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Proof it was suspended you mean?
Sure, this is the email (1) I got after almost a month, as you can see the policy violation being "sensitive event" .
And also this is their reply (2) after I tried to appeal it, since I wasn't doing anything wrong basically, the reply was just a repeat of that email with extra salt that we might suspend the whole account.

P.S. While digging in the email, I also remembered I submitted it to Amazon store, and while it was accepted, but few days later they deleted it for similar policy.

Twitter too, as I made a small bot that report the cases and tweet it in Jan/2020, they suspended my account _ I can try to find the screenshots of that too if you like- and blocked the tracker website from even being posted in a tweet, but later that year gave my account back..

(1) https://files.catbox.moe/lqjw8s.png
(2) https://files.catbox.moe/84vme2.png
2 million parking spaces? Hah, try 8M. https://www.fastcompany.com/90645900/america-has-eight-parki...
Pointless with a 16:9 ratio display :(
Yeah American government is "basically whatever people decide to do." We build the "system" out of what people are doing, not the other way around.
We sit and laugh at the kind of idiotic things people make up online, when most ad targeting is just done with search keywords and some web browsing info.
A bunch of fintechs are going to die :(
Looks like this is an agreement between Visa/Mastercard and banks with the Canadian Federal government to lower credit card transaction fees for small businesses.

The government's press release is here: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2023/05/gov...

Applies to annual charges below $300K/$175K CAD for Visa/Mastercard.

They still will charge higher fees to large businesses. "As part of these new agreements with Visa and Mastercard, Canada’s large banks have agreed to protect Canadians’ reward points."

Notably, this seems to be a partial extension to a 2018 agreement with Visa, Mastercard and Amex to lower fees to 1.40% for five years for "small and medium sized businesses": https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2018/08/new... The prior agreement was for medium businesses with credit sales under $5 million CAD and small businesses with sales under $1 million CAD.

The 2018 agreement claimed that it would save businesses "$250 million [CAD] per year", while the 2023 agreement claims "$1 billion [CAD] over five years". Since less companies are covered in the 2023 agreement, I assume rates will be going up for some businesses that no longer qualify under the voluntary agreement.
Upon reading title I thought it was some clever hack involving hitching a ride on a private plane or something. Flying commercial for school 3 times a week is bonkers
I guess it's not necessarily a poor use of time if you can study in the airport and/or on the plane. Or if you just enjoy flying.
Yes and it used CDs that competed alongside the N64's low storage capacity.
Areas with lots of single family homes where you're more likely to drive to go somewhere than not. Much of sunset, much of richmond, twin peaks, bayview/hunters point, lots of the places around 280 between 101 and 1.
good work. just want to say thank you.
Very little is going to prevent this thing from being very slow.

It’s an 8088 running 4.77Mhz, on a not really great system architecture. Head to head the original PC was slower than competing Z80s at 4Mhz.

The truly singular advancement the 8088 brought was more precious, precious memory. The PC itself was a different phenomenon. What it lacked in performance it made up for in many other ways.

For most applications, particularly early on, the 8087 did not bring a lot to the table to improve performance. GW-BASIC did not recognize it, for example. Wasn’t going to make Wordstar any faster. And it was an expensive add-on.

Numeric coprocessors we’re always pretty niche until they came bundled with the 486 and 68040, even then the 486SX and 68LC040 continued to sell, and did not have bundled FPUs.
And also ignore value of tim, and costs of travel to/from the airport.
Yep. I would routinely fly weekend trips from the Midwest to Jakarta on my weekends in college just to get AA miles. The views of FT posters should be taken with a massive grain of salt - we’re not normal.
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I think the EU model - and as you say the Durbin model - is completely reasonable.

I will say the Durbin exemption for banks with under $10B in assets is pretty silly.
Yes, there are a few states (these schools tend to be public) with such programmes. North Carolina was the pioneer of this model.
> And the point they were trying to prove in the post is it was possible for others.

Qualifying for sign up rewards is doable by almost anyone with decent credit. And if you didn't have the credit, you wouldn't be able to get the lease anyway.
I recently discovered Google does have a way to speak to a human and have your B2B issues heard and responded to promptly.

https://cloud.google.com/support

You can subscribe to the support without using GCP itself.
Go doesn't provide standard library implementations of database drivers, only standard library interfaces for driver implementations to adhere to.
Or when AMD started adding more cores to desktop chips and they changed the "overall score" calculation from 30% single, 60% quad, 10% multi to 40% single, 58% quad, 2% multi.

Not only was that the opposite of computing trends, and just there to spite AMD, the new system had results like an i3-9350KF being overall faster than an i9-9980XE.
> I truly don't understand how you are interpreting this conversation.

That makes sense, because you're pretty badly misunderstanding me (which your summary makes perfectly clear).

I mean, 1 was part of a direct answer to your own question "how do you know that you are talking to an actual human right now and not a GPT powered hackernews bot." Emphasis mine. Your 2 is just a total misunderstanding. Hint: I was talking about social knowledge, not "smart people just knowing" in any particular case.
A bunch of fintechs are going to die :)
> I wish more programming languages provided interfaces for building libraries around the std library like what Go does.

Java does, but apart from JDBC for databases, and the servlet-API, I haven't seen many cases where that really improved the world of programming. Java-EE relied heavily on such abstractions, but nowadays those would be replaced by simpler, less abstract constructs with less redirections.

> This is huge for things like database drivers which might become outdated or not support certain features. In Go switching database drivers in as simple as importing the new library. You don't have to change your code.

Database drivers are an abstraction that tends to leak it's underlying technology very fast.

The idea of just being to swap your database out under the hood is neat, but generally holds only for simple projects.

Also the abstraction that helps you here is SQL really, not the driver.
You don't need to get into the bag-ends. You just need to let the last mile be walking, and make lots of walking paths that feel like shortcuts.

Then the busses can stay on the straight main roads while all the cars go get lost in the culled sacs, while people walking or on bike have direct paths.

Some studies show people will walk 3/4 of a mile, which is about 15 minutes. That's a "circle" that is 1.5 miles across, which is a an area of about 1132 acres (Ignore that straight roads don't have circles; pretend the "extra" area is support stuff, shops, whatever). 1132 acres of single family housing is 13,000 houses if "close", upwards of 20,000 units if we go to townhomes/rowhouses.

13k dwelling units all within a 3/4 mile walk from the edge; that should support at least one bus.
+1 for this idea, I personally got rid of the idea to be a mobile app developer since my prototype app was removed for no rational reason, at least for websites/webapps, unless something is illegal, no one can take it down, and you have the flexibility in hosting it in other countries too if it was the case.
Fintechs seem to do just fine in Europe, so I would suggest this is a pretty myopic take. Have you seen Adyen (Dutch, $ADYEY)? PayPal? Like it or not those companies provide value to their merchants so they're able to charge for their services. That isn't going to change with lower interchange.
Thank you for sharing this. I got a good laugh out of a few of these. :)
You don't want to see the Australian interchange rates…

https://www.visa.com.au/about-visa/interchange.html
B2B has to contend with the principle-agent problem: it's the end consumer that benefits, but the businesses that have to choose to use the service. So until real regulation (and enforcement) come or people start voting with their wallets from the perspective of ROI it doesn't make sense for the run-of-the-mill business to use these services.
The LAX-SFO flight averages to around an hour and a half one way. It sounds like he really liked commuting to and from the airport more than flying.

He would have been better off with a PPL and a Piper that takes off from the nearest small airport. It would have cost a little more but the bulk of it would have amortized better over the course of a four year degree (frequent flyer miles and elite status vs life time of PPL and resale value of the plane)
You think 2x M2 chips could play a AAA game at 6k res (3k per eye) and 90+ fps?
I bet this is mostly so that very small business who might have switched to Venmo or some other P2P payment system (Interac in Canada?) stay with Visa/MC
Wow. I haven't thought of these in years. Always wanted one.
It is somewhat annoying how much media coverage it's getting but I have no reason to despise it.
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You're just predictable and not that interesting, sorry.
From what I read I don't see how I'd make any conclusions about what they do or don't appreciate or think is tenable for anyone in particular else. Where do you see that?
This is the big part; if the people ask the city to do bike paths, they do them! They're insanely cheap when designing and building a new development; you can put them in the storm water runoff areas, etc.

Most sidewalks you see are set back from the road already, leaving a grass median for snow collection, etc. You can put a bike path in that area, if anyone cares.
> Very Hard Disagree. JDBC is pretty amazing actually. Thats why you find so many Database tools and wizards written in Java as opposed to Rust.

Java is much older and bigger than Rust. I don't think its level of database tooling is noticeably better than other big languages with less of a standard database API (e.g. Python).

> Regarding async - With Java 19 virtual threads , you have newer versions of JDBC drivers support async with none to minimal changes.

So it's only taken what, 15 years, and even then it's only been done because they found a way to make it happen without having to actually change the API (which it remains to be seen how well that actually works in practice - I'm pretty skeptical because other platforms have tried and failed with that approach).
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Only because we've developed the culture that loitering is crime.
Given that apartments rent for $77/sq ft and office space is $75/sq ft, getting the zoning fixed so that you could turn this into apartments might get it rented faster?
Absolutely.
I personally found myself less likely to ping someone over Teams to ask them a small question versus leaning over to the next seat to ask. I was assigned a work-buddy when I was on-boarded, but I think I asked him a total of 3 questions. I believe that if I was on-boarded in-person, and had a few lunches with him, it would have been quite different.
Also, the fact that the only time I talk to my co-workers is over Zoom makes it necessary from a human relations point of view to start many meetings with a bit of chit-chat, which otherwise in face-to-face meetings can be skipped since we can chit-chat outside of meetings.
The article basically clarifies a good reason why
> the first fair use factor instead focuses on whether an allegedly infringing use has a further purpose or different character, which is a matter of degree, and the degree of difference must be weighed against other considerations, like commercialism.

if you made a transformative version of Marvin Gaye's song (perhaps as part of a gallery installation), even if was just pitch altered or something like that, there would be no 'commercialism' involved and your version would not be competing with the original.

Warhol's version here does seem like it would be transformative enough to be in the gallery, but not, as it was in this case, to be sold for marketing purposes which evidently is in competition with the original photo.
"done as well" means "built as well", not the same as "doing well" or "doing as well"
Indeed.

Like many people say, starting something is half the battle.

For example I am currently postponing for days, a 5 minute phone call that I am supposed to make to a colleague. Not even big stakes -- just a new topic i am supposed to initiate work on. There is a negative outcome possible -- blame on me for slacking -- if I don't do this. Still I am struggling to make myself pickup the phone and make that call.

Rest of my duties as a professional and as a family member seem to be going one fine while this item keeps getting kicked down the road. 2 days and counting. I don't have any clue why.
Except Parallels also gives you an entire desktop experience, including the maybe best Windows on ARM experience in existence (thanks to Qualcomm). That is a lot of utility. OrbStack just feels like an upgrade to (co)lima on the other hand that I'd get for the added comfort, nice GUI and marginal performance uplift (though props for having cgroupv2 dockerd). But not because it actually provides capabilities that I can't get elsewhere, from sources where I don't have to consider licensing and building my scripts on top of something someone might not be able to use.

And I'm not sure the comparison with Docker Desktop is warranted. They're basically doing continuity extortion.
Get at least 1 more email address and keep it only for services you pay for.
The biggest problem with subscribing is the on selling of email addresses.

Get a proton paid mail account and your own domain. Setup a "catchall" address.
Now when you subscribe to "something" then use the name of the "something" with your domain name as the email address.
Example:
to logon to Hacker News use the address hackernews@yourdomaim.com. You do not need to setup an email address the catchall receives your email. If you get spam addressed to hackernews@yourdomain.com you know Hacker News on sold your address. If you don't after a month or so change your hacker news address to your legitimate address.
You cannot send from these catchall addresses, but if you truly need to you setup a legitimate email with that particular address and send it then delete it.
Proton Mail have excellent spam filtering anyway.
There are other providers that do the same.

The biggest problem with "unsubscribe" is that it effectively verifies that email address. You may unsubscribe from one list only to be added to lots of other lists because it is a verified email address.

I found a great way to reduce spam is to have email address that looks like a big company ie google@yourdomain.com or microsoft@yourdomain.com

Your email client needs attention. Make sure you haven't set it to save all incoming addresses and the spam filter to "ignore spam setting for emails in my address book".
I am not familiar with google mail but make sure the same sort of thing is not setup for gmail. (...we don't read your emails we just extract anonymous information for market research purposes..so spam is never an affiliate?)

To solve your present problem set aside at least 1 hour a day and setup block lists.
You need to ruthlessly organize your contacts lists.
The problem will get worse before it gets better.
I found unsubscribing just breeds more. It is going to take weeks or months, but the short term pain will be worth it.

By the way I think gmail may have limits on its spam filtering. (...we don't filter out affiliates....really?)

You could get your corporate IT to setup all lists with separate sender addresses to allow filtering, but they will probably hate you for asking...
The link shows ~ < 50% of Apple's liabilities are current; assuming revenue dropped overnight to $0, I doubt they'd need to liquidate any assets, likely for multiple years.

It's an unrealistic & impractical scenario, obviously, but IMO it's more likely they'd want to increase their liabilities (and likely WOULD be able to - lol!) without touching their assets. It's actually an interesting & somewhat comical mind game, even if nothing else.

FWIW, I've no personal position.
meh - it's not the destination, it's the journey.

Why is doing all the stuff any different than getting in your car and doing stuff. Just because it's different stuff than what you do during your day doesn't mean it's not an enjoyable life.
- PCs were already growing in popularity.

And then Apple introduce the Macintosh and changed the industry forever.

- Mp3 players were already growing in popularity.

And then Apple introduce the iPod and iTunes and changed the industry forever. The ability to purchase and download music sealed the deal.

- Smart phones were already growing in popularity.

LOL. Blackberry? Windows Phone? And then Apple introduce the iPhone and changed society.

- Bluetooth headphones were already growing in popularity.

Meh. I'm not sure these are game changing, but that said my technophobic wife loves her AirPods Pro and has somehow not lost them, so shit, actually that's pretty game changing.

- Home automation was already growing in popularity.

Well, Siri kinda sucks TBH, and Alexa works just fine, so maybe not this one

Let's hope this is a Windows Phone situation, and Apple's headset is night-and-day compared to previous headsets. If it's a me-too like home automation, then it can only be a flop.
As an opposing anecdote, my husband's not all that interested in sci-fi and almost all the shows & movies I watch are sci-fi, so we don't end up really watching anything together.
There's a ton of reasons, but mostly - kids don't have autonomy any more. Both due to hyperactive child protective services government oversight (ill-used I may add) and lots more sprawl/roads/cars and longer distances between activities, it's became untenable to let kids roam.

I also remember doing all sorts of stuff by myself and getting bussed around as needed (school/camp/afterschool) - my parents at first didn't even have a car out of college.

Curious - now that everyone has to drive everywhere for their kids - Auto/Petroluem industries thrive with that.
Hurray. We can continue saying whatever we like.
Wait who owns the other half?
How are they “good deals” for Spotify when Spotify is losing money?
I'm willing to spend a lot to replace monitors/laptop screens completely for a headset that I can do productive work with.
To be fair to the Europeans who own cars (In Europe, for example, the median national share of car owners was 79 percent [1]) life as a tourist is easy; the entire city is doing everything to make your car-free life work.

And every time I've touristed in Europe it's been great wandering around without a car (the times I've driven the backcountry with a car have been fun, too).

But all the people I've worked with when in Europe have a car (sure, it might be small) and drive when it makes sense, which is often.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/a-pew-sur...
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The Wii sold ~101 million units (the Switch is currently at ~120 million) and its two mainline Zelda games sold 7.4 million and 3.67 million.

Contrast that with BOTW at 30 million and ToTK at 10 million in 3 days.
I don't think you have a clue as to how massive the United States really is.

Odense has a total area of 30 square miles.

Carson City Nevada has a total area of 150 square miles and has a population of 50k.

Demark has an area of 16k square miles. Nevada has an area of 110k square miles.

So yes. The United States and other large countries do in fact operate off of different rules than small European countries.
Give every American an e-bike; would cost less than the covid payments and suddenly you'd have a huge demand for bike infra.
> The lesson seems clear: When it comes to VR, people strongly favor price over quality. Which in turn suggests the Apple headset will fail.

That doesn't seem like the lesson to me. I think the lesson here is: VR is not good enough yet to demand a high price tag. And that's certainly my experience with it as well. It's a fun novelty right now, but not worth dropping a couple grand on. But if someone could push it, and make it, I dunno, twice as good, then I could be willing to spend a whole lot more on it.
I hear this repeated quite often in Zig crowds, but Rust is absolutely, 100% aiming to displace C. There's no way it would have made it into the Linux kernel otherwise. It just so happens that it can also replace most of C++, which is why it's also found in the Windows kernel.
Walking is freedom

Want to say that again when you want to go somewhere farther than you can walk in a reasonable time?
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Oh good, we're fine, we can all stop caring. Whew that was close.
What good is iOS on commodity hardware? The entire value proposition of any of Apple’s products are the right integration of hardware and software.
Thanks. Luckily I have LinkedIn Learning through my employer subscription. Found his time management courses, bookmarked, and started one.
I addressed this in my last paragraph.
You're not describing the real problem there. It's perfectly fine for a company to throw a hundred servers at something to save dev time.

The problem is programs that are running on thousands or millions of machines but don't get optimized, because the customer runs the program and pays the costs and it's hard for them to blame any program in particular.
This will probably only actually apply to large volume stores. My guess is that your average Stripe or Square merchant won't see any difference.
I wonder if someone studied programming on their own if they would ever bother with computability or complexity theory. Knowing what is decidable and what is tractable do indeed enrich you ability to view problems in ways that you probably wouldn't otherwise. I am currently working in a startup in the field of computer vision, but I was a professor for a number of years. I certainly see younger programmers who don't understand simple "separation of concerns" when writing code and get themselves in to trouble with overly complex approaches. They have to learn the hard way -- without someone guiding them. I know how to read research papers and not re-invent the wheel -- so many folks resolving already solved problems and not doing as well. School, when done properly, can save you from wasting your time by standing on the shoulders of folks who have been down most of the roads already.