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I have lived in many countries thanks to my freelance career. I will give you a comparison of cities to choose from.

Istanbul, Turkey:

This will be your cheapest Europe option. People live on literal 300$ here. The food is amazing and cheap, the people treat tourists like kings (be careful for getting overpriced or scammed though), plenty of sights and nightlife, and you are surrounded by water (makes for a nice view while you are riding around)

The cons are that there is high political repression (you can't speak about the govt) and the internet is censored and slow, you need VPN for anything sexual or political.

Bucharest, Romania:

Where I currently live. I live in a 300$/mo studio and my food utilities etc all comes down to 600$ per month max. I have 400$ left for hookers, adding to my travel budget, or medical stuff etc. It's a very liberal country and the people are very chill, lots of natural sights to see and awesome nightlife. The cons are that it's ugly (commie blocs everywhere) and can get dangerous in certain areas at night.

Warsaw, Poland:

I did not really enjoy this city, the people are cold and nationalistic, it was cold all the time and the public transport has very few English translations, but its cheap and has good nightlife.

Berlin, Germany:

Very difficult to survive with 1k a month here especially if you are not single. Has awesome nightlife and food though, people from almost every country in the world and its very diverse and free.

Manila, Philippines:

This was probably the most fun city I visited, great nightlife and beaches, you get your bang for buck for apartments and condos, and also the people are very friendly and helpful to tourists. English speaking rate is very high and it helps being more comfortable there. The crime rate is very high though so if safety is a consideration I would avoid (I have an adventurer personality, you may not, it's fine)
Britain subsequently benefited from transforming itself from an imperial power to a financial power. Good documentary on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uM2cdhfAGA

This is the reason that there's so many rich Russians knocking about e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/p83ljc/offshore_adv...
Just discovered that several video sharing sites, like pexels.com, have a download button on videos with creative commons license. They are off course useless for professional YouTubers, but great for everybody else.
Profits are customers saying thank you for the value they are getting. So, London is a criminal enterprise that provides no real value, or is parasitic, or at least it's reasonable to compare it to one?

I suspect the root issue here is what we consider to be value, or what activities are valuable and how value is generated. The common critique of capitalism is based (often unknowingly) on the Marxist theory of value which sees the vast majority of economic activities as parasitic of value, particularly financial activities, and if that's the issue here sure I'm quite willing to debate on that.
> In 2015, Mr Cook said he would give away his entire fortune before he dies, and is known to have donated tens of millions of dollars to charity.

I'm normally a proponent of reducing income inequality. But this has got me thinking. Is the world actively better off when billionaires like Cook/Gates/Buffett make a ton of money.

Consider the alternative: someone in the 75th percentile of USA income gets a fat raise. Most of this money is spent on a nicer house, a nicer car, eating out, going on vacation, etc. Contrast this against a billionaire who has signed the giving pledge. They spend a small fraction of this money on themselves. And the majority ends up going to charitable causes such as educational initiatives, HIV research, deworming, clean drinking water, etc.

Ironically, big payouts (and tax breaks) for billionaires* would do more to help the needy, compared to raises for the upper-middle-class.

*This only applies to those billionaires who have committed to donating most of their wealth of course
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I didn’t know the opposite of terrible UI is dark pattern.
I do not create accounts to violate guidelines. This site is a waste of time. I'm over it.
I am more interested to know how much of that payout he will be taxed on
The government once they found that they would have to pay a very large sum to take care of every child out there whose legal father decided to no longer pay once he found out the child is not his (and/or just to spare the child from all the drama, once the court says yes you're not the biological father but you're still on the hook).

I think it was after a survey on cheating and promiscuity, but I'm not sure of this since this was just something I heard of from other people and I can't find much from a quick search on the internet.

The reasoning is that the priorities of the child come before the priorities of the father, so in order to protect the stability of the family you are not allowed to know.

As to who supports this, a lot of women seems to be in support of it (they have nothing to gain from opposing it) and all the people who seem to 'think of the children'.

Some politicians claim to be against allowing the paternity test on the ground that it is against the values of the republic since it's an aknowlegment of the importance of relations blood, genetics, and race(ism), but these are the words of politicians so they don't mean much.
This actually seems like a totally appropriate reward for 10x’ing the value of the company.

Compared to the total value of the company, if anything it seems small.
Not paying taxes to a corrupt managerial elite is one of them
The CDC figure for number of COVID-19 deaths among 18-29 year olds is 2,761. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...

So, guess what, those “newspaper articles and statistics websites” have the same general numbers as more official sources like the FDA; indeed, the CDC’s own numbers are higher than the number I used for COVID-19 deaths among young adults. (And, oh, if you think the CDC’s figures are faulty, I have nothing more to say to you; you’re not looking too good after insinuating that https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.23.21260998 didn’t attempt to measure total COVID-19 infections, when, in fact, a cursory reading of the paper shows they did)

With something as fast moving as COVID-19, the press often times gets accurate figures before they’re formally published.

If you want to convince me the numbers I used are wrong, please give me up to date numbers from reliable sources which contradict my figures. Not estimates from a paper written a few months ago.

Finally, I need to flat out ask you: Have you gotten the COVID-19 vaccine yet? I got mine months ago. I will not respond to you again until I know your vaccination status.
Gnome shell is the least distracting desktop concept I ever used. I always liked desktops and tiling is to extreme for me. So far everyone I upgraded to gnome shell has been happy since.
From the article :
"In 2015, Mr Cook said he would give away his entire fortune before he dies, and is known to have donated tens of millions of dollars to charity".

Success during one's life , paying it back to make the society a better place once gone. Take a bow, Mr Cook. What more can one ask for in a lifetime :)
Better than Mozilla CEO getting a raise while Firefox market share has started tanking.
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ARM took its sweet, sweet time delivering SBSA and its follow ons. Including keeping the specs secret for a time. To call it anything other than self-own would be reaching.

Because yes, ARM stewards also the UEFI efforts on ARM.

It's why I laud Honeycomb and similar companies that actually take care to implement sensible firmware.
I thought it was an SQL thing.
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What people exactly do with their billions of dollar in their 60s or 70s?

Is it worth working whole life to get a lots of game coin in the end of life?

How about working till 40 to earn enough money for the rest the of life?
WiFi is basically fixed with all modern chips. Same with laptops.

Let's be real you won't buy the cheapest Fujitsu or whatever anyway. You are going to get a proper ThinkPad or something and than Linux is the faster and better working system either way.
No matter how big is Apple is today, $750m is an obscene amount of money. Don't understand people that can justify that.
It's good she asked, and spraying municipalities from planes is pretty common[0].

China was doing similar with sanitizer trucks running up and down streets so it's not terribly unfounded--actually that fake news is likely better than >99% of the actual crap on there.

[0] https://www.clarke.com/blog/aerial-mosquito-control-applicat...

Edit: footage of the trucks because they're neat https://futurism.com/neoscope/watch-china-spray-entire-city-...

No idea what the efficacy is.
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Forget sharia, from Russia to Brazil many countries are still struggling with crime and corruption, despite drawing inspiration from existing examples and templates.

To pretend this can be easilly achieved is just folly
Building a Crypto Trading Bot with Chrome Extension
I was hoping Apple was ceding some ground in this, it’s what puts the dirtiest taste in my mouth. If you go to even Walmart (a company very strict on their suppliers) and pick up some object, on the back of the packaging will be www.exampleproduct dot com. And on that website you could theoretically sell your product directly.

What does Apple do? “Oh on that privacy policy we mandated you could click here and then here and then pay online - REJECT”

So now people only know that Netflix can be paid online, but few think to sign up for DuoLingo or the like online :/
Super suss, but rings so true.
RC is not deterministic. That's the whole thing - when you free a refcounted object, you do not deterministically know how long is it going to take, and on systems that try to avoid RC-induced pauses, you don't get to know when the memory is going to be released.

If you want to talk determinism, you need to actually invest into deterministic behaviour - something that either requires dropping dynamic memory allocation altogether, or tends to go for GC with known determinism guarantees (for example, IBM Metronome).
I wish the media stopped propagating the cycle of pump-and-dump baiting the general public. Someone is going to stuck paying off a check they probably can't afford in the end.
> In many cases, Linux users also have the option of installing binary packages outside of their repos instead of compiling from source.

In my experience that's relatively rare. Occasionally they have an AppImage, which is great, maybe a PPA if you're on Ubuntu. but otherwise the best you can do is try to hack some other distro's binary to work. For most niche software I've found that it is only available as source though. Then you get to try and get a working build environment...
This might be true about Ubuntu. But what about Fedora? Manjaro? Arch? Or even Debian?

I would only recommend Ubuntu to people I dislike.
wich one?
All our code uses #pragma once instead of the old way. Zero issues.
Assuming they're telling the truth and will donate their fortunes you're then reliant on their whims as to what gets the money.
In what possible world could Tim Cook personally have done anything worth $75m, let alone $750m? How can any single human being create value at that scale? I don't understand the apologia for what is, on its face, a massively skewed system of compensation completely unrelated to any possible basis in reality.
How did billionaires amass that much riches? How much environmental distrution, erosion of democracy and workers rights, and general negativity brought them up to this level? Giving back a few million to the community does not offset that.
One that has a spec and test suite for the implemented VM, for starters.
That is penis rocket money right there.
Yes. And I know some who returned around 2018ish because the oppression was growing a lot.
Happen very often in SQL codes :(
> well ... the only namespace in C

Technically there are several namespaces since you can, for example, name a struct the name as its type.
Wow, I expected broken money systems to twist people's minds but not to this extent.

Of course, in a broken money and work system there is a cutoff point for IQ at which corporations decide who to hire.

The inverse position is that money isn't wealth. It's work and the product of our work that is wealth. Therefore willingness to work should be proportionally rewarded with work. Of course, since corporations hire whole individuals no such thing happens. Instead, work that could have been allocated to two people fairly is allocated to one person.

Now employers have to think of hard to cheat measures to determine the person who the work will be allocated to. The IQ cutoff point is the result. The chosen one then gets to feel superior because he both has the intellectual, moral and financial upper hand while he simultaneously gets to chastise the lazy, stupid, poor hobo. It is so easy to rebrand this process as "personal responsibility".
So according to this 2018 article by The Verge [1], Foxconn workers producing iGadgets in China earn on average $390.16 per month.

Times that by twelve and we find that workers earn $4,681.92 per year on average.

If we divide Tim's $750,000,000 bonus/payout this year by that $4,681.92 yearly Foxconn salary, we get 160,190

My question is: how is Tim so productive that he does roughly 160,000 people’s work, or 1/8th of Foxconn’s total workforce? [2] /s

The contrast between working conditions is also interesting:

“The [Foxconn] factory has no medical facilities or hospital on site, so any injured workers have to be transported to a hospital that’s farther away. Another work hazard is the lack of fire safety: there are no exits or labeled escape routes and no fire safety drills. Similar to other factories that China Labor Watch has reported on, there’s no labor union for the Hengyang workers. There’s a process for filing complaints, but the workers don’t believe it does any good.”

Which seems quite a contrast to ‘Apple Park’ where Tim works.

What makes Apple treat Chinese workers so differently?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17448544/amazon-foxconn-w...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+foxconn+employees
Seems like a massive PR trick then. The only difference is that they will set up $100M for US devs. Probably the ones that brought the court case?
Good for him. Pretty cool to see especially given that paying him these shares was agreed 10 years ago and Apple stock has crushed it since then.

It's kind of weird to see some other comments attacking rich people just because they're rich, or completely misunderstanding the role of a CEO.
"If every person used their resources for the best of society, the world would be a better place!"

Sure thing.

The problem is, many of those people also burn money for yachts and spaceships.

Plus, to me all this charity stuff seems like a buyout. Gates basically made the world a worse place, before he started to make it better.
It is though. I think you missed the part where it says you can't buy cryptocurrency from within Lebanon except with hard cash and from one of the exchangers. These exchangers have to get the cryptocurrency from somewhere to begin with. They mention that they wire the money to Nigeria and let someone there buy it for them.
I was searching for a good ARM board for tinkering a while back and settled on the Odroid N2+. That has a pretty good trade-off between performance and price. It retails for less than $100 and has 6 cores total, 4 performance A73 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz (compared with the 2 GHz A72s here) and 2 efficiency A53 cores at 2 GHz. This has at least good Linux support with armbian[1] and ArchLinux ARM[2].

Outside of Apple, there are not many modern options. The A73s above are 4 generations old now. There are some ARM laptops with the faster Snapdragon 8CX chip but these still don't come close to the M1.

[1] https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/

[2] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/amlogic/odroid-n2
If you force them to donate it's now called a taxes and government fund research.
I see your point and I somewhat agree. But this is based on the assumption that only upper-middle-class engineers work for Apple.
However, the people in factories producing these products for Apple definitely deserve a raise. Income inequality should be fixed throughout the supply chain and not only benefit the upper-middle-class.
Newpipe works as well. Youtube vanced cannot be open source as it is just a nodded youtube client, which isn't open source. I cannot speak on tracking but I tracked its DNS requests and nothing out of the ordinary.
I can't speak for him, but I would highly doubt that his motivation was money. Fulfilment from achieving success cannot be narrowed down to money only.

I also don't think age has anything to do with the desire for success.
> Someone must be left holding the bag, there must be some FX liquidity that they tap into?

You must have missed that 1. Lebanon is very corrupt and 2. there is an official exchange rate. Someone is making a killing selling on the black market and buying with the official rate.
That does sound kind of nice. If it's a hobby that could be good. I would be concerned about it turning into a profession for them, because for me it's been nothing but disappointment and stress. I'd rather work with them on physical projects, like carpentry or leather working.
This idea is too valuable, I'm going to need you to sign an NDA first.
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Yep, IMHO it's a management/resource decision - the choose to only support one base port stream, not two.

Still if you manly use native Sailfish OS apps, you will be getting all support and updates on Xperia X for years to come.

It's unfortunate but at least the newer devices should hopefully be in better shape. And as for size, Xperia10 II does not feel so much bigger than X as its the same width, just a bit longer. Feels quite subtleactually.
Yes, in a company that operates in the United States, a country that provides the talent, capital security, infrastructure, and the consumer base to make this possible. And yet, how much in taxes will he pay?

I know, this is HN - even 1% would be robbery.
I am saying his work is not worth this much. He is only able to get this money off the workers because of his position.
I know that most of you will not understand, but every problem that I have with Apple started in the moment when this guy become CEO.

I am utterly disgusted. More than two weeks no adequate response over CSAM and "scanning" of all devices and already media is pushing the "new shiny things are coming" and PR for the Tim Apple.

This is sickness on whole new level. Just sayin.
Just wondering why would it be disappointing if it implies the anthropic principle?
People do this all the time though: people in my village buy lottery tickets with money they cannot afford to spend all the time. And there is not much or any advertising for that here.
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He is already making society a better place by making products and services that people value. Charity isn't the only option for that.
I wish I could believe that, but it's evident that it's just not the case - at least not by all actors advocating against rent control. As mentioned in the article, the prime minister and his government was struck down because they were supporting removing rent controls - without any form of viable replacement.

In a perfect world I would also like to see rent control removed, as there certainly are negative consequences from the policy, but removal without viable alternatives literally means that a sizeable chunk of poor people will be out on their asses, more or less. I cannot in good conscience support that.
Yea BBC reporting is not what it used to be IMHO. Having said that fair play to him - his github is here if anyone is interested https://github.com/benyaminahmed
The idea, in Bitcoin standard, is that government projects should be financed with taxes; not by printing money. When money has no cost, it inevitably results in loss of responsibility and capital mismanagement. The usual story is that government uses the money printer to enrich themselves, and also funds an army to keep people from overthrowing them.

When government is funded with taxes, there are limits on how much can be spent, and spending follows democratic principles and responsibility. Authoritarian or incompetent governments wouldn't be able to fund themselves, when people refuse to pay taxes to them. This works, because bitcoin can't be inflated and it can't be confiscated.
Understandably its a lot nicer to know your money doesn't evaporate.
No, but I am a bit surprised that someone coming out of a failed marriage is so keen on giving family advice to others.
See also: Zsh.

POSIX compatibility is a great thing to have available, when you need it. But my personal scripts and one-offs do not need to be POSIX-compatible!
Regarding copying over settings between macOS and Linux, powerusers usually maintain their own dotfiles and it's not a problem to make it somewhat OS-agnostic, so you can set up a similar environment within minutes.
Lotteries are quite frankly more honest than this.
"When taxi drivers are handing out stock tips, it's time to sell."
> How is it different?

You don't get 50% dilution of your savings within a year.

> How many goods and services can you pay for with cryptocurrency where you live?

In a liquid market, you can convert your weekly needs and pay using cash.

> What if your government's goons (or private goons for that matter) hit you with a rubber hose and steal your coins?

If they are going to do that (and some countries do that), they'll start with bank accounts and visible shit (goods moving in the street).
I still get the impression that you did not carefully read my reply, because it already addresses all the points you just made.

> Something that causes 2,630 deaths is more risky than something causing 229 non-fatal hospital visits.

This over-represents the risk groups. As you can see from the source[7] I posted, there's a massive difference between those with risk factors and those without.

> I also observe you’re quoting stuff which uses estimated risks. The 229 number is a real risk

The "229 number" is a number you took out of an outdated newspaper article. The FDA has recorded[2] (not estimated) a risk of 0.0065%.

> To argue that a theoretical risk buried in a report (which correctly felt the risk was very small and approved the vaccine) trumps a real world figure we now have is downright disingenuous bad faith arguing.

Let's not go down that "bad faith" route. You've been throwing around plenty of misleading numbers, but I don't think you're doing it in bad faith.

The FDA itself has found a "worst case" scenario[2] of low incidence that showed the risk/benefit ratio was not in favor of the vaccine, using efficacy estimates that may or may not reflect reality further down the road. This was then pushed aside by purported risks of longer observed hospital stays, but ignoring the long-term risk factors of Myocarditis. This is entirely speculative, at which point people risk believing whatever they want to be true, not what is actually true.

[2] https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download (Page 24)

[7] https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/predicted-covid-19... (Page 6)