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They are running a store here. Maintaining order helps everyone. given the popularity of App Store, there will invariably be some that are inclined to price their apps at 420.69 or 42.24 or what not and avoiding that and making the prices show some consistency does help the store.

//Why would they want to help him?

Oh let me think. Because they like democrats and he donated to democrats?

//but I operate linux servers, I support mac engineers, and I provide service to windows clients

obviously that's not normal use case for a normal person and not being able to do that wouldn't even be in anyone's wildest radar.

The devil's in the details. 2m doesn't convey much. 2m in what? 401k? Then it's inaccessible until 60. If not, then all earnings are going to be taxed and need to account for that. And is that 2m including primary residence or excluding primary residence? Also need to bring in mortgage into consideration..and if you do retire, given that health is tied to work in US that adds extra complexity..

Pretty sure once you hit 2m it will then be 10m :)

So, when majority of the people support one political party that's called eroding democracy?

if news were what it should be, then yes. But given that news is what's being presented as news today, it does more harm than good.

What you say may sound good in theory. But how will you implement it?

Everyone who is worth billions has their worth in shares. so if it goes beyond a billion, you tax it away. What if it falls, will you give it back? so you will keep redistributing and giving it back?

Genuine question, not snark. What if someone wants to be a contractor. In this case the govt wouldn't allow them to be? Say if someone doesn't want to commit to this as anemployment and wants to drive only when he feels like it?

//BTC's max supply is capped and the release schedule of new coins is fixed and predictable

That doesn't mean it's not a Ponzi. One can run Ponzis with a cap and fixed/predictable supply increases..

//Would you reconsider this wording, so that we can focus on your story rather than a flippant mention of their gender?

I read the same post and I only focussed on the story and flippant mention on gender never crossed my mind until you brought it up..

To do that in software is one thing. To pull that off in Cars is quite crazy.

// If you asked me what the difference between the iPhone 11/12/13 is I wouldn't be able to tell you

And the difference between the last 3 versions of android phones would be what?

They are. They lose their money / investment if companies go bankrupt or don't do well.

That would be fair if companies can also distribute losses if any and are able to get money back from employees

//On the one hand, retirees bring nothing of real value to the economy

Not true. If retirees have money, that's money they got paid for doing actual contribution. If you devalue that money that's devaluing their life's work and contributions.

Not an advocate for crypto etc, but it feels wrong that a bunch of folks like Powell etc get to decide the fate of whole generation's peaceful retirement.

Being right and early is sometimes indistinguishable from being wrong..

That's why I like Apple's approach of local backups. Nothing is exclusively in the cloud alone, it's only backed up to cloud. Everything I care about, I can access it locally with no internet, including all old photos, files, chats, mails, passwords pretty much everything.

Well, if one's using a Mac and iCloud one already trusts Apple. so no additional trust needed to use iCloud Keychain I guess.

Depends on who you ask. There are people who would strongly vouch for either sides...

That said, it was predominantly farmers from 1 state. may be 3-4 states max. India has like 28 states.

When protests were happening in India this is what Trudeau had to say:

"Let me remind you, Canada will always be there to defend the rights of peaceful protesters. We believe in the process of dialogue. We’ve reached out through multiple means to the Indian authorities to highlight our concerns. This is a moment for all of us to pull together,"Justin Trudeau said.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/situation-is-concern...

Thank you for asking this. You are not doing anything wrong. There is more to life than being great at some niche tech skill. In many things, being a jack of all trades will help. It's perfectly okay to just treat a job as what it is, just a job and focus on what interests you or what matters to you. Many people come to this realization after slogging for many years at work. You have just realized that earlier.

They still have a new folder button. I still see it

// had no concept of "abstraction", adherence to standards or even a logical, coherent design.

I see your point. But I would like to make a counterargument.

If you consider the time scale with which biological systems have to work, you probably won't call their design illogical or incoherent. Computer programs have been around for not even a century. Billion years is a whole different ballgame. Can anyone even imagine writing a computer program with any guarantee that it would be readable by someone 1000 years from now? We have a tough time figuring out what our our own code does a few months after writing them.

And wrt fault tolerance, resilience, I don't know, the design language of nature definitely seems far more evolved..

It does. But it's not about that. It's about being able to get rid of wires and associated mess.

That is not at all the answer to this. Tech people need to respect their craft a little bit more. If some hospitals screw over a patient no doctor would say people need to learn surgery and self operate on themselves. Self hosting is not something a normal person can just learn overnight and manage.

Huh. What if 2 people decide to do it?

Can someone smarter than me explain how this is happening? If it has this market cap, someone is buying at that valuation. Why? Greater fool theory?

And if bitcoin had crashed to 0 their answer to the donors will be what?

EXACTLY. You can't just label any government you don't like as undemocratic or authoritarian randomly. If elections were held and when there were no electoral fraud and people voted for this Government, it doesn't just magically become undemocratic just because you don't like it.