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Wikipedia should allow more articles to have sections for viewpoints from different biases and agendas.


Tax prep firms should market themselves as software to audit automated IRS tax calculations.


> As early as 2011, a Google engineer revealed he had been working on a tool to Google someone’s face and bring up other online photos of them. Months later, Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, said in an onstage interview that Google “built that technology, and we withheld it.” “As far as I know, it’s the only technology that Google built and, after looking at it, we decided to stop,” Mr. Schmidt


Comma after first_value?

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Should we flag paywalled content posted on HN?


Yes, to be honest I think they should be banned. Only post mirrors of the content bypassing the paywall.


I share the same general feeling but then let's flag every paywalled link and not one of two at random. I was really surprised to see this flagged.


What is a proportional representation system? If the votes splits 40/35/25, winner doesn’t take all? Each party will have representatives 40/35/25?


The latter, meaning none of those three parties have a majority

Obviously doesn’t work for the President, you need tanked choice, runoff, etc

but it does for Congress and senate.


Couldn't proportional representation work if the president is selected via electors? Parties get a portion of the electors and then need to form a coalition that has enough electors to select the president.


Apple’s keynote showed an image similar to the 3-lens optical train at the bottom of https://simulavr.com/blog/ppd-optics/ and they have a screenshot of HN.


Didn’t America have churches before tax exempt laws? Tax laws came later. Your problem is with taxes and government spending. Remove taxes churches are exempt from and raise sales tax.


Sales tax is very regressive. I'd rather see income tax raised. But honestly, property tax does make a lot of sense. I'd suggest a property tax exemption for all properties that are used for community gatherings, which includes open church services, but also other clubs and organisations that bring people together. I think that's justifiable, and it frees churches from their most unavoidable tax costs.


Is everyone misreading the article?

The new policy is to ignore your default browser from Outlook and Teams and open Edge. There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

> Microsoft 365 Enterprise IT admins will be able to alter the policy, but those on Microsoft 365 for business will have to manage this change on individual machines.


> There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

First time playing this game? Here's how it works:

1) Change the default behavior, but have the old behavior be an option

2) ~Everybody switches to the new behavior

3) Telemetry says ~nobody uses the old behavior, so remove the option in order to "streamline the experience"


1b) Revert the setting every time there is a system update.


> There is an option to turn off this policy to use your default browser.

They should add a new option to ignore this one that is also turned on by default. Default overrides all the way down.


In Teams, there is also an option to switch off notifications and another one to use Windows notifications.

Guess which ones of the two don't do shit.

Here's a hint: I'm using Teams via browser to get rid of notifications.



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