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property rights is the basis of capitalism. the whole machine hums because there is an exchange of property, goods, services and money in a free market.

housing property is an immovable illiquid asset. it is not only an asset but it is also a speculative asset.

unaffordable property prices often benefit the governments more than property owners because its one way to extract hefty property taxes. so the only way to balance interest rates is to keep inflating the value of the homes. its like a ponzi scheme.

this usually happens where social programs are disproportionately shouldered by a narrow slice of productive earners vs a broader section of people who are benefit more from social programs than contributing to it..aka negative tax. imagine it like an inverted triangle/pyramid.

however, the solution to affordable housing is to build more affordable rental units. not create more home owners. if people can only buy the cheapest properties, how will they maintain it, pay interest on mortgage and pay property taxes? they are better off renting. why govts tries to create more home owners is the reason i mentioned above. to generate more property taxes.

the people who suffer most are the bottom most in the socio economic scale. home ownership is not for everyone. the saddest part is that they have them convinced that its a form of credit line and that ends up making it an even more potent speculative asset. throw in foreign investments in residential speculative housing market, it overheats. which will only make housing even more unaffordable. its a vicious cycle.
In my experience if the monolith has standards and is well-written then it's not so bad.

I once had to work on a giant C# codebase with a frontend written in a wild mix of Angular, React (multiple versions) and Knockout and found it was pretty good because there was clear separation and code standards were very high.
How do the bitcoin people deal with it? I thought they just accepted it as a fact of life?
As a counterpoint, ripgrep is good and serious and the only grep I ever use if I can help it.

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
How do you keep the costs down with egress pricing? If the parts of your applications are distributed through cloud providers you all the time are exporting data to egress. Thats not a cheap concept or did you build your software with this in mind?
Outside of Auckland, Wellington, and Queenstown it's not too bad.

NZ's population is also a lot more evenly distributed than most Australian states. NSW has 4 urban areas with over 100,000 people while NZ has 7 despite a smaller population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_urban_ar...
It runs in the terminal. I think most people assumes that terminal === fast.
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I’d also add “not a shred of documentation” to the list. Not a comment, no issue- tracker IDs in the commit comments; just a confabulating pile of generically named “things doing things”.

Sometimes I’d rather go farming
Every professor I had in undergrad would dock me 5-10 points for using an acronym without defining it first. It took me two clicks to get to the definition of SPV (special purpose vehicle?), which is pretty meaningless to someone who doesn't spend their day thinking about equity.
In Australia, it’s not so much deductions (home office, car, computer, phone, etc), as much as absurdly legal practices like “distributing” income to your family. This means you can divvy up your income so it’s taxed at each family member’s marginal rate (rather than your own top-line consolidated rate).

That might sound reasonable, until you realize that those family members never see that money. The “distribution” is a complete fiction.

I’m usually fairly conservative when it comes to taxes, but I’m astonished this is allowed to continue.
Based on what I've read of Taleb, if you think he doesn't understand some patently obvious facts about probability, it's going to take more than saying that you watched a video and didn't think it made sense for me to give your claim any weight.
So all this will become a pile of wasted effort once DMCA 1201 is repealed.
For readers outside NZ it should be noted that TOP has never been in parliament.
> PiZero with the HQ camera module is serving as a webcam for my desktop machine

How did you set that up? I wanted to do that for some time now
Is it really comparable with the bay area? A quick scan suggests that the most expensive city in NZ (Auckland) sits at around NZ$1 million. Compare that to US$1.3 million for San Francisco. The rest of NZ is substantially cheaper, the second city Wellington for example is NZ$0.7 million.

Median wages appear to be about NZ$50k (all NZ) vs US$75k (San Fran). So on both absolute price and price vs income, only Auckland appears to be in the same ballpark as San Francisco.
That ship has sailed, don’t you think?

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. The next stop on that continuum is, I believe, “great artists steal.”
When an emergency lasts a few weeks in a limited area you can curb a market, and indeed this is what legislatures across the country and world had rationally prepared their jurisdictions to do

When an emergency is endless with all hope for resolution being a complete lie due to not having a plan, needing to placate the population longer and not having data to create a plan all while the scope of the emergency is expanding, a market has to continue functioning as normal with its primary feature being to signal to people - yes, even middlemen - that their ability to source and/or create supply is worth their time and energy as opposed to doing literally anything else

Thats what happened

Some jurisdictions created novel more holistic solutions by shielding the consumers from price shocks by the government absorbing/subsidizing the price over a floor. It was foolish of representatives to try to use their existing tools of short term price controls as if a storm just hit a small area of their state, as this just caused confusion and made the market more opaque.
It's a pretty massive thought bubble, at least for the professional class. It has a massive number of highly paid, white, left-leaning people. Opinions outside of that bubble are met with "I didn't know people like you existed!".

If that's not a bubble, I don't know what is.
Why does US tax money coming back into the country and at what rate? Wouldn't you want to encourage money to be made elsewhere and brought back to the states for investment? or am i fundamentally misunderstanding economics?
Just tell them there's a bug and the software isn't working. They'll cancel in the middle of your subscription period.
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I was in NZ when the COVID crisis started. My flight home got canceled and a 3 week vacation turned into a couple months. The natural beauty was stunning and I got do a lot more canyoning/climbing than originally expected. Added to that was watching first-hand how Jacinda Ardern communicated with her country and a society that enforced strict social distancing. I got to travel around for a bit and never wore a mask once throughout the entire thing until I returned to the US.

And I saw many peacocks!
yeah - you could see in prior years how most h1bs were allocated to WITCH companies.

https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe...

Since h1b is a lottery system, these companies flooding the system with their applicants at lower salaries was directly impacting the chances of employees at other companies. I anecdotally knew a coworker at a FAANG who failed to get his h1b consecutively for two years in a row, with his OPT expiring the next. Looking at the data from the latest year though, it seemed as if they had already started addressing the problem.
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I don't see it, and I'm a long time noscript user.

Also been using Gitlab off-prem, on-prem, for more than 6 years. When someone says Gitlab problems all I can think of is resource issues with Sidekiq when I was self-hosting it.

All this drama is only bringing to light how unsafe it is for projects to host their code on a closed platform.

Better be on the safe side and use something you can easily migrate away, like Gitlab.
Privacy-focused Brave browser grew over 130% in the past year
if you're spending US money. Someone you describe may set up properties outside the US not taxable by the US.
This is such a terrible idea. Ensures only people on H1 are techies in FAANG in the Bay Area. Forget about doctors and nurses in rural areas
Yeah that's a drawback -- multi-cursors will be displayed as blocks regardless. As far as I know there is no way to solve that, but using block cursors for multi-cursor operations isn't that bad.
Yeah, so far Rust is proving to be that language for me. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24893285
I read about tax avoidance schemes like corporate inversions or sending all your patents to a company in some tax free haven and licensing your patents from your company for all your profits, and so on, and it makes me really mad. Companies making many billions of dollars paying no taxes.

My intuition is that if I personally came up with a cute "gotcha" like this where I wound up paying zero in taxes because of some loophole, I would go to prison. Why isn't the same standard applied to rich companies?

"You're technically owned by an Irish company you invented to avoid taxes? Cool. The c-suite plus your accountants are going to prison for the next five years and we're seizing the X billion you actually owe plus a punitive fine."

These tax shenanigans would stop if laws were enforced.
joeyh, if you're reading this, some feedback: on Android Chrome, at least, your top navbar overlays your article. Suggest you update your CSS for mobile views
Assuming you remove all "wasteful" travel, you're still causing more pollution living away from a major hub. Instead of a non-stop SFO to JFK flight, now you're taking a 1 hr Uber (or driving yourself) to a local airport, then taking a connecting flight to SFO.
That's a very idealistic view of Europeans.
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You mention the wiki page is badly written, and I have the same feeling whenever I read about anything mathematics related on it. But... it's written by volunteers, so I'll take what I can get. Since you obviously have the talent for explaining things, do you think the wiki page could be edited and improved for clarity?
I guess not yet on browsers like Firefox.

On Firefox, its struggling to keep this page alive such that the browser controls are locking everything up. I don't think its quite ready yet if browsers can't keep up with correctly rendering websites using Flutter.
As a side note, if you host your own authoritative nameservers (such as a very basic debian or centos + bind9 setup), you can set up your own self hosted gitlab and oxidized to retrieve the contents of /etc/bind/ on a cron job, put them into git and store them for revision control.

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Or somebody else six blocks away.

I heard a peacock years before I ever saw one live. They lived about 3/4 of a mile away, but when the wind was right we could hear them.
Yes, but it would be very difficult to coordinate their overlapping/conflicting interests. It could work in the case of family members, whose interests are generally more aligned. But the tax code allows the IRS to attribute ownership among related persons. So you can't do this sort of thing with people who are close blood relatives, otherwise the ownership structure can be collapsed, and it won't work.
I think the real benefit/monopoly pull of this is free unlimited bandwidth from inside the AWS cloud. If you’re making money and switch to a docker hub paid plan, your paying customers using AWS might ask you to host on AWS too so they get trivial and free pulls. And it’ll probably be cheaper for you too. The AWS solution might not be needed but it’ll be hard to avoid if your paying customers are already on AWS and you want to offer them the best experience you can.
Ok sorry I might have misread it from somewhere[1], but I remember this talk: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/466209065698590720

[1] just looked at it again and while it doesn't default to mutability, it doesn't default to immutability either (i.e. to compare it with F#, it's 'val vs var' versus 'let vs let mutable', so the latter being much longer means the default/lazy thing to do by devs is immutability, in the F# case).
I'm not very familiar with US taxation, but when you do this, don't the transfers end up taxable? Eg. Shouldn't the Nevada company license fee have some sort of CA sales tax on it?
It’s hard to reach 100% but very doable to keep the most intrusive stuff out. These are my steps:
- replace search with DDG, gradually reduce usage of !g and either search directly on the site of interest or narrow down the search further if results aren’t satisfactory
- Firefox and safari both are excellent browsers (especially reading mode to escape the ads). I use Firefox with separate containers for all the big sites (Google, Amazon, etc) and safari for general browsing
- add a pi hole (mine is broken right now, would love to integrate into my router some time)
- access email through an email client or a different provider accessing the gmail inbox, I’ve started removing all logins from the gmail address, every time I log in and have the time I change the email
- generally avoid all google mobile apps, there’s good alternatives

What’s really difficult:
- completely moving out of an email address people have been using for years to contact me
- many clients I work with use google docs
- the stuff I don’t see, all the cookies and analytics
- YouTube, though I prefer reading

It would be very nice if my taxes could go towards protecting me as a consumer from companies that get too large - especially considering some of the acquisitions in the ad ecosystem (YouTube, doubleclick), but here we are.

The list in the headline is very helpful.
Sure, by my original point was that you get taxed before you even get to that step.
One thing about this particular benchmark is that the file it produces is a little bit unusual even for large text files, because it is only contains one (massive) line. Most huge text files you open in text editors are things like multi-gigabyte logs and database dumps, which are composed of many relatively short lines. Text editors often bake that assumption into their data structures. A more representative test would probably be to use hexdump instead of base64 there.

Though I take the point: if a text editor advertises itself as being "fast", this is the kind of stuff you expect it to handle.

EDIT: ok, so i just tried the hexdump version. Vim and Emacs took a couple of seconds each (Emacs being slightly slower and chunkier when you navigate, Vim handles it without issue and is perfectly repsonsive). less opened it instantly (obviously, it's less!). ox has been going for a few minutes now, nothing happening.

It's not the benchmark's fault, ox is just slow for large files.
It's possible to prevent price gauging and mitigate hoarding.

Say by tying purchases to your ID, so each individual pays a fair price but only gets to purchase n items per t time.
> The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off

Not just that, they need cheap access to the same infrastructure.
But who would have their own government taxes to dodge.
The comments in this thread appear to focus on form factor. What makes this offering interesting IMO is that this a PC sold without a HDD and without an OS pre-installed. Although the "kit" may supply an SD card with a "recommended" OS, there is no obligation to use it. There are plenty of other options. Users can use multiple OS on the same computer without the inconvenience of "dual-boot".

Although some of the first personal computers, e.g., the ones advertised in the back of Popular Science, did not come with software, that flexibility did not last and bundling/pre-installation became a corporate strategy. User choice of OS is something no "Big Tech" company today will ever allow. Their business relies on being able to make this choice for the user and all the power that control over the OS allows. Imagine buying a computer without a Microsoft, Apple, Google or Amazon OS pre-installed.
Who argued whether it’s impressive or not? People are not impressed with the rather pointless “we take the best features out of popular editors” section of README that neither adds to nor detracts from the editor itself, and only unnecessarily antagonizes people by mischaracterizing other editors.

You can build an impressive car without pointlessly referencing Ferrari.
Yes, programming keeps me straddling the line between futurism and going full luddite. Come on people, nobody is a mind reader, document your intentions in comments at the very least!
bio people are not frequently math people and vice versa. The undergraduate departments make fun of each other. This is changing slowly. I suspect that a big part of the reason is that biology is complicated while math is good at dealing with distilling the behavior of a few essential elements.

When you start to find essential elements, they get mathified (look at DNA) but look how much experimental work it takes to do that? Scaling up experiments can also take some math, but once you figure out the trick, you just have a lot of experiments to run....
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> I know because lot of them were buying masks and other PPE from Australia and sending it to China. Too bad they did not care about their host country.

Do you have the same expectation of self-sacrificing patriotism from, say, a non-immigrant millionaire (there's a lot of those around, especially in booming real estate markets), who sits on a mountain of wealth instead of 'helping their host country'? Or is it just constrained to middle-class immigrants, who are trying to help their relatives survive a pandemic?

Christ on crutches, this has an odd air of xenophobia about it.
mmm, i wouldn't say that. arrow is really meant as a lower-level utility with usability abstractions layered on top. for low-level tasks, like serializing/deserializing, arrow is amazing, but if you want to actually explore or transform data, arrow's not really usable (based on about a day of trying).

this, on the other hand, looks like something i might use to actually play with data and allow others to follow along.
I am also a vim user, but I have 15 plugins installed including themes etc.. I am a big fan of coc and use it a lot for Typescript development. I am curious how you do programming without any plugins at all? Don't you miss linters and autocompletion?
Makes me imagine little cells arguing about whether it was worth shutting down the system lol

“Those cells die everyday!”
The federal government should not subsidize people to live in places so risky that private insurers refuse to offer coverage.
Take a look at Unity!
What a stupid outcome. They had a well written feature article that has lit up a sore place: Everyone wants a good future for their kids. No one has all the answers. Attempts to improve chances of getting into The One Best University are nuts.

And then, to have to flush the whole feature, to say nothing of a career, over lies that honestly didn't need to be there... WTF?

The Fear of under achievement, destroying legitimate accomplishments... Exactly what the article was trying to discuss. The author is the story here.
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A little self-promotion: I've written a blog post to answer the question that this one ends with (how to optimize divisions by constant integers): https://rubenvannieuwpoort.nl/posts/division-by-constant-uns...

https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-epis... and https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-epis... also explain this (and are probably better written than my blogpost).
http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-zero-with-pi-camera-as-...

https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-to-stream-video-with-raspberry-p...
As a layman, I found "The Gene Machine" by Matt Ridley a fascinating exposition on how 'mechanical' genetics can be.
Also not a sysadmin, but regular reboots are a must-have. Not only does it test that the machine comes back up, but it will also ensure that your kernel and other services are patched. Of course, the services can also be restarted separately after an update, but swapping the running kernel with a new one is still very uncommon.
The law itself is fine, it’s just that the organisation of most companies is abysmal, so your software is too.
aha, but this is a thread about DOS games, which is why I got confused.