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> The people with the greatest ability to pay are the ones getting the biggest tax break.

They don't necessarily have any ability to pay, which is the scenario that brought prop13 to life in the first place (low-income grandma kicked to the street by taxes).

Someone of modest income who bought a modest 100K house years ago isn't cash-flow rich today just because the paper value of their house went up. They are probably retired living on a small social security check and don't have much any ability to pay, let alone the "greatest ability".

It's fine to have different views on how society should handle this tricky scenario, but let's be intellectually honest with the core facts.
Article says:

"However, the BBC understands that the fact Sizewell C is a carbon copy of Hinkley - which has seen work on a second reactor there completed 30% more quickly than the first - is thought to have substantially mitigated that risk."

It sounds like it should be pretty easy to budget for this plant. Plans are allowed to include a 20% "we don't know what this is going to be spent on but something will come up" for surprises.
I think you're being unnecessarily dismissive of good, reliable information coming your way.

Anecdotal advice is some of the most reliable, trustworthy advice that we come across.

All those studies are affected by agendas from dozens of individuals and organizations, not to mention potentially poor procedure and general incompetence.

You're being gifted information which was transported to you graciously from an actual human being who maybe actually had your problem and found something useful to help with it.

I think if I were you, I would reconsider how you view these situations.
The Catholic Church is the continuation of the Roman Empire and among the oldest institutions - competitors are China, Ethiopia, etc
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This doesn't make any sense in SF.

SF is as progressive as they come (bar Berkeley, I guess) so all your neighbors on average think the same way... but the idea of the agitators is that because people elsewhere didn't vote in the same way, they will inflict a wound on themselves because of that.

How does that make any sense, unless people have been brainwashed.
The terms we "already" have for bank accounts are due to a long interplay between consumers, banks, and regulators.
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Astounds me how so many people can be pro nuclear in opposition to fossil fuels - the instant impact is obviously much better, but the risk if something goes wrong is so catastrophically higher that the increased risk with each plant seems a huge gamble.

Where do people think all that nuclear waste goes?
Just so you know, you're effectively complaining that people care about you too much. People can't put themselves in your shoes, but they try, and when they see you having a beer, knowing it could be bad for you, they try to support you in keeping away from it.

I can see how it would get annoying. If you view it as love, instead of nagging, it might get a little less annoying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOk4hQXbGDs&ab_channel=Thing...
I had severe sciatica from ages 25-30 and it was like another lifetime. I don’t know where it came from or where it went, but that was a remarkably worse period of my life.

Reflecting on it I wish I wasn’t dragged down so much. But in all honesty I think I’d handle it even worse now. It was agonizing at times. I remember laying on the floor squirming in pain, no idea what to do. Hours of it. Thinking about it makes me a little anxious. I should be more grateful that I’m healthy again.
Right, but I think the past century has demonstrated that authoritarian communism has a poor track record at actually abolishing communism, so perhaps we should try something else
Could be the first pi to mine crypto on a NIC. 30 years later...
If you include HoH people, people who can't access audio at the moment, people who don't want to use audio at the moment (maybe have some music going on) etc. The number of people whose lives will have been improved through implementing usability for Deaf/deaf people will probably be a significant portion of the population.

I'm not HoH/deaf/Deaf but I know I'd definitely love the opportunity to have appropriate captions during calls because I sometimes struggle to pick up words when they're spoken quickly to me, especially on highly technical or complex subject matter as required for my job.
I occasionally limp due to a chronic condition. The last thing I want is any comments about it, because a few days later I might not. Unsolicited commentary is usually met with a sigh and a brush off, not telling the truth. The truth is I have built up defense mechanisms and anybody trying to point out my weaknesses can get a face full of their own by way of training watching Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

"Mind your own business" is something that could use a little more respect now and then.
> Then you can just sell your house and buy another one in a less expensive area and make insane profits.

That is extremely presumptive. Your friends, family, and support infrastructure is all in the place you've been over the last 40 years.

Purchasing another home and moving to it have huge transactional costs.

It would have been completely reasonable to include plans for the reverse mortgage as part of your finical planning already: Americans often have a significant fraction of their net worth tied up in their homes. So that money may well be spoken for. It also may be just unavailable: The city's assessment of your home's value may not match with a lender's assessment.

Think of it this way, if I show up at your town council's office and offer to pay 2x the property taxes you currently pay, should I be able to bid you out of your home? If that wouldn't be ethical, why is it ethical to do it in a distributed way?

I think Prop13 is nuts, but the opposite idea of continually subjecting people's homes to volatile and unpredictable market price based taxes is also nuts.
Not just Kafka, it's got a pretty nasty Orwellian side too. [1]

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190216/10394141613/faceb...
Get a job working in embedded systems. Preferably in the right industry.

Like any programming job, but without formal experience you'll need more (and interesting) informal experience, ie side projects.

Start with something simple, like an STM32Discovery board. Blink the LEDs. Respond to the button.

Get a logic analyzer, like a Saleae ($400 for the Logic8) or Digilent Digital Discovery ($200, worse software IMO) or something similar. Get a bench power supply. Get an oscilloscope (Rigol DS1054Z is cheap ($400 or so) and hackable. Don't get a PC-based one, get one with a UI similar to what you'll use in professional work.) Get a couple of cheap USB-UART adapters, maybe a BusPirate, an ST-Link, and a hand full of STM32BluePill boards.

Get an SPI flash memory dev board, and write code to read/write that external flash. Use the STM32's built-in SPI peripheral. Use the logic analyzer to decode the signals & for debugging.

Get an I2C sensor dev board, and write code to read the sensor value. Use the STM32's built-in I2C peripheral.

Get FreeRTOS running on your Discovery board. Make tasks for your sensor reads, LED control, maybe log data to the SPI chip. Show that it's all hard real-time.

From there, maybe add more inputs & outputs. Making a 3D printer or CNC router from scratch would be impressive. Or an RC car, or some sort of robot, or a drone. Maybe go to a more capable SoC, like a BeagleBone Black board or Raspberry Pi. The product I work on (an eletronic logging device for the trucking industry) was initially prototyped using a BeagleBone Black. (This post is my own opinion, and should not be taken as official statements of my employer.)

Or go to a less capable chip, like a PIC16F18345 ($12 dev boards) and see what you can do with <=1024 bytes of RAM.

Definitely learn to build your code without using the vendor IDE. It'll save you a lot of pain. Makefiles (or CMake, or whatever build system you prefer) + writing linker scripts +
pointing your preferred IDE (or editor) at that is a much better way.

Espressif's ESP32 and ESP8266, Nordics NRF52 parts, and some others have built-in networking (BlE, WiFi, Cell, etc). Those can be good for all sorts of projects.

There's some industry bias against Arduino, it's seen as overly abstract and not something "real" programmers use. If you get an Arduino, it can be a great starting place, but also get an ICSP (In Circuit Serial Programmer) and learn to use the ATMEGA328p chip without the Arduino bootloader+libraries. It's a fine chip and a fine platform, but not necessarily great for resume building.

Basically look on Adafruit and Sparkfun and the like, figure out what sorts of sensors & outputs look interesting, and start making things to use them. The product lines I mentioned happen to be popular among hobbyists, which means less chance of getting stuck without community help available.
McDonald's was my starting point. It's where I developed much of my work ethic and my first taste of leadership in a professional setting. I was a shift manager for most of that time and remember learning about the restaurant business, food cost, working with customers, and managing people.

A lot of stuff did not make the article but who I am today was greatly influenced by that job. I chipped in on the bills, bought my own school clothes, and my first car (1987 Jeep Cherokee), thanks to that job, so for me it was very foundational.
Exactly.

I know so many successful peers, including myself, who have worked at fast food and other menial jobs, during late teen years. If anything, this is actually a positive signal that someone cares about their future and is willing to put in the work.
The only way to fix my ankle arthritis is to have the joint replaced, which is not ideal nor a consideration. Anything otherwise is not good, nor reliable information. It's kind of like me saying to you, "Hey, your advice is stupid, maybe you should go take some smart pills so you don't infect others" in seriousness, instead of as an off-hand reply gifting you with information graciously.
Yeah same. Not on a farm but as a busboy when I was 14. I had to convince the owner to hire me but I knew my parents didn’t have extra cash to give me a guitar so I worked for it. And it was cool being around adults in that environment. Being treated like anyone else and earning the respect from the immigrants who were busting their ass and the other young people from working class backgrounds.

In some ways I regret I wasn’t just taking in my youth at that age (and I recall some customers, in good nature, commenting to me I was too young to be working) but at the same time it helped in giving my the work ethic and drive to make retiring very early an option if I want it.

I guess I just saw the chance to work as an opportunity. An opportunity to build myself.
Glad to see a mention of CoreAudio for once in a public forum.

No matter the value for money or compatibility, I will never leave macOS for windows because of it. I bought a hugely powerful windows PC in 2018 and the audio performance is awful compared to a 2011 macbook and my 2019 macbook is on another level.

Windows lack of attention to audio drivers is frankly staggering. CoreAudio 'just works'.
> Being appointed by the Queen made it really difficult to fire you

Monarchies today being at that awkward stage where they wield enough protection to prevent somebody from being fired but no longer enough power to get them beheaded…
I had chronic, severe, debilitating pain for years until I read the book: The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. Sarno [1]

Someone on HN suggested it in a "carpal tunnel" thread. I didn't have carpal tunnel. I had a completely destroyed knee. No more cartilage. Bone on bone with every step I took (confirmed by MRI). Cortisone didn't make a bit of difference. I couldn't walk 20 feet without mind boggling pain.

That book changed my life. I can walk 10 miles (mostly) pain free now. I still don't have any cartilage. I never had surgery or did PT. The book explains it all, but the TLDR is that it's the brain that's causing the issue. You can have incredible structural issues. Herniated discs in the back. Zero cartilage in the knee. And the reason you feel pain isn't the structural issue, but your brain's response to it.

I wager that book would be life changing for 90 percent of chronic pain sufferers if they gave it a chance.

(Yeah, a lot of people are going to chime in and say that their pain is different or an MRI confirmed their structural issue or whatever. Yeah, I get it. I was there too. Frozen shoulder is almost certainly a manifestation of TMS, at least for some large number of people. For those who understand the mechanism, it's clear that 2020 is going to be a bad year for people in terms of chronic pain. It doesn't need to be.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FOTRPJQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
Weed isn’t a magical drug no matter how much it’s advocates want it to be. Also I’m glad this was posted, as someone who suffers from more than one chronic pain condition, as it’s been eye opening to see how much of HN is suffering as well. Sometimes it’s comforting just to know you’re not alone.
A DOSBox emulator question...

If I run a DOS MZ executable infected with a virus that attempts to flash my BIOS, will that affect the host computer?
I don't know how you can make this argument when this exact situation is caused by the very thing you are advocating for. “Be welcoming”, “Be considerate”, and “Be friendly” is something most people understand as much as "asshole" and "jerk". And yet here we are -- the counterexample is literally this topic.
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My eyes; my ears. This is why the Social Cooling effect is so scary to me: people become afraid to share any observation of the world not deemed publicly-acceptable at the moment, leading other people who would agree with that observation to instead doubt their own senses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
Frozen shoulder is no joke. I didn’t see the domain name when I clicked on the heading. I have dealt with frozen shoulder off and on for about 2 years. Fortunately I think I’m on the downside of the pain but it can be a mind####. I was otherwise healthy but I couldn’t raise my right arm over my shoulder. It can cause a spin out of worry which I’m sure makes it worse. Thanks Scott for sharing your story.
A fact sorely unappreciated by a lot of engineers.
Great apes can behave in ways that are stunningly similar to humans
And it’s not always wrong to try to help like that. But just want to give people another option.
So, believe it or not, we have spent quite a bit of effort trying to make this process lightweight -- and having gone through it a bunch myself (and having a strong aversion to unnecessary process!), it doesn't actually feel unduly arduous. The reason a wiki won't work for us: it's far, far too loose for describing the things we're building and discussing the trade-offs. We're a computer company[1]: we are building a ton of hardware and low-level systems software that needs to be pretty well described and carefully considered (with revisions formally tracked). It's not aerospace or biomedical devices, but... it's also not a SaaS that is amenable to an MVP. So we do need more formalism than might be suitable elsewhere.

In terms of newcomers: I actually think that's a tremendous strength of the RFDs: unlike many startups, we have a lot written down -- and newcomers (and indeed, even prospective Oxide employees) are able to read the stuff that often exists in people's heads.

All of that said, it's definitely not perfect! If we could get a Google docs (or equivalent) in which the underlying artifact were stored as AsciiDoc and every modification appeared as a git commit (and the comments themselves were also tracked via a git commit), that would almost assuredly be better than the GitHub + custom infrastructure we've built. But already having outrageously broad ambition, we drew the line at not reinventing design document management... ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc
I agree with this take, but in a positive way instead of a negative way: If I find a community's norms distasteful I am empowered to leave :)
The Kryoflux company claims ownership of all images created with Kryoflux hardware.

To quote Internet Archive's Jason Scott, "I wouldn't use a Kryoflux to pry open my last can of beans."

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/buyj9f/ti...

IA's Archive Team have guidance for anyone wanting to archive floppy disks:

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_...

and optical discs:

https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_optical...
“ Naming a project is always difficult. Since this project is focused on representing changes between JSON documents I naturally started thinking about names like "JSON differ, JSON changes, JSON patch, …". However, most of these names have already been used by existing projects. While I was muttering "JSON, JSON, JSON" it suddenly turned into "JSON, JSON, Jason, Jason Mendoza".”

This is a reference from The Good Place and it is an amazing name!
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> There is no certain test for either condition- in particular, fibromyalgia is basically a bucket you get tossed into if nothing else makes sense.

FM is young (around 1990 it got its name), so a lot of what we know has changed, especially in fifteen years, but it is no longer the case that there isn't a test for it (there's multiple), and it should not be the diagnosis of last resort when nothing else makes sense. There are specific diagnostic criteria.

For testing, we have things like the FM/a blood test (since 2012), and for diagnosis you need to fulfill "The American College of Rheumatology preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia and measurement of symptom severity" (2010), or similar.

FM also falls into four categories:

+ Extreme sensitivity to pain but no associated psychiatric conditions (usually treated by attempting to de-sensitise the nervous system)

+ Fibromyalgia and comorbid, pain-related depression (usually treated as the above, whilst also utilising an anti-depression regime)

+ Depression with concomitant fibromyalgia syndrome (usually treated as the above)

+ Fibromyalgia due to somatization (usually treated with psychotherapy)

The fourth category is sort of what everyone assumes the entire illness is like, at least in my experience. It also happens to be the least common form of the illness since we began standardised diagnosis.

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I fall into the first category. I am not intending to provide any advice whatsoever, because that's one of the most infuriating things about living with the illness. I've been learning to deal with this for half my life, the person talking to me may be frustrated and want to help... But the chances of you coming up with anything I'm not aware of are practically zero. And an insult to my intelligence and determination.

However, fibromyalgia shouldn't get the stigma of being the "random disease" anymore. It isn't. Unless you fall into the fourth category, there are neural structures unique to sufferers, and blood markers that are unique to sufferers. This is a condition, not a wastepaper basket for people that are just too hard to diagnose.

The illness can already ruin you, don't let the stigma burn you as well.
In the UK more people support than oppose nuclear power when polled. The tories were also voted in with nuclear power in their manifesto, albeit only in one small section.
So levy punitive tariffs against it, and anyone else who does not sign onto a carbon tax.
Holy Moly. For the first time ever I'm nearly an expert on something on HN.

There's quite a few arguments in here which run the gamut from 'interesting point that people who work on clean energy think about a lot' to 'very close to, if not a straw man argument'

There are some really interesting micro-biome studies that show there are local effects that are caused by wind turbines and solar arrays, I don't think I've ever seen a study which has said that the amount of carbon produced by these local changes in biomes is anywhere near the carbon saved by the move to renewables.

The REE exploration problem is also a good point on current EVs, but there's a good chance that new batteries will have no Cobalt in them at all (as an aside, the reason that companies are looking to migrate from it has little to do with the scarcity, but more to do with the fact that it's largely mined in very, very poor ways, I'm looking at you, Glencore).

The point about intermittency and "Wind and solar promoters need to start admitting that they are not capable of providing this type of continuous and on-demand electricity supply on a national scale that modern societies are used to" is not an overly well made one, there are a bunch of ways around this and it's one of the biggest challenges being faced today in the industry. HDR, battery technology have come a long way in the last little bit.

Anyways, take the article with a grain of salt as you should do with everything.
You can allow people to carry it with them if they purchase another home. They should not be able to pass it to their children. It should also only apply to a primary residence. No investment properties or 2nd homes+.
Replace a few words here and there and this almost sounds like how we deal with climate change, too.
I wonder if it’s property ownership? I’m not sure. But their work certainly supports many small townships and economies and I imagine that’s worth something.

To your examples I’d say maybe construction workers are more analogous to butchers. Cement and steel manufactures more to ranchers. Farm hands again, workers where as big Ag certainly has clout. Immigrants mainly can’t vote and once again, further down the supply chain and without property, so interchangeable.

Not sure though.
That's a bit over-generalized. If someone's idea of doing a naughty thing is not making something people want, not talking to users, not validating a problem, not explaining what you do clearly, I don't think they'll do well at all.
I don’t really understand your context. Could you explain further?
My, oh my! From the first article:

"About 2 months ago I started working at StackPulse. When I joined there was not a single line of code written yet. We’ve had to decide on many different things. One of those things was choosing a “protocol” for communication both between our micro services and externally".
They aren’t talking about Japanese women but Japanese Americans in general. There point is just because women got to vote doesn’t mean they were allowed to. Furthermore a big reason women got to vote, initially, is that married men thought they were getting an extra vote out of the deal (luckily women are individuals and that wasn’t the case.)
Sucks you're being down voted, half the battle is in prevention of the damn thing.
You gotta have higher expectations for the world
Haha, I actually just sent him an email about TOS just in case he'd never heard about it. Large amount of people with TOS also having frozen shoulder as a down the chain issue.

Have you been seen by a good TOS doc yet/considered surgery? I have bilateral NTOS + left sided VTOS. I'll soon be having a first rib resection (FRRS) and scalenectomy, possibly a pec minor resection down the line, with Dr. Dean Donahue at Boston Massachusetts General Hospital. Donahue is arguably the best surgeon in the US, taking in a large amount of cases that have already had a botched surgery and being able to give them nearly total/total recovery.

There's around 5-10 great surgeons within the US though, and this unfortunately seems to be a condition it which surgery is mostly the best option. As much as I absolutely despise Facebook, here's two really great groups for TOS info/resources/top surgeons if you're not yet aware.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/15231937182

https://m.facebook.com/groups/205345126171314
Why??

Dosnt the tech community believe ideas are dime a dozen?
Separate, but equal?
Productivity “Laws”