You mean, for example, if the Police weren't bound by the rules the rest of us are? That would indeed be a shocking state of affairs, and quite unjust!

"It doesn't print" is a different bug report than "it prints garbage". Sure it'd be nice to know if the printer was turned on, connected, had paper, and so on, but you can't get that from a bug report anyhow, because customers lie in bug reports. All you can trust is your telemetry data anyhow. (I used to support a complex product for a very technologically sophisticated customer base, and even then: if the advice tech support gave didn't work and it got to me, chances were the bug report was full of false data. Over time our telemetry tools got better, which helped a lot.)

Wow, that looks like Windows 3.1 with a taskbar. Yikes.

How do you know "it doesn't print" isn't a complete and useful report? I haven't read the privacy statement for this, but it would be sensible for the OS to capture recent activity in a bug report, no? But perhaps I give MS too much credit - much as I think their heart's finally in the right place, I'm not sure their head is yet.

For sure, a mechanical watch gives a warmth and vibrance to your records that digital just can't match with synthetic diamonds; I mean, somehow you always know, and anyhow spring colors are so last week it's like she doesn't even follow fashion it's hand built, you know, and other cars may be faster but look at those lines, it just makes me feel good when I wear it!

In real production code these days, "maintainable code" is what matters. Sure, on very rare occasions you'll google some algorithm you vaguely remember form college that's not already in your library, but most code just isn't performance sensitive (in an algorithmic sense) or even algorithmically interesting.

What matters is living with that code for many years after writing it, and not hating life. And that is still as much art as science. Sure, best practices continue to be formalized, but the field is still young in that respect, and I don't expect maintainability to settle down into "a set of rules to follow" before my career ends.

As if Apple's thing was "easy to use". Apple makes jewelry - design/style first, ease of use second. Admittedly, they don't let ease of use get too terrible, most of the time, but style always comes first.

TV is what the peasants watch. There are expensive TVs, but there can't be an "upper class TV". Fashion is all about pretending to be upper class* by buying over-priced status symbols, and Apple has had very few misses since Job's return in that regard. TV certainly wasn't one of them.

*The actual upper class, of course, doesn't go in for status symbols, but for expressions of either taste or conformity, but the US fashion scene is really centered in "ostentatious high income" people, not the tiny upper class anyhow.

Some will be, no doubt, but with a high enough F/M ratio you can be picky. The last time I visited my father, we happened to walk through the gym for his retirement community, and I was a bit surprised - there are definitely still women in good shape far older than I would have guessed.

If I live a few decades more, there will be several women alive my age for every man. How often you get it up can be fixed with a pill; how often you get it, not so much. If you're in your 20s, maybe it looks different, as female mortality is converging on male as gender roles in the workplace fade.

Perhaps you obsess about this a bit more than the rest of us.

No, not in the usual sense. They used to be treasury bonds - the Social Security program would sell them on the bond market to raise funds. But Reagan/Bush/Clinton sold them all to mask the deficit. Now they really are just IOUs.

It's exactly like taking a loan from your 401K. If before you had T-Bliss in your 401K, but then you borrow all that money for an emergency expense, now you just have a loan to yourself. Before, you could actually live off that money at retirement; after, you must earn new money before you can actually retire.

It's important because it was a dirty scam on the taxpayers - everyone who paid SS taxes was effectively defrauded (and by both parties, of course). Like you say, in the end it's all taxes, but it changes the true amount of the debt, already staggeringly large. And unlike US treasuries, there's no constitutional requirement to meet out social security obligations (though I expect we will, and just suffer 10%+ inflation for many years, until no one can live on that check).

Everything always ends up being priced by supply and demand, in the long run. If you distort the market too far, you get shortages and wastage, and a black market where things are priced according to supply and demand. Labor isn't an exception.

Wage, as determined by supply and demand, is the signal for how valuable one more worker at some job is to the community. That is to say, it's a mix of how valuable the work is over all, but also how much the community actually needs one more person doing that work.

None of us are entirely self-sufficient, so If you want to live, you must contribute to the community something of marginal value (that is, something there's value in even more of than what the community already has), to receive what you need. There's no escaping that: all there is is all we produce. And compensation is about the value you produce as judged by others.

Wages for the most part stay pretty close to that ideal. I think people forget how important the "supply and demand" part is.

But it's important to note that the Social Security Program will run out of money, and soon. By any honest accounting, it did in the 90s - there's nothing but IOUs left after that pool of funds was looted by Reagan/Bush/Clinton. It's all just fresh taxes now for outgoing payments.

And, sure, it will never run out of dollars, but so what?

"But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy" - Kipling, The Gods of the Copybook Headings

I've never heard "SJW" used before of someone engaging in actual combat! I suspect someone was being ironic. The term generally means someone who's idea of activism exclusively involves social media - a variant of "keyboard warrior" - for self-described "social justice" causes.

Can anyone post links to all the current proxies here? That would be a good start. Is the IP address pool fixed for TPB? Anyone have the list? Perhaps our good friend APK has some advice on what to do with a list of IP addrs so that DNS-based censorship won't matter?