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> If they fold and remove tariffs on the US

Part of the problem is that Trumps's definition of tariffs doesn't make any sense. VAT isn't a tariff but according to Trump it is.

Does he seriously expect other nations to just get rid of VAT? Or somehow replace it overnight with some other system all just to appease the US? Because that's the only way you can lower 'tariffs' to zero.

It just won't happen and we'll be in a continual standoff until Trump concedes that trade barriers are not in fact a good thing for anyone. He'll never admit it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the illusion of a 'deal' is struck in order to save face and reverse this mess once it becomes clear it's not sustainable unless you want to shrink your economy and destroy others at the same time.

Or fiat currency in general. Let's not pretend modern fiat is backed by something solid. The only thing backing it these days is the promise of our grandchildren & their grandchildren being good to pay back debt, eventually.

Recording & sharing video footage using on-board cameras. I mean the cameras and stream is already there, it's trivial to store the data and make it accessible. Better yet, clips could be filtered by sensors being triggered - alarm, door opening, locking of car, automatic emergency brake engaging etc...

Sounds like classic A type personalities with zero technical chops deciding how long a technical project should take to further their own agenda:

> The Migration Programme experienced delays from the outset and fell behind the IMP timings. While progress had been made, on 20 September 2017 the firm decided that the Migration Programme would have to be re-planned. However, nine days after it had resolved to re-plan, and before it had concluded its re-planning exercise, TSB publicly announced it would now migrate in Q1 2018.

Not your keys, not your coins.

The only thing they beat smartphones at is optical zoom. And that's pretty important and one of the few areas where smartphones still lag and can't crack due to their size. Add 10x optical zoom to a new iPhone and watch it crush all former sales records.

This wouldn't be proof that God exists though... proof of God's existence is probably impossible. I mean, hypothetically, if God exists and is willing to do anything to show us he exists, how would you or I verify he exists?

If we were somehow satisfied, how would we satisfy others? Even photos / videos wouldn't be enough as there'd always be claims they were faked. Photos / videos in combination with some sort of unprecedented global weather phenomena may be the best bet but even then science would be falling over itself to explain what happened and wouldn't just accept that yep, god exists and is responsible for that.

My car has a feature that will alert you if you exit the car and there's a person in the back seat. Example of it here: https://youtu.be/utEzcyoTk_E I always thought it was such an improbable situation that it didn't warrant a feature but maybe if my lifestyle was more hectic or I got distracted somehow I could forget about my child asleep in the back.

Or better yet, just don't answer incoming calls that you're not expecting

Absolutely. If cost of goods goes up 7.8%, most companies will round prices up by 10%. Increased costs is a great excuse to not only pass costs on to the consumer, but sneak in some additional "while we're at it" price rises too.

Having kids fixes the problem of feeling old and lost. Your life now has purpose and you have lifelong blood buddies to share experiences & stories with.

Having kids also means ideally having a stable relationship with a partner and you'll never reach that point without dating.

Work, at the end of the day, is meaningless if you feel your life is without purpose. Money isn't quite meaningless in that it can help to entertain & distract you and also help to attract & retain a partner. Everyone likes someone who is self sufficient.

Most technologies aren't necessary, most companies aren't necessary, most work isn't necessary. If you approach life from that perspective you'll see that the only thing worth dedicating yourself to is family & friends.

If you see an ATM churning out free cash, do you take it and say nothing? You are after all profiting on someone elses mistake...

It's the same situation. Taking money that is not yours is a punishable crime. It's that simple.

The beauty of it comes when you're working in a team of say 5 other front end devs of varying skill levels. There tends to be a large amount of duplication & overlap, people have different ways of doing things and achieving certain looks. If everyone agrees to use tailwind, you stop people from writing custom code which is ultimately a good thing because custom code requires custom comments and custom documentation etc which let's face it - nobody does or wants to do and even if they do, it's not maintained to the sort of standard tailwind docs are.

Technical interviews are high pressure situations that don't just check someone's technical proficiency but rather their ability to cope with pressure, communicate effectively while under that pressure and their willingness / unwillingness to ask for help or recognise their own weaknesses as soon as they realise they can't do something.

All are essential, day-to-day situations any developer will find themselves in. It's difficult to replicate that in anything other than a technical interview.

Having said that, tech employers don't hold the same power they once did. Decent developers with people skills know they can always find work or just make work for themselves if need be. We're entering an era where these guys will set their own hours and pay and the employer will be the interviewee.

It definitely plays a role in driving overall sentiment though. And indirectly plays a role in people taking more risks. There's a view that the economy won't collapse because central banks will just keep printing money... and it's probably correct because there's no real alternative right now unless you want civil unrest because that's what you'll get once you shut down the economy and then turn off the money taps simultaneously.

But at some point, in order for fiat currency to retain any sort of reliable buying power, there does need to be a rug pull of some sort. Doing it while so many are out of work and so many industries are effectively shut down by government regulation would be extremely dangerous (for the government of the day).

$549 today isn't as much as $549 was 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. The world is getting wealthier. Money is getting cheaper. We've just printed trillions of dollars this year to keep the good times rolling baby. We live in an era where people would rather pay $549 for a set of headphones than save it in a bank account or save for a house, cuz there's no way in hell they'll ever be able to afford a house. So why not blow it on experiences and shiney stuff instead of clinging on to a dream that can never be realised? That's the mentality of a lot of Apple's target market.

Same could be said about the stock market. Lots of companies aren't in profit and would die without the ability to dump shares and without speculators (and indeed the government itself - the ultimate speculator) propping it all up. Many of them die anyway, sometimes right after raising fresh capital from suckers who believed in their vision.

We've been here before in tech with the dotcom bubble. Lots of noise, nonsense and white elephants. Most projects will crash and burn, some will go on to change our daily lives.

You don't, you just sort of exist doing what you're doing but always thinking there's a better way of doing things / better tech stack out there. There usually is. But that's just technology for you. You can't be on top of everything all of the time otherwise you'd literally spend all day every day just learning about new technology.

At some point you need to commit. It's like relationships. How do you choose a partner out of billions of options? You browse around, learn what you like and don't like, make judgement calls, play around with some and eventually either make a conscious "this is the one" decision or else make a "we've been together so long, I guess we're a couple now" decision. At some point it becomes formal and you stop actively looking at other options because you're content with the option you chose.

How do you increase supply in densely populated cities with extremely strict planning laws & regulations?

The solution is to ban short term leasing in cities, increase taxes on sales of property within a certain timeframe and increase taxes on owners who have a property with nobody registered to live in it.

Basically you don't want people buying property to flip it quickly, to hoard it or to have a holiday home. You only want buyers who'll live in the property and/or rent it long term.

Not angering parents should be reason enough to go to school. If they don't like school, they can get to like it. That would be my philosophy. Certain decisions parents make for the benefit of their kids even if the kids don't like it or initially agree with it.

All you need to do is turn off the electricity and remove all toys & food from the house. Then tell the kid that this is what life would be like if mommy & daddy didn't go to work. Everyone would be hungry, cold, there'd be no entertainment and this is what will happen you when you're older if you don't go to school. Because in order to find work you need to learn skills.

I have an M510 and I love it but it needs to be taken apart and cleaned every year or so. It accumulates an insane amount of crap inside it which if left unchecked will eventually lead you to think there's a software issue or wireless interference as your pages scroll up and down randomly by themselves.

Most people probably just replace mice once they start acting up because they either don't want to bother cleaning it or else don't realise it can be taken apart and cleaned easily which fixes 99% of mice issues.

You're not alone but you're probably in the less than 1% of people who care about anything other than price when it comes to flying.

Low cost airlines dominate because people people want to pay as little as possible for flights.

Cut electricity. That puts an end to modern communication.

Another hitjob on Bitcoin paid for & promoted by old money.

Terrorists using Bitcoin for funding are idiots. They're creating an undeniable, timestamped treasure trove of digital evidence which is far simpler to trace and track than any cash transactions.

I would hope intelligence services are trying to lure terrorists in to using Bitcoin by pushing articles like this as opposed to actually believing that Bitcoin transactions can't be tracked and can't be used to hunt down funding sources.

What makes it worse is that quite a few toilet lids are self closing / soft closing these days. So if you get used to it, you start trusting the lid to close itself and take your hand from underneath the lid while it's still at a height. So it's easy to slam the lid down accidentally.

And with elected representatives like this, I wouldn't be putting money on this becoming law any time soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2e-gOeN3DM or if it does become law, expect it to become a rolling target that gets kicked down the road rather than a fixed one.

If it works for you and is easily maintained by whoever is looking after it, great.

In my experience, sooner or later you're gonna want modern functionality / user experience and you're in for a world of pain trying to hack it together with jQuery.

These days I'd only use jQuery for sites where I'm the sole developer and the project won't change much over time. Or for legacy projects where the cost of moving everything to an SPA wouldn't be worth it.

If you're not the only developer on a project and the project is liable to morph over time, jQuery will be a costly mistake.

I prefer jQuery syntax than javascript. It's the only thing I miss about jQuery.

I also think there's a lot of people still using jQuery simply because they're scared of SPAs, the learning curve involved and how they basically change the role of a front end dev to more of a fullstack dev.

I once considered myself a front end dev but these days I'm using SPAs, running NodeJS, pulling & managing data from REST APIs, sending / retrieving stuff from a database, managing NoSQL database, using serverless functions, working with websockets and GraphQL etc..

Am I still considered a front end developer? Because I know front end developers who still carve a living out of HTML / CSS / jQuery alone. They'd be toast when it comes to present day job interviews for example for front end positions. It just seems like we need to split 'front end developer' in to about 3 or 4 levels to better represent people's skillset / what's expected of them.

Ok gang, let's see who's behind this...

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Because it blocks ads by default, everywhere across all platforms.

Sure you can use Chrome / Firefox / Safari and install extensions and plugins that do something similar but end users don't want to jump through hoops and play whack a mole with ads. If a browser proactively fights ads for them out of the box, it enriches their lives without them needing any additional technical knowledge.