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What makes us better than China then? Our relative freedoms?
What can we do about it?

Princeton also did a study on America not being actually a democracy. I shared it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249091
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This thread shows me that "America + Politics = Cancer" is not an exclusively Reddit phenomenon.
I had a blog or two that used Google AdWords circa 2008. I got very close to the $100 limit but never reached it - so Google just kept my $90. I wonder how many people and how much revenue that applies to.
Yes, and the lack of enough construction is decades in the making.
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8 year olds, dude
If Portland can hit 116 degrees, so can San Francisco. We're not ready
Usually this would happen with lottery winners because ppl know it was made from stoke of pure luck so they feel giving them a little is fair. He’s right in not telling anyone. Most people know rich people but they don’t go up to them easily asking for hand outs because they know they don’t deserve their hard work.
That is exactly what debit cards do. When you make a purchase the money is withdrawn from your account.

The only novel thing here is you are deceiving the processing networks by claiming your debit card is a credit card. My credit union tried to do the same thing many years ago (as a way to build credit for students) and it eventually got caught by the processing networks and recategorized. Within a month or two it dropped off everyone's credit reports and they were back to square one.
If you invest in an S&P 500 index fund, you're diversified into 500 companies. Very easy to do.
Isn't that easily solved by only including the friends you had before the windfall? I certainly know who I would pick for my best men and that's the same people that I would consider in a situation like that.
Your name implies otherwise :)

We started this company with a mission of making the vacation home market more accessible to people who are typically priced out. We're excited to see where Ancana goes, but pivoting into a timeshare company is not a direction we'll ever go.
It's pretty obvious that most poster here don't understand and don't want to understand your article. Most of them are invested in software. Pretty bad software, probably. It seems the only way they can feel good about what they use or develop (often not by any real choice) is by constructing an imaginary past where everything was absolutely awful and comparing the current tools to such imaginary past. Anything that undermines that meta-narrative must be immediately responded to with shallow off-point comments to reduce the cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps this is an opportunity. I could see a minimum wage exemption for employee owned businesses being viable
It isn't that this behavior is good because it's natural - it's good because it keeps people motivated. The problem is that unfortunately, people are not the same. Some are better physicists than others, some are better organizers, and some are better carpenters. You need some inequality of outcome to incentivize people to do what they are good at - the Soviet Union has showed us that.

Having any inequality at all produces elites. You can have human rights while having inequality, and we generally do.
Yeah, that's understandable. Don't be afraid to have refactored changes on other repos locally, just be sure to do the package version updates first.
When? This was the level I failed to meet for AdWords when I had a blog around 2007. What Google or other companies were doing in 2005 is so long ago that it’s hardly relevant.
Of course it's more convenient for the caller. But what about the receiver of the call? They might be in the middle of other tasks, and perhaps they want to have some time to plan their side of the conversation, as the caller did.

I don't think the argument is that voice communication is not useful. The only issue is unsolicited calls.
> If a student does badly on a test it should be interpreted as that student needing more help.

This is not always true. Any of these can lead to bad grades:

* Min/maxing your study success. A passing grade can be totally sufficient and you are able to focus on a course threatening your graduation more.

* External factors (needing to work, personal issues) unrleated to the course make the student unable to put in the time.

* Student is simply not interested.

* Student is lazy.

* ...
Interesting- I haven't experienced that issue for about 10 years- I've no idea if 'the majority of phones and networks' still have that problem though.
is there some age at which it stops feeling good to be told you did the right thing?
Think of spending $70k in Haiti (for example) as investing in the Society of Haiti, Inc.: what level of the problem would you like to address? Buying food will help people eat right now, but will not solve their long-term problem (unless it's truly just short-term). On the other hand, long-term thinking is unhelpful if they die of starvation first, so you need both. You could also invest through an organization that teaches Haitians skills that let them earn more than subsistence farming would. You could invest through an organization that (re)built homes and buildings. You could invest through an organization that drills wells to provide clean water. In a discussion a few weeks ago on Haiti here, one post compared the Dominican Republic and Haiti and noticed that Haitians were unwilling to learn (to overly summarize) and insisted on patterns of belief and thinking that keep them in poverty; you can invest through an organization that attempts to change culture. You could use the money to take six months off work (theoretically speaking) and volunteer in Haiti personally.

I think you'll be happier about your decision if you are investing in an area you really feel benefits, e.g. Haitians. I also think you'll be happier about the decision if you decide how much money you want to invest, rather than doing it out of guilt or from a reason-based ideological imperative.
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in my experience kids tend to gravitate towards chaos, and roblox has a LOT of it
Didn't see this until now. It has impacted me personally, I've had business accounts closed twice without any reasonable explanation, which is a huge crisis when you suddenly lose your ability to receive payments from customers and pay your employees and suppliers. The AML regime is the only reasonable explanation I can think of for a bank to close out a fee paying customer in good standing. I'm certainly not alone in having this happen to me, there's a lot of other people I've talked to who have been swept up in this.
I wonder if the old regulations around company scrip and stores might be used to legally undermine such tactics.

It doesn’t matter if you’re creating digital experiences, you must pay people with money, not company tokens.
100% true.

And a good reminder of how much exposure housing prices have to interest rates. To frame the same math another way:

If you bought a house for, say, $580k with a $500k mortgage... You paid $80k down payment + $20k closing costs and your monthly would be ~$2,073/month.

If interest rates go up to 6%, and the person buying your house also wants to pay the same ~2,073/month, they would only be able to afford a $344,649 mortgage. Assume the same $80k down payment and $20k closing costs... and they should be willing to pay $444,649 for your house ($135,351 less than you paid!).

Obviously with inflation the person may be willing to spend more than you spent! But there's a lot of risk for homeowners who need/want to sell if/when interest rates go up. That's why the 30 year fixed is such a fantastic bet if you are willing + able to hold and lock that fixed price... but housing is a pretty lousy investment if you need to sell.
> Are they marginally profitable now? Maybe, but that's nothing to brag about at a market cap of over half a trillion dollars.

Decent to do more than a billion in profit and they are a growth company with Giga Austin and Giga Berlin opening soon. When amazon had a similar market cap they did around 800m in profit. It's ofcourse easy in retrospect to say that amazon was a winner, but of course it was an unknown to investors and everyone placed their bets back then.

And my point with subsidies is that they affect the outcome, as they exist they have an effect on the business, and should be valued as such.
While I 100% agree with you that matching demand with a commensurate increase in supply is the only true fix to the problem of housing costs, in practice I don’t see it happening for a couple main reasons:

Firstly, the people with the most political power are not coincidentally those who would lose the most if housing prices decrease. NIMBYism therefore inevitably wins.

Secondly, building additional housing in regions that need it most (i.e. dense urban areas) would require dramatically improving public transit in those areas. The transportation networks of e.g. San Francisco, Boston, or even New York (which has by far the best public transit in the country) are already at a breaking point and simply cannot tolerate the influx of people more housing stock would bring. Sadly, I don’t think the US has the ability anymore to build large infrastructure projects at reasonable prices.
I'm not suggesting that the United States is particularly bad. There are definitely many places in the world that are much worse off from so many perspectives (lack of rule of law, system of governance, economy, social safety net, class mobility, corruption, etc).

It could be better in so many ways, though, too. It would be nice if younger people (say, sub-70) would (and could be permitted to) take up the mantles of leadership.
There wasa reddit thread previously where a guy had 1,500 BTC in a wallet he couldnt recall the password for... I wrote to him calculating the value of the wallet at the time at $13 million.. I encouraged him to pay someone to help him crack the wallet and he agreed to give me 1% to assist him, which I did...

Then when he got the BTC, he ghosted.

If he succeeded, that BTC is $72 million today...
This is what we get as a society when we aren't collectively involved. Why should our politicians care when we don't? How many of your neighbors have done the work to change politicians' votes or to raise their own politicians up?

I agree with you, but I also think there are many disparate problems we can point at. Ultimately, it all boil down to - we get the results of our efforts.
It depends--some ACME clients have a list of DNS providers they support and take API credentials to automate DNS verification

I use

1. Free Cloudflare DNS
2. Traefik's built-in ACME client
One of the things I find absolutely infuriating is the modern push to subscription services for things that aren't generally subscription. Like dog food. I've been... pushed into... more subscriptions lately... and I've never had to file so many credit card disputes in my life as I have in the past couple years, because half these subscription services absolutely refuse to stop charging you even after you've called them to cancel two or three times.

The EU has far superior legislation surrounding subscriptions and cancellation methods that are really woefully lacking in the US. I'd bet subscription businesses wouldn't be nearly as popular a model if it wasn't for the number of people paying who can't cancel.
Can you transfer it? If so, seems like it would be hard to prevent secondary markets from forming.
I've forgotten almost everything from a lot of my old biology, chemistry, geography, and history classes but I feel like I've gotten so much more real world experience and can make so many connections that it would probably be much easier the next time around.

Especially things that I felt like I was forced to memorize actually make sense once you draw connections to other places. I wonder why these things aren't taught like that. Or maybe it's just too difficult and too personalized for the current education system.
> Would you be okay with that?

What does it even mean to be "okay with that" in this context? I certainly think it should be legal for newspapers to publish opeds arguing for harsher sentencing, just as it should be legal for newspapers to publish opeds calling for more lenient sentencing. I am okay with both. If I said it was only okay when I happened to agree with it, that would make me an authoritarian.

All the people hand-wringing about newspapers advocating against causes they believe in should spend less time wishing their opponents didn't exist, or weren't permitted to speak, and spend more time writing advocacy articles of their own. If you think anecdotes are more effective than statistics, then go dig up some anecdotes of your own. You're never going to stop your opponents from using anecdotes.
Most of these kids are just sharing games with their friends... like posting a video to youtube.

Free content maybe, but not free labor exactly IMO.
How much do you know about this situation to judge it "excessively risking the life of a child".
> told I need to reach out to these companies to prevent future recurring charges.

"I did. They are continuing to make fraudulent charges."
US population also added 50 million people. I'm willing to bet it also affects real estate prices to a considerable degree.
You can use your equity in the first house to buy the 2nd house, right?

And this person with the $2M home in California can, even after taxes and transaction fees, recover their original investment, plus have enough left over to e.g. buy a $1.5m home in cash, or a much higher priced home with a mortgage?
Yes, and Chinese billionaires are buying up supply, adding to higher prices.
One of the listings is literally just a bunch of concept art illustrations, what am I even looking at https://en.ancana.co/properties/helechos
I mean, it’s not like YouTube content creators made YouTube, by your logic YT shouldn’t be paying its content creators either.

In reality the relationship between these platforms and the creators is a necessary and mutually beneficial relationship. The exchange in value between these parties should be in a format useful to both sides: cash.
> free to list your fraction with an agent of your choosing or sell to your own network at whatever price you desire.

What if one co-owner chooses to sell to someone whose intention is to sub-let as a party house?
It’s still stupidly wrong, though - killing millions by starting wars is the domain of the US, not Iran.
> Basically, is there any "rational" reason to be a rapist AT ALL?

Are you equating taking irrational actions with being mentally ill? By that logic, everyone is mentally ill.

> Especially in today's world which is full of easy to get sex.

What makes you think sex is easy to get in today’s world? The evidence would contradict that. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/202106...

> I think every rapist is mentally not OK.

Sure, but is it an illness which can be alleviated?
> by other factors e.g. competition

The very nature of exogenous factors is that we can only react to/worry about them.

When all is said and done, my board is going to ask me what I did "about it" which is an implicit invitation for me to explain why they should be confident in how I'm spending their money. If the numbers don't look good or good enough, I need to tell them what I'm doing to change that. That manifests as some slides in a board deck explaining projects, impacts, deadlines, and headcount. Maybe an org chart. Financial projections.

One investor will ask me if I really need those people. Another will ask how adding those people will affect the delivery schedule. Another will ask if there are any projects we're currently working on that we're maybe not excited about (or they're not) and if we could cut our losses.

Unless our runway is really low and we're uncertain in our confidence to raise another round, the general consensus will be to hire more people and not impact existing projects. Maybe you went expecting to hire 20, but "negotiated" down to 10. Sometimes you go in expecting to hire 20, and the board convinces you to hire 40.
Cancelled card, or account via the cancelled card's number?
I was thinking something more stable than "buy for X and sell for X/10". Probably something not controlled by Roblox at all (USDC or DAI?). That would be giving up a lot of control, but it would solve the problems they're giving the kiddos.
Pornhub literally hasn't even let you search "rape" in years. Go ahead and search it. 0 results. This precedes the now infamous editorial. Same with "forced" and "brutal".
What is the name of town?
> "in the UK, facesitting, spanking and “water sports” are illegal."

In what sense are those things illegal?
Kids love the total mess! As an adult I don't see the appeal but I can understand why kids like it. Most of the complaints here about Roblox and revenue sharing, etc, completely miss the point: Roblox is not Steam; it's a playground.
Your conclusion that "Biden is in direct violation of the Supreme Court" isn't supported by anything else that you said. Nor is it supported by the actual Supreme Court ruling, which you can read for yourself here:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a169_4f15.pdf

The actual text of the ruling is simply: "The application to vacate stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is denied." The additional wording that follows is simply Kavanaugh's personal feeling on the matter which for now doesn't carry the force of law, as well as several judges lamenting they would've vacated the moratorium if they had the votes, which they didn't.

(Note: I happened to agree that Biden should not have extended the moratorium. And it may yet prove to be that he will be overruled by the US Sup. Ct., but that hasn't happened yet.)
I think that we need to somehow make it harder for companies to request SSN if that continues to be a "secret". I cannot tell you how many times a Doctor's office casually asks for an SSN on a sheet of paper in plain text and I am like Why. I always fight that and found out that in a lot of cases, they just have it there and they didn't care when I didn't fill it. Some of them do force me (probably for credit/billing reasons) but I always try not to fill it out.

Also why are these phone companies persisting SSNs in database ? Why can't they run the credit check initially and discard the SSN. There should be laws around this and enforced. It is time to hold these companies accountable. We are so tired of being worried that our ID may get stolen.
Hmm, not sure if I agree with that. I think the best panels back in 2000 were ~11% efficient. Today we are closer to ~24%? I mean, it isn't a fast improvement, but production for a given area has more than doubled in 20 years.

And 11% was vastly better than just 10 years or so before that.
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Does this happen with MasterCard too?
He doesn't say where he lives. While I agree with you that if he indeed lives in a place where the "road runoff" is nasty he should be careful, I really can't see why capturing rainwater should be banned. Of course "some places" is very vague so there might be good reasons but you'd have to provide much more context for me to believe that it's a good idea to prevent it.

If my house wasn't where it is, the ground on which it is built would absorb that water. Now I capture it and put it on my veggies or use it to flush the toilet which ends up going out to the septic drain field on the lwab and then it filters further down. I don't see any issues with that.
The appreciation also throws you up the economic ladder fast. Say you put 5% down on a 500k house, you are out 25k. Next year you have a 600k house with the same payments. You’ve now gained 75k just by existing, and you can even flip and use that profit on a down payment for a larger house, maybe even getting your monthly payment about the same as the smaller house since your down payment is a larger proportion and you are no longer paying pmi.
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To us nerds/lizard people, a computer is a programmable information processing device, generally with one or more CPUs, memory, etc. It can be put to a multitude of purposes. A smartphone certainly qualifies (as does a dumbphone, actually).

But normies don't work like that. To normies, a device is defined by the role it fills in your life. In this view, a computer is a device used for work: preparing documents, emails, spreadsheets, and presentations. Maybe programming or data analysis for scientific, engineering, or BI purposes. A phone is a social link: it connects you to the people you care about most. This has been true since before smartphones or even cellphones became commonplace: teenagers in the 80s craved their own landlines and their own phones, and even ordered custom phones like the ones with transparent cases, etc.

So inasmuch as smartphones serve the primary social function they continue to serve, which is to connect you with your social circles and facilitate communication with them, they will continue to be marketed as phones, not computers and not anything else -- even if they completely lose PSTN connectivity.
That's largely true, though tax law does reduce the tax hit for people over 55. California recently amended prop 13 so that people over 55 can carry their existing property tax 3 times, and modified it so that they can purchase a more expensive house and keep the lower tax burden on the amount they got for their previous house. They also greatly reduced the extent to which heirs can inherit the low previous property tax (I think it's now limited to 1,000,000 and has to be a primary residence).

The inherited low property taxes always seemed pretty egregious to me (almost like an aristocracy of landed wealth). The whole thing is pretty dismal, honestly - I'm not opposed to low property taxes, but a tax regime where people pay vastly different taxes on similar properties causes all kinds of problems (and is fundamentally unfair, in my opinion).

Much of the change to the law, though, was driven by real estate agents who want to increase transactions. The previous law preserved low property taxes as long as elderly people didn't sell and left the house to an heir. Now, people 55 and and over can sell repeatedly without increasing their taxes, and there's more incentive for heirs to sell the house. That's as much was 4 commissions where there used to be none.
I am a huge tmux and vim user. I also like the fact that tmux is scriptable and have hacked a few more tools like clojure to "program" and automate my typing in terminal windows. This has made it possible for me to type less and become very productive in command line environments.
http://www.kodeship.com/srimux.html
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OP here. The problem I had was actually more referring to the fact that Apple does not offer fine grained control over how messages are delivered or sent on a per device basis. I can’t easily say, for instance, that I want outgoing messages on all my non phone devices (Mac, iPad, etc) to use iMessage but inbound messages sent from phones should be received via SMS. I also can’t say that I want all messages from certain users to be received via SMS (like my wife, who I should always want to receive on my phone so I can respond quickly).
I believe it's true to at least some degree of some US states as well. I assume this is a transparency thing so people know that the governor's brother didn't by "sheer chance" win the lottery.
> But I kind of guess the window has passed for it becoming open.

It’s moving there. They’re adding a web interface this year.
If you are talking about a second system that needs to be deployed in it’s own in the future, then you are not identifying a problem with this system.