метапост о политике

А как это интересно вдруг в русском дискурсе возникло это "я политикой не интересуюсь", "хватит о политике" и т.п.

Ваши грабят соседей. Но вам так противно об этом думать вообще; и потом, вы шибко заняты. Вы выше этого.

Как вы думаете, почему украинцы политикой интересуются?

"впишите вашего кандидата"

Сейчас по радио тетка из избиркома города Фресно объясняла.

Да, желающих вписать в бюллетень Микки Мауса полно. Но эти бюлетни не будут считаться.
Вписать можно только заранее зарегистрированного кандидата.
Кандидат может зарегистрироваться без внесения в список, только тогда бюллетень, голосующий за него, будет считаться.
Такие кандидаты регистрируются бесплатно.
Но все равно надо собрать нужное количество подписей.

Вот такая хуевая демократия, малятки.

prop 13

So, in our dear California we have this prop 13, the law, according to which your property tax (%.8 a year here in Santa Clara county) does not change with the volatility of the property market, but filters them.
"The maximum amount of any ad valorem tax on real property shall not exceed one percent (1%) of the full cash value of such property."

So if you are an old lady that bought your house for $40k in 1964, in 2014 your house will be appraised at $65k, and you will be paying $560/year, not much for a poor old lady, right? But if you buy this house in 2013 for its current price of $600k, well, you'll be paying about $5k (actually much more, since they add all other crap, and you'll wind up paying about $8k).

Of course this way old ladies in their old little houses will not have to move to Oakland as soon as Manishes and Zhangs and Vladimirs invade Bay Area, earn tons of money and raise the prices enormously. They stay where they are, and pay little.

But the side effect is this. For a county it makes more sense to develop businesses than housing. See why. Business pay their taxes according to current rates and earnings etc; they are not covered by prop 13. But if they build new houses, these new houses provide meaningful income only for the first several years; this income does not grow with the ("nonexistent") inflation.

So there. That's how Mountain View does not want Google to build their housing "googleplexes". That's how SF does not want those rich googlers, facebookers, twitterers to come over and stay. They like them as tourists - come, pay, go.

Funny eh.

Nebraska

I did not want to watch it; I do not like the state of Nebraska. But well, people recommended...

In short, it's one of the best movies of this century so far. Movie art lives!

ECMAscript 6

Good stuff
https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features

var odds = evens.map(v => v + 1)

GET`http://foo.org/bar?a=${a}&b=${b}
    Content-Type: application/json
    X-Credentials: ${credentials}
    { "foo": ${foo},
      "bar": ${bar}}`(myOnReadyStateChangeHandler)

var [a, , b] = [1,2,3]

function f(x, y=12) { return x + y }
f(3) == 15

function f(x, ...y) { return x * y.length }
f(3, "hello", true) == 6

const x = "dont change me"

var arr = []
for (var i = 10; l--;) {
  let j = i
  result[i] = function() { return j }
}

arr[5]() === 5
arr[6]() === 6

var cat = 'Pavlova'
var dog = 'Charlie'
var pets = {cat, dog}

var s = new Set()
s.add("hello").add("goodbye").add("hello")
s.size === 2
s.has("hello") === true

var squares = [ x*x for (x of [1,2,3,4,5]) if (x % 2 == 1) ]

"abc".repeat(3).contains("cabca")

// tail call
function factorial(n, acc = 1) {
    'use strict';
    if (n <= 1) return acc;
    return factorial(n - 1, n * acc);
}
factorial(100000)

this one says "too much recursion

десять старушек - рубль

neighbor chat...

"Now that we're on the subject of nests. How do you stop a bird from nesting in a bad spot for us AND for her? There is a bird (I'm assuming it is the same bird the last few yrs) that builds her nest in the wood awning over our deck. All nesting season there is bird poop right outside our back door that has to be continually cleaned. We've tried to interfere with her building the nest- but she is very persistent. Eventually, we feel bad for her & let her build it. Unfortunately for her, the eggs usually don't hatch. We think they fry in the heat because she builds it on the west side of the awning which is very hot (like now) in the afternoon. It is very open with no shade. Poor girl!"