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> I think it's more about an arbitrary decision causing extra work and costs to a business owner who isn't being compensated for it.

This sounds a lot like the grumpy old people who got my local downtown bike race cancelled because customers had to park a couple minutes away from their store. The entire event lasts less than half a day. For a single day of the year…

And we wonder why it costs so much to do anything at all these days. Grumpy people just don’t want to let others have nice things.

Police spending most of their time enforcing traffic? That’s a shock to me because I’d count half a dozen easy tickets for cars parked in protected bike lanes while commuting to work in Oakland.

This is reason #1 why I cannot wait for IRS’s free filing tool to receive more love. Tired of experts in regulatory capture like TurboTax or H&R Block having their cake and eating it too: being paid to do people’s taxes and then selling out their data.

It’s iOS’s API for managing key-value user settings. User wants kilometers instead of miles? Store the selection in UserDefaults. They want larger font size? Store it in UserDefaults. Different accent color? You guessed it, also UserDefaults. Apple wanting justification for an app having settings (which is pretty much every app on the planet) is ridiculous.

24/7 news cycle constantly highlighting every single kidnapping or crime that happens across the country has instilled a culture of fear in most people.

I grew up riding my bike completely across town by myself, before cell phones were pervasive. Parents these days are afraid of letting their kid walk 5 minutes to the neighborhood park…

I’m convinced the late 90s and early 00s was peak growing up years and it’s been going downhill ever since. One major factor in my reluctance to have kids is that there is zero possible way for me to offer a better experience for them compared to what I had.

It’s be mentioned elsewhere and I’ll mention it here again.

*UserDefaults does not belong on this list.*

Effectively every app on the store uses it in some fashion. Apple, please. Remove this.

Marc Andreessen is out of touch and doesn’t deserve to be brought up anymore.

Epic lost to Apple because the courts saw through Epic’s bullshit and realized they wanted to break up the monopoly only so they could enact their own.

> Series E

A company needing that many rounds deserves to die. Sorry to have known you SO.

This makes sense if we don’t consider the Big Bang as the “creation” of our universe but rather just another event that happens in it.

Thermodynamic laws and how our universe is expanding are both fairly well understood. Is it too much of a stretch to think that our universe has gone through many expansion and contraction cycles?

It expands until heat death, then black holes take over. These black holes slowly swallow all matter and then finally merge with other black holes. Over an unthinkable amount of time I’d imagine all those black holes become one, bringing about the concentration of mass necessary for another big bang.

> on the line

That used to be the case, but not in our modern world where “all publicity is good publicity”. IMO, this is a stunt from otherwise no-name government officials looking to get some media time.

Clicked into this thread to post this and was amazed to find it already here. Awesome, fun channel.

Relief checks are a drop in the ocean compared to the pure, unadulterated fraud that was the PPP program and how much of that was forgiven.

I personally know companies that got 5-10 million dollars by lying about how many they employed. Any whistleblower programs out there with a reward for reporting them?

I first thought of mentats from fallout, which is a highly addictive drug that temporarily increases memory and intelligence.

Commonly we see posts here detailing how Google suspended people’s accounts, thus losing all their email/contacts/files/etc, and it’s usually met with a unanimous “that’s terrible Google can’t just do that without reason” response. This is just one example.

But when it’s a company owned by Elon there’s always victim blamers like yourself. I wonder why that is?

What’s the big deal? EBikes can accelerate to 25-30mph unassisted which is firmly in moped/scooter territory and those require a drivers license.

Want to get around town without a license? Pedal yourself.

The amount of taxpayer $$$ that Israel claws from the US in the name of religion was already quite sickening. Now they’re getting that money while simultaneously switching to a totalitarian government.

I will never inconvenience myself in the name of fighting climate change. Anti-nuclear diehards can assume that responsibility if they want to keep hamstringing the only thing that is going to make a real difference.

The jet guy broke Elon and there’s no putting him back together.

It’s always depressing when we talk about the latest developments in minimum wage and how a day one burger flipper at an In and Out in California is making just as much as someone with 6 years of schooling and responsibility for teaching the next generation.

Oh and that’s not even considering how much of her own $$$ is needed to successfully supply a classroom and how barely any is tax deductible.

Her experiences almost single handedly altered my political viewpoints and who I vote for.

Where is the support for the middle class? The ones deemed too wealthy for financial aid, but not wealthy enough to actually afford the cost of college?

Just more tax dollars being siphoned away from my family that got zero assistance.

I don’t agree.

My parents are low middle class. We didn’t qualify for any financial aid and they were tasked with trying to find a way to send both my sister and I to college which they couldn’t afford.

So what did we do? Take out a bunch of loans. Good thing I got a decent job that can pay for them. Too bad for my sister who had a masters and is making $35k as a teacher in Tennessee which is barely more than minimum wage.

On the other hand, I love gambling in general. Take from the stupid, tax the ever loving hell out of it, and give to the schools.

I expect to lose 100% of what I go into a casino with. Those who think they can make a profit from it are profoundly stupid.

In my opinion, it’s more likely that the mammal climbed the carcass to access meat that larger mammals already consumed from the ground level. Zero chance something this small is actively trying to take down prey as large as this.

I was about to upgrade my 1070, a card that’s about 7 years old, until I saw I needed to get a 4090 for any sort of meaningful VRAM increase. Absolutely wild that Nvidia is still shipping mid-tier GPUs with 8gb after this long.

I don’t understand HN’s obsession with posting articles from the WSJ, acting like we all just happen to have a subscription?

An e-bike is closer to a car or motorcycle than it is a bike, why do you believe they should be treated differently?

> control-other-peoples'-kids lawmaking.

> I bet she picks her kids up from the bus stop every day.

These electric bikes are capable of speeding someone up to 25mph+ unassisted, with me (an averagely trained cyclist) being able to hit 40-50mph on flat ground with effort. They aren’t coming for your kid’s pedal bike.

Was going to reply with this. Target is commendable for having patience and catching these people when actual punishment will be given. Thieves consider being caught for misdemeanors just a cost of doing business, like large corporations do when profit made from an illegal deal is 10x what the fine is.