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A case for why landlords can be good for community:

They landlords paid for the house they rent out. So they either literally built it, adding a new house to a community, or they bought it from someone who built it (or from someone who bought from someone who built it etc.) - the transaction of buying/selling compensates someone for the effort of building the house in the first place. If there were no landlords, the houses would be bought only by people who intend to live in them (let's ignore speculators for a moment), which would make the market less liquid, discouraging people from buying new houses and hence adding to the community.

Not to mention the obvious fact that, without landlords, there would be no houses for rent, which would decrease worker mobility and hence make the community worse off economically.
It's not about communism but the centralized absolute power. When government is the one and only player in the game, it makes all the calls and can fully control all the aspects and plan every detail of peoples lives, construction, organization of life. It's a good thing for urbanism and infrastructure planning, and not so good thing for pretty much everything else.
The situation the article describes is similar to present day Ukraine. You don't see that much recycling, but you don't see litter either, and forests in particular are trash free as opposed to Poland's. Also opposite to Poland, the Church in Ukraine promotes clean wilderness, going so far as to put signs "Enter forest as you would enter a temple". Polish Church on the other hand denounces ecology-friendly thinking as examples of "rotten West", leftism, atheism, "civilization of death" (After John Paul II), death of family and moral values, "ecologism" (a term they coined where they compare ecology to totalitarian regimes).
Not the person you replied to but I disagree with this.

I've been to Mumbai (and Delhi and a few other cities for that matter), and it is not for the safety.

Take Ho Chi Minh City for example. There are more scooters there than people, and honking is not much of a problem as in Mumbai. Scooter riders know how to make their way and they are super precise when pedestrians cross. Pedestrians don't wait for scooters to stop. You just cross the road, and scooters will go around you. In India, there is the reverse mentality that roads belong to vehicles and pedestrians just have to take care of themselves.
Probably they are just as susceptible to hyperbolic discounting as others. So they undervalue the problem of maintenance in the future compared to saving some money now, even if they are thinking about it.
100% agree
If people don't follow the rules, honk, etc they show they don't respect others, not only on the roads.
Ads all over a startup blog. Hrmm.
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I think the perfect scenario is a good balance. Working remote three days and in office for two sounds perfect for me. I definitely enjoy some of the moments working in person with my teammates. Also makes it easier to talk about random fun crap.
I've heard from relatives that it is the same thing in Hong Kong. Last time I talked to them they said it has been quite difficult so far. I'm not sure if they have had any training to prepare for this at all or if they are just winging it.
I'm pretty sure pretty much every low/mid range car in India has a custom fit horn that is loud more or less to a train.
Yeah, as a Pole I always cringe at such communism glorifying comments. What the hell is a computer club? And weren't we burning all kinds of shit? The only reason people didn't have cars was because they had no fucking money. This has nothing to do with smart central planning. And reuse of glass bottles etc was because people actually knew how to plant, harvest, and cook their own food.
I worked on a project that was the subject of media interest that management wanted to keep under wraps. We would occasionally read bad news about the project in the NYT or the WSJ, management would deny the news, and then future developments would confirm that the reporting was correct (other than some inconsequential details that management would harp on).

These folks might not know much about 3D printing or blockchain or whatnot, but they are experts at sourcing, verifying, and reporting information. Dismiss them at your peril.
fix the Time Machine issues

Can someone please point out what the issues are? I am not challenging this statement, it is just that I am not aware of any specific issues with Time Machine so I am a bit worried about any problems (and if there is anything I can do to mitigate the risks).
I am using a separate, third party cloud backup but I still count on Time Machine for day-to-day operations.

Thanks in advance to anyone that could give me more info about this.
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Copyright restricts distribution, so isn't is fine for them to copy the art, and then ask for a license?

They risk wasted effort if they can't get permission, that's all.
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Modern Japanese use bath water in a very similar way. Kids first, then parents, then grandparents. The Japanese are very frugal with water. In a toilet you may see a sink placed right on top of toilet tank, so the water you use to wash your hands is used right away to flush the toilet.
If its any consolation, all of my Android gear (every nexus/pixel) has stayed in working order with the Nexus 7 tablet. I think the issue with that one was something like no TRIM support ruined the SSD.

That said, I doubt anything with a battery will last anywhere close to old tech.
Money accumulation was easy. Spending money was the hard part. You had to know right people to get access to black markets or to know who to bribe to get stuff out the back door.
Thanks, that was a good tip. It is indeed in the window menu, together with the per-cpu monitor, which I didn't know it existed either - and that being a Mac user since 2003.
Just finished building my bicycle around this motor and with the open source firmware. It’s a great piece of software and it feels much better than the stock one.

This particular motor is torque sensing: it feels how hard you’re pushing down on the pedals and multiplies the force from the motor, unlike most aftermarket motors that either apply full power as soon as they detect pedal rotation and/or only function with a throttle.

This particular motor gives more of a bionic legs feel, very much like the (much more expensive and less powerful) Bosch and Yamaha prebuilt units.
From what a local told me, the car horns in Mumbai are by design less loud than the ones in Europe or the US. This fits my experience, but that might also be simply being used to the sound.
Well said.
Good example of this illustrated through a classic CS:S montage video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNvDUO42Hys
The physical SIM numbers are SIMs from major UK providers, and are never re-used (for clarity: if you buy a SIM number, you get a SIM that has never been used by anyone else, and it will never be used by anyone else after you).

From the perspective of a number verification system (or anything else sending an SMS to them), they are completely indistinguishable from a mobile phone and prepaid SIM, since that is what they are.

The virtual numbers, while also never re-used, are often blacklisted by services that do SMS verification due to coming from a range designated as "VoIP" or "virtual", and we explicitly disrecommend their use for verification, although some people do use them with varying amounts of success since they are cheaper than the SIM numbers.
This matches my experience perfectly, both in salary and contract negotiations. You get a long way with smile and a focus on the core: We both want to do something together.

> We don't allow you to work on your own projects while working for us

"Completely unacceptable. Im a free soul and I demand my freedom!"

Compared to

> We don't allow you to work on your own projects while working for us

"I perfectly understand, no need to invite competition or leak ideas, however in my experience you'll actually benefit from XYZ and I'd be happy to ..."

My intuition is, that as long as the talk is progressing in a pleasant manner, you're inching towards your goal.
Why do you want to regulate against human nature? That always massively backfired.
If you decide prime has value, the add-on for music is an obvious choice when the big streaming services have feature parity these days.
PHP fans don't do themselves any favors by dismissing the criticisms in this sort of non-substantive way. The "fractal of bad design" paper has a lot of good criticisms, and the standard library is still a horror show of poor API design, in my opinion.

The first embarrassment I could think of off the top of my head is still there, for example:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

Completely ignoring the fact that that function is a misnomer because it encodes XML special chars, not HTML, the "double_encode" parameter is pants-on-head ridiculous and basically a concession to people who can't be bothered to keep track of whether their string is already escaped or not and want to be able to pass it through this function again "just in case."

This is a bug waiting to happen (or more like a bug that's already happened all over the web), and the type of stuff that makes seasoned programmers who appreciate a well-designed ecosystem dismiss the entire thing as amateur hour.
Even in big cities today, a common word for a bag is still "siatka", which translates to "net" or mesh, which was what bags were usually made of.
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I think that had XHTML prevailed we would have had Web Components much sooner.
I have wondered about an electric tank. Some advantages. Doesn't require air. No thermal signature. Quiet potentially. Instant power. No diesel fuel to catch fire. No hydraulic system. Potentially redundant drive and actuators.
It is, but when it affects all OSs and the offending software is using its own UI stack, it’s the app, not the OS.
I've wondered this in the past. If you buy something from the 1970s it seems like everything had a schematic in the box. As if to imply many customers could try to fix problems themselves. Now, people will bring their car to the dealer to get windshield wipers changed.
People shit on modern web development exactly because these kludges are necessary in the first place. Imagine if that time and effort was spent on something more productive instead.
Its not the techs fallacy, its more of the user fallacy. Its just that it takes long to find, I forget the keyword I used to save it under. Sometimes I use a keyword to save it, but then I forget and only when I find the info, I realise that I didn't use the right term. I am think it will better instead searching, it will be better if I can browse around.

Basically, I feel that there is a better way of doing it and I am just checking around. My current system is something I just put together.
A push towards cured meats could help with this... my meat consumption last week was a 4oz pack of prosciutto. Way more tasty than a hunk of beef, and if I continue at that rate for a year I'd consume less than 6kg overall. And it's not like I'd get sick of prosciutto, there are all sorts of cured meats with interesting and unique flavor profiles to choose from.
While psilocybin is a potent and valuable medicine, it's effects in terms of ego death are truly dwarfed by 5-MeO-DMT. Within 2 minutes of smoking bufo it's as if every fragment of your being has been evenly distributed across the entire universe, time is infinite you have zero awareness, you are simply one with all. And then the re-assembly begins.
While I don't honk to punish people, I do (short)honk in case someone does something really stupid that could/almost caused an accident.
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They're more like MUST or at least SHALL. That is, if you ignore them you will get fined or cause accidents.
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Ammonia is already a problematic pollutant in Europe, with emissions from agriculture contributing to soil acidification and smog/particulate formation.

With strict EU directives already in place to reduce ammonia emissions, I can’t imagine farmers using more of it would ever be encouraged!
And if you really like bunny hopping, there's also the dedicated maps/servers to it. Although they seem to be more popular on CS:S than on CS:GO last time I played. (Few years back)
For me it still fails short of what I am capable to do with native toolkit layout managers, and grids come from WPF by the way.

HTML + CSS to me, even after all these years still feels like programmer art when starting from a piece of paper, while with native coding it just flows, maybe I am tainted by my game/demoscene grassroots.
I've found a few things have helped me with this issue:

- I bought a Fitbit and aim for 10k+ steps a day

- I rarely make coffee at home in the mornings, instead going to a local coffee shop to purchase one

- I try to go out for lunch every other day (normally just somewhere quick and cheap)

- I meet a friend for dinner, go to a meetup, or just go to the pub 1 or 2 nights a week

- Play a sport (I play Squash) which gets you out of the house and exercising

These have helped me a lot although I do still fall into bad habits. In 2017 I worked from home for 6 months and almost exclusively ate takeaway, played video games in the evening, and rarely went outside during the working week. My mental health really suffered during that time and it took a while to get back out of it!
Markets can be in pathological states, what people usually call market failures. Basically when the transition cost from one equilibrium to a "better" is too high (barriers to entry, eg due to regulatory capture, not enough capital available, cooperation problems for the many small agents - for example because the powerful agent can punish those who try to organize, what happens when some workers try to unionize), the market stays put. Waste and rents are generated. (The union organizers fired the cost of labor basically freezed.)

In case of tractors it's not at all obvious how fast the market will provide the tractors with lower TCO, that farmers wish for.
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It's not difficult, though. It just takes practice. You use the same channels that you are using for remote work: chat, email, voice, video. I understand the desire to not put something like that in writing, but that's what voice and video are for.
It would be interesting to know where are the bottlenecks and how quickly they can be addressed.
What is qualia and why you think it is a problem for you? :D
PHP is synchronous (if you dont add async extensions). How would you use async await in the language?
I've updated my mac book pro but not my imac. I use my imac mainly for browsing & light gaming and I'm not too eager to deal with some games not working anymore. And since I can't really tell any meaningful difference between my mac book pro and imac in terms of OS experience, I'm pretty confident that the upgrade adds no value whatsoever for me. Apple seems to have mostly done some security tweaks that are amazingly annoying, some window dressing in terms of UI that I mostly don't notice and lots of tweaks to bits of software that come with the OS that I never use. I'll probably do the upgrade eventually but I'm getting less and less out of these yearly upgrades.

I've actually been considering switching the imac to linux but it seems to be a bit of a hassle in terms of hardware support. I booted it once from a usb stick but that messed up my bt keyboard/trackpad pairing so recovering from that was a bit of a PITA.
Where did you get the idea that it was removed since 1.3? bhopping was the main thing I found enjoyable to do and I’ve only played 1.5+. Definitely I was there until 1.6 which is the latest version.
X1 carbon running ubuntu with i7 and 16 GB ram, two 24" external monitors at work, one 27" external monitor at home.

Most of the people in my workplace use macbook pros though (with dual monitors).

I use my own mechanical keyboard and mx master 2s at work.
Oh man, that brings back memories. ET was a great game, one of the first multiplayer games that I've "really" played so there's a heavy dose of nostalgia attached to it.

I was particularly fond of the 'trick jumping' maps. Spend hundreds of hours just on those.
Have you got the improved voxel weapon models working? I've tried this a couple of times but can't get past the crudely assembled billboard weapons. I downloaded WeaponsForVR.pk3 and another one (I think BR_VR_something?) but it doesn't seem to load them.

I never played the Doom games when I was a kid and I've been working my way through the whole series. Finished Doom VFR and Doom 3 BFG Edition in VR, done most of the original Doom, and almost finished DOOM (2016). They're great fun and the DOOM (2016) soundtrack is amazing.
the time you have, in jellybeans

https://youtu.be/BOksW_NabEk
Sure. That's all good stuff.

But fundamentally, EVs really only work well when vehicles can recharge on a grid. The Military wants to be able to operate away from the grid.
Same in Poland. You have a legal obligation to honk a) to warn about imminent danger, b) when doing certain maneuvers (e.g. passing by, overtaking) in very low visibility conditions (e.g. dense fog). In built-up areas you'll get fined for honking for other reasons; on the countryside, you're only forbidden from "abusing" the horn.

Not sure how much culture plays into it - over here it's cars that own cities (not to the extent they do in the US, though).
This article is very strange. Firstly, the five companies that are listed are just such an incredibly diverse group of companies. I don't know what's going on, but I don't think that we can really say that Business Insider is succeeding for the same reasons as The Information. Is Axios - who have been on a run with their access journalism succeeding for the same reason the left wing "Explainer" site Vox is?

There are interesting points to discuss here - regulatory capture through copyright laws for example. But they seem to have nothing to do with the list of companies.

But then we reach the end of the article:

> Venture investors known for expecting quick returns tell Axios that they are beginning to take a longer view of their investments in publishers that have more sustainable business models, like subscriptions.

This is nothing to do with actually discussing success, this is about investor relations, Axios trying to put out PR either in a run up to going for another funding round or because some investors are getting antsy. As an investor it would worry me that my investment is spending its time doing this sort of thing.
There is lance charge though!
I know a person on mainland China and they are bored out of their mind. They are a pilot and have nothing to do, especially since the volume of flights has dropped significantly
We need peer to peer. These central hubs can’t hack the traffic.
Airdropping battery packs would appear to be safer than gas right?

Absolutely not! A lithium battery is fragile and highly flammable. Diesel is much safer to transport.
Holy f*ck.
Parts can also be submerged inside the PCB.
Speaking of Ukraine, make sure to visit Lwów (Lviv), the city of coffee. I have especially fond memories of an Armenian coffee shop in the old city. They brew coffee using hot sand.

The higher education system is about quantity, not quality. There are no more good craft schools and there's a deficit of craftsmen like builders, electricians, metal workers etc especially since the good ones tend to leave the country. Case in point: you won't find a Polish university in the global top 300.
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That's good to hear. Especially that last point: zoom has been repeatedly blocked by China. It would be interesting to see if they could keep those users
What about work that does not have deadlines, but requires constant attention? Like monitoring security cameras, or the status of a medical patient or a nuclear power plant..

These types of work have the added risk of unauthorized people, such as the employee’s kids or friends, snooping in on sensitive information.

That might be helped by the employer providing a dedicated computer for remote work, with screen-recording and facial recognition that locks the system if you’re not (the only person) in view.

Perhaps having always-on video and voice surveillance on that computer, and announcing that fact, would force employees to create a dedicated distraction-free work environment in their homes.
There is a guy walking around the town of Iquitos (upper Amazon of Peru) who took a dieta with datura and tattoed his entire face green. Another guy was found naked in the street he didn't know who he was. It took months for expats to identity where he was from and find his family.
I am quarantined in a german military base after flying out of Wuhan with a german air force evacuation flight.
We have wifi on the base, the backbone is struggling though - 120 bored people I guess...
The difference is that, the developers are unpaid for the Linux Kernel.
> Micropayments would work if you charge mills, and not cents. You wouldn't even bother worrying about spending, say, 10 mills.

Your example is incoherent. 10 mills is a payment in cents. The only reason to call it "10 mills" is that you're hoping people won't understand what you mean.
In case you didn't know anybody from the communist party your life was miserable back then.

I'm struggling to understand how it's even possible to cherry-pick positives from that time to make them useful in any argument.

The only people who miss those days are the ones who straight up hate anybody who is richer because now there's no government able to effectively curb smart people becoming rich (although they're trying very hard)
Exactly, and I'd argue the metrics you need to check that someone working remotely has been efficient is a much better business metric than ass-on-chair time.
“Experiencing 5-MeO-DMT is this amazing feeling of ‘oceanic bliss,’” she says. “By experiencing this profound connection with the universe and all living beings, one gets the feeling that we’re incredibly lucky to have even been birthed on this beautiful planet.”

One can achieve this through yoga, and not for 20 minutes trip but as a constant state of experience.
If they're already so frustrated, some powerful force must be preventing them running red lights. That force is obviously very strong so it probably works on double-frustration pushiness too.
Yes, Tomcat has been used on production for a few years at least.
Depends what you mean by "best", though. A good racecar is not a good family car or commuter, for example.
A shameless self-plug on my thoughts on working from home -

https://medium.com/@bossingaround/working-from-home-is-great...
Not always packaged or wasted without packaging for those reasons. Consumers want perfection.

A lot of plastic wraps on vegetables exist because consumers find that more hygienic, where they just used to wash the stuff before.

Also vegetables are often wasted when shapes are misfit or size is off, too large or too small. Sometimes these are still processed in e.g. salads, other times they are left to rot in the field (e.g. small potatoes).
Thanks I like the rationale behind it. Routes in JSX didn’t seem right to me either especially when you then need a hook or renderprop to pull out the params like an id for example. Nice to have an alternative.
Au jour du jour d'aujourd'hui, I beg to differ.
Jon Blow addresses this in some earlier rant here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk

His point being that now you're effectively implementing a form of manual memory management to circumvent the borrow checker.
Ah, yes just like 10.6.8: Snow Leopard. No new features. The best Mac OS I’ve used.

Those were the days.