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How is that "immoral"? It's not. She had the choice to pay the taxes and keep the house. And CHOSE not to. If you make a bad business decision and you get screwed, it's not a moral problem.

She could at ANY TIME have paid the lien. She had ample assets to do so.

> But to grant them some kind of nuclear foreclosure power that lets them take the entire property (rather than simply force a sale and take the owed amount)

This is 100% misleading reporting in the article. In nearly all jurisdictions, when a bank forecloses, they CAN keep the property and do whatever they want. Including selling for a ridiculous profit.

The reason this isn't a problem is that people that are highly "right side up" don't generally fuck up and foreclose, because that would be STUPID.
I fell in love with NFC (tap to pay) when I visited Australia, and I haven't carried around cash in the states for 5 or so years now (and now I'm not even using my card anymore, just double tap a button on my watch and tap against the card reader). Before coming back to the states I was in China and since I didn't have a Chinese ID card, couldn't use WePay so had to use cash or UnionPay for everything (I hear it is easier for foreigners now).
> I have a similar constellation of problems and never found an employer willing to tolerate it long term. I can put large volumes of high quality work for 3-5 weeks at a time followed by 2-4 weeks of a low output slump. I usually get fired on the fourth or fifth cycle, freelance for a while, then try again.

This sounds 100% like me.

I currently work for a healthcare company in the mental health space. We’re definitely hiring. Shoot me an email, and we’ll see if we can’t get you into the interview process.

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>>The idea that you need to be physically close to be emotionally close is just silly.

Note this works with one's mom but not wife. Meaning what is the nature of relationship you are pursuing here? Deeper the stake closer you need to be.
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The appeal to a simpler past is in effect a slowing down of the pace of life.

With those extra minutes and extra space, people come up with ways to speed up life.

It seems we are much better at creating complex solutions, over maintaining them.
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And with this move, I will never ride in one of their vehicles. I will actively tell everyone I know to avoid them.

If they cannot stand public scrutiny, they do not deserve the privilege to be driving on the public roads. Period.
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You don't usually have to make an extra "trip to the ATM" to get cash, you can combine it with shopping or other errands. In Germany many supermarket chains now even have a "withdraw cash for free when you pay with your card" service, which is very convenient. And "keeping track of the amount of cash you have" is simply looking into your wallet when buying something and seeing that you only have one or two small-ish bills left in there.

I agree though that cash handling is more of a hassle for the ones accepting cash than for the ones paying with it, and that's probably one of the drivers in getting rid of it...
fair enough, thanks. Just yourself or a team?
I have seen both. I worked in environments that are conflict averse.

One example: There was an infrastructure team with one person just not doing their work. At the end for nearly three years This led to good people from the team leaving as the additional work of these "slackers" had to be done by someone.

Neither the direct team lead, nor the manager above them, nor HR after learning from the reasons for people leaving through exit talks did anything.

And I also saw situations that was framed as similar, but the situation was very different once the context became known.

There was a person seemingly slacking. And objectively that was true. Not visible was the fact that this person was bullied by a coworker, was mentally abused. They tried their best to still deliver, but were just not able and sabotaged as well.

Solving this solution was a mess for the people involved.

Basically it isn't always as it seems. But also that there sometimes are people slacking.
I see a lot of good answers here, about leading by example and such and I've been in many instances where that's worked. But I'm in a new pickle.these days , I have a team with two duds...like absolutely no performance. I used to think they were willfully gaming the system but after a few frank conversations I feel like they live in a alternate dimension. Person A , senior by experience and pay grade couldn't sharpen a pencil if u gave him an electric sharpener and you could tell person B to meet you in the caf for lunch and he'd get on a bus and call you from butchers. I have no idea how these people.got where they are... We work on somewhat safety critical systems in a hot industry so you would expect some level of competence. But Nada. They feel....entitled to payment but feel no obligation to deliver anything. Have no sense of work ethic, workmanship, quality, barely communicates, no sense of teamwork. I'm at my wits end. I complained but that only turned into to more work for me to manufacture work they are willing or able to do and the tracking the progress. I gave up on that pretty quick. Talked to both of em 1-1 and learned a lot and reviewed some horrendous code and decided that it was better to have them not do anything. Pulled them both off deliverables and gave them meaningless tasks. This is all while the team is chugging away. Just today we have a pitch coming up and I had given A the task of making the deck, mind you not the content...just the .PPTX file and chasing people to get it done , and he managed to pick some god awful pos theme, so I told him "hey you know this theme isn't very presentable" ...and he told me to change it if I didn't like it. And to B I gave a wild goose chase. I could have either of them touch the code before the release. HR and management didn't like this...they want me go give em real work...so they can mess it all up...because the rest of us can always undo it...
I believe they are referring delivering the gas to the station via tanker truck, not filling a passenger vehicle with gas.
Surely you just mean the USA right? Because that statement is not true in almost any other country that I can think of.
Broken Link 404 Not Found. There is not an easy way to send feedback on that article so will leave this here. The text "beta-testing our official Android app" links to https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/03/mastodon-3.5/android-b... which is a 404.

There is a https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/02/official-mastodon-for-... post.

The full context is "just started beta-testing our official Android app with our Patreon supporters."
> We started from the assertion that if a software project loses all of its devs it will not be maintainable anymore by new hires.

I recognize that this is due to my imperfect summary/introduction of the paper, but it doesn't make that assertion. I highly recommend reading it; it's not that difficult or technical.

I've maintained systems where I could talk to the original developers, and I've maintained systems where I couldn't. I know there's a difference in outcomes between the two cases, but I wouldn't say the latter is "not maintainable". Certainly buggier and slower to develop against, though.
If only there were some sort of "wind shield" to protect the sensor clusters.

Can I patent that?
16 percent interest is usury considering the real estate asset the lien is attached to and IRS short term interest rates. It would be entirely reasonable to prohibit the sale of the asset until the death of the elderly owner and have the taxing authority made whole with a transfer at that point.

> This is 100% misleading reporting in the article. In nearly all jurisdictions, when a bank forecloses, they CAN keep the property and do whatever they want. Including selling for a ridiculous profit.

The law is whatever the local citizens want it to be, by the way. Even if that means being overly cautious with seniors and what is possible the last meaningful possession and wealth they might have.

> The reason this isn't a problem is that people that are highly "right side up" don't generally fuck up and foreclose, because that would be STUPID.

Some amount of empathy is required when considering policy that impacts the elderly. Government exists, in part, to provide harm reduction measures. And they'll get their property tax revenue due eventually as long as the property stands.

> In a 50-page report released in December, the Pacific Legal Foundation says “unlike most states, which return what isn’t owed to them after a property tax debt is paid, the [Massachusetts] tax foreclosure system unjustly take millions of dollars in home equity from property homeowners every year — indifferent to the suffering it causes.”

> More than 150 homes were foreclosed upon for tax debts by private companies in the seven-year period ended in December 2020, allowing “the taking of an estimated $37 million in equity above what these homeowners owed in property tax debt,” according to the report.
The problem with software engineering management nowadays is the ubiquituous 18th century sweatshop mentality. In those sweatshops, the worker that completed more pairs of shoes is the highest performing one. But when you try to apply that mentality to more abstract endeavours like software engineering, it doesn't work.

Let's imagine there is a problem that requires to need to implement 100 classes to deal with 100 different types.

A 18th century person would say: I have 100 classes, 5 workers, I am going to give 20 classes for each worker to implement.

A person that actually knows what's going on would simply write template <typename T> class FuckYou, done.

In the wrong hands, software is misery.
I clean the house. I do it about ten mins a night. Sometimes fifteen if it's a mess.
"It is if you are arguing that current laws are unjust. "

Heyzeus, I'm wary that people could reasonably be making this kind of argument.

In an authoritarian nightmare, sure.

But in most places, that's the deal with the law, it's not a perfect fit.

If you allow people to define it as they think it should be, it's not going to work.

There's is a 100% chance that someone in your neighbourhood thinks he should be able to keep machine guns and more advanced weapons for whatever reasons. And probably some who think that if you are on their property for whatever reason, they can use 'lethal force'.

Etc..

That's why we don't get to say "I want to use crypto for the criminal things that I don't think should be criminal!"

Obviously proportionality applies, but still.

I'm wary of government oversight, but it's best if we as citizens try to be a bit responsible with the systems we have at our disposal.

That said, I'm not sure someone having a bit of weed should freak anyone out (i.e. proportionality).
Card payment processors charge the merchant some premium. Usually their contract with the merchant prevents passing the fee along to the customer. A cash discount could be a way to get more customers to pay in cash, which avoids the credit card company's cut. This is probably violating the terms of the merchant/card company contract, but I dunno, hard to resent the merchant here given the power imbalance between them and the card processors.

How would using cash would be an effective way of denying the gas station's staff a proper wage? I suspect most gas station staff is hourly, rather than... I dunno, tipped or commission.

Cash could certainly be a way of avoiding some taxes.
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"the most scalable open source TSDB in the world"

You can be scalable, and still cost a lot of money to scale out. Unit economics are important.
Interesting! Any idea why that is?
It seems that Lagom ports AK and LibCore, the core C++ library components that Serenity is using instead of the STL, to other platforms like Linux.

This may be useful for devs who want to entirely ditch the STL in favor of a much cleaner and ergonomic library.
Indeed, I have just realized that the main problem of the US healthcare system is that their inhabitants cannot even imagine that anything better even exists.

Healthcare is much more than being operated or receiving some treatment for a rare condition, both things that are very much researched and done outside the US both privately and with public money. Healthcare is also about allowing people with health problems to live with dignity and allow then to function in society. To care for the weak and not only to restore productivity of a broken cog. Healthcare is about a strong first line of care that prevent conditions to get worse and irreparable. Many countries with a thousand or less of US's GDP can teach a lesson or two on that. In any case, most countries are slowly copying many aspects of US healthcare, I guess it must be indeed be better, or perhaps more profitable.
The difference is you can build a tolerance to opioids, so the LD of hydrocodone in an addict (or even just someone using for an extended period medically) will be FAR higher than in an opiod-naive person.

Opioids kill via respiratory depression, not by destroying your organs.
Goodhart's law means you need to gather more data, not less. The more and diverse metrics you have, the more Goodhart pressure you can take.
I think there is a bit of an issue with language and marketing. You're not leading with your strengths, or why people would use your product, you're leading with fluff that blurs the understanding of what you do.

Even your HN post title suffers from the same issue.
I'm getting lost in your language of "ephemeral environments". I get what you mean, but it doesn't suggest what you would do with it until you describe it further.

Yes, they are ephemeral, but that isn't the benefit. "Show HN: Run every PR in it's own environment"

Also, EaaS (ease) has a nice ring to it, I feel like "environments as a service" could also have so many applications, that I wouldn't lead with it.

Could you imagine Stripe describing themselves as "Software as a service. A platform for 3rd party digital purchases". That's kinda what it does, but doesn't really give anybody something to tie it to.

"Modern development platform for fast-moving teams" - but that isn't the problem you solve. I'm part of a fast-moving team, we have a development environment, so what are you offering...

Perhaps there are things that I'm missing. I've never worked in such a large organization where we have independent dev-ops. But is this the pain point?

We have experienced the small bit of pain when reviewing a PR, and you have to stash your current work, open the branch, run the services, etc etc, but it has never been a big enough problem for us.

Perhaps in larger orgs, I don't know. But generally, you may be on to something, but please try to be clearer with what that something is.
The offerings in this space change so quickly and it results in these threads having a pretty short shelf life. Getting a super current solution to arguably one of the greatest privacy problem facing our world right now is probably worth a little redundancy and clutter. Right?
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Thanks for the info!

1. I see current fees are around $1.90/txn these days. My bad, it’s been quite some time since I’ve made a Bitcoin transaction. If on-chain transactions are cheap, what motivation does a user have to use lightning?

2. I actually didn’t know it was onion routed, that’s good! There is still the possibility of censorship at the edges though, which could propagate throughout the network via “I won’t open a channel with anyone who opens a channel with X”. Although this issue exists in most federated systems like Mastodon and Matrix. I don’t know a way to solve it other than full anonymity. I’m assuming it’s public knowledge who has an open channel with who.

3. My understanding is that opening a channel locks the funds into that channel. As you said you can still use those funds for lightning transactions, assuming that the other party is well connected and you can route to your destination via them.

4. I do agree that it can be useful for most things while at the same time failing its design goals. The thing I’m extremely wary of is creating a system which handles 99% of use cases perfectly but accidentally degrades the service for the rest. If lightning gets enough adoption that it handles 99% of Bitcoin traffic then I’d expect 2 things to happen. First, a small set of hub lightning nodes would emerge which everyone would route through. These nodes would be subject to KYC/AML laws by governments and would be required to begin censoring transactions in the manner described in #2 by refusing to open a channel with anyone who either is a node that does not comply with KYC/AML, or an individual who has not jumped through enough hoops. Second, anyone who makes an on-chain transaction that is not lightning related is instantly suspicious, like handing someone a brown paper bag full of cash. I think this would be an unfortunate state for Bitcoin to end up in as it would have become the very thing it sought to destroy.

On atomic swaps. I think they’re really great. The only issue is I can’t imagine myself ever converting Monero to Bitcoin for fear of ending up with coins tainted in some way that I’m not sophisticated enough to discover until it’s too late. I don’t have a solution for this.

Finally I want to say that I appreciate your response, as there is more nuance to the lightning network than I initially presented. Admittedly I was a little overzealous with my comment above, but I’m glad we can have a honest discussion about things. Rare on the internet these days!
Phenylephrine is 100% fake and it's frustrating it's allowed to be sold
They're talking about the founder. You'd know this if your reading comprehension skills were up to par with your knowledge of what country TikTok isn't in. Otherwise, that tidbit is tangential at best, and doesn't provide any evidence to the contrary of the quoted claim.
Usury in MA (with contract) is 20%.

https://www.findlaw.com/state/massachusetts-law/massachusett...

Plenty of CC's charge 19.5% for this reason.

> it would be entirely reasonable to prohibit the sale of the asset until the death of the elderly owner and have the taxing authority made whole with a transfer at that point.

Why should we allow anyone to do that? just pay their taxes like everyone else. This isn't even a case of someone that couldn't do it! Education and a less callous handling would be nice, but you can't legislate your way out of this - if you don't have a eviction hammer, nobody will pay taxes.

I agree about empathy, which you might be surprised to find, I have actually a lot of. But there's nothing immoral with any of the actors, the article is slanted and overstating a position. I'd be great with a municipally funded outreach program (or even loans?) to help seniors.
I was not implying that that feeling was good or advocating for it. Just that that feeling appears, even if misguided, and we need to understand it to understand self-destruction loops
What is this lobsters you whisper of?
Here's a docker guide: https://docs-v2.envkey.com/docs/docker
I think you have experts and politicians confused.

> The "experts" also thought if Vietnam went communist the whole continent would.

The domino theory was advocated by politicians, not experts.

> The "experts" gave us the war on drugs.

Nixon gave us the war on drugs as an excuse to be racist towards black people and let cops beat up hippies.
Experts have derided the war on drugs (as opposed to treatment for addicts) and the classification of weed as schedule 1.

> The fatherless black household [wasn't] stereotypes until the "experts" tried to help minorities.

The stereotype preceded the experts, but yeah, Moynihan fucked up there.

> How many lives are you willing to ruin and how much blood are you willing to spill getting things wrong?

I mean, a not insignificant number. The US has 350 million people. Any decision at that scale is likely to fuck over a lot of people, whether that's allowing any company to put out a self-driving car or changing fuel efficiency levels.

> The power of the state shouldn't be thrown around on a whim or subject to subject specific industry fads and circle jerks.

On the contrary, I'm advocating the power of the state to take action against industry fads faster than the public notices the issues. Such as using governmental power to limit invasive tracking of internet activity.
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Or, clear up confusion by not calling Android and ChromeOS Linux? Call them Linux based, or Linux derived.

From my own POV, when someone says Linux, I think of the distros that are by and large compatible, distro packaging formats aside. E.g., when installing Slack by downloading a tar.gz and unpacking it I've never had to worry about it working or not, but then I was doing so on Ubuntu / Arch / Pop!_OS / Fedora.

While I've used Alpine for containers in the past, I was always aware that Alpine was deliberately special and different to be smaller, and because there's a lot of people who dislike , and that if something wasn't available via apk, then I had little

I guess this is like the debate about the drift of the word "literally" to mean "I'm dramatically exaggerating" - there's the people who insist that "literally" has a meaning, and only that meaning, and anyone using it for anything else is wrong, then there's the people who think that how people use a word defines it.

I get the annoyance of the people annoyed by the complete inversion of the word, but I feel like they're like the mythological Canute opposing the tide.

So long as I understand what people are saying when they say Linux, I'm happy - and I've never met anyone who uses "Linux" when referring to Alpine or Android. They always specify that it's Alpine in their container, because Alpine is sufficiently different. Likewise, if someone told you they had a Linux phone, would you think that they're using Android? I wouldn't, I'd think that they had a PinePhone, or something running PureOS.

I realised this debate had name, so googled it, and it's referred to as the the prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate.

I guess I'm on the descriptivist side - unless your descriptive usage is wrong, of course. If you referred to Alpine solely as Linux, but then I couldn't use software on it that I can use on many other Linuxes without recompiling, I'd be a tad miffed.
My god, I am in the position right now where I basically have to screw around by myself in order to figure the system out. It is hell....
If legit self-driving capabilities became available, I feel pretty confident in saying that there's a sizeable consumer market for this that are not sensitive to the price. I would immediately drop an extra 30-40% on a car if that's what it cost to get that self-driving.

For those that are more price-sensitive, well, new cars become used cars in a relatively short amount of time.
> if you shit in my well, you don't get to sell me bottled water.

Brilliant.
Genuinely curious: how is a hardware key invulnerable to a phishing website? Don't they just act as a keyboard to type in the OTP automatically? What stops a MITM from relaying it on?
Have one person do nothing but estimate the difficulty of a case(and be tracked and judged for the quality of their estimates), and the surgeon be tracked and judged on the relative performance given the difficulty.

Then you could make a career out of doing well on difficult cases, or out of doing better-than-average on easy cases, and either would be viable.
I am willing to bet they have an increasing number of dead accounts. The utility just isn’t there anymore. I see more old people using WhatsApp than Facebook.