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Look, I understand the sentiment and context. China saw what happened in the USSR, and what's happening in India, and they are rightly fearful that a mob of 1 billion people who have not risen to the level of the 300-400 million middle class Chinese, pose an existential threat to the stability of the country if a power vacuum were left. They need to bring up the rest of the country to, ironically, prevent a communist revolution to the current "state capitalist" system they have.

The US came frighteningly close to instability during the Great Depression until FDR launched massive infrastructure projects, created social security, built 40,000 schools, created the GI Bill, etc.

But there is a such thing as overdoing it. I don't believe the current censorship is actually creating stability. Most educated Chinese know what's going on, can use VPNs, and the creativity of using anti-censorship terms on Weibo, shows people still want to criticize the government. (for example, mentioning Chloe Zhao was banned, so Chinese netizens started using her pinyin initials or English initials like CZ to refer to her, and the algorithms didn't pick it up)

Scarily enough, Xi has created such an atmosphere of nationalism, that "cancel culture" on behalf of "patriots" these days is enough to ruin someone, you don't even need the government to censor. If you criticize the government or China online these days, netizens will crush you.

See here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-xi-jinpings-china-nationalis...
You do the best you can. If that's the market in Chicago you are better off buying.
It's obviously an example. You asked if anyone's ever been harmed - yes they have.
In my mind, "I don't want to see this" is personal to you, dislike is " .. and also I don't think others should see this."
It’s pretty common in Scandinavia I don’t know about other European countries. But there are many advantages and disadvantages to HOA. They can negotiate collective deals on internet and tv etc but a lot of mandatory expenses are pushed on you.
Can vim do document and book oriented content like paragraph flow etc ?
The article specifically says it's not talking about condo HOAs like the ones you're describing:

> What I'm going to focus on from here on are mandatory HOAs in non-condominium neighborhoods.
Same here. I don't install much new software anymore and I have removed software that does that.
You know rules on the day you sign. They can change.
It’s a balance though isn’t it. 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. Even you might want more prompts in some situations.

Maybe some applications could have an alert mode, similar to logging levels. But then it will probably get more buggy.

Honestly, I rarely get annoyed by the number of popups in most of my software. I’ll happily take a few extra dialog boxes for extra control.
You know what is worse than living with a HOA? Running one. I live in a small townhouse complex. Just a dozen units. Nobody wants to be HOA president but we legally need one. I've been de facto forced to run the HOA. It is a joyless thankless task. The number of times I've had to deal with improperly dumped furniture or the city inspector demanding fire extinguisher inspections in insane! My next house will be in a hoa-free area So i can avoid having to work for free.
> a pre-print in the process of review.

So not reviewed yet.

My point is that both a preprint and a letter to the editors have not gone through a rigorous review. Preprints might be submitted for peer-review but that's no guarantee that it will be published in a reputable venue.
I wonder if it holds e.g. for Germany. Maybe it's not HOA but the town magistrate, etc?
It’s fine as long as they’re reasonable. I don’t want random people in my neighborhood to pain their house pink with yellow flowers either.
I'm very thankful for Varenecline (aka Chantix/Champix); it's what got me to quit after many years of pack-a-day. I didn't even set a quit date when I started. That drug took away every tiny ounce of satisfaction I ever got from smoking. Every cigarette became a cigarette that did not give me what a cigarette is expected to provide. The best way I can describe what happened to me is that I felt like a non-smoker trying to smoke, and all I got was the scent and flavour of licking an ashtray with none of the brain-altering effects.

It's been over a year now, and I can't imagine going back. The only trigger I have is seeing someone else smoke, and even then it has never been more than a fleeting thought that dissipates within seconds. I know exactly what 2-3 puffs would do to me, and I have no interest in going back. I've never had the urge to buy a pack myself or to bum off someone. Smoking is now well into my past, and for that I am thankful.

I got the well-known "nightmares" from Verenecline, but I actually really enjoyed them. Those dreams were some of the most vivid and intense I've ever had the joy to experience. In fact, I still have the last 50 1mg pills leftover that I didn't need to use, and I've only kept them because I know I'll eventually use them just to revisit that kind of dream state. :)
In France it's usually limited to a single building or a few building built at the same time, and usually called a "copropriété". People can have their vote if they own their appartment. They decide things like "don't hang dry your clothes on the balcony", "don't change the way window blinds look", "here are the trees that we're going to plant in the park", "this is how garbage is handled", "should we have an employee taking care of cleaning and garbage, or should we use an exterior service?". They usually work mostly fine.

Edit: a sibling comment mentionned something about a village where you can't freely change the color of your blinds. We also have that, usually on the municipal level, to preserve heritage/the way a place look. For example, some communes from the "Pays des Pierres Dorées" have strict rules about this https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierres_dor%C3%A9es
Where on Earth do you have to pay $1000/mo for a gym membership? I find condo fees staggeringly hard to justify.
I don’t know about Chicago specifically, but HOAs in buildings are generally pretty different from hoas in neighborhoods.

They tend to handle all the common space issues like roofs and elevators, so they serve a real purpose other than being the property value police, which is also why they cost more.

Because you’re shoulder to shoulder with more people, rules enforcement is more important as well, although as always YMMV.

As a data point contrary to all the horror stories, I’ve been in a HOA in a small building for years and always appreciated what they got done.
$500 to $1k per month for an HOA, per apartment??
Fedora and Ubuntu seem to work great.
"The important stuff—the really valuable ideas—were now protected by intellectual property rights"

There are several reasons why China/Japan/Korea had very little regard for international IP on its high growth years - Brazil should do the same. Being per capita poor means that majority cannot consume imported goods, sometimes those are important for further development like machines, methods and tools - for small and even medium size entrepreneurs.
HOAs are really just another form of government.

You -> HOA -> City/Town -> State -> Federal

You pay fees and taxes to all of them.
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The article addresses this early on and mentions that it is specifically critiquing detached dwelling ("neighborhood") HOAs.

> condominiums are a different animal entirely in which you share ownership of the home with the HOA, who provides very specific and substantial services. As well, with condos most people recognize that property use is both restricted and totally necessary due to the communal nature of the arrangement.

> What I'm going to focus on from here on are mandatory HOAs in non-condominium neighborhoods
so true, i hate how it takes so much effort these days to find quality anything and how much low quality trash ends up well in the trash
I haven't lived here too long yet. But I have noticed several notices placed on lawns regarding the length of the grass. At first I assumed they were HOA notices, but upon closer inspection they were from the city.

edit: here is one of the notices if curious: https://i.imgur.com/xJABpPf.jpg
An HOA is more like a hyper local government like some local councils in Europe.
MacOS specifically does terrible job at visually managing apps.

I frequently end up with a bloated dock with a ton of icons signalling that the app behind them is open (the little dot on top of them).

When I close all the windows of an app why on earth does the app stay open? Why do I need to have Powerpoint open in the dock with no Powerpoint windows open? Especially today that we have SSDs and fast processors that can launch an app within a couple of seconds?

If an app needs to run in the background without UI, there is the menu bar for them.

Linux and Windows have much more rational UX regarding desktop usage.
Do you have some good examples of such software, to share?
Code is available under an MIT license on CodePen [0].

[0] https://codepen.io/njmcode/pen/rNebvPe
This shit always just makes me so incredibly, deeply sad. It's the loneliest thing I can imagine.
> And people enter them willingly? Can someone explain why?

For some, the house they want happens to be in an HOA neighborhood, so they oblige. For others, they like the "order" that the HOA demands of the homeowners that live in that zone - grass and roofs and paints are all "approved" which definitely provides some semblance of consistency.

In my experience, HOAs are exactly like this article describes. People that like power for power's sake becoming anal about the people they have control over, under the guise of "consistency" and "order".
Well, theoretically the threat of sinking the ship would make people not attempt at all, or surrender the slaves to England.

But I really doubt this theoretical approach always worked... probably trigger happy english captains existed.
'Perfect cookie cutter shape' can be charming and historically significant. I'm glade there is an association maintaining the character of a village I used to live in, and that people aren't free to remodel them on a whim, permanently damaging cultural property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Sunlight
Those fees pay for common property (walls, elevators, roof—everything outside the paint) and amenities. They can be spendy, but they’re unavoidable. You pay them whether you rent or own, the only question is how.

If you buy a house, you don’t pay those fees, but you still pay to replace the roof, paint the house, deal with water intrusion, etc. Such are the joys of being a homeowner.
Even if a few species on the go go extinct

You first.
|and keep power in the hands of the Japanese

I think you mean Japanese collaborators, who were hated by the population, but who also were the only people with any experience in technical and administrative areas.
Why does this post read like an over the top and rather extreme representation of non-HOA neighborhoods to the point of being just short of a false-dichotomy altogether? It sounds like an awful situation you have but it’s not as if this is how every neighborhood is that isn’t united and governed by HOAs.
> Rewriting whole paragraphs for clarity is very much the kind of thing that should be discussed on the talk page. That's why the feature exists.

That's absolutely not how it's been presented for the last couple decades, though.
When state institutions act in a way that benefits them (keep out the riff raff, support real estate appreciation) or they think the force of government will only fall on others there are fewer cries of "freedom"/"liberty." For another example see the reactionary movement "all lives matter."
>I'm carefully trying NOT to slight kube-system here. There is only so much attention any one individual can apply to any given context. The situation could easily be reversed between kube-system and you in a different context. We need cognitive density in all the wide-ranging human endeavors our species engages in, there is room enough for everyone.

In the arena of the internet I wouldn't worry too much about slighting people. It's all fair game, they can "slight" you too. This necessity to be overly polite over moderately polite so you can avoid hurting someones precious feelings is overblown on the internet. First of all the feeling will pass, second of all it's the internet, you're anonymous so the chances of permanent damage is basically zero.

Worrying about slighting someone hinders you from getting your point across, it also stops the other party from emotionally engaging with you. Conflict often fuels the fire of a debate giving the opponent incentive to try to expose every single logical flaw in your argument.

The internet is the perfect arena for this kind of heated discussion. It also goes both ways. If I have a wrong idea that I think is right, by god I will fight for that idea to be right until all possible logical alternatives are decimated and even then I'll only admit that I'm wrong 5 years later. Still my efforts allowed the other party to strengthen their arguments and expose flaws in my arguments and the discussion is open to public record. Even more important my attempts at vindicating myself could actually expose a real flaw in other parties argument, thereby maintaining a healthy dose of scientific doubt.

My philosophy is don't try to deny your own human bias. Be aware of it, and revel in it. You and others were naturally selected to have this bias because it helped you survive. Trying to deny it and be above this base emotion could hinder your competitiveness in the game of life.
Very interesting. Personally, I don't have any of the issues you've mentioned.

I wonder if we're somehow using it differently? Different model? Not sure what could explain the delta in our experiences.

I never use "Hey Siri" because I've always found my phone just easier to unlock and manually operate. The watch however seems to be a really great application of voice control.
I do not see how you could read it as such. Because the reason / explanation is already given, as all the options that were mentioned (1-4) can be easily matched by any website, I think it is rather self evident.

1) You can add websites as app icons to iOS and Android.
2) Websites can hold persistent identities, and devices can otherwise remember the login details.
3) Websites UI can be anything and have nearly all options that apps can have, depending on the quality of the UX, which depends on the designer in any case.
4) A professional website will not be any slower if properly designed.

Now on 5, that depends on the specifics of the app. Some types do benefit greatly from being boarded on a device. An example would be Procreate for instance, which can not be mimicked on par in webform.
Seeing lots of posts in this thread about "Americans" and "freedom", but these posters I think are forgetting that the only thing Americans love more than "freedom" (quotes intentional) are controlling other people, which HOAs allow.
I quit after some 15 years of smoking. Not experiencing any cravings at this point. On the onset of COVID I even bought multiple packs to experiment with using the filters in 3D printed nasal breathers - didn't even want to light one.

However I wouldn't have bothered quitting had it not been long term health hazard. I quite enjoyed the routine.
Politics are dirty especially you fought with a dirty opponent like china supported North Korea. I think the great is so much then we might lost sight why the horrible dictatorship of South Korea and Taiwan in those days. One wonder whether they will fall into communist hand, even today. Korea not sure. Quite sure the nationalist party might even today.
1k/mo sounds high, but if you’re paying for elevator upkeep and inspections, landscaping, shared space HVAC, and door and maintenance people it’s easy to rocket past that.

Some fees also include water and trash.

It just depends how nice the services are, and/or how old the building is.
It also doesn’t help that newsrooms have been totally gutted by the loss of advertising revenues. This is particularly acute at the local level, where traditionally you had local newspaper staff at meetings for local councils, but these have largely disappeared in a lot of places.
Super interesting downvotes.
This is a weird comment. You acknowledge that people enter these arrangements willingly, yet call the arrangements oppressive and wonder why anybody would submit to them. People form or join HOAs because they want to. You ask whether the benefits are worth it... surely you realize "worth it" is inherently subjective and is up for any individual to decide themselves.

> "I keep hearing how Americans love their freedom and hate being told what to do and how to behave"

Consider that most Americans do not live under HOAs. Don't you think it likely that the Americans who exemplify the stereotypical traits you list are likely not the ones choosing to live under HOAs?
But that doesn't go for reverters, does it?
Yes, in the UK, most blocks and estates where they’re dominated by leaseholds (as opposed to freeholds) have a property management company that will outsource that to an agent.

Conceptually, that sounds similar to these HOAs in the US, so I don’t get why the difference in attitude towards them.
Why not?

People use "neighbors paint their house pink" as some sort of canonical example here, but I've lived in neighborhoods with pink houses and ugly houses and unkempt lawns and so-over-the-top-it-borders-on-creepy Christmas decorations and it has never bothered me enough to care.

Why does it actually bother you?
What you're witnessing in the US is not systems competing on their merit, but rather competing by throwing money at various social manipulation techniques, misinformation campaigns and so on.

That's not diversity of thought. That's lack of thought, with a few different colors of paint on each side.

Tribalism isn't merely "competing ideas". It's literally the tribal members suppressing their own thought process in order to align WITH their tribe and AGAINST the other tribe. This alignment makes otherwise intelligent individuals collectively quite stupid and easy to mislead and manipulate.
People who love freedom tend to also love the freedom to tell others what to do.
my last non hoa neighborhood was worse than that so it read as tame
HOAs seem to be more common in certain parts of the country, especially in the south and west. I've never encountered one in my state (Massachusetts) outside of retirement communities.
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Personally I almost never agree with these "the desktop is dead" kind of articles. If anything, the problem this author has to be exacerbated by the move away from the traditional desktop style than an embrace of it. That preview close dialog is not something you'd see 20 years but is something you see in "apps" all the time.

Perhaps the problem is, as you allude to, that software is hostile to the user now. There's always something more than simply being a tool that you buy, use, and close. Now most programs are merely portals for "services".
I think that random examples without reference to a particular arena would be...random. If you would like a recommendation for an email client, or a web server, or a programming language, I would be happy to share what works for me. I do everything on Linux, by the way.
If you want real HOA vibes in Germany, visit a Schrebergarten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotment_(gardening)#Germany)!
Do you have a PiHole?
Indeed. Even Finland is quite worried about war with Russia.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-12/finlan...
I guess if you're into living in a picture perfect neighborhood and don't want to have to look at anything especially weird or different, and have a "council" you can complain to if there's a problem, you'd buy into that. A lot of condo complexes have them as well. HOA fees also go to gardening and other people involved in exterior maintenance.
I've thought about this a fair amount and have a working app/os that shares a lot of underlying ideas with this article here are my additive thoughts:

I'm building a ui from first principles, ostensibly in 2012 it started as an itch to scratch because I found that no note taking software met my needs, the way people used email sucked, jira et al sucked, and I couldn't wrangle non-nerds into interoperating with me on emacs.

Instead of the computer as desktop or some other abstraction I started with an interface predicated on the idea that reality itself has 3 first class citizens: Time, Space/Structure & People/Minds.

As an organizing principle applications are just metadata on data structures (_App_tributes on a node if you will) in the same way a function is a file in a directory or hosted on a cloud service. "Data first" happens when you get rid of the "container"/desktop metaphor.

First Class:
Nodes, People, Time

Second Class Enablers:
Namespaces, Fragments, Timestamped Messaging, Specialized sub-interfaces

The reason projects like chromebook try to hide or delete structure is because App based interfaces are more conducive to advertising and because people use APP as a visual reminder of "functionality". A person or org must have complete "write" control of their data if they are using a first class data/structure interface (MS Word can't have in doc advertising), apps are a weird abstraction that make it easier to sneak "ads" into your workflow.

I am nearing 80% of my time in this interface, the plan is to have a consumer friendly note taking/sharing app (the best damn cross platform note taking app) that becomes the core UI experience to replace existing OS interface in future. As an aside, I muse that the way computing evolved from TTY interfaces created strong adherence to single line CLIs and software engineers never really overcame that, and that's one of the core oversights of human interfaces in computing.
You don’t get the hoa for the rules, but for keeping the kind of people who wouldn’t like those rules out.
You can just use PostgreSQL's writeable CTEs to get the same batching benefits plus the benefits from using serials. So, no, I do not think batching is a good reason for using UUIDs.
This feels like one of those Ads disguised as a news article. It's claiming an air conditioning startup founded in 2020 (windmillair.com) is bigger / "cooler" than Dyson (dyson.com).
It's a good article and the central point is valid, but the author shows a strong left-leaning stance that undermines it all for no good reason. Clear tells about his ideology are in his portrayal of Cardoso as a "neoliberal" and his romanticized presentation of Lula and Haddad.

And that is a shame, because a more neutral historian would clearly acknowledge that Lula (and the Worker's Party) were given the chance to lead the country into a cultural shift and finally realize a project for the country, but failed precisely because they saw themselves as the "new elites" and played the exact same kind of power games to keep themselves on top.
It turns out a lot of Americans are selfish and their property is a disaster. Getting into rentals can be even worse since they tend to care less.
Oh dang, I really like my HOA. I don’t hear much from them and it’s only $250 twice a year. However, it’s been helpful in rare cases where our neighbor had obnoxious election signs up til after February 2020. They are also helpful for managing the roads and nudging the community to install fiber.
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