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First, arguing with a moderator is unlikely to get you the outcome you're looking for.

Second, you're continuing even still with unwelcome, potentially hurtful, and overly-judgmental characterizations of another member's opinion and experience as a "load of BS," following your earlier characterization of someone's comment as "laughable." You may disagree with another's opinion, but there are less divisive ways to express it than how you've done it so far.

The majority of HN participants debate issues -- even ones that are contentious or may have "obvious" answers -- with an inclusive tone that conveys respect. We'd do well to look to them for inspiration.
My solution to the spyware is to "acquire" the Enterprise N edition and run WPD and Spybot AntiBeacon on it. It's pretty easy to find gray market keys if you know where to look.

The only reason this is a problem is because MSFT has a near monopoly in the consumer PC space.
So, basically, DLC.
Yeah, all good points.

> None of this is to say that living frugally is a bad idea or that you'd regret having done so, only that saying you can retire in 20 years is unrealistic for most people and it makes the pitch sound a bit like a scam/cult.

I don't mean to suggest that everyone, or even most people, can retire in 20 years, and I certainly agree that such a claim is not true. Some highly paid tech workers can, and this forum's readership tends to tilt in that direction.
I believe it's accurate for a subset of middle class fams, and more higher class stay-at-home moms and families who can afford nannies.

They exist, but most families don't have the time and money.
It’s not uncommon for trades to be made in the wake of outsized unusual options trading activity in a stock on the theory that the unusual options activity is made by someone trading on insider knowledge. I’m not a lawyer either but I don’t think that qualifies as insider trading.
Or you could pay $40 once for a book: https://smile.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Profession...

I think the greatest loss of the modern web has been this explicit move away from literacy. It's like the dark days of television are back again.
Well that'd be 1.2 kWh, stored for a penny. Average electricity price in the U.S. is 10 cents/kWh.

I've often criticized people for ignoring the cost of storage when talking about wind/solar prices, but at a penny per kWh it's pretty insignificant.
> I bet that in 1000 years long after human kind has disappeared, there will be friends sending each other automated birthday greetings in one of those solar powered data centers somewhere in Finland.

Beautiful. It gives a special meaning to "best friends forever."
The ready-made lessons are more shitty tech demos (Amazing! Drag and drop! Buttons! Computers!) to wow the administrators than actual lessons.

We have smart boards and chromebook carts in every room of my high school, and yet they canceled our fucking robotics team due to "lack of funding" and fired our oldest computer science teacher because his experience + degrees meant he cost them too much to employ [0]. Yes, I'm mad.

[0] https://de01903704.schoolwires.net/site/handlers/filedownloa...
Right now, earning BAT by watching ads is not yet implemented. After you use up the free 10 BAT you get on first install, you have to buy more to keep paying the sites you visit (this is reasonably frictionless at the moment, and is likely to get more so). I assume there aren't many people right now that buy BAT to send into the Brave wallet (though I do, and know of others that do), but it's still early days.

The part of their proposal I would suggest fixating on is the fact that if you make deposits into your Brave wallet, you get to block ads (right now, ads are blocked regardless), and publishers will be able to turn off their anti-ad-blocking measures if they see you're using Brave, since you'll be providing them with revenue. The hope is that in the future, paywall sites like WSJ may allow you to bypass their paywall if they can verify that you're using Brave.

There is a lot of uncertainty right now about how the whole ad system will work, because the team is focusing on making the browser robust enough so it can compete with FF and Chrome. But in the meantime, they're also getting useful information about what real users and publishers are actually keen on.

I suspect that the more obvious flaws, like the ones you pointed out, will be accounted for once the system is fleshed out. They have not shied away from moving away from their original proposal to more practical approaches.

Regarding the earned BAT by watching ads, I believe that it cannot actually be withdrawn, only used to pay publishers, but again, things may change. And I agree that the blockchain may superflous here, but using it has allowed them to get the funding to get things off the ground and attract users, which counts as a valid use in my book.
> I grew up in a poor neighborhood and dropping by unannounced was the norm.

Same and I think you're onto something, but my childhood predated mobile phones.

I've watched my nephew, who's from a fairly affluent family, call out to his friend who lives next door to come play. They'll chat to each other over the fence and then negotiate with their parents on where they can go play. Neither have mobile phones and I doubt either have used a landline (or have one) so yelling over the fence or knocking on the door seems like the most straightforward approach.

I think phones were the tipping point which changed behaviours - from most people being fairly OK with unannounced or very loosely planned visits (I'll see you Wednesday! == 7:30pm, Wednesday) to requiring a heads up in the form of a call or instant message.
There were a few good reasons I saw over my years as a contractor:

1. You can get a functioning team much more quickly.

2. It's a lot easier for someone unfamiliar with the field in question to evaluate the quality of a consulting company than to evaluate a prospective hire.

3. It's a lot easier to get rid of them once you don't need them anymore.
But it's a free market. If you think price is too expensive for offering - you don't pay. Vote with your wallet.

Many subscription-based products or services are working non stop to update their product or service.
Whether it's to generate and curate content or update/fix/improve software.

Not like it's a totally new, shocking concept.
I think this might have contributed, but a larger contributor is likely the explosion of housing developments with larger lot sizes and suburbs-of-suburbs/exurbs, which prevent a kid from knowing any other kids living within a mile radius.

We're a part of the problem, my daughter is lucky she can walk to one of her schoolfriends houses. Her other besties are a minimum 30 minute walk, but they all attend the same school they're zoned for.
I have found the transition to be pretty worthwhile. Evil is actually very good. There are also a few Evil-X packages that give sensible rebindings for other popular modes, like evil-magit.

It helped for me that I actually like lisps as well.
Everything capable of hosting "true fans" has had someone take a crack at industrializing the model at some point. That's how you get a Disney, Nintendo, or Apple.

And the consequence of that is that it starves the room of oxygen for smaller creators. A game from Nintendo might not quite the right game for you, but the broad appeal and polish ultimately leads you to spend $60 and 60 hours playing it instead of taking a risk on a few indies. And so it goes with everything that tries to operate against bigger firms. You have to overcome the framing of risk and price sensitivity and replace it with something truly unique that overcomes low awareness. When the business is globalized that can be a really tall order.
Experts have been wrong about a lot of things in the past.

In this case I'm not saying "everyone is an idiot and missing the obvious", I'm saying "politicians and economists are idiots and are missing the obvious", because this is a case where the average non-academic person would intuitively believe outsourcing would be bad for American industry in the long run.

I'm not saying that more research shouldn't be done into this, but if it's correct than the incorrect conclusions of economists helped to decimate the American manufacturing industry. If this is the case then how did things go so wrong, and how do we avoid something like this in the future?
>I think we should built giant cargo tugs with wind and solar power. They can just hook up to a cargo ship in the high seas and tow it. That way we can keep the existing ships.

This is the reverse of when managers make ridiculous assumptions about programming that stem from a complete lack of understanding.

Towing big ships is hugely dangerous.
Jus' gooo to your happy place
> California lost a net of approximately 1 million residents between 2007 and 2016

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but the quoted statement is wrong. The statistic appears to be that: From 2007 to 2016: the number of people moving into CA was 1 million fewer than then number of people moving into CA. However the net population increased by about 3 million [0]. Happy to be enlightened if I'm missing some nuances.

Nonetheless, the immigration vs emigration is a really interesting statistic.

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=california+population+h...
I don’t think that’s correct. California’s population has grown significantly over the period you’re discussing.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/california-populatio...
Vice News just did a story about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2S_4G103Ik

It's short and worth watching. It shows how the law could definitely be used in an unequal manner, the background, and how Doug Ritter and the Knife Rights group works with groups like The Legal Aid Society.
Also vectored and ninety mapped but that’s in a somewhat different category.
It's for exactly this reason that I find being friends with married couples to be draining unless I knew them both before they got together.

You can't just be friends with one of them. You can't just go and hang out with one person without their spouse coming along. If you tell them their spouse isn't invited, they'll get offended. If you don't tell them, you can expect the spouse to tag along... and if their spouse gets tired and wants to leave early, they're both just going to cut out right then and there (I had one friend who would just up and leave the bar with his wife whenever she got tired without even giving me a chance to finish my drink and tab out so we could leave together... every time, it felt like a slap in the face).

Sometimes, even if I like their spouse, I just want to hang out with a friend one-on-one. And then there are people who I like but whose spouses I can't stand.
It's not accurate. In a country of 325 million, you'll surely find some examples of it, but it's not been my experience as the father of two young children.
While I largely agree with your sentiment, quite a bit of the problems with contracting that the US government has is because they don't do contracting well. Specifically, they are understaffing many offices, and they are putting not-so-qualified people in lead roles. Writing a good contract is hard. It's harder when the right staff are not in place to do it -- this is the current state of most US government contracting.
Would it have been better if you "purchase the current version and get temporary upgrades for a year for free." Essentially the same thing, but up front and not implying that you get more than you do.
> What if I'm hit by a bus and killed the day before I retire?

Isn't that question backwards? What we should be asking is: What are we going to do if we _aren't_ hit by a bus and killed the day before we retire?
> She still feels sick about the conviction she was compelled to hand out

It occurs to me that the entire jury system is basically the Milgram experiment writ large. It's the only thing that helps explain how people can so consistently be persuaded to abandon their own sense of moral judgement and just follow instructions.
You're getting down voted but it's true. My mom was a few years away from retirement. Was cutting trees in the back yard and had a pain in her shoulder. Cancer in her lung. She died 8 months later. My dad and her were about to retire and just travel the world. Now I call my dad every other day because he is slowly starting to lose it.
I've heard a rumor going around that Microsoft has either downsized their QA engineers significantly or laid them off entirely in favor of having devs and sub/misclassified contractors do it instead. I hope I'm wrong, though.
How is the $7b invested in transmission lines not a subsidy?
That's a beautiful allegory, and reminds me a lot of a lesson passed down from my father: "doing what you must today makes it easier to do what you want tomorrow".
The thing about vim is that it readily supports both modes of operation. I'll open one long running vim process per rails project I'm working on, and I use the --remote option on the command line if I want to open related files in that running vim.

But it's also nice to pop open a new vim in any old directory to deal with one or two edits that don't belong to a real project. I do this all the time when dealing with docker or Dev ops type tasks that don't require managing a lot of code.
In my experience, it usually boils down to whatever software ships with the drivers. I had a trackpad driver once that caused an extra 5-10 seconds boot time on an SSD under Windows 7. All because it had to load its own custom branded control panel in order for scrolling to work.
I think the way this will play out as there will be another contest of Great Powers is that the United States will in turn decide soon to compete and pour billions more into technology. This will continue to be a great time to work in Silicon Valley.
"He concluded his talk by adding: 'I see that there are many young people here; as an old man, a little advice... Life can set us a lot of snares, a lot of bumps, we can fail a thousand times, in life, in love, in the social struggle, but if we search for it we'll have the strength to get up again and start over. The most beautiful thing about the day is that it dawns. There is always a dawn after the night has passed. Don't forget it, kids. The only losers are the ones who stop fighting.'"
Stadia maps is a good replacement for Google Maps in the cloud.

I use Galileo Offline Maps on my iPhone, and my own localhost browser-based map viewer on Mac that can read SQLite tile stores and let me put address queries on the map, and draw circles around a point.

The tiles I use were cached once with MOBAC, when I had a fast Internet connection. (when I need a map, I usually don't have Internet access). Google Maps keeps redesigning and making roads harder to see, emphasising Places instead. Maybe that's good for advertising, but harder for me as a cyclist.

Stadia maps are using OSM tiles, but with a beautiful format, and pinyin romanisation for the street names. It looks just like Google Maps did back in 2014, when the colours were bright and clear.

I'd like to generate a large tilestore (usually ~2 GB for a whole country [1]) of the Stadia formatted OSM data, using MOBAC. Could someone suggest how to do that?

[1] https://github.com/peterburk/mobacProfiles
Assuming home users are still buying PCs from Best Buy and the like, they really can't buy a non-Windows PC (not including Macs unless someone makes another Pystar). MS has a monopoly there.
How do you compare some of the features/goals of Cilium to istio's network policy? https://istio.io/blog/2017/0.1-using-network-policy.html

Edit: Just came across this https://cilium.io/blog/istio/ :)
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Just another datapoint, I've never seen anyone do that (I don't live in urban CA). I think you've just experienced how insular communities can descend into (I'm not trying to offensive in saying this) self-parody at blinding speeds, if they're cut off from outside mixing for too long.
Out of interest, how did you pick it up? (I understand you may not want to reveal this)
This broke my accessibility extension for Chrome that lets users control the browser with their voice instead of hands.

Since voice isn't counted as a "gesture" the user can't say "play" to start a a video.

It's not just autoplay it's any sort of dynamic (js initiated) playing of media.
I hardly think immigrants avoid Texas. In fact, just the opposite.

16% of Texas residents are immigrants. Non-hispanic whites are a minority in the state.
New Lost and found app
No more fighting over who took the last of the ice (especially if someone took from the wrong tray or did not refill an empty - you monster).

Although the iceman interpretation works too ;)
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I’ve recently started throwing a monthly dinner party and I invite a diverse group that pulls in people from work and politics and theater and other places I’ve lived. I’ve found this is a good way to build a stable social group, especially here in New York, where people are so busy the once-a-month structure is useful, the dinner becomes a not too often but still recurring event. Once a month is about the right frequency.

I recall that my parents used to have dinner parties all the time, out in the suburbs during the 1970s/1980s and their friends also had dinner parties. There was a culture of dinner parties among adults back then. For some reason it died out. But I think the idea, and the habit, is a useful one.
Seriously, what is this shit? Is there a
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Or just buy a gray market key for $10-15 so it's not a big wallet hit if it gets deactivated.

Like always, piracy is an access problem. And I need to be able to access my computer's functions without MS locking me out because I decided to overclock my thermal paste.
Your web markup misdraws on my chrome 66.0.3359.139 OSX.
Once upon a time, thousands of people died fishing for ambergris. Whale anus wax. People died all the time.

Do we really think people are going to die exploring space? Yeah, they very fucking well are going to be deaths exploring space. We can take precautions as much as practical, but this zero risk tolerance philosophy is not going to work. We haven't done anything of note when it comes to manned space exploration in half a century. Space is so dangerous that the only way to keep risk to a minimum is to not go. And that's basically what we've done.

It's just that now these things are televised and PR is such a disaster when you have somebody die on air. It's not like a plumber is going to be watched by the entire world as he works in some kind of risky situation. People die doing that, too. People die doing anything. But if it's in the limelight like space exploration, it's absolutely unacceptable for anyone to risk death. That's why. Because we're watching and we can bear it only if we don't have to know about it or watch it happen.

We've got to start taking a hell of a lot more risk. We're taking enormous risk by not furthering space exploration. But risk of inaction is a strange thing, psychologically speaking. People don't fret about it, even though it's a real killer. Our climate is about to be the biggest killer of all, and we only feel vaguely uncomfortable about doing absolutely nothing.

And when I talk about taking risk, I'm not talking about go fever by the way--dumb political risk that leads to ignoring engineers. I mean the kind of risk that got us to the moon in the 60s. People died doing that. Mostly Soviet people, but a few Americans, too. But it was important enough. And it got done. We really shouldn't have stopped there.

It's not really NASA's fault, but they haven't gotten shit done with manned spaceflight since then. Haven't done a damn thing. Yet people have still died doing it. I hope private industry at least gets somebody above the Van Allen belt in the coming years. We need to get back on the horse before we lose our chance for good.
I think it would be better to just disable autoplay on all websites, and then let me manually enable it.

I pretty much continue to install Adblock so I can kill the auto-play elements on websites that just should not autoplay.
Good outlines/masks for economies/regions would be a huge one-time benefit for lots of people. If you curated a collection of high and lower res masks, poly sets for the borders in a standard (eg iso3166 and the UN (sub)regional named entities model I'd be delighted to trumpet it far-and-wide as a benefit.
> Roofs tend to be flat rectangles or triangles.

Flat, but virtually always angled. (Sometimes good, sometimes not.)
I really hope this spurs US investment in a similar route. A cold war can be dangerous but also fantastic for R&D.
So when do we go on strike?
On a 1366x768 screen, that blog was painful to read. The header and top menu stuff take up about the top 1/4 of the window (and only folds away near the bottom of the page), and the "related articles" takes the bottom 1/4. Clicking the button to hide related helped some.

My autoplay desires are pretty simple. If the site's Youtube, Vimeo, or another site that exists purely for video, I expect videos to autoplay. It'll annoy me anywhere else. I'd be fine with a whitelist. What I like the least about their new implementation is that the behavior of the browser will change on its own. I don't like my software trying to predict me or changing its behavior without an explicit command to do so.