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> I personally have no problem with casual profanity when its use is warranted, and am more "offended" by people who think they need to self censor themselves.

You could frame this the other way. I don't necessarily understand why people are so bothered by the word, but I also don't understand why avoiding it would bother you.

Personally, I think it just makes the page accessible in more contexts. I'd feel ever-so-slightly embarrassed bringing up a page filled with course words while in the office. Removing the vowels makes me less embarrassed. We can have a discussion about if that makes any sense, but culture and traditions frequently don't make sense, and I don't think this is harming anyone.
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Not sure it’s public, sorry :(
That argument might make some sense if the airline business was consistently profitable. But it isn't

https://www.routledge.com/Why-Cant-We-Make-Money-in-Aviation...

In the last decade airlines merged a lot and have gotten some monopoly profits in the US but that looks like it is all over.

More fundamentally airlines look like a broken business that makes excuses after the fact and is allowed to get away with by enablers.
The American cultural penchant for cruelty and predilection for fear is something I find really off-putting about living here (as an expat).

And make no mistake, the ubiquity of "are you a convicted felon?" on every application form is cruelty. Bear in mind that can (depending on the state) include, for example, possession of even small amounts of cannabis.

Mark Wahlberg is a convicted felon for what seems to be a pretty vicious race-based assault 30 years ago. Even as someone who is famous and extremely rich this actually causes him a lot of problems, so much so that for awhile he petitioned the Massachusetts governor for a pardon.

Personally I was (and am) against a pardon for him. There was enough of a backlash that the request was dropped. The problem with him getting a pardon is that's (yet another) exemption for the rich and famous. Kind of like how only people with 100K Twitter followers can be customer support on anything these days.

What about all those people who are convicted felons for minor drug offenses including drugs that can now be legal for recreational use? They don't have the wealth and fame to bypass this scarlet letter.

Even worse, this can be triggered by more cruel measures like three-strikes laws that disempower judges from making informed decisions.

The problem here is the permanent scarlet letter and there shouldn't be exemptions for wealth, fame or power.

The level of incarceration in the United States should be a huge source of shame. It's an institutional failure and yet more cruelty, especially given the prevalence of prison rape.

It's good this woman learned a new skill and (even better) is allowed to use it. It's just sad that this is such an exception it's newsworthy.
I used to use google maps as just a GPS rather than navigation instructions. I've since found it is most helpful to use navigation in major cities because the directions are so much more complicated and the consequences for a single wrong turn can be huge time in traffic.
Note that most bricking was with 3rd party docks (due to the Switch not so standard conform HDMIish + charging alternate mode).

Bricking your switch with a "pure" charger mostly only happens with but fully standard conform chargers used with the wrong cable.

Most (all?) Hight voltage/amper chargers like e.g. for laptops work just fine on the switch.

Through it's a bit more troublesome for the dock.
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That’s very noticeable in the price though.
If by "amazing" you mean "embarrassing and enraging", yes.

It's one of those things that makes me want to scream at Hacker News regularly.

Even if you think it's about "luck", how are you modelling it?

MKBHD did a fair coin toss between all of his options?

Nah, doesn't seem realistic.

Some options are probably more likely than others.

Based on what? Oh well, the quality of the product, the buzz around it (which itself is probably based on the quality of the product, how it matches the zeitgeist's aesthetic (which means good understanding of trends, marketing, psychology, etc.)), the original reputation of the person creating the product, and so on.

Hacker News's take: it's just luck, it could have been any other icon set with the same probability.

Yeah, no.
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All (or most) of the reports of switches being bricked stem for 3rd party docks, where the dock is at fault and using 9v for signal pins, see https://hackaday.com/2019/08/04/the-not-quite-usb-c-of-ninte...
checked bags do cost more - they need to pay people to load the planes. Rollerbags slow the line down a bit, but otherwise there isn't much difference, and the people they pay who are slowed down need to be paid anyway even where there isn't a plane at the gate (except end of shift of course).

For me American and United are always the same price, but Delta wants me to fly to their Atlanta hub for some reason, while American and United hubs are approximately the same overall flight distance.
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I don't think anyone expects them to be overlooked. You look at the person and you see if they've changed for the better.

I would much rather hire someone who grew up poor and fell in with gangs and felt pressured to join in an armed robbery 10 years ago and understands that it's wrong than someone who had a demonstrated bias against some minority 10 years ago and still does today. This isn't about whether they're a "good person" or anything, this is a mercenary calculation based on business value. I don't expect the former gang member is going to engage in similar violent crimes if I employ them. I do expect the biased person is going to have trouble working productively with people in my company who are part of that minority or is going to negatively impact those folks' productivity.

I'm not in the business of determining the magnitude of your moral transgressions. That stays in the confessional. I'm in the business of hiring folks who will deliver business value.
Personally I don't want to change the icon. I do want to change (or better yet, hide) the text underneath the icon.

I know what the logos correspond to, Apple.
Are you talking about anonymized contact tracing protocols similar to BlueTrace [1]? Is CA planning to use a less secure option?

1. https://bluetrace.io/static/bluetrace_whitepaper-93806365659...
https://giphy.com/firefox

demographic target lean and whatever aside, deep in the giphy of promotional gifs ...Unfck this and that........there's one that says Un Zuck It

hm, on the nose
Yeah I had to disable the proximity sensor for the music controls, it 1) triggered constantly when I didn't want it to, and 2) took 4-5 tries when I actually tried to use it (ie swipe to the next song with dirty hands in the kitchen). It's a neat idea, just unpolished.
Ah lol. Ok I understand now. My apologies and thanks for correcting!
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This was my first thought as well. However, I can think of at least one possible disadvantage --

If these "enhanced" videos proliferate, then as a side effect there will be less desire for the original "source of truth" videos in grainy B&W and low framerates. I.e., this scenario: the original, primary-source video, based 100% on reality, gets 100 views on Youtube while the same video artificially manipulated to look better gets 100k.

Eventually the enhanced one has replaced the original, and possibly even the original gets lost, and in the future historians will only have our grossly-artificial reinterpretations of the video instead of the source of truth.

(but then again, YT is not exactly a historical archive, I'd imagine the originals should be archived properly to prevent this)
Not everyone is English speaking. Mac shortcuts are very easy to remember because they are consistent. I'm not sure what weird symbols are we speaking about? Cmd and Option buttons? They have both a symbol and a name. What about Ctrl and Alt? What's the difference?

I used to hate Mac shortcuts, because I never really spent more than 30 minutes with the system. I think there is nothing to hate - they are just different and IMO better.
No idea, I've no experience with it.
So, Thought Crime weighs heavier than statutory crimes? Who decides the guilt or innocence of the thoughts?
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> basically only C++ has it

RAII is associated most prominently with C++ where it originated, but also D, Ada, Vala, and Rust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_acquisition_is_initia...

Topical sidenote D's got destructors as well:

https://dlang.org/spec/class.html#destructors
A Zcash user recently made a challenge for anyone to tell where his coins came from that went from taddress->zaddress->zaddress->taddress. The winner only had to look at past public transactions and find the same coin amount to find the original t-address.

That is why privacy-by-default is very important, and why right now Monero should be considered more private.

Monero has been "under attack" for a long time now, well before the IRS started giving money out. There are possible attack vectors and subsequent remedies. The Monero people made a series called Breaking Monero where they talk about all of that stuff.
Who's going to dare rejecting his labor of love?
I'd be willing to be that the worst thing most people have done isn't murder or manslaughter. You don't have to be "older and wiser" to know that you aren't supposed to murder people.
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How many people go to a specific hotel website, rather than booking.com or whatever?

It’s the same issue for airlines, you don’t want to have to open 10 tabs every time you want to search for an itinerary, so there will always be middlemen. The airlines just want to make sure the middlemen don’t have as much power :)
I'm having a hard time finding data for the state in question (California), but at a federal level this is very much not true. BOP stats show 46% of inmates are in for drug offenses, and 5% are in for property crime[1]

[1] https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offen...
Validating the physics behind the new MIT-designed fusion experiment
Yeah but the claim is "Alas, its arithmetic coder isn't bijective-- so you can't just decompress encrypted input back into english." which is an odd thing to say: this can decompress anything that it compressed.

When the goal is a codec for English, there is no fault in them not making a universally bijective codec.

(and that's with a bit of handwaving, because there is no such thing as a true universally bijective codec. The pigeonhole principle still applies)
I can't believe how much of a jerk you can be on HN and how much the crowd will just go with it (I am talking about the comment directly above mine, not the original one starting this thread)

No, the OPs complaints are genuine, real, and experienced by multiple other (high quality) members... and telling the OP that stuff is "working as intended" is such a big slap in the face.

You know, people who are very unhappy and believe they were unfairly singled out have been known to de very rash things in revenge. One day HN is going to moderate the wrong person in the wrong way and suddenly a mass DDOS attack happens.

It would be better to act with compassion and an open mind towards this poster.
What specifically did she say that made her come off that way to you?
Yes, to banks. Banks pay airlines a premium for the opportunity to market and get customers through FF programs.
>>one of the really nice things about their government is that it's designed with less inherent trust that ours.

The founders of the US trusted no one, not even themselves or the public. that is why there are layers upon layers of checks built in to the system to check no only the government but the people as well.

Most of the problem in the US system today are down to erosion of that distrust combined with a strong desire to adopt more direct democracy...
I always had this with math, we always needed to do algebra, whereas I was much more interested in trial and error solutions.

I mean I get it now, but at the same time, I think leaving 25 to 50% of all assignments to clever guesswork would've motivated me more, while still learning algebra.
Religious group scrubs all reference to Amy Coney Barrett from its website
I don't have statistics but there are incidents like these that are regularly reported in Irish and International Media:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/woman-most-c...
You can tweet racist stuff and still be president of the United States. The law protects him from the emotions of the masses. This law does not extend over to your employment at a commercial company.

The reason why people lose their jobs for racist tweets is because companies are reacting to the emotional sentiment of the masses and pulling a PR maneuver.

In short, for commercial jobs, it doesn't matter your crime, or the degree of your crime or whether you committed a crime at all, it's about business and a negative public emotional mood against you at this current point in time is usually bad for business (or stock prices).

Case in point, Let's say hypothetically that the OP could have mentioned that this woman's violent crime was repeatedly beating a 8 year old child for no reason and the public's emotional reaction would be drastically different. I'm not sure what her crime really was, but there is definitely a reason why it was omitted: The OP likely made a rational judgement about the crime and is likely very aware that the emotional reaction to the crime by the masses would be drastically different than her own rational judgement... thus from this line of reasoning she has chosen not to mention what the crime was.

It's a fine line here. I think if I really got to know a person and I can really understand a person, I feel even a child beater or can be redeemed in my eyes but I can see how in the eyes of the public this can never happen. (Also let's be clear here, I'm not saying the womans crime was beating a child, just using that as an example).

People are rarely rational and when you measure the reactions of people in response to stimuli in aggregate you will find that the bigger the aggregate the more emotional the reaction is.

This is how a criminal who committed a violent crime can get public support for finding a job, and an innocent man who made a mistake and wrote a stupid tweet can lose any prospect at finding a future career.
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The data cassette recorders were more robustly built than regular tape recorders so that the motor speed wouldn't fluctuate as much.

If a Pet Shop Boys recording was off a few percent, it wasn't a big deal. But if you were loading a program, you'd get errors if the speed drifted too far from spec.
> Equally frustrating -- to see the guilty just walk off and laugh as it is to see the redeemed struggle having conceded their mistakes.

That of course depends on your value system. There are many that consider sending an innocent person to jail far worse than letting a guilty person walk free, and I’m sure you can apply a similar worldview here as well.
The pro controller doesn't use PD, so there's very little risk to destroy anything with a somewhat compliant charger. (There are some out there that repurpose normal USB-A for higher voltages, but they're very rare)
Seeing this made me remember the iPod Shuffle. That was also a nice product.
You should still get a rewards card even if you don't want miles. There are several credit cards that offer 2% cash back with no annual fee.
They've lived there before there were cars though. They just didn't have options to go to the next town, or the hospital when they'd need it.

People lived before modern medicine as well. Without modern medicine, less people would live. Society adapts to the existence of modern medicine.
Probably because there’s no way to get access to or run GPT-3 unless you’re super well-connected and lucky, to be allowed to pay OpenAI for the privilege? GPT-3 is exciting in that it shows what’s possible if we push the transformer architecture farther, but it’s not really practical for much when it’s so walled off like it currently is