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Italian regulation is very similar https://www.interno.gov.it/it/notizie/regole-i-monopattini-e... but I am not convinced it's enough.

- speed limits are not enforced in practice

- steady 25 km/h on a bike path is still too much, where you can see 8 year olds on their first bikes, runners, animals, roller bladers and all kinds of distracted and inexperienced bikers; 25 km/h is faster than most other users on the already narrow path; 25 km/h + 25 km/h = 50 km/h in possible frontal collisions

- headlights of the e-scooters are pointed straight ahead and cannot turn away; on a straight path they basically blind other users

- in the dark, it's very difficult to estimate the distance to an approaching e-scooter, because it has only one (blinding) headlight, and it moves at a constant speed, and it moves _fast_
> I believe some of those are probably true ..

That's actually the most accurate description of the international narc-terrorism business I have ever seen in print. Very well put bumbada ..
You are right but homes is the only asset regular people can get a fair shake at and the government helps by making interest tax deductible. If you want to stop the rich from cornering the market on housing, you have to switch to a land tax instead of a property tax. Then you need to stop the NIMBY zoning nonsense.
I don't think it really makes sense to try and lock down a "true" meaning of the term. It means so many different things to so many people that any discussion about it inevitably becomes mired with emotive meaning ("I hate this code" "Me too") or arguments over what truly "counts" as technical debt (this article included).

Unless you focus the discussion (e.g. on test coverage), which includes tossing out things that could arguably be "tech debt", most discussions break down.
Some very true points. The fact that terminal protocols are modeled on top of linear output streams is a historical accident.
It wasn't government that destroyed plasma TVs; it was LCDs being significantly cheaper to produce and sell, and now OLEDs having eliminated most of the drawbacks of every other format.
If true then surely that's better, not worse, as it means that Facebook simply needs to be suitably (financially) incentivised to change its behaviour - perhaps achievable via tighter regulation, penalties & rewards, etc etc.
Paying a multi-hundred-dollar cancellation fee or being unable to cancel is also really bad for people on a tight budget.
Has anyone used both I2C and other protocols like PJON or CAN and can compare?
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> Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It’s all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice.

This sounds like conspiracy if I've ever heard one. The reason for all of these problems is the market, not government. The gas can is a trojan horse in this article.

You can get perfectly fine light bulbs. Can get perfectly great refrigerators. Lawnmowers still work just fine, with no need to be hacked. It's like complaining that the reason printers are so bad is because of "the damn government!" and citing HP's behavior when ignoring that there are brands that don't screw over the consumer for profit reasons.
In that case, perhaps the issue is not the existence of a wealth tax per se, but how large that tax is. I'm also dubious about the Netherlands having "the most wealth inequality in all the world." Do you have a source for that?
I appreciate what you’re doing but I’m still avoiding the vaccine as long as I can. I’ve got a class 1 medical , a PPL and I hope [ha] one day to get paid to fly planes. I really don’t want another Pandemrix because with my luck I’d end up with the side effect. Also I’m MASSIVELY allergic to certain drugs and I get the NHS third choice for antibiotics and anti inflammatories.
> This becomes the limiting factor almost everywhere, meaning that prices would be equally unaffordable if credit wasn’t cheap.

The point is that cheap credit (mortgage regulation) significantly raises the upper bound on this limit.
No. First, you usually need both, Want= and After=. Second, that After= isn't really "after" in the traditional sense, because systemd will start A, not wait for A to be up and running and immediately after the "A has been started"-event start B. If you really want A to be available when B is started (which is the traditional init-script sense of "after") you need to modify the software A to signal completion to systemd or you need some horrible shellscript cludges in the Exec=-line of B that checks for the availability of A. Or an inbetween unit with a Exec=sleep 5 or something.

Claiming "it is just 1 line" is either inexperience or dishonesty.
> Since March of last year, I began basically working two jobs: every day after I sign off from work at Sourcegraph, I spend around 8 hours working on game development.

How does one do this and still sleep? Is your position at Sourcegraph still part-time?
They could, but it feels like a stretch. I suspect it would be easier to make a move for that space from an existing institutional broker like Instinet or Virtu.
Fair enough. It was still quite hard to get one when I scheduled and I was going to take whatever I could get even if I favored the mRNA ones. That said, if I didn't really care about getting a vaccine but was going to get one anyway, I'd probably just choose whatever I could get most easily.
Again, where are you getting the idea that this isn't being done?

https://www.novartis.com/news/media-releases/novartis-signs-...

> Novartis announced today that it has signed an initial agreement to leverage its manufacturing capacity and capabilities in order to address the COVID-19 pandemic by supporting the production of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. The agreement will see Novartis utilizing its aseptic manufacturing facilities at its site in Stein, Switzerland.

https://www.merck.com/stories/why-were-excited-to-partner-on...

> On March 2, we announced a partnership with Johnson & Johnson to expand manufacturing capacity and supply of its COVID-19 vaccine. Under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) agreement, our company is adapting and making available some of our existing manufacturing sites to accelerate manufacturing efforts for the vaccine and enable more timely delivery and administration.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

> Under the terms of the agreement, the companies plan to establish manufacturing suites at Lonza’s facilities in the United States and Switzerland for the manufacture of mRNA-1273 at both sites. Technology transfer is expected to begin in June 2020, and the companies intend to manufacture the first batches of mRNA-1273 at Lonza U.S. in July 2020.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...

> AstraZeneca and IDT Biologika also intend to strengthen Europe’s vaccine manufacturing capability with a joint investment to build large additional drug substance capacity for the future. Details of the agreement are to be finalised. Both companies plan to invest in capacity expansion at IDT Biologika’s production site in Dessau, Germany to build up to five 2,000-litre bioreactors capable of making tens of millions of doses per month of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine. The new assets are estimated to be operational by the end of 2022.
I agree with you but I think there is something to the business side. No Sales/PjM/Manager/CFO is likely to want to spend 3 months of resources on non-revenue generating updates. They would rather pay the fiddler when the system has a failure. Just like us humans, people don't change their diet and exercise until AFTER the heart attack.
You're describing a world where quite possibly no-one would be stupid enough to start PayPal, Uber/Lyft or AirBnB. Limiting risk is one of the most counterintuitive laws that has ever stuck, and one of the most devastating for the poor countries who didn't adopt it fast enough.

Without those protections it would be far too risky to invest in companies that people weren't intimately involved with. The scope of human activity would be limited to things that could be achieved with a small business. While not necessarily the end of civilisation, it would be a huge change. And quite likely knock down one of the ladders (a well balanced stock portfolio) that people use to move up into the middle class.

I'm not a fan of the idea. It entrenches class divisions and probably shrinks the middle class. It raises difficult questions of how retirement would be set up too, it would be much harder to organise an independent retirement without access to the share market.
The market was clamoring for low flush toilets to the exclusion of one flush toilets? Preposterous.
> Inequality by itself is not a bad thing.

Isn't it? Even when taken to extremes?

Wealth inequality is in direct conflict with a core value of democracy: one person one vote is reduced to a bit of a joke when there are people who can easily afford to pay an army of hundreds of political operatives to flood public discourse with their opinion.

A little inequality doesn't hurt, but the existence of billionaires (even 100 millionaires, really) is a problem for democracy.
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The Common Lisp one? Another arrogant and these days probably outdated quote that's sometimes trotted out on the internet.
Nowadays it's more like:

>Most of the time people find themselves fighting against the language, and struggling to have the program simply to ...

compile.
> The question is, does the tax matter so much it's worth putting it on every price sticker

Especially considering the fact that usually there are 2-3 rates tops, so one can easily remember that 5-10-20% of what they pay goes to the country coffers depending on the product being bought.
The standard Aruco library in openCV is not the most stable fiducial tracking. But there are lots to choose from
Show me an OLED that lasts 100k hours and I'll put my plasmas on the curb for trash pickup right now.

Also, it was definitely regulations that killed plasmas. I was working in retail when this all was going down.

https://eepower.com/news/california-approves-new-energy-effi...
To be honest, I’ve been thinking about a shell based on the JVM. Especially now with GraalVM, you can have truly polyglot programs running on top of it, with inlinig cross-language boundaries! But of course native code execution should be “bootstrapped” into that world somehow. (Actually, it can use LLVM IR and that as well can run a C function on js objects which is phenomenal, but people do want to run native software from a shell)
Netflix and Youtube serve good purposes. What purpose does Bitcoin serve? Helping people hide money, evade taxes, speculate without creating any value, buy drugs, make ransomware viable? Or as some proponents imagine, subvert financial institutions and national governments? No need to answer.
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People aren't thinking Bulgaria when proposing socialistic improvements. Most would say they like where the Nordics have gotten themselves.
So it's kind of sounding like you agree with me that the fee is a punitive measure designed to punish people who leave early?

Adobe is the one that wrote the contract, if they added cancellation fees that are honestly pretty unusual for the software service/subscription field, then that's on them. Their hands aren't tied by the contract, they wrote the contract. It's their choice to charge people money for a service they no longer have access to.

But whatever, I'll extend yet another olive branch. I'll pay for the remainder of the year as long as I can cancel auto-renew immediately and put down in writing that I will not be charged for the next year. Not too surprisingly, Adobe also doesn't allow its customers to do that, because of course it doesn't.

It's obtuse to argue that all of this is about fairness and not about taking advantage of customer mistakes to bleed them dry for a service they don't want anymore. But I suppose it's just in my contract that I have to argue with a representative at a specific date and time in order to signal that I don't want to renew for another year of service. Nothing Adobe can do about that. /s
In the worst case, debt is a trap that can compound and be difficult to come back from. In the best case though, it can be a very useful tool. Every homeowner who takes out a mortgage and gets to live in their home with their family for 30 years before they've fully paid off their house is effectively and productively using debt.
That might be the outcome of not thinking or it might be the outcome of thinking “going out of business [or just canceling the project] will severely limit our capabilities even more and also be incredibly hard to change” and concluding “taking on tech debt is the better choice.”
What you want it to mean is "remove this entry from my view in the frontend, delete the related record in the backend, and delete all previously cached copies of it in the backend."
I agree that governments are in on it but you seem to neglect banks role. Deutsche Bank is one of the biggest launderers in the world.
Well aware. Fun fact: farming subsidies and military spending are pretty much 1:1 over here. (Around 2,7 billion €)
The author published a working React & JSX example here that might be useful: https://natto.dev/@paul/1dcbeb7583624bf19d69b9942271a703.

Some background on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1380292393291841541
However in this case there is no death. Adobe is the de-facto for drawing to photo manipulation.

While there may be open-source alternatives however Adobe is kept alive via media & enterprise where there is no alternative.

edit: downvoted?
Less than a year ago. I've been using it a little here and there for almost two decades - DirectX is accessed and operated through COM API - but I never bothered to actually learn it in depth, until I had to jump straight into debugging obscure errors in an application that used a DCOM-based service.

> Because back in the day I didn't know even one developer who wouldn't curse when working with DCOM/Corba implementations because of convoluted complexity, bugs, and problems with debugging.

Yeah, I got that impression about COM through osmosis over the years. But come to think of it, isn't the exact same thing happening with the current trend of microservices, and super-convoluted stacks of Docker containers and Kubernetes? So perhaps the problem ultimately wasn't with COM per se :).
As the article points out, popularity is requires talent and promotion. Sofi Oksanen is both talented and works so hard in promoting his work.

Sweden has so big lead in the tradition and skill in marketing that it's not even funny. There is this romantic idea that if you do good art, it will be recognized organically. But people want to read what others read. Good writer must be popular to sell books.
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The one thing that is hard to tolerate in this thread is the negative comment that makes sweeping generalizations about other people based on their choice of programming language.
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That could get very complicated very quickly if the company is included in a popular index fund.
Before abolition, profit from slavery was the empire’s largest source of revenue for centuries. A few months ago, Jane Austen led me to do some digging.

https://consideringausten.wordpress.com/austen-and-antigua-s...
What do you call this? It works better than any can I had growing up.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/no-spill-gas-can-1...
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>Soap doesn’t work

presumably referring to government regulations mandating them to have less (or zero) phosphorus

>Toilets don’t flush

presumably referring to government regulations mandating low flush toilets

>Light bulbs don’t illuminate

presumably referring to government regulations banning incandescent bulbs, requiring the use of CFL bulbs

The rest, I'm not sure about.
From your OS? If your can't trust your OS, you have bigger problems.
I am positive I saw a picture ages ago (late 1980:s, when keypad phones were starting to become mainstream in Sweden) where someone had "solved" the problem by building a pocket calculator with a rotary dial. I'm not sure whether it was a mock-up or an actual device. :)
CAN is used for more robust communication at a longer distance, whereas I2C is typically used for inter-chip communication on the same PCB.

Never heard of PJON.
Same. I ended up putting a removable plug in one just to make it functional. I just couldn't hold up a 5 gallon jug for long enough to dribble it out. Then was astonished when it turned out to be not just one bad brand but all of them.
Are they owned by Microsoft yet?
Wow! Thank you HN!

I have been trying to work with more than one time of flight sensor and an Arduino recently, and I fried them all (the sensors, not the Arduino).

Will study this in detail now.
Good reminder, I just set up a calendar alert for when to cancel annual renewal. I'm on the fringe of "needing" a few disparate apps but I can make do without them with some effort. I knew the terms of what I was signing up for but I just don't want to spend £600 a year so I can use a smattering of programs a couple times a month. I 'occasionally' use Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, Illustrator and sometimes one or two others in a blue moon but not enough to justify the cost for me going forward.

I also just went half way through the cancellation process and got the next two months for free to take away some of the sting.
Now leftists burn downtowns.

And avowed socialists get elected (AOC.)
It's very easy to remove the pull up resistors from most break out boards.

The most likely issue you will encounter with trying to connect many I2C devices is address collisions where devices have fixed addresses or at least some fixed bits in the address. This will probably limit you to about twenty or thirty useful devices on a bus.
> Because at least old money understands the concept of noblesse oblige.

Is there actual data to back this up? That 'old money' behaves in a more positive society-impacting way than 'new money'?
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> Poverty doesn't just cause immediate issues it can also cause long term issues that can effect not only adults, but the children who grew up in that environment.

This is absolutely true!

> This is largely because families in poverty tend to also abuse their kids at higher rates (this includes mental abuse) or at least foster an extremely unhealthy environment due to the stress it causes.

This could be true with some families, but most parents try at least not to go below the financial level they are at. I remember my parent use to get all jittery even at a slight stress on the finances fearing that they will not be able to sustain. They had prioritised education, food, clothing in that order. Unfortunately, after education and food nothing was left! I remember wearing same set of clothes for almost a decade. Even now, even though I can afford to spend, I got into that habbit of wearing same clothes most of the time. I still use clothes that are almost 10 years old! I remember we(I and my friends, they too were from the same financial status) use to wear same worn-out/torn school uniforms by doing something called "rafoo". That made us kids understand value of money and the determination to get out of the situation as soon as possible. The problem we faced was lack of information and support network. We had to build it ourselves from scratch, most of the time stumbling. It also dents the confidence as you don't know how long it is going to take to achieve your goals, if at all it can be acheived!
> if they disabled their business in the EU there would be riots.

Line em up.
You're blowing the problem out of proportion

Deaths by Covid are still much more likely than deaths by the vaccine.

Hospitalizations as well, except for the 20-29 cohort https://twitter.com/VikiLovesFACS/status/1379833789334089734
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This seems to only get into the electrical issues associated with connecting lots of devices to an I2C bus. Due to deficiencies in the protocol specifications and real-world implementation issues, there are logical problems as well. As a consequence, it is near impossible to make it 100% reliable.

If you're interested in the unpleasant details, whitequark has posted about this at length on Twitter.
"Not needed" by the people of doing the large-scale economical decisions, obviously. There is, of course, some level of poverty where the non-deciding people get fed up (heh) and revolt, but you have to just keep slightly above it, and things will be fine, as the most of the human history shows.
Sensors not on breakout boards are very difficult to find (in small quantities) and even more difficult to use.
thanks for the hint, it was worth watching it!
> To provide a minimum barrier to people simply writing a script and registering literally every domain in existence. Either to resell or troll. Probably also to provide a financial paper trail in case of abuse, illegal activity or other reasons.

But that happens anyway, what has it discouraged?
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Agreed. There's good debt (akin to a low-interest mortgage), and there's bad debt (ie, high-interest credit cards or payday loans).
"Doing something illegal is wrong"

Is "illegal" the complete set of "wrong", in your opinion? I.e. is it possible to do something "wrong" that is legal/not illegal? If so, then it follows that it is possible that some have accumulated wealth "wrongly". For example, by exploiting laborers.

In those cases, it makes sense to really consider the implications of a system that supports that.
Many companies could triple their revenue by focusing on short term gains over long term profit.

The mix of less piracy, no used software, no discounts except for the education discount (which is also halved) is bound to lead to more revenue in the short term. But it also causes a lot of people to consider their alternatives.
> they wouldn't let me put the cancellation in early

Everything they did was legal until this. If they won’t process it, send them a letter with your state attorney general’s consumer affairs (or, if you’re a business, commercial division) Cc’d. Address it to their general counsel. State you cancel your contract with them effective such and such date. Contract termination is quite strictly defined in law, for obvious reasons.
Social safety nets contribute to earned wealth too, just less directly.
I think they recently changed it so pre-formatted areas wrap. They used to not wrap which made text hard to read on mobile.
Baloney.

I can tell you right now about the regulations that wrecked soap in dishwashers, as well as the off-market workaround. I can tell you about how dishwashers were forced to work with not enough water. And washing machines. And I remember when light bulbs got broken by the government. And how I went out and bought an extra large pack of the bulbs that actually work before you couldn't buy them anymore. I don't know about the rest of them, but even if the rest are market driven to some extent, I wouldn't be surprised if the government was involved in some way.
Last week I found my old floppy disks for the STOS (AMOS equivalent for the Atari ST) I never managed to build a real game with it at the time although I had created some on the Amstrad CPC 6128 before. If we had had the internet back then, it would have made such a difference to be able to connect to those communities !
Are you saying that trading on market sentiment is an invalid trading strategy?