I have been happily using Linux on my desktop for over twenty years. It hasn't always been easy, but it has worked quite well for me and it could for others too.
Manjaro is better than Ubuntu as a workstation and for developers it's better than Windows in my opinion. I've been trying out Linux desktops for 20 years and it's the only one that got me to switch.
I've been on Manjaro now for almost 2 years, doing JavaScript/React/PHP/Ruby/Python work (and some .NET Core with SQL Server!). I use VS Code and Chrome. I listen to music with Spotify. We have Slack. I can remote desktop into Windows machines with FreeRDP.
Recently someone said that they thought they would prefer to try Xubuntu because it had more official support so I decided to compare it to Manjaro and try it out on a spare machine. There's really no comparison. Setting up software on Ubuntu is painful, having to find and add keys to various disconnected software repos for every package. After a week, the Ubuntu installation ate itself after an update and wouldn't boot.
Meanwhile I have 3 workstations running Manjaro (work desktop, home desktop and personal laptop) and they all run perfectly and installing software is as easy as opening Add/Remove Software utility and finding what I want. Everything is there, even my favorite diff util from Scooter Software - Beyond Compare.
Three years ago was pre-18.04, which I've been using very successfully on my personal Lenovo X1C5 for quite a while now.
With 20.04 imminent, it might be worth giving it another shot in a VM to see if things have changed.
Personally, I used Win10 on my carbon for a while (having previously tried and given up on Linux on a T410) before finally getting tired of the forced reboots, the software auto installs, etc, and giving Ubuntu 18.04 a shot. It isn't perfect (e.g. the fingerprint reader has never worked, and suspend sometimes doesn't work if Bluetooth is turned on) but I was genuinely shocked at how otherwise functional it is out of the box (even the USB C dock works after installing the DisplayLink drivers). Heck, with TLP installed using an out-of-the-box configuration, battery life is better than Windows.
It's at the point where I genuinely prefer it to the Win10 X1C5 I have at work.
I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying, but that's not what my comment was about.
"conspiracy theorist" has, to a large extent, become a phrase used to describe a certain class of fairly nutty folks these days, rightly or wrongly. I was noting that it's possible that someone pointing out a possible political outcome based on money transfer/golf games can do so without being a member of that group, as its effectively defined today.
Either way, wherever the profit and or broader control lie.
I'm starting to think we should let/get someone to found Sirius Cybernetics and let them snap up the whole FAANG group, Oracle, etc just so they can be "first up against the wall when the revolution comes".
I recommended stripe to a friend because a hn (ad?) That mentioned the documentation was great. He struggled and I couldn't help him without a deep dive.
To be fair, my WordPress website has no problem with stripe.
The democratic party is not yet running anyone; the two major party members running are Biden and Klobuchar who are neither populist nor demagogues; it's unlikely Bloomberg is the preferred choice of anyone there; Bloomberg is not populist (and I would also argue against demagogue); and Sanders, who might reasonably be called populist (but also not a demagogue) is also far from the DNC's preferred choice, maybe even below Bloomberg.
They always talk about the big evil Facebooks of the world when they demand regulations that hit entire industries and mostly just keep the same big companies in power.
The regulations never just target the big firms who caused the individual incidents that caused the outrage or the individuals only doing bad behaviour.
Nor does the regulations go away as industries adapt, change for the better, or get disrupted over the course of decades the same old laws apply, further keeping old entrenched powers in place and their negative anti-consumer behaviour which markets were attempting to correct.
It's the story of modern America industry. And it always starts with good intentions.
It blows my mind how many people talk about over-regulation but almost never target regulatory capture. Examples include liquor laws in Indiana and Texas not allowing Tesla to sell cars direct-to-customer.
Knowing AWS SES rules and seeing the lack of context from your post, I'm going to guess that either you're embellishing the story, or your content quality is low enough that users see it as spam. 50 a year that is one a week; I need to be super motivated to stay subscribed to a 1-a-week email from a single content provider.
Bounces also have their own system and should be handled by your email system as well.
People actually in the field don't trust the CPI number as gospel. We all know its shortcomings. However, the CPI print does move the market, so while it is good to keep track of the real inflation number by our own methodologies (which generally involves a different weighing scheme since the real CPI already accounts for most consumer products), you hardly trade on it.
For example, people have been shouting that inflation has already screamed past the Federal Reserve's target (of 2%) if the weight to medicare costs was increased to reflect the true spending of an average consumer(i.e. medicare is a bigger % of expenses of the avg consumer than reflected by the CPI weight). However, the fed refutes that argument and says that its current measure isn't perfect but neither is the solution proposed.
Currently they are looking at something called the Stock Watson model to see if it provides a better gauge. So by no means is it a settled science.
CPI is computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not the Federal Reserve. As for why labor, housing, and stock prices aren’t included in the CPI, I would guess because: labor is sticky and are only indirectly related to consumption via pricing, housing is a durable good (people don’t buy it week to week nor does rent change with such frequency), and stock prices don’t affect consumption.
You could make the argument that a better inflation indicator could take these into account, but it wouldn’t be the CPI then.
That's not accurate. CPI adjusts both in basket composition and the more nebulous hedonic quality adjustment. The TV you bought for $500 today is not the same as the one you bought for an equivalent price 30 years ago.
it is actually very interesting to see the variations in CPI baskets.
I recall, for example, when the standard basket in Italy used to contain Sambuca[0], and was updated in the '00s to instead include Limoncello[1] due to changed consumer habits.
Much of what people label as inflation is either what is better known as "Baumol cost disease", or instead the market-distorting effects of near-invisible tax-evading overseas billionaires searching for safe assets and trampling your property market in the process.
