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by lockhouse 3y ago
The previous management was hardly better. They banned the New York Post for daring to break the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Reminds of the bank error in your favor cards from Monopoly.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
No, don’t be ridiculous. The obvious solution is to move to another state and continue to vote for the same policies that made you leave in the first place.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
HN has been losing focus for a while now. dang is trying his best, but people are posting so much off topic stuff that it’s hard to keep up with it.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
We could always try having more efficient government that doesn’t need to try so hard to squeeze every tax dollar they can out of the middle class. We wouldn’t even need to touch entitlement programs if we just got rid of wasteful pork spen
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Right or wrong, many people will see it this way…under Trump the economy was good for average Americans and under Biden it’s the worst it has been in decades. Joe and Jane Sixpack don’t care about GDP or the government’s official unemploym
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by lockhouse 3y ago
That’s true of most taxes. People buy gas and cigarettes at Native American reservations all the time. How many people pay sales or income taxes for a private sale? Lots of people do landscaping, farm work, and simple handyman work “unde
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by lockhouse 3y ago
These examples are opted into, so it’s not the same thing as this at all.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Even easier, if the intent is to charge a tax per mile, simply record the mileage every year for inspection and registration renewal and charge based on the difference. GPS trackers are a massive privacy overreach and people should not be o
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by lockhouse 3y ago
The dirty secret of elected officials is that they know the government can’t fix a lot of these problems, but pandering to issues like this gets them votes from key demographics and gives elites more power. We have lots of laws on the books
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by lockhouse 3y ago
They are not paying out because they are generous, but I have seen companies pay out even when the case against them is flimsy simply because it’s the smartest business decision for them. These settlements are usually significantly less cos
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by lockhouse 3y ago
> this is something I never understood of the Law about these kind of settlements, if someone pays something to the other party, something wrong must have been done With a civil suit, that's not necessarily the case, because there
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by lockhouse 3y ago
I'll admit I seldom make use of debuggers. Strangely I feel more productive with good old "printf debugging" than using fancy debuggers. I think it is more just a habit at this point and has the beauty of working just about
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by lockhouse 3y ago
I’m fine with subscriptions if it provides value to me as a customer. If it enables a consistent stream of new content or features, or covers things like cloud storage where there is clearly an ongoing cost to the company to provide a serv
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Pre-Kotlin and Jetpack Android were very tedious. Even simple things like handing button click events and changing the text of a label at runtime were not obvious or simple, and you had to worry about backwards compatibility libraries to a
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Is that actually true though? Most major Google apps predate Flutter. I was under the impression that a lot of their apps are either custom web view wrappers or native with shared C++ code for business logic. Stadia and Google Pay are the
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by lockhouse 3y ago
The biggest issue with Dart IMHO is not so much the language itself, but the ecosystem. For the record, Swift suffers from this problem as well. Kotlin only avoids it because of Java interop, although even this becomes complicated because o
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by lockhouse 3y ago
The problem is that so many things have become unrepairable by design.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Which is the more likely future outcome, The Matrix or Terminator?
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Some people learn best from books, and some people want to or need to work with legacy technologies where a book is the best way to learn.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
For me the post pandemic inflation has taken a much bigger toll. All the essentials cost too much and there’s not enough left to spoil my family or myself with. Makes working my crappy pointless job even more depressing.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
> They were loading up encampments with propane and diesel fuel [1] mere feet from the Parliament buildings. You make it sound like the fuel was intended to blow up Parliament or something. Clearly it was meant to keep their trucks runn
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by lockhouse 3y ago
> Regardless of the opinion of the Democratic candidates, they were not literally criminals What crime was Trump convicted of?
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by lockhouse 3y ago
It just seems like spending that cash on oh, I don’t know 5G cell phone coverage would’ve been a much smarter investment long term, but I’m not a C-suite executive, so what do I know.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Verizon baffles me with purchases like this. They have bought a lot of random companies like this and Yahoo with no real purpose, while effectively letting T-Mobile take the decisive lead on 5G. What were they thinking?
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Real wages adjusted for inflation are up since 2008, but sharply down since 2020. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A
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by lockhouse 3y ago
Currently it’s affected a lot by interest rates. It’s very difficult to pay back a credit card that jumped up to a 29.99% APR.
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by lockhouse 3y ago
How do you actually make any money though? It costs you money to provide this service. Where is that coming from?
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by lockhouse 3y ago
I have a great example of it! In 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease for his brewery. https://www.historydefined.net/how-the-guinness-brewery-sign...
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by lockhouse 3y ago
The thing you're glossing over is that a lot of Trump voters weren't really voting "for" Trump so much as against Democrats. This also happens on the other side as well, most people I know that supported Biden only di

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