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The previous management was hardly better. They banned the New York Post for daring to break the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Reminds of the bank error in your favor cards from Monopoly.

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.

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.

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 spending and streamlined some of the bureaucracy.

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 unemployment or inflation numbers. They see the price at the gas pumps and in the grocery store and their dwindling bank account balances.

Rent, food, and fuel inflation has been brutal for most Americans.

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 “under the table” without paying income taxes.

Preventing tax avoidance is a terrible excuse for Big Brother surveillance.

These examples are opted into, so it’s not the same thing as this at all.

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 okay with them. They are not necessary to levy road usage taxes.

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 already covering drugs, guns, human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, etc., but to truly fix many of these problems we need increased investment in children’s lives by the parents, coaches, teachers, and other community leaders in their lives.

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 costly than if a civil case actually went to trial. Civil courts tend not to be very friendly to those with deep pockets. The burden of proof is very low, and the prevailing attitude is that they can afford it, so why not award compensation to the plaintiff.

> 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 is a very different burden of proof compared to a criminal case. For civil trials the burden of proof is preponderance of the evidence, which means that the plaintiff merely needs to show that the fact in dispute is more likely than not. In comparison, criminal trials require a much higher burden of proof known as beyond a reasonable doubt.

> https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/preponderance_of_the_evidenc...

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 everywhere within every toolset, versus learning how to use each language and IDE's debugging functionality.

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 service then I understand and accept the fees. Otherwise, it’s just rent seeking.

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 larger extent than any other platform.

From what I understand modern Android has become much more pleasant to develop for.

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 only consumer facing Google apps I’m aware of that are made with Flutter.

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 of Google’s half-assed implementation of Java on Android.

I think this is one of the biggest reasons to reach for JavaScript instead. It has a lot of flaws, but it has a huge ecosystem that works nearly everywhere.

The problem is that so many things have become unrepairable by design.

Which is the more likely future outcome, The Matrix or Terminator?

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.

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.

> 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 running and the propane was for cooking and heating the people within the encampment. This was a completely non-violent protest.

> Regardless of the opinion of the Democratic candidates, they were not literally criminals

What crime was Trump convicted of?

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.

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?

Real wages adjusted for inflation are up since 2008, but sharply down since 2020.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A

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.

How do you actually make any money though? It costs you money to provide this service. Where is that coming from?

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...

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 did so because he wasn't Trump.

Democrats have some policy positions that are troubling for a lot of voters. Gun control is a big one. Much of rural America will vote against Democrats every time just on that one issue alone. Also, defunding the police is unpopular with many voters. There are also many who have moral concerns about gender transition surgeries for minors or allowing biological males to compete in women's sports.

Also, the quality of Democrat candidates for 2016 and 2020 was very low.