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I thought they tried this back when Apple Pay was just getting started, and they utterly failed to make it a success. Some silly-ass QR code thing that was less convenient than using one’s credit card.

Well, then, enjoy paying much higher taxes!

Damn, dude, you literally could not be more wrong. I suggest that you are very much unaware and owe it to yourself to become much, much more aware. It’s pretty easy, too: there’s this thing called “the internet” that you can use to self-educate.

The commentary in this thread is downright embarrassing. Singular weather events say little to nothing about climate change. Climate change is real, the science is sound and the evidence is over-abundant.

You know HN is turning into a shithole when a factual post is downvoted.

I truly hope that some day you rejoin us here in reality.

ChatGPT spews bullshit full-time. No way that could go wrong for this application!

Money generates money exponentially. Taxes that do not also rise in step, are taxes that enable a widening gulf between the have and have-nots.

That would destroy this place, just as it has Metafilter, Reddit, and every other forum that has done so.

> Once this was determined, the engineers issued a command to the probe instructing it to send the data via the appropriate computer. As he withdrew his hand, the issue disappeared. Obviously, it takes time to determine if the cure was effective.

Obvious AI writes for shit. Boo, hiss.

I should note that XPath is really the key here: it’s an elegant language to get and transform tree-structured and sequential data, so it could be well-used in a Pythonic template pipeline.

XSLT is a functional programming language that leans heavily on XPath to support transformation of tree-based structures. XQuery is another in the same vein. But you can accomplish the same things using an imperative language like Python, calling into XPath for data.

And you should then use XSLT to transform the docbook-generated html to Qt html. It is designed for that task, no weird Python regexes and string-splitting and indentation-tracking required. IOW, choosing the right tool for the job.

Consumption taxes penalize the poor, who spend most of their money on goods, and benefit the wealthy, who spend most of their money on investment.

> Flat consumption taxes are regressive (shift the tax burden to the less well-off). The ratio of tax obligation to income tends to shrink as income increases because high-earners tend to consume proportionally less of their income. An individual unable to save will pay taxes on all his income, but an individual who saves or invests a portion of his income is taxed only on the remaining income.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_tax

Mars should produce a full-on traditional pantomime using its characters, with all the requisite British vulgarity, punnery, and violence. Ye olde heritage has a history of dressing in dragge!

I suggest using XSLT to transform Docbook to other XML. It’s purpose-built for that task. Saxonica offers a Python plug-in, though truth is that the XSLT solution can do everything you need.

Still, it’s much worse to catch the virus, especially before training one’s immune system through vaccination.

Is that what they are? Old-school widgets vs the ones that show from Edit’s top-left “+” plus-button, which new-tangled widgets (all from Apple on my device)?

> And the majority of people dying from COVID are vaccinated.

The majority is vaccinated. Also, the 17% unvaccinated in Canada comprise greater than 50% of the deaths. That’s huge.

Also, 12+ billion doses have been administered with issues numbering in the tens of thousands, which is to say very few negative outcomes.

I hate the stupidity of this bullshit. Of course catching sars-cov-2 is going to provide a broader profile against which your immune system can develop matches: the vaccine only has the spike, while the virus has the spike plus other key proteins and signals. No shit Sherlock! BUT AT THE SAME TIME the virus is orders of magnitude more dangerous. The only people playing pretend are the ones who keep FUDing about the vaccine.

You always have private options. They will require payment and may require travel, but the option is there for those who can afford it. And if not, the public option is there, albeit slow and under-resourced.

There are single-cell organisms up to an inch or so in diameter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa

There are even visible bacteria! https://www.science.org/content/article/largest-bacterium-ev...

I think the question is used to weed out those people who do not want the job. It is a synonym for “so you want this job?” What mental fences do you have that prevented you from interpreting the question correctly, or that encourage you to self-sabotage (assuming you needed the job; if you knew you didn’t want the job, the question provides an easy out)? Or not, I dunno you nor what the test designer intended.

AFAICT, no control over diet. I would expect that monks have a different diet than their neighbours.

The labels already have a danger to pregnancies warning. It helps reduce FAS rates. Your concern trolling over extending that warning with one about cancer risk doesn’t deserve any greater attention.

You aren’t supposed to inhale the cigar smoke!

It amazes me that people argue in favour of having a population that is less informed.

I’d be delighted if everything that was as risky as tobacco, asbestos, alcohol, etc had health warnings. Same with foods: full dietary info, plus excess sugar/fat/etc labelling.

Only 25-30% of Canadians know that alcohol carries a cancer risk. A lot of Canadians drink well in excess of “safe” limits. Informing the public allows everyone to make a conscious choice about a significantly risky product.

No one knows these things intuitively: they need to encounter that information repeatedly before they will know it well enough to use that information in making a decision. Adding a written warning on the bottle label is a sensible, inexpensive, effective way to accomplish this.

I want to be more informed, not less.

It’d be fine if the threads were centrist. The problem is with the lying, the FUD, the statements than run absolutely counter to factual truth. HN is going to be harmed by the people who do this, because they are going to go do the same thing in other threads. The quality of discourse on HN is going to suffer greatly.

You should encourage some property tax reforms in your area. The way it should work is that a budget is set, and then property owners are taxed to meet that budget. When done that way, the tax rate on your property will actually drop as its value increases, because the budget isn’t any bigger.

Where I live, the only time my property tax rises is when the budget is increased. (Unfortunately, the budget keeps on increasing, because city council keeps having bigger and bigger dreams. Oh, yay, I’m so glad we’re dropping $50M on another sports centre I’ll never use. Better upgrade the pool while we’re at it, it’s been an entire decade since we last spent a fortune on it!)