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> FWIW, I just looked up my own property tax records and there's no breakdown, so not sure how common that is.

>

> That said, it is done for property insurance, so I think your point that it's already done stands.

I dunno how useful that will be - my insurance is based on how much it would cost to rebuild the house if it burned down.

This lead to the comedic result that what I paid for the house at the time was about half what the insured value was. My property tax is calculated on the selling price, though.
They should make VS Code the standard on Windows Pro versions.
I've lost a phone with location tracking turned off. You can still disable the phone remotely and assign a lock screen message for the findee to contact you.
i feel old... wasn't minecraft released like yesterday? like in 2012? how can you be an adult person now?
I see a lot of bashing of teams for touching the dialer. Please take a look at https://www.fcc.gov/mlts-911-requirements before you say that they should not touch the dialer.

Yes they royally f'd up. However Teams is a voip carrier among other things. As of Jan. 6, 2022 they are not allowed to ignore 911 anymore. They HAVE to allow 911 calls. Even being a non fixed device. And on android this does mean interacting with the dialer.

(I have no affiliation with google or microsoft. I however did switch our small company to voip earlier this year and had to take a deep dive into the legalities.)
Aren’t all tax rates set politically?
My impression is flatbuffers takes more cpu caused it doesn’t transform the binary payload (it’s use case)
Even Swift wasn't all that bad. A bit more clicks, and a fee IIRC, but fortunately most people don't do international transfers all that often.
> most of it comes from the development rights.

I don't think this is true. There are many part of NYC that fairly low density zoned (Long Island, SoHo, NoHo), but housing is still very expensive. New York City unfortunately still has a lot of zoning limitations.
Oh, sorry; I missed that and thought we were talking the general case. Yes, if Google is the OS and hardware vendor then they're out of excuses.
The exuberant behavior of the VCs is really what's being noted. The core business could very well be sound. One just has to hope the very technical founder is being well advised.

This is a press release after all
> This [0] has SARS-CoV-2 at somewhere between 0.26% and 0.83% IFR. Which for context, is compared to respiratory flu at 0.0088% (estimated total population EMR due to flu) [1]

Isn't this disregarding (or generalizing) the fact that age plays a significant role with SARS-CoV-2? Those numbers are vastly different between, say, teenagers and 60+ year olds.

I don't see many 60+ running around protesting. Mostly it's the 0.01% IFR crowd.
I don't do heroin and it's easy to pick on heroin users. I think the totalitarianism we see today has it's roots, or at least it's proving ground, in the ostracism of heroin users we saw in the 90s and early 2000s. Of course it's best to start with an easy target that is widely reviled, but once it is realized we can repress them, pressure mounts to do the same thing to other groups we disagree with or want to push our agenda on, and we get the current disregard for any personal freedom. This is a loss for all of society, not because using heroin is good, but because personal choice is.

(and that ignores the fact that prohibition doesn't work. Guess what just because the most coveted drug for New Zealanders 21 and under).

I write this out because freedom of choice becomes moot when something directly removes choice through its addictive properties. Particularly when other people pick up the bill for your human imperfections
Yes, but I think the issue I see is that all exploits that gain root post-EOL could then interfere with dialing, right?

It's not just some bad-app on the play store (though that is one approach I believe google could use).

It's the fact that the android OS is EOL after 3 years, and the user is still using it as his main phone -- and needs 911 services.
I have come to have the opinion that protecting against root exploits makes very little sense. If you have the right to run code on a target machine as a local user, you already have almost all the permissions you need to bad things.

With only local access, you can install ransomware, you can steal the user's credentials, you can run a crytocurrency miner, etc, etc. Pretty much the only thing you can't do is install an undetectable rootkit.

There are very few systems that take this risk seriously, and Qubes OS is the only one that provides at least some sort of reliability to their enforcement. Things like Flatpak is better than nothing, but still have some way to go.

I just don't think that one should worry much about someone getting root access on your system if at the same time you install random npm modules on the same machine where you do your internet banking.
One place where it is still helpful to have ISO images is when creating Hyper-V VMs. You can only attach ISOs or VHDs to virtual machines. So a raw thumb drive image would need converting before it is possible to use.
Past tense - this happened a month ago the last time they tried to fix it.

Still no updates since then, I think. Our top Tyler Durdens are calculating the relative cost of letting it fall over.
How else can they do it? As I understand with android they have to list themselves as a dialer to make and receive calls.

Not trying to defend the programming screwup. Just the idea that they can magically send and receive 911 calls without being interfaced somehow with the dialer.
> On iOS, where Apple keeps tight control over their API surface, this is less likely to happen.

I snorted when I read this. Trust me, iOS has plenty of broken and poorly-documented APIs.
We have LVT in my county. And it changes - nothing. So what am I missing? Why is this even discussed? A much more interesting discussion is to ask the question: Should there be no private land ownership. That's the case in many places. In such locals, the ownership right is in the long-term lease of that land. And it changes - nothing.

Tax on private property is the price we pay to have the property protected by a power with corporal punishment rights. A good old fashioned protection racket. Capitalism: The worst economic system, except for all the others. We'd not have all of this neat stuff without it. I like nice stuff so I'm in favor.
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Songs are being played in the physical world.

I think the analogy is perfectly valid anyway. You're just trying to find an excuse to compensate a dissonance. But all rules are arbitrary.
There's undoubtedly shared aspects of reality and I don't think anyone seriously thinks psychedelics can produce water in a desert. I think the main benefit is psychedelics show you a different mental perspective on objective/shared reality and can shift your ego/identity in a radical way temporarily. Reality is "subjective" in the sense that your beliefs/identity/ego/brain-chemistry make up a huge part of your experience and those aspects can be altered dramatically. Telling someone serving a life sentence that could actually be useful to them. You see a lot of them turn to religion. That being said I eyeroll as well when someone says we're probably living in a simulation, but there is a lot we still don't know lol
Why not? Just runnning the IT infrastructure for 140k employees is likely going to tread deep into k8 land.

There is also iCloud.
> Teams is VOIP. Legally they HAVE to allow for and setup 911 calling.*

No-one's saying they shouldn't allow for it. The issue here is they're hijacking an external app, effectively going out of its way to prevent the user from calling 911.

So I guess they're in the wrong twice.

For the record, no, I don't think this was done on purpose. But it just shows why it's an issue they screw around with things they shouldn't.
It was a usb 3 port. It just would not see it to boot.
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This may have the benefit of moving unrepatriated dollars from Apple's foreign subsidiaries to China, so the can be put to work without repatriation taxes.

It would be a prudent move. Apple's global financial engineering is nothing if not well thought through.
That's very normal. Just call, say it is a test wait for confirmation and then hang up.
Easily. My mid-range phone (OnePlus 5) is 4.5 years old, phones are powerful and have been for a long time.
Can't the app have an internal dialler? They have their own iOS. I seem to remember Whatsapp on Android had this, but it was a long time ago, and I may be mistaken.
i know it's not what you asked for, but why wouldn't you want to use numpy?
I mean, can you blame them?

The docs for filepath.Clean state the following:

...
3. Eliminate each inner .. path name element (the parent directory)
along with the non-.. element that precedes it.
4. Eliminate .. elements that begin a rooted path:
that is, replace "/.." by "/" at the beginning of a path,
assuming Separator is '/'.

There is no mention that this function cannot be used for security, or that it does not safely ensure a path can't refer to a parent directory.

A quick reading of 3 and 4 will make you assume that a path has no ".."s after being "Clean"d. If you actually think about it more, you'll realize that of course it will leave ".." at the beginning of relative paths, but the docs do not make it clear, and I can understand why a programmer might reach for this.

There's no clearer function to reach for either, like "filepath.DirectoryContains(parent, path) bool".
You’re right. When Henry George introduced the land value tax, he made it clear that in urban areas he wished to capture the value which is created by the community while the landowner sits and collects increasing rents, not value that existed naturally (https://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp19.htm):

> All these advantages attach to the land. On this land — and no other — they can be utilized. For here is the center of population: the focus of exchange, the marketplace, the workshop of industry. Density of population has given this land productive power equivalent to multiplying its original fertility a thousandfold.… The most valuable lands on earth, those with the highest rent, are not those with the highest natural fertility. Rather, they are lands given a greater usefulness by population density.
Do you have information on what that negotiation or access is?

Full disclosure I work at Google.
It doesn't help when that thing you're being told to do is constantly changing, and in addition doesn't seem to change where it matters. It seeds doubt and uncertainty, which is surely what we're seeing all around us. No one knows what to do with Covid. And those who claim they do for certainty are sure as hell full of shit.
WTF! Why?

There's not even a good reason like "we don't want to track you anymore" or something like that... just shutting down out of the blue?!

I use that site almost daily!

So do plenty of others! [0]

[0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/alexa.com
There is a reason this materialized with teams and not with any one of the 10's of thousands of other apps out there: Teams is by far the most invasive piece of shit there is, it tries to hook into everything it can get its grubby little endpoints into.
s/because there's infrastructure/because there's NO infrastructure/ # oops
> Apple is not at all a company that gives any impressions that they care about anyone but those that fall within the light of their empire

Based on some of the experiences I've heard from iOS devs, I'm not even slightly convinced they care at all about most of the people in their empire either (unless said empire is excluding non-apple devs).
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Just for fun, purely as a thought experiment...

Could digital "real estate" or "territory" be taxed in the same way -- not literal digital territory, like in games, but considering "ad spaces" as virtual territory? I suppose more generally, any "technology company" which primarily makes its profits by virtue of establishing a network effect, wherein they earn ever more money as more people show up.

One possible objection: there are fixed costs for sustaining the virtual territory. It doesn't just exist; at a bare minimum, sustaining the software requires servers which in turn require maintenance, and the software itself would require some developers to fix bugs. But these particular costs can be indicated and accounted for without too much difficulty.

Another possible objection: there are no competitors providing the virtual territory; there is only the one company. If they hadn't created it, it wouldn't exist. So... if this kind of tax was to be executed on virtual territory, the company would have to be broken up and divided into competitors that could attempt improving on things in different ways, and the infrastructure providing the virtual territory would have to be nationalized.

As an example, maybe the competitors can buy keywords from nationalized Google, and then they can change the ad space that people who search for those keywords see; they become the rentiers of that ad space. But to be able to afford the taxes on keywords that are in high demand, they have to improve upon those ad spaces. Maybe they provide a shiny gold effect and sparkles around the ad -- only if the people paying them to show ads for those keywords want it, of course.
> purely morally

Must they be pure or completely evil?

Companies have many focuses, including profit, of course, and also morality. Look at the behaviors of the world's leading companies. They need to survive and operate in society, not a Darwinian cleanroom, and they will lose a lot of customers, employees, investors, sympathetic elected officials, and more if they act like objectivists.
the term "RPC" can be unpacked with a lot of bad baggage. "remote" can imply unnecessary coupling of knowing the exact receiver. "procedure" can imply a hard guarantee that some side effect took place by the time you get a response.

"non-RPC", as best I can interpret it, means "broadcasting" useful messages / FYIs without much out-of-band coupling and listening for interesting messages. You don't know who's gonna receive the message, what they'll do with it, "when" they'll act on it.

RPC is inspired by "procedure call" on a single CPU, which is the complete opposite. in a "procedure call" you know exactly the implementation you're gonna get, when it will be executed, etc.

You can find glimpses of this in lots of companies, when there's heavy use of a message bus like Kafka. Protobufs as "messages" instead of mere procedure "call" arguments.

What do you think?
In my admittedly limited experience as a human being on this planet, you are not going to be able to form and maintain a cohesive group of more than about 50 to 100 people who all basically agree on values and moderation rules and that sort of stuff.

I run a FB group with 5,000 members. It's active daily, on a controversial topic but I don't do a moderation actions more than a couple times a week. I'm in reddit with a million members that does fine too. Clear direction is really helpful. "No trolling at all, none" is much better than "don't do much trolling".

Otherwise, I like the instructions.
Model fallible instantiation with factory methods. e.g. Node::make(Args..) -> Result<Node>. It won't always be as efficient or ergonomic but it works. And hey it's c++, you've been conditioned to accept a ton of ceremony to get things done. Famously the bulk of google's code is written without exceptions. And from what I know of it (not much), factory methods are how they model instantiation fallibility.

As a related but separate thought, sometimes adding invalid states to an object is useful. For example, take a look at std::thread::detach. Sometimes you see rvalue qualifiers on such methods (indicating the object has been consumed).

If you consider memory allocation to be infallible, there is a lot of stuff that can be written as pretty normal c++ without exceptions. The STL even pretty much works without throwing given this. If you consider allocation to be fallible you're going to have a bad time with "standard" c++ too.
How else can they do it? As I understand with android they have to list themselves as a dialer to make and receive calls.
Not trying to defend the programming screwup. Just the idea that they can magically send and receive 911 calls without being interfaced somehow with the dialer.

And its not like they can always pass to the native dialer in all cases. There are plenty of no signal zones with wifi. (And before you say that 911 can use any network when I say no signal I mean exactly that.)
> From Huamán Poma's history we should conclude that contesting an argument, just "showing up" is in itself the most powerful argument, isn't it?

Absolutely. I long ago realised the futility of random arguments on the internet towards changing people's minds, but I keep going given I enjoy it too much.

But for everyone writing a comment, 10 other people are reading along. So I write for the lurkers... perhaps my reasonable and well-referenced comments are the ones they find the most persuasive.

And indeed, I've been contacted out of the blue by, eg religious parents who never cared enough to bother thinking about science much themselves and so accepted creationism just as a default, but whose kids have developed an interest and want to know about how one can both be a Christian and accept evolution. (Not as much anymore though, I've moved on to other areas.)
> But you are aware it creates a potential race condition, right?

If your script has to be idempotent in the face of concurrent executions of itself, then that's an extra requirement which you have to handle with locking or whatever.

It is not implied by idempotency; there is meaningful idempotency which excludes the concurrency requirement.

If something can rename example.txt in parallel with your script, at any time during its execution, there is nothing you can do to ensure that it's gone.

Whatever step you take to ensure that its is gone can be preceded by the parallel rename.
I find it insane that someone would argue against your personal experience like that.

I've had the feeling all along that once we've started getting people forced into perpetual Covid vaccinations it's gonna move into seasonal influenza vaccines. Judging by this discourse my hunch is not far off.
You can emulate it using Hercules. When searching I found plenty of guides showing how to set it up. I'm not linking to any in particular, because frankly I have never tried them so I don't know which one you should follow.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying but I believe you're missing the forest for the trees. The problem I see Buf and other companies trying to solve isn't RPC so much as IDL. Defining and managing schemas is incredibly painful. It doesn't matter if it's a remote network call, HTTP, binary blob over a socket, files on disk or a call to a local function. Defining, sharing and consuming the boundaries -- the interfaces -- rigorously is the painful part.

You're too caught up on the implementation details. If you solve the IDL problems, then you can simply change the implementation and no one is the wiser. grpc-gateway is maybe a good example?

> exactly what ASN.1 does

Okay I actually do disagree with this. ASN.1 is a whole different ballgame. What doesn't it do, besides the obvious complications leading to buggy and insecure implementations every other day?

Please don't use ASN.1
> Too bad.

Also, too bad because they are hardly orphan children caught on a battlefield. They are among the most power actors out there. I'd say, 'deal with it', but they don't complain.
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Perfect for those apple-maps guided bombs.
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Please read my comment above for the reasons why "we don't do business at all in your totalitarian country" actually doesn't achieve your ideal "human rights above profits" goal.
I hope you're not suggesting that Australia is getting low-quality immigrants. Unlike the US, Australia has a points-based immigration system where you have to meet specific, standardized criteria, which IMO is more objective than the US process. I don't know what guidance State Department staffers follow when determining who gets a visa, but the process is more opaque, and I suspect more subjective.

edit: I think the "quality" argument is overrated. Not all immigrants do ground-breaking research or start billion-dollar companies. When it comes to economic activity, quantity has a quality of its own (apologies to J. Stalin). A city/state/country with the economic activity of an extra 20% population of mediocre, healthy, tax-paying, car-buying, mortgage-paying, burger-eating blue and white-collar immigrants is better off than one without.
One more reason to not install company apps on a personal phone.
>>Furthermore I'm currently in a quasi-rural area with gigabit muni fiber, so I don't buy that argument either. Whether there is the political will to build out modern Internet access or suffer the extractive oligopoly depends entirely on the politics of an area.

Our experiences color our views. I grew up in rural towns (<800 people) to cities of 15K people(! :-) ). Lack of services, lack of opportunities (library? yeah - 1 room of books from 1950), wandering in the woods was cool until about 12ish? then it was "yeah, I saw that tree yesterday..", not to mention I'm not sure how many parents these days would be comfortable letting their kids wander around - especially in 'desolate' areas ... Also, these were 'mill towns' so one employer basically employed everyone.

I ran as fast as I could when I was 18.

oh - and btw, pulling utilities can be quite expensive - 'going a little further' isn't always easy (or even possible).

So while a 'quasi-rural' (suburb with larger yards? :-) ) might be your idea of heaven, it doesn't necessarily translate well across the board.

In short, what people want/like or what is 'better' is pretty hard to get a consensus on.
Just out of curiosity (ie. not trying to ask you a "gotcha" question), would you apply this idea to measures to reduce climate change? Oil companies and companies/individuals dependent on cheap oil would presumably lose a lot. I'm not sure if their current behavior is exactly rent-seeking, but asking them to internalize their externalities is fairly close to abolishing rent seeking I think.

And if your answer is yes, how would we value the economic loss they face?
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> That is a good question about why there is more emphasis on companies doing political advocacy rather than one's own government.

Great point. Some movements are so anxious to minimize (or undermine) goverment that people get carried away, and forget all the things democracies can do and have done. We simply have to decide to do things as a people. China, for sure, is happy to see us divided.
Yes, io_uring, a linux subsystem, is clearly just a cargo cult feature for people who don't know what they're doing.
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