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> Massively increase taxes on all kinds of fossil fuels; no matter if used for driving or for electricity (initially ease this in regions with difficult/bad public transportation).

It isn't really necessary to ease this in at all if it's used to fund a dividend. Paying $5000 more for gas and electricity is no problem when you get the full $5000 back. All it does is make it cheaper to do something different than you are doing, because then you still get the $5000 but don't have to spend it all -- which is exactly the point.

You might even want to go the other direction in that case -- raise the tax in regions with bad transit, which would also increase the dividend in that region and give people there more incentive to at least buy electric vehicles etc., since they're the region with the highest carbon emissions per capita and most in need of remediation.

> On the packaging of any product (from bottled water over electronics to toothpaste) print the amount of energy used in production and for transportation.

Most people aren't going to care, and the carbon tax should take care of it anyway by making wasteful products cost more.

> Punish producers of goods that break early (e.g. define minimum durability requirements for various product groups).

Same thing there. The combination of "things cost more but you have more money (from the dividend)" causes the market to start to have a preference for durable goods, without actually harming the economy because it always nets to zero.

You really can let the market solve the whole problem just by pricing carbon appropriately. There is no need to micromanage it.
"extremely hostile" sounds hyperbolic. Unless you were somehow attacked, threatened, sent a C&D, or had an account disabled, they simply steamrolled over your opinions.

And they are far from the first consumer-facing company to deal with user backlash when a new feature came out. Facebook notoriously got an onslaught of negative opinions and sometimes press when a feature in the UI changed. The UI never caused any significant migration away from Facebook, only the privacy/surveillance concerns, vitriol, and the "embarrassed by my parents" un-cooling of the platform caused users to leave.

From what I read here and elsewhere about feedback from customer service, I suspect there is a push from management down to product to hit certain targets (I don't have visibility into Slack's internal metrics, but this is exactly how it presented in my previous company).
Too much PRC input perhaps?
Idealism didn't account for humanity
As a counter anecdote, I had no such reaction. It felt no more "real" than a game played with my mouse and keyboard.

The only time I hit the ground was when I tried to go into a crouch and had the floor height misconfigured. That left a mark.
Because, without a doubt, Medium profiles are the way to meet your dream mate.
> The log of OS components successfully starting up, as indicated by the green [ OK ], is what many people already identify systemd with. This made it a natural choice to derive our visual identity from.

That's an interesting comment, since the green [ OK ] was in use for bootup messages long before systemd was a thing. Nothing about it says "systemd" to me.
Yes, but don't forget that those "special" investors were funded by even richer, special-er investors.

Softbank funded WeWork via the Vision fund, which is primarily funded with Saudi money.
No kernel patch to replace Tux with the systemd logo?
How would you project it onto the person without giving away their position?
Are you ready to help SAP Commerce Delivery teams to migrate to the cloud?
It's not hard to find CRI 95 led bulbs. I have a couple that are CRI 97. They really do look like incandescents (or at least, much much closer than typical leds). The only issue I've had is that you only seem to be able to get them up to around 800 lumens.
Locality, family, profession were the classics. Its literally how most cultures named people.
You're making a (large, most likely incorrect) assumption that 25% of a given town is made up of ra(p|c)ists. I suspect if you got down to it, you'd find it's most like 1% or less in the 'bad' areas, and the major difference of the makeup between 'rural' and 'coastal-urban' is that 1% in the rural area is incredibly vocal. See 'the three Cooters theory of Internet Discourse' https://monsterhunternation.com/2019/07/16/the-three-cooters...
Yeah, It works. That is not high praise though. That is like the opposite of high praise.
To be honest I'm surprised that there wasn't any backlash. I find the weight and attractiveness jokes that GLaDOS throws at the player absolutely hilarious. But that can be a touchy subject, especially with Chell as the protagonist instead of, say, Gordon Freeman.
Interesting digression: In Japan there was a recent fad of cleaning toilets with bare hands. A sort of hyper-stoic discipline exercise. It's not as big as western media makes it out to be, the story mainly revolved around a volunteer group that cleans public toilets with their hands.

https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/the-tao-o...
Since it says it takes place between HL1 and HL2, what cliffhanger could there be?

You can subscribe to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrMEAJ54k0d2Gvjof4GF6Vg/vid... if you want a daily update on HL3 news. But the other comment's link to the writer's conclusion is worthwhile for closure since we'll probably never get the game version.
That's the exception though. You could probably still use incandescents for that purpose (I believe the EU regulations have exceptions for this kind of thing). Most people can use LEDs just fine.
You have to use the FastMail app if you want to send from an email alias. That's the only reason I have for not using the native iOS mail app. Please let me know if you have a workaround!
Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that claims you have a problem with your bank account and links you to a fake bank login page that steals your credentials?

Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that falsely claims that a certain candidate has dropped out of the race, or that the election date has been changed?

Do you think that Google should allow an advertisement that falsely attributes words or actions to a certain candidate? (e.g. imagine an ad that falsely claims "Candidate X has changed her position on issue A.")

If you have different answers for some of these questions, then your view is more complicated than "I don't want Google to be the judge of the validity of claims."
What a waste of graphic design.
In politics the opinions actually matter.

In politics, all sides are wrong about something big. And it isn't clear whose mistakes are bigger. More importantly, all parties promote narratives where we argue about inconsequential items to distract the public from bigger issues.

For example in the USA, Republicans argue against universal healthcare even though their own internal analyses show that, done right, we would save money and have better healthcare outcomes. Democrats argue for a level of micromanagement in regulation that creates bad outcomes for everyone. Republicans have politicized basic science and generally believe it to be propaganda. Democrats put political correctness above sanity. And so on and so forth.

But neither party wishes to discuss the fact that we have become a surveillance state, with an insane legal system, and a prison system that is one of the horrors of the world. They do not wish it discussed because party leaders have reasons to continue these policies, but according to polls a solid majority of Americans, across political parties, would prefer these policies discontinued. See, for example, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeawa... and https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/nov/6/polls-show-p... for evidence of that.

Therefore the fact that politics is about something that matters is an argument that team A vs team B rhetoric is itself actively destructive. The more important you believe the issues to be, the more that you should aim to depolarize the discussion.
Uber embraces videotaping rides, raising privacy concerns
Small correction: The first book is Leviathan Wakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#The_Expanse_...
How to use Python (code provided) to get historical data from Binance
What if the person who copies you also controls the marketplace, and prioritizes their copy above your original? That seems much closer to what Amazon is doing.
For occasional use, drugs give a lot of bang for the buck. I've met lots of folks doing them recreationally from time to time, but 1) it isn't just low-income folks and 2) Some personalities just pass completely, and lots of folks 'grow out' of some of them. I certainly have done more drugs, both illicit and legal, when I've had spending money compared to when I didn't. And then, it was generally a bottle of $5 wine. I can have a glass or two after work but certainly not drop acid after work and expect to go to work in the morning. You can quote that 5 hours, sure, but you probably need to have 8 hours free. (I have lots of experience with acid: I have completely lost track at how many hits I've done over the years).

There is also difference between that sort of recreational use and addiction, though. Even if you do acid as much as possible for it to really be effective, you aren't doing it that much. Heroin? Sure. Alcohol? Definitely.

And it depends on, say, the type of alcohol you buy. When I lived in the states, I worked at a pharmacy for years. We regularly sold a half gallon of vodka (and whiskey, gin, etc) for $10 or less. now, I don't know about you, but I could get me and a few friends pretty drunk from that one bottle. Heck, we could get fairly drunk on less than that - a 750ml bottle would do pretty well with 2-4 of us. Plus, alcohol is readily available. Not everyone knows where to get illicit substances, nor is everyone willing to risk losing their children over it. Acid carries a fairly tough penalty and your price is per person. Per experience. Isn't always available, even to those that use lots, unless you are in the right part of the world in a large enough city. There is a liquor store in most towns.
No no, you don't need aliases for that. You can set up a catch-all at something like service@spam.yourdomain.com and have as many of those as you like, no 500 limit.
It's an interesting choice by Valve. They're basically making a bunch of white men play as a black woman. In practice I agree with the other response that it's not a big deal. Most VR experiences either race or gender swap me (I'm a black male) or turn me into an abstract form or a robot. It can be disorienting at first but you get used to it.
Yeah, if it becomes common enough, I suppose you are right. But since this is a whole class of "phrasal verbs" that all have the same rules, it seems less likely that that is going to happen any time soon, as opposed to something like "all right" changing to "alright" which is more of a discrete case.

There is also the issue that phrasal verbs are often split up or rearranged ("when will they shut it down?" "it is shutting down", etc), which isn't all that compatible with merging into one word.

Anyway I'm glad to see they changed the title on HN, even if I got downvoted for my complaint. :) I appreciate your pointing out the value of this discussion, though! ("it's these sorts of debates that determine what the end result will be.")

I'm personally ok with the non-literal use of the word "literal," but that's a different tangent...
Why real person fiction “jinxes” Hollywood actors but not singers&what to do
Hmm, I think you'll find that SystemD has existed since Linux sprang fully-formed from Lennart Poettering's forehead in 2010.
That makes sense. You could use the scenery from the game (although you would probably provide more for more open world gameplay than in the VR game) and also create FPS specific mechanis such as open world puzzles etc.
> what you think is irrelevant

If Slack thinks this, they are only 2-3 years from getting overtaken by a disruptor. I don't think they do.

How much sway angry emails have over actual usage is a different question. Facebook notoriously used analytics and A/B tests to decide if feature changes stayed, not angry complaint messages.
Yup - it was a typo, now corrected. Thanks.
Not being selfish?
Usually you can get a new NAS really cheap on Black Friday. Even today you can get a 119j for $103, which isn't much more than a rpi with card and case.

https://www.newegg.com/synology-ds119j/p/N82E16822108418
I'd suggest that no corporate "loves" or "likes" anything :)

They're there to make money, simple as that (whether they should be or not, is a whole other discussion).

What tends to get in the way is internal politics and hubris, where a company gets ossified and scared of change.

There's plenty of examples of this (Nokia, Blackberry, Novell etc etc). A bold company will be willing to change even at the apparent cost of one of their own products.

MS have done a pretty effective job, under Satya Nadella, of realising that clinging to the past isn't effective and that they need to be willing to move with the times.

The argument, that I felt the article made, that this is some EEE strategy is (IMO) misplaced. I think MS has no intention of trying to extinguish Linux (if such a thing was even possible), they're adapting to the new reality.
it's funny, VR doesn't give me motion sickness but browser parallax stuff does. i don't think i've ever seen a good implementation of this and i've seen tons of attempts. highjacking scroll just never feels good.
The world is so much more complicated than this.

Everything Joshua Morton said but also:

What is identity? A name? An SSN? How do you verify that for people in all the countries of the world?

How do you do that at scale? With hundreds of millions of users, you can't exactly call them up.

How many users are you going to have after you start adding measures to verify their identities at signup? How will the board of directors feel about that? And feel free to run your own company into the ground doing the right thing, but there are other email providers in the world who will happily accept the users you drive away.

What happens when people have their accounts taken over and start spamming? Were the accounts ever "real"? How can you even know?

What happens when the reports themselves are spam? Spammers will report other spammers to remove the competition. Or they'll just overwhelm it with useless fake reports to DOS your human reviewers.

You have to realize that every input to your system is a potential avenue for abuse. There are people sitting there all day thinking about how to prevent you from achieving your goals. Humanity went to the moon, we're problem solvers. If there's a way to manipulate and undermine your spam defenses it will be found.
I really do wonder why Azure is so slow. You have to optimize somewhat aggressively to squeeze average performance out of Azure SQL, for instance.
Ugh, paywall. Here's a non-paywall article: https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2019-11-21/s...
Completely untrue. Even if all you do is take advantage of the investment opportunities that someone with, say, a million dollars get access to that someone with 20 doesn't, it's easy to grow large amounts of money.

"To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable". Edgar Bronfman
>You should have that at the start or somehow make it obvious what you have done in quoting the article.

I figured most people would be able to figure it out.
Plenty of places in the world still where people will start fights over soccer team colors...
The MANIAC Computer
Linux is the kernel and when in a distro is linux/gnu.

So in this case Microsoft loves the kernel not the desktop environments
Team Fortress started as a Quake mod.

Valve bought the developers and got them to create Team Fortress Classic the goldsrc engine (which started out as the Quake engine).
To some degree you can get products with longer lifespans, if you look at commercial/industrial models. Sometimes you have to sacrifice fancy features though.

I think the reason consumer products mostly suck is that manufacturers have been hiding inflation by cheapening construction. Occasionally it's for weight savings, but I think keeping prices lower is the main reason. People don't realize they're getting vastly inferior products to the one they or their parents had a generation ago, until it's too late.
Gmail takes about 30 seconds to load for me, FastMail takes about 4 seconds. The name doesn't lie. (Similarly, rather than loading page by page through big folders, I can near-instantly scroll through 10,000 email folders on the FastMail web UI.)

No ads or tracking in FastMail, it's spam protection is (IMHO, YMMV) better than Gmail's with an extremely low false positive rate.

And I get customer support from real live humans when I need help.
> Half Life is not exactly complex or subtle in its storytelling

Agreed, but I wasn't arguing it was. It's neither complex nor subtle. It is "story heavy" or rather story-driven, or rather "cinematic". This is a game where the story propels the gameplay. Not saying it's particularly good fiction, just that the fiction matters in the game. Notice how much of what I'm saying applies to Star Wars too, where -- also -- skipping a movie can be done but is not recommended ;)
No, the Quest plus a PC capable of playing the game can play this. Given that regular Quest use requires no external computer, that's an entirely different proposition.

What I meant is that I doubt the game will ever make it to the Quest store, and even if it did the current quest hardware has no chance of performing adequately.

But a couple years from now? An all-in-one headset might be able to. It still probably wouldn't be an Oculus one though, as I doubt Valve will put it on a competing store.
Always loved his cameo in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield, Burt Young and a young Robert Downey jr.
Ask HN: Cloud Technical Support
How would you rate the business/enterprise support for

* AWS
* Azure
* GCP
* Oracle
You just proved the point of op and the article.
Ask HN: What AI, ML algorithms do you use?
I wonder what is the most frequently used AI, ML algorithms? Anyone can share your knowledge? say algorithm for what purpose?
To be fair, this sounds just like Google's strategy with Android.
Damn, and I just bought one.

I'll have to buy another I guess =D
Why would they move? The A&A bill doesn't affect them:

> Fastmail won’t be making changes to our technology or policies in response to this bill. Law enforcement has always been able to request information from us through the Telecommunications Act with a lawful warrant. Because we have the ability to decrypt all data, there is no need to make changes that circumvent encryption.

Source: https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...

I'm just some boob on the internet that doesn't speak legalese but a quick Google suggests that Gmail [0] and Outlook [1] are subject to similar laws.

[0] https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/7381738...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/law...
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> what do you do when you've saturated the market?

If I want to continue active development on it, then I sell upgrades. If not, then I'll continue to do free maintenance releases, but my main business will be from different products.

> one-time fee only works if you have a constant stream of new customers into your niche that is sufficient to pay your salary.

You can continue to get income from existing customers. You just have to provide real value to them in exchange for it.
I'm not sure that's a bad thing, if I'm honest.

Strong top-down direction can work (e.g. Steve Jobs at Apple) but it can also cause ossification (e.g. Blackberry) where a company won't sacrifice an existing product to move forward.

Windows server has obviously lost the app server market, for a majority of companies. MS has adapted to that new reality by supporting Linux servers.

I'd say that is to their credit. Look at other companies who have been slower to adapt to the new cloud world (e.g. Oracle) and you can see the costs to their long term viability.
That makes it sound pretty sinister. Personally I like systemd and the fact that it’s widely deployed. Time spent learning it feels productive in a way that learning about the internals of specific distros doesn’t.
What about sodas like Dr. Pepper vs. Dr. Thunder? Do you think producing Dr. Thunder is ethically questionable from a business standpoint?
You can connect your Quest to a compatible PC and play this.
This is the equivalent of curing cancer in vitro.
Now load any piece of Oracle software onto it and get charged for running 1060 CPUs. Whoops.
Maybe because Windows updates and xbox love run through the network?
Stronger: Even if we were in agreement about right and wrong, that doesn't mean that we agree about what to do. We agree that homelessness is bad? Great. How should we fix it? There we may still differ, even if we agree that homelessness is a problem that we should try to fix. How sure am I that my preferred policy is more likely to work than your preferred policy? I would say that at best I am only about 70% sure.

The problem comes when I act as if I am certain that my policy proposals are better than yours - and, worse, that you are therefore evil for proposing such flawed policies as you do. We assign to policies a certainty that they don't deserve.

"In reality no political program can be more than probably correct." - C. S. Lewis.
> So what are they going to do when they encounter a problem on windows? Pretty sure MS hasn't yet figured out how to directly install a Window manual into their userss brains, and the thousands of unanswered windows troubleshooting questions online can attest to that.

They call an 800 number to get help or send it back.

> your own technical ignorance and laziness?

That, right there, was exactly what the person was responding to. This attitude of "piss off and learn" is incredibly prevalent in the Linux community, which is exactly why it is (and will remain, for the foreseeable future) irrelevant on the desktop.
Although I suspect they have carefully made it so that the game has quite a few mechanics that would benefit greatly from the finger-tracking mechanics available only on the.... Valve Index. To be clear, your point is absolutely correct, but I'd be shellshocked if the experience isn't geared heavily to take the most advantage out of their own headset.
Likes are 100% never going anywhere. They provide a means for Google/FB/whoever to categorize you. The instant you click 'like' on a post about the latest pro-Dems thing, or on a post organizing a pro-life rally, or on something a band posted, they instantly know a lot about you. (Or more specifically, the algorithms begin acting as if they know a lot about you.) Every time you click 'like,' you are fine-tuning the company's profile of you. Maybe at one point they were about rewarding opinions or something, but in today's big-data-driven social networks, they are entirely about categorization for ads.
One thing is the general desire to separate your email from Google.

Apart from that I find their webmail to be faster and superior to Gmail. They also provide file storage with WebDAV access which I find useful for apps (like notes applications etc) which support it for syncing between devices.
Misconceptions about 2PC (Two-Phase Commit) Protocol
slack --inspect=4444 //will let ya connect to main electron process via chrome remote debug

Then run this

require('electron').BrowserWindow.getAllWindows()[0].webContents.executeJavaScript(`
javascript:(_ => {
const redux = slackDebug[slackDebug.activeTeamId].redux;
const {wysiwyg_composer, wysiwyg_composer_ios, wysiwyg_composer_webapp, ...payload} = redux.getState().experiments;
redux.dispatch({ type: '[19] Bulk add experiment assignments to redux', payload });
})();
`)

to disable rich text editor. Going to hack together a node launch script for slack here in a little bit :P