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A core idea is that a house sells for a positive value. But that presumption is likely false. Houses at unattractive places in poor condition might actually represent a negative value.

This reminds me of an incident in Vancouver, where the city sought to expropriate single room occupancy (SRO) hotels (read: slums). They felt that each property was worth negative value, but they estimated the value as $1 because:

We are unaware of any instances of property being transferred with a negative value. Therefore, a value of $1.00 is concluded for the subject property with the knowledge that a purchaser would be required to assume the financial obligations with either holding or demolishing and redeveloping the property.

[1] https://council.vancouver.ca/20191106/documents/cfsc2.pdf

It can depend a lot on the shape of your batch to my understanding. A small batch job can be tasked out a lot quicker than a large batch job waiting for just the right moment where capacity fits.

I'm not familiar with this app but based on the read, it sounds like they're essentially relying on someone to sneak into the target's phone, install an apk with a 'Settings' logo, where you grant it all permissions (I assume the installer facilitates the process of manually granting full permissions for each permissions type and disabling battery optimization). Android does allow you to effectively delegate full permissions to an app like that, albeit in a manual way.

The thing I found most remarkable is that house prices there are not much less than in Seoul proper (that's what I was told at least), which just seemed utterly absurd - what market forces could drive prices of a farmer village (because that's what it is, really - although the houses looked nice) surrounded by landmines and that is a pain in the ass to get in and out of to that of a first world metropolis?

You are literally paid to live there and be a human flagpole through a tax-free salary of $82,000 USD for agriculture (as of 2013, likely higher now), as well as free education, agricultural incentives and preferential tax treatment. [1] On top of that, there's only a handful of homes, effectively amounting to an artificial housing scarcity.

[1] https://modernfarmer.com/2013/11/guarded-growing-farm-centri...

The one that I frequently hear of as a layman (not a lawyer) is Toronto Pearson Airport's Preclearance, which has a very strict and narrow view of the TN Status eligible occupations.

I remember at the start of COVID, scoring a Steelcase Leap v2 from a guy who was scooping up office chairs from failed Silicon Valley startups and hauling them up to Canada. Super chill dude, and totally upfront about basically making a 100% profit margin by gluing on new armrests to these wholesale fire-sale finds. It really highlighted the interesting economics of the time - a lot of businesses probably thrived just by redistributing stuff from regions in freefall. You have to wonder how much of the "supply chain" was actually just people moving stuff from places that were dying to places still kicking. Kind of a morbid redistributive supply chain, when you think about it.

In Canada, they use gross income instead of net income for student grants.

Google Maps in many urban areas is actually aerial imagery. Satellite imagery serves a different use case - often for difficult to access areas where aerial photography is not viable or permitted.

I love Miniflux. I found TT-RSS to be much too cluttered and I enjoyed Miniflux's focus on minimalism & privacy, but that's a personal opinion. It also doesn't require a mobile client: it works just fine in a mobile browser, a big deal when most Android apps for self-hosted RSS readers are either ugly or unmaintained.

Setting up Miniflux was problematic because documentation around its pSQL & environmental variables aren't too well-documented or universal in implementation.

However, I've noticed a lot of people really don't like Miniflux because it is very minimal and doesn't try to do everything.

Lufthansa: Where fuel surcharges don't match up with reality.

DuckDuckGo is just Bing, with the optionality of geolocation by country.

This website unfortunately has a reputation for the extreme levels of spam employed used to promote the platform.

Is the situation improved by using the Privacy Pass add-on [1] from Cloudflare?

Supposedly:

Privacy Pass is a Chrome/Firefox browser extension to make browsing Cloudflare-protected websites a better experience for users. In particular, if a user IP address is designated to have a poor reputation then the user may have to solve a Cloudflare CAPTCHA page before they can gain access to such websites. Privacy Pass uses elliptic curve cryptography to generate 'anonymous' tokens after a single CAPTCHA page is solved. These tokens can be used in future engagements with Cloudflare websites to prevent having to solve more CAPTCHAs. The extension generates 30 tokens for each CAPTCHA solution and thus can be used to reduce CAPTCHA pages for each user by a similar factor.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500199265...

Still protects you from hijacking at public wifi hotspots. Doesn't let you watch geolocked content (US Netflix), and probably doesn't let you torrent either.

What's the underlying technology? WireGuard (via BoringTun)?

I see there's two tiers, Warp and Warp+. Supposedly Warp+ has better/optimal routing that lets you avoid local ISP congestion. It's $7 CAD/month. This would be pretty cool on desktop for gaming, etc.

Donation bins for nonperishable goods are there for a few reasons.

1. Promote Awareness of the Food Bank, and to create connections with either potential clients or donors. Having a presence that you walk by on your way to buy lettuce can have a long term benefit on name recognition.

2. Improve store relations. Donors buy products from the store at full-markup, and the store has more incentive to continue to support its own community initiatives from the reminder that the store supports the food bank. Grocery stores tend to have some autonomy on the causes they can support.

3. Some people genuinely do not like the idea of donating money to the food bank. They prefer the physical act of buying something to donate, whether it be because they're worried about mismanagement of funds, the money going towards paying staff, or wanting to have a direct impact on the program itself (I only want my money to go towards food). Some people limit their contributions to stuff that's about to expire in a month from quarterly pantry clearing, or when they're about to move.

On a side note, some people don't want to end up on a fundraising list or hassled for donations. Cans are effectively anonymous. A small donation of $10 to a food bank that sends out quarterly fundraising mailouts can mean $6 of your donation went into fundraising.

I would be surprised why game developers and publishers don't cancel out old keys from free giveaways to prevent hoarding and reselling then.

2. Tactically/strategically reselling keys legitimately acquired cheaper (giveaways, review keys, differentiated pricing between markets)

Key reselling from giveaways could be mitigated if we somehow figured out a way to make keys expire shortly after the giveaway period (ie, keys expire 5 days after the giveaway ends).

I'm not aware if Steam or other marketplaces have this functionality yet.

I would appreciate if you transparently disclose your pricing instead of making me register to see pricing.

Cloudflare uses a reverse proxy design for its CDN features.

Furthermore, in Canada (Federal), deputy returning officers are chosen by the party or candidate received the most votes in the last election and poll clerk's are chosen by the party or candidate that came in second in the last election.

In practice though, a lot of folks are hired afterwards through the nonpartisan process.

I saw Derrel Fincher, a Oklahoma House Representative, wrote a comment against the price cap removal. [1]

This was relatively interesting since I've never seen a politician participate in such a niche request for comment process.

[1] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-org-renewal-18mar19/...

A balloon at 50,000 feet rapidly descending doesn't fit the bill at all?

To be perfectly fair, a good chunk of VPN providers primarily see P2P/bulk downloading and streaming traffic.

Ordinary web browsing probably isn't a significant part of VPN traffic when you think about it.

Agree it would reduce bandwidth costs, but there's also a cost to maintaining such infrastructure.

Others say they’ve seen white, Tic-Tac-shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind, and no exhaust.

These sound like weather balloons to me. I don't think most engineers or academy graduates are trained in meteorology either.

Not that I'm saying this is the definite answer or that I am somehow correctly inferring all of this. I'm just proposing that legitimate explanations exist.

Medicine is an interesting case. The prioritization isn't so much on the health of medical practitioners and nurses, but on patient safety.

It is argued that patients have higher survivability rates when patient handoffs/shift changes are kept to a minimum. The focus has never been on the health of doctors, nurses, X-Ray technicians, etc. but from a public health perspective.

This has far-reaching consequences in itself.

People like to bring up the long hours that workers in Asian countries stay in the office or workplace for to justify long work weeks in North America and Europe when needed.

In practice, they drag out their work day (eat breakfast, take showers, go to the gym, go on their phone) and don't really work significant hours in the end. Their productivity in terms of economic value produced per hour is markedly lower than most western countries. [1]

Doing real work for 65-70 hours is markedly dissimilar and very detrimental to your health. Not even sure if most people could say they could last for a few more months.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/09/11/commentary/j...

Instruction on stress management and anger management is driven by parenting and school environments, not by state-mandated education and mandatory stress management workshops.

If you see your parents constantly on the verge of bankruptcy and lay-offs, struggling to pay off medical bills and resorting to shouting as a stress relief mechanism, then odds are, you'll grow up thinking this is the norm.

I sell forced rhubarb on the internet.

I wonder if the root cause for all of this is poor instruction on stress management and anger management.

I am starting to wonder if many of these issues are actually culturally driven, rather than biologically driven. American urban and industrial culture as-a-whole is one that prizes productivity, grinding, and individual work, rather than looser workdays, efficiency and teamwork.

I am aware there are exceptions.