danielrpa

I lived with my family on rented houses for a few years... Got kicked out of houses twice in 5 years because homeowners wanted to sell; this happened at great personal cost to my family with broken relationships with neighbors, school uncertainty, furniture changes, etc. Nevermind landlords promised that they wanted to rent "long term" in all cases.

Renting is fine in many scenarios, but homeownership can bring a lot of stability to life. Sure it's not for every single person out there, but if you plan to stay put for at least a few years and can afford it, I say go for it.

I think that dollar-for-dollar cost comparisons with renting can only go so far as it's not easy to measure the value of the aforementioned stability (and neither is the lost flexibility of renting).

You can download maps for offline use with Google Maps. It's not exactly the same, but very close in practice.

Won't we get less solar power as a result? Maybe it's what Nuclear needs...

Some subscriptions make sense. Someone is doing work for you every week, like trash collection, and you pay as you need their work.

This said, your point largely stands.

Same here, 70% cut in costs. If efficiency isn't a goal and there isn't a strong push for controlling costs, they just keep going up.

I don't know if 1B is a reasonable goal, but Twitter's previous leadership was so incompetent that I wouldn't be surprised. Maybe even more is possible.

Getting rid of these incompetent executives who couldn't grow one of the most valuable corporate properties in history will be worth billions to the company. These people literally decreased value, their parachutes being the last money they will extract from shareholders.

When I read the title, I thought this was going to be about young people working for Google, Twitter and Facebook.

The best phase is about to begin, and the worst of child raising is behind you. It will never be easy, but IMHO older kids are a lot more fun, clever and interactive.

No it doesn't, not for me. I don't work at MSFT and I own both a Windows machine and a Mac M1 for work. Simple things like my gaming mouse and wanting larger fonts on my 1440p monitor don't work without cumbersome hacks through buggy hobby software. My windows computer works flawlessly among other advantages such as a large software library right out of the box.

I respect people who prefer Macs to PCs, but stop speaking about it like it is some universal truth.

In this case you might as well put sugar in the tablets and charge a lot less

I played Secret of Monkey Island for the first time on a 286 VGA with a Sound Blaster...

Anyone has their numbers? With this mass refund, I believe it is the biggest financial failure in the history of the videogame industry.

The top menu bar is a waste of screen real estate, even on a Mac - an outdated 1980s concept that was cool back in the day, but no longer (alongside the single button mouse).

If you auto hide it, it becomes troublesome to click on browser tabs as a slight error on pointing to the new tab will make the bar appear and push everything down. I understand that many people like the macOS UI concept, but I find standard Windows far superior, allowing more screen real estate especially on small screens. Same comment applies to the icons on the bottom bar further wasting my screen's limited height (although that can be customized).

My main work computer is a M1 Macbook Pro and I'd LOVE to be able to simply use Windows/Linux for better productivity.

This is the year of Star Citizen on the Desktop!

Yes, some people gain weight easily, others don't while eating the same things. But for the vast majority of people, it's possible to find a calorie intake that will keep you healthy AND make you lose weight.

The allies could have backed down in WWII, handing major concessions to the Axis. Would we be better off today?

Backing down to a bully will only encourage and empower it further. The current situation in Europe is status quo in poor countries, so the world isn't ending...

You can't spy if u don't have internet. I disabled internet (no router access) on all my smart TV's. So far they are working like a charm.

Because California has a "great" track record with energy management?

The infrastructure needs to be ensured before the mandate kicks in. Could be conditional on infrastructure targets, like X charging station within Y miles for all Californians

I left California to another state because of, among other things, unfair and crushing taxation. I am a software engineer with good pay but not millions or anything like that. Nice to meet you!

I have the Korg Nanokey 2 and I really like it. But my goto controller is the Arturia KeyStep 37. I love pretty much everything made by Arturia, never unhappy with a purchase.

200MP is worthless behind bad lenses. You will see high resolution blur...

Imagine a Gandalf origin story where he's running, jumping, punching and kicking orcs?

The far leftists would, however, reserve for themselves a nice piece of suburbia as the rulers need good living conditions to properly plan people's lives.

I live in a Suburban county that has seen pretty slow growth for decades and then exploded around 30 years ago. This county is very financially responsible and has done a fantastic job at keeping up with its expenses - before and after the explosion. There is no big city in the county (most of it is not even incorporated in a city), so the bills are paid by the county property taxes and some by the state government.

However, this county makes disproportionally high per capita state income tax contributions, to the tune of 2x/3x per capita compared to the nearby big city. As a matter of fact, myself and my county fellows heavily subsidize big city programs in the state: not only the big city's high traffic/maintenance crumbling roads, but schools, money losing public transportation, rent assistance, health programs, elderly assistance etc. What we spend in our arguably inefficient road network is a pittance compared to these.

If you are free and able to vote but won't do it, it's hard for me to feel too much pity for your situation.

I started voting when I was 16 (my birth country allows that) and voted on every single election until I immigrated to the US - and then voted on every US election since becoming a citizen.

Your approach - which makes total sense - reminds me of the notion that normal human beings wouldn't be able to resist an Artificial Superintelligence because it would always be able to press the right human buttons, no matter how smart the individual is. The only solution, then, would be to find a way to completely isolate oneself from it.

Perhaps Neumann is like a "scam superintelligence"...

DuckDuckGo is the best balance between convenience and privacy we have right now. And the issues raised in the article are kind of minor compared to the value it provides. If you compare this to the empire of tracking, profiling and data sharing from the others...

Town houses are currently the answer. I understand they aren't like single family houses but they are better than apartments...

I have had the cheaper Brothers for a while- I upgraded mine to a wi-fi model after the first one broke 10 years in. Pretty happy with it, sure the first one broke after being moved around many times, but I got an enormous value out of it.

They are literally following the will of the court, which gave them the ability to decide by themselves.