until Minecraft, where I could just carve out giant holes in the land while watching TV shows.
> It’s still worthy of debate if this should be the case, but it’s not as broad as giving it to your nieces or nephews.

Prop 58 allowed exchanges between parents and children (in either direction), Prop 193 expanded it to include those between grandparents and grandchildren (in either direction). So you can't do it directly to nephews/nieces (or aunts/uncles), but if you have the right set of living, willing relatives to combine a prop 193 transfer and a prop 58 transfer you can do it.
Atomium
There are more or less 2 major modes of managing a product relative to the current technological zeitgeist:

- expand to consume every new use case and buzzword that comes along. Survive in some form indefinitely, while the product becomes less concrete and meaningful over time. The product continues to succeed not because it is technically best in class any more, but sheer momentum of the large base of existing users it serves adequately

- remain focused to the original mission, delivering iterative improvements over time. Watch waves of loyal users get eaten away one after another by the tide of the current technological buzz

VB was mostly the second case, although it did have many cousins in the form of VBA and ASP. The original tool - VB itself, was only ever relevant to desktop computing. By the time it got merged into Visual Studio, I believe the RAD aspect of the tool had already mostly disappeared (although VS even today still offers some variety of the original experience!)

VB in its prime was a beautiful thing, and the experience AFAIK remains unmatched to this very day. I've pined for a "client/server VB" on many occasions.
So, we get a lot of "alcohol is bad" or "alcohol is good (in moderation)" from different scientists. What am I, a non-scientist, to believe? For my "null hypothesis", which I hold to unless and until a scientific consensus demonstrates otherwise, is that conditions similar to my ancestors' lifestyle is what is most likely to be what I am adapted for. I'm pretty sure my ancestors were occasional drinkers of alcohol.

Of course, it would depend on my particular ancestors. If my dad or mom died of cirrhosis of the liver, I would choose differently.
Tribal societies had time for stories, music, dance, art and ritual. Kids still had time to play. You’d have to go pretty far back or during extreme times to find a period when our ancestors had no time foe leisure.
There is something really weird and complex with the way dependency management works out in JS that I can't quite put my finger on, but seems to make things especially intractable somehow. While other platforms have pretty similar dependency management tools... I think that the ruby `Gemfile.lock` for instance would usually have much smaller and human-readable diffs for an analogous change.
Late-stage trials are enormously costly and negative results are common. To publicly fund them, we'd have to be ok with governments spending billions and getting nothing for it. And after the fact there'd be a long line of people saying how $treatment was obviously never going to work and only an idiot would ever have let it go forward for stage 3 trials.

I'm not opposed to the idea, but I think you'd struggle to make it politically achievable.
Free Xmas Giveaway
Thanks for raising the possible concern with R53. Because of this, I reached out to AWS Support and they confirmed if you have this extension and want to use it with an AWS offering, you can use any domain extension you'd like, even a crazy obscure one (like .ycomb). But you can't buy and host this domain extension at R53 currently.
Who cares? If it is just for gaming, then if it gets infected it isn't going to compromise anything important.
I'd used MFP years ago for a bit, then stopped. I just tried to get back into tracking my meals about a month ago, and tried out an app called LoseIt (Android: com.fitnow.loseit ). I compared them by entering the same meals into both for about a week, and decided to switch to LoseIt, mostly due to the food search feeling snappier and the presentation of the stats looking nicer. Also, LoseIt made it easier to re-enter meals that I'd had recently.
I think the actual benefactors are commercial property owners, who will keep the properties forever and lease them out with very little tax burden.

On the other hand, I question that if prop 13 is "straightened out", will the increased revenue make other taxes go down?
I can safely say that a lot of proprietary crypto code (as in, stuff that is in very widespread use and costs $$$) is not unlike this either. In some ways this is actually more straightforward to read and understand since it's in one file and not wrapped in a dozen layers of abstraction.
I'm sure that's where the money is, but I can't really stand being around psychotic people all the freaking time. C-level execs, puke.
There are two major policy failures on display here. The first is that there isn't enough housing in the city, and they're basically never going to build it. The second is that the city needs to get better waste management technology, instead of just leaving trash out on the streets to feed the rats.
You’re now incentivizing the carrier to deliver spam calls, and the customer to report as spam every call they receive from a party they have no expectation of talking to again regardless of whether it’s spam.
I recently visited a friend of a friend on “Billionaires Row” on Pacific near Lyon. They are extraordinarily wealthy aside from their magnificent home and could easily afford the “correct” property taxes but since the home has been passed down for generations, they’re paying taxes on an assessed value that’s probably 1/50th of what it’s really worth. Just absolute madness that we subsidize ~hundred millionaires to the tune of $50k/year. It creates a literal landed gentry.
What about landfill areas[1] like the Marina, Embarkadero, SoMa and much of the bay side of SF as well as Treasure Island? Would they get special treatment?

Also, land in and of itself isn't desirable if the economy of the area isn't right (lots of rural places around the world are depopulating as cities attract their countrysides).

[1]https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-d7f66b45593b76f812792e...
> The intersection of decent cost of living, close to medical facilities, high quality medical establishment, and affordable medical care leaves not too many places in the world.
Compared to what we have today? I don't think you have to go very far back at all. Even in medieval times they didn't have the free time we have now.
Fact: Tech careers attract many sketchy people and many young people. Alcohol is one of the few legal ways to quickly identify and filter out the union of those two sets, many of whom are the most disturbed individuals that have found their way in. Sadly, it doesn't work on those who abstain due to physical incapacity, religion or the truly psychotic. Just keep parroting expressions with an obsolete context like "free as in beer"... or "Alcohol and social bonding in humans" (as opposed to animals?) here on Hacker News..hah
Doesn’t Prop 13 prevent minorities from being forced out of rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods due to rising property taxes? I fear that would be the effect of any repeal. Prop 13 seems like rent control for homeowners.
> Health care in Vietnam is not too bad, at least for the price.

Let us see...

My partner got what looked liked food poisoning when we arrived to Hue.
Local hospital refused to take us, sent to a special hospital "for foreigners".
She was put on a bed and kept waiting in pain for hours.
The doctor didn't bother to do anything for her for hours, despite not too many other patients.
We felt hungry, yet they refused to let us go.
After several hours waiting and feeling more stomach pain from hunger, I said, we absolutely have to go and eat something. Yet the doctor told us to keep waiting, refusing to let us go.
I started looking around for food and found a cafeteria on premises that was luckily still open (it was already late).
After a verbal fight with the doctor, he finally allowed us to go to eat in that cafeteria.
It was already late and dark and I had told the doctor, we would be leaving now unless he does something.
After more verbal fights and repeated insistence, the doctor wrote a quick prescription without even checking and sent us to pay about USD 100!
However, by the time he gave it to us, the hospital pharmacy was already closed. And no other pharmacy on the street would have that medicine.
So we came back around midnight, with no medicine, wasted many hours, spent USD 100 on nothing.

Would I call it "not too bad"? Well, if it was any more serious, we would have to fear for our lives is all I can say.
A friend is in this situation. There are periodic add-ons voted in for "school funding". They are based on assessed property value and follow the same sorts of figures.
> " promote us and earn"

this doesn't send a good message
The Expanse S4 was going off the fourth book, I believe. I didn’t like it as much as the last two seasons, but it’s supposed to be a setup season for what comes in the next couple books.

Also, Chernobyl was fantastic and Watchmen was delightful, for the most part. And Evil is an interesting supernatural/cutting edge
Tech mix. Then there’s the final season of Mr. Robot.
>My posture is much better

this is the key thing that keeps me going as well and it seems underrated. Cardio and better looks and whatnot are nice but for me change in posture and back musculature has been a real boon.

I used to have headaches and back pain pretty frequently and just essentially felt like a slob when sitting and having some more muscles and dropping some weight has fixed a lot of it. In addition to rowing, I can also recommend swimming. In particular for people who haven't exercised in a long time and/or are overweight.
Can poor sleep interfere with weight loss?
Up to 50k there’s no problems. But, above 50k I’m gonna end up emptying my glycogen storage.
The most common infection is the one where they turn your computer into a node of a botnet. From there it can consume your bandwidth, launch attacks on other people, or be used to distribute files, such as child porn.

Do you want to be implicated in a child porn ring, and have the evidence sitting right on your computer?
I believe that if you take time to read the (8-1!) opinion of the court you’ll understand why.

> In permitting longer term owners to pay less in taxes than newer owners of comparable property, Article XIIIA's assessment scheme rationally furthers at least two legitimate state interests. First, because the State has a legitimate interest in local neighborhood preservation, continuity, and stability, it legitimately can decide to structure its tax system to discourage rapid turnover in ownership of homes and businesses. Second, the State legitimately can conclude that a new owner, at the point of purchasing his property, does not have the same reliance interest warranting protection against higher taxes as does an existing owner, who is already saddled with his purchase and does not have the option of deciding not to buy his home if taxes become prohibitively high.

The repercussions of striking the law down would have some serious side effects. Would rent control laws be constitutional?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1912.ZS.html
> Dialog rich comedy is generally the most demanding.

Really? I find that the easiest to just listen to, especially once I know who all the characters are.

Generally it's not important what they're doing, just what they're saying, so I can just listen while doing other things.

Like the shows I relisten to all the time (not watch) while working on the computer are Newsradio, Corner Gas, Larry Sanders, Mr. Show, Red Dwarf, Scrubs, Psych, Arrested Development, Mighty Boosh, Flight of the Conchords, Yes Minister, Mitchell and Webb Look, and a more recent addition, Letterkenny. Pretty much none of that requires my visual attention, except to know that there's a visual gag here or there.

Granted, I usually paid attention the first time I watched it, but not on the rewatch.
> I can’t at the moment find what happened with the taxes after all of the bank acquisitions in 2008

Taxes dropped because property values had dropped precipitously (for properties that didn't experience the damage that often accompanied foreclosure, dropping 50% by the trough of the crisis from the preceding peak only a couple years before wasn't unheard of in some areas), and where properties had changed hands, the new (often bank and other corporate) owners locked in the new rates as their baseline. (People who stayed in their home be benefited from the short term drop, but didn't reset their baseline, so could come back up to the maximum based on the pruchase price and maximum annual rate of increase when values went back up.)
Not watched that stuff for years. There's always youtube if you want sitcoms.
The most annoying thing about Windows 10 is how it makes clear improvements in some areas, but then decides to be utterly brain dead in other areas. The task manager is hugely improved. The file explorer is better. The copy/move file dialog is far more useful. But then they abandon the Control Panel and give us this flat UI abomination that doesn’t even support one of the original ideas that made Windows 95 such a hit: Multitasking. You literally can’t have multiple copies of Settings open to modify different parts of the settings at the same time. I can’t quickly open a new window to check something while keeping my focus on one main task ... as in, multitask. I’m forced to break my flow and traverse back/forward through a bunch of nested settings instead of letting me alt-tab between what I’m actually interested in. It’s terrible and infuriating and I have no idea how this got released in this state.

And that’s before even considering how incredibly wasteful it is with space. I hate myself and wonder where my life went wrong every time I have to open a Settings window on a device that doesn’t have full HD or higher, because it usually results in copious amounts of scrolling for information that could be easily displayed in 1/4th of the space. Hell, and you can forget about using it non-maximized, because then the “advanced” links on the right side disappear to wherever, because fuck showing you what you need at a glance.

And they keep changing how you reach the actually sane, usable and functional Control Panel windows (like the sound devices settings) and alternate between making it easier and ridiculously obtuse. It makes me want to bash my head against things really, really hard.
Ha, good to know I am not the only one. Most guys I know need either total silence, noise cancelling headphones and/or music.
How many cats are here?

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> It is only natural that they would come to think of computers as inherently ordered, understandable devices.

until you get a blue screen of death...

Don't get me wrong, I completely agree that modern UI is complete garbage.
> Instead of trying to figure out those factors and mitigate them so everyone has an equal chance, why don't we just say fuck it, and tax the winners more heavily?

Because it reduces the incentive to try to be a winner. The government might get a bigger piece of the pie, but the whole pie will be smaller. More importantly, since we live in regime of economic growth, this kind of policy can have extremely significant impact down the line: over 30 years, the difference between 2% and 3% economic growth is really, really large. Thus, increasing taxes today might result in money to redistribute today, but less money to redistribute 30 years from now.

Most governments fortunately understand it, and so in 1980s and 90s significantly reduced income tax rates in top brackets, and are in no mood for raising them. The tax rates for top earners in Sweden and Norway are about the same as they are in the US. The biggest difference between them and the US in terms of taxation is that Sweden, Norway, and other European welfare states typically tax the middle class much, much more than the US does. The welfare state in Germany, France, Norway or Sweden is not funded primarily by the "winners", it is funded by high taxes on people with incomes rather close to the median.
I can also tell from my own experience that an average doctor in Thailand's backwater is better than in the capital of Ireland.
AH, ok so.
Why should we care about single family property taxes set at the time of purchase?

Proposition 13 substantially lowers the ability of municipal governments to finance themselves. I recall the city of San Jose had to declare bankruptcy a while back (but I recalled incorrectly and they were just "on the verge") and the situation generally hobbles municipal government.

Moreover, note being able to turn to property taxes, municipal governments have to turn to other sources of incomes, most of which undesirable incentives for the residents. Where I live now, Nevada County, building permits run $30K and higher. This decreases the supply of new houses substantially, worsening the housing crisis here and basically across California.

General turnover may be 5-7 years but a given city doesn't get general turnover, they get people sitting on their houses 'cause they can.

So basically, I think we should care about the perverse situation created by Prop 13 and indeed think about repealing it. California's horrible situation is at least getting people thinking.

And corporations dodging taxes? kind of what-about-ism/thread-derail, huh? I'm against that too but come on.
It doesn't have any connection to a network of any kind. I mainly copy stuff over on USB. GOG games don't install on Win98, but if you install them on XP you can often just copy the directory across.
If alcohol consumption is crucial to human bonding, how does the author explain friendship and bonding in communities where alcohol is not consumed?

I have never consumed alcohol - historically for religious reasons, but now due to personal convictions - so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

I am of the opinion that it’s much easier to fall into addiction and/or abuse of the drink if it’s available as an option. I am not at all condoning prohibition here; that never worked anywhere it was attempted, and never will. Rather, I am looking at this from a personal level.

I am definitely open to hearing reasonable arguments for drinking, other than the social aspect, which was covered (poorly, imo) by this article.
Google is worth almost a trillion dollars. Their ads shit golden billions of dollars. They have more than a 100k employees. Google is a big corp with big corp politics and they can get their cream crop of engineers, use them, abuse them and know that the next batch is waiting in line. It's kind of same with MSFT, AMZN and the others.

If you really value your skills and have the confidence that you can go it alone (or at a smaller company) and make the same-ish, go do that instead.

It is really hard to beat Google's FU compensation but if the smart engineers at Google banded together to do their own thing, they'd have a bigger return than adding to Larry and Sergey's billions.
> I've sedded openempires to replace occurrences of _Type name_ with C++'s _Type& name_ for all functions arguments

This isn’t a valid transformation :/

> Compilers love singly assigned const values

I mean, they’re going to convert to SSA for you anyways.

> and seem to suffer under heavy pointer aliasing

Have you tried restrict?
Apple has killed off 3D Touch first with the XR and now the entire iPhone 11 line
I remember being able to edit the code on the fly during debugging in Visual Basic 6. It was mind blowing then and 2 decades later still is.
Force touch at least seems to be on its way out. I hope.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/05/29/3d-touch-2019-i...