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I never said that all cyclists, motorists, or pedestrians are "assholes". I just said that if a cyclist tries to act like a pedestrian at cyclist speed, then collisions (with pedestrians and/or motorists) are more likely.
Normally the thing that prevents higher refresh rates in PWM is the time constant. Considering OLED has a response time of a few microseconds. You could probably get away with a 1-2 kHz strobe without adding a noticeable amount of blur.

What I want to see is higher refresh rates to avoid apparent blur from sample and old.
The Taiwanese are hardly unified around those ideals of the ROC, many still see it as an invader even if they can now express those sentiments at the ballot box.
I was just thinking about this the other night... my waitress's name was Leslie and I remember hearing that it had been predominantly a male name. Maybe that's not accurate, I didn't see it in the list. Regardless, it's interesting (but not surprising, really) to me that shifting masculine to feminine is way more common than vice versa. I wonder how universal that is across cultures.
i have a lifted truck but i'm cheap so i just wrapped a length of chain around the cat, secured with shitty padlocks i had laying around. doesn't actually have to be secure, just look like enough of a PITA to remove that the thief moves on.
Likely billable rate of $100-$150 at 2000 hrs per yr. Earlier on during the iOS dev crunch of 2010-2012 billable rates were hitting the $200+ mark. From 2013-2016 those rates dropped down to $150, in the past 4 years those rates plummetted to $80 and now lately even $40. Unless you're working on extending some native API or have expertise in the newer ARKits and HealthKits or you're adding value elsewhere in terms of PM or design or marketing it's harder to justify the magical $100 rate.
A watch that needs to be charged once in a few days is actually worse than one that could use a charge every night.

Charge at night is a habit that can easily be adjusted to our daily schedule. btw Apple watch does last a full day (I meant 16+ hrs) with decent use, unless you are playing music out of it all the time or obsessively checking time/calendar.

Only advantage of fitbit is that some models are easier to wear to sleep, particularly if you don't need to charge at night. However, even here, apple one is way ahead - the theater mode will make sure the super bright led at the bottom won't wake you up.
I don't think this is true... Apps below iOS 13 won't be able to use the new system-defined UIColors, yes, and users below iOS 13 can't change to the dark-mode using a switch in the Control Center, yes.

But you've been able to change the "user interface style" for view controllers since iOS 12 [0]. And you've been able to add UIColors to asset catalogs that change depending on that setting since iOS 12 as well.

I'll be honest, I haven't tried this myself. But either this works or Apple's documentation is wrong.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiuserinterf...
Do explain where they get the interest they pay the depositor of the cash.
According to what? According to who?
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UX doesn't usually factor into purchasing decisions at bigcorps anyway. It's usually a matrix with products on rows and desired features in columns. The chosen product is the one that ticks all the boxes. Engineers who bring actual domain knowledge into the discussion are ignored because more complex background information and criteria means more work and more discussions with the board.
Agree on this very much
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What leads you to believe that a cryptocurrency that is a viable money substitute is deflationary?

The current crop of global-consensus CA AP and CP systems underpinning fixed-issuance (deflationary) or clumsy dynamic issuance (eg. USDT, etc.) are nothing like the systems that will eventually provide a humanity-serving monetary system...

Everything you see now is "Pre Model-T", in automobile terms. You'll see little if any of it in use in a few years as "money", but cryptocurrencies are going to Tear the Doors Off the financial system.
It's more they they habitually run red lights and go the wrong way. It's very easy to not see them coming from a direction that a car can't come from when they're obscured by parked vehicles.
Sorry, for a moment I forgot how disgusting humanity can be.
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I'm in agreement that tether looks very much like scam. There is no way to audit holdings, and it definitely should not be trusted. You essentially trading crypto for promise to deliver fiat without any guarantees of fiat handling institutions

I don't necessarily agree that the same estimate applies to the rest of cryptosystem. The promise that it holds is the one where money is separated from governments. Crypto, such as bitcoin aspires to be anonymous, untraceable and fungible. Now: bitcoin is unfortunately neither at this stage, but that's the spirit it used to have in the beginning. The whole "money laundering" is a made-up crap. It's the establishment trying to control people through monetary means, and since establishment controls financial industry, they made it easy for themselves to confiscate people's money via absurd laws and absurd regulations. This is what crypto is trying to fix. It is money, that government can not take away. Now, again: I'm not having an illusion that if they would really want, they wouldn't. But it's hard. And it's even harder to do it on the massive scale, like they do with all their bullshit QE. It's sad that crypto is associated with bad actors though.
It seems if they buy fitbit is because they are no longer really "scared" of it, they aren't going to buy it just to keep fitbit a completely separate product.
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No, not solved. They will just use a jack. And since they don't care about damaging the frame they can employ it very quickly.
It does partially solve the problem. Protected intersections make lanes of walking and biking much more obvious to drivers, and the curbs are such that drivers slow down more and have better visibility.
How are Facebook ads a public forum? They send an ad to the viewer of a page. They can, and do, control viewer-by-viewer who sees which ads. That's like sending an ad to a mailbox.

But I wish I could reject direct mail campaigns...
> Note that this is a horrible security issue. The newlines cause the text to be immediately executed if I pasted it into a command line window.

Modern terminals & shells guard against this. Modern *nix terminals emit special "paste bracketing" codes around the pasted text, which the shell can use to turn off handling of newline (such that you just get a multiline input instead of executing text). I don't know about Windows but I would hope Windows terminals have similar capabilities.
> Why wouldn't you spend all your money just to prolong your life a bit longer?

Money doesn't work that way. Fixing the problems that can be fixed usually isn't a crippling amount of money.

And when hospice is expensive, it's not because any notable treatment is happening, it's just to give you a place to live.
The US is in a fortunate position with regards to public transportation. It doesn't need to invent anything new at all to dramatically improve its position: copy the things in Europe and places like Japan that work. It makes it all the more annoying that we're lagging so hard on the copying when it's so obvious.
You may have a bit too much faith in people.
It might be worth considering the political fallout of the platform Congresscritters use to get elected refusing to deal with them.
> Wherever they draw the line, they're going to reject someone's ad, and be exposed to screams of how they're biased for the other side

Today it's not about being "unbiased" and objective, it's about receiving equal amounts of bias allegations from both sides. That's what the NYTimes has done, liberals are saying it's not harsh enough on Trump.
Right, the concern is not unfounded, but maybe a bit counterproductive without context. There are many resources we already exploit very inefficiently, and the sustainability of those is a real worry, but the general carrying capacity of Earth and the solar system is really really vastly huge, we just do very dumb things to ourselves economically speaking. (This is of course the coordination problem, and it's hard, as human behavior is what it is.)
Nothing extra-ordinary to be honest. The application has built-in tools for fetching weblogs over SFTP and creating business rules for parsing different types of events in the logs - e.g. downloading the installer, reading tutorial, etc. The events are then aggregated and inserted into a database that contains various historical metrics that allow me to get an idea about user engagement and trends. Visually designing the logic provides the advantage of flexibility - I can quickly experiment and fine tune the parsing algorithms and metrics without coding, as well as do ad hoc calculations in order to answer spontaneous questions.
> i) the US wants to forbid other countries to have a chance to win in pure capitalistic games. Thus, it will block strong investors from certain countries but let itself to invest in the same countries.

Don’t you mean China instead of the US? They invest in America what they won’t let America invest in China, especially in tech. China is hardly an open market itself.
Why would we want to make it more expensive to bike, when it's better for the environment and saves the city money as it is?

Some German cities are going in the opposite direction, giving subsidies for people to purchase electric cargo bikes.
My take is that the only reason we have a feeling of a continuing thread of subjective consciousness is due to memory. The cells in our bodies are continuously being replaced, and there are breaks in our consciousness when we are asleep (or otherwise unconscious). So if a being has an identical brain structure to mine and identical memories, it IS me as much as I am. If you simultaneously delete me and create this copy, it's as much still 'me' as if I'd simply moved my body to a different location. The fact that it's comprised of different physical matter is irrelevant. It would have all of my abilities, thoughts, feelings, memories, and beliefs—it would be me. It would happily continue my subjective experience, relieved that the procedure to prolong life via this backup procedure apparently 'worked'.

If you created multiple copies, they would all be equally 'me', although obviously yes, as they then went on to live different lives, they would become different people from each other, just as there are many different paths my life could take looking into the future now.
You may be right that dark modes are advantageous for some people, but please don't assume that this is true for everyone.

In particular, dark modes may become more difficult as you get older. I'm 67 and I have a great deal of trouble reading text in a dark mode.

There is a physiological reason for this, and if you do any photography using manual aperture control you may be familiar with it. Very high quality lenses should be sharp whether the iris is wide open or stopped down. But mediocre lenses have trouble wide open and give better sharpness stopped down to a more narrow aperture.

As you get older, the lenses in your eyes are not as good as they were when you were younger. There is a benefit in sharpness to have your irises stopped down instead of wide open.

Light modes accomplish this. The background light naturally triggers your irises to stop down, resulting in a sharper and more detailed view.

Dark modes encourage your irises to open wider, reducing your visual acuity.

Of course many people do enjoy dark modes, so there will never be a way to please everyone! But please consider not making dark mode your only mode.
I don't know about Apple-land, but if we're going for generic advice, I'm in favor of black on mobile, because it not only doesn't ghost purple on AMOLED screens, it saves battery life in a very visible way.
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Monero is unfortunately not really anonymous either in many common scenario's, like repeatedly sending payments to or from the same address. [0] It's definitely better than Bitcoin though, but far from anonymous.

Overall I think that cryptocurrencies (and the internet overall) could use some better privacy strategies. Tor-like routing, no possibility of finger printing, etc.

[0] https://slideslive.com/38911785/satoshi-has-no-clothes-failu...
Same experience for me, but I do understand that they don't snuggly fit everyone's ears.
Not in a world where jacks exist...
Your timeline and mine align somewhat. I got out of military by 2007 and started up working for the fruit company in 2008/2009 then went outside to but stayed within the iOS ecosystem from 2011 to 2013 and did indie work from 2014 onwards. I'm opting for product roles instead of engineering roles as it's a better story fit for explaining how to use my product leadership skills and leaving the dev part to the younger and cheaper leetcoders they want to groom.
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I cut mine out of my trucks and put a straight pipe in. Sold them myself. Only able to do that in a state that doesn't regulate citizens to poverty.
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Perhaps, if you have not already, put in a "buy this car now" feature into the app for the dealer and the clients. It should spring up after a certain amount of time, and/or at journey end.

That way the dealer can use this as a way to manage clients trying before they buy, and every rental client is a potential buyer.

Obviously allow the dealer to make offers to the client, but non-obviously allow the renter to make offers to the dealer. And obviously take a (small to start) commission.
Considering that Google's primary revenue is through advertising, and digital advertising's two main problems are (a) identity and (b) context, yes, it is still very much about linking, even if they need to prop up smaller projects or loss-leaders to collect the appropriate data (the secondary value proposition acts as a stepping stone to the first).
Best watch I ever owned.

Huami Amazfit Bip comes close, but has no apps and needs touch input to function (no music control either). It does measure your pulse and last 30+ days, though.

I would easily pay hundreds of € for the best of those watches with an open source OS.

But instead manufacturers stick to touch operated OLED screen watches that last no more than a few days, with Android Wear ones often not even lasting 1.

Dude, why?
> “It can be selected” for only through the blind process of chance, which isn’t really selection at all.

Selecting is not blind, selecting is sexual or based on survival. The mutation that changes the rate of other mutations is random, but once that mutation occurs it can be selected for via normal means.
Oh yeah, Leslie Lamport!
Why would you buy such an ad given that almost every election in the US is geography bound?
I have an alternative simple rule: laws should save more victims then they create. And anyone who is punished by the legal system counts as a victim of the legal system here of course. In other words, it's a matter of violence reduction, and the war on drugs is a dramatic failure by this metric.
Doesn't have to but could be. And with Alphabet being the giant it is, anything that reasonably could be happening probably is. And I find it a reasonable and scary possibility, even if it's not the primary reason for the acquisition.
So instead of tiny, expensive headphones last 18-24 months, you had an even more expensive cassette player which might last 5 years, with headphones that lasted less than a year, and expensive bulky rechargeable battery packs which lasted about 6 months if you were lucky.

How is this better than a set of headphones which last 18+ months? Just the NiCd battery packs were something like 20 times bulkier than the AirPods and lasted less than a third the time with careful use. Normal replacement cycle on those battery packs would be more expensive over 2 years than my AirPods, particularly if you consider inflation.
Life is really different on the inside tho. You move way, way slower and spend more time dealing with people than with code.
This is the same man who tried to suck up to the PRC by asking Xi Jinping to name his daughter. If he actually tried to run for POTUS, it would be a shitshow.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/119106...
For sure, I mean I always knew I could find something else looking around, but I was into the idea of having something that connected super easily and that I could trust would work. Plus half of my co-workers had them and swore by them, word of mouth is a powerful thing.
Is there a version of this article with just the facts? I don’t want to read all that extra bullshit
Smoking kills and is addictive. If I die from smoking, is it the fault of the girl working in the tobacco shop next door? Of course not. I knew that smoking was dangerous (it says so on the box, and it should) but I did it anyway. Maybe it was hard to stop, but that doesn't mean that it's another person's fault. Maybe it was nobody's fault.
I consulted for an automobile manufacturer that was looking to acquire a new catalytic converter start-up.

One of the main reasons for their interest was the fact that this new catalytic converter used 30% less palladium than the next leading product.

The other was because of the looming fleet fuel efficiency requirements. If the total fleet fuel efficiency was below the target, the companies would get fined for emissions on a mpg basis. You could also earn additional revenue if your cars had better mileage than were necessary since credits were tradeable.

Other things that were considered included mileage improvements/savings that could potentially be used to differentiate between competitors since catalytic converts could also improve fuel efficiency.
Intent. The law always uses intent. To compare political ads to the list below is facetious at best and I was calling out one example of content that could be moderated with protection and comparing it to a political ad. You seemed bothered by the comparison. As would most rational folks be. Not sure why this is difficult to understand.

(2)Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—

(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
First, this is a great and original (AFAIK) post. Kudos to the author!

Second, I actually find the most interesting fact to be completely unmentioned by the author: that in the first chart (greatest absolute changes), of the 30 biggest swaps, only two were female->male, while the other 28 (over 90%!) were male->female.

It's a remarkable fact -- makes me think of how it's historically been much more acceptable for women to adopt men's styles of clothing, but much less accepted for men to adopt's women's styles of clothing. And with names being equally "fashionable", this fits the same trend.

This also explains what I'd observed but never articulated about late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction: how come so many men have what are to me "women's names"?

Utterly fascinating.
But you and they are calling maoism and dengism "basically the same thing". That's about half a degree from calling communism and capitalism the same thing. With Chinese characteristics for both, of course.

Anybody who knew China would know exactly why I picked 40 years. It's 2 very different governments.

So I get that you'd consider them "the enemy" in both cases but could this be a teachable moment?

How has America typically done when we wade into shit we don't understand, perfectly convinced that we're the good guys?

How has it typically worked out for the 'liberated'?
> I bet there is no option to download my data and nuke what they have before this happens either.

Are you based in the EU? If so then you can do exactly that under GDPR.
Is Fitbit location history covered by HIPAA?
The challenge around issues like this, is that the informal separation between "trusted" and "untrusted" software used to be formalized (by coincidence) as a technical distinction: software you installed to your computer could do whatever it wanted, but you put more thought into whether or not to use it in the first place than you do when you click a link.

Now that those cases are combined into a single technical platform, it's difficult to tease them back apart when it comes to level of trust.
Rental cars also have much lower value than non rentals
And we all walked right into that one...

I guess "how to successfully do X" of the type of clickbait HN readers enjoy.
There are no "pure" capitalistic games being played. The US and China interfere to varying degrees.

Talking about slavery in this context is also ridiculous.
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Sorry for the misunderstanding. I just feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading these comments.
> Whereas the bland, meaningless stuff will always be free of any misleading content, and be subsequently approved.

I'm not sure what media you consume, but TV and radio ads always seem filled with misleading content about political rivals.
In your example, the company fails.

The investor now has an investment in nothing, worth zero dollars.

The worker has $100k.
Probably. At the same time, two years is a lot of time, and maybe enough to spend some time around many satellites such that it's hard to tell what's upgraded and what isn't. For hedging opponent behavior, it may be more beneficial to have 100 satellites with a 10% chance of being upgraded than 10 satellites with a 100% chance. And that's assuming that's even what it did, there's a lot of possibilities. When it comes to surveillance capabilities and maintenance/upgrades of that system, I would consider anything from an official source as an "unreliable narrator."
I thought Crystal was...

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> The basic point is, you can have control over a program someone else wrote (if it's free), but you can never have control over a service someone else runs, so never use a service where in principle a program would do.

If I'm reading this correctly, Richard is simply saying that SaaS(S) takes away your freedom to compute and manipulate software/data if there's a (free) program that can be run on your local computing environment.

I've never really thought of using SaaS as someone else taking away my freedom.

I understand the concept of lock-in and the possibilities that should I no longer pay the vendor then the software stops being available to me (but my data is still mine), but I don't feel my freedom is being taken away.

And isn't Richard's argument the equivalent of saying that the banking system is taking away your freedom to spend your money because you COULD setup a safe at home and store all your money in it? Some problems are hard to solve and paying someone else a nominal fee to use their platform, which solves that hard problem, isn't taking away your freedom.

> A user of the server would send her data to the server, which does her own computing on the data thus provided, then sends the results back to her or acts directly on her behalf.

Case and point: what happens when the user in this scenario is using a MacBook Air but wants to compute a large sum of data using a complex, time consuming algorithm? Go out and buy a cluster of systems to maintain software freedom, or pay AWS for some services (they likely offer), SaaSS if you like, to do it for you in 10 minutes for $0.45?

If anything such services are giving you more time and money, and therefore freedom.

EDIT: added in example of a hard problem