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To be fair that isn’t much better in my view, given the FCC’s own behavior recently with dark patterns and public commentary on policy changes that the agency itself promulgated and “requested” public input on

Furthermore I’m not even sure if I agree that regulating UI patterns of web application even falls or should fall to the delegated powers of the FCC; this agency primarily concerns itself with interconnected communications systems like the Public Telephone Switching Network, not social networking sites.

We have a consumer financial protection bureau, if a solution should exist at the Federal level, I’d be far less dubious of a bureau that follows a similar framework as the CFPB to establish guidelines and frameworks for handling user data and disseminating data to the user respectively.
Virtually nobody is worried about being able to read their media 500 years out.

While this is true, the lesson I draw from this is the opposite from what you seem to be concluding. I conclude that most people are self-obsessed idiots who waste their lives on meaningless and futile things like "market need" and "survival".
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GoFundMe even used to support funding for legal purposes. They got rid of it because of one legal-defense funding campaign that they disagreed with politically.
He's got my vote now!
Agreed, it's a good thing that police generally don't get involved in contract disputes. There's still avenues for bringing criminal charges I assume.
If you haven't ever done so, please go and read 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail', by Martin Luther King, Jr. I won't try and quote any relevant sections here, as it is far better to read the whole thing;

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham....
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Thanks, that's interesting. I don't recall those caveats being explained very prominently when the "machines beat humans" articles came out about that.
I can't pay my taxes in Crypto, so in that sense I don't think will ever completely replace fiat currency and the banks.
> We also provided Peter reimbursement for the camera, and are seeking additional reimbursement via collections.

So it died at that point because they reimbursed the owner.

This is their only way out at this point. But they took the high ground this time, and it's likely that the bad press will grow until they will compensate the unlucky chap to make this disappear as well.
It's not theft, though. It really is voluntary parting, legally, so it's fraud. Police probably won't do anything. People have been in exactly this same situation with Turo.
I thought this sounded familiar.
It's much worse. The big thing with insulin is being shelf stable vs fast acting. The insulin your pancreas produces is really fast acting, but the Wal-Mart stuff is slow acting. With the fast acting stuff you can manage your blood sugars to a tighter degree. This might not sound like much, but over a lifetime it adds up to many fewer medical complications. It's true the Wal-Mart stuff will work in a pinch (if you know how to use it), but issuing it long term will likely take years off your life.
On top of that, is there even 5 million celebs to begin with? That number seems to high to me.
No, this single thing won't magically fix healthcare in the US, but it's a baby step in the right direction.

If we have to completely solve the problem and overhaul the system in one giant step then we'll never get anywhere.

The insurance companies and hospitals know it, and that's partly why they fight so hard against small changes like this.
The price we pay to try and capture 20-40% of our income in equity instead of it enriching someone else!
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> If each motor is, say, 80 pounds or heavier, then this configuration would likely increase the unsprung mass.

Apparently, the motor on the Tesla Model S is 70 lbs ( https://chargedevs.com/newswire/elon-musk-cooling-not-power-... ). With individualized motors, each would likely be less than this. Combined with the battery weight attached to the car's chassis, I would expect this to result in a lower ratio of unsprung mass to sprung, and thus better handling than typical on a non-battery car.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of the post. As an engineer, I've always wondered what Salesforce was. It seemed like a clunky, expensive piece of legacy software that the "business people" always used.

Since starting a SaaS company myself (Retool; https://tryretool.com), I now understand a lot more, hah. Salesforce, basically, is the source of truth for your customer, for the business-side of things (sales, marketing, operations, etc.). So the stuff we would typically store in our databases (company name, users, how much they pay us, etc.) is stored inside of Salesforce. And Salesforce gives you a bunch of views that a typical company would need — views to update the close date of a contract, the value of a contract, to take notes on a call, etc.

The cool thing about Salesforce is how customizable it is — you can change the database models (e.g. "add a column to the `Leads` table"), as well as change the front-ends themselves (e.g. "I want to display this data in this view"). I've previously used a lot of SaaS (e.g. Slack, Intercom, etc.) and it's always frustrating because I can't customize the views (e.g. in Slack, maybe I want to add a button to mute + clear all the notifications for this channel). Salesforce lets you customize all that, which, frankly, is really cool.

To some extent, Salesforce is like a new way of programming. Instead of writing code, you let non-technical people change models and UIs (and to some extent, controllers).

Happy to answer any questions! If you all think the essay could be improved in any way, LMK too :)

(Edit: added blurb about SFDC being a new way of programming, in response to a comment downstream.)
No, 10–100 billion years is at 462 K, which is a lot hotter than room temperature. At room temperature the estimated lifespan (or, really, the time constant τ) is 3×10²⁰ years.
So basically, if I get a Fake ID (or just do some simple photoshop) I can become a verified buyer on KitSplit. Add in a prepaid Visa card and I can "buy" any camera/drone I want for $100?

Tech companies need to start to accept some liability for the problems they are causing.

Edit: I have a verified fake name. Now I'm waiting to see if they accept my photoshopped ID images.

Edit 2: I now also have a verified Government ID. Here is a screenshot of my totally legit verified profile. https://i.imgur.com/dr61qN5.png
I wonder what % of dollars it is. Since they mentioned >$200k instances...
Do you take into account billions of years of training due to evolution?
Joshua is a really friendly and generous one to run it for all these years. I'd trust this than some corporate who didn't bother to migrate customers.
Are you surprised that the migration is manual? This is Oracle we're talking about, not some software services company that would have resources on-hand to write some internal scripts to take care of that for their customers...

/s
It's a corollary of the common line, “at $COMPANY, we take $ISSUE very seriously.”

A phrase that usually means they don't take $ISSUE seriously at all! Or at least, they didn't. Which is why they're saying it.
> I also believe that in a civilized, developed, wealthy country this should not be necessary.

This I generally agree with, though we will probably disagree on the extent and how much it should cover, what limitations it should put on your behavior etc.

> It's pretty much a market for self-promoters and scammers, not necessarily people who need help.

This, I feel, just describes reality. The squeaky wheel gets the oil, those that ask for help the most, cry the loudest, demand support the most aggressive etc get most of it, not necessarily (and imho rarely) those that need it the most.
For me the best was using a Surface and One Note. It allowed me to load the slides right into One Note, and write notes right on top of them. Hand written if necessary, but preferably typed for legibility.

Now, this isn't without issues, as being on a computer allows for easier distractions. But as long as one stays focused on the class, it can work quite well.
Hypothetically they could require developers to show up in person to their genius bar with government ID. There you would sign a legal agreement.

If you are found to have breached the agreement they'd then call in a swat team to shoot your dog and put you in the rape cage for the rest of your days.

Hypothetically.
Can a VPN pass that, further loading up the Pi?
This should be wildly popular
HN is not nearly as high-profile as we'd like to think.
I’m not sure anyone is suggesting that policy, but “do nothing” seems equally bad, if not worse.
The platform charged a 22% fee to allow this renting of equipment? Why charge a fee if you're not actually going to cover the buyer or seller when your marketplace messes up?

Also, just because you sign an illegal contract doesn't make that contract valid. Many companies will try to tell you "well you accepted our terms when signing up." Well those terms are not on legal grounds.
> some rare instances, such as if a renter commits fraud

That's still super weasely. Why not say: "if the renter fails to return your equipment?"

Oh, because that's horrifying and will scare everyone away.
It's naive and simplistic to actually believe that evil isn't far more nuanced than people sitting in a board room discussing how to screw over poor diabetics.
People interpret these terms differently but you're at least in the right ballpark. At minimum it's a generic tangent, and those always lead to tedious, predictable discussions, and often flamewars. That's why the guidelines bundle the two:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
Polynomial as you stated.
One of the main takeaways is that it’s still running on a very old version of Rails and JQuery.

Maybe not great from a security standpoint but it shows that you do not need a Kubernetes cluster and a big HA setup and a modern language/framework for a profitable project.

Btw, the site does not load past the initial splash quote in Firefox on iOS with Tracking Protection enabled. Disabling tracking protection fully loads the page.
KitSplit, pay us to get split away from your equipment kit
Abusing instance local functional dependencies for nicer number literals
> Because in the end, I genuinely do think that KitSplit is a great idea on paper

Is it..‽

> Additionally, I watched my stolen property being sold on Craigslist — that was the sweet icing on the cake.

Why not use that opportunity to arrange a "purchase"? Either identify the thief by surveillance (follow to their home e.g.) or attempt a retrieval via brute force (hired guard etc)? At least with the thief's identity it might be possible to pursue a legal way to get back the gear or be compensated.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1l16cq/a_friend_found...
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I'm a C# developer interested in WebAssembly. Right now, writing web assembly in C# might be a hard sell because the runtime is so large. Will people figure out clever ways to shrink those runtimes for the web so they're comparable to something Rust/C++/C would generate, or will Rust totally dominate?
... and hope that there wasn't a forced arbitration clause in the TOS!
They might be pursuable under false advertising - if you got a good lawyer you might even get them in conspiracy to commit theft via their poor vetting system. These guys really need to be held accountable.
I was a sceptic, but it’s actually great. The amount of powerful stuff you can do with it, with process builder, platform events and flows, e.g. is incredible. Still super annoying in a lot of ways, but it doesn’t really make any sense to manually build out that stuff, to me anyway
I don't see anything on that slight that indicates whether the numbers are inflation-adjusted or not. $100million in 1980 dollars is ~$300million in 2019 dollars. That's going to eat into your savings quite a bit.

I'm no expert, but a 100x savings seems pretty outrageous to me and 300x even more so.
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Arbitration clauses are pretty good for consumers for small injustices. KitSplit can't litigate an arbitration for even $35,000 dollars, let alone $3,500.
call me a little paranoid but - a RPI security camera. I have it running locally on my network, capturing still pictures of cars/people/things walking by (I live near a train). Its really just a passive monitor, but I'd like to add more difficult things to it like tell me if someone comes within x feet of my house - phone me, or something, it works for now though.
Twisted road offers person-to-person motorcycle rental.

Their stolen bike FAQ says:

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What happens if the bike is stolen?

If a motorcycle that you rented through Twisted Road is stolen, please immediately file a police report and cooperate fully with law enforcement, Twisted Road, the motorcycle owner, and any other authorities related to the investigation. If you are the owner, please immediately contact a Twisted Road representative and follow his or her instructions. Owners should be prepared to file a police report if instructed to do so. You will be able to provide law enforcement with the driver’s license of the rider, the plates, and other important information needed to locate and return your bike.

If you are concerned about having your bike stolen while it is being rented, we encourage you to place a GPS tracker on your motorcycle before each rental.

==========

Basically, you are responsible if your motorcycle is stolen.
I have extended family (two brothers, two nieces, one niece's husband, one nephew) all into Salesforce.com/SFDC development.

Four of them successfully ran a SFDC consulting business for several years with many good clients and lots of junior and senior developers and architects (I joined briefly after leaving SF Bay Area but decided I should go back to building products). The business ran into family-business-squabble problems between two of the principals and dissolved ... however they all stayed in the SFDC game and have done very well, making significantly more (even considering they're contracting) on long-term stable contracts than their software experience would net them at established SF Bay Area companies ... and they all live in much lower cost-of-living areas. I don't think the SFDC game will go away any time soon, either.

There are probably some interesting SFDC development niches, but I would have struggled to maintain interest.
Come a long ways since 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27szyA9mZ8Q.
That's a good point. Not knowing how much something is going to cost could cause an enormous amount of stress to a patient - which could impact their outcome. I wonder if there have ever been any studies done about outcomes where the patients are fully informed about cost, vs being in the dark.
EDIT: In some small claims courts, including CA, you can't have a lawyer represent you.
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It’s not “fairly dangerous to use”. Unlike aspart, Regular is less potent and has a slower and longer activity profile. If you have poor food absorption after a meal, take the wrong dose, or have any other event that would change your insulin requirements, you will find yourself in much sooner trouble with less time to react from aspart versions.
> In fact, court records are presumed to be public as a matter of law. They can only be sealed for valid concerns about privacy, including personal medical records, and to protect company trade secrets.

Yet

> In practice, secrecy has become so ingrained in the system that judges rarely question it. In 85 percent of the cases where Reuters found health and safety information under seal, judges provided no explanation for allowing the secrecy.

Sounds like this needs oversight.
In my experience, Salesforce is replacing emailed excel files and “excel as a database” en masse. It’s kind of interesting to watch these migration of business processes from manual excel to manual salesforce. And it’s not just sales people.
Presumably the amorphous nature of glass lowers the energy barrier to disrupting the stored information. They're using fused quartz glass, as one does.
Maybe I'm just being dumb, but I don't really understand why that makes you reluctant to donate.

It's not like your friend is trying to scam you or anything. That money is actually going to a bill that they are required to pay. Most people I talk to don't even know they can negotiate hospital bills.

Seems weird to act like your friend or GoFundMe is the villain here, when the issue is really a healthcare system that has a "secret menu".
Yeap what has changed is the scale. Never before have states exerted so strict monetary control in such vast areas. For medieval kings it was just impossible to prevent the use of other people's coins.
I am upset that any individual needs a GoFundMe page to get money for a treatment. However, I also know many people who simply make terrible life decisions such as lack of insurance, buy luxury cars/homes and generally live beyond their means. Then, when shit hits the fan they own nothing and have to rely on assistance. I would much rather have the government take the money from everyone then use it to fund healthcare. Most average people are not smart about money.

Also, I recently donated to a family member, even though the treatment she is receiving is in my opinion snake oil. There is 0 peer reviewed studies. I still have mixed feelings about it. I researched what other people experienced with the treatment and results were mostly negative. They sell hope.

I too have a chronic condition, and there are doctors who offer magic solutions for large sums of money. There is a doctor who claims he had the condition and treated himself. Then weeks later his website went up and he now offers the treatment for a tiny sum of like $13k. Desperate people will pay that money for having hope. It is sad imo.

In general regular doctors will be blunt and honest. Doctor needs to tell you that if there is no hope there is no hope and how much time you have or what you can expect. In the practices that operate in grey areas and provide treatments which are not backed up by science people are getting scammed. I have been to one of those places with a family member...everywhere you look they have quotes about hope and not giving up but then when it comes time to leave you are responsible for $3000 for a visit, of course no insurance will cover it. Makes me disgusted, as that money would be better spent trying to adapt to your new condition if possible.

I too had a hard time coping with my condition and honestly the US social safety net is pure garbage. Disability takes two fucking years to get a decision, and you will most likely need a lawyer. You could not even get healthcare before obamacare or pre-existing condition would not be covered. I lost a job and had to pay $600 for cobra insurance. Honestly, just thinking what I had to go through makes me want to go back to Europe.

Edit: Apologies that this turned into a rant.
This is the "high/low trust society" distinction; just as there are societies where nobody is on time for meetings and nobody expects them to be, there are some societies where people expect strangers to be very likely dishonest and others where people expect a high baseline honesty.

High trust is a substrate which enables lots of great things to happen. But it's also a resource which can be mined by people for profit, and I worry that a lot of the West is in the process of transitioning into a low-trust society, with a lot of people profiting along the way.
Will a funny 30 second video to kick off your fantasy football draft ever not be worth $100?
>If this had been true, you could just toss coffee grounds into hot water and it would foam up.

Jeez, dude... That's EXACTLY what happens. It's called a "bloom". Here, first hit in Google - https://www.roastycoffee.com/coffee-bloom/

>Really? Any uniformity in grind will block machine? Could you explain physics behind such phenomenon please?

Yes, really. Give it a try. Better yet, read a book on a subject. Something like Blue Bottle's intro into coffee making.
The CC is likely stolen. Any deposit or replacement fee will be disputed by the actual owner and charged back.
I really enjoyed Home Coffee Roasting by Kenneth Davids: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Coffee-Roasting-Revised-Updated/...

It's not about grinders but it spends a few chapters on how coffee is produced and how different factors/regions can affect its flavor. It's an excellent primer on coffee in general, and of course on roasting at home (though the chapter on machines at the end is a little outdated).
The DETOUR Act empowers the FTC to do this, not the FCC. The FTC already has the responsibility of policing "unfair or deceptive acts or practices" and this is an extension of that.

The bill is 13 pages long. There are affordances for small businesses, this bill would only apply to "large online services" with 100 million users or more within a 30 day period. It seems to be a very thoughtfully written piece of legislation.

https://www.scribd.com/document/405606873/Detour-Act-Final
I'm not a fan of Oracle by any measure, but what you are stating just is not true.

MySql is going strong and is very actively developed. (even if Oracle is predictably trying to have more features in the Enterprise Edition). I'd still always choose Postgres, but that's besides the point.

Java has undergone very positive modernization and change over the last couple of years, following a long period of stagnation, and is the opposite of dying. (Also here, one has to warn though that Oracle is probably trying to abandon the JVM in the long term and move over to GraalVM for monetization).
Which is the fundamental problem with private healthcare.

Fine if you win the genetic lottery. Not so much if you’re born with pre-existing conditions.
Their argument is that theft is when someone comes and takes your stuff.

Voluntary parting is when you voluntarily hand it to someone, lending or renting, and they fail to return it. Theft on the other hand is called involuntary parting.

Not sure how much of a gray area this is. If I don't return a car from the dealer for a test drive and am caught, I'll be charged by police with theft, not voluntary parting. Likewise with car and equipment rentals.

It seems like the distinction is something that only comes up in the text of insurance policies, and is not an actual legal principle from criminal law.

Police see it as theft and it's a criminal act.

But the contract you agree to defines it as voluntary parting, doesn't cover it, and does cover theft, which never happens and isn't possible on their platform, so they never have to do anything except collect a big share of the rental fee.
> I am going to leave it because it's interesting. But think that the above is a photoshop.

Why do you think that?
The dev's justification:

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2365#issuecomment...
I wonder if that 0.1% number is legit.

If so, it seems like KitSplit could just tack a few bucks onto the fee and cover these types of thefts.

Assuming a $5K mean price and 0.1% incidence, that would be a $5 fee / rental to cover the expected loss.
Does this open a door or a cat door? I’m just imagining breaking into places by wondering around holding a picture of a cat.
It's voluntary on part of the owner. They understood the risk of handing off the goods.

A lot of the law is based on intent - did you want to kill Jack or you didn't see him when you reversed with your forklift?

So the intent there matters. What this guy can argue in a court is that the risk was misrepresented by the company, and then it becomes theft if he can prove that he was duped into this contract.