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You might be able to put your brand on it, but there is nothing forbidding a company from contracting with another company to make a product and put their own house brand on it.

Happens all the time, see the equate brand at Walmart or the Kroger brand at Kroger

Sure those are larger scale but there is nothing stopping Acme Furniture from contacting with Joe Woodworker to make them some chairs branded Acme Furniture where the customer has no idea who Joe Woodworker is nor is Joe Woodworker an employee of Acme Furniture

This is not uncommon in the Services industry as well, hell Software development is full of Subcontracting where Company A will contract development to Company B who will hire Freelancer C to do the work, Company A may never know who Freelance C is, and to the extend they do they may not know the contractual relationship between Company B and freelance C (i.e are they an employee or a contractor)

This happens in alot of industries and has since the dawn of employment, Uber just has a different scale
Do you really see no problem with states demanding that their censorship laws apply world wide?
Surveillance camera man highlights the obvious double-think that most people walk around with. Just because a human isn't holding the camera doesn't mean a human isn't looking or will not look. Hell, even if no human looks it's still surveillance and privacy intrusion (despite what the US feds say). He's a hero.
MQWs, nanowires, and nanodots are quite useful
>"It's like worrying about being struck by lightning."

If lightning strikes there is not much to be done. Google however can and must have reasonable process to restore the status.
Hm. Lawyers love lawsuits about folks struck by lightning? So I'm not sure that's the reason this issue is not a lawyer's forte.

I'd suggest its because its hard to prove or prosecute. Because its technical and obscure. A single case, Google just has to say "Oh sorry; its turned back on". There's no money in them capitulating. And a class-action suit enters into the details of the issue, which are impenetrable to a judge?
Oh, it sounds like this complaint stemmed from a person creating a one-time account use just for some rando site then got angry when google noticed it wasn't be used at all. The fallout of the arguments that follow may have merit but you should follow why the fuse was lit for context.
This is a strong and succinct argument. I'm disturbed it never really occurred to me, probably because I am in part naive and take certain things for granted, like that I will never have a dispute with Google wherein they disable my account. But of course that is possible even at "no fault" on my part, and of course Google is judge/jury/executioner when it comes to their services. Yikes.

One thing I don't understand is: the author suggests a remedy is using your email address instead of third party sign in. But what if your email address is Gmail? For example, I just went to my Stack Overflow account and added my email address as a sign in method. But then of course I realized: my email address is Gmail. So what's the difference? How are we supposed to put this into practice without running our own email? Email is just another form of third party auth.
That incident looks like incorrect data in Google Maps but also incorrect behavior by the company tearing down the house. It also was complicated by the fact that this was post-tornado and normal signage was likely not present or reliable.
Perhaps the courts could be helpful here. A long-established Google account has significant value to the user. If Google terminates such an account, value is destroyed and damages are incurred. You should be able to demonstrate the value of the lost account to a court and demand restitution from the host.

If successful, this would impose a cost to Google for shutting down accounts capriciously and incentivize them to do better.

This would be a challenging lawsuit to win. You’d probably need support from an organization like EFF to manage it.
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Test flights are not required after most maintenance activity. Licensed mechanic sign-off returns the aircraft to service.
Disclaimer to grandparent: I found your comment a useful read. This is a bit of a nitpick, but one that I thought quite long about.

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Moreover, you can't actually measure whether it's dopamine, you're simply hypothesizing that it is. And while I'm inclined to believe that dopamine would be involved, you don't strictly know. Saying neuro-terms like "dopamine" may make things sound more real or true, but they aren't more real or more true as you're not measuring your brain.

In that sense neuroscience feels a bit similar to religion (just a bit, from my agnostic perspective). Yes, you use scientific concepts, but since nothing is measured, you as an interested person in neuroscience have no clue what is actually happening in your brain. But it does sound more compelling! Not needing to measure anything while using theories that sound highly convincing to a certain group with certain ideals is how most religion feels like to me (not all though, I can definitely appreciate certain theological discourses of all religions, and I also appreciate religions that don't have a strong emphasis on gods, for example).

So on HN I try to limit my neural babble as much as possible when I talk about my own experiences as my cortisol levels are spiking too much -- ;-) -- when I'm reading neuro-explained anecdotes. I hope that HN'ers see my point or feel that there are convincing counterarguments to this that might make for an interesting discussion.
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Why should I have to sign in? No thanks.
Pulling apart dweets is a good way to get started and learn new techniques. Whenever I see a dweet I don't yet understand, I can't resist immediately pulling it to pieces - because I know the ceiling of time required to understand it is very low. Remixing is also a nice concept built into Dwitter that tempts you into golfing other people's code further and creating interesting derivatives - both are good motivators to thoroughly understand all of the techniques packed into a dweet.

Once you get a bit more comfortable I would resist the urge to immediately publish, you will be surprised just how much work you can put into 140 characters. Don't publish until you feel like you can't remove another single character and have the best possible combination... then sleep on it, you will be surprised at the sudden revelations that happen and give you more road to play with... this will happen so long as you are not overly precious about anything - you can't have everything - making frequent sacrifices is what leads you to more interesting combinations.

After building up a stash of unfinished ideas, you will also sometimes notice some synergy between them and can combine them into something more impressive. In the same vein... making tiny code is as much about exploration as experimentation... I discovered this combination that looks like a Stargate - i.e the skill is in finding things, rather than forcing your will upon a canvas.
> does you registrar have physical office?

Yes.

> is it in a country with legislation friendly towards the country you're based in?

It's in the same country.

> does your registrar send Auth-Info code over email in plain text?

Of course not, that would be a big red-flag.

> did you enter real contact and residence data when registering the domain including public WHOIS database?

I have no idea what a public WHOIS database is, never registered anything there. For the registrar I've entered my real contact and residence data, should I've not?
Mandarin, because the grammar is very easy, the number of sounds is small (compare to built-ins), it is standardized and taught everywhere despite there being other dialects, and the rest of the world speaks English (Java)
Check out https://medium.com/@__xuorig__/a-guide-to-graphql-errors-bb9... and links from there (e.g. https://sachee.medium.com/200-ok-error-handling-in-graphql-7...)
>And even if HALF the reported numbers were wrong (the reality is probably closer to 0.01% or something), it would still be a viral disease much worse than any other active in the wealthy world today.

It is bad but in the grand scheme of thing its not bad, at least compared to the downside of lockdown.

>You are acting as if the mild restrictions in place today are as extreme as banning cars.

Its an analogy, my point is about choosing the less bad option among non ideal option. you can't compare it exactly, maybe not as extreme as banning cars, but I'm comparing :

A. risk of lockdown

B. risk of covid

A < B

> they have ALL said, everywhere in the world, that we must wear masks and isolate

Many dr/scientist/epidemiologist have oppose the lockdown policy https://gbdeclaration.org/

>Do you think the UK WANTS to close its economy? Or France or Germany or Norway? Do you think they WANT to keep their schools closed?

Then Don't

>Or is it much more believable that they have looked at the risks, they have looked at hospital capacity, and have understood, unlike you, that Covid19 is much worse than the hardships caused by lockdowns?

I can't know exactly what is their motivation is or simply failures of policy making. If they really looked at the risk then they wouldn't do lockdown.

Here is an example from UK gov regarding lockdown https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

from the final paragraph "The evidence base into the effectiveness and harms of these interventions is generally weak. However, the urgency of the situation is such that we cannot wait for better quality evidence before making decisions"

So basically: They don't have any idea but lets just give it a go.
Never happier to have DNS66 on my phone.
yep, Safari is absolutely unusable for development. Opening DevTools from an iOS open tab crashes instantly for me and it's impossible to use. It's the biggest pile of and I hope one day that Apple just discontinue it cause they obviously aren't putting any effort into it.

If you use Safari I hate you
It's auto-renewing.
I think an ethics module is pretty rare in CS/engineering degrees.
I am now at a point where I would rather have the passport office / home office issue certificates for each citizen:
'John Doe number 145, signed by the British Government'
You could use that for 2-way SSL with Banks, trusted email providers, etc. At least we would have 1 reliable identity that can obly be messed with by going through the courts.

I wouldn't was to use that identify for every random website, but at least we'd have something reliable.
Per the link [1] the article refers to, if I understand correctly, Google isn't preloading ads.

Google is making it possible for applications that show ads to choose to preload them. And they're not preloaded hours/days in advance -- it's a UX pattern to load them a tap before.

So that part of the suit looks like it will fall apart. As for sending telemetry, it's $1/month in data assuming you never use Wi-Fi. Doesn't seem like a particularly unreasonable cost. Especially considering most people spend the majority of their time at work/home with Wi-Fi which means the real number is more probably more like $0.25/mo.

I think a reasonable person assumes any commercial OS is checking for push notifications, syncing info (like weather), communicating analytics, checking for updates, etc. in the background. The only question is whether it's unreasonably excessive, which in this case appears not to be. (Really the only main thing is that a device shouldn't download multi-gigabyte OS updates without asking first.)

[1] https://www.blog.google/products/admob/preloading-interstiti...
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NYC pilot tries mental health responders in place of police
> that is dependent upon at least one third party: domain registrars

Kind of. You will have a bad day (or month) if your domain registrar is screwing you. But you do own the domain. So you should be able to get it back.

With Google/Facebook and similar you have no right to your account.
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> This has come up again because a terrorist attacked the center of the capital Vienna.

No. Please read the article. This is about a law suit which has been going on for a few years. The case itself has absolutely nothing to do with recent events. Also, Austria does not have a case law system. Courts don't make laws (the constitutional court in Austria can strike down laws, but that's about it) and are not bound by previous court decisions. The fact that the supreme court ruled on it just means the decision on this case is final (as far as the Austria judicial branch is concerned).

Besides, do you seriously believe a court could act based on something that happened 11 days ago? Have you ever dealt with a court?

That said, I mostly agree with your ramblings, but that has simply little to no connection to the case and resulting problems discussed in the article.
60 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked to school
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But can't the same problem happen if you, somehow, lose the ownership of your domain? I mean, I don't know what the actual assurances are, but if there is any chance that you may lose access to your domain (for causes other than forgetting to pay to renew, ofc), even temporarily, that would be the same as being banned from Google.
Or even worse, because having your Google account locked means you can't use it but noone can use it either; however, if somebody now has your domain, they could be able to impersonate you.
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Close. "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/if_all_you_have_is_a_hammer,_...
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The difference is you can still sign in with email and password. OAuth would fail on a locked account.
>> It's fun to think about useful languages that are not computationally complete. I am writing my PhD thesis about Datalog used as a general purpose programming language, specifically for robots and microcontrollers.

Interesting. What is the general area of your thesis (your field of research that is)? I study approaches that learn datalog (or Prolog) programs from examples.

Good luck with your thesis!
I couldn't find anything solid to back it up (although admittedly I didn't search very hard), but apparently this also reduces fouling of the hull.

>air lubrication can reduce fuel consumption by five to 10 percent

I wonder if this is just the air lubrications system, or if it also includes gains from the reduced fouling? Either way, it's an interesting technology and assuming it works anywhere near as well as the marketing suggest I'd expect it will become a standard feature on larger vessels.
I think a reasonable person has never wondered if their OS is doing something in the background, is shocked when I tell them about it, and then shrugs and goes back to using it because the alternative is to learn something new.
See also: Kindle books; movies "purchased" from Amazon, Apple, et al; Tesla upgrades you paid extra for; I could go on....
Use any password manager
> Phishing or bribing an employee at a domain registrar.

Okay? I don't think anyone would go to that trouble.

> Phishing you to get your password and then bribing or social-engineering someone at the phone company to forward your SMS-based 2FA codes to them.

Seems unlikely, I never log into my registrar's website. I do often have to enter my Google password though!

> Waiting for you to forget to renew your domain and then registering it.

It's auto-renewing.
Russia also had massive growth numbers when they were catching up to the west, however at some point the authoritarianism starts to sabotage it.

China has a huge population and is destined to have a huge economy, however they are still playing catch up with the west.

GDP/capita US: 65k usd

GDP/capita Russia: 11.2k usd

GDP/capita China: 9.7k usd

It remains to be seen to what extent China will be able to restrain it's party cadre from sabotaging growth in the next decade
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The plot is really clear to me: The road to iOS look and feel exact match.

There are millions of iOS users that now will look at macOS UI with more familiarity and confidence. And like any business goal, it is far more important for them than any usability perspective (not that they don't care, but...).

Apple Silicon will help break this barrier even further. The two OSes will also share the same apps.

This is also what Windows 8 and Chrome OS tried, even hard, and failed, more or less miserably.

Ironically, the new Finder looks a lot more like the Windows 10 file explorer to me.
It might be harder for larger ships but for anything under a couple hundred tons those are straightforward to retrofit in anything that doesn't have an exotic hull construction.
Counterpoint https://twitter.com/Sean_McBeth/status/1324803044219998208?s...

Lack of UI differentiating decoration is a problem.
Alas, doesn't work in macOS Safari either.
Sorry, I meant my question more as is it really a thing that the average person is aware of and cares about. I consider myself pretty educated and I've never heard of this little underground war on the terminology, and I can't see many people caring except hypervigilant Twitter users. Like ask 95% of the population and they'll probably not see a difference between the words. It just seems like a silly thing to care about.
Couldn't agree more. As much as Atlassian charges it's shameful how undersized their instances seem to be.

I've resorted to "Client for Jira" from the guys who did DeskZilla. Neither is "supported" or developed anymore, but still working fine for my day-to-day (searches especially). If there's an unsupported API I haven't found it yet.
Yeah, well, you were not from one of those "shithole" countries that our current President wants to eliminate immigration from - - were you ?

We got a massive oversupply of carpenters, maids, yardmen, etc pushing "out of work" Americans out of jobs in the US . . .

Does Dropbox offer a real phone number for customer support answered promptly by live speaking English voices ? I doubt it. Probably sends out spam emails with no-reply in the headers, one way emails too. I refuse to do business with companies that operate in this manner.
Look for companies that meet at the confluence of just out of reach solutions with generative cultures. Those with deep order knowledge of a problem can see opportunity that first order thinking misses. If they establish the right culture of enabling smart people to do smart things, then they can percivere through any crisis and flourish.

This is the foundation for FAANG. Etsy and Shopify are on the FAANG path.
Ironically, there's a stunning lack of empathy in this comment
> court order

I don't think that's a "real possibility". It isn't impossible, yes, but very unlikely.
I think that would be a generous way to put it, since it’s been around virtually unchanged since the classic days. The OS X version was ported over before OS X got the Aqua design overhaul, so it looked right at home in the beginning with the Platinum-style windows. You can even see the exact same icon being used to tout the graphics support in screenshots from DP2: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosxdp2

Edit: I think the comment I replied to was edited? My response doesn’t quite make sense anymore.
Oh well, it’s 2020 so we’ve probably just pissed off some huge space monster by landing on one of its eggs and scratching it.
Politicians can only be good or neutral.
Sort of seems like everyone is going off. When this article doesnt really give any examples. It just says there are lots of examples.

I have around 8 gmails. Theyre all connected to various things via OAuth2 and I have never once had any of them locked.

Maybe im ignorant to some detail here, but, this sounds like a spammer retaliating because they got caught.
Did you mean this example? https://www.andrewdenty.com/blog/assets/img/macos-new-ui/not...

The actions bar redesign looks good to me. It's obvious they're buttons to me. It looks cleaner, more modern and less cluttered than before to me. Having the buttons not draw your eye too much can be good if they're rarely used because your focus is drawn to more important parts of the UI.

Not keen on the poor contrast white on mustard coloured button though.

What would you give out of the 10 for the design before and after? Is it really so bad or just a little worse for you?
Speaking of relying on third parties, I saw this message at the bottom of the page:

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I'm a marine engineer and on my last ship (a tanker) we certainly investigated the use of hull air lubrication to improve fuel efficiency of the vessel. There are a wide number of energy saving technologies (e.g. from propeller devices to hull appendages to intelligent engine control systems), and for each one the design team needs to perform a cost benefit analysis (CBA) in terms of both acquisition and operating costs.

That sounds easier than it is when you consider the many variables that need to be juggled during concept design phase (e.g. ambient conditions you expect the ship to operate in, exhaust restgriction, operating speed/power profile, etc.), but it's doable to a fair degree of accuracy.

There are a few primary reasons we did not proceed with air lubrication:

1.) Cost of compressed air. To generate the bubbles you need compressed air. Compressed air can actually be quite expensive to produce, so a fair amount of your fuel savings from reducing friction resistance is consumed by the need to generate the air. That being said, there is generally a decent amount of waste heat on ships, and that thermal energy (or potentially harvested energy from the evironment) could be capstured and used to reduce the cost of compressed air (but that's more equipment to buy & maintain).

2.) Hull shape constraints are very stringent because you need to be able to shape the hull go ensure the bubbles remain adhered to the skin of the vessel over the entire vessel length in order to gain the maximum benefit. Generally that means you want a flatter bottom. However, hull shape is very critical for the final powering resistance, so it's quite possible that if you design your hull for better bubble adhession, you prevented yourself from just using a more hydrodynamic hull shape that would perform just as well as well as the air lubricated hull in terms of total hydrodynamic resistance (friction & form drag).

3.) Real world conditions. You also need to consider that the ocean is not perfectly still, so the pitching/rolling of the vessel due to wind/waves/currents may further hinder bubble adhesion (to what extent is unclear to me).

4.) Concerns about inducing propeller cavitation if bubbles cannot be steered away from the prop in-flow. Cavitation can rapidly deteriorate expensive propellers, so the hull shape should steer bubbles away from the prop. Cavitation is a real, but it was not clear to me how much of a concern these air lube bubbles are; cavitation is really a function of propeller blade shape, size and RPM.

All of the above hull shaping and special curvature can be very costly in production.

I'm not saying air lubrication shouldn't be considered, it should, but a careful CBA must be completed to truly ensure you'll see savings in terms of ship lifecycle cost. Due to hull shape constraints, it's probably better suited to new ship designs vice retrofit.
I think it more common than you believe, and certainly more common than the ones that make the news.

The ones that make the news are people that are either well known, or have and active way to promote their problems through social media or news site

I.e they are reporters, know a reporter, dev of a popular app, etc etc etc

They are Jane/John Doe that has less than 50 twitter followers and a normal every day uninteresting person, for which there is no recourse at all not even social media