Maybe passing it up the stack is the best way to handle it, but also maybe it’s better to handle it somewhere in the middle.

The thing that always happens with exceptions in API projects I’ve worked on, is that exceptions can come from any level of the stack, then by default it skips everything in the middle, and the controller has default handlers for what to do in case of an exception.

If there are exceptions you didn’t know existed because of some library or just complex code with dozens of possible exceptions? They still end up being handled in your controller. You need to know exactly what exceptions could happen at every level of the stack, and how to handle it, otherwise everything just short circuits.

With the go errors, you only need to know “did this function call work? If not, then what?”

Regardless, I just run it local only on each of my machines, separately. It’s still really helpful!

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...

If the US government says it’s the name of something, then it’s any map company’s job to display the valid name of the thing to the users in that country. They still show “Gulf of Mexico” to users in other countries.

For a recent example, Mount Evans in Colorado was changed to Mount Blue Sky

Ideally something like 5min bike ride to the grocery store, 15min walk from a train station, and 30min drive to my in-law’s house.

It would be really interesting to do something like “10 minute bike ride to 3 or more grocery stores”. That would help reduce instances of niche specific stores, but also provides a much more useful variety.

I’d love to be able to find places that have 2+ or 3+ grocery stores within somewhat reasonable distance, and same thing goes for restaurants. Really any restaurant.

I guess you get some security since each party that you transfer to must have their identity verified with a bank, so you could always get the police involved fairly easily

The iDeal website page on security [2] is in Dutch, but it translates to roughly:

> Before you make a purchase, make sure that the webshop or business is a reliable party. For example, you can read experiences of other consumers about webshops on comparison sites. Or you can use a Google search to check what is said (in reviews) about a webshop on the internet. Also check the overview of the police with known rogue trading parties and the page check seller data. Before making a purchase, always use the following rule of thumb: if something is too good to be true, don't do it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL

[2] https://www.ideal.nl/veiligheid

It can be an indicator of short-term stress if it is higher than normal, for example. But the interesting part is the trend over time. As you get more fit, the average drops

It works so well and is very secure. You get to the checkout page on a website, click a link. If you’re on your phone, it hotlinks to open your banking app. If you’re on desktop, it shows a QR code which does the same.

When your bank app opens, it says “would you like to make this €28 payment to Business X?” And you click either yes or no on the app. You never even need to enter a card in the website!

You can also send money to other people instantly the same way, so it’s perfect for something like buying a used item from someone else.

Plus the whole IBAN system which makes it all possible!

I still stand by my point that most of our politicians have done this to us, on all sides of the political spectrum. And that we would be better off empathizing with our neighbors rather than any politician.

But the scale of the jump from previous actions to this one is enormous and shouldn’t be dismissed at all.

But they have both been consistently working to normalize their authoritarianism. I mentioned the 2020 protests in another sibling comment, which I think is a good example.

This is just the next step in an ongoing escalation, but yeah it is a big jump.

Scary times.

I am suggesting that the politicians’ interests are somewhat aligned, in regard to grabbing power. Their techniques are different, but the outcome is that we become more normalized to the behavior of “being ruled”, bit by bit.

Don’t forget the right-leaning protests in 2020 over democratic governors telling people they had to get vaccinated or fired, and they were not permitted to have their small businesses open or go to the gym. That was also authoritarian, regardless of how necessary some people thought it was at the time. You may not have agreed with them, but they were upset about the same things as you.

I see the obvious parallels to Trump, and I agree completely (and hate that it is happening). But I feel like I also see a lot of parallels to the democrats. Deciding Kamala would be the candidate without any public vote, for example. They both have aspects that heavily mirror the article.

I normally am not a fan of both-sides’ing an issue, but this seems like a literal case of everyone in the government basically performing that they disagree with the other, while marching down similar paths. They fight on issues that get people excited, while conspiring together to inch towards a “mystery government” which we must just trust.

I believe the path forward is to find things in common with our neighbors rather than politicians. Even if we disagree on some political views with our neighbors, we likely still have a lot more in common with them than any politician.

And, if you disagree, really truly read this with a critical eye, imagining the other side. Listen to their complaints. Because they feel the same way about your side. I’ve literally heard smart people in both political parties call each other authoritarian. So maybe the issues are actually with both sides.

I mentioned this in another comment, but as someone who has lived for multiple years in the US and Europe, it is a drastic difference in food quality between the two. Much easier to eat foods made of whole ingredients where I lived in Europe - even many prepackaged foods that we’d buy at the grocery store.

I came across this link yesterday[1] on a health-focused HN thread[2]. The study split a group of overweight people up into low-carb and low-fat diets, to see which produced better weight loss. The group that lost the most weight was actually neither - it was just whoever ended up eating less processed foods and more whole foods.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/to-lose-weight-focus...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42668123

No food is inherently unhealthy or bad, so I don’t think there’s any issue with him eating McDonalds on a plane. Maybe he was in a hurry, or just wanted to be social and stopped there with someone else who wanted it.

What is unhealthy is when the majority of your food is not nutritious, which is currently the case for most Americans. So why not try to make common American foods more nutritious by default, as they are in most other wealthy countries?

It was awesome living in a European country for a couple of years as an American. You learn that ingredient lists at the grocery store really are shorter in ways you don’t expect. It’s easy to buy a fruit yogurt that is just yogurt and fruit, for example. Not “yogurt, sugar, artificial and natural flavors” as you’ll find in many popular foods in the US. It was noticeable with a lot of different food choices.

Also, whenever we would come back to visit the US, after living there for a year or so, we would always have mild digestion issues and stomach cramps for a week or so. This was common among many expats that we talked to. We visited over a dozen countries while we lived there, and the US was the only one that had that issue.

Though, I can’t speak for them, and my opinions on reducing the outsourcing to countries who largely disregard the environment and human rights, are my opinions regardless of their motivations