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Ask HN: Experience living in NZ?
My wife has a potential job opportunity in Auckland next year and we’re considering moving (with our two small children).

Our current quality of life in the US is pretty high, but we’re not very optimistic about the near future here. The move would be primarily aimed at giving our kids an opportunity to grow up with more nature, a better social safety net, and a (broadly speaking, I know) more tolerant society.

Background: our family identifies as 75% Asian. We’re English speakers and have lived overseas before, but never in NZ. I would plan on finding remote work once we’ve moved.

Anyone have any experience on moving, living, or working in NZ? Especially with children?
The dream logic bit is interesting personally, as someone who wakes up if a dream doesn't make sense. As in, there usually comes a point in my dream near a crisis/climax when it dawn's one me that the situation doesn't makes sense and then I wake up. This happens about 2-3 times a week.

For example, 2 days ago I had a dream where I was had to go back to highschool for a year to get a highschool diploma because some technicality or lost paperwork college. Then I find out there was a Spanish requirement that I was scheduled for but was never informed of and that there was a midterm the next day I couldn't fail. Then I'm like okay can I get an exception from the college so I can keep my job? And if I loose this job, how bad is it really? I've already got 3 years at Google, so surely... Wait what? Wake up.
While you’re waffling

> If you were a search engine provider and knew that viral, fake stories

How does the search engine company know whether something is true or not?
No - the point is that if your CA allows an HTTP-01 challenge for certificate issuance, then anyone who can hijack the IP addresses (to which your DNS points) with a BGP attack can subvert that CA to issue their own TLS certificates and subsequently impersonate your service.
Employee Equity: How Much? (2010)
Hi, Paul. Lets clear what You just said about me:

> He goes under multiple user names.

Not true. I'm using `app4soft` almost everywhere now: https://git.io/DailySolveSpace

On GitHub my account name is "Symbian9", but nickname is `app4soft` too.

> I find him both useful for bug reports and some feature ideas, but he can also be one to overstep (to put it kindly).

Its just because I'm a human living in free country, where each citizen has a right to being criticize something in same time trying to help fix & improve it.

> it's not entirely clear if he Ukrainian or Russian.

I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine. Here is my statement for HN:[0]

I has nothing to connect me with Russia, so do not do that anymore.

> he did contribute one of those language translations, but I forget which one.

Common man, You know that I contributing to Ukrainian locale:[1]

> Well, he was a large contributing factor to the previous SolveSpace lead maintainer quitting.

Not true: `whitequark`, being on HRT therapie, completely broke communication between bug reports & feature request contributors and main SolveSpace development branch.

Also, `whitequark` resigned from SolveSpace project itself, just after `Evil-Spirit` (Russian living in Russia) mistakenly call they "him", instead of "she/they" — `Evil-Spirit` did not know that `whiteaqurk` was on HRT and transited gender from men to girl.[2]

Also, `whitequark` is the man who near converted SolveSpace to doble-licensed open-source, far away from its inital GPLv3.[3]

Thanks to `jwesthues` (SolveSpace founder), we rolled to GPLv3, removing CLA & double-licensing.

Since then SolveSpace is FLOSS, fully Free/Libre Open-Source Software again.

Any questions?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897

[1] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/commits/master/res/...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20201013183045/https://nitter.net...

[3] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1098
Sure, I didn’t know this but I’m also not surprised big fish that bring in massive revenue and readership get better negotiated rates (or some value equivalent) that are not publicized. They provide more value and have more negotiation leverage. Their use of the platform is basically marketing for substack.

It’s also possible to directly discuss this openly/honestly like you did in this reply (thanks for clarification) vs. indirectly via disingenuous hostile snark in your first comment.

Also looks like there might be some sort of conflict of interest based on the work you do in your bio which could be having a possibly unintended influence.
The type of batteries in Magic Mouse 2 provides a range of voltages as they are being used, from about 3.5v to 4.2. No matter which value you choose, it’s still more energy than your inferior batteries.

This discussion is pointless, you’re just rehashing a tired argument that is completely obvious to anyone and in their design Apple chose to ignore it and that’s all that matters.

It wouldn’t even surprise me if Apple chose to ignore it just to give the typical armchair design crowd something to philosophize about. They are never going to buy the products anyway so they are a lost cause.
Me again. I just googled for "beduin polygamy in israel", try it and you'll find all you need. It is ostensibly illegal but impossible to enforce. You should know that it's not restricted to only Beduin, I recently was at a West Bank gas station talking to a guy (in Arabic) who has recently married his second wife. There are Beduins in the West Bank, but this guy wasn't Beduin.
hi Anneso!! congratulations on the launch! It's truly amazing what you and the team have been able to create so far, excited to see more updates in the following months. I agree with some of the other comments around here, this might be the best launch description I've ever seen here. side note: where can we sign up to beta test?
Off-topic: Did you copy this other comment [1] from this same thread but forgot to copy the reference for "[0]"?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639558
> We are not talking about loving couples being forbidden to marry.

According to the article, the law prevents first and only Palestinian spouses of Israeli citizens from becoming Israeli citizens, when love is the sole reason for wanting to marry. If Israel wanted to prevent citizens from having "third of fourth wives", an acceptable way would be to outlaw polygamy; if it wanted to prevent bogus marriages, an acceptable way would be by not granting marriage certificates when the couple don't know each other.
MH17 – The Open Source Evidence (2015)
Don't operate something you've sold to someone remotely for your own benefit with explicit opt in that is difficult to do without understanding. Full stop. Don't mine their device for data. Don't harvest anything at all from it without an explicit interaction or intentional manually configured automation.

So far, far, far away from where google/apple/ms have drawn it.
This sounds like the way to go. I'll keep this plan in my back pocket if/when the chronological feeds disappear.
Exclusive-Facebook to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians
I think Universal Control (in the current MacOS 12.3 Release Candidate, should be public next week) will do what you want.
> language of some Office tools like Excel is bound to the organization!

Maybe this is due to the fact that Excel documents break if you change language, as function names are localized?
Trying to guess the user's language is ok as long as the user has some way to override your guess.

DDG does the same, and adds a switcher so you can change between your local language and English. That's great, because depending on the search you want, it may be better done on either language.

The Microsoft site uses your language header on their .Net documentation. That is very bad because no matter what your browser says you prefer, the only document with any reasonable quality is the English one. There is a language switcher that takes some 20 seconds to use (hurrah, javascript!) and they don't bother to save for your next access. That makes the site barely usable instead of completely useless.

What I don't get is, with the amount of information Google makes sure to collect about me, how does it not know that I prefer results not on my main language and verbatim search terms? That is even after I tell them that on their settings.
“There's lots of other providers”

Are you sure about that? I took a look at the root certificates that are included in Firefox[0], and AFAICT none of them are located in Russia.

There are some Chinese CAs there though, so perhaps the Russian banks could use them instead.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates
I've had issues running it over wireless so instead I connect the computers with an ethernet cable directly and configure static IP's. Haven't had any issues. Luckily my PC has two NICs and the laptop uses wifi anyway so the ethernet port is unused.
Umm, that's basically the definition of terrorism.

9/11 didn't happen out of the blue, it was a response to american foreign policy in the middle east.

The troubles didn't happen because the IRA thought British rule was legitimate

Etc.

The vast majority of terrorism is because one group is controlling a region that the other group thinks they should not.
> Consider if the US passed a law banning Mexican spouses from uniting with their US spouse to keep America’s “Christian character”.

That's not a very good analogy, because Mexico is probably more Christian than the US.
Yes and no, it's not a linear gradient, there are points on the gradient where things get exponentially worse, and everything rapidly accelerates, like a runaway diesel engine.

We can go from "Livable with adaptation" to "millions displaced from unlivable catastrophes and conditions" by hitting some of those milestones.
Facebook allows posts on Ukraine war calling for violence on some
This is a related but slightly different phenomenon. Frustrating the recipient, but probably not detrimental to the sender. Asking to ask in an IRC channel is definitely detrimental to the sender, though.
In the 1990s in the UK we got Star Trek episodes years behind America. Encounter at Farpoint for example came out in the US on 28 September 1987. In the UK it finally was broadcast on 26 September 1990.

It was available on VHS tape slightly earlier than that -- April 1990, but I was only 8 then.

By the time DS9 season 6 came out though, I was 15 and had a TV and VHS machine in my bedroom. I was also on the internet and was unwilling to wait until

A Time To Stand - first episode of Season 6 - came out in September 1997 in the US. In the UK it came out on VHS in Febuary 1998. From memory these were about £12-14 for a 2 episode tape. They were finally broadcast (with adverts) in October 1998 on premium subscription service Sky One.

I bought the first few in the season to complete the mini arc.

Come season 7 I bought the lot, once ever 2 weeks, 13 tapes, about £170, or about £320 in today's money - $420 for a season, $16 per episode, 35 cents per minute.
Agree on nuclear, but natural gas isn't necessarily better than coal after accounting for methane leaks. The industry has lobbied hard against any requirements to monitor or mitigate those leaks.
It's all over. Just google "war on cash." Here's one from Steve Forbes himself, not your typical Forbes blogspam https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/03/01/the-grea...

The tldr is that cashless a) can be perfectly surveilled b) enables negative interest rates

Curious, where do you typically get your economic news? Based on your answer I can provide a couple other places to round out your intake.
Especially since it can interface a lot of scanners via twain so that you don't even need a driver. I have this really old usb-powered scanner which only supplied drivers for windows 98 and I am the third owner of it by now.

Sure, options might be limited, but for that small amount of money Vuescan offers a lot.
Main problem here that if Israeli citizen will decide to marry a Lebanese, or a Jordanian, or an Egyptian or even Saudi citizen, they won't be able to live in Israel.

Outrage of non-Israelis about is law is merely academical. Outrage of (some of) Israelis is practical: the state is putting a choice in front of a citizen -- be able to marry a person you want or be able to live in Israel.
A common tactic to suppress unfavourable situations is to create hostility so that moderation is forced to take place.

In real life this includes sending people to start fights or riot during protests to allow police to enter and disband it, and online this involves starting several arguments so that the moderators find it pointless to let the discussion go on.

That's why this happens. It's intentional and not accidental :-)
> The cost of VHS tape in the 80s is one reason I think VHS tapes are an underrated collectible. But Gen Xers are more nostalgic for their video games than for movies, at least for now.

Ugh. Good riddance to VHS. I still have "fond" memories of sitting down to watch a movie only to have it interrupted half-way through for one of these reasons:

1. Tape's banjaxed and it's full of noise and other garbled junk due to bad recording, poor playback, or deterioration of the tape itself.

Or, my personal favourite:

2. Someone's half-recorded an episode of Matlock because they grabbed the first VHS tape in reach so they could watch it later. Or it's half of your Uncle Fester's 48th birthday cake reveal, shakily recorded with a home camcorder.

DVDs were the best thing to ever happen to the home movie entertainment in the late 90s.
That all sounds pretty accurate and reasonable to me. I guess we can't help each other.
I doubt it. I bet this actually works better for most people. It really sucks because you can't fix it if your computer is actually configured correct, but they probably ran some simple tests and determined that IP location is better than HTTP header language.

I'm sure it is easy to construct an argument that this isn't actually better overall. That case probably does then fall into "Org Too Big, Nobody Cares".
An arab israeli is very likely to marry an arab from Palestine. I'm guessing a number close to zero Israeli Jews are looking to marry an arab from Palestine (religion, hate, etc).
> it feels like they are using my internet connection, hardware and electricity for free

That's exactly what they're doing
Danuker - HN is not allowing me to reply to you directly.

Though, I do disagree with spying on allies. There is a history with Germany that may have given credence to the wiretapping.

With that said, the US is not giving Israel weapons to China. But, Israel has given US tech to China (and likely will again).
It's supposedly a Tu-141, a 80's reconnaissance drone supposedly used by both Russia and Ukraine.

edit: Not in active use by Russia, retired 1989 (however it is likely Russia still posses them).
I'm 90% sure Home Assistant is waking up the bulbs more than necessary. (Yay random open source plugins!) It's not a problem for anything else on the network.
I'm the 'engineer' side of the equation. But often I need async interaction with various others. So I just combine it all in one message:

Hey, Jo! I just have a quick question for when you have a moment: <question for Jo>

And leave it. I'll ping Jo again at a time interval depending on urgency - sometime this sprint? I'll remind about the message in a couple days. Need it today? I indicate that when I ask, and about 4hrs later I'll poke a bit to see where we are.
It's probably not as bad as you hear. I think there are two fallacies one can draw: 1. Everything is rosy in the Emerald City 2. Everything is Mad Max in the Emerald City.

The corner by McDonalds on 3rd has always been bad, and truly these days it is worse. I was recently down that way and was pretty shocked. But that also isn't most of Seattle these days.
It's Singapore, as mentioned in the description (and the prices are quoted in SGD).
The UK Government is not serious about climate catastrophe as evident by the laws around personal electric micro-mobility, amongst other things.
I watched Jonathan Blow's introduction to macros in the Jai language[1] that he develops. Basically he made the for loop to be a macro (what he called a "hygienic macro") and it can be overloaded for various types of iterators. (watch past minute 6:30)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX46eLqq1ps
This is still not answering the question whether these are legally recognized wives; whether they have residenve./nationality rights, right to work, etc
The BBC sometimes expresses a fairly conservative world-view (I mean conservative in the traditional sense, not populist like Boris Johnson) which sometimes happens to broadly align with the government's perspective. I think the BBC often seeks the outsider perspective, but seldom centres it.

The current UK government is not as enthusiastic about the BBC as they might be; and the BBC's senior management treats its relationship with the government as something to be managed.

The BBC is not a monolith. Even if the government was able to unduly influence some people inside the BBC, that influence wouldn't extend to much of the BBC's output, because frankly the BBC is not very good at operating as a single joined-up entity.
Do you like your job, your boss and your team? That's worth something. Are you still growing in your position? What's the name of that book? "Be So Good They Can't Ignore You."
It probably goes back to the Usenet days where the group on C++ was absolutely horrific to developers because they were only there to discuss the language specification and you asked a question about implementation or whatever the hell their tribal rules were.

I think many of us are still scared shitless we are going to be verbally abused for asking for help in the wrong room so we hide behind conversational formality- like asking for permission to be heard.
Barrier has been forked to https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap which has a hundred more commits by the same devs.

The name is still barrier though, has anyone more info about this fork?
It's complaining for the sake of complaining. Sometimes you need to test the water first. Some online communities are rather hostile after all. As shown by this silly website.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-141

I thought these things were part of history by now.
Slingshot Aerospace closes $25M fundraising round
It wasn't so much downed, as it fell.
No. They're saying that a Jewish Israeli citizen is less likely to marry a Palestinian than a Muslim Israeli citizen. And given public statements from the lawmakers advocating for this law, they agree.
It's much easier to maintain lifestyles by being more efficient than by any other means. Most energy is simply wasted. There is basically no downside to things like properly insulating houses (except perhaps the bottom line of the property developers).
According to AOC, the earth will end in 6 years (she predicted 10 years remaining 4 years ago). I'm not aware of an update to her estimate.
Not sure why you're misinterpreting my comment. The parent post explicitly states "ingredient", not "spread".
Electrification requires energy-efficiency savings. Insulation is specifically an absolute no-brainer - it's cheap and save a lot of energy (and money). Currently it seems that rentals are the issue more than anything.
In this context Christian almost always means white even if they try to pretend that isn't the case. At least Australia didn't mince words and called it the White Australia Policy, everyone else feels like they need to make it about religon or something else to make the racism more palatable.
There are way more renters than there are home buyers.
Yet you said ingredient.
For a very long time now the basic premise has been to go to the largest connected market that exist and buy from whoever sell energy at the cheapest price. When nations want to encourage more renewables they add subsidies in hope that this will enable some companies to deliver a product onto the market that has a lower sticker price. In some cases they offer to pay the subsidies as a bonus on top of the market price, thus enabling companies to lower the sticker price below that of competitors.

This system works great if you want to optimize for price. Even if a nation want to sell cheap in order to fund an invasion force, the buyer can continue as before and just buy based on the price. Similar for carbon emissions, as the buyer doesn't feel responsible for the subsidies. If there is an offer on the connected market then the buyer can buy it.
That's okay, but when I go out of my way to actively set the language in a service's settings, shouldn't that be honored over an assumed local-by-default? Because that's what I do with Google (individually on Search and YouTube), and it somehow forgets it quite frequently.
Yes, I think "we're investing in hightech innovation that will save the Earth" is better PR than "we're helping reforestation projects".

This is inline with the disconnected Silicon Valley / Tech elite group think that every single problem on Earth can be solvee with technology.
My fav in this regard is Amazon: I can manually set a language in the settings, but those get at random times overwritten by my browser language setting.

So why have it in the first place?
>What you don't seem to realize is that those aren't your LARPer nazis that roam around on discord just to sound edgy and cool.

Fully aware of this, thing is, given their circumstances, I can't really give half a shit. It's amazing easy to wax lyrical about "morality" when you've got the safety guarantee of the most powerful military on the face of the earth. A bit harder when they're literally dropping shells on your head and driving tanks into your cities. I cannot, and will not judge them for compromising when facing a literally existential threat.

Can't exactly get anywhere else when you're just a Russian puppet government. Historically speaking, that's bringing a hell lot worse of a future to anyone in the region than the Azov ever could.
> Sounds like you only read the headlines and not actually use any of their products

How are these two things connected with the partent's post?

>you are either all-loving-god or the devil, no greys for you

No, but Apple is certainly a dark kind of grey: https://www.fsf.org/news/the-problems-with-apple-arent-just-....
One of these is (was?) at Bond Street station in London. Took a 5% cut when you "deposited" fiat. With this and the closing down of the nearby HMV, I don't know why anyone would go to Bond Street now.
Off-topic: Calling the Second Intifada an "uprising" is hell of a unique way of whitewashing suicide bombings. Nothing rebellious about that, just sheer terrorism.
I Left the Intelligence Community
According to this article[1], it’s not so rosy:

“another real problem remains unresolved in Israel: The visceral hatred and contempt that many “Ashkenazi” or European-origin Israelis have for “Mizrahi” Jews, and the way that the media exacerbates racial stereotypes by repeating them without self-critique.”

1. https://www.algemeiner.com/2015/04/15/israel-must-banish-its...
I do think so too. Don't work for others than.
Boostrap your own B2B SaaS company with Silicon Valley savings while living in cheap places!
I worked 1 years in Silicon Valley and with that salary I was able to live for 3 years around Europe and South East Asia while building my company waiterio.com
Now after 9 years I finally have the same salary of what I would be paid in Silicon Valley but I created a new company, created jobs and I won't sell to Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon to create monster monopoly.
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Or they could do the obvious, which is to let the Palestinians form a full state within the internationally recognized borders. But Israel does not want to respect those borders so does not want to accept a two (or three) state solution with a Palestinian state.