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> is that you're presupposing this is what the people want,

At least in Europe it is pretty clear that this is what people want. And they are almost certainly going to pass a law that regulates Apple.

> to prohibit people from selling what we tend to agree is rightfully theirs.

The phone belongs to the user once they buy it. That phone is rightfully theirs, and these new laws will allow a user to do what they want with that phone.

Apple also has the protection of patent and copyright laws. Those are government regulation that prevent other people from selling software.

If we really want to go full "people should be allowed to do what they want, with things that they own", then perhaps we should allow everyone to manufacture iPhones, and sell modified versions of that software. (as in literally, people should be allowed to steal Apple's, and make actual iPhones)

I am sure that there are some factories that already have access to iPhone manufacturing plans that would be happy to do what they want with their own property, and sell iPhones themselves.
But why does it need to be an NFT? Why not just sell a DLC themselves? As we're all aware, the NFT isn't the art.
Something I don't see mentioned in this thread- on Android you can load custom icon packs. I standardize my icons (a solid color, outlined, version of the app logo) across all my apps, so I don't experience it when developers change their app icons.

Using a free(er) platform like Android (compared to iOS) affords me this opportunity for customization.
Key takeaway: investors ruin startups.

It’s that belief that still keeps me from going that route even while working through a regular career for several years. If the project succeeds, well you’ve already sold it to the people who ru(i)n the world. Bootstrapping is so expensive but you diversify power in tech. Don’t sell out!
> A “carbon” tax would effectively be a tax on all goods and services that use energy (all of them).

Unless one company could find a way to produce goods with less energy than their competitors, or obtain its energy from cleaner sources, perhaps by investing in solar power. This would of course incentivize competitors to do the same.

Yes, it would cause prices to go up, but those prices would reflect the actual cost of the good. As you noted, you could offset the price increases by redistributing the tax revenue to the public. This redistribution doesn't make the tax pointless: you're giving a discount to individuals who make greener choices. People who pollute more (whether directly or indirectly via the products they buy) will pay more of the tax but not receive more back.

(This reasoning can apply to a LVT as well, but I prefer the carbon example because I think it's more clear-cut. Clearly, no one person owns the air. People do own land, so I'm more conflicted.)
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I am a Japan resident.

Except the Suica card featuring a notch (for helping as tactile aid to less-abled), I can assure you none of these are in widespread use (i.e. absolutely commonplace). For a fact, I am seeing some of these for the first time with a sense of "Wow, this is in Japan?"

The ones which are sometimes encountered are the Braille on top of cans (Beers mostly. Not colas. The article missed elevator buttons & directions - they always have braille), and the toilet pink-noise. Calculator and coffee holders depends on the banks. JP & 7-11 ATM don't seem to have it. Wrapping paper in chewing gum boxes only - not the sticks. There are equally numerous or more such novelties seen in China, so I believe its not something extraordinary.

I wish HN (and Reddit) stopped romanticizing Japan. This is a well functioning society, people are courteous & law is followed to the letter - but we are in no way living in utopia. These are some niche inventions & gadgetry. Rather, the concern is Japan is falling behind in regular technological advances since the past decade (at least)

Edit: some details, fixed typo
They almost certainly are converting the vast majority of their crypto back to fiat money to pay their bills and employees.

Given the relative volatility I'd be surprised if they have any meaningful long term holding of cryptocurrency.
Agreed, that seems clear, but I see no reason to accept that such elements are necessary, and I have yet to hear any clear explanation of what such elements might actually be.

As far as I can tell it would have to be some physical process that affects the behaviour of a computational system, but isn't computational and it's effects on other systems cannot be simulated by computation. Does any such a phenomenon exist in all of physics? Not that I'm aware.
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Most of this "documentary" is pure q-tier schizophrenia, not that I care about ape ponzy club to begin with.
One of my teeth is currently being resorbed. It has no known cause and is untreatable, eventually resulting in tooth loss. The dentist wanted to preemptively remove it. It could fail tomorrow, or 5 years from now. I opted to do nothing until it does fail. So far, it's been a year and a half.
You can pre-pay an entire year at once as well.
Web3 (smart contracts) can (as in right now) reduce the level of trust required to persuade people to use certain services (or at least parts of them).

For example: crowdfunding platforms. I can write a smart contract that reasonably and securely associates unique IDs to Ethereum wallets, keeps track of wallets that donate to a specific ID and refunds donators or rewards the wallets associated with the IDs according to explicitly set rules (ie. minimum currency threshold). I can then create a website for it, deploy it as "givemeyourmoney.xyz" and still be considered (and verified) trustworthy and safe just because everyone can read the contract's behavior.

Without a smart contract, everyone would understandably think the site is a scam and wouldn't use it - even if it was totally legitimate. That's obviously an extreme example, but that basic attribute has a lot of other implications.

The problems with smart contracts begin once you have to codify a rule that isn't so easy to translate into code (ie. it turns out that a crowdfunded project was a scam). Now people are creating DAOs to deal with situations like that, with at best mixed results.

But what if you need to verify that a condition has been met that isn't based on the blockchain, like checking if someone actually did deliver the pizza that someone else ordered? Then you're completely screwed.

You could say that these problems are eventually solve-able if the right hardware/software infrastructure was created to address them, but if so then it's at least a decade away from being verifiable and therefore useful.

Anyways, regardless of what could be possible it looks like web3 people are more interested in scamming each other because non-technical users can't read smart contracts and few people do any proper auditing.
You are mistakenly believing that LVT means that two lots of the same size are taxed the same rate.
a) Web3 doesn't prevent centralisation. Look at NFTs and OpenSea and how it manipulates the output of the blockchain to flag/hide stolen NFTs.

b) I don't use Facebook and Google only for search engine. So those aren't walled gardens for many people.
I love that the first comment to this post is this from the author:

"I was expecting more comments about this."

Clearly a post designed to be provocative more than anything else. It's just not that interesting or novel. The idea that certain ideas can't be expressed and by expressing them you're making yourself free is fine, but not that interesting if your only goal is to be noticed.
I can't help but wonder what PM tools Atlassian developers use. Surely it can't be JIRA? Maybe they have some browser extensions that make the interface less frustrating.
But they only do it for special occasions, otherwise the respective stores would be full of hundreds of them, which they aren't. And if they are doing it right now, NFT's don't provide any added bonus here.
But framing it as a problem (or program) is begging the question; I'm arguing that it is not a computation.
Any guidance on the SEC link? Robinhood is currently royally boning me in the exact same way, and I want to get my money out as soon as possible. I already threatened to get the SEC involved a week ago, and still no response, so now time to actually do it. Would love a pointer in the right direction.
What do you mean by "traditional documentation"?
Does Lexical require react?
You can connect usb GSM adapters to have the mobile network on a laptop (same for all the other sensors). It is just a lot more "convenient" to have a smartphone in your pocket rather than carry a giant laptop with you everywhere. Which is the point I was trying to make. Yes, technically all thinks VR does is possible with a smartphone but it is a lot more "convenient" to have google maps directions overlayed on top of real world rather than looking at it through a smartphone.
When I see a job posting with no salary all I think is what are they scared of? Must be low. A 4 hour project for a senior? For DevOps? I could spend those 4 hours pinging people in my network and probably have interviews scheduled.
Both desktop app and android, also had issues signing up. It didn't like my number
That's why you should always start with small amounts, deposit $10, withdraw $10. If it works, repeat with $100 etc. Never keep large amounts there, withdraw as soon as trade is complete.
I find this almost impossible to believe. I know and org where someone did not check records, ended up hiring a sex offender. Of all the people THIS person DID do something wrong. They had tons of employees. They got screwed for not actively discriminating against folks with a record. Will the federal govt bond program you mention pay the multi-million dollar settlement they had to pay out. I doubt it. Livescan checks are absolutely required here in CA, and if you hire someone who has disqualifying events it's a major deal. I haven't looked into recidivism data, but got to believe there is some data to support these types of policies.
Tesla cars are banned from Chinese town over spying fear
I wonder, how often people would check candidate public repo and hire based on that? I have not seen this to happen to my network, people are asked to do homework assignment or algo coding in front of somebody but had never been hired based on their github. I'd imagine public github repo to the programmer is like portfolio to the artist, should be good indication?
"The thing with 4hr technical assignments is that you're saying no to anyone with kids"

Is 4 hours the amount of time the candidate is being given to complete it, or roughly how long the employer expects it will take?
In the past I've generally come up with tests I know can be done in an hour or so (2 tops), but allowed 24 hours, exactly because not everyone is going to be in a position they can dedicate those 2 hours to it right there and then.
Sure, those that did take the full 24 hours to complete I tended to apply higher expectations towards when judging, but at the end of the day it didn't make much difference - the tests were only to weed out those that had clearly made a poor career decision (and there were surprisingly many of those, to the point we switched to testing before interviewing).
Can you describe exactly why you believe progress has a limit?

I don’t see how there could be a limit (other than the laws of physics which actually prevent none of what has been described in this conversation).
Oh, it has changed substantially in the last few years. Covid changed everything.
It’s not. Half of California’s births are from Hispanics, who are more likely to be morally opposed to those things. (And good for them-that’s called winning.)
Yes, valuations have gone through the roof, but the equity grants have not kept pace. This is a huge disservice to candidates. Got especially bad in 2021. Really important for people to research startup pay before signing: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/

To the OP: if you believe your comp bands are competitive, why not share in the posting itself?
>they just don’t

Maybe this is out of ignorance, but just sort of assumed that’s how they keep it so cheap. Also the cameras on phones are arguably why people buy the phones they do at this point, or at the very least it’s a huge consideration given how frequently we use them. They also aren’t just for selfies and FaceTime or what have you, they’re also meant to be photography tools. They’ve completely replaced small consumer point and shoots. A laptop camera/webcam isn’t and can’t be that.
The problem here isn’t the sprinklers — it’s the cost to install the sprinklers. The cost of a few hundred feet of CPVC or PEX pipe is low. The cost of an off-the-shelf sprinkler riser, pre-assembled, is a couple hundred dollars. The amount a Northern CA contractor will charge to install the parts is insane.

(There is a problem with too little code. NFPA 13R and 13D do not clearly specify backflow protection requirements, and the California Plumbing Code, which follows UPC, only specifies it by reference to a subjective hazard level as determined by the authority having jurisdiction. This means that different local jurisdictions disagree, which creates both added complexity when designing a system and a significant risk of an actual hazardous condition existing. Situations like this are why codes exist, and IMO the code authors thoroughly dropped the ball on determining the extent to which the water in non-passively-purged fire sprinkler system is hazardous and how to prevent it from getting into drinking water. If an actual standard existed, then there could be an off the shelf compliant system, and time and money would be saved.
This is a straw man to begin with because the building codes are not the issue… the permitting apparatus is.

However, your analysis is simplistic and assumes:

1. The house uses no natural gas (most do)

2. The cost of electricity never goes up (it will in the short term at least)

3. CO2 emissions from wasted energy have no cost (they do)

4. Building energy efficient buildings is way more expensive than the alternatives for new construction (it isn’t)
https://www.edf.org/travel-footprint-calculator

I ran some numbers and the air travel looks seriously trivial compared to the average USA car driver.
When pasting links stopped working for me is about when I stopped using Facebook.

It's 2022 and we're reinventing every wheel, but in the browser.

GitHub has a Markdown editor with a paste handler (converting tables and such).
It once had a bug. I had to disable handlers in the browser to be able to paste.
This article actually makes a bunch of claims itself that are false. For example, it claims that the Wirecutter believes air filters work like sieves. Whereas the Wirecutter review page for air purifiers goes into how they do not behave like sieves and also references a NASA study that shows how HEPA filters are good at capturing both particles smaller and larger than the 0.3 micron test standard.

It’s pretty obvious that the Wirecutter has used HEPA standard filters as a filter for whittling down the many air purifiers that exist in the world. They eliminated the IKEA filters because they do not meet HEPA standards (this blog’s focus on he true-HEPA marketing term is misguided, because the authors own referenced wiki link shows that E12 is not considered HEPA). However, they also reached out to IKEA about this, and the IKEA spokesperson told them their focus is on PM2.5.

They don’t recommend the IKEA filter based not on its inability to capturer finer particles, but because it’s not AS efficient as capturing finer particles as HEPA filters, AND because of its lower CADR.

It doesn’t meet the standards they set, so they don’t include it for price comparisons.

Maybe they haven’t set the right standards. Maybe they should have allowed for lower CADRs or for filters that meet lower filtration standards than HEPA.

However, the insinuation this article makes that they don’t seem to understand what they’re talking about is completely wrong.

Maybe this author should try reviewing over 20-30+ different air purifiers at a minimum without setting arbitrary thresholds up front and then get back to the Wirecutter folks.
You’d better take down all those “refugees welcome” signs then
I read some of those rants and almost 50% of them were not rants but people ignorant of features and how they work getting angry. I’m not saying they deserve to be angry, but if a passionate rant can be dismissed by a ”you’re holding it wrong” it isn’t really a rant.

There are tons of real issues like ages old bugs or weird design decisions years ago that make something that feels very sane feel impossible to deliver.

All in all my point is that most of these rants are against knowledge of features/design and misuse by colleagues.
Thoughts and knowledge 'cash out' in the body. Turn away from prioritizing thoughts that create too many 'research questions'. Envision some thoughts that cash out in bodily movement. Movement is life.
I built it with that intention :) Would love to get your feedback if Just replaces ts-node for your successfully.
Pricing yes, but you can buy multiple months in advance. You don't get any advantage except convenience.
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It's a really good example of how media shapes our perceptions of villains in a way that makes us unable to see how villainous behavior works in the real world. In short, the tendency to reinforce attributive simplicity especially in moral terms, means that a decency and relateableness become ineffective socio-moral proxies.
Mullvad is now continuously donating to Qubes OS
Sure, but I can't agree that our civilization would collapse, or even be at serious risk, if tomorrow airfoils suddenly no longer functioned.
But what is useful about this “illusion.” In a purely deterministic world, any sense of illusion is completely irrelevant. You might as well say “pebbles on the beach don’t really have a sense of community, it’s just a useful illusion that they share.” It’s just as arbitrary.
Starlink was used to Spy on Russian's soldiers

I can perfectly see Tesla cars being used for spying too, considered the relations between the USA and China, and considering that tesla cars are basically remote robots
White noise toilets are not powered by honour.
Not fix a gaping hole that was reported to them repeatedly for years.
Thank you for this comment. Really gave me a lot of clarity for how to think about air filters.
> Costs are not borne by the business but paid for by their customers in a manner which is usually obscured to them.

Only if the supply of the thing being taxed is elastic. The supply of land is inelastic, so (returning to the original topic) there is no way to price LVT into downstream rents; attempting to do so would mean pricing the thing above the value set by its demand, which would mean even less profit.
So while I’m general I do think some of the fascination with VR ubiquity is overhyped: this last weekend the Furality VR furry con was held in VRChat. It had over 5000 registered attendees and peak simultaneous players was over 4200, with most of the popular events/times still numbering in the 1000s of players.

And that’s with VR still very much in the gen 1 (maybe gen 2 if you want to be generous) phase of development. Within five or ten years tech like eye and mouth tracking and partial/full body haptics (which are all already a thing, just niche) will be typical offerings.

I don’t know to what extent it’ll displace existing tech. But the popularity of it today (especially in spaces where artists and developers can do whatever they want) is real and growing crazy fast.
I am so disappointed. What a harmful project.

I apologize for the somewhat blunt language, but no matter how worthy, all software licensed under CC-NC is worthless. It's for fun side projects that you want to die, not for anything of social value. Democratizing STT/TTS has a very clear social value, but CC-NC is a dangerous trap to anything that touches it. Anyone even slightly inclined to take some money to develop it - even still in the open - MUST avoid touching NC code with ten foot pole, or abandon their plans to publish anything. The better the project, the more damage CC-NC does.

"CC-NC considered harmful" http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4559 - by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond, founder of the OSI, the organization that defines the rules for what constitutes "open source" [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
I realize this isn't probably your product surface but do you have any idea why FB messenger still has issues with double texting using the text box?

Also, how do you guys design to reduce latency in Lexical? Esp considering the fluidity of modern chat clients ex. Telegram which are much more performant.
State Street was closed to cars during pandemic and it appears that is going to be permanent.

The city also has an e-bike program that I can informally say is used quite heavily. In addition many youths ride e-bikes and I will be interested to see if that reduces car dependence for that generation.

Water availability is an important factor limiting growth (though we do have a desal plant). Wildfires are another problem to pay attention to.
I actually asked a company that had already offered me a position recently if they had a technical test. The one they sent me was clearly stated and it was easy to configure everything needed. If it had been otherwise I very likely wouldn't have accepted the offer.
In the decentralized web you don’t have to run your infra either, you can use one of thousands of hosting companies that will run it for you.
How would NFT's solve the complexities of music royalty payments? (i.e. the complexity here is that Time Warner needs to ensure they get paid when one of their songs is played on a TV show).
Does anyone actually think that forcing people to sign these things is making them more empathetic?
Web2 is also stupid as at the end of the day your identity is just whatever some call center rep is willing to believe, and you can be locked out of your account to the point where you can no longer even prove who you are for any reason at any time. This is an alternative, and it comes with different tradeoffs. I see you don't like the tradeoffs, and would rather trust companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google because you apparently don't trust yourself with your own key. I think that is simultaneously sad and naive, but "you do you", I guess? That doesn't mean none of this is useful, because not everyone is in a position to trust random US companies.
I definitely can't use this, the date overhead is too much. I agree with the other commenter, YYYY-MM-DD is the way to go.
> They nerf/buff cards all the time.

This is not true. It is exceedingly rare for paper cards to be nerfed or buffed. The only real notable example is with the Companion mechanic from a few years ago. Wizard's solution is to ban problematic cards.
We are actually in more agreement then you realize. But I think you misunderstand the Chinese room argument. It does not say anything about if computers are or could be conscious. All it says is that you cannot determine that from a “black box” view. We can’t determine if the computer is really conscious, or just really good at mimicking the consciousness of someone else (ie the people providing the training data). Just like you can’t determine if the man in the room really knows Chinese or if he is just good at mimicking a machine that does. The man really could know Chinese, and a computer really could be conscious, but you can’t determine this as an outside observer.
I have a Sceptre TV from a few years ago that takes about 15 seconds from power-on to even display a boot screen. It takes another 10 seconds or so after that to actually become usable.

Maybe it's just an outlier? It's certainly slow, though.
This blog post was just too long for the comment box, seemingly by out of touch armchair Wikipedian.