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It's not high risk. It does not depend on prices going up. It depends on renters paying most or all of your mortgage.

It just runs itself if you get good renters. That's where you put all the time and effort upfront.

Yes it has some risk. All investments do. I answered the question about how you get on the property ladder if you can't afford local prices. There might be other ways too.
Can the AirPods Pro Protect Your Hearing? We Put Them to the Test
Hehe I was wondering if someone would catch that. Rest assured, I know the difference between online and stochastic gradient descent. I admit I used stochastic on Hacker News because I thought it would generate more engagement.
It may be "not nice" but it's an accurate and sincere appraisal.
> in a game that isn't trying to exploit you at every turn.

With as profitable as these tactics are, I wonder for how much longer they’ll keep those tactics off their Switch games.

Or, more cynically, “… game that isn’t trying to exploit you yet…”
It's more likely that the snapshot was incomplete in that it was based on incomplete precursors, rather than that the message itself was truncated. The details of something like that aren't always appropriate for this kind of report (i.e. they usually create more questions than they answer for a reader unfamiliar with the basics of the system).
> How is that comparable? iPhones, cars, clothes and much more are available in more than one color as well.

The iPhone, the car, the clothing, etc., are all functionally identical and frequently, but not always, cost the same amount. Pokemon is different in that the two versions of each game contain all the creatures, but artificially exclude some from being caught in each title, which is absolutely a dark pattern.

> I don't know anyone that actually bought both color editions of the same generation game.

I'm not sure when they started the practice, but the most recent revision of Pokemon includes a SKU that includes both colors.

https://twitter.com/nintendouk/status/1532018639565627399?
I feel like most of the fault lies on Apple and Google, which explicitly incentivize these types of extremely profitable games, for obvious reasons. Further proof that the app stores need to be regulated, since they're not going to do the right thing on their own.
Facebook is one of the most end-user-hostile companies ever. No interface is what it seems to be.

Even downloading your own pictures is very difficult with the actual image hidden in some weird link in a maze of javascript. And the original one can never be downloaded - only a crummy scaled down version. It is a one-way trap.
I've never worked anywhere sizeable that uses ansible to manage kubernetes. My one brush with it was at a small shop and it caused more problems that it solved. It was just a couple of guys that happened to use ansible for everything else, right or wrong, it seemed like a lot of "i've got a hammer..."

In the pre-managed kubernetes world I did see an ansible stack for standing up a cluster that seemed ok, but once you get past setting up a base cluster ready to take 'customer' workloads ansible is just not a great tool.
The article you linked requires them to have access to the old phone.

There was a post a few weeks ago about how homeless people struggle to retain their phones, going through a new phone every week [0].

Personally, when I travel, I don’t always have my US phone number available. If my phone is stolen while I’m abroad, I can’t get a new phone or recover my phone number until I return, which could be months later.

Signal is not for everyone and them claiming it is makes me trust them less.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120534
What sucks is that they've gone back and added so much of this junk to older games too. Games like Plants vs Zombies and Angry Birds used to just be skill based journeys through increasingly difficult levels. The last time I opened one of those games I hardly recognized them.
I propose that in discussions like this we don't group all alternate sweeteners together as if they're one thing.

For example, saying "some fake sugars increase blood clotting" subliminally throws shade on all alternative sweeteners even if only one has been studied in a study.

Also, the term "fake sugars" implies that somehow sugar is real while all other sweeteners are "fake", which is again just a way to throw shade. (For example, erythritol and stevia are natural.)
> France has control of its currency

No it does not. It uses the Euro, which technically requires it to maintain a balance.
Sure... but you don't need alcohol... just fructose will do it. The point is that most people don't know that fructose alone will cause liver damage in anything resembling significant quantities... eg: more than 100g HFCS or table sugar a day, which many western people regularly consume... especially if they think that fruit juice smoothies are healthy.
Sony: Without a Streaming Platform, We’re Free to Sell “To the Highest Bidder”
No, but you can take data on 1 million customers of food X, and see how many died, vs the non-customers.

Sure, there will be ways to game the system, like "Buy 6 of this soda and get free gym membership!". But is that a bad thing?
If you read the next sentence you'd see they addressed that.

> If there's more stuff coming in (eg. aliexpress shipments from china), or more border crossings (legal or otherwise), we'd expect their numbers to grow faster relative to population.
We're assuming cost-plus contract terms, then, I assume? :-)
Honest question: is that the case? I thought the Euro adoption meant they couldn't print currency with the same freedoms that say the US or UK could.
Every single pension system has the working population pay for the retirees. Where do you think the money comes from? Thin air? Any increase in the value of pension funds (for example) is coming from the workers.
>Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

>To help satisfy our own ambitious goals of providing total privacy and security, we are currently undergoing a third party audit that will validate our security, encryption and data policies and plan on receiving ISO 27001 certification after launch.

meh. Gitlab is able to do development in the open...
Noone buys both versions of the pokemon game though, its always been a nice novelty. Me and my mates always used to get opposite games so we could trade everything up. Its good fun.
> With Hamilton we use a new paradigm in Python (well not quite “new” as pytest fixtures use this approach) for defining model pipelines. Users write declarative functions instead of writing procedural code. For example, rather than writing the following pandas code

> These functions then define a "dataflow" or a directed acyclic graph (DAG), i.e. we can create a “graph” with nodes: col_a, col_b, col_c, and col_d, and connect them with edges to know the order in which to call the functions to compute any result.

This 'new paradigm' already exists in Polars. Within the scope of a local machine, you can write declarative expressions which can then be used pretty much anywhere for querying instead of the usual arrays and series (arguments to filter/apply/groupby/agg/select etc), allowing it to build an execution graph for each query, optimise it and parallelise it, and try to only run through the data once if possible without cloning. Eg the example above can be written simply as

col_c = (pl.col('a') + pl.col('b')).alias('c')

It is obviously restricted to what is supported in polars, but a surprising amount of the typical data munging can be done with incredible efficiency, both cpu and ram wise.
Well Nintendo also doesn't do microtransactions or DLCs. I'm sure if they did that they could afford more sales. I'm wondering if not having microtransactions is just not profitable anymore.
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Sure you can. Just go to 4 cents per TB.
> Are you suggesting that local “legitimate” users pay higher costs to recoup R&D expenses? I’d love to hear the evidence

Yes ? Are you suggesting they that comes out of pharma profits?

> it sounds a lot to me like the “piracy is theft” argument which has not been proved or well supported.

No because not taking medication isn't an option like not watching a pirated movie.

Perhaps a closer analogy is shoplifting . Sure some amount of stealing is accounted for in the system but large scale shoplifting gets passed on to consumers.
Audience participation show.
In the Microsoft world, “word” generally means 16 bits, because their usage dates back to the 16 bit era. Other sizes are double words and quad words

In the ARM ARM, a word is 32 bits, because that was the Arm’s original word size. Other sizes are half words and double words.

It is a very context-sensitive term.
"When given a choice between cocaine or water sweetened with saccharin, rats will almost always choose the artificially sweetened beverage."

This is how I know I am not a rat. Not that I am in the habit of drinking cocaine water but I am absolutely one of the people who are revolted by the taste of artificial sweeteners.

Black coffee all day long for me, though usually decaf nowadays.
Of course it's Israeli too. Gosh I hate my country sometimes.
They already were an infrastructure company, they just realized they could sell it to outsiders (as Amazon had already very much proved).
What if I wrote a very long, complicated query that I'd like to test against different tables (like test tables), and let's say I can't use stored functions or procedures. How could I pass different tables to my query?
I'm going to ramp up my floppy hoarding now. Years ago I started hoarding Type II and Type IV cassette tapes, and I've 10x'd my investment on those easy. I don't have to even do anything and they just keep going up in value.

That Florian guy they quoted sounds like a real dick, too.
I assume clamshell mode would affect heat dissipation through the keyboard.
Considering its lack of natural boundaries and excellent public transit, probably lots more.
I was hoping for “Shorts”
I was at an event a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden it got very loud (banging drums/cymbals). Many people scrambled to put their hands over their ears, and after a second I realized I could pop in my AirPods (pro v2). It was great. The sound was dramatically reduced in ANC mode, and I was able to use my free hands to cover my kid's ears.
I see what you're saying, but I'm still not understanding how it becomes a generalizable rule for real-world code without adding a lot of exceptions to the rule, or doing something over-engineered like parsing into an increasingly specific number of customized structs/objects in different branches of the code.

Just to be clear, I actually really like the idea of parsing the input into a structure. I do the same thing in a lot of my code. I just don't see how it removes the need to also perform validation in many (maybe most) cases as soon as one gets beyond contrived examples.

The empty array example seems to be a can of worms. Maybe it's specific to the kinds of software that I've written, but in most of the cases I can think of, I wouldn't know if it was OK for a particular array within a structure to be empty until after the code had made some other determinations and branched based on them. And yet, like the example, once it got to the real handling for that case, it would be a problem if the array were empty. So the image in my mind is many layers of parsing that are much more complicated and confusing to read than validating the length of the array.

I still think it's a great idea for a lot of things, just that the "parse, don't validate" name seems really misleading. I might go with something like "parse first, validate where necessary".
To be fair, it's common for people to want to 'undelete' their account, so that's why they have a 30 day grace period. I can easily imagine the opposite situation where someone says deleting with no delay is 'user hostile bullshit'.
Some others to look out for: agave nectar, Cane juice crystals, Diastatic malt, Barley malt, Brown rice syrup.
Quad9’s Opinion of the Recent Court Ruling in Leipzig
> Finding a reputable online retailer, with customer service, competitive pricing, and fast delivery that has your product in stock is hard

Maybe five years ago. Not now
Given the authors top comment here the answer to that is a very clear "no".
> The law should be opt out be default, not “throw up an interstitial”

That would be a bad law, with too many details that will be wrong on many contexts.

Stop making excuses to people that are trying to fuck you.
When you bring up the option to turn off your phone, there's a toggle to let you turn off "Find my iPhone", with a decent description:

"iPhone Findable After Power Off >"

> iPhone Remains Findable After Power Off
> Find My helps you locate this iPhone when it is lost or stolen, even in power reserve mode or after power off.
>
> The location is visible in Find My on your other devices, and to people in Family Sharing you share location with.
>
> You can temporarily turn off Find My network and it will resume when this iPhone is powered on again.
>
> OK
> Temporarily Turn Off Finding

If you click Temporarily Turn Off Finding, you need to enter your passcode. This is to prevent phone thieves from just turning off your phone to make it untraceable.

My expectation is that if you Temporarily Turn Off Finding, the bluetooth radio is fully off.
We lost much of our nuclear engineering capability in the US, so in many ways contractors are "idiots" here and made many costly mistakes during construction. Many articles on this and how it lead to the Westinghouse bankruptcy. Sadly, there's only a handful of western-friendly firms in the world that can build a reactor, so hoping the expertise and lessons learned will be worthwhile for future projects.

Nuclear isn't necessarily the cheapest option for rates, but it's the best for base generation AND greenhouse gas emission.
This site has awful UI. Unreadable on mobile.
It's pretty well executed on desktop. Maybe revisit it, if you're interested in the visuals or want to learn about how that Mario Kart title drains your wallet.
I thought this was about deploying a Kubernetes cluster with Ansible, but nope, it's really about deploying YAML files to Kubernetes, with Ansible.

Just...Why?
From what I recall, the donation prompt says "not now" to dismiss, in which case you're consenting to being reminded later by picking that option.

If you wish to never see the prompt again, you would have to uninstall the application altogether as no "do not remind me again" option exists, which makes perfect sense considering they're a free service.

I say "from what I recall" because I chose to donate. But back to the point: considering you consented to be reminded later by keeping the app installed and choosing "not now," where's the consent violation? (the term you're looking for specifically, since harassment is not the correct word choice)
Not really the best technical solution for this challenge. And this is from a big Ansible + Packer person that deploys 10Ks of VMs and infrastructure with Ansible.
It was super slow to load for me.
People are willing to put their love of Apple products over their values for open and verifiable hardware.
The Current Largest Known Prime Number
I finally gave up on protein powder. It's impossible to buy just protein powder. They always sneak in one sweetener or another. The latest is erythritol, another one suspected of causing metabolic problems.

If I wanted sugar in it, I'd add it.

I switched to eating a hard boiled egg instead.

I'm glad I can still buy coffee that is just coffee.
Am I misreading or are there no translations to pure JS available specifically for collections? The ease of being able to do "what i think I want to do in my head" with a collection using a one-liner often is the primary reason I'd use anything Lodash-y in the first place. The fact that I can import those methods directly to my projects and forget about the guilt of bundling the rest of the library really have kept Lodash top of mind for me for years.

I have found that not so much when writing my own projects and tinkering, but specifically for "real" work (at my job) is when I have to deal with iterating over collections all the time. Anything less readable than Lodash is just overly annoying thanks to JS verbosity. Most people wouldn't remember to pull these methods out of a utils directory that we maintain simply for the purpose of ignoring packages like Lodash.

By a collection, I'm talking about an array of objects that follow the same pattern.
> Pokemon is different in that the two versions of each game contain all the creatures, but artificially exclude some from being caught in each title, which is absolutely a dark pattern.

This is to get you to trade with your friends! The same thing is true for the three starter Pokémon – the only way to log all three is to trade with other players.

How would you even trade with yourself?
Mobile games in general are garbage. Considering the number of games, you could just emulate console games for the rest of your life and in doing so only play games that were built as games, not exploitation machines.
Hey _l4jh, apologies for being off-topic but I came across your comment in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27824447 but there was no way for me to reply there. Did you ever find an answer to what was causing your chest pain? And if you did were you able to treat it completely? I'm having the same symptoms you had, mostly a sore kind of pain in the centre of my chest, sometimes all over the surface of my stomach too.
Why not? That sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face! They usually have the best prices and fastest delivery. I'll just ignore the bits I don't like, and still shop there.
> At least an alternative to the anglo compromise (dont behead the king but clip its wings) and at most blew the mind of all who thought that having a divine omnipotent ruler was a fatality

I see your point, and I actually agree - massive blow to an entrenched idea about divine monarchy. But I don't think it's quite that extreme, mostly because such republicanism was not unique to France.

The current American government was created the year before the French Revolution. The American colonies had, practically speaking, been self-governing republics for a couple decades, by the time Louis was beheaded. Constitutional republics were going to be a thing in the 19th century in both Europe and America, even if Louis had managed to keep his throne and avert the revolution entirely.
I can't remember using the Mac App Store for anything that wasn't made by Apple. I've had Macs for 14 years. I install plenty of software. The Mac App Store is pretty much the last place I go for software. It's nothing like the iOS App Store.
> Is Telsa much better for its reinventing the car from first-principles? Not really, it was for a bit, but the vertical integration has so far borne out fairly low quality cars relative to their price.

And yet, Tesla makes like 10x the profit of German car makers per vehicle sold [1].

The established car makers still, over a decade after the first Tesla rolled on the streets, haven't come close to realizing just how screwed they are... the biggest threat to Tesla isn't the established car makers, it's Chinese BYD.

Don't get me wrong: Musk is despicable as a person. But those working under him have truly created awesome things.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/elon-musks-guerilla-taktik...
Did they dispose of their relationship with Crackle?

Looking, they sold at a gain in Dec 2020. Smart.

Apparently there's also SonyLIV in India, so not entirely forthcoming here. There's also Crunchyroll but that's niche, and Bilibili in China.
I work in embedded systems, firmware and hardware. Unfortunately, I've got a solid decade of professional development before I can justify going freelance competitively. The thousands of dollars in test equipment is quite the barrier.

But even if I wasn't in a field that requires time spent hands-on with the physical hardware, a lot of companies (my former employer in the Bay Area amongst them) insist on in-person work for most positions, even if the position doesn't really require it. And so it goes, people making $60K in Wichita or wherever glibly say "I can get a house for $180K, you make 5 times what I make, complaining about million dollar homes is just a rich person lacking perspective". Even if you do the math and show that holy cow, homes are expensive in tech hubs, even considering the median income, all people see is how high the median income, and assume that there's no real problem.
> Not being alive also has environmental benefits but it's not necessarily worth mentioning.

Go on r/collapse, and you'll see that being mentioned. Although in a roundabout way because I believe it's against Reddit's rules.

Anti-natalism is very strong there, though, and most will be openly hostile to anyone suggesting they want to bring more people into the world.
I lean more towards your side as I'm still a Amazon Prime user of 10+ years.

They capture at easily 50% of the goods I purchase.

That said for me it's not because they compete on price or quality. its convenience being in an apartment building with the nearest big box everything store being 15-20 minutes drive from me.
The guy sure knows how to toot his own horn.
Great breakdown, enjoyable read. I think it highlights why more and more tech firms are hiring employees with psychology and economics backrounds. The attention economy combined with the ever-growing presence of a razor and blades style market with in-game purchases in pay-to-win games is insane. I understand it from a profitability perspective. In addition it allows for more enduring cashflows.

From a less direct perspective I remember vividly when my mom would be shook at the idea of a $30 Pokemon game for the DS. Now we pay $60 for a game and expected to pay up to $60 in DLC's not including ingame currency purchases. Oh how times have changed.
Discord is surprisingly lightweight and snappy considering it's Electron.

I don't know about the voice and video features, but it's the best chat program... that I know of - also note that libre software typically doesn't have half a billion dollars in investment money nor 600 full-time jobs !

But I now have to boycott it because of all the other issues (though I got advanced warning considering it's a platform, it's still a shame...)
Excessive maltitol (easy if you eat a ton of sugar-free gummy bears) gives most people the latter.
Sibling comment says "the cuatomer", yet I'm not seeing how either the customer's SMS provider is not at fault if they did not sufficiently authenticate the customer when sending an SMS to a scammrr's device instead, else Coinbase for allowing SMS as an authentication mechanism.
If you are after more performance out of a diesel look into LPG augmentation. >30% power boost, cleaner burn and fuel cost savings. On big farmer machines ROI is one season.
That would mean that all networks which peer with the Internet would necessarily be considered Production. This isn't that reasonable outside certain niches (i.e., national government networks).

Instead, what's commonly done is to provide a Controlled Interface (to borrow a term from those national government networks) that gates which things are at which level of trust. This is where security boundaries are enforced -- and if they are sound security boundaries things on either side can't reasonably damage the other side.