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It shouldn't be a shock that most of the people who buy something like Lenovo or current-day Dell are not individual consumers buying a single laptop. So the experience for individual consumers is not that great. Their best customers are IT departments ordering 200+ units at a time.

Go on Amazon, Newegg, B&H, eBay, or other higher quality computer retailers as an individual shopper and you will probably have a better experience buying any of the brands mentioned in the parent article. It might even be easier to buy direct from the manufacturer on eBay than it would be to use their own website and it's probably easier to get a Paypal refund than a refund through the manufacturer's own website.

One reason why Apple has had such incredible success in capturing market share is because they focused on creating a better direct to consumer experience. That is also why Dell had some great success when Apple stumbled in the late 1990s. They had an awesome eCommerce experience and great technical support.
It is still better to trust in misleading science than it is to do any of the alternatives. And just because some science is misleading doesn't mean the institution itself doesn't work.
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The only app that works well for me is Conversations (XMPP client). It's also quite battery efficient. You have to convince people to use XMPP though, that's the hard part.
For all apps that requires Firebase/GCM, the only solution is MicroG, but then you have some data going to google. It doesn't require a google account and, depending on how the app is made, it shouldn't contain personal data, but it's still data going to google...
Humans have always had a preoccupation with their status. In capitalistic you do this largely through the accumulation and display of material wealth. This is pathological. If you look a poor or pre-capitalist societies, the only way people can accumulate status is by being useful, and by being a good guy.
I actually love working with .NET Core, and I'm really productive with C#. For some background, I'm pretty much a polyglot; while C# is where I spend most of my time, I also regularly work with JavaScript and Typescript, and occasionally with Java, PHP and C.

I also find it preposterous that .NET Core will be obsolete in 2 years, and I'm not sure what you mean about Microsoft changing direction "again" - the .NET Framework was released almost 2 decades ago, and I find the recent move to a cross-platform runtime to make for exciting times!
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-tem...

You don't need to use a tampermonkey script, they support templates :)
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> You might as well turn it around and ask yourself why the person with skills from a poorer place shouldn't get the higher wage.

Why shouldn't that person get the higher wage? That person is also part of a society.
No. Was just pointing out the fact that Steve Jobs has said a lot of bullshit. I wouldn't want to quote him to make any kind of point.
Yes, paying money may work. My point is that it's not a clear cut good solution like you seemed to argue.
Of course there are huge secrets that have yet to be revealed. If there's anything to learn from the 20th century it's that huge projects can be maintained in relative secrecy from the public so long as the denial is plausible. After all, it's become clear that "secret" is not sufficiently revealed when those convinced of its truth are regarded as cranks and crazies.

I'm certain that decades hence we will be shocked to discover what is going on now, under our noses.
How about we stop masking the problem of insulin resistance by pumping type 2 diabetics with insulin?

Why don’t we start telling diabetics the truth — your diet is broken and needs to be fixed; avoid most carbs, do strength training.

We don’t need more insulin to shove the massive onslaught of blood sugar from your crappy diet into your cells (which are telling you they’ve had enough, AKA insulin resistance), we need more honesty.

The healthcare industry is morally and intellectually bankrupt. All the honest people who got into it trying to make a real difference don’t stand a chance, the truth doesn’t survive for an instant in this corrupt industry more focused on how much they can get out of insurance companies than treating patients.
Utterly unrelated? How much of the show did you watch?

I don’t want to spoil much, but the focal point throughout the whole show was the relationship between the 12 Monkeys and the plague, just like it was in the movie.
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I don't believe your analysis. The relationship has such a high correlation, you can just look at the the graph and probably eyeball estimate the regression within 10% error.

Banks and relators have such a massive conflict of interest in pretending that the inflated prices on housing are normal. Rising interest rates are causing housing sales volumes to plummet to record lows, and after over a year of pretending nothing was wrong, prices are finally starting to come down.

But the people invested in the housing market want to pretend it's anything other than the interest rate, like a child caught with their hand in the cookie jar and making up nonsensical explanations on why it happened.
It's limited by the fact that you need a very large volume of lighter-than-air gas to lift a human. The theoretical maximum lift capability of 1 m^3 of hydrogen is just about 1.1 kg so you will need a really big airship to carry a passenger.
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They would try to use their patents offensively if their mission is to make as much money as possible.

They would encourage manufacturers to adopt some form of safety system, even if it wasn't theirs, if their goal was to keep table saw users safe.

There is some plausible deniability if the competing systems are not as good as theirs - is something better than nothing, or does it create a false sense of security, etc. - but it is pretty clear that Sawstop values profit over the safety of people who can't afford their system.
I'll take this opportunity to recommend danger (https://github.com/danger/danger) and danger-js (this is a rewrite of danger where most development is now being focused - https://github.com/danger/danger-js). They allow you to automate checking your PR checklist on multiple platforms and automatically send reminders to people in the form of comments instead of replying yourself every time.

It's different from other static analysis tools that integrate with pull requests for a few reasons:

- It opens up a programming API, not just a configuration and rule system, which grants you more flexibility

- It's tailored to send specific messages for errors so that you don't have to rely on the PR submitter to interpret errors and warnings

- It also allows you to look at things like PR details and issue details, so you can check things like if a PR has an issue attached and much more

- It's not restricted by language, so you can do things like check if someone updated a certain code file but did not update a certain markdown file and warn them that documentation may need to be updated

Overall it just really cuts down on the endless cycle of submitter makes change > wait for reviewer to be available > reviewer gives feedback > wait for submitter to come back > submitter makes change. I really want more people to use it so it grows.
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I'm disappointed that this has nothing to do with Enlightenment.

https://www.enlightenment.org/
I'm assuming it's not the doctor or pharmacist, as that would be a severe breach of HIPAA, I believe. But maybe that is happening...
> The rent itself however is controlled by supply and demand

No, it's not. Folks have got to stop using simplistic remedial high school economics classes to explain complex social problems. They just aren't that simple.

During the 2008 financial implosion, a single investment company called Blackstone Group went on a buying spree around the US. As of this time last year, they owned, through a subsidiary company, fully 1.5% of the entire Sacramento-area rental house market [1]. Blackstone in turn is flush with cash from foreign investors [2].

Foreign cash investment in real estate is a major cause of high rental prices. But the data on this and investment companies like Blackstone Group is spotty and difficult to follow [3], on purpose.

These groups don't set prices according to "the market". They are more than happy to let some percentage of their properties remain empty rather than decreasing rental prices, because they can claim the lost rents -- at the prices they set -- as taxable deductions. It's a net win for them: keep the price high for all their other properties, get a writeoff on their empty properties.

Building more housing is not going to fix this part of the housing problem. There is more than enough foreign capital available to continue to keep housing prices artificially inflated no matter how many new homes are built. These are long-term investments and small fluctuations in available housing are not going to shake them loose.

Much more comprehensive investigation is needed in the actual causes of high housing costs, including the effects of foreign investment and investment firms, and then reform is needed to address those causes.

[1]: https://www.kcra.com/article/this-is-the-largest-owner-of-re...

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-22/how-black...

[3]: https://calmatters.org/articles/data-dig-are-foreign-investo...
Excluding void.
> If the report succeeds, it will be generating the political will necessary to strip Republicans of power and force through a science-based policy.

Alternatively, it could be through generating the political will amongst Republicans to shift their position. I make no particular claim as to likelihood.
The credit bureaus only have 157M SSNs from living people last I heard, so no, for half of Americans their SSN is not accessible via accurint.
Following the context set by article, it's worth noting that it would be far more accurate to not use the word "owned" in your sentence - you could say such UTXOs are controlled by multiple people without explicitly sharing the key, two parties can acquire control independently, but, as the article describes, that's not exactly the same as the legal concept of ownership.
There was a discussion about this a while back at a Tetra Society meeting; http://www.tetrasociety.org/.

One idea I thought promising was audio games and household assistance delivered through devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo. They could be programmed and controlled though a natural-language API like Inform7, which is used for interactive fiction.

I do not know of any working tools for developing these, but I heard of a BBC experiment called "The Inspection Chamber" that allows playing audio games solely through voice. There is an article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/inspection-chamber
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Biologic production is extremely difficult and expensive

It's not that bad. Brewers developed the knowledge how to work with microorganisms centuries ago. Most antibiotics are biologics, and they are dirt-cheap. Insulin isn't monoclonal antibodies, it's grown in bacteria, in the simplest expression system, and how to isolate it from the fermentation batch is well-understood and involves no problematic steps.
Link to the Show HN of BuzzFeed SSO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17828293
Bingo. This is the sort of scenario for which the courts don't currently have rules to decide to whom the coins (qua krypto-property) should belong.
Well for our start-up, we 3D printed the prototypes then sent the CAD files to plastic mould manufacturer in China.

3D printing is expensive if your object is large. Old school manufacturing is a way to go for now.

That way we got lots of units built in bulk.
Oh yeah, there is tons of various "quantum" woo. Deepak Chopra comes to mind as one of the well-known worst offenders. But I think that is separate from the OP, which seemed to mostly be about the multiverse (and actual physicists).
This comment makes me wonder...

What if you can spin up a personal server, and have it connect seamlessly to apps across all devices?

I understand your concern on having 3rd parties touching your personal information, so what if the lineage OS, firefox OS or any other set of "libre" apps, also brought with them libre, self-hosted services?
To anyone else who would enjoy reading more about the creation of Dune (the original novel) I would recommend The Road to Dune.
This data is on-device precisely to avoid the usual route of uploading it to the cloud. None of that is uploaded to Apple.
> The machine is correct-endian, i.e. little.

Ah, back in those times it was already an argument.
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What prevents hospitals from producing their own saline? Is it really that difficult to produce?
Nuclear holocaust would have been caused and was prevented by just a few people. It would have been an action with a direct result. We could and did also just stop with the nonsense.

We dont have that option for climate change. We have a worsening situation and no realistic option to stop or even reverse things.

Differently put, nuclear holocaust was a threat, climate change an active process.
Usually “None” is an available option for payment method. This does depend on your region though.
So true. I've done it, I know it. It's very dangerous.
I question it because this is how our worked for me. Maybe other people want something they can barely afford most of the time?

1. I go to banker for mortgage.
2. Banker asks how much I would like to spend and gets financials.
3. Approved
4. I go to real estate agent and say this is what I was approved for.

Never was there any pushback. I was far below my max limit.
Untrue. You can sniff outgoing connections and reverse engineer whatever you’d like (I sure have and am glad to have a full understanding of everything going out).
Ask HN: Remote developers/Freelancers for side projects?
Does anyone have experience working with freelancers or remote developers for side projects/businesses? Any tips or best practices?
I'm thinking my time/money might be better used if I focus on parts of the project I find most interesting, and out source the CRUD aspects.
Doesn't this just work over Bluetooth for the initial config? The internet isn't useful at this point because it isn't connected to a WLAN.
Still have not done anything better than mc.
Ask HN: No downvote without explanation?
When I'm downvoted I never know why I'm downvoted. Did I say something wrong? Did I offend somebody? Was I off topic? I think it would be very helpful and constructive if anyone who downvotes is required to leave a brief explanation why they downvoted. What do you think?
Aren't "reflecting on what they like, how they feel, and what they want to do" examples of "defining, describing, or even alluding to their personal attributes"?
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Is there a browser-based file manager somewhere?
Bananas have a ton of sugar.

Aside from that, you also need to avoid starches. Bread, pasta, potatoes, etc. they all spike your insulin.
oh, i am very happy to hear about that. i'll have to check that out.
No, you know a lot more than that. Apple is a public company. Take a look at their quarterly reports. Note the distinctive lack of dependence on ad revenue. This alone sets them apart from Facebook and Google.

Apple makes money by selling stuff to people, not selling people to advertisers.
In case it's bugging anyone else: the logo is the reverse of the Ableton Live ligo.
Precisely. They have found the source, can take samples at each stop, and "get people back on top" post Cole.
I'm guessing you're in Toronto or Downtown Vancouver, mind breaking down approximately where/what your condo is out of curiosity? I'll never hope to own something here, but I'm always curious how far out these insane prices are getting and what you would get for 1m.
Perl 5 and Perl 6 are different languages, not different versions of the same language. This was very unfortunate naming in the end because it perpetuates this view.

Perl 5 is still actively developed[0] and has a large community releasing modules[1]. I still <3 it.

[0]: http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html
[1]: https://metacpan.org/recent
Microsoft is definitely more diversified than the other big tech companies.
learning how to build and manage complex projects doesn't conflict with learning new languages along the way. unless you work on a project that takes longer than 6 months you can still start new projects with another new language each term
It seems very strange to me that inviting a respondent to essentially fill in a blank as desired would be considered "calculated" or "trying way too hard." It's essentially saying, "If you would like to share something about yourself, go ahead." If one were going to describe it negatively, it seems more like lazily not even trying to ask a thoughtful, relevant question. Bizarre.
Family and friends are the most important, valuable assets you can own. Don’t compromise those for money.
There also sunrise mode, which combines (w)dired with ortodox file managers. Easily one of the best ways to deal with files. Particularly in combination with Tramp...
No, these notices explicitly mention the GDPR.
AirBnB makes owning a home more valuable (basically double rental income)

And several trillion dollars of hot money left China and ended up in the Pacific ring real estate market
What does "artificially low" even mean in this context? Valeant have demonstrated that you can drop research and raise prices on orphan drugs to stratospheric levels, and Valeant's owners are the only people that benefit. That can't be a desirable outcome for public health. When the government leans on manufacturers at least prices have some relationship with the costs of production.
No, they didn't.

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft

A slew of articles like that have been coming out because Google's data is wrong.
Since that /e/ thing allows you to self-host the cloud part, you need neither Google nor Apple.

Apple may, of course, be better than Google at defending user's privacy. Apple's efforts are laudable, but Apple still controls access to your data.

With self-hosting everything, you are in control of your data. This may be more secure, or less secure than Apple's cloud, depending on how well you manage it, but now you're in control.
I like the idea but it's often confusing and frightening to edit shit like that in emacs, especially if you start automating through keyboard macros
It appears this might have been a reporting mistake: https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/24/apple-market-cap-microsoft/
Blind developer/sysadmin here as well. I completely agree with the above comment, and would add to it:

I'm not sure what platform you currently use, but if not Windows, you're in for some challenges if you're blind or visually-impaired. I'm currently using Linux because I'm a console-based developer (I mean, I still use Firefox and the GUI but run most dev tools from the console.) This generally works well enough for me until I need an IDE, because my current codebase is C#/CSHTML/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/TypeScript, and I can't juggle all that state in my head without something like an IDE to help out. And, as far as I know, there's nothing like that available and accessible for Linux. My hope is that VSCode can help a bit, but Electron apps are currently inaccessible under Linux, which rules out a whole bunch of traditionally useful tools (No "Electron is bloated" arguments here please, this is something else entirely.) Unless you're a Linux user who uses mostly GTK-Gecko-based tools and the console, and those GTK-based tools don't use crazy custom widgets, you can make Linux work. But QT is challenging, Electron is out, and Chromium/Chrome are inaccessible (though I hear that is changing soon.) Windows offers lots more tooling, plus access to Electron apps, which opens up many more possibilities for non-console-based development.

But anyway, if you can at all transition your workflow to Windows before things get more challenging, I think you'll be in a better place. I'm about to ditch Linux soon, but for a high-end PC which will run VMs for anything I might need. Running a pile of VMs is probably the best solution to this issue, but second best would almost certainly be Windows. MacOS and Linux trail behind, unfortunately.

I also wish you good luck. Happy to chat if I can help more. nolan at thewordnerd dot info
When I said triggered by my google searches, I mean the sites I clicked on were able to correlate to my personal details that got collected somewhere else, not that google sold my details. The thing that makes me suspect the doctor or pharmacy, though, is that I've done that sort of search in the past, but I didn't start getting the pill mill calls until I got that prescription.
The first link doesnt even contain a proper link/reference to their primary source (unless I missed it).

The second (at least the annotated version) does contain some good links, eg to the IPCC AR5 homepage. The AR5 is a thousand pages long document... and this page itself is also quite long (nothing wrong with that, but you should quote the section of interest).

But lets look at the second source a bit closer. Their first cited claim is:

"Indeed, absent a significant adjustment to how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth will likely become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century."

If you hover over that they say the IPCC says a median (median meaning ~ 50-50 odds higher or lower) warming of ~4 C by the end of the century, yet that paper talks about at least 7 C of warming. So this first claim is simply not supported by the citations and I didnt bother going on.
Diabetes is an incredibly scary disease and we need more focus on the underlying causes and permanent solutions instead of pumping all this money and effort into stop gap measures that perpetuate the problem.
I went to school for furniture design in Savannah. None of the teachers were missing any fingers, but plenty of guys from shops in the surrounding area were. From what I recall all of them had lost fingers from jointers and routers, not table saws.

Loosing a digit from a table saw certainly happens, but some of the other tools are less obvious and equally dangerous menaces.
Cole has no reason to seek Railly on his second time jump. He seeks her because he is in love with her. Railly also makes decisions contrary to cold reason and sticks with Cole.

Don't forget, they had sent multiple agents back in time. None had succeeded. The romantic relationship is a key element of the narrative.
(a) it’s not really theoretical, considering both their public stance on it and the design choices that they’ve made; (b) “but they might change” is a bugaboo that could apply to anyone. An open source project could get compromised, taken over or bought by a malvertiser who replaces the software with a signed malware - and we have ample evidence that this has happened before to many projects (e.g. Chrome addons).
Some of these mitigation tactics seem a little much, given the situation; did the author consider a robots.txt first?