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If your taxes for the rich are too high, they will all take their ball and go home - to one of their many homes in a country that doesn't have high taxes. Or just declare their superyaught anchored in international waters as their "home". With "business travel" as their reason to spend time (maybe all of the time) on US soil.

When you have that much money, there's not really much society can do to touch you.

It doesn't work like that.

They broadcast a powerful radio signal on the GPS frequency. You might have to be within 10 feet for it to completely drown out the real GPS frequency, but the waves don't stop they just spread out and get "thinner" with distance. If it completely blocks the signal at 10 feet, it will severely reduce accuracy further out than that. Likely everyone within line of sight of your car will lose accuracy on their GPS.

And that would include airplanes, line of sight is a really long distance up above your car. Airplanes use GPS for critical functions including making sure they don't crash into the ground when they're flying through clouds / rain / fog so you could potentially cause serious problems. Most likely force the airplane to land in a different city — because they will not land if their altitude equipment isn't working... yes they have other ways of measuring altitude but all of them are unreliable, which is why they have GPS. You're taking away one layer of their patchwork system of landing safely and if too many layers are gone then they abandon the landing and fly elsewhere - happened to a friend of mine recently, turned a quick 2 hour flight home into an 18 hour trip.

My comment was about the low power models which only works for few feet

There's no such thing.

There are some awesome games I grew up playing that I can't run anymore. Like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5PTq7vXA4

The big one for me is Time Machine lost the ability to delete that has already been backed up.

So if you work with very large files and they fills your backup drive... that's it. You need to either buy a new drive or erase it completely (losing all your historical backups). With the old Time Machine you could go through it and delete half a terabyte of data that never really needed to be backed up.

Generally there are few privacy friendly/Foss browsers on IOS.

Um, Safari is so privacy friendly that Google regularly asks me if I'm human. For example it has "private relay" which is similar to TOR* so trackers don't even know your IP address — combine that with blocking third party cookies (and even some first party cookies) by default and providing false data to fight fingerprinting even if you don't block trackers entirely - and blocking them entirely is as simple as installing an extension. Private Relay also adds a layer of encryption on top of DNS queries and otherwise unencrypted http traffic.... so your ISP/Cellular provider/Work/School/abusive husband/etc can't track you

99.99% of the Safari's code is FOSS — dual licensed under LGPL and BSD.

It's not the browser I use - pretty lacking in the feature department, but it's definitely more pro-privacy than Brave or FireFox. I've never had to jump through a captcha to use Google in those browsers.

(* if anything, it's better than TOR... with that service there's a risk your entry/exit nodes are tracking you. With Private Relay it's always one of Apple's servers for the entry node and a reputable cloud company like Akamai for the exit node. Both would have to be compromised in order to identify you... maybe a nation state can do that, but a big data tracking company definitely can't)

A jump from 8k to 11k installs is nothing.

It's about a third. Imagine if your income went up by 30% in 24 hours, I reckon you'd be pretty happy about that.

Also - it tends to take months for a new version of iOS to reach a large number of users, and years to reach everyone. So a rapid growth rate (probably not 30%, but still fast) is likely to be sustained over quite a while.

I wonder how they’ll enforce it.

AFAIK if a customer has a serious complaint, AirBnb will do everything they can to find somewhere else for the customer to stay. And of course, they'll kick the host off the platform.

It's pretty common these days for guests to look for cameras.

It was banned with an exception for common rooms and the entry door/hallway. Now those are banned too.

Yeah I agree pretty confusing - talk about moving the goal posts.

Having said that, I do think dustyData highlighted the two defining flaws in the US government:

Money has too much influence over politicians. Many other countries have laws that limit how much funding a politician can receive from the private sector. Some countries that don't have those limits are adopting them.

The critical difference between "Congress" and "Parliament" is the separation between Congress and the President does not exist under a typical parliamentary system. Under that system the Prime Minister is just the person parliament voted to be in charge and make individual decisions where you can't afford to wait for hundreds of people to get involved. I think your presidential system is the reason your government can't pass any laws lately.

It's quite rare for a parliamentary government to struggle to pass laws - it does happen, because there are checks and balances, but it tends to be more functional than the current US government. Under a parliamentary system, if the parliament isn't happy with the prime minister... they just vote to kick them out and put someone new in charge. They don't shut down the government by refusing to let anything get done until the next election (which might leave everyone in the same position).

my team is always right, the other is always wrong

Um... that's a perfect example of why you need to avoid cultural references when use analogies.

When you said "like football" I thought you meant "any time you face a challenge, pass the ball to someone else". Where I come from, that's what "like football" means. And it's not necessarily a negative thing, maybe the new person with the ball won't struggle with the same challenge... and when they inevitably face a challenge of their own they might pass the ball back to you... with your original challenge now long gone.

If history is anything to go by, the initial report is often the tip of the iceberg.

I wouldn't be surprised if they announce next month that oh, actually, all 80 million were compromised.

And then they'll come back a month later and say "oh, and another 500 million users, who don't have an account with us and didn't even know we were tracking them, yeah they were also compromised".

Of course, that doesn't happen every time, but it's pretty common. I wouldn't trust Roku to fully know what's going on yet. There's a good chance they are assuming it was credential stuffing but don't actually have proof of that. Hackers usually try to cover their tracks which makes any investigation difficult.

There's nothing wrong with metatags - those are great.

The real issue is editors are expected to give multiple titles to every article. The publishing software uses A/B Testing to figure out which one performs the best, and then stops using the other titles. It's standard practice because it effectively gets more people to read the article.

Editors also monitor which ones failed and over time learn how to write good titles. Where "good" is "generates the most traffic". A perfect example of what gets measured gets managed.

Often one of the original titles is written by the actual journalist - not the editor - and those tend to be a more accurate description of the content. Unfortunately they also don't perform very well. With most software that title is used as the URL, which doesn't change (because Google would penalise them for changing the URL).

The link to this article was "us-defence-announcement-raises-questions-on-aukus-anniversary". Honestly that's not a great title either, I can see why it failed to perform well and didn't survive A/B testing.

This article was written by an Australian ABC journalist - they are primarily government funded and the News Media Bargaining Code doesn't apply to them.

(their non-government funding mostly comes from creating content which they sell, for example Bluey).

They're not really sunsetting it, they were purchased by amazon six months ago and created a replacement called CodeWhisperer.

With context switching - I use a hybrid of GTD, instead a single system for all your tasks I have a separate GTD for each project.

Part of the reason I do that is privacy. If I'm hit by a bus, all my projects won't die with me. They'll just be handed over to someone else... and it would really help if that other person has access to all my notes. But I don't want them to have access to literally all my notes, just the ones relevant to them.

I've never been hit by a bus, but I have occasionally decided to stop managing a project before it's finished. And being able to simply hand everything over to another person has allowed me to do that in situations where I would have otherwise been compelled to keep working on something I don't want to work on. For me, the ability to hand off a project easily is critical.

Just try to use Joplin or Obsidian with tasks plugin for that.

Those are far too restrictive. Outlines are a great tool, but they are not the right tool for every job. The best thing about GTD is flexibility - you can do whatever works for you and the project at hand.

Personally I use a folder. Sometimes that's a digital folder on a cloud service, or sometimes it's a dead-tree folder.

The "good standing" rule is the most problematic one - but I don't see it lasting.

Keep in mind just last week Apple described Epic Games as "verifiably untrustworthy"... only to immediately backflip and decide to trust Epic. I can see the same thing happening here.

Two continuous years and a million existing customers is way too high a bar. It's literally impossible for any new developer to meet that criteria unless they first spend years deploying apps inside Apple's walled garden and the entire point of the DMA is to get rid of that wall.

Euros* which are worth more than dollars

1 Euro is currently 1.09 US Dollars. So technically "more" but realistically they're about equal.