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Isn't it possible that replacing parts all the time embraces disposable culture? "Oh I can just get a new battery? Great, I'll get one way more often than I need to, because I can." The old one gets in the garbage, or isn't recycled properly. And believe me, it happens often.

I don't see why improving durability is a bad thing. And also not sure why whenever anything positive gets posted about Apple, so many enter "APPLE MODE: RESIST IMMEDIATELY IN ALL WAYS POSSIBLE."
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I think the meager growth in health care spending is not nearly big enough to cover the discrepancy between the increase in salaries predicted by extrapolating market forces and what the salaries actually are.

Not to mention, most low paying jobs don't provide health care.
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Not like Airbnb. We had sites like VRBO before Airbnb. The big difference was that you deal with Airbnb, you aren’t signing contract with the host.
To be fair, replacing battery/screen of Apple phones is easier and cheaper than some competing products. (phones are easier, iPads are harder)

Some phones require heat gunning the screen as a start to open, then the battery is deep inside. Not with iPhones.
I assume you are extending the analogy by implying that one "warehouse" would be paying users, and the other "warehouse" is free to use / advertising / giving up private data users.

This analogy falls flat, because unlike an alcoholic which can be satiated at some point, FAANG can never be satiated. More information is always good. Thus taking data from both warehouses is better than restricting yourself to only one.

Secondly it also falls flat because your paying users is often the more juicy targets (from an advertising point of view), since they are already well enough off to pay for ad-free internet services, thus also well enough off to target for more lucrative advertising.

Getting back to the analogy, it is like an alcoholic guards two warehouses, one stocked with free budweiser beer, and the other stocked with the finest scotch, and hoping he wont take a swig from the scotch.
Bit off topic, but AngularJS 1.6? Why is Google still using an old version of their own framework, is upgrading that hard?
DO we hold people in power accountable? To me it seems the higher up we are the less actual responsability they are being held to.
Is there anywhere where new nuclear plants are being constructed or even planned under such constraints?

We should also note that signing long-term contracts and guaranteeing minimum prices are other ways to subsidise nuclear power[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-13413684
But then your LDL will rise up, thereby negating any cardiac benefits...
A lot of resources are poured into science and what science recommends (sometimes). Given the stakes, I’d prefer a track record that’s more than slightly better than flipping a coin.
Would Mozilla be able to risk being the browser that can't access Google services? I am not sure that's a realistic scenario for any of the major browser vendors. But arguably if Google's Root CA were never to gain multi-browser support in the first place, they'd never be able to launch their service to begin with.

I don't think Google would "embrace, extend, extinguish" the CA market though as the parent suggested, the CA system gives Google a massive amount of control of the Internet at large, and I can't fathom them giving it up.
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It’s impossible to make everyone happy. Linus has a tough job. I’m not looking forward to the day he steps down.
Come on. These apps were not reliable AT ALL. There is no comparison here.
The old Nokia phones used another strategy (and so did most other vendors): Every new model used a different battery. Which at the same time obsoleted the battery in the old model, i.e. no new batteries were produced. You could still buy them, but they would have stayed on the shelf for a long time - in other words, they were as old as the battery you replaced. I bought a number of replacement batteries over the years, and without exeception the new battery (originals, mind) were as bad at keeping charge as the old one, after a couple of months. Into the drawer with the phone, buy a newer one, repeat. I'm absolutely certain that this constant change of battery form factor was just that: No point in replacing a battery because you could only find old ones. Buy new phone instead.

This year I emptied a drawer full of old phones going back to around 1997 (the very earliest used NiCd batteries) until recent. Wow there were many. And I never got a new one unless the old one still worked - they all went into the drawer because they couldn't take a charge anymore.

It should be said though that batteries don't die on me as quickly as they used to - the change seems to be from the last few years. They seem to keep better in storage, but charging strategy also matters - old phones used to really deep-discharge batteries before declaring them below 10% charge.
Any casual HN browser has seen the scores of "Google is evil... and they killed Reader!" comments endemic to the discussions of any produt release or shuttering by the former tech darling. It was just a matter of time before some smart reader figured out how to leverage the sentiment with code and vc funding. Thats what we do.
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I don't think you can simply assert that. People sometimes do try to avoid naming something twice, especially if it has an unwieldy name.

For example, to cube a quantity, I don't like to write "xxx". Imagine if x had another name, like "player_position.x".

Sometimes people try to avoid naming something even once! Such as in an anonymous function.
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> I'll believe point #2 when Apple stops making every succeeding generation of their products harder for end-users to repair.

Shiftphones[1] can be completely dissembled and repaired by the end-users, and they don't look any different from other smartphone. So, it's certainly possible to do. However, I don't think that's what an average Apple customer prioritizes. "The thinnest and lightest iPhone ever" sells much better in the ad.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scWxjE7IyMo&t=42s
I hear so-and-so's private stash is in that warehouse. A lot of people can get in that warehouse. They'll never know it was me.
No matter what publications will tell you, introducing advertising will - to an extent - corrupt the journalistic process.

Is this something you’re okay with, or does reporting just not have financial worth to you?
The former seems plausible. Cab style driving seems incredibly risky.
Yes, our support can help with that. In most cases, what we’ll do is actually something that you can do yourself: the spam filtering goes through SpamAssassin, with the standard rules and a few extra ones of our own, so you can normally do a good job of figuring it out by looking at the X-Spam-hits header, though figuring out what an obscure rule actually is can sometimes be tricky—the documentation of them is often quite poor. That will commonly lead to things like: “the sender is in this blacklist, and the IP address lacks RDNS, and the message didn’t include a meaningful text/plain part, and the text/html part lacked the <html> and <body> tags (which spammers often omit but real senders almost never do), and it did this other weird thing that spammers commonly do; and if you fixed one or two of them it’d stop being classified as spam”.
They can be repaired in the sense that everything in them can be replaced. However they've integrated a lot of components so a lot of things that would traditionally be able to be replaced individually can't be.

You basically have 3 major components in the current Macbook Pro line:

- Logic board - MB/CPU/SSD/RAM

- Top Case - Keyboard/Trackpad/Battery/upper shell

- Display

Then you have minor miscellaneous parts like fans, heatsink, bottom case and wi-fi antenna/vent module.

Surprisingly, the USB-C ports are actually a separate replaceable component, and I believe the 2018s make the headphone jack one as well.
Well, that $29 is only a limited offering. I only recently bought iPhone 8, so, I hope, it'll work few years, but then probably it'll require battery replacement.
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>You know what helps products last longer and reduces waste at the same time? Repairability.

This is understandably a very popular assumption amongst people who like to tinker but it's oversimplified. "Repairability" is only a positive in the absence of any other factors. Devices that are harder to repair can also increase the active matter to dead matter ratio which reduces a whole host of energy and material requirements and be sealed better which increases environmental tolerance. That's ignoring any other user benefits like practical security.

More generally I think it's really, REALLY important to be careful to separate goals vs tools, because humans have a real history of putting the cart before the horse and starting to treat successful tools as values in and of themselves which inevitably leads to misapplication. For most of the population, including amongst the technical set, "repairability" is a tool, not a goal. The goal is something along the lines of "any item I get should last for a reasonable time as a function of its price, including having a good 2-5 year period during which any failures should be Dealt With (meaning a restoration of functionality at reasonable speed) for free (significantly abnormal shipping aside), and for expensive items a longer period after where any issues can be Dealt With for reasonable expense."

Repairability is one possible tool to use are part of a mix to meet that goal. But so is more money put into materials and engineering, better quality control, manufacturer insurance, manufacturer direct or partner support networks, etc. Each has tradeoffs, like any tool, and the right mixture will vary based on people's priorities and budgets. Repairability is not simply a positive.

This is also part of what I hate in all the awful "Right to Repair" legislation attempts, the ones I've read have universally pushed a method rather then a goal which almost always makes for terrible law. Markets are our best tool for figuring out and then dynamically adapting to meeting goals, but of course do not have goals themselves. What legislation should do is mandate the goal and make sure costs are internalized then leave it to everyone else to figure out the best ways to make it happen for different parts of the population.
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> US federal budget for 2018 is ~4 trillion. Bezos has just donated 2 million. If that’s really your concern then you should try to keep things in perspective.

I think you mean 2 billion.
I read it too, and there is absolutely nothing new. Pick any protein network database, and all these actors are already linked. Basically, you could have written the same conclusion without sacrificing any mice.
computer science:
- The Morpheus Tutorials (german)
- BitBastelei
- CBT Nuggets
- The Coding Train
- Computerphile
- Neso Academy
- DevTips
- Professor Messer
- Socratica
I see a resurgence happening and a great example of that is Micro.blog -- a social network built on top of RSS, JSON Feed, and other open standards for posting and comments.

https://micro.blog/

https://help.micro.blog/2015/why-i-created-this/
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Hey HN,

A cheeky weekend project ignited by the recent Inbox by Gmail discontinuation announcement. Still adding historical products, but you're welcome to post an issue with product info or contribute at the Github:

https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
> but I failed to keep it up long enough to become my normal.

And that's exactly why you want to keep it to a moderate 8pm to 12 noon fast. Its not hard to do, you lose a little bit of weight each week. You end up healthier with minimal pain or change to life-style.
I don't think it's actively bad, I just don't find it the best tool for the job. I tend to get bogged down in 'ends' vs. 'means' more than the next person. The flexibility I have around separating paths to a goal from the goal itself often gets me criticized for not supporting the goal, and I'll eye others with suspicion at how they'll go to bat for things that aren't the goal.

My objection to this code might be something in the line of "scope creep," or that it's "distracted," even though those aren't really the right words and might carry connotations I don't mean to imply. It feels like it's more about getting across a list of the ways it's possible to be Wrong On The Internet than it's about inspiring and instilling healthy and productive communication among adults.

--

Here's an example: I'm a member of a 500-person volunteer force that collaborates online, and we only get together in person to do our thing ~7 days a year. A huge flamewar will break out in our online communication 3 or 4 times a year. The prevailing opinion is one I agree with, but I still find the people I agree with argue the points in a way that are toxic to the overall org. But I have yet to see a code of conduct that would stop or heal the damage they're doing.

My department is absent from those threads with a regularity that hasn't gone unnoticed. We didn't plan it nor do we have an internal explanation for how it came to be. But our department head has gotten positive remarks on it from other heads and it would be naive to say it doesn't help maintain our reputation and working relationships outside our team. We cultivate it now, but I'm trying to figure out what caused it in the first place so I can spread that elsewhere.
We can invent new, mobile-friendly protocols for discovery, especially if existing methods become difficult under new laws.
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I've seen Forbes filling that role in a few movies and TV shows. Tau had a scene with a wall full of magazines with the billionaire guy.
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I am in a study by Stanford University to only eat during a ten hour period each day. So far, I am sleeping better but subjectively that is all I can say.

I do personally believe that in the past occasional 20 to 24 hour fasting and not eating after 6pm has increased my feeling of being healthy. My personal experiences don’t have much meaning so I am looking forward to more proper scientific studies in the future.
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Apple has allowed users to download the “last compatible version” since 2012.

I reset my first generation iPad - last updated 2011 - last year and was able to load and run older versions of most of the apps for streaming services that were available back then - Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Spotify, Plex, etc.
> The cost to repair it was higher than replacement cost.

At the risk of being rude, you haven’t tried very hard then to replace the screen. It’s pretty easily doable under $100, IF you don’t go to Apple to get it repaired that is.
The double standard definitely works against women; they have more flexibility but that just means more unspoken rules to break, and a big challenge to be taken seriously that usually results in dressing more seriously than their male colleagues. And most of the outfits don't have pockets.

I'm also thinking of Naomi Wu drawing a tremendous amount of flak for skimpy outfits on Youtube, despite her pointing out that it was extremely hot in that part of China and not much skimpier than regular streetwear.
Wow the downvotes without comments are interesting. I can only guess that they are from people who are so used to getting f*cked by the tech industry that they don't see anything wrong in having to throw away a perfectly-functioning device only because it's 3-5 years old. Now imagine cars were made like that.
Probably some badly placed equality operator in the script.
It wasn't until XP that the _consumer_ world aligned itself with NT. NT 4 & 2000 were unavoidable in business networks with windows domains
It then jumps up to $49.

Still not a huge amount of money given the cost of the phone.
iOS support has steadily increased over time. "[iOS 12] covers five previous generations of iPhones, stretching back to the iPhone 5S."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90237242/take-apples-advice-dont...

Yes, as hardware improves and the OS and applications take advantage of this hardware, newer applications may run slower on older hardware. I'm not aware of any phone manufacturer or OS for which this isn't true. AFAIK, there is no other system that supports this level of backwards compatibility.
When I was in the same situation, I compiled a list of all high-paying fields, and tried to see if I liked any of them enough to go all in. Law: definitely no. Medicine: maybe, but too much competition and strain. Finance: no, but maybe there's something I can learn to love given my skills and inclinations... Yes, electronic trading!

So I went all-in into trading technology, and was happy enough and well-paid ever since.
Agreed - DO isn't a PaaS. That's was silly of me.
This was when it hit the mainstream for me https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lxyzc a BBC programme in 2012
You haven’t yet enjoyed replacing the rusted pads and rotors on an eight year old New England car.
This is an interestingly a reverse of Europe's (effective) policy and on greening the auto-market. Most European jurisdictions effectively^ tax (and otherwise discourage) old cars wuth a higher rate.

For an example from my country. A 2007 2L Passat is a common old car currently taxed @ €1,000 pa. It quickly escalates to 2,000 as engine size/emissions increase. Passats are decent quality cars with long lived engines, so most of the 10-15 year olds are still alive. For their time, they were average CO2 producers, say 200g/km.

The tax system is designed so that an incremental decrease in emissions substantially decreases annual tax. A 30% carbon saving (say 60g/km saved, in this example) will save you 60% -70% on your annual tax (€600-€800 ish). People buy/drive 12 year old cars for value, and the tax system (by design) takes that value away.

The way to lower your annual tax is to buy a car designed after the new tax regime was designed. The net effect of the policy is that perfectly good old cars are being crushed and replaced with newer, "greener," short lifecycle cars. There's no point building a car that will last more than 8-10 years because tax laws will probably get it off the road by that time. The most economical way to drive is not the old cars, it's cheap new cars.

The real (environmental) question is whether the net effects of building a new car outweigh the case by output of the older car.

Idk what the carbon cost of manufacturing a car is, but the number to beat (for my example, anyway) is about 600 kg co2. My uneducated guess is that it's about even, ie the policy is just another Volkswagen subsidy.
And you can still download and run most of the popular streaming apps and Apple’s apps.
>Our society is such that we typically work 8 out of 24 hours(33%)

I always think you should look at the effective free time you have left. I can't do much in my sleep (-8h), I can't do much on my commute (-1.5h), I can't do much in my lunch break (I have to take a 45 minute lunch break by law, it's way too short to use it as actual free time, but takes another significant chunk out of your day.)

I get to 24h-8h-8h-1.5h-0.75h = 5.75h of E.F.T. that's only 24% of your day you actually have for yourself, assuming comparatively reasonable western working times and pretty average commute times.

76% of your day is not effectively free time.
I've done the 5s battery replacement and would say that it is not "easy" (I work with electronics HW everyday). It is a pain in the ass and requires tools, a serious chunk of time, a clear desk and the right attitude/patience.

This is something that can become routine for practiced folks, or for people that are motivated to try the challenge, but there's a lot of opportunity for mishaps. In fact one way that many people get new phones is when Genius Bars screw-up the battery replacement-- so even pro's can't get it right 100% of the time.
WoW, that is awesome wasnt aware of it. Thanks!
Yikes! Good to know. I just wonder if there has been any official mea culpa announcement or if I (along with many other people) are just suffering from sort of selection bias. Did the screen material change at all?
I think that the trend has been like this for a long time...
WikiTribune is similar to what you are proposing on the collaboration side. "Come collaborate with us, because facts really do matter" [0].

[0]: https://www.wikitribune.com/
"Last compatible" means no more security updates, which basically means - we no longer care about the flaws we've made, go ahead and risk your privacy (including for example your life savings if you bank online).

Also, my experience with the last compatible version (for iPhone 4 IIRC) was that IIRC neither Skype nor Hangouts worked anymore. Plus the whole device was incredibly slow.
I wonder what the 'refresh-rate' is of a scan, as in how many times a second/minute/hour is the image refreshed. I doubt such a wide area could be real-time. Guessing it's enough that it's possible to track and locate rogue ships.
Both “IT professionals” and “medical professionals” are incredibly vague terms.

If the author is referring to corporate IT I do agree this niche is dying. Business support isn’t a great place to be. Operational roles in product typically pay better and give you a greater opportunity to make an impact.
Now, I am clearly not the avg HN reader, but I did a civic clutch last month. 1st one lasted over 200k, and I am replacing the second. It took me about 4 hours with a floor jack, basic tools and a harbor freight impact. But it also lasted 15 years with constant use, and is literally designed a phisical wear item. My battery I replace every 3 years, as my climate is both extremely cold and hot. Its right up front with 2 easily accesable bolts. I think your metaphor is lacking nuance.
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Wondering how often and what kind of feedback do you receive after a interview that ends up with a rejection? Is it a usual practice in your town/area/country?
Also, what do you appreciate as a feedback and what not?
In either case it's wrong - the newer standards are rated for more abuse than the older ones.
That is true KDE is less toxic, but for us minimalist hackers i3 is simple and nice.
In principle I agree with you that in general we should attempt to internalize externalities whenever possible. But, for example, burning coal kills thousands of Americans every year from fine particle pollution. Why not internalize coal costs right now? Shouldn't that be the priority?
It is - pay $29-$79 to Apple. How much cheaper would it be to buy the battery yourself?
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By "popup", i dont mean a extra browser window, but in-page overlays
If the "economic" publishers all agree to be monetized and harvested by Facebook and Google they would be mice sitting in the cat's paws.
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Lot of really useful links in here. I built my own interactive fiction[1], but half-way through, the mixture of building the tools to present the narrative, and writing the story itself got pretty conflated.
Afterwards, I was recommended some pre-existing tools[2] for a similar endeavour. (still, rolling my own system for telling a story with code was pretty satisfying.)

- [1] - https://github.com/teesloane/railcar

- [2] - http://twinery.org/
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