Active Postbox user here. If I'm being honest, it's mainly a nice skin over Thunderbird, and inertia kept me on it all these years. With the wind down, I'll likely switch over to Thunderbird full time. I wonder how many other current users will do the same.
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A lot of People in “colder” countries with higher purchasing power (specially in Europe) still want to move to Barcelona now that they can work remotely. I wonder how this fact affects the prices compared to tourism apartments.
That sounds a lot like all the homeowners in California that have sold their significantly overvalued homes for 7 figures to move to states where real estate is a fraction of the cost. Generally it’s considered to be a factor in home price inflation in those cheaper states.
While not mentioned in the article, it’s worth mentioning that this also coincided with T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint. Specifically, T-Mobile made assurances that the acquisition would lower prices. Instead, within a couple years they exercised their newfound market power to increase prices a fair amount. The merger should have never been authorized.
AequitasOmnibus commented on Show HN: Slipshow – A presentation tool not based on slides github.com/panglesd/slips... · Posted by u/panglesd
The markdown to presentation approach is great. You can manage your slide (or slips) as code giving you history, offline collaboration, pull requests, etc. I don't think you can do that with most other presentation tools. I've used Marp [1] for traditional slides, and wrote a GitHub template repo that outputs the Marp HTML to GitHub Pages [2]. Similar workflows should be possible for Slipshow.
I've wanted to love MARP for years but the documentation is so limited (and tutorials so sparse) that building a presentation with any complexity beyond the basics is almost impossible unless you have a solid understanding of CSS and YAML front matter.
It's a shame, because I think the idea of MARP is revolutionary, but in practice PowerPoint (or even free alternatives like Google Slides) is easier to use.
AequitasOmnibus commented on Falling in love again with disposable cameras washingtonpost.com/style/... · Posted by u/goles
Shooting on film is a protest against the ubiquity and inhumanness of digital photography, and ultimately the commodification of memory.
I use a polaroid camera these days. It is messy and wrong and dark and unreliable and bulky and expensive; the exact opposite of the (awesome! but also generic and boring) iphone in my pocket.
Leave some room for frivolity in your life.
> a protest against the ubiquity and inhumanness of digital photography
A protest to the tune of approximately $1 per photo. I love my 35mm SLR but shooting on it is extremely cost prohibitive. Digital photography doesn’t have to be inhumane, it’s more about the user than the technology.
> The USA should nationalize the health care industry and all the pharmaceutical companies.
Novo Nordisk is a Danish company. Read that again: it is European.
Nationalized healthcare doesn’t stop at a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s borders. You think NHS or any other country with socialized medicine pays what the US does? With socialized healthcare the pharmaceutical companies pay what the nation dictates or it doesn’t do business with that nation. I highly doubt Novo Nordisk would write off the US if it went to Medicare for all.
For anyone else who always wondered what this circuit thing is and what happened to versions one through four: appeal courts in the USA seem to be numbered one through eleven, each having a few states they serve, and the group of states is called a "circuit". The word apparently has a meaning of a geographic region, so that's where that comes from (I only heard the word used for electric circuits, besides seeing this Nth court name a few times now). The judges in higher courts (like these, it seems) are chosen by the currently elected president whenever seats in the court become vacant, if I remember correctly.
What's still unclear to me is why the article consistently calls it "the conservative fifth circuit court" as though that is part of its name (or as though there is another nonconservative one), whereas Wikipedia uses no such phrasing that I can find. Is that an artifact of the news medium being of "the other side" and wanting to emphasise that most of the judges were chosen by a party they don't like? Or are most judges party members, or how is this label decided? And isn't the whole point of being a judge that you're impartial, are they subtly alleging the court is partial to whatever laws are made by one of the two major parties or something?
Edit: I'm not sure what this reads like to y'all but it was meant as a genuine question with what I've already figured out for anyone else who doesn't know this (probably most international visitors, I figured)
Incidentally I’ve written about this before [^1].
Basically, the sitting president appoints circuit judges to a lifetime position. The judicial candidates are selected by senators from whichever state the judge is to be appointed.
Generally, a conservative president will only nominate conservative judges. The candidates will generally be even more conservative if the senators who nominated the candidates are also conservative.
Over time, court watchers can conclude how ideologically predisposed a judge is based on their opinions. Usually, judges appointed by conservative presidents tend to rule as conservatives (that is, side with Republican positions), and vice versa with judges appointed by democrats. This trend is so consistent that you can often predict the outcome of a case from the composition of judges hearing the case.
The Fifth Circuit is dominated by republican senators and has recently seen a lot of appointments filled by Donald Trump. As a result, the Fifth Circuit overwhelmingly rules more conservatively than its sister circuits.
In this case, the fifth circuit panel ruled against the EPA in favor of commercial plastic producers. This is in line with Republican goals to erode the power of administrative agencies. Nobody is surprised by this because the Fifth Circuit operates in service of the Republican Party. As we say, you don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
It warms my heart to see people still taking about the X201’s faulty WiFi switch. I loved that laptop but ended up mothballing it over the switch. It remains a perfect example of how cheaping out on an extremely minor component (a plastic slide-switch) can sabotage an otherwise fantastic product.
I wish the author had spent time addressing that theory specifically.