Try undoing Prop 13. It only benefits long-standing businesses and the few who never leave their home in 50 or more years.
For everyone else, the tax base resets upon sale, and people sell and buy homes.
Surprise.
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For everyone else, the tax base resets upon sale, and people sell and buy homes.
Surprise.
The worst career and life killers are "woulda, coulda, shoulda."
I so wanted an academic career, say, in astrophysics or such. Then a "here's your uniform" war, and later various jobs in aerospace, university (staff), investment banking (unix servers), sales engineer for said servers, a startup or two.
I could have blamed that war for trashing a Nobel career, but I supported their computing. Not spectacular like the zucks of the time, but honest work, and I never harmed or took advantage of anyone, not in the service (USCG) nor in aerospace nor others.
A guy at Sun said that he bought a TV for a quarter millon. He sold Sun stock to buy it, and it went to the sky with the dot com boom.
If you want a coulda, I owned an Apple-1 and traded it at a swap meet for who knows what. I could never get a cassette tape working. They sell for over $600K now. So it goes.
Real value is often delivered by teams rather than an individual. I was the Woz kind of guy whose Jobs never showed up. I'm not griping. That's life.
Try to win in other ways. That cabbie probably blew the money gambling, and there's the story of a new IPO millionaire who drove his Ferrari off the road in Los Gatos.
Money? There's always someone with more, to make you jealous, except for one person, who is extremely unhappy and fearful of losing his money and his race being obliterated (It isn't). He only gripes and bitches about whatever.
Drugs? Sure.
Am I jealous? Hell no. The only thing I kinda envy is that my kid never smeared a booger on the president's desk. My own pranks were smaller, and my kid always was and is, very considerate.
Happiness from within.
Legible media were a way of "preserving what's worth preserving" via what wasn't thrown away, and give or take disaster or deliberate shredding.
A kind of quality ranking, but what do we do in the age of bot clickbait "quantity over quality?"
Must we keep everything? I'll keep my slides even after that are scanned, but I already sorted out the best out of space and access concerns.
Sometimes constraints nudge us in the "right" direction.
Looking at my disk drives (seriously in need of sorting ) very little is unique (my products) [0], a lot of photo files and scans, and a ton of material I downloaded from the internet, of which a tiny bit is really still useful.
And books and music score downloads, which will probaby be safely archived by others.
I don't regret giving away hundreds of pounds of printed musical scores. They never laid flat, anyway. The ipad does.
[0] even when 100mb disks were common, one author said that his writings would fit on a floppy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291006
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50282708
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50275750
1. If this is illegal (it isn't [0] ruled by Alaska Supreme Court in June, 2026) then why wasn't the uproar done much earlier? You know the reason. Certain presidents (who shall remain nameless) are desperate beyond measure.
Epstein investigations and revelation of hidden material coming?
2. A bit of trolling HN with repeated duplicate posts? Grow up, kiddies.
Is this coming up for a vote just now? Is congress actually in session, or has Mike Johnson called for yet another vacation, in order to stall embarrassing motions from being introduced?
I looked for reasons but couldn't find any.
Whereas, from my ridge I can see 10 or 12 poles. I'll report for cheap.
Just my entire electric bill.
When I started out in computing, think 8080 and 6502, there were basically no books. On the optics end, which eventually gave way to computing, probably Modern Optical Engineering, by Warren Smith.
> A ... senior Trump administration official allegedly told Via The Independent that “if a bunch of kids who have just started a company can do this, then potentially the Chinese aren’t far behind.”
And who are that "bunch of kids"?
> The company in question is called Cathedral, which was founded by former members of the defunct US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a US government initiative established to reduce federal spending and bureaucracy, while modernizing government technology and operations.
The same "kids" that hacked every government computer system they could get their hands on. With Trump's blessing.
Note: this was via a bug bounty program.
There was an update last night, Oops, same deal. No message, no file.
Writes to the Documents directory.
I do have lots of extensions and window manager tweaks going on, though I cleared history yesterday.
1. I'll go through the list of paywall-busters, and sometimes
2. just put the title into the search bar to see if the paywalled article has been syndicated. Quite a few (I can't say many) articles are syndicated by MSN, and many paywalled journal papers are indeed freely available from other journals, arxiv, and the author's institution.
In the latter case, the OP really should check and save a lot of repeated labor. The freely available copies are as ethical as can be to access. Either a syndication fee was paid, or the material was free in the first place and some troll put up a paywall.
My opinion.
From Emmanuel Goldstein's work:
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM [0]
PDF download: [1]
History must be rewritten to support the party.
As a web page: [2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli...
[1] https://archive.org/download/the-theory-and-practice-of-olig...
[2] https://genius.com/Emmanuel-goldstein-the-theory-and-practic...
From Emmanuel Goldstein's work:
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM [0]
PDF download: [1]
History must be rewritten to support the party.
As a web page: [2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli...
[1] https://archive.org/download/the-theory-and-practice-of-olig...
[2] https://genius.com/Emmanuel-goldstein-the-theory-and-practic...
> A pilot phase with 38 ministry employees kicked off last year to trial Collabora's suite with Office documents. However, this trial was terminated when elections took place earlier this year. A spokesperson confirmed that the experiment had concluded, and would not resume again. They also confirmed that no evaluation benchmarking Collabora's performance against Microsoft Office had taken place either.
Okay.
PS the main gripe was ODF vs. OOXML
Gripe defeats evaluation.
Maybe this idea may be foreign to many, but personal computers were something I built from bags of parts socketed and/or soldered onto S-100 cards, and that experience was the foundation of most of my career.
I was a Henry Higgins, and proud of my Eliza(s). While I get along cooperatively with Eliza (the happy ending to "My Fair Computer") I don't want Eliza to be my caretaker. This morphing of computers and internet into nannies and caretakers is IMO reverting to the "good old days" of servants. While some inventions are truly liberating (ask the guy who missed his Mom at an airport and freaked out for hours until she showed up at my home, courtesy of a cab or bus) how many are just replacing people with machines?
I could seriously use some friendship of the human variety, rather than a humanoid in a box (or an especially nice robot as in "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury, memorable on The Twilight Zone) Try being older and living alone, typing away.
I don't even use GPS any more, since I trashed Apple Maps when they kissed the Emperor's big fanny.
The author uses Gerard Manley Hopkins for a sense of "rhyme"
> “By taking pleasure in the pure experience of rhyme,” he writes, “we provide the training sets for our own minds.”
Mechanistic? I read "The Windhover" by Hopkins long ago. It's a love poem to life itself [0]
When we identify with the universe rather than set ourselves apart from it, whether by the Mystic Law of Buddhism, or identifying with Christ, as Hopkins did, or other, we see both form and purpose, whether divine or natural, the "wish of the universe" since we are both physical, geometric as the laws of physics IRL dictate, but also metaphysical.
Why are things beautiful? Because they "are". Especially in music. My love for Sibelius' violin concerto was not shared by a friend, who found its expressiveness painful.
It's how we relate to things and others.
Even in embers, notoriously irregular.
> and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
> Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
But heck, it's a book review and plug.
[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover
I won't give up agency in life.
Or damn long hose and cords.
Batteries work fine and electric motors run smoothly.
Use Text Fixer. [0] I use it every day to make video transcripts readable. Such tools pop up and go away as ad or other revenue fails to pay the bills.
Two modes:
> Convert line breaks to paragraph breaks (it makes paragraphs by converting single line breaks to double line breaks)
> Add a paragraph break after sentences (for text with absolutely no line breaks, this can dramatically increase readability)
Otherwise, I paste into Pages and kick up the paragraph spacing.
Geniuses.
That is godlike power without the "woke" part that cares.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50240296
"If I only had a heart"
Translation: He is judge, jury, executioner, Christ, Antichrist, and his little band are the only ones to be saved. So many in our culture seek "godlike" powers without any of the "woke" compassion.
Apocalyptic visions are looked at from outside the Christian box that accepts apocalyptic writing as prophetic, by Kurt Spellmeyer in "Buddha at the Apocalypse" In short, western "culture" is somewhat structured around changing everything to reach some "other place" --- "creative destruction" if you will.
By contrast, (Nichiren) Buddhism asks us to look inside for the Buddha or divinity inside of us and build a better world in place by transforming ourselves in a way described in the Lotus Sutra, in which we treat others as both equal and unique, the very opposite of escapism.
In its original Greek context, “apokalypsis” referred to a revelation or an unveiling, particularly of knowledge or divine truth. [0] Nichiren Buddhism (IMO) uses, instead of long and complex doctrines and interpretations, so beloved of religious and other intellectuals, a paucity of words, either the Lotus Sutra itself or a condensation or its very name to reveal the "Buddha inside" ... that is the revelation and you can practice it twice a day, and not wait for some "end time". In fact, Buddhism argues that time has no beginning and no end. The contrast is quite startling, and IMO, liberating. 'This is it' is not a sentence but opportunity.
"Western Culture" so adored by many, has a history of divisiveness and destruction (or hadn't anyone noticed recent events?), and that's not to let other cultures off the hook; it's the one we can reform.
I am reminded of the saying of a Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart.
Meister Eckhart, a 13th century Christisn mystic, insisted that “if a person were in a rapture as great as St. Paul once experienced and learned that his neighbor were in need of a cup of soup, it would be best to withdraw from the rapture and give the person the soup he needs.”
So while we stampede and maim others in a quest for a "final judgment", the everyday actions we take are the "daily" judgment and the daily "revelation"
This is reminiscent of the message in the movie "Groundhog Day", an "accidental" Buddhist parable. Most striking is Bill Murray's character Phil, taking compassion on a homeless man and offering him warm soup. [1]
The poor man had "nowhere else to go" and neither do we.
[0] https://uspeakgreek.com/philosophy/human-sciences/theology/a...
Okay.
PS the main gripe was ODF vs. OOXML
Gripe defeats evaluation. It seems that this kind of thinking is a major contributor to the mess the world is in. Logic would have a world of cooperative societies rather than intolerant ones.
Logic be damned, and so us all.
Accessing Signal, OpenAI discovered (the absence of) disappearing messages to an external researcher.
So, if an application is password protected either by the OS or another app which demands a password to launch another app, would the official just ask for the application's launch password, or is that beyond whatever overly generous powers granted to them? Perhaps this is rhetorical, because what we called laws are merely ignored these days.
Laws for which there is no charge, no prosecution, and no consequence (I can give 34 examples) are merely suggestions.