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iPhone mini was a thing for a while. It still has the stuck out camera but otherwise only a bit larger than the iPhone 5 from 9 years earlier. I wish they hadn’t ended it on the 13, because I also feel phones are getting too large.

“Home”, for the purpose of this article, includes condos. The data is about all mortgaged properties.

Replying to myself because I see it now:

> Instead, Ottawa has targeted foreign real estate buyers with a ban on purchases until the end of 2024.

I’ve read the article but don’t see details on there about Canada having restrictions on buying homes. Can you elaborate on what the restrictions are, outside of the price being too high for many people?

I imagine the person you’re replying to means restrictions more along the lines of limits on one home per person, or increased taxes on secondary or investment homes, or restrictions on who can buy an home, etc.

This is a common thread on heat pump threads, where numbers like 300% efficiency are quoted. The explanation, as I understand it, is that it’s not creating 3 or 4 kW of heat for each kW of power drawn: it’s moving those 3 or 4 kW from outside to inside (or vice versa when cooling instead of warming).

I remember it, I feel that focusing just on that portion of the quote is a cherry-picked view. There was more to the quote that showed a misunderstanding of the system, which, at least in my circles, caused a lot of the mockery:

> an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

Tubes or trucks: movie downloads were not causing emails to be delayed by 4 days, even back in those days.

I believe they’re referencing this codegolf entry: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/215216/high-thr...

Previously discussed here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29031488

But they were talking about total wealth amassed, net worth, while you say “per year” as in income. Completely different metrics.

You’re absolutely right! My bad, I appear to have forgotten that rule by the time I commented. Glad I called it a violation :)

The nuance on that one felt odd. I said that it did violate the rule (even the spirit of the rule, being a large motor vehicle), because it was a binary question. I also felt the rule violation was justified and that they shouldn’t be called out on it.

The comment they were replying to didn’t sound long term. It specified “now” in the first sentence, so at best short-medium term.

The “everyone just needs to do <x>” part wasn’t a reference to a long term idea, it was them replying to somebody expecting that immediately (or, with a more forgiving reading, in a shorter term)

The landing page they linked suggests it’s possible, but makes it sound like it might be more work to do so:

> BlockNote is built for React and exposes easy-to-use components. However, it is possible to use BlockNote with other frameworks or Vanilla JS (advanced users).

Welp, guess I picked a bad one. Paper Bird Inc seems to be owned by Sam Bankman-Fried… but anyway maybe they aren’t all owned by him, and regardless it might partially explain why the revenue numbers GP was looking up are much lower than the claims.

Article says “ According to bankruptcy filings on April 27 and 28, the IRS filed claims worth nearly $44 billion against the firms, including FTX.US and Alameda Research.”

Clicking through to the list of filings shows about 1850 items (rounded, 93 pages of 20 filings each), many of which don’t appear to be against FTX.

For example there’s a $2.5 billion one on the first page against “Paper Bird Inc”, who I haven’t looked up yet.

On the other hand: why? Browsers already have a back button that works that way. Users are used to back buttons on the page moving up some in-app hierarchy, which, admittedly maybe they oughtn’t be used to because maybe it’s not a good pattern in the first place.

But instead of reimplementing the browser’s one and potentially confusing the users, why not remove the button entirely and have people use their browser’s more consistent UI? If the extra space is awkward surely there’s something else that can go there.

There are useful cases for history.back, but I’m not sure a back button is it.

Weaponized “kindness” sounds a little bit oxymoronic to me, would what’s being weaponized not be closer to “niceness”? Unless it’s second-order / indirect through people meaning well.

In my personal experience, inner monologue can vary within an individual as well. Some days mine is similar to what you’ve described (“me hungry, want lasagna” - love it!) but other times it can be 2-4 voices all debating a topic from different viewpoints. They’re typically similar to one another but different enough to know which is talking, sort of differences in tone/pitch.

“Monologue” might not be the right word at that point though? I guess it is all me, so the dialogue is a monologue.

He did specify high school though, rather than college/university (or a generic like “school” or “academia”).

We’re probably all over-reading this quote but it did come off as a “grow up” comment in my reading as well, intended or not.

A couple are mentioned in the article: Wisk (invested in by Boeing), and Eve (backed by United Airlines)

Totally, and this seems to be exactly the type of tunnel that the article’s author is discussing, evidenced by the second point they make:

> Tunnels have a smaller height difference than bridges. Only need clearance for the height of a cyclist, not for trucks or trains plus electric lines.

Possibly this one? About 5 years ago, similar headline https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dad-claims-childrens...

Steel-manning, they could have meant that the larger risk makes this smaller on insignificant. Adding 1 to 1,000,000,000 also results in a larger number - not that I think the actual compared risks could be given these numbers on any scale, but to their mind the TV privacy risk may be too insignificant to bother with when there are easier and larger risks to work on.

Not believing in Gambler’s Fallacy is already believing there will be more “20 in a row same side than 21 in a row same side” - its believing there are 50% more in a way.

After the 20 have landed the next flip will still be 50/50.

Just as 20 perfectly alternating heads/tails/heads/tails will lead to another 50/50 chance, or any other potential pattern the past may have held.

I’d suspect likely the same result as the gold plated sata cables:

> someone had set up an experiment with an open invitation, only for no one to turn up

Sure but my disagreement was with

> help it along

Does it actually help them along if it’s that many items? It’s hard for me to imagine that 217 instances of a 6 letter word instead of a 7 letter word is much easier to format. My view is that trial and error, obsessively rewriting sentences to fit, is much more likely.

EDIT to clarify: what I mean is that I don’t think there was a master plan where words were misspelt to make this work. I think it’s rather brute forces with a lot of obsessive time and effort. Not in a bad way of course, I really enjoy what they did.

EDIT2: especially when rocket is already a 6 letter word, and likely could be used interchangeably in the guide. I feel that turning missile into one as well wouldn’t help the goal in the slightest, would only make it more difficult.

That makes it sound like the typo is made in just a few places to make the line fit.

Search missile, there are 0 results. Search missle and there are 217.

The consistent and plentiful usage makes me strongly believe it’s just how the author thought the word is spelt, not a cheap way to get their preferred formatting.

You’re correct that they often aren’t, but all the same I find it amusing to read this comment attached to a StackOverflow link where the exact person who suggested “gimme gimme gimme” and the implementer both answered.

Obviously not the ones making the “why are you $X” comments in this case though.

Why can’t it be both? Could have a logarithmic scale, could have it increase by a fraction of a % of $(value - currentTax) so that it increases more slowly over time.

Not saying I agree with the underlying idea, just confused about why “increases ever month” necessarily means it cannot be “tied to the value of the property” in a `calculateTax(propValue, timeEmpty)` sort of way.

Some of the listed uses are not about saving time or energy - though admittedly most were, and seem excessive to me as well.

The automated lights and blinds in the morning, for example, can for some improve sleep quality compared to a standard alarm. Then again this would probably be better as dumb blinds and lights on timers.

Sounds like that’s the Apollo app. It’s a pretty nice feature but I find it only seems to work for me when I open the app, so I have to force close it. There’s probably a button for it somewhere, but having one on the home page (or similar) seems like it would be equally good or better UX while also getting the users consent to read their clipboard (since they’re clicking the button).

Really nice app in general though.