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Family homes rarely exceed $13M but farms and ranches can get up there. Seems like it should be easy to exclude agricultural land, but there's second-order consequences.

If farms and ranches are the best place to hide family wealth, then family wealth will pour into agricultural land. That inflates values and pushes out the actual ranchers and farmers. If farming is just a byproduct of your tax-avoidance strategy then you are unlikely to try too hard at it. We actually need farms, and nobody wants them to become tax-avoidance shells.

NYT did a great article on True World Foods: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sush...

Archive version: https://archive.ph/ZAy6D

Pod version: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sunday-read-the-un...

YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqHuAJYdr8

  it thinks it knows how and then produce good looking code at a glance but with wrong logic.

This is so accurate. I still like copilot and I might even pay for it, but I will never trust the logic. It always wrong in a way that _almost_ looks right.

This has always been Amazon's strategy. Amazon is not a server company, an ecommerce company, a grocer, or any of the other seemingly random things they do.

The common thread running though all of their lines of business is to create businesses with complex problems, solve those problems incredibly well, then sell those solutions to other companies. Amazon uses themselves as their first-and-best customer [1]. AWS, Prime and all of their best solutions work in this way. The whole company is organized to support this strategy.

The fact that Amazon is expanding their warehouse capabilities beyond their needs and building deeper into the stack by getting into real estate development is a natural continuation of this strategy.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2016/the-amazon-tax/

If you have all the cash you need and a bare lot in Vancouver with services set up, you're still two years away from getting shovels in the ground. The permitting is straight out of a Joseph Heller novel.

A while back there was an article here from someone who moderated their social media use by throttling the connection speed for facebook - with the site getting slower the more time you spent browsing.

At the time I read that article, my achilles heel was Instagram. The Instagram mobile site has most of the content I care about but a pretty poor experience on a mobile browser. I can still get messages and see the things I care about. I can't use it for more than a few minutes without getting frustrated. Stories barely work, you can only watch 4 or 5 before the video player hangs up. Honestly it's perfect, and the discussion here on HN helped me realize that a degraded experience was a better experience for social media. Using the mobile site helped me turn a bad habit into a healthy one.

I use the same strategy for Twitter but their mobile browser experience is better. Twitter can still be habit-forming without the app.

I don't know anything about this industry but I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I have always wondered how the narration actually works, what the job is like. Sometimes I can hear the changes and it opened up a whole world of me wondering what that process looks like. This was an excellent description, thank you!

Pemberton had historically high snowfall last month, followed by a massive rain event. If the roof didn't have issues in January it's probably not going to have issues for a very long time. Pemberton is in a rain shadow. Owl creek gets some snow, more than town, but not much. Much less than Whistler.

Fully agree on the fires. I live in the woods on a steep slope and it's not ideal. Pemberton has insane fire risk. The pool might help with that, you can get agricultural water cannons and use the pool water to soak the roof and surrounding land.

I went fully remote about 8 years ago.

About 3 years ago I realized I turn into a hermit. Being home alone all day is bad for me. The problem is that I live in a small mountain town now and my company is fully remote as well.

I rented an office that I share with a really close friend who does the same kind of work. We set up a sweet little kitchen with our ridiculous coffee stuff. It's less than 5 mins from my house. I get to see my friend every day, and we can go for walks and talk about work stuff. Our dogs hang out while we work. It's in a commercial space but I honestly think renting a residential apartment would have worked just as well.

I think this going to become common.

There's real value in being around people who care about the same things, but it doesn't actually matter if you all work for the same company. There's value in separating home from work, but I still want to share my work life with friends and former coworkers that I really enjoy being around.

This article is great.

The one thing I would add is that once you pick your base color, the lighter shades are probably going to be low saturation and the darker shades are going to be high saturation.

Battery life is easier to market than an acronym that sounds like it's either related to trucks or sheep.

RAM eats battery. Apple has made a strategic decision to pretend RAM doesn't exist, ship underpowered hardware, then brag about the battery life.

This is also the reason RAM is not listed on iPhone specs.

If I remember correctly the iPhone Pro 12 Max has twice as much RAM as the other 12 models and it's nowhere in the marketing materials. This is not accidental, it's a fundamental part of Apple's strategy.

EDIT: The max has 6GB and the rest of the line has 4GB. That is not twice as much. I did not remember correctly.

That is... exactly what the author is advocating.

The people who like to work in offices will still work in offices. There will be more of them, they will be smaller, and they will be wherever their employees want to live. Some will be official, and some will be coworking spaces.

#BADA55 - hex for some key lime pie in the web UI

Agreed, most of them are completely open. Here's the best effort I have seen to document all the parallel efforts:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9o...

Also https://github.com/Corona-Trace

This is a good thing, and I think in the absence of this solution we would see intrusive solutions backed by governments and mandated by law. I do have two questions:

Is there a plan to verify test results? Are public health authorities in small countries/regions expected to build and maintain an app and a server from scratch?

Airpods dominate because when you put them in your ears, they work immediately. They also have a great case, which means you usually have them with you when you need them.

I recently stayed at a hotel built with this quality. Everything was rusty, from the door hinges to the windows, to the front gate. There were cracks in the foundation that shot up the walls.

I asked the manager when they opened and he told me they had been open for less than a year. The building was less than 3 years old.

It's worth listening to the podcast that the screenwriter put out alongside the show.

He discusses the decision to collapse the scientists into one character, and explains why he chose to do it this way. Whether or not you agree it's interesting to see the though process that goes into a decision like this.

  PLAYBOY: But there’s a catch. You have stated that you will scan e-mail in order to target advertisements based on its content. As a San Jose Mercury News columnist wrote, “If Google ogles your e-mail, could Ashcroft be far behind?”

  BRIN: When people first read about this feature, it sounded alarming, but it isn’t. The ads correlate to the message you’re reading at the time. We’re not keeping your mail and mining it or anything like that. And no information whatsoever goes out.

Is this still true?

Coaching raises scores on both aptitude and intelligence tests.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1984-16352-001

https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2007-03270-007

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/1097-4679(19...

My mom is a professor, all of her DVDs are low-distribution educational and historical documentaries that she can use in her classroom. Most are not available anywhere else.

I don't think I have seen a Netflix DVD advertisement in a decade.

I would bet that the majority of those 2.7M subscribers joined before Netflix streaming began and never saw a reason to cancel.

Another bonus to rolling -- it is initiated with your core, so it uses large powerful muscles. Once the roll is initiated you can feed your kick and your pull with that momentum. You end up using more powerful muscles to feed your stroke, so you can pull harder without wearing out your arms.

It's pretty clear that Apple is using a dominant platform position to raise prices and block competition.

By raising prices and blocking access to competing services, Apple is acting with malice to consumer welfare.

He needs to be giving these to professional parkour athletes.

Nobody wants to run around looking dorky. That would be fun for about 5 minutes. Absolutely not worth what these cost.

Start doing double backflips and 15 foot gaps and you have a sport.

The Intercontinental and the Serena are the main hotels that house journalists, pilots and aid workers. They have both been attacked multiple times.

If you need to travel to Kabul, as many people do, there are no truly safe options. Both hotels are beautiful and well guarded. They are also high-profile targets.

If your employer doesn't have access to a lower-profile private compound with private security then you are going to the Serena or the Intercontinental.

Facebook has strict controls against impersonating Zuckerberg in ads for a very good reason. Facebook has had those controls for years and they have nothing to do with politics. This is the reason you can't impersonate Zuckerberg in ads:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/technology/fake-mark-zuck...

Banning ads mentioning Zuckerberg is easy, so it makes sense that system works well. Imagine building a review system to combat fraudulent political advertising on Facebook, how difficult and complex that would be.

Comparing this to the Cambridge Analytica breach or a HIPPA violation is disingenuous.

This is the information that was possibly was exposed: https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people