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The title of this article (¿currently?) is Staying in control of the "Apple ecosystem"

The gist of the article (¿currently?) is: there are decent alternatives for about every Apple product, and it is easy to switch to them

That’s not “The Apple ecosystem can be enticing, but once you’re in there's no going back” (the current name of this HN topic) at all. On the contrary, Apple could copy paste it verbatim into a defense against them having too strong a grip on the market.

⇒ that title should be changed.
And why shouldn't they?

No one is saying they shouldn't. The main thing people are questioning is the ridiculous amount of money they spent for a painting more and more people are convinced isn't actually a Da Vinici.

Secondly the painting hasn't actually showed up in any museum yet, and in fact no one knows for sure where it actually is.

Anonymous Oil Sheiks drastically overpaying (and shattering the old art sale record by over $150 million) for a painting that probably isn't a Da Vinci only for the painting to completely disappear makes for a fun story.
This is a interesting because, while they may not have understood the science behind why the meat spoiled less, there may have been utility in this fact (if that location naturally had less bacteria). I wish the U.S. had performed this much thought with regard to COVID.
> Proptee is responsible for managing the entire investment portfolio. Operating fully in-house allows us to keep your fees to the minimum. At the moment, we charge only a small management fee of 0.85%.

So Proptree is going to find tenants, clear blocked drains and repair leaking roofs all for 0.85%?

Or are they going to hire their mates to do it out of the capital amount, who will take massive commissions?
A very good reason to avoid this company like the plague!
Operate as in he and his wife did 95+% of the work so it was more like 20h/week total. As to the type of farm, they had some beef cattle and mostly grew corn.

The time spent is kind of an interesting question because they could spend either time or more money to solve many issues. It was enough time to break even, but not enough profit to live on. However, a pure corn farm would taken less work, so they chose to spend more time than needed to make it more interesting.
What's occurred to me in the last few weeks is that a good number of people who, no doubt, watch films or read books where the theme is conformity have no idea the works are about them.
Unfortunately, they do.
It certainly helps, just much less than is usually promoted. (7 calories vs 50). Thanks for reading!
The context you're missing is literally the first sentence and googling "thiel question". Please put a little more effort before shooting.

Lazy web: The Thiel question is "What is something you believe and that nobody agrees with you."

It stands to reason that if you ask a crowd this question, you'll end up with a lot of out-of-whack answers (that's the whole point) and mostly false answer ("it's not that contrarian are often right, but when they're right, they're very right").

This isn't super valuable, it's just played for humor value. Each of these Thiel answers could still be interesting in its own right if the reasoning/motivation behind it was supplied.

Even if you don't agree with a contrarian statement, there's sometimes gems to be mined in the thinking that led to it.
I'm glad someone got it lol. Really need to work on my humor...
Yes, there are no fat guys in special forces units even though they probably eat 10k calories every day (I'm speaking of the 'intensive' training phase).
Any opt out protection racket should be illegal. Even if it is "anonymous", someone could be identified from their behavioural patterns which are unique to each human. I hope that Apple gets at least hundred billion fine for such brazen violation of privacy so they will learn their lesson and they should be ordered to delete all personal data they don't have legitimate business need for.
co2 levels in the air have been higher in the past million years than they are now or will be in 50 years.
Really all you need is 32 KB of RAM

https://youtu.be/CPRvc2UMeMI?t=85
> Having a roof over your head and owning that roof outright are not the same thing.

But they are two sides of the same coin.

By the market pricing you out of being able to own your property (whether it be through foreign investment into buy-to-let, poor supply of affordable housing stock, inherited money passed down between generations further entrenching the difference between those that have and those that do not etc. etc.), people remain an asset to be sweated at the benefit of the property owners. That, as I said, is simply a regulated feudal system.
> But it's rough to turn it down after the work's been done.

If the work suddenly turned up with zero iterations and input, this is UX work being done wrongly.
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If you look at diet of construction workers (outside a lot of physical activity) they eat absurdly lot compared with office workers. And they are not all that fat as office worker would.

We have a lot of construction around our office and they eat in same places. They eat a lot.
> I don't understand why Weight Watchers even exists. Just cut out the sugar, move around, and eat more plants.

That's like asking a chain smoker to just stop buying cigarettes and have an apple instead.

We have to get to terms with the fact that obesity is an epidemic that has to be treated the same way tobacco has.

Stop putting so damn much sugar and salt into processed food. More physical education in schools and pre-schools/kindergarten (it's appalling how much the motor skills of children have deteriorated compared to previous generations). School gardens for every school so children can learn from an early age what food even is, how its grown and what it actually tastes like.

It's a bunch of measures that need to be taken and while it might be simple for some people (like you for example) to change their lifestyle, it's really hard for most.

> Just cut out the sugar

This is a great example for why it's so hard: most processed food (and even bread) contains tons of added sugar without the consumer even realising it. It's not necessarily the donuts, the chocolate, or candy bars. It's the sodas, fast food, bread, parfait, fruit drinks, the canteen food, etc. The practise varies from country to country, but some (e.g. Mexico) had to pull the emergency brake already and limit the amount of added sugar by law.

Since sugar is highly addictive, it's hard to let go of these products, especially since most of us are conditioned to primarily consume highly processed junk basically from birth.
I'm willing to bet that biodiversity in large farms and in small farms is relatively similar. Sure, if we returned to the way the American Indigenous farmed, co-planting maize, beans and squash that'd be awesome for biodiversity. But that requires hand harvesting -- you can't even use a sickle or a horse to help, let alone any type of machinery.

Small farmers and big farmers both use monocultures.
Ask HN: Paying in Restaurants
Do you know if any restaurant or franchise replicated Uber / Lyft, or Amazon Go simplicity of payment by asking poeple to scan their phone to avoid having to deal with payments at the end of the meal ? One could just scan his phone, sits, order, eat then leave. He will his receive his bill on his phone and can tip on the app. Is that something doable ?
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Training and diet is a frickel thing.

You can train away 1000kcal in an hour, which can be 1/3 to 1/3 of your daily requirement. This is relatively much. You wanna lose 1kg? Just train 7h. At 2kg a month you don't even need 1h of training a day.

Problem is, food can be very calorie dense, two cookies can have as much calories as a whole meal. Also, I read somewhere that there isn't really a sane upper limit of calories the body can ingest per day, something around 50k - 60k kcal IIRC.

This means, your diet can catch up no problem with any amount of training you do.
I remember reading a few years back an article about the most commonly shared views among voters (as in 90%+ agree rates), finishing with a political manifesto designed to incorporate as many of said views as possible (unfortunately I don't quite remember exactly where that article was from, or I would link it). This, being the opposite of that article, is certainly more thought-provoking for obvious reasons, and I note that while there are likely people who agree with every statement in the other manifesto, there is almost certainly no-one who agrees with every statement in this one.
Privacy is a currency you pay hidden charges with.
> From what I can see people seem more than glad to trade privacy and personal information for free services and cheaper hardware

I'd argue that's more of what parent was talking about with regards to visibility.

"Privacy" isn't something anyone can see. What you see are the effects of a lack of privacy.

Given the dark market around personal data (albeit less in the EU), how are consumers to attribute effects to specific privacy breaches?

If Apple sells my app history privately to a credit score bureau, and I'm denied a credit card despite having a stellar FICO, how am I supposed to connect those dots?
> Multiple day fasts every few weeks

Beware: I did it for a few years, but it burned all my motivation. I can't even fast a day now.
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I'd say that food production is way more critical. Centralization of production at this levels could make the whole system much more fragile, and we depend more (and with more immediacy) on food than on private transportation. Plus I don't agree with the idea that food should be treated as a commodity.
The comparison is not just with other animals today but across time. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for 100 million years but do not appear to ever have been as close to space exploration as the humans of 30,000 years ago.

Octopuses have been around for 500 million years. For most of this time humans were not holding back or inhibiting their propensity to study, receive signals from, send messages to, or travel to, other stars.
> That's it. It's simple.

It's not because something is simple that it is easy.
Glad it worked for you, but let's not assume too much about an entire population based on your own experience.
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Not everything is about weight gain. Bad diet causes a lot of other, less visible damage. Like excess of urea leading to gout or effects of trans fats on arteries.

Also, people who train too much (like long-distance runners), seem to be vulnerable to heart disease. [0] The theory behind this is that heart, just like other muscles, needs rest to heal microdamage resulting from vigorous exercise. If you do not let it heal and press on the next day, the damage accumulates to potentially lethal levels.

[0] https://bcmj.org/articles/impact-excessive-endurance-exercis...
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Boredom is a really overlooked one.

If I’m outside and doing something all day, or I’m really involved in reading a book or painting something, over half a day will pass before I realize I forgot to eat breakfast.

But if I’m relaxing, wasting time on the internet, or not really doing much, I get an urge to grab a snack or have a glass of milk that’ll hit me once an hour.
Not even. Large farms first appeared in the Fertile Crescent more than 5000 years ago.
API as a term is context-dependent. It is one of those terms where it is easy to cause disagreement—as is evident in this thread—because you failed to define what you really mean by your use of the term.

API is a term of art—it means different things to different practitioners. What the term means to you will depend on where you work on the stack.

For a web-based application served over the Internet:

- an end user will need to work visual APIs (web GUIs) rendered using HTML/CSS/JS;

- a frontend engineer will need to work with text-based APIs (web services) exposed by web servers on the Internet;

- a backend engineer will need to work with system APIs exposed by web & DB servers over the internal network;

- a DBMS engineer will need to work with low-level APIs exposed by the OS to internal processes.

At the top of the stack the final user is an end user while at the 2nd-4th levels, the final user is a programmer. The same term is used at different levels of the stack but the context makes it absolutely clear who the final consumer of each API really is.
This reminds me - GMail does something similar in their search/filtering interface too!
What did you do for the sleep? From everything I've been reading lately that surely must've helped a lot.
I had similar experience. I had not done high intensity activity tho, I walked a lot multiple times a day and had trained non competitive sport 3 times a week.
Facebook was originally a garbage PHP app.
Marijuana is illegal as well, that doesn't change the fact that lots of people are smoking it anyway.
Zoom got big because the average Karen could get into a meeting quickly, without cognitive overload, and with good performance even with modest hardware and connection.

2020 is not the year of the power user. It’s the year of new users. A ton of people used meeting software for their first time in their life this year.
Probably the latter, but that said, a modern cash crop monoculture farm involves just a few high intensity bursts of activity a year.

During most of the growing season it's just sitting there without intervention. And all winter. A huge burst of activity in the spring with tillage / planting and/or seed drilling & spraying / fertilizing etc. Maybe a couple passes over for herbicide application. And then combine harvesting in the fall and maybe some tillage and planting of winter rye, etc. Then some machine maintenance, outbuilding maintenance, accounting / bookkeeping, seed and other inputs purchasing thrown in here and there throughout the year.

I can see it being as little as 15 hours a week if you averaged it over the whole year. But it would have moments of intensity.

But the reality is that most of these farmers around in my area are contracting out portions of this work, because owning the equipment ends up being a huge capital investment that only makes sense for very large plots of land.
Permanent weight loss is all about diet.

Use a smaller plate, order smaller portions etc. Less foods that contain a lot of fat or sugar

edit: and a big thing on how to stay on good diet is fixing behaviour, remove situations where you do bad choices on diet.
> You don't want the cost of food to go up, or the supply to go down.

Our economic and technological systems generally pursue what is approximately analogous to a greedy algorithm. This effect worsens as any sector becomes centralized. A small pool of large farmers is in the long run more likely to get stuck at suboptimal efficiencies than a large pool of small farmers.

But more concerning than that is continually optimizing any system for efficiency makes it more fragile. Some number of small farmers are more likely to survive system shocks than a large farmers. A system dominated by a few highly efficient large farmers is a system in extreme danger from systemic shocks and black swan events. That is, catastrophic drops in the food supply are much more likely with a few large farmers, not many small farmers.

If industrial production of smartphones collapses, who cares. Life will go on. We can forego many industries, if we really have to, so as long as we take care of the externalities (which we aren't doing with smartphones, but whatever), no big deal if they're oversized and over-optimized. This is not the case with food. People have to eat.
Another fun fact about this system: something changed in how the binaries are evaluated and one VST plugins I've downloaded months ago was marked as malware. The plugin is quite popular in community so I think it's unlikely it contains actual malicious code (in fact I've contacted the developer and he said he has done some fixes for Apple's security policies recently). Imagine my shock when I open an old project in Ableton and suddenly some sounds just don't work. This really sucks, I don't want to worry about whether my music will work five or ten years from now (I can imagine I may I want to remix some old piece). I suppose I can err on side of safety and export all tracks to wav.

However, it's not an isolated problem. It feels that every other week something happens that undermines my confidence in Macbook as good device for making music.
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I think you make a good point. From my standpoint, I could pass algebra for sure. (I actually did really well in my college-level statistics course!) But what I can't do is take a real-world problem, and turn it into an algebra equation. I understand the math fine, but I can't "visualize" how it aligns to things in the real world.

In this way, a word problem on a test because a matching game: because they phrase the problem in a certain way, and I know we covered X problem recently, I know the following equation must fit into the words. Without the guardrails of the test, this whole process falls apart completely.
Oh yeah, I only spent several days as a construction worker back in my youth (like a week), but on those few days, I turned into a bottomless pit at the dining table. The burnt energy is real.
This is why plain, semantic, html forms are great: you get API documentation and GUI in one machine readable file.
Why? Not all of humor is satire, and neither is all satire humorous.
Isn't Help to Buy only for first time buyers, so it biases against Buy to Lets?
Thank you. I took it really slow and first few months I did IF and skipped breakfast. Then one time a week started skipping all meals in 24h period. Finally I got to the point were skipping meals for 48h was possible with water and bone broth if I am really hungry. All of this seemed impossible if I had something carby or sweet day before. For some reason it’s much easier if I have veggies/unsaturated fat and some protein. In terms of sleep I experienced same issue. I was so energetic and could not sleep as long. It went away 3ish weeks in.
The headline doesn't really tell the full story in this case. The article describes increasing concentration of control of farm land via certain financial products (and direct ownership). It's more of a collection of quotes than an article I suppose but it touches on the effects of this on economic inequality, agricultural monoculture, land stewardship concerns, that sort of thing.
It'snot the calories that count - it's the kind of nutrition you get from them.

You can easily starve yourself to death by only consuming "empty" calories - you'd get fat and fatter but eventually die from undernourishment.
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Others pointed out the economies of scale in terms of production. I will point out that a large farming operation also has more resilience against risk. If some minor disaster takes out one of the fields on this farm, a blight on the one field, there are many other fields that may still be intact. This is even more so when you are Big Ag and you have multiple farms in different states. You might lose 5% of your crop to a bad hailstorm or an early frost in Oklahoma, but 95% of it is intact, while the small time Oklahoma farmer has no such consolation.

Agriculture isn’t just a numbers game for production, but also for spreading risk.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what this is.

The author posted a survey of the Thiel Question, which asks "Tell me one or more things almost nobody agrees with you on." The motivation of the question is a belief that to build something revolutionary, you need to be able to think outside the box. "People would be willing to rent air mattresses in their living rooms like hotels" is the canonical example (from 2008).

The problem is, most iconoclastic ideas tend to be... pretty outlandish. Also, people posting to anonymous web surveys (especially in the rationalist community) are probably tempted to exaggerate a little. So it's comedic to survey a group of people, collect the responses, and put them together as a hypothetical political platform.

I found it hilarious.
I feel like that’s the next step for open source, but it will take committed UX people who are also politic enough to sell developers doing things in their free time to use some more of that time to do things right.
If you quote the high end of the confidence interval [..] the climate scientists are suspiciously aloof.

I'm not sure I agree with that perception, but even if it were, I don't find that suspicious. It may be that climate scientists are already aware that the current policies are not doing enough to avert the scenario's at the middle end of the confidence interval, so they know the high-end effects are becoming more likely each year.

zealous insistence that not a single country in the world will benefit from the warming

By all means, name a country that's completely self-sufficient for its current development level and is in a climate that can tolerate a 10%-deviation in any direction, and I'm sure many people will be able to suggest scenario's how that country will be negatively affected by the volatility of international markets or relations that are projected to occur in the second half of this century.
What would you recommend in the x86 space?
Likely referring to resistant starch- "Resistant starches are carbohydrates that resist digestion in the small intestine and move to the large intestine where they get fermented. Meaning, the fibers from resistant starches when broken down via fermentation can provide gut benefits in the large intestine."

From: https://camillathyme.com/2019/09/22/the-simple-potato-salad-...
Here's the "open stack" I've been trying to use for communications, veering towards web standards and open source:

Video with lots of participants: https://jitsi.org/

Video with a few participants: https://whereby.com/

Internal chat with tech-savvy folks: https://element.io/

I still use Slack and Zoom pretty often. People already know, love, and have installed these tools. It adds significant friction to expect everyone to use the tools you want, especially if they don't share certain values around technology, or if they're slow to adapt to new user interfaces.

I wish for a videoconferencing tool that:

- Built on open standards and runs fine on browers

- Is licensed Apache 2.0, MIT, or 3-Clause BSD

- Has slick native apps across GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Windows

- "Host yourself" server that scales horizontally, allowing
me to throw more servers at this

- Supports screen sharing, recording, and transcription or integration with a 3rd party service

- Has an open chat API that allows you to hook up custom bots during meetings (Zoom is lacking this feature, but it's very important to me)

- Has other APIs build into the core workflows of conferencing, not implemented as an afterthought

- Supports an operating mode up to 100 simultaneous connections of HD video and audio

I would pay $30/mo per "host seat" for a SaaS implementation of the above.
Simple is not the same as easy. Weight loss is one of the most extreme examples of “dead simple, but mind-meltingly difficult” there is.
Another way to put it is that once you have one sociapth/whatever setting up an organization/country/community and won a few battles the infection quickly spreads and eventually people secretly accept that only a sociopath/whatever looks like a good leader (so that their interests can be protected and their conscience untouched).
Honest question I'm not an expert: The initial commments in this thread are painting it as a severe privacy violation. (The actual OP article author does not necessarily share this perspetive). How is what is being done with OCSP different in more concerning way for privacy (if it is) from Firefox or Chrome's use of OCSP?