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> Though the youngsters coming up now drink way less than I did at 18 in 1998

I've noticed this too (also British). I'm very close in age to you and remember the news stories regarding University drinking challenges and deaths in the late 90's.

I'm almost teetotal these days too, partly because I have young kids but also because I just don't seem to have the taste for it that I once had.

Also, I'm a little concerned about the potential longer term (yet to be discovered) health implications regarding the level of drinking our generation did at the time.
Yes, failure to signal is a traffic violation. At least everywhere I've lived/traveled in the US. It's also a rather convenient excuse for police to "randomly" pull you over (I've been pulled over by Chicago PD for not signaling for a lane change, despite actually having done so).
If you're not familiar with Betteridge's law of headlines, you may be interested to learn of its existence:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
Anyone can do whatever they want, and if you do want to write a parser in C this may be a good guide for you. But it's hard to understand the benefit to writing a language frontend in C, generally speaking. (An obvious exception might be if you are writing one of the first languages for a new architecture/operating system or one where only a C compiler exists.)

If you are writing a compiler, you'll just be emitting some other language anyway so the parser/emitter being in C doesn't really give you anything even if you are emitting C.

If you are writing an interpreter and you want performance, you're going to have to emit bytecode and have a bytecode interpreter. Wanting your bytecode _interpreter_ to be in C could make sense but your frontend could just emit the bytecode to a file and your interpreter written in C could read from that file.

It's a handwritten parser too so it's not like you picked the language so you could use a certain complex or nice parsing library.

And it's not like the performance (or binary size) of the parser/emitter typically matters so much that you need even that part to be so much faster (or smaller) than a parser/emitter in Go/Java/C#/whatever.

The overhead to writing C makes it a less friendly introduction to the topic if you have never written a compiler or interpreter (or parser, specifically) before.

Again, you can do what you want. And if you must do it in C, you will probably value any posts like this. Just wanted to throw out reasons you may not want to do this.
>this one event is worse than anything trump did or had happen during his administration.

You're missing the obvious point (as the British, Russians and innumerable others found out) that Afghanistan is not a nation per se. It's a collection of regions, clans, families and warlords.

We picked certain warlords (the enemies of the Taliban) when we went into Afghanistan and the ones we picked were/are just as insular, corrupt and narrowly focused on their own interests as those who support the Taliban.

We spent 20 years and a trillion dollars "training" the Afghan military and police to support the Kabul government.

And as anyone could have (and many did) told you, as soon as we left, the army and police just melted away and the Taliban took control.

This isn't a surprise, nor is it unexpected. If Bush II, Obama or Trump had pulled out the troops the exact same thing would have happened.

Now it's done and we can let the Afghans go back to killing and oppressing each other as they've done for millenia.

It's not pretty, and many will suffer, but it's not our war and we should never have had any part of it, except to kick bin Laden out of there and make it clear to the Taliban that they need to make sure folks who want to attack the US don't ever take up residence in Afghanistan again.

But instead we went with the failed strategies of the past (nation building) and the inevitable happened.

It's not Biden's fault. It's not Trump's fault. This is all on Bush II. We should have gone in, kicked al Qaeda ass (we did), make sure the Taliban knew we would make them pay for supporting al Qaeda (we did, somewhat) and then went home.

By the time Obama took office, we were completely entrenched in the corrupt regime in Kabul.

tl;dr: This was never going to end well and it's about time someone had the guts to pull us out. Now the same folks who were in a lather about "Obama's forever war" are complaining that Biden ended it. Feh. It's just political posturing and bullshit.
Try contacting the media that reports that space. They won't be able to shut them down, but could ruin their credibly with bad PR. I don't think you'll have much luck in the Chinese court system.

Additionally you can contact their payment gateway provider.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Sues NASA for a Moon Lander Contract
But can you imagine how much better the world would be if we didn't run businesses and didn't need the people motivated only by money at all?
What's wrong with iterating across multiple components? You seem to imply that this is "hopping around" and therefore bad, but it's perfectly acceptable to do so.

Of course, if your system needs to iterate across 20 components to do its job then maybe you need to check if you've factored your components correctly.
Nobody should be using autopilot driving through roadworks anyways.
I saw the same message yesterday from Spotify when I tried to use Chromecast. At least it prompted me for the permissions when I took that action, so it was clear why.
Maybe it's a myth, but if so, it's an influential myth. I first heard this story about 10 years ago when I was new to the business and working on ad tech. It was used as an example of "what not to do" (because creeping out customers is bad for business.) The ideal, I was told, was to toe the line as close as possible. Creep on customers, but don't let them realize it. Hide highly targeted suggestions among less accurate suggestions, to disguise the efficacy of the tracking.
> Road crashes are the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people aged 1-54

This isnt true according to the CDC. Cancer and heart disease lead for the 44-54 group, and while "accidental injury" does lead from 1-44, if you break down the data, in many cases vehicle based accidents are not not the largest single source. For example:

Drowning is the largest single cause in 1-4

Cancer is the largest single cause in 5-9

Suicide is the largest single cause 10-14

https://wisqars-viz.cdc.gov:8006/lcd/home
All of these concerns can be prevented with effective laws, which most people would agree is a better solution that boycotting the world or wearing elaborate disguises in public (as has been suggested in many other comments here).
If you followed one specific person perhaps, but just doing that in your store? Seems like a stretch.
Or they can just go down and people don't have to freak out.

Stop recommending people join the CDN cartel
Any discussion of intent is always going to be speculation. All we can think about is what such a thing would be capable of if it were somehow malicious.

The first possibility that comes to my mind would be sniffing Ethernet MAC addresses because it could be done without any sort of device-specific support built in to the app. Assuming your local devices’ manufacturers are following Da Rulez, the first part of their MAC address usually tells you the company, and the second part tends to be individualized/serialized.

That would, for example, let TikTok derive when certain users are together IRL if they both show up scan-adjacent to a unique MAC. Or maybe it could let them derive multiple accounts belonging to a single person if one is used on VPN-only to discuss political or personal topics that person might not want associated with their IRL identity.
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The comment all this is under is not just "subscriptions are the devil!". Some responses seem more "reflexively negative" (against any criticism) than the comments they respond to.

you don't seem to offer much value over free competitors and why should we trust you might be hard points to address, but are important.
> not only meant Nokia had to rewrite its proprietary UI and repackage everything

this is half-correct. Maemo->Meego did shift from GTK to QT, but they kept the Debian packaging on the N9 (the only device to ship with Meego)
Oh wow, that's terrible. They've worked alongside them for so long and they couldn't predict this kind of an outcome? I guess they could have expected them to fall eventually, but when talking to the press they couldn't really articulate it well enough to avoid projecting a lack of confidence in ANA.
Forums are great marketing! Sure there are random individuals who run discussion forums for fun. But when a company or organization hosts a discussion forum, it is 100% a form of marketing that they can benefit from.

HN is a forum and it is also a marketing tool. This isn't debatable. It's also not a bad thing.

You can enjoy the features and discussions here but you're also contributing to YC's marketing efforts. Whether you "fall for" the ads and apply to join YC or whatever is somewhat irrelevant. You (and everyone else here) being active and engaged participants is essential to the success of any discussion forum.
I am for greedy penny pinching.

I don’t worry about what food costs, but I still maximize coupons, deals, and points. I also churn credit cards to make travel cheap.

I think it also depends on where the time for it can be taken from. I have meetings I am in, so the time just needs to have a value greater than dumpster to be a benefit to me.

Couponing has a low ROI, but meetings have defaulted my time to having no ROI.
Oops, that's what I meant, not even countably in-finite
That for sure. I have a 40 year old V8, no muscle car, with an excessive 125 hp. Any modern 4 cylinder beats that in tes of torque, power and mpg. But some parts deserve certain engines.
To me, projects in math usually meant trying to apply it to model something or understand something/answer some question by finding a solution.

But that may be because my education always put the pure math and applications in close proximity.
> Target sending targeted ads to a teenager whose dad didn't know she was pregnant yet.

That's how I found out you can't hide a speeding ticket from your parents when you live with them. They see the plethora of legal ads when they check the mail.
I think you two are talking about different things.

You're talking about Autopilot which is just driver assistance technologies; lane keep assistance, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring, etc. It's not to replace driver attention, it's just monitor sections of the road the the driver can't pay attention to full time. The driver is still remaining in control and attentive to the road.

The person you're responding to seems to be talking talking about the Full Self Driving feature who's initial marketing implied that the driver need not be mentally engaged at all or too impaired to drive normally. Which was later back pedal led to say that you need to pay attention.
Never use Yacc. Just write your own parser.
I really suggest people look into the PHEV market rather than buying pure ICE / gas.

If you can't get 100% electric, then getting to 95% electric is still a reasonable drop in emissions. Furthermore, PHEVs might have fewer greenhouse emissions over its lifetime than EVs: those Li-Ion batteries are pretty bad for the environment, and PHEVs use a fraction of them compared to pure electrics.

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Something like the Prius Prime, Rav4 Prime, Honda Clarity , or GM Volt will get you 50-miles per charge and 300-miles on gasoline.

Worst-case scenario, you have a gasoline engine (probably for 2-hour or 4-hour drives to the beach). Best case scenario (aka: most days), you leave your garage with 50-miles of electric range. Most PHEV owners suggest that they go months between gasoline fillups, often burning most gasoline to prevent stale fuel / maintenance purpose, rather than out of necessity. If your day-to-day is often within 50-miles between chargers (ex: 50-miles at home, and 50-miles from your work charger), you very well could cut out over 95% of your gasoline usage easily (with the remaining 5% the maintenance gasoline-burn offs)