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>Walgreens locations in San Francisco have often been a target of rampant shoplifting, with a recent incident even caught on camera during an "Inside Edition" segment. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that one Walgreens location lost on average about $1,000 a day in merchandise because of shoplifting. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.) Theft of less than $950 in goods is treated as a nonviolent misdemeanor under California law.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27241085
> Probably there was no article in HOA rules that was applicable.

So? Nothing to stop them adding it in.
I honestly don't know. It was seriously extreme. Technically you were even supposed to call and alert the HOA manager if you were having any guests over, period, but that wasn't enforced. Like I've said elsewhere in this thread, selective enforcement was the name of the game.
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Well with cash you know at least the face of the person you hand it to, and can run after him if you realize the traded bought is not as expected.
In other words, they're a local form of government.
I initially understood "bloodier" as in literal blood due to how corpses were handled. In which case I would agree that it was not as bloody. But I do think the term was for body count, in which case they're probably comparable.
I don't know how you expect to come to reasonable conclusions when you generalize that extremely.
I love sodium and virtually never heard of this "sodium is the devil" narrative before! (I know right, was I living in a cave?) Anyway a few weeks back me and my friend was ordering Chinese food. And he was like, meh Chinese food has too much sodium let's order something else. Turns out sodium is bad because it accumulates water in your body? After that I started being super particular about my sodium intake.
This isn't the same for everyone and it nothing to do with willpower or discipline. My grandparents smoked for roughly 50 years before my grandfather's health deteriorated to the extent he was diagnosed with emphysema and admitted to hospital. My grandmother immediately disposed of all cigarettes and lighters in the house. Neither of them ever smoked again.

My grandfather lived for a few more years as his health declined further. About two years after his last cigarette he confided in me that not a day goes past where he doesn't crave a cigarette. But he never asked for one. He never caved.

My grandmother had a fairly strong physical reaction to quitting initially. She was shocked when her doctor told her the shaking was due to physical withdrawal. She said she felt no different to a heroin addict. But after this physical shock subsided, that was it. She never craved a cigarette again. What's more, she became disgusted by the smell of cigarette smoke encountered in public. It was simply gone from her life.

The difference here is in the psychologically addictive element of cigarettes. Both grandparents had the same physical addiction, but that's nothing. Anyone can overcome that. But the psychological element seemingly ranges from non-existent to unstoppable.

I have experienced the psychologically addictive nature of cigarettes myself, even though I've never smoked. A friend bought some cheap disposable, nicotine-free, e-cigarettes and gave me one. Initially I was going to take it apart and see how it worked. But I tried it, of course. Then I tried it again. And again. There's something about it. Suck through the little pipe. Fill your lungs. See it glow. Exhale the vapour/smoke. My usage was exponential, until it ran out. I immediately considered buying another one. Then I caught myself. I had become addicted to this thing. It's that easy.
I mean, honestly haven't met that many people who've had a problem with cocaine either.

Opiates on the other hand, that's a different story.
With text in front of you, you have the freedom to vary your pace as you please. You can slow-read a critical section, or skim a paragraph of fluffy description.
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If you have this situation, it’s not even worth the time or effort to not just use UUIDs. You’re adding complication for no gain whatsoever.
They don't, but the property is burdened. A car is probably a bad analogy here. Think of it more like buying a company. If you start your own company, then sign a contract with your suppliers, then sell it to me. I now am bound by the contract because it came with the company.
You can, but it may collapse in an earthquake or landslide before you arrive. Common wisdom in Japan is an empty home will begin to collapse within two years. Then you need to pay for disposal, which is a major expense. Buying a $500 home will be like adopting an old shelter dog. It requires lots of care and will still die soon. If you want to move in and make it a great place it might be possible. As a vacation home for one week a year to see sakura flowers? No, bad idea.
Nothing against that community at all but I hate discord. Maybe I am old but I don't see how it's good for communities.
> despite the warning of his generals

The problem here being that his generals warned against all of his other attacks earlier in the war which were amazingy succesful. I suppose he felt that he knew better by the time of the Eastern front.
I'm curious as to what would happen if, after discovering a tracker on her car, she put the tracker in a box then FedEx'ed it to an overseas country?
Personally, I do - but I accept that the commonly-held definition has shifted to diverge from mine in the last few years. I don't think "bigotry" has had that shift.

For example, I think "naive" is a similar word in that it necessarily implies a characterization of the person beyond the action itself.
You should look at Unity's high definition render pipeline. It uses physically based lighting so you can just e.g. look up the brightness of a particular light, enter it in, then it will render as you would expect.

And yes, you're right about it being enabling. Anecdotally, I've heard that people coming from e.g. photography background find HDRP insanely easy to get good results and pick up quickly.
I'm not conflating class and race, I'm establishing a connection between the two. I'm very aware that it's generally a "rich" thing. That doesn't mean that race plays no factor, and even then, if it's purely a class issue then it's still an issue in my eyes.
Yeah unfortunately endings were never a strong point in PKD's works but that doesn't stop them from being great!
The past is a long time!
> A “document” is stored in a “file,” and that file lives permanently in a “folder” (think: filing cabinet) or temporarily on your desktop.

Or not so temporarily in my case :')

But yes I agree we need to rethink this. The desktop as a paradigm was good to introduce new users to the concept. We can come up with better stuff now. I see a bigger future for tiling window managers like i3.
What compensation do the paddlefish get ;-)
How can I get some quality feedback on my product?
People used to die when they were 35 because they were getting stomach cancer from a lifetime of eating salted meat. The invention of refrigeration was one of the most important public health accomplishments of the last 150 years.
Local govs are generally less likely to heap the sort of overt abuse on homeowners that HOAs do.
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Would also like some source/info on this, seems suspicious, like something that anti-cruelty organizations came up with and people are mindlessly believing and repeating...
https://gitlab.com/tungware/geezeredit
> It’s very hard to estimate the true power consumption of laptops since they are all primarily fed from the battery not the charger.

That's news to me. I try to keep up to date with laptops, and all the reviewers have pretty accurate power consumption measurements. Even just using the internal reporting reveals quite a few details [1].

Even a "12W" TDP 11th gen Intel CPU can draw up to 50W in turbo mode [2].

The 11th gen "45W" laptop CPUs have a PL2 power draw of 135W [3], which, thermals and VRMs permitting, can be held indefinitely according to the specs (which is what makes Intel's whole TDP-rating useless indeed).

So yes, it's very hard indeed to estimate newer laptop's power consumption, but for entirely different reasons. It's primarily the cooling and OEM's choice of how to implement the very loosely defined (Intel!-) specs that define power draw. If you have excellent cooling, there's nothing to stop an 11800H from drawing 135W for minutes at a time... (which can be measured, both internally and from the wall no problem).

AMD CPUs on the other hand mostly adhere to the published power rating (give or take 20% - again, cooling permitting and configurable by the OEM).

[1] random example: https://bit.ly/34xLKpM

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review...

[3] https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/eight-core-intel-tiger...
It used to be used by people who were moderately to hardly tech literate.

Not sure if that’s relevant but it feels like it should be
This means that raising housing costs, interest rates and debt, taxes, and medical costs reduce his figure for foreign imports as a percentage of spending. That increasing the amount spent on those things is “good news” regarding trade deficits.

Unless he is using these numbers to suggest we need to prioritize driving down land prices and rentier practices etc more than worrying about trade imbalance. But this certainly does not seem like his intent.

At any rate, the numbers 11% and 3% are as fictional as the Taylor Lorenz quote but the amount of skepticism differs greatly. This hints more of ideology based beliefs than fact based.
...and it should run WordStar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_salted_fish#Health_c... was an eye-opener to me
I don't agree. Updating is not always an improvement. Even if only the UI is affected: often you just want things to be the same.
A large amount of HOAs are on land leases, so they ARE shared ownership.

If you made the rule you suggest, all it would change is that new HOAs would all be on long term land leases (and you'd have a lot of chaos in the current ones that didn't do this because with existing laws it was not necessary).
No worries, not worth throwing anything at you. Carry on <3
To save loading/startup time. Also has to do with oldschool Macintosh usability, which is a important feature that veteran Mac users want to have.
We did rethink the desktop, about twice on a large scale.

MacOS tried a scorched-earth approach at supporting hardware, which allowed for a pretty impressive software stack to be maintained with (relative) stability. The issue is that MacOS takes countless shortcuts to reach that final level of presentation. APFS is a mess compared to it's contemporary filesystems, and the entire underlying ethos behind getting an app to work on MacOS depends on how well you're willing to work with Apple and integrate into that central stack. Their idea of a desktop is one where the first party is in control, and they provision you permissions where they see fit.

Windows has to accommodate for a much larger pool of hardware, but also has the advantage of market dominance. Everyone develops for Windows because it powers more than 70% of consumer PCs. It's a no-brainer if you want the biggest audience possible. Microsoft also breaks from Apple in providing a much more robust compatibility layer for legacy software. It's reliance on antiquated internals also helps suppress newer technologies from entering the desktop. The Windows shell pared-back and lacking, even compared to most Linux desktop environments. Their idea of a desktop is one where the third parties are in control, and you provision them permission where you see fit.

I've seen people be productive with both, and I certainly can't knock them for being the predominant platforms, but I eventually just got fed up with fighting my computer to do basic tasks and switched to Linux. Everything is a file here, that's canon. Microsoft won't try to sell you more OneDrive storage, and Apple won't second guess your authority here either, since the user is sacred. It's that kind of dedication to simplicity that tips the scales in Linux's favor for me, and I can't imagine I'll be going back to Windows or MacOS until either of them show a similar dedication to empowering the user with simple tools.
People need a phone to use Instagram. Instagram makes money out of ads, not out of its users. So anything that threatens this revenue source can kill Facebook.

They can still do ads without tracking, but would that still be a trillion dollar business?
You ever tried to get a quorum of disinterested people? Most of the HOAs I've had to suffer through were created for the benefit of the developer and the people who wanted to dump them couldn't get enough people together to even have a vote for or against. Newer HOAs are not on your side.
There are many but the most studied one is skq1.
It is marketed as eye drops for slowing age related eye diseases such as macular degeneration. It is also marketed as cosmetics to be applied on the skin as an anti wrinkle agent.
Of course those uses are not enough geroprotective.
The oral pill is in the work and will very probably be the breakthrough of the century though, it will take ~a decade before being FDA approved.
However indeed the currently marketed cosmetics are the same active substance and can be off-label ingested orally (or sublingually). Anybody doing that should read the pubmed papers about Skq1 in order to make an informed decision.

The other contender is Fullerene C60 which is bioavailable when diluted in oil (e.g olive oil) however it doesn't cross the blood brain barrier and hence won't stop your current neurodegeneration.
> China announced it way too late.

After China announced there was human-to-human transmission, European countries did almost nothing for another month. The US took even longer to take any serious actions. Do you really think things would have been different if China had announced human-to-human transmission 5-10 days earlier?
>opt-in email newsletters,

Opt-in, or "kinda opt-in"? Or you just don't know and trust whoever publish that newsletters?

Seriously newsletters are the most annoying ads I get and by far. So many are not really opt-in, but instead use dark patterns to make you sign up.
Science has produced incredible data on the treatment and care of rodents. Almost like they're manipulating us to do work for them.
Out of curiosity, what OS are you on?
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$1000/day is what percentage of their revenue?

A decent size grocery store I assume might take $100,000 per day. Theft losses of 1% sounds very survivable - especially when all other stores in the region have the same theft losses, so prices can go up by the same percentage.
Ah I see what you're getting at now. Understandable.
Many like "freedom for me but not for thee." Not everybody though. It's more common that I feel comfortable with.
Sounds like every subdivision in the Austin metro.
My last HOA was pretty good. I was on the board. We weren't overly invasive. My preferred approach was lining up help for homeowners who were in tough situations.

My present HOA is a well-known nightmare. I lament the lack of options that led to me being here.
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Right but if someone did, there might be some good answers. Do you have any good answers for why someone takes up smoking?
But bitcoin doesn't scale. And incentives are not aligned to making it scale. So having it not scale is an unfortunate equilibrium.

It's consuming more electricity now than Sweden. It can't really grow exponentially. The world just does not have enough electricity for more growth at that rate. Unless you just mean "exponential in price", in which case that's just speculation, and completely disconnected from, as they say, the fundamentals.
I recommend setting up a Nextcloud while you're at it. It's a great way to replace Google Drive without sacrificing privacy or functionality.
Don't join a club if you don't want to do club stuff.

And most of the time, board members are "older folks" not because they have more time on their hands. It's because they got burnt enough and figure being part of the board is an easier way to deal with the bullshit.

Hell, in the HOA I'm in, the board members are trying to give the spots away but no one want it. Unfortunately someone has to make sure the common elements get maintained, and even if you hire someone to do it, someone has to be accountable for making sure the person hired does their job.
> I think there is a high variance in how involved different HOAs are, so it's hard to make a blanket statement that you should totally avoid considering buying a property that's in an HOA.

I don't think it was a blanket statement; he differentiated between voluntary and mandatory HOA. The mandatory ones can, at any time, turn into a nightmare.

I'm part of a voluntary one. They don't have actual rules for the homeowners, but they do use the money to keep the area clean, run cameras on our suburb's entrances, etc.

They've been nothing but helpful and don't get involved if two neighbours have a disagreement (My two nieghbours both launched different lawsuits against each other, and HOA persons they each contacted declined to get involved).

OTOH, in a mandatory HOA (I've lived in one of those too) the neighbour with the best friendship of the board will basically get their way. The board members themselves get their way all the time.
> Not just jailed, but "in jail indefinitely".

A legendary HOA victory if there ever was one.
Yeah imagine that. Oh wait that is exactly what the HOA is getting bent out of shape over, and forcing their arbitrary rules on others with escalating fines.
> this argument is dead and nobody will ever go back to native apps again

I agree with your post in general but not this. I see a lot more interest in self-hosting stuff lately, precisely because of the concern you mention that online services do ads and tracking. More and more people seem to be doing this.

And I personally really prefer native apps over web apps or electron stuff.
Most of those gates are easily defeated by the "clear application storage" button in Chrome.
Still - the point remains: what % of the consumer goods in every single american home is made in china.
I’m sure the city being shut with highly limited foot traffic even when it reopened leading to losses of revenues exceeding 50% in most cases has nothing to do with it.
I started smoking at the age of 23, so I am probably much more stupid than the average smoker who started or tried it first time in high school.

I immediately lost interest, it's a terrible habit, I never smoked in the morning, rarely during the day, only at night when I'm out with other people, but I keep going back because... I don't even know why.

One thing is sure, if I have something meaningful to do I don't even think about cigarettes.

So in my case boredom is probably the main drive.

Other people might have other reasons to do it.

But it's absolutely something that every smoker should fight as hard as they can, because nothing good can come out of it.

One thing that really helped me to reduce my addiction to just 1 or 2 cigarettes a day has been avoiding "the bad ones".

Those cigarettes that you smoke knowing you won't even enjoy them.

I smoked one after dinner and one after a drink and that was enough.

If you start associating the habit of lighting up one after everyday activities - a coffee, waiting for someone or something, watching a movie, drinking a beer - that's when you are screwed and should understand you're smoking too much.
Easier said than done, I know, but it worked on me until I let it win again.
Maybe your friend was referencing MSG? Makes me extremely thirsty hours later, and then I HAVE to "accumulate water in my body", on purpose, to satiate the unquenchable thirst caused by MSG
I don't agree that books are dry. With books, lots of elements are left to my imagination, which helps put a part of myself in the story. I don't think I'm the only one that does that considering how people tend to dislike movie adaptations of books.

> Narration adds such a richness to a story.

Narration adds more elements, which can be a good or a bad thing.
I'd argue that in recent years, most people can't tell the difference between a native Swift app on iOS and a Kotlin app running on a midrange Android phone. I agree that Apple's approach is more technically correct here, but Android's approach is also pretty sustainable.
Interesting result but needs confirmation in other studies, particularly as the rutin formulation seems to be homegrown by the research team.

Incidentally, I recently learned about the Interventions Testing Program [1,2]. This is an ongoing very well conducted study investigating different drugs and supplements for longevity extension in mice. Aside from being highly rigorous, reproducible and free of conflicts, the results of this are fascinating. Particularly striking is the benefit of drugs which reduce peak glycemia after meals (acarbose and canagliflozin) in male mice.

[1] https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/dab/interventions-testing-p...

[2] https://peterattiamd.com/richardmiller/
I don't understand why either, but I'm so glad it isn't the norm there, it's still one of the big benefits of desktop IMO.
How would Facebook guarantee you use their app to look at their stuff? If the answer is "some proprietary format that only the app can read" then what's the point?
oddly enough i only quit after a major stress event in my life, but that was such an experience where i managed to quit multiple things at once because i almost died haha good times
you may have singed the paper but the HOA can change the rules after the fact.
Is that Intel marketing 80 SKUs of their own volition; or is that 80 large customers each ordering a million-piece custom configuration, and then Intel figuring that, if they're going to make a part in quantity, they may as well let other people buy it if they want?
Two critiques:

First is that we are still in the age of "search" superceding the directories (google over yahoo), that is wrong, Google, Instagram, Facebook etc are now curators. Gone are the days where searching for something brought up whatever else people were searching for, now it's curated both for generally good reasons ("Asian" doesn't turn up porn featuring Asian women like it did in 2008) and bad reasons (suggests ads up front and specific services under google.

Second their suggested paradigm feels like a hotbed for abuse of users' privacy. Given the author also wrote an article titled "Sorry, Big Brother Is Here to Stay" I'm not sure they are sensitive to that concern perhaps. One of the values of the more ephemeral bits of information is that it's ephemeral, and god we know google et al would kill to have a slice of that data. That said, back in 2009 or w/e I literally had a text file full of shit like copypasta you'd see spammed on 4chan, a meme folder, etc. It's not like people aren't capable of saving the ephemeral bits, it's just a conscious effort (which is what I think it should be) over one that is done automatically.

That said in conclusion, this reads a lot like trying to fix something that isn't broken. If anything, that too much is online and hard to actually save to your computer itself is a problem but I don't think the "desktop" metaphor is the problem here... may be they made the connection in the article but I didn't come away convinced their suggestion ameliorates anything.