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12 times is too little I would say.
It's addictive, but its not heroin either.

In the beginning it was something to do with friends at parties, then it became something to do while hanging out, and last came the addiction- ' I must have it'. All in all maybe a year from beginner to smoker.

I Started when I was 14, quit at 24. Used snus/chewing tobacco for 3 years after that, then I quit. Used to have nightmares of relapsing.
The fascinating thing is that the physical addiction is over very quickly(days) its the psychological addiction that breaks people(and me more times than I care to remember).
Market capitalization varies over time, sometimes quite rapidly, because it (partly) depends on human perception.

Am I detecting some conceptual discomfort with how market valuations work? You wouldn't be the first.
Not really the same thing, I don't think. Most of the time, parish councils just do boring but necessary things like emptying the dog poo bins, maintaining the village hall, keeping the playing fields trimmed and clean, that kind of upkeep of minor but very visible shared resources.
American Dad covered this - Roger decided to get back at Stan so corrupted the HOA and did all sorts of things like arranging trash pickup, installing a hydrant on his lawn, etc.

If the HOA don’t like you, it seems there little recourse.
> I remember the time when news were flooding the internet evangelizing iphones as the platform of the web, a platform that would allow websites do anything a native application could.

> What a letdown...

The original iPhone demo showed the actual desktop version of the NYT website loading in Safari. Websites were the ones that later optimized for mobile.

And I don’t remember iPhones being promoted as giving websites anything approaching native app capabilities except when Apple tried to sell that line to developers before they had a public SDK. Nobody bought it, even then.
> I hate HOAs, but if all parties involved agreed to this "contract

Most legally binding agreements require all parties to know and understand what they are singing up to.

If the HOA can make new rules anytime about anything, can you really claim that the house owner knew what they were signing up to when they bought the house?
Possibly related to the ownership change in 2016.
> Imagine getting bent out of shape about the color of your shutters or having to put up curtains.

No need to imagine, as that seems to be exactly what their HOA does.
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It seems dubious to me, too, but as a solution for electric buses, I think it makes more sense. It allows you to avoid heavy/expensive battery packs, long charging times, and unsightly overhead wires.

Efficiency is an open question, though.
Could you explain why the HOA was powerless to stop the bird shitter problem? Was it powerless in a legal way? Was it powerless in a members did not care enough way?
Yup. My parents live in an HOA that used to have a woman (who had no official capacity with the HOA other than living in it) drive around in her golf cart every day with a clipboard to note down any violations she spotted. One of her favorite rules to enforce was one that indicated how long you could have your garage door open for (something like 20 mins). Like another commenter's experience above, she too had a ruler she would use to measure various shrubs etc. in hopes of finding a violation.
Unfathomable downvoting is recently endemic. IDK why.

I've been upvoting as I see cases of it.
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Fastmail does put envelope address into 'X-Delivered-to' header, GMail puts it into 'Delivered-To'.
In some regions of the country, HOA's are more or less a given if you want a newer house.

I don't necessarily want to live in one, but there are essentially no houses built in the last 50 years in my area for sale that don't sit in an HOA.
I'm in Sydney Australia and whole-city laws cover noise. Yes, Police can be called for excessive noise outside the permitted hours.

Several years ago, our next door neighbour decided to get into the meat delivery business and parked his van in his front yard overnight. It had a petrol engine for a refrigeration unit that ran constantly. The Police came around and advised them to switch it off or move it somewhere else.
The (graphical) software program with guaranteed internet connectivity has become a control vector for the software author, many times the company employing the software author, over the user. Users are being "used", as suggested by the original author of GCC.

For whatever reasons, non-graphical software seems to suffer less from this problem.
Personally I don't get HOAs at all.

You either own something, or you don't. If you actually do own something, you shouldn't owe anything to anyone. No dues, no rules, no crap. It's your goddamn property, it's your rules. You decide what fence you put, what flowers you put, and what color car you have, and where you park your car on your property. Those idiots who think they have power over your property can get lost.

My 2 cents.
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You may be conflating class and race (it's a common error). A neighborhood of wealthier, successful people (regardless of race) probably want their neighborhood to be a quieter, nice-looking, pleasant place.

I've lived in both HOA and non-HOA neighborhoods. If there's a barrier to entry such as price, then generally a more successful (and hopefully more refined) type of person will move in, and generally the homes will stay nice-looking without rules. Without that, then an HOA to try to maintain an aesthetic baseline can be very helpful. All the homeowners benefit from maintaining an attractive neighborhood, in that their home values will be higher.
Sure, and it makes sense there: write a service that returns unique 64 bit ints and encapsulate the complexity inside that one location. That’s easier than making every `insert` in your app code have to do a `while not unique` loop.
Should you ever use a plain token (where you just check if it exists in some authed_users table) vs, I dunno, some sort of signed/HMAC type thing, where you have to call some function on it? I genuinely don't know but I know enough to generally leave authentication up to those that do know.

Maybe I'm just thinking of OAuth where there are multiple hops involved?
I just want a place to live, not become a political campaigner.

I just want to come home and chill dude. Not have to lobby all my neighbors, just not to get fleeced out of my money.

The fact is that most HOA board members/directors tend to be older folks that have more time on their hands than you do. And they set the agenda. Good luck with that.
I worked at a company where I turned up late for work, left super early. Did some work in the evening, worked from home when I felt like it. Want to talk employee engagement, its the happiest Ive ever been working, and Id put a lot more effort in just to have that flexibility. I worked a lot more productively this way, and also it fitted well with eg senior people that work 10 hours a day or whatever, as Id respond "out of hours".
Forcing 9-5 attendance on people who can be more productive working to their own schedule just seems stupid.
Laurenz (the author) was Postgres person of the week not too long ago: https://postgresql.life/post/laurenz_albe/
Counterthought: I've been running a popular web-only site for about 5 years now and I get a little under a hundred requests per month for it to be made "into an app". A lot of users just want to be able "to install it" or to "get to it from my home screen" or "to get to it faster" (even after pointing out they can add bookmarks to home screens). It's also tempting from my POV to make an app just for discoverability reasons (e.g. users browsing the app store discovering my site).

I haven't made an app (don't know how!) and I definitely wouldn't add a "download our app or else!" banner/wall, but I've been extremely surprised from the other side of the table to see just how many users seemingly just want an app for an app's sake, even if it's functionally no different from a responsive mobile view.
> 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.

The problem is that they can get involved at any time whether you like it or not and if you don't want to lose your home, you will have to comply.
I guess you bound yourself to that contract by accepting your inheritance from your grandfather. Various other contracts can be passed on this way too.

You always had the option to say no after all, and not take the house.
it's a pleasant social activity when you're young; you have a ritual you perform together and share informal bonding time. smoking also gives a physical sense of relief once you're addicted to it and it gives you something to punctuate your day with, little benchmarks -- i will finish writing these emails so i can have a cigarette, etc.

i smoked for 8 years then switched to vaping. i don't want to vape for the rest of my life, but there was an obvious difference in my fitness as soon as i quit (e.g. being able to run twice as far without stopping). i also smell better and my teeth are whiter. i'm glad that i switched, but it doesn't share the same ritual feeling when you can just pull a drag at any arbitrary time.
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It depends on where you live. In an incorporated area (town/city) generally yes. An issue though is in a city the enforcement of these kinds of things can be low priority, an HOA is generally more effective from that standpoint.
To get physiologically addicted to alcohol, one has to drink heavily every day for a year or so. Few people, especially people with college education, do that. One can drink a glass of wine or a cocktail every weekend for life, and form no addiction at all. Such a person can go dry for weeks or months, without any adverse effects.

Nicotine forms a physiological addiction much faster, and then the addict has to have a fix daily, several times. So the exposure to nicotine (which is mildly toxic in the quantities needed) and smoke (which is way more dangerous, and hits the lungs directly) is much more intense and sustained.
Surely there’s a separation of powers between those that make the rules and those who judge if they have been broken?
I gotta say, smoking has not been an addiction for me. After a year of smoking, I quit. I realised I literally didn't get enjoyment from it anymore. 6 years later, here I am, having tasted a cigar just to experience it and otherwise having never thought about tobacco or had urges.

I don't think smoking is always addictive. But, given that it is for almost everyone, I'm utterly fascinated why it wasn't for me.
Everything boils down whether European aristocracies would like to continue being the vassals of their lords in the United States.

I think they still prefer that option and won't change their stance in the near future.
It seems like the magic part here is the knitting together of clusters with different LODs.

How does the streaming part work? I don't think this article mentioned it.
> Treating housing as an investment is a horrible mistake.

In terms of policy I totally agree, but as an individual, nothing has done more for my personal wealth than my real estate transactions. Of course, a lot of that is my location, but in general, real estate (much like stock) goes up.
I feel like the author’s proposed solution of better searching through tagging and semantic associations over manual organization also requires user care and effort. I don’t think the desktop model is broken so much as the average person isn’t very organized to begin with.
It’s easier to live somewhere with a decent HOA than to rely on each of your neighbors being decent.

Otherwise, the only other way to ensure neighbors don’t bother you without an HOA is to live somewhere with lots of land around homes so that neighbors are very spaced out, and hopefully they will be far enough from you to not be bothered by their filth, and putting up high hedges and trees should be enough to block them from your sight.
God, I do not use my Mac in any way resembling this hell of URLs and meme gifs that this dude is complaining that it is badly suited for.

And if I wanted to hide the Preview window full of my porn for a video call (I'm assuming that's why he wants to close that Preview full of a bunch of stuff), I'd just hit f3 for Exposé or whatever they're calling it this year and switch to the desktop I keep tedious public-proper work shit on and leave Preview where it is.
The HOA can not restrict purchase sure, but can specifically target PoC for "violations" while ignoring the white households who are committing violations. This has the effect of working to force these folks out and maintaining the racial status quo of the HOA.

In the 70s (I think) and before, HOA were definitely active gatekeepers though against PoC, and then after that with new laws passed, moved to these more "subtle" methods.
> people enter them willingly?

Sometimes a developer builds a group of homes, offers parks, gym, walkways, street lights etc, and until all homes are not sold yet, or build, manages those common things. Buyers of those houses willingly by a house with a perspective HOA. Once all homes are sold, developer hands over the maintenance responsibility to group of elected home owners.

Now if a colony already has a HOA and somebody sells their house, the buyer has to be in the HOA in most of the cases, very few exceptions like if seller fails to disclose that it's HOA, seller does not give the HOA paperwork to sign and such.

I think there's a price difference also between a HOA homes and non HOA homes.
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I really wish HN would reapproach their strategy for downvoting. It seems like all too often users take the Reddit-esque "Downvote = Disagree" strategy, which is just absolutely terrible for cultivating legitimate conversation between people that might disagree (but are being respectful and have valid points like the post above).
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Tangential: I think it should be "we investigate" instead of "we investigating" in the first paragraph of the abstract? How can such an awful mistaken use of grammar pass peer-review and other processes that precede publishing? Or am I the one who is mistaken?

EDIT: this is an "early view" of the paper, before it gets published. No idea about the implications of that.
This sounds really interesting. I too haven't found a note taking app that I love. Is there a place where I can follow your progress?
> with no other negative side effects

Try that with townhomes with shared walls and ceilings and you'll see negative side effects pretty quick.
HOAs are like mini cities but usually with much stricter rules, or at least actively enforced rules unlike most cities that wait for complaints.
When I hear "historically significant" I think of segregationist NIMBYs. The future is more important than the past.
I'm good with all of that except the pile of garbage. The remedy for that here is to call the town refuse and recycling department and ask them to assess whether it's a health hazard.

One of the benefits of living in a middling-urban city in a state where government more or less works is that it's really difficult to build up a 10 foot pile of garbage -- because once a week the town sends a refuse truck and a recycling truck to pick up things at the end of your driveway.

I had a neighbor up the street with a commercial dumpster in their driveway for about six months; I assume they were doing interior construction and demolition. I'm sure nobody complained about it. Construction debris doesn't attract rats and raccoons the way food debris does.
Also, here's a list of blog posts from Laurenz Albe (the author of the OP post): https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/author/cybertec_albe/
His blog posts are a great read, I'd recommend checking them out!
The problem is HOAs are spreading across the country like a fungus, and it's becoming increasingly hard to find an area that isn't an HOA area.

Mandatory HOAs should be outlawed, plain and simple. Optional participation in return for access to common areas (e.g. a gym/pool membership) is fine, but hell no they're not telling me how to decorate something I own. Tell them to look up what "own" means in the Oxford English Dictionary if they have a problem with it.
Google should be in favor of privacy, their advertising model serves ads only when you want them about the subject you’re searching for. Facebook relies on knowing everything about you to show you ads when you don’t want them, hoping they’ll give you something you’re interested in clicking on.
Great post! I'm a mildly fanatical Gentoo user myself, but NixOS has tempted me into migrating to function package manager. I've no hesitation to face fiddily systems and work around limitations in the name of freedom and flexibility, so I've choosen GNU Guix. It inherits these same ideas, ostensibly from NixOS itself, but also from the Lisp-driven environment of Emacs with it's advice functions (including sophisticated extensions to the advice system itself, such as el-patch @ https://github.com/raxod502/el-patch)
Re: It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
In my opinion the answer to that question is actually clear: No. Simply because an investment or asset of yours loses value for reasons outside of your control is not reason to then decide that you’ve been harmed, more than if actions or conditions entirely outside of your control lifts the value of your investments or assets.

IMO, a reasonable viewpoint is that an HOA is a communal way to fix the “out of your control” part at the cost of some personal freedoms. But some people err on the side of the personal freedoms. I know it’s easy to say on an online forum and bad experiences can change one’s mind, but I am comfortable in saying that I would most likely keep this viewpoint in the face of challenges, and instead prefer to push for the law to be amended if it is necessary...

So yes, I think the answer here is no even regardless of whether you would prefer an HOA, but I still upvoted your comment though as I think it raises the important question.
It's easier to sell land with a building on it that is immediately useable. This impacts bank decision making.

For example when you buy bare land recreational property you often have to pay cash because no lender wants to have bare land on their books.

You will struggle to get a lender to give you any money for a condemned building (I've tried).

In Canada it is simple to get a mortgage on on a property with a house on it because there's a "usable" house on it and the bank can easily sell the property.

Perhaps this is the same in Japan as well, even if the house is 25 years old, but it depends on how they look at that 25 year old "worth $0" property. Perhaps as long as it's "livable" lenders don't mind and one doesn't run into the road blocks one would run into if they were trying to buy bare land.

Or perhaps it's simply much easier to buy bare land in Japan than it is in Canada!
There's no such thing in Germany apart from eg leasehold of holiday homes, rented garden houses (Kleingartenvereine) etc. but there are municipal usage restrictions according to Baunutzungverordnung to the effect you can't repurpose residential areas as a commercial space, and local zoning rules according to a Bebauungplan or equivalent for eg how many storeys are allowed, building lines, distances, materials to choose, a duty for at least an effort to gardening, etc., but it depends greatly where you live, ranging from very strict to everything goes.

Edit: IANAL
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Local noise ordinances are only as effective as the police force which enforces them. Where I live, the police do not take this responsibility seriously. The hammer of the HOA is a necessity to ensure that peace and quiet is maintained.
Well, I guess you know how to spin a story. My point the whole time has been that percentages can be misleading without the actual number presented, still you seemed to be only cares about the percentages.

It's quite easy to see that birth rate in Xinjiang falls around the national average in 2018. Stil, I'm glad you found the actual dataset in the appendix.
I would've loved to have not bought a home in an HOA area, unfortunately there seems to be now development built these days that isn't under the control of an HOA that is in turned controlled by the developer that is actually an umbrella HOA that controls everything and isn't part of my neighborhood at all.
It does seem shady. As someone who volunteered a lot in the past I would not feel well about someone making profit off my efforts - it's just feels wrong.
Yep, my current HOA charges an optional $40 a year.

It's basically enough to do some upkeep on the neighborhood entrance area, along with some cash for incidental expenses for neighborhood events.

I've lived on both extremes of HOAs, from this current one to one where I got fined for opening the hood of my car in my driveway to replace a headlight (working on your car in view of others was specifically called out as not allowed).

I can see why people would want the more extreme HOAs, but it's generally not for me.
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You are not mistaken. I stopped reading at that point.

Edit: the status is listed as "Online ahead of print", so perhaps the error will get corrected prior to publication.
Yes - but I wouldn't put too much emphasis on the "easily" part. I think that the physics are now pretty deterministic if you run a simulation using the exact same input/setup (on different clients). However, in reality you'd still have to synchronize the state of the objects every now and then (e.g., if a client didn't receive certain inputs on time).
> If they hide everything away so as to respect your time, then another user will be frustrated by the constant magic going on in the background.

How did we update software in the 80s? Simple, by taking an action: inserting the floppy with the new software, starting the update program, etc.

Why can't it be like that? (Except the floppies replaced by opening a menu and clicking "update")

Why do updates have to be performed at a pace controlled by the vendor of the software and why do I need to be reminded about updates?

I'll just install them when I think I need them, thank you.
When I was a Mac user I just hid the dock. cmnd-spacebar, cmnd-tab and cmnd-tilde make the dock not needed IMO.