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What’s the consensus on that assertion from The Matrix in which the human race is actually a virus on the planet, slowly consuming its resources and sucking the life out of it and AI is actually going to save the planet from the virus? Other species do seem to have no issue living sustainably within the environment. Humans on the other hand......
Mozilla’s thesis is that attackers wouldn’t be willing to go to this next step (actually uninstalling Firefox and replacing it with a different binary) because antivirus vendors would start treating them like malware.

In other words, it’s not a purely technical solution, it’s a political solution, and the success or failure of such a political solution can only be judged by real world results rather than technical possibility.
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> UX is a by-product of the mess we have made of web development.

UX is about much more than web development. It's about the user's experience of any product or service, including software, vacuum cleaners, attending an event etc.
I could never understand why they were not synced. Its so incredibly frustrating, and the official reason does not help.

I simply don't understand Mozilla anymore. The power users are also the unpaid evangelists/marketers. They seem determined to alienate this demographic while iOS'ifying Firefox for a general audience. Which is great and all until they realize they don't have a marketing budget to complete with Google and MSFT.
Sure. Problem is, if you can see the two disagreeing AoA indications, then you will get the "AoA disagreement" warning light/message, even though you don't need it.

Conversely, if your airline has not ordered the optional AoA indicators, and you'd really want the "AoA disagreement" warning light/message, you don't get it.
javascript is named javascript for marketing purposes. your example is an almost stereotypical misunderstanding by people unfamiliar with java.
And developers need to be at the seat of the designing table, or you end up with things that are impossible to do.
One thing that isn't clear is how effective female trees are at removing pollen from the air. Is it possible that even with a much higher population but a more balanced sex ratio, there would still be a lower airborne pollen count?
The appropriate escalation step here is probably paying a lawyer to send a properly-worded letter on legal letterhead.

As far as dates go, did they use Certified Mail or a similar service? Does the postmark agree with their date or yours? Writing a date on the letter doesn't prove anything about when they sent it.

If it's a scam an not incompetence, a letter from a lawyer will probably shut them up quickly. Litigation usually isn't acquired, you're switching their opponent from a consumer they think they can scam to a professional they know they can't.
I remember being at Gen-Con in the 90's and seeing a game of Harpoon[1] going on. It was pretty amazing seeing all of the ships they were using. Maybe not as impressive as some of the Warhammer setups, but still pretty cool. I remember talking to a few of the folks and they believed it was the best game of this type. Larry Bond was also an author of some note.

1) http://www.larry-bond.com/games.htm
I would volunteer to teach programming, particularly at the high school or junior college level. I teach graduate students now but the real need is for people that really love the material to impart that excitement to students that are just starting to discover it.
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Ask HN: How to Setup a Drop-Shipping or Deal-Sharing Community on Autopilot
Hi,

I wish to start an on-line business, in the quickest, most economical way possible but lack the experience or a lot of funding. I was considering, either, a drop-shipping or deal-sharing community that will run on autopilot, as much as possible. I know of no other on-line business sites that generates good monthly income compared to the above, mentioned, sites.

Since I lack experience, I would welcome suggestions on any other on-line business that would generate monthly income in the $2000 to $5000 USD range.

I've toyed with the idea of paying someone to set up a site but the price is usually very steep, even from folks on Fivver.com.

All opinions, ideas, on-line shop outsource recommendations, or criticisms are welcome and appreciated :)

Best regards,
SM68
If they're on either side of the fuselage and you're slipping, it seems like they'd give different readings. Pitots can give misleading readings if you slip away from the side they're on. I've never flown a plane with an angle of attack indicator.
IANAL. You’re better off paying them off, getting the credit entry removed and then suing them.
Never really understood the need for double entry in the personal context.
He was doing this for probably a month or two, every day I guess.

As for what it did to him. He started getting memory loss and delusional memories (thinking something happened when it didn't), as well as thinking he was "on another level" to everyone and nobody understood him. Nobody understood him because nothing he said made sense. He'd try talking to people and the sentences just didn't make sense. He'd keep getting stuck in loops or go off on weird tangents, which is normal while tripping, but even when he hadn't taken any acid in like 12 hours he'd still be stuck in these loops and tangents. He was basically unaware of reality, and unaware of what was happening to his mind and his psyche. People tried to help him, but he was completely unaware of the damage he was doing to himself and unwilling to accept from others that he might be harming himself.

He makes a lot more sense when talking now (it's been about a month), but he's still not all there.

I feel like part of the problem is that people don't consider "party" drugs like acid or MDMA as particularly harmful or addictive, so they're less aware when they start to use them in harmful ways. At least with benzos (Xanax, Valium) or amphetamines, people are usually aware that they're addictive and harmful when overdone.
Thanks for putting this into perspective, I'm going to start using this fact to refute this tired, cliche saying.

I think there is a particular book that tech company managers read where they are indoctrinated with this Henry Ford saying, anyone know what book it is?
Interesting how in these early wargames (see also H.G. Wells' "Little Wars" from 1913) firing was simulated by a physical action while in modern games this is generally settled by dice or other random number generator.
> It's pretty indisputable that fruit and vegetable consumption reduces CVD, increases mental well-being, and lowers weight.

I'd dispute part of that -- fruit contains significant amounts of sugars, and eating a lot of fruit will result in weight gain.

Eating a lot of vegetables is almost definitely a healthy option, and weight gain is unlikely.
The only reason why we don't plant tons of edible fruit trees in city parks is because they would make a huge mess and attract rodents. But now that we're going to have self-driving robots that can clean up after the trees by the time they're old enough to produce fruit, there really isn't any reason why our park trees shouldn't be producing food for us.
Mid-tier cities give a lot of bang for your buck -- Salt Lake, Phoenix, the midwestern midsized cities (Cleveland, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh), Atlanta, etc. Even Portland compared to other coastal options.

And even in some of the "very expensive" housing markets, you can still find homes that are affordable relative to income within 40 minutes of downtown areas. Chicago and Boston both come to mind.

The primary differences, as far as I can tell, are that:

1) Niche senior positions are harder to find in cheaper cities (think "deep hard tech expertise"). For example, nearly all of the major corporate research labs in CS (MSR, Google Brain, Google Research, IBM Research, Oracle Labs, ...) are in or around expensive CoL areas. On the startup side, "hard tech" startups are very often more capital-intensive so are even more attracted to geographic VC bubbles.

2) Moving up within BigCos is sometimes more difficult if you're in a satellite office.
Does your wife really need the support or is she just being lazy? Be honest to yourself and to us. These days a lot of women don't want to put the time and effort into the house work and taking care of the children, even if they don't work. Why do you need to attend appointments? can't your wife attend them by herself? it is just sitting there at the doctor after all, no? Unless she also works and then you have to decide if your start up is more important than her work and you just don't want to confront her about that.
What you have there is an argument that is true but also unacceptable. It is true that the world is unfair and that pushing it into a fair state is impossible.

However we can't formally accept that as a society without kicking out one of the main pillars supporting the justice system. If we expect and accept that the justice system to produce unfair outcomes it becomes challenging to justify having court appearances. We could get unfair outcomes much more efficiently by just letting the police and DA arrest whoever with regular internal purges against corruption.
I would try to dissect your rambling pile of nonsense, but I have no idea where to start.
I think you need FDE no matter what. e.g. Hibernation will dump your passwords to disk, even if they're only kept in in unmanaged, VirtualProtect'ed memory.
It seems weird that they would ask survey respondents to check their browser settings to determine if they had Do Not Track enabled. DNT status is transmitted over HTTP headers, and is available to JavaScript. Couldn't they have just checked DNT status automatically to get more accurate data?
https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/deciphering-the-fall...
Yes. And what they mean is that the developers who actually build the thing should also think about UX, architecture, testing and compliance. It is all about moving everything on the devs plate.
"Extinct" is not really a good idea to associate your brand with.
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This is nice and all, but what am I going to do with a Windows only password manager? I use several different OSs and a phone. It's pretty much a must that my password manager works on all of them.
I'm very capable of reading the article, and have.

If you had read and comprehended my post, and the post I responded to, you would have seen that the OP was taking offense to the idea that taxi drivers were protesting Uber.

Having read the article, it is clear that the OP is mistaken, because taxi drivers are not protesting.

Hope this helps.
Mastodon doesn't. It's the software. Instance (server) administrators and moderators choose to handle reports.
It has browser integration but it has a client server model so there is nothing to sync with gdrive or Dropbox. So it's more like lastpass than keypass.

You can host your own server and there is at least one alternative server implementation.
It depends on who's being marketed to.

If CockroachDB was being sold to the average person, it'd be an awful name from a branding perspective.

In reality, it's being sold to nerds who probably aren't as off-put by the name and are more interested in what it does as a database. To hit the point home, the database is designed with resilience in mind, just like actual cockroaches!

For something being marketed to the masses, Mastodon isn't great branding. Nobody thinks of Mastodons when thinking of any form of communication, but we all hear birds tweeting every day and have been used in real life to send messages. When asking people to think of something "cute", nobody is going to say "a mastodon". The term "tweet" is considered cute and inoffensive. But "toot"? Most people I know associate that word with flatulence.

Maybe the use of the word "toot" is an subtle admission that most of what people will say on social media is basically shit?

I'm sorry, but nerdy programmers who work on open source are terrible at marketing and have been so since time immemorial. If they could have simply named their software better, they might have had a shot at a "Year of the Linux Desktop". It's like they forget that most people aren't geeks, and then they wonder why the general public doesn't [knowingly] use any of their stuff.
You might be surprised how much money some people are capable of spending.

There does seem to be some conflict between exhorting everyone individually to save more while complaining that the economy is suffering from shortfall in aggregate demand (i.e. people not spending enough money).
I really enjoy this humorous style of design critique, thanks for sharing!
>[email purchase notifications ] I suspect every single major card company or payment application has the same option.

Quick glance at my UK amex says nope
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For confidential work data, unless there is a reason it needs to be used disconnected from the internet, it would be better if it was simply never on the laptop at all. The workplace could just use virtual desktops that never leave the company’s IT infrastructure, but are remotely logged on to from whatever device users need to work from.
You also don’t lose points for having to carefully plan long trips around supercharger availability.

Reliability doesn’t measure maintenance. A Toyota Prius is more reliable than a Chrysler 200 because of the quality of engineering, assembly and components.
While that's (partly) true, it's also pretty irrelevant to whether one can reasonably infer "AoA sensors agree" from the lack of an error notification indicating they don't, when the system that should be providing that notification is, in fact, disabled, because the airline one works for opted not to purchase some premium feature.
Funny, the first thing I get when I think of a mastodon is fur, and that it's a huge animal. I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder... like most branding, TBH.

Having been in the room when working on branding, there's always plausible objections unless the brand is completely anodyne, and by extension terminally forgettable. At the end of the day you just have to go with something that isn't terrible.
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Their code because of bad practices can indeed cause a disaster. Misplacing a decimal in finance can mean millions lost. It doesn't mean they are less capable coders, it means that like the rest of us, they're human.
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> I too hate gratuitous UI changes, but things need to keep evolving.

That's devolution in multiple ways. Your app is now tied to your subscription so there's no competition for best music app. The apps are now high latency bandwidth hogs that require a network connection. Your now held to ransom, stop paying us and you lose your entire music collection.
Anyone have a non-paywall mirror of this? I'd love to read it.
> Or… I could use a shell script to run calculations with SQLite.

I did exactly that and I import the data from the bank’s csv-export once per month. I have a set of sql statements to run and categorize everything and then I manually enter the stuff that isn’t caught by the script. I manually enter cash transactions.

And the end of the year I run a sql statement to generate a report with all of the significant amounts for taxes.
Tesla is like Apple a few years ago. Many people have emotional attachment to the idea of Tesla.
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No matter how bad the UI is, the user will eventually either, get used to it, or find another way around the problem.
JavaScript was inspired by Self. Does Self have a soul?

My neighbor has a Soul. Cute little car.
The USA have a long history of being very supportive of their companies ("regulation is evil!").
Unfortunately, that's the case in most small IT shops. It might be a large bank but I bet the programming team is small relative to other depts. It is just expensive to hire someone to test code. Most general managers don't understand that programmers need help testing code. From their point of view, programmers need to produce error-free code. It takes a strong IT manager to make the case of why new code needs to be tested after a programmer delivers it.

So yes it's common but you could make the case for unit testing and that will make your life a lot easier.
You're right in most cases, although it's doable on very old hardware. Depending on your use case that may be an acceptable tradeoff.
> Unless you are under an active investigation, the chances of your mailed laptop or phone being intercepted and searched are far, far less than if they are on your person at the border.

Inbound international mail is also subject to search by customs, that doesn't just happen to stuff the owner carries across the border.
Unless you burn yourself out once you have a hard time recognizing in the future so as to avoid it. Not saying it's healthy or correct, but there's a reason these jobs tend to attract the best and brightest. Money is a good motivator when you don't have it. When you have it you realize there are other things that can be important to you, but you've got to get the money first.
Which of his books cover those very down to earth issues? That sounds super interesting
I used to think both those things as well...until I worked on an actual software product and then on content marketing for said product. It only took a few months to shake my prior delusions of grandeur.

Important learning: Even though you experience the world as if you are the center of it, it doesn't mean what you do is super important and everything else is "snake oil."
I found that the changes I made to container names and colors were reset, but my hostname assignments remained. I guess those were two different datasets and only one was reset.
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I think we have enough laws. I think at this point, we should have a "one in, one out" rule: government can't make a new law without repealing an existing one.
Over 18,000 banks provide APIs, what bank do you use? Is it a small credit union?
Good question, I forgot about that. I'd have to read through the security guide again. I wouldn't personally worry about that, as I think the system is sufficiently robust against external attacks, but obviously other people's priorities and levels of paranoia may differ.
This is what should happen, but doesn't. It could be that this is specific to my company, but it's quite rare that this actually happens. There are people who have been contractors for 10+ years.
As if the world doesn't have enough pollution
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One way to alleviate that is to defriend or unfollow (hide from news feed) those people who are engaging in one-upmanship, if you're not interested in that. If you want to only passively see what people are up to, this is a good way to do that without being audience to virtue-signalling.

I've found that this is a good habit to work on for in-person relationships as well. Curate your company!
that's not what rate of return means. You might as well say "why do real estate assets appreciate in value on average?"

Why should a real estate asset that does not appreciate in value continue to exist? Assets that don't appreciate in value can be demolished and replaced with assets that do appreciate in value. Assets that appreciate in value have an intrinsic reason to continue to exist; assets that depreciate in value don't have to continue existing. (And yes of course an asset that is depreciating in value should continue to exist if it is being lived in)

Existing housing appreciating in value also does not prevent new housing from being built. If every house is going up in value a little bit each year, an investment-minded person might see this and say "hey, I should build a house, as it will appreciate in value". Once housing -stops- appreciating in value in an area, people stop building additional housing in that area. So appreciation tends to spur construction until the appreciation stops. People don't build additional housing in areas where housing is depreciating in value, so on the average, construction should not be expected to halt appreciation, since appreciation encourages construction specifically in areas where appreciation is likely, and not in areas where appreciation is unlikely.

There are many similar effects that lead to appreciation in value on the average. It's not clear why housing appreciating in value should suggest that "we're getting significantly worse at producing housing/shelter".
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credentials are sent to the bank servers, and a token is stored on the mint servers, credentials are never shared _to mint_
I think it's moreso that these problems are a minority. Yes, they're very bad problems but Tesla, for what I think are obvious reasons, tends to really get the spotlight shined on it when any kinds of issues arise. Media outlets want to get views and anything with Tesla gets views as long as its made out to be as bad as can possibly be. Case in point, I have a Model 3 that needed to get parts replaced (including a back seat) and I was back on the road in less than 48 hours and Tesla gave me a loaner car so that I didn't have to use my insurance benefits.

There are definitely major issues and growing pains with Tesla but I don't think these issues are as common as stories like this are making them out to be. If that was actually the case, you'd see hundreds of these stories popping up. Additionally, I think the situation might be way worse for Silicon Valley just because of the sheer numbers of Teslas in use in that area. The rest of the country is probably not as backed up and strained as that.
So a year from now, when we are flying and see that it’s a 737 Max... who is going to opt for another flight? Everyone? Because this shit is kinda fucked how flippant Boeing was with getting around safety testing.

This video was both hilarious and terrifying.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NhZ0D-JRtz0
Also, one is naturally short real estate (as one needs to live somewhere), so maybe buy one house to be flat, and then distribute remaining savings across other investments.
I assume housing as investment. A lot of people mix personal housing and investment housing... There's a lot of issues with the first one, concentration of assets, lifestyle inflation, etc :)
> if your code isn't important enough to be tested, it's not important to be written

The majority of code that delivers this page to you (web server, OS's, browser, networks, drivers) in a readable way has no unit tests and most of it has very little QA. Presumably you think you shouldn't be able to read this page?

> every function must fit a single screen

A policy by assholes that don't do maintenance. Diving through a million little functions is a lot harder than fewer bigger ones (up to a point). Parroting this show a complete lack of understanding of why long functions can be bad, it's the state not the scrolling.
I'm guessing his greater point was that fiat cash in general loses its value.
The article's title is more clear; this is about a space company.