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This is wrong on a few levels.

1) as someone who has been on the ground as well, I’ve lost a few offers because I was worried about over paying. On multiple occasions, after seeing what it sold for we thought “damn, we woulda paid another $25K on top to get it had we known.”

2) Canadian banks has a very conservative “stress test” for securing mortgages. This includes qualifying at much higher rates then is being offered. Therefore it isn’t possible to “stretch yourself beyond any reasonable limits”
The question is, would an open auction be any better? The process will just happen at smaller increments. And you will have ghost bids to prop up the prices.
Anecdotally, I've seen this play out at religious communities (though I'm not at all in doubt that this phenomenon is commonplace and prevalent everywhere). I've often noted to myself when core beliefs that were expressed/ leaked, revealed that rather than being rooted in the Bible for instance (interpretations of which are highly debated), many people's beliefs in said community were often about furthering and advancing the self (as in, for the glory and expansion of self, rather than the glory and advancement of God on God's terms according to certain interpretations of the Bible). And often, these beliefs, when called into question, were supported by famous people, celebrities, scholars that confirmed their biases, and also just groupthink.

I know religion, and in particular, Christianity, may not at all be in vogue in this neck of the woods. But I've been thinking from time to time how inconsistent people from certain religious Christian communities are in their core beliefs, and how much they rely on social status, consensus (including the consensus of those who vocally decry Christianity and demonstrate no interest in following or upholding its tenets), and the peripheral method of coming to conclusions about what is true and what is not.

Def appreciate the article and the concepts laid out in a clear way, that rings true for me in a very specific social slice (regardless of what others may think about said social slice).
Here are some suggestions for improving housing affordability

- Land value tax. This incentivizes more efficient land use, such as building denser housing units (eg. apartments) and less wasted space like giant outdoor parking lots
- Tax on non-primary residence
- Tax on foreign home buyers
- Build more housing. I'm not familiar with Canada, but the U.S has many issues with overly restrictive zoning laws preventing the building of affordable housing. Also public housing gets a bad rep, but it works pretty well in Singapore, Korea, Japan, etc.
> By turning it's nose up at non-free firmware, Debian increases incentives for people to buy equipment that depends less on these blobs. That in turn incentivises manufacturers to offer equipment that doesn't depend on blobbiness.

Actually, it only incentives people to buy and manufacturers to offer equipment which has the exact same blobs on a NAND chip on the equipment itself. It's more convenient, sure, since there's no need to find a copy of (the correct version of) the blob and load it together with the driver, but it still depends on these blobs.
Here are some citations which support you.

From https://researchframeworks.org/maritime/the-mesolithic/#sect...

> Evidence for Mesolithic seafaring includes the colonisation of islands involving long sea journeys, such as Shetland and the Outer Hebrides (Warren 2005), as well as the location of sites on islands involving very difficult sea crossings, such as Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island) in North Wales, where one must negotiate the treacherous Swnt Enlli (Edmonds et al 2009).

From https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031...

> Tolan-Smith (2008, 151) notes that at this point there is clear evidence for Mesolithic seafaring, with Ireland being occupied along with the Isle of Man, Rhum, the Hebridean Archipelago and Howick on the East coast of England. Thus, as Warren (2005) and Garrow and Sturt (2011) have argued, there is ample evidence for a strong seafaring tradition in the Mesolithic.
Almost nobody plays vintage. Legacy is largely dead. The most expensive competitive format is modern, where competitive decks can run in the low thousands.

1000 or 2000 in equipment is absolutely normal for a lot of competitive endeavors.
What would happen if the EU enforced a standard before USB C and a manufacturer wanted to use USB C instead of the previous mandated “standard”?
> I spend 40+ hours a week in front of a terminal.

Italians work way more than Northern Europeans, but their salaries are significantly lower because of low productivity. This is true for any occupation, including software development.
i wonder if there are waveforms for the other tastebuds... taste-enabled nausea inducing vr here we come
Houses are non-fungible, making the whole comparison absurd. They occupy 3D space in a fixed location.

Until we develop Star Trek teleportation I cannot replace my apartment with a cheaper one 1000km away.

That's why hoarding real estate is exploitation of people's basic needs.
What sort of connection are you using? Wireless, I assume? Which codec? I wonder if your headphones are connected to your source device via a particularly lossy BT codec...

(I know they're wireless headphones; but some wireless headphones such as previous Sonys have optional wired connections)

The effect is really obvious to me in wired headphones, and my ears are pretty much trash. I struggle mightily to tell the difference between FLAC and good mp3/AAC encodes and struggle to understand people in real life sometimes.

The Universal watermark is really egregious to me, particularly in the last few seconds of that "Three Doors Down" clip. It's kind of a fluttering sound in the guitars themselves, not a noise laid over the top.

Not shaming anybody if they can't hear it. Like I said, my hearing is pretty bad and I have other physical disabilities.
Yep, house on my street was listed for $950k a few weeks ago and sold for almost $1.4m. In my area (Kitchener/Waterloo), every house is selling for $250k-$500k above asking.
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Their point is people get convicted on "not a shred of physical evidence", but plenty of eyewitnesses. Why are the rules for punishing someone so much more lax than the rules for whether or not something can exist?
That's a collective prisoners dilemma that we ought to break out of. An individual can win at the expense of the group. What we should be striving for is to align the incentives of individuals with the incentives of the group.
The reason banks can do it is they have large retail presences and train staff on these procedures. The cost for Google to do that would not be small.
Wayland can do screenshots since like forever. Do try it out before you believe every false claim on the internet.
I believe it's a redirect based on the HTTP Referer header. HN should set Referrer-Policy: no-referrer.
Thanks, changed it to hopefully ease the load.
membership@sdf.org presumably.
Back in the day I wrote a tool to save songs from Pandora. It was basically an http proxy server, so I'm sure there were dozens of similar tools floating around. However, I never ended up listening to any of the songs I downloaded because it was never as convenient as listening to Pandora. I imagine the same thing with Spotify. Even if I had every song in existence downloaded in lossless format, I'd still use Spotify to listen to music.
The issue is that when you remove social and environmental ethical constraints, a lot of companies would become impressive in a technological, financial or managerial sense. But if you include them and measure 3M's, Dupont's etc. performance in a strong regulatory environment with good compliance, they earn decidedly unimpressive overall scores and can be seen as bunch of greedy, clever, selfish parasites, gaming the system.

That's why narrow statements praising one aspect of their performance paints half a picture. Like calling a war criminal an effective tactician - technically correct, but against the big picture, so what?
The goofs trying to communicate via Snapchat, yeah.
Around the same time as this article, I remember participating in a double blind study that was trying to evaluate something similar for movies. They wanted to test how audible it was to "discerning" listeners, so they contacted local community orchestras, and I ended up in a little theater for a couple of hours with a handful of musicians watching and listening to movie clips over and over.

The "control" was just plain old mp3 compression artifacts, which seems to match the effects observed in the case of the music watermark. In my case, there were definitely a few instances where things sounded a little off in some of the clips, but most of the time they sounded totally normal. It really made you wonder if you were just hearing things. I always wondered how accurate I was but they wouldn't share the results!
All these notes people take - what percentage of them do you ever go back to reference? I suspect some peoples notes are like my bookmarks/favorites - long lists of things that "I might need" at some point and then just end up cleaning up years later.

I'm most always in front of a computer so I don't need mobile. I use sublime for code and whatever minimal notes I do take end up using the PlainTasks plugin. It lets you do todo's and has other features.

If its work related and needs sharing and isn't code (that belongs as comments) then I use whatever work doc sharing tool is there, typically a wiki. These suffer from same issue above - docs, notes, diagrams end up there and theres a ton of stuff, some useful, some severely outdated. I wish you could put a time bound self destruct (like mission impossible) on notes and they clean themselves up - move to an Archive folder or something.
> I believe there should be an official non-free repository (akin to Ubuntu's) which users can enable offline, meaning it needs to be stored on the official CD.

There's already a "non-free" section under official "dists" ([0] for stable). It's just not added to the ISOs. Netinstall directly asks that whether you want non-free enabled during installation too.

The only thing is whether building CDs with it or not. Actually there are Zip files containing all firmware for a release, which can be added to a USB drive and added during install, but it's not well documented.

Maybe, this Zip files can be made more prominent, and using them can be better documented. Yes, it's not including firmware in the CD, but it's a good compromise.

What about a nice tool (akin to GRML2USB) which writes the ISO to USB and leaves a mountable FAT32 partition where user can drop in the firmware.zip file, so it becomes self contained if user wants?

[0]: http://ftp.tr.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/
>Do these agreements say that foreigners have a right to buy houses in Canada?

For sure.

https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreeme...

CPTPP ensures that investors from the Asia-Pacific receive fair and non-discriminatory treatment. This means they must receive the same level of treatment as Canadian investors and any third-country investor in similar situations.
No one was stoned in the bible for downloading MP3s.
On that topic: why Russian tanks are so vulnerable to these missiles and explode spectacularly [1]. Basically the canon auto-loads shells, and the shell storage is not in a different compartment than the turret.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/04/01/why-do...
now you know why the USMC got rid of all their tanks about 2 years ago.
> Two thousand Canadian adults were surveyed by Ipsos

Maybe I'm an idiot and I've never run a survey but the sample size seems a bit low. If we assume half of the 38 million Canadians[0] are children and the remaining 19 million are married to each other AND they only asked 1 person per household this 31% number is based on the finances of only 0.02% of the total population.

[0] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...
I don't often respond to claims like these, but I think it might be necessary to in this case. I am not sure what sources you used to inform those claims, but I will simply say that in both cases both are misleading.

Noam Chomsky is a lot of things, but 'genocide denier' label is at best inaccurate and, more importantly, does not automatically make him wrong on any other issue. I get that character assassination works well, but this is HN, where stuff like that will be called out.

"That was only very recently codified and was very controversial inside and outside of Israel.

Very recently as in 'in the UN assembly resolution authorizing the creation of Israel' (1947) or the 1985 basic law etc."

I think parent is referring to this piece of legislation[1]. I might be wrong, but if not, that would strike me as recent.

[1]https://www.vox.com/world/2018/7/31/17623978/israel-jewish-n...
> I would pay kilodollars per year for a real LTS version of firefox that will never ever change its UI or randomly break how plugins work, but take security fixes.

Is this what Firefox ESR is supposed to be? I don't use it, does it change UI and plugin stuff with minor updates?
What’s in it and what is the cost?
They're about 10 years too late. The chinese have already moved their money into toronto looking at the demographics.
> vacant properties sitting around empty because of money laundering and speculative usage

I don't have the numbers but I find difficult to believe that there's enough properties used for money laundering to move the prices.

> usage disparity because rural areas have been left behind by modern infrastructure

That's the problem. There are empty houses but too old or in places where people don't want to live. So to low the prices more houses need to be built there where people want to stay.

Another solution would be improve the communication channels between cities and rural areas.
Don't conflate the digital world with the real world. If you really want to go there... The way I see it, Linked in is more like a public square anouncement board. You can write down the details of what is there and sift through it on your own, or pay them to give you a summary based on what you are looking for.

Edit: Would it be illegal photograph the board, OCR it and provide a summary for half the price of others? There is such a thing and "wrong/stupid laws"
"Verance claims on their website that, while the watermark is able to survive recording through microphones (such as recording a film in a movie theater with a camcorder), as well as compression and encoding, it is imperceptible to human hearing, and the presence of the watermark does not affect audio quality"

Of course, they always claim that. Never mind that it's theoretically impossible. Such marketing should earn a fraud prosecution.
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There are two ways to prep for interviews. One is to actually learn the principles. The other is to grind and memorize. 4-8 hours a day for months is the latter and is not the intended interview process, though some people go that route. “Review for a weekend” is, in my observation, what people at these companies are hoping that you’ll do.
Are those commercials still around, or is that a marker of age now? Last time I had over-the-air TV on, the ads were all Medicare management, prescription medicines, and "Won't someone please save these abused puppies?", as opposed to Chia Bob Ross heads.
You say this as though it wasn’t possible to rent before everything got bought out by corporations
"Cask strength" literally means it hasn't been substantially diluted from the cask. ie it's a higher percentage than you're typical bottled whisky. And as you stated yourself, the expectation is that the drinker would often dilute to taste themselves. So you're not actually disagreeing with the statement you're attempting to rebuttal.

> I'd say that's simply not true, at least for my "enthusiast" circles. 40% whiskies are becoming increasingly rare in those groups.

"rare" is hugely overstating things, even for the "enthusiast" market.
I've been thinking a lot about this, and I think to promote everyone's owning a house, and even small-size investments, but to avoid megacorps the ideal would be something like:

1 house - tax breaks

2 houses - same taxes as currently for 2 houses

3+ houses - incrementally more expensive with each extra house

Also there's a really nice law in Spain, born for the wrong reasons, that makes you pay more taxes if the house is empty vs if someone lives there.
> Sales almost never fall through. If the buyer cannot get financing etc, the seller keeps their 10% deposit. The seller cannot back out.

In the states, once the purchase agreement is signed, the home goes through inspection at some point before the sale. The inspector finds a hundred little problems with the house, and the buyer can back out of the sale for any little complaint.
I used to be in the same boat, mostly due to Spotify's recommendation algorithm. Unfortunately they've since removed all ways of giving it feedback about what I like, and now it just recommends the same few songs over and over and over.

Might have to go back to downloading, at least playback will be more reliable.
Something I've been thinking about is that with the emergence of weapons like the NLAW and Javelin, the Secret Service probably will have to rethink the security of the
US president.
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I'm not sure that "hundreds of requests per hour" meets the criteria for a DDOS. Assuming 999 requests per hour, that's about one request every four seconds, which the vast majority of websites should be able to handle with no trouble at all.
I wonder whether the similarity made it worse? They have to be different so they emphasize the differences to have points to work with. And if they are similar Putin should have remembered that the Russian people were stoic and stolid and not all that fond of giving up.
OK, I was wrong about today.
Interesting, for me, it loses far too much flavor that way.

> Never understood how some folks drink whiskey basically like vodka, what a waste of potential. Above 40% feels just like that.

I’m thinking that you might be overly sensitive to alcohol on your tongue.
Their whole approach is asinine. If foreign buyers are the level of problem they suggest then removing them from the market is less likely to depress home prices and more likely to convince people they shouldn't put their homes on the market because they can't get top prices.

In the end I expect this to have no impact as it seems more likely this is just government attempting to deflect attention away from problems they've created.
I'd be surprised if Spotify doesn't track plays even when you've downloaded music for offline listening. Also, using official features of the app doesn't violate their ToS.
Thank you for a patient explanation. I see that using passive voice leaves out all other decisions, choices, influences, etc. And I agree that active voice is a shift to bring those into the mix.

I think the point I’m hung up on is I just don’t see blame in my version. I sincerely read it as a factual retelling, including GitHub (the software) as an agent that responds to commands and performs them. It makes me wonder where the borderline (if there is one?) would be between statements that convey neutrality versus seeming to be accusations (perhaps unintentionally and undetectably).

I am curious what you do see as GitHub the company’s contributing actions to the overall situation. And where the accusation line might be.

Clearly someone or some group of someones at Github built the functionality. And, in so doing, made it possible for an accidental deletion situation to exist, even if at the time they did it completely in good intention and with included warnings.

At some point though, Github themselves deleted data on their own repo by taking it private. They followed up by restoring their data, and not changing the dialog to be more clear.

Are any of these statements blaming, to your eyes/ears?
It is different because even in offline-mode Spotify keeps track of the number of times the song has been played in order to pay the artist the correct amount.
Many enthusiasts do, like myself. There are very few whiskies I don't prefer with a tiny drop of tap water. It really depends on the whisky.
Targeting foreign investors is both difficult and morally wrong. You want to target speculators (landlords) regardless of nationality.

And it's easy to implement: tax houses not owner-occupied very heavily.
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If you ever would give it another try, I highly recommend sway, which is almost completely compatible with i3’s config and basically a wayland clone of that. Wayland makes multiple displays with different DPIs possible and basically a huge, much needed revamp on all the technical debt that accumulated in a multi-decade old graphics stack.

Similarly, pipewire is pretty much stable now, which fixes both the sound and bluetooth stack singlehandedly.
If you can't taste it then you are already ahead! If the few drops you add, which are free, taste the same as the expensive whisky, you are left with more tasty whisky to drink.
> People who want to hire me to fix their Java app think already think I am a wizard. The problem is, they stop believing me the moment I tell that Java is not a good language completely stop listening when I say that I will not work with it as long as I have other options.

If people hire you to "fix their Java app" and you then subsequently bury your head in the sand and insist that this cannot be fixed (or you will not fix it) without rewriting it in another language - either you have been lying to them, or they were not listening to you. Regardless, you were probably not a good hire.

It seems that you're trying to write Java as if it were C++. That will not work, so stop doing that.

> "magically make the CTO's nephew and all authors of the zillion libraries the app depends on learn the idiomatic way of handling resources and then rewrite everything using those"

Crap code is crap code and exists in every language. I'm not sure what your point is. Most battle-tested libraries in Java properly use try-with-resources. If you work for a crap startup that uses crappy libraries, that's not a problem of the language itself. All this criticism of "the CTO's nephew" is a deflection of any conversation about benefits of drawbacks of individual languages since you just try to measure a language by its worst users.
It fits with the theme of declining globalization and increasing protectionism. Still it seems strange for an allegedly free and open capitalist nation to turn away capital.

I suppose the political alternative would be questioning why the real estate market was managed in such a way to restrict supply, or disincentivize renting some of these foreign owned properties. Always easier politically to point and blame the external actors, the other tribe.

If this latest measure proves ineffective and taking responsibility for domestic mismanagement is off the table, what comes next? Nationalization or a bail-in of foreign held properties seems extreme, but how far can this go?
Perun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUyAPQEb01Q

Chieftain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7T650RTT8

Bernard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPth_xqBXGY

Extreme summary, blame me if I missed something obviously important - unsupported tanks will die to infantry or artillery and have done so since shortly after the inception of the tank. Tanks are actually pretty cheap compared to replacing a human, it costs quite a lot to raise a modern human. The tank role still exists, but ratios of tanks to other fighting vehicles may change.
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