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I am pretty sure a lot of people will just reduce other expenses to compensate. At least for as long as they can. That just means most of the money goes to tobacco companies instead of anything else they would have spent it on.

I think I agree with vidyesh, taxes are for money not for changing social behavior.

WTF is wrong with that site. I enabled the scripts so that I could use the filters, waited while it refreshed several times, and it just covers the screen with a pop up that just re-opens when you close it. That was one of the worst I've visited.

It's probably because of the ad blockers but still a site should be a little functional without all the scripts and ads.

I meant I never had a problem with something not integrating when I expected it to. New mouse, new keyboard, new printer, headset, drives, etc. Everything has worked in that regard and painlessly (for me).

The menu I found functional (and someone else mentioned I can actually remove the crap on there I didn't want). I am mostly against the flat UI (I hate it everywhere though) and the settings that moved to random places. I never had a problem with search not working or anything of that nature.

I think it's the best OS I've used yet really. I remember getting BSOD many times on Windows XP and several times on Win 7 (although they were so rare they were the exception). Almost always those previous iterations had some peripheral that needed help being configured but with Win 10 I haven't had to touch almost anything.

My computer has changed to be not comparable to those previous though because I now have a nice GPU, a nice CPU, and a SSD. So any speed improvements, graphic improvements, etc are skewed by the hardware changes I've made since.

I didn't turn off anything except the privacy that I could. It's just that I don't have a use case for most of the features (yet).

I must be in the huge minority. I haven't had a single issue with Windows 10 (if we disregard privacy). Literally everything has just worked.

I will say thinking about it that my computer used for 99.99% gaming/internet/text documents. I keep anticipating that something is going to go horribly wrong but so far it's been great.

I hate the menu and store that it shows so almost everything I tend to open has a shortcut on the desktop or is pinned to the toolbar.

Having a functional toolbar on both monitors. That right there was all I wished windows 7 would do but otherwise I can barely tell that the OS is different.

I never used windows 8 so I don't have a comparison to that but I've seen Windows ME...

It would make a little more sense if you think of this going back a few years.

So I've wondered this. If I use a work computer to update some person code on github or blog or whatever online, outside of business hours.

Does that fall into their equipment or not? I always assumed yes but I can find arguments for either answer.

I got one of those bike-like thing to put under my desk. Initially for work but that wasn't working so now it's at home. I haven't been great about using it often but it is easy to use while playing games like I would anyways. It might not be terribly efficient or anything but it's something.

I usually post something if I don't see it posted before and want to say something or think it's techie/cool.

I hear that time of day and day of post make a lot of impact if you want the most exposure.

For show/ask HN I don't need it to take off and be #1, just a few comments is usually enough to get many insights.

"Even with all the negative side effects, would you want to stop taking a drug that cured (imperfectly) a severe problem you've had your whole life?"

I am not going to go into detail but that really resonates with me[0].

[0]I'm not addicted to anything don't worry!

My dentist didn't give me Vicodin[0] unless I had more than one or two teeth out. Even then I never understood how people could like it. I got a little pain relief and a little bit of a relaxing feeling. It was probably a really low dose as well.

Might have just been mine wasn't into giving out prescriptions or they didn't think I would need them.

I have a friend who has so many pain prescriptions after his back surgery that I've lost count of and they either don't work or lose effectiveness or he can't deal with the side effects. The scary part to me is there will never be an end for him unless there is some miracle in medicine that his doctor doesn't know about yet.

[0]I know that's not the same as Codeine

I think you could make the case for multiple online games to have the ability to improve a few skills.

Mainly games where you are teamed with random players (especially MOBAs) and must communicate and use teamwork. Games like Scrabble might improve your vocabulary.

Communication is just as much a skill as any and useful in the real world. That's not to say that it's going to help if nobody has the mechanical skills or if your characters/items are inferior but dealing with defeat could help strengthen your coping skills or you can go back and analyze it and find more efficient plays (analytical skills).

Not saying that even a small fraction of people do any of this. Most people probably play games (especially mobile) for just a little break in the monotony of life and put them down when they are done.

nope not universal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex

my entire family does it on my mom's side. when you tell it to someone who doesn't do it they think you are crazy.

Why/How did you know you would be leaving after 2 years? Just the money or was there a specific reason? Sorry, just super curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY - 1 minute time machine.

Sounds like what you are saying.

Yes, my first job we have 3-5 devs at some points. We each had our own codebase (internal site, external site, console/windows apps). We never touched each others' code.

Nobody ever set up source control for the code I had to work on and nobody but me ever worked on it, the others did have source control as far as I know and at least one had 2 people working at a time. We did try to get my using it but it was clunky and didn't last long since it was just me using it.

It seems so strange in hindsight but that whole place was so so different from where I am now.

pretty quick we will end up with nothing but the worst graphics/story when you buy a game because you can just patch it and fix it later.

Thank you so much for that link. I've been searching for every ingredient and having to guess at some and that is really helpful. I didn't realize you could do that.

Even when I'm copying code I do it by hand[0]. Even though they might work I treat most stack overflow examples as 'really good pseudo-code'.

[0] it's always something short.

I have noticed that many sentences start with Yeah, at least for me. Usually around friends when there has been a silence. I always wondered if it was regional or just a weird thing I do, like affirming something before I said it out loud.

I had never seen an image of Australia with grass. I've always seen desert or city (like Sydney). It just never entered my mind that green stuff grew there. My geography knowledge is horrid so I just figured whatever I saw on tv/images was what it was like all over. Really cool that it's not actually the case.

Didn't really think about Amazon. I had never heard of a road train either. Didn't even know that one truck would carry that much. Learning a lot already :)

I didn't see it mentioned but how do they survive? I am assuming that the mining is like freelance work and they sell whatever they find...but to who? The way it read this is a remote place, where do they get food (I assume not much grows in that terrain)[0]?

Even if people worked with other residents for favors/barters instead of money the food thing much be ridiculously expensive to import all of it.

I can imagine hitting that one jackpot find but at the same time not getting one seems like it would be impossible to survive for long.

[0]This kind of applies to most of Australia I imagine though.

I wish they hadn't filtered all the photos but that's nothing to do with the place.

If you don't mind, what do you do?

It seems like a lot of the jobs I see are for such specific roles they have to reach worldwide to find someone with that knowledge.

The kind of stuff I only read about in headlines here but that I will never get close to at work or in a personal project.

I am just curious if it's rather hopeless if you aren't "THE BEST"[0].

[0]rockstar, ninja, other buzzwords.

Similar but I've been sending out applications for many more months[0].

I think I can recall 2 times where they told me I was ineligible (because they didn't specify they were only willing to accept EU citizens) and once where I got a declined email.

It probably doesn't help that 'degree'[1] isn't worth much but with 5+ years experience I feel like I am competent. Maybe just not enough or in the right tech.

It's rather disheartening, especially when you read on here about people getting so many offers daily. I know it's like a FB feed though and not everyone's reality.

Sorry for the rant.

[0]In the UK though so maybe they are even stricter than other countries. [1]ITT, it was enough to get me in the door locally though. I can't go back and tell younger me not to be so stupid.

I think it's that the government[0] can repeatedly propose the bill and wear down the public's will to fight it. They[0] don't appear to lose any/much standing from continuous proposals and people become apathetic towards continued fighting.

[0]whoever that may mean

How would using a pipe prevent you from inhaling the smoke?

I have never used one (but I was always curious when I smoked) so maybe it's a silly question.

"Your link kind of reminded me of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0rbxB9Lqg"

That video had me so anxious my palms got sweaty. I don't even get way when I watch skateboard videos (I skate) but I think it's just that video had so many perspectives that showed the height and I don't find that comfortable already.

The scary part to me is that he spent time in prison, had to use his savings to pay for a lawyer because he couldn't work, and even though acquitted to anybody who doesn't read all the details it looks the same way as not being acquitted.

I can easily imagine that similar situations happen but for people without enough savings to keep going and even then they may not have as high a profile to have their reputation overshadow the headlines.

I feel like I am just shy of tinfoil hat territory but it's not the craziest thing I have ever though of.

I plan on visiting many articles on the site. The one I did read was pretty long (even this one is long to me) so if they are all that long it will be a slow process but I liked what I saw.