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>What is now the differentiator between Comcast and Fios?

Price, support, included services, etc.

For example the infrastructure owner of my fibre connection is exactly that: an infrastructure company. The infrastructure is really good but their internet support is really bad. On the other hand my ISP is running a very tight ship with no bloated services at all. No TV packages available, no phone option, no bundled streaming services, only direct payment with card transactions (because it is cheaper), only support by mail and so on. In the end I get a less bloated service meeting my exact needs at a lower price but my mother can pick another ISP that can provide her with the services she needs and only one company needs to run cables in the area.

There are other differences too if going into details. Like the hardware they supply the end user (infrastructure owner supply the typical crappy WiFi router I'm sure you know and hate while my current ISP just gives me two external IPv4 and IPv6 addresses directly in the fibre box and that's it, I gotta take it from there). The hardware between the fibre into my house and the long haul fibre out in the streets is also supplied by the ISP. The infrastructure providers hardware is old 1 gigabit per port while the ISP's is... well I don't actually know but faster than 1 gigabit. This makes a small difference as my connection is 1 GB/s and 1 GB/s hardware cannot in practice deliver 1 GB/s so while one promise 950mbit the other promise the full gigabit.

All in all I get a cheaper connection but I would use my current ISP even at the same price. To me it makes a big difference that the person I can contact isn't some fresh out of school boy who reads from a list but someone who can tell me "this is why your IPv6 temp. addresses setup isn't working. Try this init string..." :)
Sounds like exactly the dystopia that the United States has been aiming for. But what’s the end game?

The retail space will become housing, but it won’t be affordable.
termux is pretty popular.

Though android is locking down, making this kind of app difficult in future.
Most users are not interested in developing a better systemd, that's true, but you know what they are very interested in? Being allowed to install applications not approved by Apple for arbitrary reasons (Parlor anyone?).

It's their phone, they take the risk. You give them a warning that they are about to install an unapproved app just like android. If they go ahead with the install who the heck are you to tell them otherwise?

"Keep your grubby mitts off the apple ecosystem" This line betrays the true motivation: It's about that 30% profit on all transactions.

It's got absolutely zero to do with preventing apps that are "poorly designed, chew battery, and don't conform to UX standards." Apps that meet that description make it through the "QA Process" for app submission, All. The. Time.

I don't buy the excuse from you, and the judge didn't buy it from Tim either, this has got nothing to do with protecting users and everything to do with profit.
Political opinions are not protected in the same way, nor should they be, as the protected classes you cite (gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc).
What social pressure are you feeling or observing?
I think the point is that plastic recycling has never worked and there’s no pathway to making it work in general - regardless of investment.
Most people commit crimes because they are desperate. This is likely the root-cause here, especially given the type of crime here.
Seems more likely it's so that employers can prevent their employees from discussing their working conditions with each other and enforce _more_ uniformity by stifling demands for better treatment.
I was about to say, this is the most chilling HN sentence I’ve ever read. The totality of our existence from 8-5 is not owed to someone who profits from our labor and skills because they got lucky with some seed money or an inheritance a decade ago.

That’s just the divine right of kings with extra steps.
iPad Pro supports ethernet and general USB devices.

And allowing apps to sniff network traffic defeats the entire security model of the device which many of us like.

I want more privacy and security in my devices not less.
Finally something good out of Ottawa. To be fair not much plastic ends up outside a landfill in Canada. But this is still the right way to go.
Serious question - is the city actually interested in fixing the problem? I haven't seen any evidence of it outside of paying lip service. One can only assume this is the result of negligence or someone's benefiting from the increased crime.
This isn't true, political opinions aren't a protected class in the US.
Thanks for your reply.

The person in question would like to improve in meetings/interviews. My term "meetings" includes scenarios like code reviews, live debugging etc.

The person in question has never been a manager and (afaik) is not interested in being one. And it is difficult to avoid some of these scenarios.

I may not have worded the question well. The person in question is able to "think quickly" if they are not in a live situation. So the challenge is how to reduce the panic (or whatever word describes the feeling) that inhibits their normal thinking.
i see it as a self similar fractal of ircs entire existence, its just another channel split for someone to try and get ops.

unsurprising.
http://jollo.org/archive/doir/htmlfreetoo/
Elite Dangerous: Odyssey – Mismanaged Expectations, a Bright Future
Isn't this another example of relying on a "sufficiently smart compiler" ?
Oh that was trolling, didn't pay attention about this part...
LOL at United Arab Emirates passport being preferable to the USA.
Well his comment was greyed out from downvotes and nothing he said was wrong, just there's a different atmosphere for everyone. His views aligned with a libertarian which I think were once accepted here. It's gotten more leftist here for sure. Part of woke socialism/marxism is shouting dissenters down, downvoting in this case.
About half of the plastic in oceans is from plastic netting used fishing. And that netting causes the vast majority of ecological damage by entangling marine animals or dragging along ocean beds.

The real problem is excessive fishing and plastic waste from fishing, far more than using plastic for a cup or shopping bag.
From having read about the details: someone took a list making fun of mainly European (‘white’ in American) names and posted an image saying mocking people leads to genocide.

Yes this is easily separable from making productivity tools.
Wish more recipes listed non-fluids by weight.
If you don't actually prosecute the crimes, that changes the equation.
Users have a choice: Don't use Microsoft Windows if you don't like the bundled Internet Explorer.
I would say what is happening now _is_ the market sorting it out.
I disagree. There are many classes of applications on the Play Store and F-droid not on the App Store, including multiple browsing engines and emulators.

I would wager that within weeks or months there would be a full windows VM available for the iPad if it was allowed.
I wonder if there are hidden systematic considerations that make it so that trucks the size of Japanese mini trucks simply appear to not exist in the united states. Here's the first DDG link about these trucks: https://jpnautoimport.com/mini-truck%EF%BC%86jdm
Advocating for what things exactly?

It might be a strawman, but I’m going to guess and it would be something like an end to perceived workplace raceism/sexism/*isms.

If you let in political advocacy movements from the left do you really want political movements from the right? Or is it just ok if the left is advocating for it? I kinda think the left is trying to have their equity cake and eat it too…

To some people (I am not one of them at all, but I understand the argument) any abortion is literally murder, and it as a sincerely held belief as the recent movements like BLM and #metoo were.

So do you really want to hear about abortion/guns/illegals/debt/satanism/furries in the workplace? This is just setting up workplaces for problems or maybe we can just realize work is for work?
I struggle to figure out why the homeless are so visible in SF but not in other cities like Manhattan. My only haphazard guess is that it has to do with the weather. I could ask the same question about why SF is the only city that has to lock up soap in their grocery stores.

SF strikes me as the city with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
If Canada (Ontario in particular) has such a clever strategy, why are we living under a stay at home order where police have been deployed to prevent us from doing anything but grocery shop? I dont see how anyone living in Ontario could have anything good to say about what I would argue is our governments complete failure to serve its citizens in any way, whether protecting vulnerable people form covid, or even affording basic freedoms ot its citizens. It's amazing to me that in the face of an utter failure by our government, people can pretend that we're doing well.
No issues with Go cross-compilation or tooling in general on Apple Silicon.
I'd be suprised if they'd go with any system except their current one. They probably make a good chunk of money by having people walk around the store and impulse buy things like magazines and snacks, and this also seems to be a local issue. The Walgreens near me has titled mirrors high up on the walls so staff can see down every isle no matter where they are, and I've seen the manager catch somebody stealing, so he made them empty their pockets then kicked them out of the store.
Cans for food is actually one thing I would like to see addressed with an alternative. With how ubiquitous cans are, it was a source of plastic in contact with foods that is difficult to avoid.
This is significantly and historically more the case.

The previous comment confuses Bullying with Political discussion. Though it is true bullies can participate in political discussions a bully is typically a bully in all areas.
I can’t help but wonder if the tech industry did this to itself. Tech companies offer so many amenities at the office from free food, to laundry, to massages that the line between office and home has blurred. Maybe the solution is making offices feel like offices and normalizing forty hour work weeks?
I would pay the premium but I don't know how that would alleviate the anti-trust issues. Epic would just argue that is essentially a tax on users who want to use their app store.
It seems to be in some places like California.

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/harassment/political-reta...
In the UK a granny can't buy a few vegetables without being charged a surcharge for the bag that's required; though corporations package food with thousands and thousands of tonnes of excess packaging with seemingly no additional charge.

Where's the justice in this? Why charge the consumer when huge corporations like Asda, Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys etc are happy to buy tonnes of plastic that's unnecessary and will be thrown away? Carrier bag charges are just posturing in the face of this.
> Plenty of swearing happens because the computer just won't respond or it's taking whole minutes

Of course, my point was that it is usually not beneficial to worry about performance until that happens. And when it does, improving the performance of the product becomes a project in its own right. Misbehaving parts of the software are diagnosed and fixed, usually by introducing even more complexity.
You will also have a choice: don’t use alternative stores

And if Apple is so concerned about user security & privacy when it comes to alternative app stores, they should adjust their policies so that the apps most users want will see no reason not to be on the App Store.
> My understanding was that much of the design of ARM was literally based on 6502

Huh, hadn't seen that previously. I'd still call that a influence on ARM rather than a proto-ARM, but fair enough.
The sub-text is that the customer does not know what’s good for them, and that they should be grateful because competition. Who cares about the actual users or their satisfaction, when there is money to be made?
An interesting write-up about the SF District Attorney, who appears to be enabling this injustice.

https://stanfordreview.org/chesa-boudin-san-francisco-crime/
it is just like today - i may have a knife and you have a gun, only those robotic "knife" and the "gun" will be "smart", more powerful than a knife and probably than a gun, at least the robot would shoot much better than an average person, and come with subscription fee.

Also, while people in many places can't get a license to carry various weapons, a large cash flush corporation can push through the regulations Uber-style and get the regulations to allow their robots to carry and use those weapons.
Oh, really? I am not from the US, so I am a bit ignorant about the laws there.

In France it is illegal to discriminate against an employee because of his political views.

It is not allowed to ask.
Even after removing some, there's still likely to be some less. It seems like it's probably good to remove it, all else being equal.
But there are many solutions to that. Many "better" states firms could evolve into.

I agree that social norms are evolved, but part of that evolution is the activism of the people within.

So the fact that social norms evolve does not mean we should stop working on them
Desperate for makeup?
This is the core of the problem that we're facing on every modern "all the things" platform.

How do you create a general content site, without spending money on human review and curation of all uploads, while segregating erotic and non-erotic content, without having your entire site banned/blocked/gated around the world for hosting erotic content?

This has affected Amazon, Blogspot, Facebook, Google, Imgur, Patreon, Reddit, Tumblr, Twitch, Youtube. Every general content site has this problem. Most try to solve it with "user flags", which are promptly weaponized and abused to silence others. Problems constantly recur around statues, breastfeeding, swimsuits. Advertisers want content to be segmented with certainty, but site operators don't want to pay human beings to do that. Standards of "erotic" vary wildly per city, country, religion. The list goes on.

What if human curation is the only valid solution? We haven't found any other solution that works yet, and AI is barely able to recognize human beings, much less discern whether content is intended to be categorized as erotic, non-erotic, or both.
A $10k poker win changed how I think
This sort of stuff happens when society reaches a level of prosperity so high that it starts worrying about nonsense

None of this happens in Mexico

The US needs to import fresh blood and fresh brains if it wants to survive.

Less people studying social trends and more studying consumer trends.
Sorry, but I don't believe that should be Apple's prerogative.

You say that users don't care, but users _don't know either_.

And whenever people lobby for right to repair laws and for consumers to _own_ hardware, guess who's always standing on the other saying that it ain't so.
> how effectively and quickly people have become concerned about this issue.

I don't really know how to take this.

Surely you're joking?

People have been banging on about plastics for at least the past 20 years while I've been paying attention, so probably longer.

So some report came out two years ago, that was long overdue.
Yeah. I grew up in a third world country and moved to North America pretty late. I never realized how sheltered and weak Americans were till I joined a well known YC company.
The article made it sound like Cook (and Apple legal) were not expecting a grilling from the judge. She asked him questions for longer than any other witness.
But iPhones and Android devices do have functionality that users can’t obtain anywhere else. What alternative smartphone ecosystem could the average user choose as a substitute? To say nothing of the fact a smartphone is essentially required in and of itself.

Once a user has chosen a smartphone ecosystem large switching costs come into play.

If a significant amount of your customers choose your phone because it is stylish that could just as well demonstrate there is no price competition to speak of.
Sadly, in my case they definitely did it in series. I documented it during the build and kept the pictures of all my in-wall wiring. It doesn't even terminate inside the house except at the jacks, it runs from jack to jack all the way back to where the electrical meter is, and then out a hole in the side of the house to where it would presumably be connected by Centurylink if I bought landline service from them.

One of my great blunders when this house was built was telling the electrician no when he offered to wire the house for ethernet for a few hundred bucks. He wasn't low voltage licensed, but he said he could still run the wire and just coil it up in boxes with blank plates for someone (me) to come along later and finish. I was in a rush that day and said no thanks, we're just going to use WiFi anyway. DOH. I still want to slap myself in the head almost 10 years later when I think of it.

The closest I can get to having wired network in the house using existing wiring would be using the coax which is installed to the same plates in every room as the RJ11. That wire does come back to a common point, and only one of those runs gets used for anything. But the gear to convert coax to ethernet is mildly expensive for what it is, and I haven't pulled the trigger.
PHP was a godsend, saving me from Perl. I switched to the Dark Side and prefer C# these days, but I still keep an eye on it just because there was some fun stuff I built with it.

Looking at that archived page brings back memories. Since I'd started with PHP/FI and I think I went on until 4.x, I'm pretty sure I saw that announcement when it actually came out.
Apple also has a choice. Begin conforming to our legal framework regarding monopolistic practices or pay a heavy price.
Of course it's is valuable. Complexity makes software expensive to make, so removing it is literally worth a lot of money that can be better spent making features. Nobody buys software because it's accidentally complex, they buy it because of features, quality (which is something that's also affected by complexity!), etc.

The only reason complexity is prevalent is due to a shortage and geniuses (and also a shortage of "Some" too, if we're going by Alan Perlis' quote).
Well that's what autopilot systems are for.
Lots of reasons that I didn't at that time. I didn't want to deal with the hassle of purchasing and maintaining a truck and didn't have a place to park it. I wasn't going to park it at my house and didn't want to use one of my two parking spots at my warehouse.

We weren't doing things the buttoned up proper way at the time but most small businesses cut corners to make things work. You can go broke being excessively compliant.
Drug cartels are on the decline. Rise of the Warrior Cop is directly correlated with centralization of power and the influence of police unions over politics and public spending.
probably zlready have a fealty oath.

we really need to treat all corporations as varioud forms of sociopathy
Is there a snap paid model? I thought it was free?
Yes, but at the same time, web development was a much simpler process back then to get into and actually start to learn. No virtual machines to have to learn, or npm, or git, or... just code in php/html in notepad and maybe some raw basic javascript until js frameworks started becoming a thing and upload it via ftp. I mean, you didn't even have css to worry about...you just threw everything into a table! (lol!) There were only a few standard screen resolutions you had to worry about, and only desktops/laptops that were always oriented in the same position (landscape). I'm not saying it wasn't crude, but it was a lot faster to go from knowing 0 to building a dynamic web page with a real visitor counter vs everything extra you have to consider using modern devices and tooling.
> Something like 80% of the world's fish stocks are also gone from overfishing.

Is there an estimate that goes along with that number for when 95%+ of all fish stocks will be gone?

Given the extraordinarily fast depletion implied by the 80% figure (the vast majority of which has happened in the past century), it must be very soon. Within 10-20 years there would have to be almost no fish stocks left given the advance of world's population and its collective demand for fish.
Isn’t ending workplace sexism/racism a net benefit to the workplace? How are divisive, hate driven policies related?
That was my assumption. Just wanted to pull more focus into what was occurring. Then, as if on cue, they proved your point by instantly down voted you!
If you’re working in a company, I suggest you go and tell them that it’s fine and malware is not a problem and that the users need to learn from their mistakes. They should be quite relieved to learn that.

Same for the companies who lose regularly millions of dollars to ransomware.
It’s a tricky issue because it pits the capitalistic tendencies of wanting to make as much money as possible against the ethical tendencies of trying not to contribute to most girls’ body issues.

These are the types of conversations people are having around the data showing a steady decrease in women’s subjective well being over the last many decades: https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp09-11bk.pdf
To me it seemed less racist when we all had yellow hands. Then again I think poc is a silly term - non Europeans have completely different experiences and cultures from each other even within the US.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When Apple based their keynotes on how this device is "xxx THIN" instead of "xxx THICK"... that really pushed the god-awful trend of making devices thinner at all costs when I never had a problem pocketing my smart phone or bagging my netbook before Apple declared all others to be too thick. I miss having laptops I could actually easily work on and know that it wasn't going to hit thermal throttling due to the lack of fans or proper sized heatsinks.

In the end, people started paying more for things that were built more cheaply. Thinness from Apple wasn't about being sleek and sexy, it was about reducing material costs first and foremost. Surprised that part of it all was completely missed by reviewers. I still think they went too easy on Apple with regards to the iPhone 6 bendgate issue. It, at most, was "oh no, it bends..." and not "What the shit, Apple? You're reducing the aluminum to such thin layers that it's no longer structurally supportive?!"

And what do we see now? Soldered in back glass pieces. Not glued. *SOLDERED.* Environmentally friendly, my ass.
What are you going to do, hire your own mercenaries to arrest me and mine? Or do you now recognize the value in real police?
What comparator nations? Do you mean the ones with their own vaccine manufacturing, and the ones that put in place protectionist measures to prevent their trading partners and allies from buying vaccines from them?

Canada is just lucky the EU doesn't behave like the US, and we have been able to source vaccines from Pfizer's EU manufacturing. When the chips were down, we couldn't rely on our friends to the south.

Now that we have supply, Canada's vaccination rate is climbing rapidly. Well over 50% of the eligible (12+) population and climbing.
Not US but SF and other progressive cities.
Most of this goes over my head but it seems that the silver lining of this pandemic is absolutely bounty of new discoveries about virii and immune responses.
Why is that a tax? How would a bootlocked iPhone not be Apple giving you a discount on their product if you buy into their ecosystems?