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> People may prefer the English experience because they expect the translated version to be inferior

There are multiple comments here about how it usually is inferior.

But even when it's not, there can still be reasons to stick to English.

I've done a lot of work with Brazilian graphic designers, and they all use Photoshop/Illustrator in English -- the Portuguese version is essentially "unusable". Not because the translations are necessarily bad, but because Photoshop has its own bespoke vocabulary.

E.g. what's the difference between "image" size and "canvas" size, between auto "tone" and auto "color", between "crop" and "trim", or between "vibrance" and "saturation"?

In layperson English these are essentially synonyms, but mean different things in Photoshop. And if you want to follow any Photoshop tutorial, or communicate with any designer, you need to know these "English" terms, just like every programmer needs to know "if" and "then".

Translating adds yet another layer of confusion that hinders more than it helps.

Of course, this is specific to professional tools that require training -- it doesn't really apply to consumer software intended for a general audience.
I totally agree for standalone devices (knives, mentioned down the thread, seem like a perfect example).

It also seems like the only way to implement devices whose operation requires ongoing performance of services by the company. If I'm needed to ensure a device can fulfill its stated goal in an ongoing way, then of course I need to retain some kind of control - if to tell devices to update or send me photos or whatever. This doesn't mean that you need to cut off modified devices, but it also doesn't mean you need to put up with them either.
not really. those neighbors have absolutely no trust in China. There is history too between these countries in Asia.
Google never gave an explanation as to why google glass was killed btw
Let's say that they've constrained this hypothetical force to have a strength less than 5 doodads.

And then let's say some theoretician comes up with evidence that if a 5th force exists, in order to be consistent with the laws of physics, it must have a strength of more than 6 doodads, for instance.

With the first bit of evidence, we've managed to rule out the existence of a fifth force, which we wouldn't have been able to do if that evidence didn't exist. There is no way to use that piece of evidence to rule in the existence of a fifth force.
I think another phenomena is that after (and perhaps because of) Facebook, the definition of "prestigious" fragmented. People today don't agree on what's prestigious, because they have different values and different subcultures. In some circles Google is still prestigious; in others, they are literally the devil. So you might be looking at a job for prestige, but for many younger people, the roles they hold prestigious are various forms of entrepreneurship or public service.

Also, lucking out on crypto or having many followers on social media are absolutely "selective" processes in that the sense that not everybody who attempts them succeeds. Typically, the people who value those activities consider it "skill" when someone's selected, while other bystanders consider it "luck". But that goes for corporate hiring as well; a lot of people consider passing the Google interviews to be just a matter of luck.
> Hmm, I’m not sure I agree. Malicious firmware blobs in your disk controller could do all sorts of damage, like silently replacing parts of executable files with whatever they like. Someone made a proof of concept of this a few years ago - where they managed to replace some of the controller firmware in a hard disk. Their modified drive would then silently replace a certain executable with something else. And on that drive, the attack was persistent.

See Spritesmods.com [1] for a PoC from 2013 (!!). Guy managed to run Linux on the firmware.

[1] http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
Meta: The Guardian seems to have an endless supply of US-bashing articles - does it feel to those in the US that The Guardian is an endless steam of amplifying the negative whenever a topic involves the US?

The Guardian is hard* left-wing and I mostly respect their reporting because their bias is so obvious. However I really hate it when they report on US issues with such egregious bias.

Disclaimer: I am from New Zealand, and there are plenty of things about the US I dislike, but I don’t like constant bashing.

* Edit: not hard left - just left bias - sorry for using the wrong word.
Good Law Firm in Bundaberg
Slater and Gordon Lawyers in Bundaberg have now opened in the CBD area of Bundaberg near the corner of Barolin and Bourbong Streets.
The top 1% pay 40% of income taxes, and 30% of all taxes[1], so if they failed to pay taxes at the same rate as the other 99% of Americans, they should be responsible for 30% to 40% of the "tax gap", not just 28%.

The numbers contradict the article. They actually say that the top 1% pay a larger percentage of the taxes they owe.

1: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/17/rand-paul/...
I see a lot of bad translations to brazilian portuguese even on big companies/services. It was always obvious to me that they could get better conversion rates if they fixed it. It's tricky, but not that hard compared to the benefit.
I know it was just an example, but anywhere with those plastic knifes/sporks/fork-knive combinations: theme parks, school cafeterias, offices…
China's official doctrine is also that Taiwan is a part of China, and the status of Taiwan is purely an internal affair.
This is true of most medium-sized industrial countries, actually, if they have power reactors. If Japan, Germany, Canada or even Finland or Argentina, really wanted nukes and wrote a blank cheque for domestic spending to that end, they could have one within a year, probably much less. Only lack of desire (mostly for the diplomatic and possible military consequences, I figure) really keeps them from doing so.
Numbers are funny. Because I see 28% of the tax gap coming from just 1% of the citizenry — the other 99% combined only responsible for 72%.
Even outside of the tech co.'s, cheaper talent across Europe is a huge factor.

I'd also guess its because product teams are also largely centralised in the US, meaning development-focused talent is not in the same demand. Similarly, the variety of industries avaialble in cities like London, Berin, Madrid, etc., mean that salaries tend to homogenise across industries, instead of being almost exclusively tech co's.

In any case, a base tech salary in London can exceed £100k for manager/engineer lead roles, which is almost 3x the average salary within the city. I wouldn't say that's anything to complain about.
I'll quit my current job if this is enforced by my company.
I'm assuming your smart contract is not in Bitcoin, since current BTC transaction fees are under $0.70 per standard transaction for 90% chance of confirmation in 30 minutes or less.[0] A smart contract in BTC might involve larger transactions, or multiple transactions, but probably not the equivalent of 240 standard transactions.

The article is about El Salvador's switch to Bitcoin, so the price of smart contracts in Etherium, or some other system, is beside the point.

[0] According to <https://bitcoiner.live/?confidence=0.9> at 6:31 PM CDT.
> So if I understand correctly, the benefits of Web 3 are largely payment related

And payment/finance/money is arguably the most important industry in any capital-oriented society and has a deep impact on the way people live. And for the vast majority of people, existing systems don’t work

How many people tell you that they love their bank or their credit card company?

We tend to build better versions of everything that’s disliked enough but somehow, we’ve decided that our banks and lenders will always be awful and corrupt and we should be okay with it.

Sure, you can make a better app for your bank, but the core will still be that same opaque black box.
Not every picture of a pipe is a pipe but it's at least conceivable that an actual working pipe can be constructed out of something which happens to be a picture of a pipe. Similarly Godel isn't proving that all statements in a system are paradoxically self-referential. Only that given any system of sufficient complexity, one can conceivably be constructed.

In any event, all of our mathematical proofs are predicated upon the idea that the representation of a mathematical object can be treated in terms of proof as equivalent to the mathematical object. Is "2" the number 2 or is it just a glyph that non-representationally depicts the successor of the first counting number? And if you believe the latter, then how do you go about proving anything about the actual successor of the first counting number without resorting to glyphs?
Let me respond to the second portion first.

> That seems to presuppose a particular truth without actually presenting any evidence.

What I have said is mostly classical economics 101. If the point is Google could innovate faster if it is split into 10 companies, Google has all the incentive to do it today or alternatively for a Google competitor to split itself into smaller companies in order to beat Google. In either case, when people are free to chose, they will over time make the most efficient choices. This is part of the reason why markets tend to allocate resources better than government folks.

If the law makes it impossible to try certain things you are killing off innovation along that dimension. Again, this does not need empirical evidence (even though there is plenty) but mostly basics of classical economics. Now, one may disagree with the markets as well and call it "superstitious belief in markets" but then I won't have any rebuttal to that claim.

> “all the regulations that apply to big company X in industry Y have to apply to big company A in industry B”

This is not what I said. The regulation can be whatever, ultimately they will be determined not by Stanford profs but lobbyist behind close doors bribing congress. Principles often are much simpler, easier to explain to people and much easier to judge regulations by looking at the principle. One simple principle could be that "pumping co2 in air is bad". We can agree to disagree but we understand the principle. We can understand if companies who produce more co2 are somehow asked to pay higher taxes.

I tried to read book excerpts from the Stanford professors and it appeared to be complete BS vending. Arguments like "Big Tech is too big" ,"Big tech has too much power" etc. simply does not make sensible principles as much as they make excellent rhetorical points.
Honestly the amount of people I've met who live a NEET lifestyle and who are pretty severely depressed, I'd believe it.
AT&T just re-merged after the break-up, so it’s a bad example.

See the diagram:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/24/13389592/att-time-warner...
> Btw my presidential vote was a write-in for Bernie Sanders as president with Yang as running mate

the comment before was probably not aimed at those who vote or support the left.
Blatantly holding themselves above any law, who does that remind me of..

We have done and continue to do more than our fair share of lying, cheating, and stealing. We metaphorically stacked the deck. You say "global conflict" - I'll remind you that it takes two to have a conflict. And America has the modern world beat in terms of starting and perpetuating conflicts.
I also don't understand your comment. I went so far as to quickly skim through the history of Taiwan and I don't understand why you said China belongs to Taiwan?
Wtf? Why are people in this thread acting like the nuclear option is an actual option. This isn't StarCraft where you trade into the enemy forces, and as long as you cripple their economy you win. You just killed billions of innocent people. Everyone lost.

Y'all need to go watch War Games again. The only winning move is not to play.
Well apart from over 70 years of mostly stable government (with Tiananmen square being the exception) they are broadly recognized by most countries and the UN and have been for close to 50 years.

There's little evidence of support in China or even in Taiwan for the idea that the Taiwan government are the legitimate government of mainland China, and Taiwanese ambition is pretty much limited in practical terms to self government.

Indeed, I don't believe Taiwan claims China in anyway I can find reference to.
In a hard money/cryptocurrency environment, the BTC plutocrats would decide when to go to war, and with whom, since no lending or spending would be possible without their assent.

Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on the character of the small number of people "hodling" the majority of the BTC. I expect it would be a catastrophe after a generation or two of inherited BTC wealth, with BTC "nobles" raising private armies attack each other and lord it over the population.
> I don't think the lack of Android app is what caused their popularity to decline over time. They obviously made the right choice by launching what they could (an iOS app) as quickly as possible to seize the moment. Even though the popularity has declined, they now have a large war chest to figure out where to go next.

On the contrary, it was a beyond stupid to launch only on iPhone.
I'm not sure if it was elitism or merely being poor at arithmetic, but it made no sense whatsoever.
I've found this for myself, too, seemingly.

And it helps to have "work" that is hard but enjoyable. Then when you're working hard, you're looking forward to rest; and when you're resting, you're looking forward to work. And you throw in a lot of "play" too, if possible (for me, sport, relationships, etc.). So, whatever you're doing, you're enjoying what you're doing AND you're looking forward to something (work, rest, or play), which adds enjoyment to the present (work, rest, or play).

My anecdotal data-point.
That's true, but if it ends there, then it's not a vital matter of self-defense for us. Honestly, not even that important in terms of balance of power provided we get that TSMC plant up in Arizona first.

What it IS, is a grievous insult to our insistence on being the last word in international affairs.
Please keep it to politics. We don't want a flame war! :-/
> things I need to do, but there is little to no cost to deferring them and doing something else

An author's quote that stuck with me:

You have to always be working on 2 books. That way you can work on the other while you procrastinate on the first.
1. Almost no now paid that rate, tax deductions and clever strategies existed then too.

2. That captured about 20% of GDP in revenue, and we’ve never captured a larger percent for more than about a single year.

3. We currently capture north of 17% of GDP, which is the post war average.
> but people don't want cameras pointing at them all the time

That ship has sailed. People have their phones out all the time, often held at a 45° angle, but frequently vertical as well. Taking photos surreptitiously is already ridiculously easy and nearly anyone around you could do it all the time.

I'm not condoning it, just saying that building it into glasses isn't changing anything. We already live in a world where people might be recording you at any time. We have been for years.
How's your shift, comrade?
You have a choice then.

Either Fox News lied/was misled or Biden and the CDC lied.

EDIT: alternatively, I misread the CDC statistics as weekly instead of daily.
“ Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”

-General Buck Turgidson, Dr Strangelove

Here it is in video form, watch it so you can see how ridiculous your idea is: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HgyjlqhiTV8
I'm picturing the aristocracy of France as they're being lead to the gallows protesting that they were only following through on a historical system that they had inherited.

My point is, regardless of whether it is legal, I think the wealthy in particular ought to be pushing to make changes that narrow the wealth gap in this country. I have certainly read that bothBill Gates and Warren Buffett have suggested we tax the wealthy more.
And yet everyone uses the Github or Gitlab tools because it's still not convenient enough for most teams, sadly.

It's an annoying problem because you need decentralized identity. Signatures handle that but the UX is not as nice as the centralized github/gitlab account.

The design of decentralized PR hosting also doesn't play nice with the github/lab UX. If you were trying to create a PR to a github repo you'd have to handle authenticating the github pull from where-ever you hosted. If the repo isn't public that seems very cumbersome even if it was supported.

It's just much easier to do this entirely inside github/lab, annoying as that is.
The problem is not the limit of what proof checkers can handle - that probably goes beyond all known math. The problem is that long standing theories that 500 page proof is based on are not yet transcribed into formal language, so you'd need to do them first.
I assumed it was an electromagnet. Do MRIs all have permanent magnets?
Raspberry Pi 4 Car Dash Computer Takes Linux on the Road
It's love, right? I saw the movie.
> But we don't want a ravenous corporate blob that absorbs everything tangential to its business, whether that's for growth or defensive reasons.

Look what happened to Sears, GM, IBM, GE, HP, Sony, etc. History shows that once corporations get too big, they become unable to adapt, and fall by the wayside.
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Replace Taiwan with Republic of China (i.e. formal name) and it isn't nearly as astonishing anymore isn't it.
Also, $10M is really very little money to build an entire big business that everyone knows about out if. Large companies will spend more than that on a single advertising campaign without blinking.
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Thing is tech is quick enough now we can have all this metadata and users could then filter according to their mores (ie personal preferences), it's not like it's more work for the photog to label it as edited/photoshopped they're already recording that info.
Because Capital gains is not income, and should not be treated as income...

There are alot of problems with Capital Gains taxation in the first place (like for example the fact it does not factor in inflation at all which is a problem for assets held for a long time)

Treating it pure income is not the solution
What? China is already a nuclear power with nuclear weapons, and has been for decades.

The question posed by the parent is arming Taiwan to defend itself.
That was a little light on details.
Many billionaires are not valued based on their "liquid" holdings but on multiples of some composite blend of their company's growth rate / revenue / profit / hype. Are you saying your friend is liquid and that Forbes has no idea or just that they are undervaluing his private business?
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Wouldn’t this be a fourth party?
Edit: ah, “third party” is an expression in American politics. Learning something new every day.
Step back and just think about it in realpolitik terms. If you were the leader of china, what would you think about the idea of nuclear weapons being brought to your borders?

In a similar situation (the US had nukes in turkey and other areas close to the USSR) the Soviet Union used the same rational (in part) to justify putting nukes in Cuba. Just leveling the playing field. The result was the closest we’ve ever gotten to a nuclear conflict.

From one point of you could argue this was “fair”, because the US already had missiles close to the USSR and this was leveling the playing field, but fair is a meaningless concept in geopolitical relations. Leaving bad and good aside, who would ever want their rival to place nuclear weapons close by?

The government of China would have to be either traitorous or insane to not do everything in their power to prevent this from happening.
I personally know at least 5 people that bought the horse version of Ivermectin because of Joe Rogan podcast.

They haven't taken it yet and they told me if they get COVID they will take it. Which they assume will eventually happen since they are not planning to get vaccinated.

Feed store in red state are ordering ~20 boxes of Horse ivermectin each week and are still running out.
I expect his argument is that the former national government of mainland China fled to Taiwan during the revolution.

This is true, but it doesn't make a strong argument for legitimacy. Former governments flee countries frequently, and unless there is a rapidly implemented plan to try to get them back into power they are generally ignored.

Taiwan is better viewed as a breakaway state than having any legitimate stake in the government of mainland China.
This was easily the best article on logging in Python that I've come across. Ticks all the boxes:

- uses dictConfig, which I much prefer over the alternatives since it is declarative

- explains every aspect of logging config: handlers, filters, loggers

- explains what to log and why
If you confiscated all the wealth of billionaires, you’d be able to fund the government for 9 months.

We have a spending problem. Not a taxation problem.

EDIT: downvotes, but no rebuttals. Classic HN. We downvote what we don’t like, facts be damned.
I personally really like the Android app -- it's an excellent reader, and is my preferred way to interact on mobile.
> So even if you could capture it, the US is still spending quite a bit compared to income.

A sovereign currency country is not a household.

It's much more complicated than ("spend" > "income")=bad.
Do you mean because gas the nearest car or first car he beat in that list is Renault Magane?? Not exactly known as the greatest sports car of all time?

Every other car that beat the Model S is essentially a super-car, if not a sports car at a minimum. They made to do one thing really well, and that's to go fast around a track.

The Model S is an unmodified family sedan. It isn't like an Alfa Qudrofoglio GTAm which has had the seats removed and rollbar fitted, essentially turning it into a race car. This is the same car you'd pick the kids up in at school, load with groceries, and then take to the track and whollop anything that isn't purpose built for speed.

Then, it also happens to be electric. I'm curious to see what the Rimac will do around Nurburgring, or other purpose built electric.

BTW, I'm not an BEV fanboy, I love my late 535i Wagon, and would love an old Alfa or something, but the future is EV.
Taking Pictures in Different Languages
Actually you can just lie with your numbers...it's not 12K/week...it's 12K/day on a 7 day average.

~1,000/day for vaccinated, which means >11,000/day for unvaccinated

Thank you for backing up your numbers with sources though.
Can’t wait for this legislation to be extended to legislators, “this legislation contains a paid promotion” would be a great label to apply. Perhaps traditional media outlets should be required to do the same thing with their advertisers. Maybe doctors disclosing which companies have sent them off to a “medical conference” in Las Vegas or some other holiday destination would be a good idea too. You could think up new ones all day…
Perhaps the others are not considered production vehicles?
> It's a bit younger than Linear B, Old Avestan and Vedic Sanskrit. So in terms of a traceable, continuous culture China is at the fourth place of so.

Linear B does not represent a traceable, continuous culture.

Neither does Old Avestan.