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Are they taking applications? :p

Something that's been frustrating for me is the bureaucracy around getting hired to government positions or school districts. I have a California State ID, which should serve well as identification - but I've been turned away by HR saying they require a drivers license several times. I'm pretty certain this is always incorrect when I apply for jobs that require no travel, but there's just so much policy you can't argue with. It's ridiculous. I also try to avoid telling employers I don't have a car, because I've been screened out of jobs by people assuming public transit is not reliable. Kinda frustrating.

Btw, the US is huge. People here don't use enough caution when driving, but it would be impossible for most everyone to hold down a job without a car. Driving is a needed right when it shouldn't be.

Feinstein is just the worst.

She is the equivalent of Mitch McConnell for the Democrats.

She fully understands exactly what she's proposing and she's the biggest hypocrite for it.

"I didn't start this because I wanted to make rent. I started it because I really wanted to dropkick loud children in movie theaters."

Find your passion.

I don't think you actually disagree with how Apple responded, but you do realize the privacy of more than a few billion people was in jeopardy during this 'fight'. I would consider that more important than the wishes of the FBI and our country allowing them to do business here.

I think the appreciating value in housing far outpaces inflation - and I wouldn't expect retirees on a fixed income to have planned for such increases 30 years ahead of time.

We need cheaper housing - desperately. Poor. fucking. city. planning. with mediocre transit systems is not doing enough for us. I hear talk all the time about how we should be moving out of the cities and building the needed infrastructure in more urban areas. I think the first way to make that attractive to younger generations or even retirees would be to improve on transit to get to those areas. Make "the country" easy to get to and from.

Anyway - I don't know the answer here. I don't know if it's justified whether prop 13 should exist for individuals. Ethically or logistically I don't know. I sure as hell know businesses don't need prop 13 - they don't retire.

To me "if we should have prop 13" sounds like an argument against people being able to retire.

I'd be happy to let it go entirely (business + residential) if property taxes were factored into social security. ;p

Now that would be exciting - I'd love to see how Facebook augments reality for social networking. :-)

(which sounds a bit silly)

I want to see posts from my friends in the real world, rather than my friends in the real world.

I sometimes wonder if there is no 'After Facebook'.

I use different services for different community focuses - like YouTube and Twitch for gaming videos/streams I watch with friends. Instagram for incidental activity picture stuff. Twitter for talking directly "to" companies. Signal for IM stuff. I do actually use Google Hangouts for board game nights and talking about projects sometimes - kinda silly. :-)

I just find Facebook a mess with the ads and disorganization looking at so many facets of my friends' lives. Google did good identifying the need for putting people in circles, but Facebook was so well-established by then. I only want to view things my friends are doing if its a mutual interest, really. Facebook is like manually filtering through several streams of consciousness - it's more exhausting than rewarding.

I don't think Facebook is ever going to fail and be the next MySpace, but I do think social attitudes have changed about using a 'general' social networking site.

I think we currently suffer from a tax system that enables double-taxation by default - unless you're fairly good filing your taxes and know where to claim deductions. My parents raised me to be knowledgeable of what's a work expense, and things have gotten easier with Turbo Tax - but it still surprises me how many of my friends and relatives file a 1040EZ.

Personally I think it's strange that we start at 10% income tax on people making so little.

Maybe I don't use Facebook enough but I find it really inconvenient to watch any videos I'm not directly linked to.

If they show up among my friends' postings they're always pre-muted, so I miss the first couple seconds as they autoplay and have to run it back after unmuting.

Even if I wanted to watch videos, they're interspersed among all this social crap - I'm not in the mood when I'm really only looking to get an idea of what others are doing. Wish it were easy to filter content if you don't want to see everything.

Anyway, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy - but this seems like an obvious feature one would add, regardless of content sharing 'decline'.

Personally I would rather have no income tax or property tax - just very high sales tax. IMO, sales tax has a much larger tax base than any of the others - as income tax requires you to have a job/be a citizen; and property tax requires you to... own property.

But that's not the reality we live in.

Property taxes fluctuate too much in California - you might be paying everything you can toward your mortgage to decrease the interest you owe, but still effectively pay the same with rising property taxes. A fixed property tax is really, really necessary.

It's just abused too heavily by corporations...

Final answer: Residential only, not commercial/business property.

Seniors aren't the only ones who need this.

I also want to add that what sucks so hard about businesses being protected by Prop 13 is that businesses can live much longer than people. Disney might keep its decades-old fixed property tax for more than a hundred years.

I can be antisocial. :x Refer me?

Prop 13 is really great and really bad.

My grandparents own a home in Livermore they've had from 1925. Livermore is now a very costly place to live in, and modern property taxes would make it impossible for them to live in a city they saw grow up around them.

I do think Prop 13's protection should be eliminated for businesses - most definitely.

If you're a landlord, perhaps it would make sense to allow up to 2 x Prop 13-protected [low-density] properties, and all those after would have unfixed property tax.

The problem here is landlords will simply pass this along to renters, so it seems 'sane' to just eliminate Prop 13 for commercial and not residential properties.

We lose billions of dollars in tax money from corporations because of Prop 13. :(

Windows 5 Eyes ?

I think this kind of goes both ways.

I've had instances where if I reveal my technical experience with the usual way I speak about such things - I get cold/rude service. This happened at one of those AT&T storefronts, Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, and at more than a few Apple Stores. I don't try to be intimidating, but I do want to inform the person "helping" me if I can...

I've gotten into the habit of adopting a slower speech with a slight drawl in an effort to appear more relatable and honest about my intentions. It takes some patience as I have to describe my problem 'in a circle' and without a larger vocabulary. However, I don't get treated like sheltered upper-class and people seem to want to help me rather than avoid me.

I've also avoid sounding like the stereotypical homosexual. Just the "accent" makes some people freak out and say I'm 'shoving it in their face'. I'm looking at you Aunt Marlene. I reserve the lisp for Vegas and Chippendales.

Just something to think about...

I kind of want to take this at face-value and say how great it is that they're making visually-impaired viewers a priority.

The NSA actually has a lot of useful PDFs related to hardening existing OS's up on its site that you can find through Google:

Search: site:nsa.gov filetype:pdf hardening

(works in DuckDuckGo as well)

The search will probably get you noticed, but I remember spending like 2 days in highschool just scraping and going through every PDF I could find for useful things to know. ~

Yeah, I think my understanding is flawed - but trust in the Linus :D He has some affiliation with git or something..

(thank you, kind expert)

I completely agree.

I was thinking it'd be nice if you could set a signing policy on GitHub - either all commits are signed or none are. A mixed situation just leads to harmful confusion. You would still need to verify sigs yourself, but if they're available for every commit this does still save you time before creating the signed tag.

I'm happy about this but I thought signing commits wasn't a good thing to do. Linus wrote a lengthy post[1] on this saying you should only care to sign tags.

(I'm not a security person)

Read svckr's comment below and link #1 - what I was saying here before my edit was wrong. :D

1: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t... (2nd post)

This thread is making me want to reread Dune.

I think what OP is talking about is even though we know how to get over the walls of these gardens, the average user would not. :(

Nice try, Rick Perry.

Great. Now my English has improved but my coding hasn't.

Stop drawing parallels you aren't helping anybody! :D

Forgive me here if I'm being argumentative, but I think we're both speculating.

Someone further up the chain mentioned this sort of deduplication might be done by the linker, but the code for the duplicated type would still exist in the binary before linking.. An old but probably negligible complaint about C++ is that it creates larger binaries than if one were writing C. I think this is something overlooked because C++ has a focus on type strictness - perhaps the linker has a better way of seeing through abstractions..

I've identified where I think a problem lies.. now I just have to find proof it :3

Unrelated: I wonder if identical libraries that exist in separate filesystem trees (like in Docker) are deduped in memory, or if it's done by inode.

Full disclosure: I have not had a problem with this.

It's just a theory I have that this is low-hanging fruit to reduce C++ binary size.

You're less likely to define the same structure and methods of a type in exactly the same way as someone else in C because we don't have the STL (ofc). So it's probably a worse issue in C having a hundred different implementations of a linked list or some array type across your system in each program.

I just think there's an opportunity to aggressively dedupe object code for "representation-identical" types in C++.

That is not what I'm saying.

Example: You can have 2 struct types that each only contain an int with the same member name. They would [likely] have the same binary representation. You could then create 2 vector types specialized for each struct type. The code for both vectors would handle the data in the same way - but the compiler would view the vector types as _STRICTLY_ separate types.

I do not think this code would be uniquely shared - the compiler would generate code for both vector types.

I understand that templates offer several protections over the problematic macros one would write in C, but I do not believe templates are the right way to write for generic behavior.

> Redundant definitions of templated functions which didn't get inlined always get dropped at link time.

I wonder how many things aren't aggressively inlined in C++..

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Are you saying `extern template` is used like a `#pragma once` just for the template? I thought it had a greater effect on linking. :(

My concern is that even if the generated object code for std::vector<int> and a binary-compatible type like std::vector<something> are deduplicated in your codebase, that same object code for that specialized type of vector probably exist in several different programs throughout my system. (as an example)