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100% this. I would be another loyal customer buying everything from such a company.

I place high value on not fucking over fellow human beings, and I'd happily put the money where my mouth is, but the market seems essentially devoid of ethical companies these days. I'm sure there is many more people like us - perhaps enough to sustain a company.

(FWIW, if you extend this past issues of ads and privacy, and into making good products and just selling them for money - I'm not sure how long such a company would last these days. Being ethical means no planned obsolescence, or otherwise churning out new variants of the same thing to keep sales up. It could have a problem with a continued revenue stream - but then again, I'd probably happily pay an extra subscription to an ethical company that cut away all this bullshit, just for the privilege of being able to then buy products from them.)
Well yeah, you don't have to use fib numbers. Not really sure why that's popular anyway.

Personally I prefer being on a small team with excellent devs that don't require this kind of stuff. I built products that made many millions of dollars a year with just me, a PM, and one other dev with none of this stuff.
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>They’ve never had to retract a publication.

Refusing to ever retract anything either means they're literally perfect. Fuck the New York Times, Guardian, BBC, Al Jareeza and every other news organisation that has ever existed.

Or they refuse to retract ever, despite sometimes making mistakes.
I think we can employee homeless people with the money spent on 'solving' the problem for cleaning and maintaining our environment. They get a job and maybe they can afford some housing now or make free housing structures for those employees.
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bless you, why not. ever considered applying to logz.io ? they could use a guy like you.
A lot of it used to be direct cash assistance to the homeless. This did not work well. The trend has been towards providing services.

One caveat with the analysis is that your census of homeless people does not count the people housed as a result of these programs. It also doesn't count the number of people that would have to be served that are not presently considered homeless.
More boring explanation: For most people Facebook is just a platform for connecting with other people. Any messaging platform with significant amount of users is a threat for them.

A platform like WhatsApp could evolve to cover the main things people are using Facebook for. History has shown that people are not too stuck on any platform.
Everything you typed is how I feel. 2020 will be great.
Guess what, nobody owes you, or the world at large, a thing. We only have one life and everyone's priorities are different. Want to spend your life chasing greatness? Be my guest. But if one would rather define happiness through friends and family, they have every right to do so. And plenty of people will be better off for that, themselves included.
Many full-size trucks are never driven off-road or carrying/towing heavy loads, but the advertising for them always mentions these features. Some people call that using gimmicks to sell trucks.
Can you point to something non-factual that Wikileaks has published that you think should have been retracted?
Wow.

That basically kills the whole thing. Who knows what else was messed with without anyone noticing?
> Recycling centers aren't nonprofits.

Many of them are.

https://www.electronicrecyclingassociation.ca/about-us/
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> real and unambiguous harm

Agree.

> real and unambiguous ... violence

Disagree. I'm sure your intentions are good but this is concept creep, pure and simple.
It's a fair point. Netflix for example has a subpar catalog to choose from (maybe 5000 titles max) and of course they are pushing their own content to the top.

By comparison the known movie/tv universe of global movies and tv selections ever made is upwards of 500K.
Yes, that was what i was referring to. Sorry if that was not clear.
The disrespect that Germany is showing the US is mind boggling. The US being part of NATO is the greatest deal the other countries have ever signed/received. The US spends nearly $700 Billion per year compared to Germany’s nearly $56 Billion per year on its military.

The US needs to start sending ultimatums - you are either part of NATO and therefore don’t enrich Russia by buying their resources and pay your fair share (2%) at the very least or we’re going to pull out of NATO and have a treaty with just Estonia, Greece, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Britain who all meet the treaty conditions of 2% and don’t whine.

If NATO ended and Germany had to build up and army capable of defending itself against Russia it would cost way more than 2% per year.

All Europeans need to understand the financial burden US tax payers meet to keep us safe. I think the Brits realise how important it is and the Poles and the Baltic’s do because they know what it’s like to live under Russian military fear.
The F150 is the truck I need, the Rivian is the Truck I want, the Cyber Truck is the truck I laugh at
I think you'll get more sales if you offer a sample chapter or two for trial.
This sort of development is what will encourage the US military industrial empire to shake us down for a new Star Wars satellite laser system and to continue to expand nuclear submarines, perhaps not as a first strike, but as a viable counterstrike weapon.
Likewise Tesla is shipping vehicles from their China factory and Berlin factory construction is beginning.
> It’s hard to believe Samsung has any customers outside of their Korean hegemony.

No it's not. Most people have no clue and might no even care [now].
What?! Sure it can be more convenient to drop things into the bed, but have you ever tried to get things back out of the bed of a full size pickup? Beds are tall. That's why it's more convenient to store things in the storage room compartments on the side of the Tesla's bed.

Give me another example of how Rivian’s utility design is "far ahead".
> I've optimized for raising my income

I've had a lot of behaviors that would save money. One day I realized that the time I spent saving money was much less productive than time spent making money. I.e. by spending more time making money I had more free time.
For now. Just wait for the manufacturers to realize they can add "as a Service" to those commercial display panels. Business customers will like it because opex > capex, the vendors will argue that they need the telemetry to provide a better service, and then you won't be able to buy them as individual anyway, because there will be contracts involved.
Repealing prop 13 would actually totally do that
Probably because Belmarsh is a pretty average British prison, it's slightly better than US prisons, slightly worse than some European prisons. Claims of being sedated come 3rd hand from an unreliable source - and are clearly untrue.
Tesla also supplied a drivetrain and battery pack for a B series car from Mercedes. At this point all of the big carmakers consider Tesla a competitor and EVs too important to outsource.
Some agricultural subsidies were automatic and in place prior to recent tariffs. Tariffs are bad economic policy if you’re trying to maximize global output, few rational actors try to do that.
Most recommendation systems are collaborative filtering + some fine tuning.

I don't see how collaborative filtering can not work. Especially in the case of modern media providers where they have data about whether you actually finished watching something, how many videos of a series you watched etc.
It beats changing diapers.
Yes, I'll fix that
The article leads with an incorrect statement. JSON is now a subset of JavaScript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-superset
If you just point out that it would ID what types of porn you ware watching, it would make enough buyers opt out.
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The problem is that quite a number of the homeless would not, and cannot, return to the society. Some are addicted to alcohol. Many have mental issues.

While reintegration may help some of the homeless, most of them likely need a different approach if we want to somehow relieve their plight. Something more geared towards medical and psychiatric help.
If it's purely server-side it would force them to un-recycle everything, which would be a good thing.
I sent only one each since I put in my guesses in some free email validation site beforehand. I also sent out emails to other C-level people.

The formats were usually firstname@company.com for most of them, but firstname.lastname came up a few times.
In 2019, I completed my first short story (inspired by and as a gift for a friend). This year, I will create my first complete video game using Godot engine. This is also a gift for a friend. A different one, this time.
> Driving exams involve performing a 2-point reverse turn with the rear inside wheel not going further away than 1 meter from the kerb

Which curb? I'm mostly parking in lots with perpendicular parking on both sides of the lane. The only curb involved is the one at the back of the space I'm backing into (unless there's a pull-through from the other side, then not even that).
It's not just lowering fleet emissions, it's also while consumers are stupidly fixated on price commercial looks at TCO. EV's TCO is lower. There is also something I learned about golf carts. For consumers being able to gas up a car is a convenience. For fleet operators having to deal with fuel is a pain in the ass they do not want.
Well, yes, if you flee to an embassy during your very long appeal process against extradition, then that will tend to slow things down.
Samsung already did this with some ARM core that could get complete control. How do you know you’re not looking at a software emulation of the secure elements display though?
>> truck for its utility which one makes more sense

Anyone that used thier Truck for actual work will tell you the CyberTruck is 100% not practical as a work Truck for many reasons not the least of which is the Bed (or Vault) design.

The CyberTruck seems to appeal to Hipsters and Urbanites that want a "Urban" truck, you are not going to be seeing the CyberTruck on the Farm or Jobsite

Ohh it also appeals to Gen X's that grew up watching 80's SciFi
Okay fine. As long as we're not believing announcements, then Rivian’s prices are promotional too. And so are the specs. So this conversation is pointless.
Surprisingly many, as market for dumbphones and burners show. You can still buy a dumbphone.
In Brazil vote is not a right but "mandatory" -> Quotes mean..double speaking.

If you don't vote you have to pay fees, cannot work on the public sector or get a passport.

So it is very common for the candidates with number 12345 being elected[1].

Or the ones with 123,111 [2] [3]

Even Business companies try to make "easier" for you to remember their number.

[1] - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elei%C3%A7%C3%B5es_distritais_...

[2] - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elei%C3%A7%C3%B5es_distritais_...

[3] - https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elei%C3%A7%C3%B5es_estaduais_n...
Maybe, but... Twitter actually has a mobile website. You can argue - and I would agree - that "request desktop site" should give you what you asked for, but there's still a difference between "here is the mobile web UI" and "here is a link to download an app": namely, one still allows you to use the site if you can't or won't install a native app.

Slack is actively locking folks out of their site here, a service that folks have paid for even... That is a significant departure from what folks might've seen in the recent past with mobile device detection.
Not saying a manufacturer might not think about making a TV that must be connected to the internet but, even leaving aside privacy etc. issues, that's a huge minefield. Not everyone has internet everywhere that they might care to install a TV.

And it wouldn't take much for Best Buy or Walmart to stop carrying your product after one too many customers return it because it wouldn't work.
I'm surprised that Monica Cellio was initially crucified by name all over the place (by SO), but the employee that did this is still listed everywhere as "an employee".
After I've moved to Firefox and installed lots of ad-blocking plugins, enacted privacy settings and GDPR options everywhere available and uninstalled mobile native apps (ie. FB, Twitter), I felt like I had defused the whole data-collection-to-advertising lifecycle. By not seeing ads, no matter what Samsung collects, I would be safe or at least disruptively useless for them... until Samsung showed me a small, targeted ad through their TV UI. Resistance is futile.
You probably don't need a virus or anything running in the end user's network.

If your Sonos can access the API to mark a device as recycled, so can you. So if you can predict serial numbers or just bruteforce them (depending on how complex they are) you might be able to brick every single Sonos out there...

I highly doubt they assign unique keypairs etc. to every single device...
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I would lean the opposite direction. I switched from a Vizio TV to a 144hz ViewSonic monitor and the difference in gaming is night and day. It's not only a better image with better colors, deeper blacks, better looking sharpness and stronger brightness where it counts, but the ability to render up to 144hz is a gamechanger.

I never realized that 1080p60 would look better on a 144hz monitor than a television but everything is so crisp and smooth in games, it's honestly breathtaking with the right scene. I didn't realize that having a panel that can handle 144hz means that vertical sync is pointless, and for the games that I can actually render at 144hz, the effect is magical by comparison.

I find myself replaying more cinematic games (like say Witcher 3) on the new panel and it's like experiencing the magic of these scenes all over again for the first time.

I couldn't ever imagine going back to a television for gaming.
Can you point out comparable US-based car company startups that developed faster and by raising less? There's only one other example, so it's hard to draw any conclusions.
Former government research scientist here. It also does not pay well.

In fact, funding for scientific research was cut by the Obama administration, leading to the closure of all but two of our branches and displacing dozen of workers amidst a recession.

When I transferred to academia, I took on an underpaying role, and found that the same shenanigans were afoot there. Now, we are approaching the end of the 2000s population boom, and in five years, universities will have many fewer prospective applicants for the following decade at least. The ripples of the contraction caused by the gambling of a few spoiled bankers will be felt again in another 20 years with a much smaller and resource-constrained workforce, still reeling from the burdens of loan debt and overpriced housing.

Unless Sanders gets his way, that is.

It's probably best I plan my exit in advance this go-round.
For my last TV I intentionally tries to find a non-Smart TV, in part because of the privacy stuff, but also it always is in your face about wanting you to use the SmartTV features. Unfortunately Samsung and LG really have no competition on the higher end of the spectrum anymore.
You can do this. You may need a simple bot to let people self-serve. See https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/57zyq6/is_there...
OK, list them out. What are the reasons that the design is impractical?
I wrote a book on tmux, if you are interested in getting into the shell more: https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read (free to read online)

While it may not be the most important, if you've been meaning to up your terminal game and want a bit more dexterity when shuffling between panes, tmux and vim are a good area to invest time in [1]

Personality theories:

Textbooks in this area. Affordable on Amazon if you get them used, some are also on kindle but pricey.

An Introduction to Theories of Personality: 7th Edition by Robert B. Ewen is so good.

They can be used as sampler to springboard into areas of psychology you like. The material in this space - normally in paper books - is fantastic. It's totally normal to read through material from 50-70+ years ago.

[1] Not the configuration part, though. That's where the timesink is. Try to be basic as possible with vim configs. `vimtutor` is nice to play with.
Only way I've been able to get older people to pay attention is by telling them that agreeing to the terms along with your other friends and family collectively, you all have gotten your kids to use and accept those terms,

now all of your daughters pics are autouploaded to fbook (not just the ones you chose to share, all photos on the device) - you agreed to those terms of access remember? and lots of enginerds get to see them. microsofts drive app autodetects nude and almost nude pics and sends a copy to humans for verification automatically. snap gets lots of pics that your kids are trying to hide, and keeps a copy for thousands of people to access behind closed doors. Same with instagram, which also allows us to buy pics of your kids and use them in ads for dirty dating sites and herpes commercials..

since you don't use signal you are making your children's texts, pics and videos less safe.

Oh, and the banks auto sell your shopping buys to groups of us enginerds. we may have you or members of your fam on the list of buyers of 'massagers' from certain stores.. we love those walgreens points cards, and so does google and fbook who also collect your offline purchasing data and share.

thanks for participating in our surveillance economy, we love to watch, and we give you cheaper things for letting us. its win win.

don't believe me? call your bank and ask them if they share your debit card purchases with me.
have a nice day.
I just don't have faith anymore. Every piece of software I find myself liking ends up becoming hostile after 5 years of success.
Reposted. A minute earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900937
And "ridiculously cheap" is still a few hundred dollars in most cases. Which is still a decent chunk of money for a lot of people.
> But now in mobile, we are returning to the clinet software first approach. And for some reason we resist the installation of client software and prefer browser based functionality.

IMO for any given program or 'app' today, the better it functions offline directly correlates with the desire I have to use it natively on a given platform, as opposed to web access.

Slack is just about useless offline, hence my strong preference to use it in the browser.
> But you said you would rather pay twice as much for healthcare if it avoids that money would also be spent to help others. Sounds to me like you'd be paying extra so others don't receive it.

No, I said that I'd pay more for a private vs a cheaper _government_ alternative. My objection is to government involvement, not to helping out my fellow man. I give to private charities because I believe they are more effective and more moral.
The thing is, I wasn’t saying Airpods owners (priorities) were wrong. All I was saying is that there is actually a glutton of devices that perform the same way as airpods do when a former poster suggest airpods were unique in the market. It’s a factually accurate post and it’s not critical of airpod owners. So getting downvoted for that kind of comment is weird and there’s literally no reason anyone would do this if it wasn’t for brand loyalty. I bet if this was a Bose, Sony or any other household electrical brand thread which wasn’t Apple, my posts would have been upvoted because that’s literally how those posts are received in any other topic on HN.

I’m sure if you look through other Apple threads you see a similar pattern of comments that aren’t negative nor factually inaccurate but still get downvoted too. I see it happen a lot on HN these days and frankly I’m sick of people abusing their voting privileges.
This is just ... sad.
Is a link to an earlier comment okay?
This is why I believe that the user-agent header was a bad idea.
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> but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether

It’s worse then you think. Read dredmorbius’ comment in its entirety.

> Which means that peel-and-stick computing is well within reach, if not a present reality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873388
Why does your personal conviction supersede that of those who do not agree with the non-binary classification of gender? Is it not valid to be offended over being forced to conform to minority views which are deeply rooted in politics and justified with a potentially exaggerated narrative of victimhood?

These modern ideas are far from confirmed scientific fact. Yes, there some sort of a spectrum, but just as the entire concept of "gender" is a social construct, the real argument is over the definition of the construct, and one could argue that truly "non-binary" or transgender individuals form a tiny cluster of outliers near the plane separating conventional male and female grouping. If that is the case, I personally find it offensive to afford such a tiny minority such a disproportionate amount of power by allowing it to shape thought through language policing.

The idea of intersectionality is mathematically equivalent to reducing an extremely high dimensional space, that of human physiology and behavior, to a simplified subset with fuzzy clusters separated by an arbitrary number of hyperplanes (gay, black, trans, etc). The particular modern formulation is one of an infinite number of possibilities, and it isn't fair to pick a handful of tiny minority clusters from this particular basis by those with vested interests, claim that those in particular are oppressed, and then afford them what are actually special priveledges under the guise of equality. Particularly when this mindset bleeds into politics and industry, it just comes off as a blatant powergrab for people who have defined their own social construct in a manner that benefits themselves.

This is why identity politics drives populations apart. The space of human nature is sufficiently high dimensional that it is impossible to divide it into priveledged clusters without picking what amount to arbitrary favorites.
>sometimes means being uncompromising. Fighting for equality is complex.

Fighting for anything is complex. If it wasn't complex it wouldn't take a fight.

But people get blinded by their righteousness and fight in ways that waste time at best, can make people disengage or set their goals back at worst. If anyone thinks they're fighting the good fight, they owe it to their cause to understand their actions.

I often find myself getting ignored or on the wrong side of an accusation for thinking about the "ends vs means" of goals I agree with. I'm running low on patience for getting asked to diminish or overlook hamfisted actions after the fact because the motivation was proper.
Oh gosh yes, it's the best. I can do a two-point turn in a narrow parking lot lane if I have to. It's actually shorter even than the original Beetle, but has amazing front-seat leg room (a big part of why I chose it) and plenty of trunk space if you fold down one or both rear seats.

The rear seats themselves are mostly decorative unless you have very short friends/family. It's not a good car for four people. But for one or two, it's amazing.