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This is really cool!

Only enhancement I can think of would be the option of using the FAA published (and free) sectional maps instead of the satellite view. In combination with the 3d airspace you did, would be amazing!


Yeah that is a good move. I’ll add this to the short list


There are three different lenses on the iPhone 16 Pro. Which one gets used is determined by the "zoom" level you pick. The "0.5x" picks the widest angle lens, the "1x" and "2x" use the same lens, and the "5x" uses the third lens.

If you wish to reduce optical distortion and can get farther away from the subject, you'll want to pick the "5x" zoom. Think somebody else here said it was a 105mm equivalent, which sounds about right.

Intermediate values are obviously crops... although given that the 0.5x and the 1x lens are both 48mp sensors (IIRC), and the resulting image is typically 12mp, it doesn't make as big of a quality difference as one might ordinarily think.


They did say there was a windows client in the keynote.


I don't see how it would cause rent to rise, unless it somehow increased demand for housing.

Which, I suppose, it might if it made it possible for the homeless to actually be able to find homes.... of course, I fail to see how that would be a bad thing.


> I don't see how it would cause rent to rise,

I mean one argument is implicit collusion amongst landlords. UK price fixing like this is illegal, but in US I believe it is legal as long it is not explicitly.


Why should my tax dollars subsidize businesses who don't want to provide enough incentive for people to come work for them?

I'm all for a UBI, but it should be enough to live on, and not (effectively) just the government paying wages on behalf of companies who don't want to pay for labor.


> not (effectively) just the government paying wages on behalf of companies who don't want to pay for labor

Well the arguments is that there are jobs that aren't worth doing at the current minimum wage. Imagine someone working in a garage who might be willing to hire someone for a $2/hr to fetch tools for them, but at $15/hr they would just rather get up and walk across the shop themselves. $2/hr is enough to cover transportation to work, so the UBI is used to bridge that gap. There are existing programs like this now for the developmentally handicapped.

One of the main divisions of UBI is whether we require people to work no matter how demeaning (informed by the protestant work ethic) or whether it should guarantee people a certain level of dignity (informed by social welfare mindset).

Not taking sides, but this is a schism that everyone in these conversations should be aware of.


Full pension, and a gold watch I'm sure. What else?


That's a fairly psychopathic take on the situation.


'Psychopathic' is a generous take, as it would assume some level of truth. The take is just wrong and mindlessly repeats the contrarian bullshit we've been hearing for the past two years. I'm very disappointed to be reading it on hackernews actually.


The Porsche Taycan has a two speed transmission that works quite well, so while Tesla couldn't pull it off, it's clearly possible.


I wasn't trying to say that it wasn't possible... more like it's a bad idea that complicates things for no good reason...


You mean the state with one of the lowest effective property tax rates in the country? Your property tax is pegged to 1% of the purchase price, and essentially never goes up ever again.

One of the only (if not the only) state where that happens.

The main reason not to own in CA is the insane purchase price, not the taxes.


To be fair, it's not really like Prius's out there accelerate regardless of intention.


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