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>US already trashed the Budapest memorandum that it signed in 1996. We were supposed to provide security to Ukraine in exchange for them giving up nukes.

This is a common misconception. If you read the memorandum (it's rather short) you'll see it isn't true. We only promised to seek UN Security Council action. We went far beyond that.

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%203007/P...
Did they? Why have I not heard of the EU solution?
in a sense it is quite specific. In a difference sense, this is as generic a CRDT as you can get - it's CRDT on table(s). There's no merging of rows iirc (unless you write a custom merge, which is supported but probably need some tweaking and could lead to poor results?).
This is a comprehensive (I think several hundred pages) tax scheme by the German branch of Attac: https://www.attac.de/kampagnen/wer-zahlt/unser-steuerkonzept (Attac is generally far left on the political spectrum and explicitly critical of capitalism as a concept, so expect more of a radical perspective and solutions)

Das "Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit" has detailed concepts for a broad range of taxation schemes. This is a working paper on taxing wealth that was first published in 2021, I think: https://www.netzwerk-steuergerechtigkeit.de/infothek/vermoeg...

They also published some thoughts and ideas for a global tax on Billionaires: https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/international/21426.pdf

The political party "Die Linke" has long demanded a wealth tax: https://www.die-linke.de/themen/steuern/vermoegensteuer/

Thomas Piketty (a quite famous and well respected French economist) has proposed a global progressive wealth tax: https://www.cadtm.org/thomas-piketty-a-progressive-global-ta...

There is tons more out there if you are willing to look for it. Economists, politicians and activists have thought about the taxation of wealth for as long as modern economics exist as a concept. Wealth taxation was the original form of taxation, because it turns out that property can be hidden from the authorities much less effectively than income and you can be very rich (and have a corresponding lifestyle) with a nominally very low income. Which might be a reason that rich people love income taxes and spend a lot of money on convincing the general public that wealth taxes are the devil's own work ;-).
The WAL has a minimum size. In this context I assumed you would not be using SQLite to serve requests serially.
It's a complete misreading of the situation; the US is in fact actively undermining Taiwan's national security, both 1) by coercing Taiwan to transfer its technology and human capital and 2) by banning chip trade between Taiwan and China.

Yep, but Taiwan was always a sacrificial lamb to contain China's economic rise. Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of Taiwanese people realize that. I feel sorry for them because in any military conflict, they will feel the most pain, by far.
Well now its not doing that well anywhere, bravo. Thats the problem with populists - they easily find some real issue and point to it, blaming all even completely unrelated woes on it. So far so good.

But the solution part is where all populists fail, since actually addressing it and its root causes always has to involve admitting that no, problem is actually much more complex, different etc. than I was voted for. Like trump stop blaming immigrants or its (former) allies for all US woes.

The cure? Nothing easy, intelligent moral population for democratic elections. Swiss have most direct democracy in the world, and they vote sanely even on emotional topics thinking of greater good (ie refusing 6 weeks mandatory minimal paid vacation per year for workers). That's the population bar for true democracy.
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I still absolutely love my Elm. Never a programming language has made me as confident and joyful when writing code <3.
Russia advantage is its large border with China. The US is not allying because of their (non) existent economy. But they'll be a formidable ally in case of a war against China.
So can I finally use crypto to buy things I would want? Or is it still just an elaborate mechanism for separating idiots from their money? I ask myself these questions every 5 years or so.
What info would possibly be compromising to Trump. His cult spreads across half the country. They won’t believe anything, including audio and video.
>Taiwan did attempt to build nukes and the US destroyed the project.

US loves Taiwan so much, they won't allow them to build independence and rely less on US provided security.
Why would China even invade Taiwan? For the same reasons they invaded and took Hong Kong. Because they have their own manifest destiny to reunify their country into what it once was. They don't care about the collateral damage to achieve this in the end.
I feel like you're still not...

So suppose the employer's benefit from having the employee is $150,000 if they work from the office and $140,000 if they work from home. Meanwhile the employee would accept $130,000 if they had to work from the office or $100,000 if they can work from home.

You're saying, $150,000 is more than $130,000 so the employer can pay them $130,000 to work from the office and everything's fine.

But the difference between $150,000 and $130,000 is less than the difference between $140,000 and $100,000. By quite a lot. So why isn't the employer going to want any of that money?
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>But if software quality continues to decline, this value proposition becomes increasingly difficult to defend.

If software quality keeps declining, this proposition isn’t just difficult to defend — it’s indefensible and an insult to consumers. Apple has lagged behind Android for a decade, and its software now fails at tasks Symbian OS handled effortlessly.

I've dealt with clunky software all my life, but Apple is the first ecosystem where things are outright unfixable. "It just works" — until it doesn’t, and then you’re out of options.

A few examples of Apple's atrocious software design:

- Rather than universal "open with" controls, iOS forces you to open files with a random selection of apps. Want to edit an image in Snapseed? Too bad, Photos won’t let you. But it will let you use it to "find products on Amazon". I get that this is up to the app developers - but a simpler solution would've been global "Open With" functionality.

- Call recordings over 20 minutes freeze the Notes app, making them impossible to move. No fix for months.

- Changing a wallpaper takes nearly six steps.

- The Home Screen follows non-Euclidean geometry whenever you try to move an icon

- The Settings app search is useless: searching "Camera" shows privacy settings, not the Camera app settings (which aren’t in the Camera app, because of course they aren’t).

- Probably a dozen other niggles you just learn to "live with" on a $1000 phone (and which people with a $200 Android don't even have to think about)

No company has as much contempt for its users as Apple, both from their design philosophy of keeping as much control away from users as possible, and the pricing strategy that pretends like this shitfest is a premium experience. But the users are also to blame - they create the cult that enables this.

On most forums, complaining about Apple just gets you a "why did you buy it then lol" response from users - and absolute silence from Apple.

In a better world, this company would be boycotted by consumers. This forces it to reset and try harder.
> we will get what we want

Can you point to a single trade war in which the obvious winners were random third parties? (And smugglers.)
Here's what I find most puzzling about these things: Apple does amazingly helpful WWDC sessions on how to profile and improve your code, how to prioritize performance...but when it comes to their own apps, it's like they forget everything they know?

Messages on Mac is one of my biggest annoyances. How do you make one of the most used messaging tools and have the keyboard lag so badly while typing - sometimes even skipping typed letters? It's a complete mystery to me.
> The "natural landscape" is a pretty meaningless concept in Britain

It's quite simple: there is none. Moors are created by farming and logging. All woodland has either been planted and managed by humans, or self-seeded on land cleared by humans. Aside from a handful of tiny patches (which are questionable) there is no primeval forest in Britain.
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Interesting to note that the recent Villeneuve adaptation seems to lean heavily into the latter interpretation (Paul and Jessica especially are ruthless and want revenge/power) while the Lynch adaptation was probably more of the former (Paul really wants to do good).
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This is not a good response on HN, because the impact of your guessing wrong is much higher than the benefit of your guessing right.

That is, the chance that someone really is in a desperate situation, and that a snarky comment might push their head further underwater, is significant enough to not to post like this.

It doesn't mean you have to respond by donating money, of course, but we should all be a bit careful about who we decide to knock around on the internet.
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Yes, that's what the oh-so-wise commenter above us insinuated.

He evidently is late to receive the message that "being unoffensive" ranks remarkably low on the measure of a man.
OEMs would rather sell new devices that do updates for free.

The same happens in PC land with laptops, you seldom get drivers from Microsoft for laptop specific components, those come from the OEM, and get you what you get.

For example, https://download.lenovo.com/eol/index.html
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I've used c and java, and have recently been thinking about go. It's interesting that the comments here only mention go in the negative. Can someone give me the back story about go?
> why not use cis?

Because some people don't use that term to describe themselves either, even if that is what they biologically are. CIS is a pretty good term, because it's very technically correct. Sadly many have been on the receiving end of debates where it is used a a slur, and considers it hurtful.
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You don’t think Norwegians will hesitate to give trump the peace price if he does what he does?
Let's not go there.

In the history of the Alliance there is only a single country that invoked article 5, and it was the US with 9/11 that lead to the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Italy, New Zealand to send resources and troops to help with Afghanistan.

And managed to get people involved in Iraq namely United Kingdom, Australia, Poland.

And this situation was way worse and way less called for than the Ukrainians defending themselves...

EDIT/NB: I listed just the major contributors, some other countries participated in different ways and at different levels, but still this is important to mention here...
Ukraine is just the beginning. The peace deal being negotiated includes NATO withdrawing to 1990 borders.
Oh my god, I just thought my typing accuracy mysteriously dropped off at the Lock Screen.

My password is long enough that it’s not clear whether a new dot has appeared, but I get frequent rejections.
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> Not at all. Much or almost all the Foundation does benefits Firefox. (I think putting Thunderbird in the same sentence is an exaggeration of its importance.)

Can you be specific about how the Foundation benefits Firefox (because it can't use money)? As far as I know, the Foundation also never supported Thunderbird's development financially either (due to how they are organised).

As noted, I'm using the values I could quickly find, and wikipedia had a table I could read off. Given the numbers, I expect salaries to be under "software development expenses".
Wow, I haven’t heard about that language in a long time. What do you use it for?
Trump has been willing to put his interests ahead of those of the US for a long time now.
Are people using Elm for systems level programming? I have only used it on the front end.
And what about the Butlerian Jihad? It was a war against Thinking Machines, devices that would do the thinking for people. People were becoming less critical, they stagnated, left all that thinking work to machines, which meant that the technocratic class that controlled these machines effectively controlled mankind.

I think Frank Herbert would have a field day with our modern era of algorithms.
Russia has no interest in being an ally against China.
Just a reminder that the current administration just removed the "we don't recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation" from the official state policy.
> there any practical reason why this is better than a spring?

Depends what you mean by “practical”. Motorised avoid the jump scare and don’t risk launching light pieces out of the toaster.

I’d also assume (but don’t know as I’ve never been much of a toaster person) they can have a longer movement range and limit crumbing through lower acceleration stress.
They also raised about 110,000,000 birds that otherwise would never have been born. This is completely irrelevant to wind turbines or any other power generation tech - the impact on wild birds is what is of concern, because, by definition, we're not able to raise any number of wild birds we'd like to have.
Why break your back when the prospect of owning your own home is so remote? Better to drop out.
> The question is will these low cost EVs last 250,000km? I don't think the batteries will.

> Why do you think the batteries won’t?

I was commenting on low-cost EV. I don't know but I think its likely that given the following (maybe incorrect) assumption:

1. Cheap EVs use cheaper lower-quality cells to keep costs down.

2. Cheap EVs use battery tech that maximises range and performance at the expense of longevity, which would be cheaper than both maximising range and performance AND longevity.

3. Cheap EVs save money with worse cooling of the batteries.

I could be wrong on both points.

There are plenty of stories of EV batteries having low deterioration despite high KMs. But I am not sure these are usually old EVs, just EVs driven a lot.

Lithium batteries experience cyclic degradation (degradation when charged) and degradation over time (calendar degradation). We have yet to see how multiple decades effects them.

This NZ govt. report is an excellent resource [1]. It cites this paper [2] where they charted Nissan Leaf battery deterioration over time under various conditions.

Here in NZ, I looked at our post popular used-car website and 9 year old Leafs (2015 model) which had done 90-100,000km had lost 25-32% of battery capacity. There is not much data for earlier leafs.

[1] https://www.genless.govt.nz/assets/Everyone-Resources/ev-bat...

https://www.genless.govt.nz/assets/Everyone-Resources/ev-bat...
Yeah the "was never meant to replace" here sounds exactly like the placation we got with wasm - "it's not meant to replace JavaScript" (it totally is).
From a "neutral" perspective it gives them legitimacy
From a "maximalist" perspective it gives you access to government
From a "scammer" perspective it gets you tax dollars and average Joes
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I have been reporting several bugs through the Feedback app you get access to when you are part of the beta program.
There is to many menus and no search option to find the right “department” to report to, so I have almost stopped giving feedback on bugs.

I guess the fixes have to start there first.
> Teeter-totters were more than just playground staples, they were trust exercises. The balance of weight created a simple physics lesson, but one misstep could turn fun into disaster.

> If one child decided to jump off unexpectedly, the other would come crashing down with enough force to leave them bruised and battered, often ending friendships in the process.

This to me seem like perfectly valid lessons to be learned sooner than later.
This is completely and utterly irrelevant to the topic at hand. Wild bird populations are potentially at risk, and extinction of a population has massive ecological consequences. Commercially raised chickens and the horrors they are exposed to are completely unrelated to that.
Someone told trump he could get a peace prize for ending the war in Ukraine. They forgot to tell him that it's the Europeans who give it.
> Aren't they buying cheap oil and natural gas from Russia?

Most of China’s energy arrives by sea. That makes them intensely vulnerable to blockade.
> build quality

Tell that to Dell and their shit trackpads and prone to death battery charging circuits. And the joy of soldered RAM so you cannot upgrade can't be overstated enough.
by that logic absolutely everything about government is politics, and therefore the word is not very useful. why do you keep using it? is it possible you're trying to lean on some implications of using the word but you haven't been brave enough to state them outright?
> I'll count on you to push back on the President if this indeed turns out to be what he wants.

Can we count on you to make up the difference in their paycheck if they're fired for this? Also, is there some reason you couldn't organize this pushback externally, right now?
20 years ago when I was living in Shanghai, my girlfriend was a member of the communist party (meritocratic she was enrolled because she had great grades). She had regular meetings with a small group of members of the party and they had regular discussions after being told to watch certain movies.

Lawrence of Arabia was one of those movies she had to watch to later discuss with other members... So we watched it together, had great discussion about it. Later when she went to meet with the other party members, they discussed the cult of personality surrounding the character and the use of guerrilla tactics.

(Another movie they all watched like this was 7 years in Tibet)
And what’s next? Sleep on the street? Rent is expensive, I’ve already tried and it’s impossible without any income.

Sure, thanks for the advice, but I’ll need to work, not just travel. I need the same big monitor for work, a good chair, and usually these things aren’t available, so I end up working in terrible conditions.
Oh, I am not saying that apple should be able to brick your device if you log in with a throwaway account, I was just wondering why one would bother doing it.
>What would happen to all these deals if ASML was was not allowed to sell their machines to US companies?

That is not going to happen since ASML depends itself on some US supplied tech.

What should worry EU is US building capability of their own and sabotage ASML.
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> In February, the Bank of England reported an ongoing productivity slump so mysterious that its own economists “cannot account fully” for it.

And then goes on to immediately point out what I would expect to be the most obvious cause.

> Real wages have barely grown for 16 years.

Why would the general populous care to be more productive when they aren't going to see the profits?
Maybe it does but the poster was still engaging in behavior similar to someone who has stolen the phone. That said, Apple should add some controls that prevent legitimate users from triggering security checks by accident.