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>Don't start a business where the business plan is to have only one customer, or at least if you do, don't complain when they realize they have you over a barrel.

This is great advice, such good advice that it should be given over and over.

Unfortunately, there is someone out there who hasn't heard it yet. Amazon will just shop and shop until they find that person.
> when historians say "I will prove this to you" they typically mean "not only is it a good story, but unusually I have at least 1 piece of actual evidence". So in the loose world of history where nobody has any idea, maybe the idea is refuted.

Wow, that describes Internet posts (and HN comments), but it's utterly unlike the serious histories I've read, which are filled with primary evidence and incredible amounts of research, with the historians traveling around the world digging up new evidence in archives and museums.

If you want far better histories than what you've encountered, I suggest looking up the topic you are interested in on a college syllabus. The Open Syllabus Project[0], which collects millions of college syllabi and offers statistics too (most assigned, etc.) is a great resource. Or better, ask a reference librarian in the topic at a research library (e.g., a university) - I find they will often help people with recommendations if you are polite and show that you've made an effort to learn what you can without them.

[0] http://opensyllabusproject.org/
That is just crazy. Two years ago my son had a skiing accident. Was evacuated from the mountain by mountain guards, picked up by an ambulance, driven one hour to the next hospital, examined by a doctor and got an x-ray. 6 months later we received an invoice from our public (semi-public, the German system is peculiar) about 30 bucks (if memory serves well) for all of this. And that was mainly the longer distance ambulance ride.

Nobody should be afraid of calling an ambulance. Nobody should need ten years to pay debts for medical care, regardless of procedure.

Another example, age 28 I was diagnosed with colon cancer. That meant a shit load of colonoscopies since then, removal of parts of the colon and 6 months chemotherapy. Overall bill: around 50 bucks per months for the chemotherapy. Luckily I had supplemental insurance covering my salary, also my employer back then continued to pay after the legal 6 weeks. The risk you run in Germany is loosing your salary after 6 weeks, making that salary insurance so important. It is also dirt cheap, I pay roughly 15 bucks a month, it never increased since my studies. Health care should be a human right.
There is a pretty large continuum of potential value between the 'cheap' care that people want, and the ruinous bills that get charged.

That can't be true, everyone knows that people are only greedy and stupid, and it's really the citizens' fault for the prices of the current healthcare setup. The industry itself is all made up of kind-hearted super heroes who would never think of manipulating prices to syphon more money from patients.
I kept stopping at the MVP section (I'm on iOS) but if you keep scrolling you'll eventually get to "Key features released in GitLab 14.0"
Monsanto's villainous behaviour is well defined in those direct links. Bill's choice to work with them and the reasons that might be an issue are left as an exercise to the reader.
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I just run X11 emacs with the Cygwin X server, it works pretty well. I don't actually edit anything in the windows filesystem proper, though.
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I agree here. And its not just America but really just any government in any country.

I've come to think of governments/countries as just a very, very extensive, giant home owners association that happens to float its own currency, fund its own schools, etc. The HOA fees are basically taxes and often times fees are accessed by the size of your unit.

Thinking from an HOA perspective - you then become comfortable with all the warts and inefficiencies that a country/government may have.

Serving on the HOA board is quasi-voluntary, tends toward folks with free time and a desire for power, no one is particularly accountable.

The home owners themselves are a fickle and diverse bunch, the vocal ones mostly complain about stuff, the silent ones don't say anything and are just getting on with their lives and all have varying attitudes toward expenses for improvements and investment for the future.
The advantage of using 18650 cells instead of bigger prismatic ones is that:

1. Surface/volume ratio is superb. It is easier to cool.

2. Compartmentalisation is better. It protects against thermal runaway cascading to other cells.

On other side...

1. 18650 themselves have bad thermals. They are simply not designed for any high current use, like EVs.

2. The above dictates the need in an overkill cooling system, and smart monitoring to account for thermal inertia of cell's insides.

3. 18650 have poorer resistance against swelling, and are more likely to fail catastrophically due to it.

4. The above mandates serious compartmentalisation, and engineering in fail safety, and fail tolerance.

5. 18650 are way more quick to become unbalanced over time from uneven thermal regimes in a pack, and inside the cell itself.

6. The above, and especially uneven internal degradation make the part of 18650 closer to the positive electrode to wear out faster, rise the internal resistance.

7. Per-cell balancing of such small cells are uneconomical.
Ruinous bills are frequently used to cover the costs of routine procedures. It’s another situation where 10% of the healthcare consumes 90% of the resources. It’s the person who needs 6 months in the hospital, the 2 month premature baby in NICU, the hemophiliac that needs $1M medication that balloon all the costs.

And no one can really afford that, but instead of spreading the costs around to all taxpayers, we were spreading it around by inflating everything else. ACA helps with this, but today’s announcement about out of network care will help more too.
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Risk. To the provider, prepaid fees are a liability.
Given the location and possible severity, the only viable way to an emergency room might have been a helicopter. Which insurance almost certainly would not cover.

So the insurance is saying "If you paid $80,000 for a medevac, we would have covered your hospital bill".
By showing them publicly, in your neighbourhood, and in social media, and by defending pets you are normalizing and encouraging pet ownership, encouraging others to keep pets as well, and thus indeed fueling that cruel industry. It's all about higher order effects.
"Americans have been trained to have a strictly binary" - not just Americans, but that aside, isn't that inevitable when parties compete for power - allegiances form to gain numbers, and mergers take places until there are only two competitors left with no groups left to merge with. The inevitable strategic optimum.
Japanese are known to think very long term as well
Nazi “concentration camps” were not actual concentration camps (a thing which long predates the Nazi camps), they were extermination camps for which “concentration camp” was a minimizing euphemism.

US WWII “internment” and “relocation” centers were actual concentration camps (“relocation center” was itself a euphemism, but “internment” referred to a formal legal distinction impacting treaty obligations.)
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> And if you are neutral, you must not take sides.

Except OP's actual examples aren't of Wikipedia "picking a side", it's that Wikipedia is ignoring his side of things.

It's one thing to say Switzerland is going to stay neutral to the Nazis. But that doesn't mean Switzerland is somehow required to hand out Nazi leaflets that it is delivered.
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Please don't give up. Give them something positive - they really have better options in life than a world of confusion and ignorance.
Well, and:

- Long term problems can outlast the tenure of any board member.

- Board members are volunteering. What sort of "accountability" is appropriate?

Can you pin millions in liability on whichever unit owner threw their hat into an election in the year preceding some terrible outcome? Why would anyone be a board member then?
I.e. worse is better.
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Here we go, I'm prepared to sacrifice all of my meager HN karma and die on this hill:

I don't get it. I will never get it. I can't relate at all to the idea that the comfort and well-being of animals is an important thing to be concerned about.

This doesn't mean that I'm an asshole to animals (opinion!). I'm not cruel to animals that I meet (meat?). Generally we get along fine. I don't have a problem with people being concerned about the welfare of animals. You do you, boo. The world (probably) needs somebody to do it. Just kinda leave me out of it OK?

> What really threatens animals today is not cruelty, so much as thoughtlessness.

I'm guilty of thoughtlessness where animals are concerned, and I don't care. It's not my fight.

It's a bit like the blight of "Everyone needs to learn computer programming" of a few years back. Just because you're interested in something and it's important to you, doesn't mean you need to impose it upon other people! It seems obvious to me that not everything is for everybody, but there are an awful lot of people who don't feel that way.
>I know it sounds snarky, but at some point of vimrc complexity it’s worth considering just switching to vscode with the vim extension.

i've been using vim for 10+ years. i tried vsc with a vim extensions and it's just not the same. maybe it's just because i'm super used to my vim config, but vsc + vim plugin feels so awkward and slow.
Completely agree.

You can abstract this into a general maintenance aversion. Effectively there is a moral hazard here: when problems are put off there is a strong chance that the cost will be borne by others.
>The menu has a mysterious "solutions" category

What's so mysterious about it?
This describes me well. As a kid, I scored off the charts in math but was decidedly average in verbal. I can read technical literature all day long, but most works of fiction, historical writings, etc, are lost on me completely.

I was in G&T throughout grade school, anyway, since I was among the top students in math. My learning disability was unidentified until adulthood, unfortunately.

Now, as a middle aged adult, I'm broken, homeless, and destitute, socially and reputationally ruined, and a bit beyond the level of youthful neuroplasticity needed to engage in meaningful continued education, contemplating suicide day in and day out for years and decades on end. It's a miracle I'm still here.

The takeaway here is to take to heart the idea that such early disparities are indicative of a learning disability. Please address the child's disability concurrent to nurturing the child's talent.
I've built a BusyBox image that TFTPs over to do the initial firmware flash, all ramdisk based. I've got physically write protected ICs on my boards. I almost rigged up my board to do write once NOR flash for U-boot. I know read only systems can be built, and everything else can be tmpfs. (And infact, I've built them.)

People seem to be thinking I'm saying this is impossible. I'm not, I never did. I'm sorry I'm frustrated, but it's difficult to respond to things you didn't say.

I'm saying, compared to a power cut switch for a webcam (which, I seem to remember even Apple screwed up accidently), a write protect switch is more challenging.

A power cut switch is mostly challenging mechanically. How do I get the dang thing on the case? But otherwise, that's the only consideration.

For a truly hardware based write protect switch that disables write capabilities at the silicon level, you have to adapt your image, your software, your hardware, and many of your procedures for the bring up process.

Is that challenging? For some people in this thread, I suppose not. But compared with a power cut? Orders of magnitude more challenging. Especially when you are bringing this to a massive codebase that hasn't had this as a design consideration.
> Another whacky thing I discovered: the insurance company gets to decide how much, if any, of your uncovered, out-of-pocket bill counts towards your deductible. In this case they deemed $109 of $832 to be the right number, with no explanation as to how they arrived at that sum.

Not that I think much of the likelihood of success, but aren't you, for any such decisions, entitled to (a) receive a justification on request, and (b) appeal that decision?
> but in no way do we get to stop the train on every stop so that every fringe viewpoint can get on board

TFA describes that this is actually exactly what true "neutrality" is, and that wikipedia alleges to aim to be neutral.
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Yes but when does it end when someone is working exclusively for your company to your exact specifications. It would be as if I opened a restaurant and my cook was a totally separate subsidiary called "My Restaurant's Cook LLC". I am sorry your food was bad or they poisoned you. They are a completely unrelated sub entity that cooks food to my specifications with my uniform exclusively for me.

So please take up any complaints with your service with them and not our restaurant.
Amazon Audible doesn't pay anything. So clearly, special treatment does exist.
> More and more features are being added to the paid versions than core.

If you tally the features per release, still more features are being added to Core: https://gitlab-com.gitlab.io/cs-tools/gitlab-cs-tools/what-i...

(Disclaimer: GitLab employee and co-author of that overview)
Yeah, it’s a bit more nuanced in practice. Most chips now have the ability to specify ranges that are locked or unlocked which then have different requirements for what it takes to write to them, and treat the /W line differently depending on that configuration. But they’re also 20c parts, so using two chips isn’t crazy (many use multiple either as backup or for the different components anyway).
This is why I'm in favor of founder controlled shares (Founder's Fund companies tend to do this - Zuckerberg at FB).

Founder's retain total voting control of the company and can do what they think is in the best interest of the company.

The board can complain and vote against it in favor of stupid short-term decisions that harm in the company, but in the end Zuck can tell them to fuck off and buy instagram because he thinks it's the right thing to do.
> "Fascism"

You're not allowed to mention that ideology here. Except in a distant historical context.
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I don't know if I've ever heard anyone use the term "concentration camp" without qualifiers to refer to anything else than the nazi concentration camps (or something equivalent).

Maybe it's just me, but I think it would have been more clear if you said internment camp if your intent was to refer to the broader context and not invoke a comparison to nazis.
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Then why is he still in business? If he's committing insurance fraud, then the insurance company should work with regulators to stop and potentially prosecute him. The onus to prevent fraud should not be on me as a patient.
The media hasn't cared about being hypocritical for a while now.
If you publish the code anywhere, potentially. You could be (unknowingly) violating the original license if the code was copied verbatim from another source.

How much of a concern this is depends heavily on what the original source was.
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Also, you generally have written correspondence, not images. I doubt that the similarity metric of OPs method produces reasonable results on text, and a good similarity metric for text would be much more complicated.

On the other hand physical shredders typically have other weaknesses, for example if you don't stir the shredded result you have a high correlation between original the current and original relative position of the individual pieces.
Instead of starting research on safe nuclear options, with results who knows when, we should go all in TODAY on established and safe regenerative energy options available right now: Solar and Wind.

Every cent we invest in nuclear research is lost to the immediate solutions.
> what if she DOES run for office?

I'd vote for her.
Brazilians mostly speak Portuguese...

(I don't know if that leaves them considered "Hispanic" or not. I think it does leave them considered Latin, though.)
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If you use the word computer in ordinary conversation frequently enough though, this seems like it might become a little annoying :)
I believe that Larry Sanger is not a human being but a turnip. I have no evidence of this whatsoever and there is substantial evidence that he is indeed a human being, but I believe it. I am sure I can get other people to believe it. I will cite my Hacker News comment as evidence that he is indeed a turnip.

Stuff like this would rapidly ruin Wikipedia without the reliable sources requirement.
I went to an in-network urgent care for a particularly painful pinched nerve and got worthless drugs, and the uncovered part of the bill came out more than the covered part. Next time I'll just suffer at home and hope I don't die. It'll amount to the same result.
Why would they turn it off? They should make money for the work they've done.
Most of the time the system works for people who have good coverage. The tragedy is that "having good coverage" is a hard-to-control combination of luck in employer and/or wealth.

It's terrible that these things happen at all, and we CERTAINLY need to improve the US healthcare system, but exaggerations like "the only benefit of insurance in the US is access to preventative care" doesn't help. If people were regularly getting fucked like that the system wouldn't have the entrenched support it does from the "but I want to keep my insurance" camp, and so speaking in generalities like that just makes you appear uninformed to the millions who regularly see doctors, get treatment, have surgery, etc, without these problems.

It also cheapens the inequality problem: the gap isn't just "has access to preventive care" vs "doesn't have that access." The gap is "has hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even millions, of bills turn into nothing" vs "bankrupt if they seek treatment for any serious problem."
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Once you learn vim you’ll never settle on regular text editor

The amount of things you can with just few keys is just phenomenal.

It does have a learning but once that’s achieved you’ll be very much productive and get things done very quickly
I believe they count what it would have been in-network.

As for saying you should have driven hours with bleeding you couldn't stop--do you have any sort of appeal process? That certainly doesn't sound right.
Hi Carlos, Darren here, PM for runner. Can you provide a bit more insight in terms of some of the challenges that you are having with hosting your own runners? In regards to testing CI locally, did you mean having the ability to validate that a pipeline is fully functional prior to pushing your commit to GitLab?
They had offsite backups, so I'm just saying however permissions are managed, they should have had them reduced.

Idk if they were just pushing to object storage on AWS/Azure/GCS or had another server, but my comment stands.

Now, do I blame them? No, like you said it was a fansite. I'm just offering advice on how to avoid this sort of thing in the future for them and sites like them.
The whole Gitlab saga has left me in a bit shaken. To begin with I became a Gitlab supporter and paying customer, because i want to give the lille guy a chance, and it made my switch from GitHub a given. I don't promote myself on a professional level via GitHub anyway. And i like the idea of value for value. And the healthy competition, even if i don't use git that much.

However this resent switch have shown me that the plan with gitlab was to push to the corporate market (which i understand), but leave us small privates (less than 200 commits a year) behind. Lucky i have found a new "Upcoming small guy" to support - fingers crossed...
It would be impractical and bad for business. They would have to hang out in parks waiting for someone to infringe. Then identify them. They would get a reputation for suing people who just wanted to listen to music in the park. And courts would be sympathetic to fair use claims in such cases.
Fuel problem? Turning off wrong engine? Dual bird strike? Some kind of overload condition (gear down)?

Duel engine out at same type rarely random mechanical issues with both engines.
Risk (a chance of an adverse event) of death always approaches 100% given enough time. Eventually the set of all possible events that can happen to you is smaller and smaller, and proportionally more of the probability space is occupied by events that lead to your death.
Your example is skewed. A correct analog would be

"Switserland is handing out leaflets for the allies but not the axis".

Which would of course not be neutral.
Sarcasm isn’t helping.

We don’t know for certain because that’s the quality of reporting we get in this world, but putting the available information together it seems he was able to find the handle and open the door. He experienced some panic of course, which is to be expected when there is fire.

Meanwhile, dozens or possibly hundreds of gas cars also caught fire on the same day, with causes like road hazards puncturing gas tanks, but most of those incidents don’t make the headlines, because they are not Teslas.
Seems like someone is training some AI, and dumping videos in the process. It may be the way to track progress (like, as he develops his app, videos should get better), maybe to attract investors?
> we received an invoice from our public (semi-public, the German system is peculiar) about 30 bucks (if memory serves well) for all of this

Honestly, it's remarkable how different it is here across the border here in Switzerland. An ambulance was called to me within the same city from a few km away (although I was across the street from the main hospital), performed an ECG/EKG on me, didn't pick me up or transport me anywhere, and I was billed about 700 bucks for that privilege.
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