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To some, that's hate speech. The argument is being made by others. Don't correct me for pointing it out.

Then apply a "digital" tax for whatever amount of revenue or justice you imagine you're missing out on.

Apple preventing the sale of a product != Apple not selling a product.

I don't ask Apple for permission to visit a website on my iPhone. Why should I ask their permission to install applications? Would it be so awful if I were allowed to run my own software?

> Should Apple/Google be forced to carry pornographic apps? White supremacists apps? Apps that invade people’s privacy?

My computer allows racist pornography and its the greatest invention in the history of mankind. As far as I can tell, iPhones have not lived up to that legacy.

> OK, but why just the land? Trusts hold stock, too

The stock is taxed indirectly. Georgism holds that all wealth fundamentally comes from the land. This isn't completely true in the digital age but it is still true enough.

> Their heirs receive the dividends from that stock

If you tax income it never goes away. You just take a portion of whatever is there. If you tax wealth then the wealth is eventually drawn completely into the society. That's the fundamental difference. LVT is a tax on wealth.

> Best job currently seems to be delivery driver at $16/hr. There is absolutely no way I will avoid homelessness unless things change significantly, and soon.

Take the delivery job and rent an apartment when the bank forecloses. You won't be homeless. $16/hr is good money.

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Judging by the tenor of the responses you've received already this comment will not get a lot of positive attention. But here goes...

You should have six months expenses saved. Period. You own a home and "have an engineering degree from a good school".

Saving is both an intentional act and a privilege. It sounds to me you had the privilege (you have a house and a good degree) but lacked the intention.

I say this as a person who has not always had the privilege of saving money. And who knows how fragile life feels when you are on the edge.

Some of them are pretty clever and could have easily become slang given enough time.

My first result was "upboard" which describes all the wood on a sailboat that is above the water.

Probably by citing government easement of lock downs and making common sense workplace decisions to hamper the spread of coronavirus as recommended by the CDC.

The coronavirus isn't magic. You can take sensible precautions and not catch it.

I've been wondering a lot recently if folders make projects better or worse.

For example, when I write a library its usually very simple. There's a single directory which contains all of the source files. When people use the library they:

"""

import lib

lib.run()

""""

Dead simple, no complex module paths to remember, no hierarchical folder structure forcing you to code based on a pattern rather than functionality. Pure bliss.

But on the other hand, I have projects that contain 100k lines of source code. I can't just leave it out in the cold. So poor baby gets a couple of folders.

But I do hate it. I hate writing the code. I hate reading it. I hate finding it 6 months after the fact.

That's probably just the nature of the job. It is work at the end of the day. Maybe its just doomed to be hard.

What level of animal genocide would be acceptable to my vegan peers?

The dude abides.

I am but more broadly the movement toward legalism and the ad-hoc justifications wrapped around it.

Cutting to the chase... You have been describing disparate impact as a philosophical principle in and of itself. Whereas, in reality, disparate impact exists as a matter of political expediency. Its not a doctrine that should be adopted. Its one that may be necessary to adopt when real intentions and real motives are concealed.

He's convinced himself that a contentious (re: Clarence Thomas and crew) legal precedent is actually a moral, philosophical, or logical position to hold.

Disparate impact is a matter of practicality. It isn't how a person should base their life or interactions with other human beings.

I recently bought the 2020 Macbook Air after breaking my 2017 (18?) Macbook Pro. No touch bar, new "magic" keyboard.

Keyboard is great. I think I still prefer the chiclet keys but these are close enough. Function row is far superior to the touch bar. The touch ID button is great too. Makes using 1password much more convenient.

Small battery (which means fast charge times) and long battery life are huge for me. I've got 8 1/2 hours remaining on 91% after >1 hour of usage.

I unfortunately haven't done any local development on the machine. I ssh into a linux machine on the network. But I don't think the fans ever spin up. And it never feels hot to the touch.

I spent two weeks doing remote dev work with a 2012 Macbook Air and another week doing remote dev work with the 2020 Macbook Air. Since processing power was irrelevant my experience between the two was mixed. The 2020 Air has a better trackpad and screen. But the 2012 Air has the better keyboard. I could have used the 2012 for the rest of my life had it had a better screen.

Anyway... just some thoughts for anyone looking for a new macbook.

Also, spare me the asinine "you're free to speak on public property" responses. Public discourse has de-facto moved into private custody. There is no "escaping it".

I, for one, welcome corporate censorship of the public discourse. Because if there's anyone I can trust its my local, multi-national brand. I love you brand!

In order of importance (applicable to physical and mental activity).

1. https://www.managementstudyguide.com/goal-setting-theory-mot...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_periodization

3. https://www.sports-training-adviser.com/recoveryprinciple.ht...

4. https://positivepsychology.com/positive-self-talk/

For testing you can set "CELERY_ALWAYS_EAGER" to "True" in your config.

I agree with you. Erlang is not as hard as people make it out to be. However...

Look at this piece of code: https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/blob/master/src/r3.erl#L32-...

In this example the keyword "end" ends with "", ";", and "." all within 6 lines of each other.

In this example the keyword "ok" ends with "" and ";".

In this example `Self` "exclamation marks" `Ref`.

All of this is easily understood with some experience but you have to admit that `erlang.send(Self, Ref)` is much more easily understood than some symbol that has to be googled. And consider this, a junior dev is going to be overwhelmed with all the syntactic sugar. They're just learning how to define and call functions.

All of these issues matter if your goal is to on-board as many hobbyists and juniors as possible. (Which shouldn't be the goal of every language).

I'm very happy with Erlang. I don't want it to change.

Sure but I'm talking about on-boarding and generating developer interest. Appeal to junior developers and hobbyists is critical for large scale adoption. And like it or not a hobbyist's barriers to entry are different than a senior software engineer's.

I like erlang. But erlang's syntax doesn't do it any favors. Might as well use elixir. Still the beam.

I also don't think the beam's benefits are necessary for the vast majority of software which makes it perma-niche. "Why use erlang when I can use python, a database, and a distributed task queue?"

I also really like Elm so I was sad to see it in the poll position, but I also don't base my language choices off of someone's blog.

My initial response to this is... duh. How many governments have ordered people not to work. Is it surprising that all those people would then file for not working benefits?

Of course not. Its an artificial unemployment spike (provoked by very real, fundamental forces in the world i.e. covid-19).

It will be VERY interesting to watch how state governments react to this spike. The federal government has monopoly money but state governments are VERY MUCH concerned with debt levels.

We'll see how long these isolation orders last. States will have to chose between unemployment, pensions, welfare programs, transit operations, etc. I wonder who gets the axe first. You could very easily see states go bankrupt and whole classes of the social safety net depleted for a generation.

It has less to do with management style and more to do with governmental construction. New Zealand is a unitary state. The US is a federal state. There are concrete divisions of power and certain expectations of national power from both the people and the states (which hold separate, independent political power).

Again not making a value judgement. I think we agree that people preferring cash over stock options is understandable and normal. You should probably direct your comments to the OP.

I didn't make a value judgement. Don't read into malice that isn't there.

They used to be paid in stock... they wanted $15/hr instead.

And it doesn't work for housing and about a million other goods and services that have been subject to price controls.

Just look at California's water shortage issues. Water prices are basically fixed so huge farms suck up all the water to irrigate a desert while ordinary people are told to stop bathing. Seems like an externality of price regulation, no?

Because its the natural state of all life on earth. Its the condition every living thing has to struggle against. It can be fought individually, it can be fought collectively, but it still has to be fought and even then you are not guaranteed success.

Think of all the people in conflict areas who could live a decent life were they allowed to simply be in peace. Think of all the people who have lived good lives and then been displaced by horrific natural disasters. Its not an issue of economics. Its just a fact of reality.

> Of all things though, I'm not sure that it's worth the effort relative to other things.

So its not easily solved...

We should be in the mines like the REAL working class. Its only through forced self-oppression that we can throw off the shackles of our own oppression.