I just canceled Netflix because of their shenanigans actually. It was "only" a $2 increase, but that's an 18% increase. Their offerings haven't increased 18% since the last price hike, nor has my salary, so fuck it, I'm out.
Look, everybody knows voter ID laws are reasonable. Everybody also knows that minorities and economically disadvantaged are the most likely not to have IDs. Both sides overplay the importance of the issue, one as civil rights, the other as protecting elections that are not at all falling victim to in-person voting fraud. There is a middle ground. If you donâ(TM)t have an ID, bring a bill, or something with your name on it, just like youâ(TM)d have to do to establish residency. This doesnâ(TM)t have to be difficult.
Also, credible citations for fake Texas laws desperately needed.
You would rather other people act to protect you and die
Not the OP, but as a veteran who was willing to die to protect other people, fuck yes thatâ(TM)s what I want and expect from LE. Donâ(TM)t like it, get another job.
Adding to that irony is that $10/mo is the price of an entire monthly LTE plan in many countries, including tethering, unlimited voice and text, unmetered messaging apps, etc. (albeit not unlimited data). The price of telecom service in the US and the rampant nickel-and-diming is outrageous from a consumer-centric perspective, although obviously it's outstanding from an investor perspective.
They *are* strictly ARM based â" they use a strict superset of the ARM specifications. They add on a few of their own SoC features and performance enhancements, but anything written for an ARM processor will run on Appleâ(TM)s Ax processors. Itâ(TM)s not like Apple uses unique instruction sets or anything.
They already have it, and have for years. Developing for iOS means code is first compiled for x86/x64 to test on the desktop, and then its recompiled with the ARM toolchain when you deploy to a device. Their development pipeline is relatively platform agnostic. Xcode kind of sucks as an IDE though.
Iâ(TM)m fine with it as long as I can use off-the-shelf components to build my own. Right now, Iâ(TM)m not aware of that potential for an ARM based system, but that could change I suppose. I donâ(TM)t really want to be locked into Appleâ(TM)s hardware though.
Itâ(TM)s as sustainable as anything else that lots of people need just one of. There are countless examples: a home, a piece of sturdy furniture, a tool, etc. These are all sustainable for as long as we keep making new people.
On the one hand, I have no problem with people leaving their pets or children briefly unattended in a car with the A/C on. At the same time, making âoedog/child modeâ a feature adds liability when (not if) things go wrong, so Iâ(TM)m not sure why Tesla (or anyone else) would want to do this. The first time someoneâ(TM)s battery or A/C fails and it leads to a fatality, thereâ(TM)s going to be a public uproar and lots of negative attention.
Probably a bit cheaper and simpler to just grow them in a fluid with neutral buoyancy. Maybe thatâ(TM)s not possible, but Iâ(TM)m not going to take the word of the guy selling me space launches.
I don't know, I can think of counterexamples of government subsidies working to promote diversity of view rather than a platform for its own propaganda, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, and arguably even things like Federal Student Aid and the Postal Service. In fact, the Postal Service could be viewed as the first government subsidized social network in many ways.
Now I'm not sure that subsidizing social media is a worthwhile effort, but I think it is an interesting idea, particularly if society wants to establish an independent, third-party social network that's not profit-driven. At the same time, I would have serious concerns about how well data could be protected. To use the Postal Service example above, not only is data (mail) routinely lost and intercepted by malicious third parties, but the USPS also has broad discretion in inspecting and opening many communications.
Personally I don't use social media because I don't trust any of the major players with my data. (I also take steps to actively thwart efforts to track my online habits.) I recognize, however, that I am missing out on the ability to easily share information with friends and family. Even if being on social media isn't worthwhile to me as it exists today, it clearly *is* worthwhile to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people, so I think the issue is something that needs attention and carefully considered efforts to improve the status quo, including (and maybe especially) ideas that seem far-fetched.
Seems like you totally won that battle. Reminds me of this one time I put cyanide on the pizza and pretended like I loved being starved of oxygen so that nobody else would eat it. Unfortunately Little Joe thought I was bluffing, so his last meal came with a healthy dose of crow. Not enough to counteract the cyanide, mind, but enough for me to notice his regret before we both succumbed to drowning out of water. Some things you gotta teach the hard way.
Exactly. In an ideal world, I would love to bike to work, and have tried it off and on in the past, but:
1) Safety - I'm not hugely risk averse, but cycling injuries seem to be more a question of when than if, and minor mishaps that would be inconsequential in a car can easily be catastrophic on a bicycle. Driver blindness to bicycles and motorcycles is a real thing, and the potential jeopardy is multiplied when a small miscalculation can send you flying through the air. 2) Weather - Sometimes the temperature difference between morning and evening can vary by +/-20F, or more. That's to say nothing of precipitation, which requires its own set of accommodations, preparations, and adaptability. Storms are often unpredictable in spring and summer months, and braking is often unpredictable in wet weather. 3) Hygiene - Workplace showers, where they exist, are often contested during the time they're most needed, and it seems like there's always mildew, slow-draining basins, or something else to make me regret my decision to use them. Also I don't want to take 2-3 showers every day, especially in the winter when dry skin is already an issue. 4) Time - I average about 12MPH on bike, and 23MPH by car, including time stopped at lights or in traffic. 5) Mechanical Issues - Flat tires are an inevitability of biking, and chain derailments are a close second. It's less of an issue to deal with them when I'm out on a weekend ride, but when I'm on a schedule it's just one more thing I need to prepare and allow time for.
True, I have been able to appreciate some stunning mornings with beautiful weather, but I've also frozen my arse off, narrowly avoided harrowing collisions, replaced brand new inner tubes twice on the same day, been utterly drenched and splashed with filthy road water, gotten stuck in a freak snowstorm, had to ride home with no headlight in the dark from a dead battery (both dangerous and illegal where I lived), and broken a pedal resulting in smashing my nuts on the top tube and walking my bike the better part of 5 miles home. It's just not worth it to me.
I mean, even if we except your anti-dickhead theory, who is being protected from dickheads? The people who least need protection, it seems, the biggest dickheads of all.
Why not go back to using glass? It worked great for hundreds of years, itâ(TM)s biodegradable, recyclable, and reusable, and makes a good improvised weapon in a pinch!
The police are offering to help out for the holidays, so just go ahead and bring that totally not stolen iPhone that stopped working in to your friendly neighborhood police station and theyâ(TM)ll get right on it.
Property taxes are only regressive in practice if people buy less house than they can afford. In reality, many people buy the most they can afford, and you seldom see high-income homeowners living in low-income areas.
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I just canceled Netflix because of their shenanigans actually. It was "only" a $2 increase, but that's an 18% increase. Their offerings haven't increased 18% since the last price hike, nor has my salary, so fuck it, I'm out.
Look, everybody knows voter ID laws are reasonable. Everybody also knows that minorities and economically disadvantaged are the most likely not to have IDs. Both sides overplay the importance of the issue, one as civil rights, the other as protecting elections that are not at all falling victim to in-person voting fraud. There is a middle ground. If you donâ(TM)t have an ID, bring a bill, or something with your name on it, just like youâ(TM)d have to do to establish residency. This doesnâ(TM)t have to be difficult.
Also, credible citations for fake Texas laws desperately needed.
You lose all privacy in prison. Everything is (potentially) recorded, read, or monitored.
Please send me 18% if your income, since itâ(TM)s not a lot to ask.
You can demand anything you like. Doesnâ(TM)t mean anybody will listen.
Thereâ(TM)s no reason fines canâ(TM)t be progressive.
Not the OP, but as a veteran who was willing to die to protect other people, fuck yes thatâ(TM)s what I want and expect from LE. Donâ(TM)t like it, get another job.
Adding to that irony is that $10/mo is the price of an entire monthly LTE plan in many countries, including tethering, unlimited voice and text, unmetered messaging apps, etc. (albeit not unlimited data). The price of telecom service in the US and the rampant nickel-and-diming is outrageous from a consumer-centric perspective, although obviously it's outstanding from an investor perspective.
They *are* strictly ARM based â" they use a strict superset of the ARM specifications. They add on a few of their own SoC features and performance enhancements, but anything written for an ARM processor will run on Appleâ(TM)s Ax processors. Itâ(TM)s not like Apple uses unique instruction sets or anything.
They already have it, and have for years. Developing for iOS means code is first compiled for x86/x64 to test on the desktop, and then its recompiled with the ARM toolchain when you deploy to a device. Their development pipeline is relatively platform agnostic. Xcode kind of sucks as an IDE though.
Iâ(TM)m fine with it as long as I can use off-the-shelf components to build my own. Right now, Iâ(TM)m not aware of that potential for an ARM based system, but that could change I suppose. I donâ(TM)t really want to be locked into Appleâ(TM)s hardware though.
iOS is Posix. Itâ(TM)s the same OS as MacOS, just with mobile frameworks and ARM instead of x86.
Itâ(TM)s as sustainable as anything else that lots of people need just one of. There are countless examples: a home, a piece of sturdy furniture, a tool, etc. These are all sustainable for as long as we keep making new people.
Tell that to the 16M people who get cosmetic surgery every year â" and thatâ(TM)s just in the US.
On the one hand, I have no problem with people leaving their pets or children briefly unattended in a car with the A/C on. At the same time, making âoedog/child modeâ a feature adds liability when (not if) things go wrong, so Iâ(TM)m not sure why Tesla (or anyone else) would want to do this. The first time someoneâ(TM)s battery or A/C fails and it leads to a fatality, thereâ(TM)s going to be a public uproar and lots of negative attention.
Probably a bit cheaper and simpler to just grow them in a fluid with neutral buoyancy. Maybe thatâ(TM)s not possible, but Iâ(TM)m not going to take the word of the guy selling me space launches.
I don't know, I can think of counterexamples of government subsidies working to promote diversity of view rather than a platform for its own propaganda, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, and arguably even things like Federal Student Aid and the Postal Service. In fact, the Postal Service could be viewed as the first government subsidized social network in many ways.
Now I'm not sure that subsidizing social media is a worthwhile effort, but I think it is an interesting idea, particularly if society wants to establish an independent, third-party social network that's not profit-driven. At the same time, I would have serious concerns about how well data could be protected. To use the Postal Service example above, not only is data (mail) routinely lost and intercepted by malicious third parties, but the USPS also has broad discretion in inspecting and opening many communications.
Personally I don't use social media because I don't trust any of the major players with my data. (I also take steps to actively thwart efforts to track my online habits.) I recognize, however, that I am missing out on the ability to easily share information with friends and family. Even if being on social media isn't worthwhile to me as it exists today, it clearly *is* worthwhile to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people, so I think the issue is something that needs attention and carefully considered efforts to improve the status quo, including (and maybe especially) ideas that seem far-fetched.
Seems like you totally won that battle. Reminds me of this one time I put cyanide on the pizza and pretended like I loved being starved of oxygen so that nobody else would eat it. Unfortunately Little Joe thought I was bluffing, so his last meal came with a healthy dose of crow. Not enough to counteract the cyanide, mind, but enough for me to notice his regret before we both succumbed to drowning out of water. Some things you gotta teach the hard way.
Exactly. In an ideal world, I would love to bike to work, and have tried it off and on in the past, but:
1) Safety - I'm not hugely risk averse, but cycling injuries seem to be more a question of when than if, and minor mishaps that would be inconsequential in a car can easily be catastrophic on a bicycle. Driver blindness to bicycles and motorcycles is a real thing, and the potential jeopardy is multiplied when a small miscalculation can send you flying through the air.
2) Weather - Sometimes the temperature difference between morning and evening can vary by +/-20F, or more. That's to say nothing of precipitation, which requires its own set of accommodations, preparations, and adaptability. Storms are often unpredictable in spring and summer months, and braking is often unpredictable in wet weather.
3) Hygiene - Workplace showers, where they exist, are often contested during the time they're most needed, and it seems like there's always mildew, slow-draining basins, or something else to make me regret my decision to use them. Also I don't want to take 2-3 showers every day, especially in the winter when dry skin is already an issue.
4) Time - I average about 12MPH on bike, and 23MPH by car, including time stopped at lights or in traffic.
5) Mechanical Issues - Flat tires are an inevitability of biking, and chain derailments are a close second. It's less of an issue to deal with them when I'm out on a weekend ride, but when I'm on a schedule it's just one more thing I need to prepare and allow time for.
True, I have been able to appreciate some stunning mornings with beautiful weather, but I've also frozen my arse off, narrowly avoided harrowing collisions, replaced brand new inner tubes twice on the same day, been utterly drenched and splashed with filthy road water, gotten stuck in a freak snowstorm, had to ride home with no headlight in the dark from a dead battery (both dangerous and illegal where I lived), and broken a pedal resulting in smashing my nuts on the top tube and walking my bike the better part of 5 miles home. It's just not worth it to me.
I mean, even if we except your anti-dickhead theory, who is being protected from dickheads? The people who least need protection, it seems, the biggest dickheads of all.
Why not go back to using glass? It worked great for hundreds of years, itâ(TM)s biodegradable, recyclable, and reusable, and makes a good improvised weapon in a pinch!
The police are offering to help out for the holidays, so just go ahead and bring that totally not stolen iPhone that stopped working in to your friendly neighborhood police station and theyâ(TM)ll get right on it.
Property taxes are only regressive in practice if people buy less house than they can afford. In reality, many people buy the most they can afford, and you seldom see high-income homeowners living in low-income areas.
I mean, there may be middle income people living in RVs and trailers, but the article is specifically about low income people.
RV != Trailer. If anything, RVs are even smaller and less suitable for a permanent residence than a typical trailer.