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> reality is only that which we can demonstrate and prove using the scientific method

I don't think science even makes this weaker claim. Science does not claim, for example, that my preference for vanilla over chocolate ice cream is only valid if I can demonstrate it and prove it using the scientific method. (Science might claim that the scientific method can be used to gain understanding about how my body and brain work that would help to explain the processes in me that underlie my preference, but that's not the same thing.) Nor does science claim that nothing can be known about "reality" in domains, such as law or politics, where our ability to use the scientific method is extremely limited at best.
Volumn, bikes just don't sell enough to pay off the engineering that goes into them without high prices.
I don't purchase as much due to global events - I need the cash in my pocket. My cycling purchases used to be top end, really top end, but now I can go for a ride in a pair of regular shorts just as well as €80 ones. And I feel such a dick for blowing so much, so unnecessarily. Equally, thanks to various YouTubers (Hambini, Durianrider etc) - it's all a scam, anyway. I'm glad I woke up. Sorry lbs, and online stores, but it's back to basics for this non-pro.
The answer to the question is no. Companies should not do politics.

Companies, however, will continue to do politics so long as it furthers their self-interest as there is a failure of separation of powers between government and corporations in the modern age.
Fuck. I was just there and wondering how much money they could be making. The stores are so big and seem so empty compared to the Best Buy next door.

I was comparing studio monitors and headphones with the intention to buy there in the near future and got good advice from the guy working there about everything I asked, he had first hand experience with all the stuff I was looking at.
If you think of e.g. string theory as the “discovery phase” of anything other than a ponzi scheme, we’re not going to come to agreement here.
Let them yell. If they gave you such bad service that it comes to that, it's not like you'll be coming back to that restaurant anyway. I have refused to tip a handful of times and not once have I had any desire to return to those restaurants. They could burn down for all I care.
Yeah, the use-case for rPi's is not just to 'function as a hackers toy', but also serve as the basis - a platform - for a great deal many other industry standard applications.

The Compute Module is rapidly becoming an embedded commodity - a SOM that is easy to source, has decent tooling, and for which there is an expanding source of developers...

Sure, there are other SOM/SOC vendors out there - but few have as resilient a distribution as the raspberryPi foundation.

But it turns out, its a pretty decent little computer for a lot of things: Just make your own breakout box.
> generally

I would say "sometimes"

> Comments that stay in the gray are not comments to be proud of. A very large community of intelligent people are saying they think you are wrong.

Its not correct to generalize over the entire community based on an unknown subset of people who happened to see the comment. And its true that this community is large and intelligent, and its also true that humans have their own individual and collective biases. If a large community of intelligent people think you're wrong and the comment in question is not obviously deficient (hostile, profane, or nonsensical), one might imagine that someone would take the time to post a reply correcting the parent.

> That's generally a sign some introspection about one's comment is warranted.

This is true.
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I wouldn't get too concerned over throw-away accounts getting their knickers in a twist over a throw-away line in an otherwise apt comment.
Sweetwater is awesome, no doubt.

However, Guitar Center would be just fine if it didn't have all the debt Bain Capital loaded it with.

Guitar Center needs Chapter 7 bankruptcy, not Chapter 11. Discharge the debt, dump underperforming stores, let the major players bid on the remains, and restart.

Chapter 11 is just playing a shell game with the Bain debt instead of nuking it.
"Politics is essentially the superior level of effective communication. "

You mean, communicating, what other people are allowed to do and what not?
Politics is first about power (so the big companys were always involved in it). Not about communicating.
I think business factor (eg collecting day for advertising), but that's just a guess.
Isn't Five Guys about $12-14/burger, $5-8/fry in-store inclusive of sales tax in the first place?
Very few Linux users too.
The advantage is not locking them into a corporate environment that's getting more and more questionable and give them the oportunity to actually learn about computers.
In San Francisco? No one I ever met personally said that, but I heard plenty of "chatter" at BBQs where SF police officers were guests.

Where I grew up, in the "East Pacific Northwest", some were violent enough to actually say that out loud. I never knew anyone personally that murdered a black person, but I knew several who got into fights for this reason. These were kids in high school, police officers, elected political officials, etc.

I'm very happy to say I've never personally heard anything like that in a professional setting, but I'm sure it exists and I hope it'd be treated very seriously.
In theory Yes. In practice, do that to a waiter and if they remember you next time, Good luck eating that food. Tipping is seen almost as an entitled benefit now but provided by the customers instead of employers. It is a lose-lose situation for the customer and employee because waiters get paid like shit by their employer while customer has to cough up the "tip" regardless of how they felt about the food and service.
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well now its flagged and dead, so I guess there are a variety of people here with perspectives that don't always align...which is a sign of a healthy community.
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> Businesses were always involved in politics but you didn't really know the politics of your business or leaders as you do today. They did lobbying but it really wasn't something discussed openly and often-times had varied interests.

This is the dystopian part.
I understand why that bit was provocative but please don't escalate into flamewar. It helps no one and just makes the thread worse. Besides, helmholtz already more or less took it back.
At the point of writing the watch was already more than 20 years old, what's another 10 years? ;)
TIL, thanks for sharing.
YT is uniquely integrated with Google infrastructure. It can be spun off on paper, but if it’s spun off technologically, its expenses will rise a lot, since right now it gets cost reduction by sharing infra with other Google properties.
But they could potentially make a larger steady income stream if they also had ads. It happened to cable TV, it happened when HTC introduced ads to their tiles or timeline or whatever it was called, ordering food online you'll get spammed when you try to checkout to buy their new promotional item (even if you already have it in your cart), and so on.

If ads aren't a perfect fit then they'll still try to add other revenue models to things you've paid for -- smart TVs selling data about what you watch or which products your conversations are about, car diagnostic products shipping a patch to only work if you start shipping them location data, large companies like Garmin buying up smaller companies and cancelling any lifetime accounts in favor of a subscription model (and vehemently denying that it's a money-grab), needing a Facebook account to use your Oculus, and so on.

If they're able to extract more value from you without excessive negative repercussions then they will, independently of what's "right" or legal.
Thanks for the feedback.

Twitter: I decided to use this format as the simplest way to "launch". I could do other things in the future, e.g. a blog / Medium / Substack publication. Would you have any preference?

The book, as I wrote in the first comment to this thread, is interesting but I would have written it differently and more concisely.

But I'd like to dig a bit more there: when you say "vague", what was missing from the summary? Or can you give an example of a sentence that wouldn't be too "vague"?

Also, do you like the idea of the "one sentence summary" at the beginning of the Twitter thread?

Thanks!
These are great! For less than $10 each, I’ve bought a bunch of them and left them scattered around my apartment and various other places so I can always find a watch. If it’s starting to take me too long to find a watch then the watch density must be getting too low, so I order some more.
I know several people who are far from poor and wear this watch.
Most of them will probably be in the museum. The modern piano has a much larger sound and dynamic range, not to mention the much better tuning stability.
I remember in the early days this was very noticeable. Each time you watched a less popular video it would buffer in the beginning.
It's also the fact that a human will follow up. And you will talk to the same human every time unless they leave or they need to transfer you to someone else who knows more about product X. You will also talk to the same human if you need customer support.

Now, as someone who lives online and has a solid misanthropic streak, I find this human interaction slightly annoying. However, for a lot of musicians this really seals the deal.
any proof? I can still see my content from 20 years(probably) ago .
The only skills codebros can recognize involve a keyboard. Many people here have probably never had any other sort of job, and consequently lack empathy for anybody who doesn't work in tech.
Full quote for context:

>Plenty of companies, indeed entire industries, base their business model on being evil. The insurance business, for instance, depends on the fact that insurers charge customers more than their insurance is worth; that’s fair enough, since if they didn’t do that they wouldn’t be viable as businesses. What isn’t fair is the panoply of cynical techniques that many insurers use to avoid, as far as possible, paying out when the insured-against event happens. Just ask anyone who has had a property suffer a major mishap.

The article isn't saying that insurance companies are 'evil' for making a profit but instead for doing everything they can to withhold payment, not every insurance company does this of course but many of them know that customers are more likely to accept 50% blame in a 0% blame car accident or accept a reduced payout over minor technicalities because the alternative is going months without a car and spending a significant amount of time and money in court.

This analogy is entirely applicable to governments too where an 'evil' government might, at great cost, make benefit programs difficult or humiliating to obtain to discourage legitimate claimants from doing so, never mind straight up corruption or cronyism when it comes to allocating public funds.
This is true, but I also attach some value to avoiding the electronic waste of throwing out an iPad with mostly working parts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_14#Supported_devices

Google isn't the one failing to keep software up to date, its the hardware partners like Samsung.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/18/21373308/samsung-three-ge...

> Samsung generally promised two years of updates

After 2 years you are at the mercy of zero days and hackers. iOS 14 works on phones that are over 5 years old.
Not that I am aware of.

It is possible that they are throwing away different quality transcodes of old and unpopular content and regenerating on the fly if needed. But my understanding is that videos are never automatically removed.
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Please don't be a jerk in HN comments.

"Be kind."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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> but as someone who vividly remembers the internet before ads and pay walls I still find it odd how people growing up online today just seem to accept it.

I find this odd - you're saying that you're only fond of the way things were when you grew up, but that it's odd how people growing up now accept their own reality?
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The author makes a very brief mention of creating his own record using a lathe.
Their service may depend on hedging risk, but they would have no profit if they didn't ask for more than they give. That's the simplest balance equation you could ask for.
been done a while ago by forking Python (2.7.6)and modifying the grammar: http://python-with-braces.appspot.com/
> science appears to be fairly poor at building universal belief, which is something religion excelled at with scientific precision

Can you elaborate on this? What, exactly, is this universal belief?

On your statement of scientific precision -what do you mean by "scientific" and "precise"?

I'm trying to follow what you're saying in this discussion, but it's difficult because we do not share the same definitions. EG, you seem to be using science in place where I would use "process for iterating to meet a goal". To me, science is trying to prove yourself wrong a million ways, so you can sort of accept that the null hypothesis is wrong.

Put another way - I would be ecstatic to see undeniable objective proof of a deity. Religious believers would not be similarly happy to have one of their core beliefs destroyed. The difference is religious beliefs are fragile to disorder; scientific beliefs are anti-fragile.
We had a SBC embedded in a product, so I tested exhaustively pretty much every one on the market, then used two of them in the real world for the last few years.

Tinkerboard was the most solid and performant across all different areas, with no gotchas like most of the other boards ended up having.

In the SBC world they all look the same, but live with them for a while and the added experience of Asus really makes a difference.
> While you should be able to install just about any Ubuntu app by opening a terminal and using apt-get

Between that, and what I presume is the lack of the A/B active partition update strategy, I think it's not an apples to apples comparison to the goals that Chrome OS strives toward

I actually would enjoy seeing a real Chrome OS competitor, and I think the architecture of Firefox could make it easier to have "privileged" extensions, or at least it used to back when they had XUL - perhaps all that privilege boundary has been removed now
I'm probably being a bike industry apologist when I say this, but I think maybe you don't appreciate how complex some of the parts and materials used in bikes are. The quality of the manufacturing and materials is outstanding. Also, the bike company doing research and development to design a frame, prescribe a carbon layup for that frame, service and warranty that frame, and distribute that frame is only going to sell 4-figure and sometimes 5-figure numbers of those frames on complete bikes.

My general understanding of the economics on the product side of the bike business (which isn't as deep as my understanding of the retail side) is that the manufacturers aren't making much money either. They've got lots of hands in their pockets, a lot of pricing pressure thinning margins, and a low barrier of entry for new competition in the marketplace.

In regards to Chain Wiggle, I'm not surprised they are struggling. The graveyard is full of businesses that won on price and their is no business strategy easier to emulate than being the price leader.
National, no. But four teens getting stabbed in a single incident might very well be news in most of Texas, which is only about half the population of the entire UK, and well over half the population of England proper.

America's a big place.
There are reasons for not bringing politics into workplace other than "I support status quo". Such as wanting to get some work done, or being tired of endlessly debating the same things over and over again. (Or not wanting to get fired if it turns out that your opinion is somehow different from the majority, even if it does not support the status quo. There are more than two possible opinions.)

By similar logic, if you are not arguing about politics 24 hours a day, you spend the rest of your time defending status quo. Would you agree that this is a fair description of the moments you don't spend talking politics?
Maybe the high-end segment is too niche. But if there are hundreds of thousands of bike commuters in your urban area, you need quite a lot of service shops. Right now they seem to be over-saturated and give you a rdv mid-january if you ask. It would seem that things are going quite well for them!

I recently bought a new bike in one of those shops and it essentially amounted to the seller buying the bike online from his laptop in front of me.

Not sure what you mean about "cozy lifestile business", but is seems great, especially if it allows to make ends meet.
Can you show a pretty example of the approach you’re advocating?

I’m skeptical, you see. I’ve never seen an attractive web site designed that way.
You can run and boot Linux on both macs[0] and pc's[1] and have been able to do so continuously for more than a decade.

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=boot+mac+into+linux

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=boot+pc+into+linux
What is far more popular is hiding your politics

Is it, though? Because I see tremendous amount of virtue signalling in today's corporations, including Bay Area ones. How many social media woke campaigns? How many TV ads?

What's truly radical (and beneficial) today is what Coinbase is doing. And yes, Coinbase CEO is enacting a political approach (leave politics for your spare time), so employees are not compelled to do it by mob mentality.
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This is just not true at all. Conservatives aren't looking at the status quo and saying, "Yes, more of this, please." I don't think you could find anybody who'd look at the current state of affairs, decide it should continue, and describe them as conservative.
So... does this work with distributed Erlang or hot code reloading? Because those are the reasons[1], to my knowledge, that statically typed language won't fly.

Really stoked to give this a whirl!

[1] I know, and in-case others don't, almost no one (literally) uses hot-code reloading. Still... Instead of killing it, as in the case of Lumen (I think), I'd like to see it become easier/better...
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But why should I be forced to do what the employer should be doing in the first place ? Hear me out. I totally agree that waiters get paid like shit and their jobs are tough. I have sympathy for them but this culture of "oh poor waiters so we must tip" is basically encouraging bad practices. I would rather pay more for a meal while the waiter gets paid well by their employer. Why is it my job as a customer to worry about the waiter's financial well being ?

Lets do free market. Raise prices, charge more and pay your waiters more. If no one eats at your restaurant, you know your food was shitty. People pay big bucks for good food, always.
Great post, it made me smile and brought some memories. Btw I did use punch tapes in the beginning of times and the speed with which the mech pulled those through was insanely fast (at least to my eye). Maybe I've dealt with some later generation tech?
This seems like great succinct advice in an area the I have definitely struggled before, thanks for sharing!

Wow this book sounds extremely promising as well, I think I’ll end up purchasing it in the future
Have you checked the dark corners of the web, in the last time? Or did you do (unmoderated) gaming at some point?

Maybe don't, if you want to keep your point of view.

The point is exactly, that those people spreading the hate online - are very reservated when you meet them in person. Because they have a mask.

But when they do gaming or chatting on 4chan or wherever - then all their hidden opinions, they are not allowed to express at daytime, burst out.
Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and we've had to ask you more than once already.

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Problem with companies doing politics is it's the corporate officers using shareholders money to do politics to push officers agenda not the shareholders.
Well, sure, that's technically correct. The performance of your code is not what's ultimately interesting, though. The performance of the system you have designed is. And that might very sensibly include nginx!

In fact, if you design your system with nginx as the ingress point, you are likely to make tradeoffs that mean your code performs worse in isolation, in order to get optimum performance out of the entire system!
Pretty much every design system out there disagrees with you. Material (Google's design system) uses 10 shades, Fluent (Microsoft's) uses 8, Lightning (Salesforce's) uses 12. Even the most basic terminals in use support 2 shades of EACH color.

While 2 or 3 colors are fine for a simple blog, any app that has more functionality than just reading can benefit from a wide range of semantic colors. A dangerous action should be red, a graph trending upwards should be green (or red in East Asian markets), a warning should be yellow. These colors help convey meaning to the actions that are present, and the usefulness of a wide spectrum should not be discounted.
I think there is also an element of short term vs long term reward. Things that are more likely to be worth paying for often are harder and longer term in some way (like university or even reading a novel) while ad delivered content generally is optimized to be easy to consume, and almost consequentially is very shallow. Because the goal is to keep attention, not to be comprehensive or useful.

So I think there is an argument that ad support, and attention focused platforms in general, do have a negative effect on the content.
It's sort of just pedantry because I know what you mean, but FYI it is an executable when you mark it (chmod +x) as such; what you mean to say is that you assumed it was a binary, the output of a compiler, with the input (source) not provided.
Definitely https://rr-project.org/ and whole valgrind suite of programs for me.
Fair enough dang. I generally try to refrain from this stuff. Could have totally not replied to that post.
The purpose of the signature is to create an artifact that demonstrates the signatory’s acceptance. In a legal proceeding, the artifact can be produced as evidence. That is the purpose of all contract signatures.

If you have a contract that obliges something from me, and it’s not my signature, you may be attempting fraud on me. See bankers and robo-signing. That is why I need to see, on your copy, my signature and any other personalizing marks that my original document contains.
There is something to be said here about greed and only appealing to the masses' basic instincts.

In a lot of cases it makes money and people prefer it, but that doesn't equate to being good or being good for society.