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That’s a bit defeatist.

The Dutch took the approach of treating car crashes similarly to how the FAA treats plane crashes: do a deep analysis of what occurred, what the root structural issues were (for instance, is it difficult for a car turning left to see oncoming traffic?) and then change the environment to improve the structural issues.

Knowing where incident hot spots are likely to be should help you redesign the areas most likely to cause issues.

There’s a reason the Netherlands has around 1/3 as many traffic fatalities per capita as the US: in the US, it seems like we throw up our hands at problems like road crashes, whereas with problems like plane safety we take an incremental and root-cause analysis approach to improve safety over time.
I use Livewire quite extensively in production and it’s great. As someone that never got into Vue/React it has allowed me to build some pretty awesome and interactive UI’s.
If engineers gave a shit about humanity they’d leverage their “wait we build all this stuff” power and stop building until humanity is paid better

Wfh = simply don’t open laptops

But let’s go on about how Jeff Bezos alone is responsible in a country “by of and for the people “.

When horrible corporate oligarch or slightly LESS horrible corporate oligarch are your options for President, why does everyone keep waiting for them to be nice?

Force austerity on the rich. Like “trickle down economics” is a joke about pissing in people, “what the market will bear” is a euphemism for push our society the breaking point.

We’re the market of ideas they have to buy from. Let’s force them to buy a new one from us.

“But noooo my personal hard won struggle would be for nothing if everyone was equal!” is how this conversation usually goes though.

Frankly take your rant and cram it up your ass. Like Bezos is listening to your comments here and your effort meant something
What is the problem? Capitalism as usual is you ask me. Brick-and-mortar stores are not cheap/clean/green/sustainable either (we have just become more accustomed to them, so we accept their "downsides").

If we as a society really have a problem with this we can outlaw trashing non-trash to some extend. Then hope for the whistle blowers to tell us what brands keep on trashing stuff that many people would happily accept.

The system we live in is not built on common sense ("why trash good things?"). It's built on profit maximization/ fast growth ("trashing is cheaper than restocking or brick-mortar"). So this is not likely to change. Sadly.
Well of course, that makes sense Windows 11 is an unfinished beta product, right? Wait, they went RTM? Four months after the first public insider builds? Without fixing most of the bugs/issues/complaints?

By the way, this comment is posted from Windows 11. Trust me when I tell you that this isn't ready for most of the general public. It is still for early adopters willing to suck up problems. I'd wait until March 2022 or more, and then see where it is at.

While they've made some positive moves forward UI wise, this still definitely feels like an insider build. I've had the DWM crash a few of times, requiring a hard reboot twice (even CTRL+ALT+Del or Win+Ctrl+Shift+B didn't work, while my mouse cursor still moved). That's more times than Windows 10's entire life.

Plus it is missing very "101"/polish features (e.g. just today I discovered that moving pinned start menu icons between pages was impossible, you have to move it to the start of the second page then delete icons from the first page).
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How Among Us is using parent verification to enable under-13 gamers
I would like to subscribe to your cult.

> rule of no proselytizing

> had about $50M split between 6 people near the end

.. are you sure that isn't just a tontine?
> I can't understand why otherwise intelligent people

Intelligence isn't prophylactic against conspiracy theories, and crypto-cultism has all of the major features. It offers an alternative worldview where global elites are engaged in a massive conspiracy to keep the little people down, but with one weird trick the enlightened can stick it to the Man. Take fintech out of it and you're looking at a cyberpunk novel.

Crypto cults are technology based, so it strokes the ego of cultists already in technology fields: they're superior because of their existing skills and expertise.

Finally, crypto trading has indeed made some people quite rich, and they're happy to evangelize. Doing so works for Amway and other "don't call it a pyramid" schemes, and the mass delusion of cryptocurrency doesn't even have a living board of directors to point to as the ultimate extractors of value.
PMC is where papers go that are required to be open access due to funding or chosen to be open access in the life sciences, generally speaking. It's the official place for these and a legal copy. Sci-hub generally isn't. If you support Sci-hub you might as well save them the bandwidth for serving papers that are genuinely open access. And supporting PMC is good to support the further expansion of actually open access papers and the funding of them.

PMC also makes everything uniformly formatted which is often a benefit, though sometimes equations can be worse.
> Not sure why you’d assume that those who voted “remain” don’t change their thinking by then.

Didn't assume that. All I said was that 'those in charge will have come from a generation that overwhelmingly voted Remain', which will be true regardless. The kind of strategic thinking needed would be how to maintain their sentiments towards the EU.

It's also of note that this generation is overwhelmingly progressive in their politics, is being denied radical action on climate change, denied the ability to buy a house, laden with university debt, and so on. The conditions are ripe for a generation who wants radical social change, and maybe rejoining the EU will be part of that.
If a wanna-be world power was playing with fire and burned down the neighborhood, it's worth discussing.
Every time I look at this, my conclusion is that sudo is a great tool for limiting coworker access and a terrible tool for limiting adversarial access.

This is one of those spots where "everything is a string" fails miserably. Sure, you can encode anything into a string, but that means your ACL system now needs to know how to decode all those formats. Or you do what we have now; regex and hope no one is clever enough to spot the bugs.

That's not even getting into the fact that shells can get input from all over. I.e. passing vars via stdin or variables.

Off the top of my head, you can open full root shells from basically any editor, I believe less can do it. You'll also have to ensure that none of the programs can crash to a debug REPL (i.e. if I can get a Python program to crash to a REPL, I can open bash or run my own Python as root).
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Windows has been running an "every other one is good" process for a while. I think it may actually be causal; Microsoft has a "good windows", which lasts for 3-5 years, it gets overconfident internally as everyone just becomes accustomed to dominance and starts thinking it has a platform it can do something other than "be a good operating system" from, so it designs a piece of crap and gets humbled for a couple of years. So they take the time to make a good OS. Then repeat.

Windows 10 was a good windows. Not perfect, but it's been pretty good. I thought maybe we escaped from this cycle when they announced Windows 10 would be the last windows, but I've expected 11 to very likely be a pile of crap since I first heard it announced.

Windows 12 will be the one to look out for.

(They do have a platform they can do something other than "be a good operating system" from... it's just it rests on the foundation of having a good operating system. They seem to neglect their foundation every other major release.)
I bring up this point every time something like this comes up and people usually say that somehow Amazon using "Analytics" and better ranking is the difference.

Walmart's Great Value is exactly the same idea and is created and promoted the exact same way both in the their stores and on their website.

I think what astonish me the most is that people are opposed to something that is actually a plus for the customer. Amazon Basics is definitely one of the great thing on Amazon right now. Instead of random cheap garbage I can buy stuff that I know will be "good enough" at a great price.
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To some, the name and reputation of that brand's quality is what drives these second hand markets. Older Craftsman tools are like this, for example. You can't beat the quality of a certain era of hand tools from Crafstman.
Etymologically, yes. The meaning has diverged a little, so "cry of fear" is a closer translation.
because amazon owns the marketplace and has access enormous information on what sells well and can use for its own benefits. This creates unfair competition.
I also see no difference. What I meant is that the "trading" part is the problem, not a specific asset.
No, I meant banning speculating the stock market. Limiting the number of investments the average guy can make at 2 or 3 per year for instance, so they put into index funds or if they really care one special stock.
If there were a will to stop the gambling I think ways could be found. The saddest thing is that the vocal majority is the middle class that is seeing good returns now, while never considering how the massive wealth transfer is affecting our society.
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Productivity always has side effects, and usually that comes in the form of abstracting away the plumbing to "ship stuff".

For lots of working developers out there, "ship stuff" is their job, and you can't expect every single dev to understand the stack they work in end-to-end and to build their own plumbing each time, just for the sake of some ideal of knowledge.

It's a straw man to say that frameworks "lower code quality standards". I would argue in a lot of cases it's the opposite and they help codify best practices for the 80% of web applications that are the same, instead of everyone having their own custom implementations of templating, event handling, auth, caching, etc...

Would you rather have journeyman programmers building crappy templates and inefficient controller logic, or crappy auth systems and slow storage layers?

Frameworks provide guard rails and let less skilled developers be more productive as they get better over time. One can hope that some will dig in under the hood to learn more, but if they don't, so be it. At least they're not building your auth system or rolling their own hashing libraries.
Mozilla has previously used it for a cross-promotion with TV show Mr Robot. They also used it to push an emergency update to everyone once.

That said, officially it is guaranteed to only ever be used for properly vetted academic experiments.

So it should be fine! /s
I think the UI decisions make perfect sense if you consider using your PC like it's a giant phone.
I believe it's this blog post: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/...
Scale, and the imbalance of data that favors Amazon. You don't walk into a retailer and shout out "I WANT TO BUY A BACKPACK".
I agree, however it's funny to watch bezos burn $1B every year on his laughably shabby "space company" in comparison to SpaceX.

Slow clap Mr. Bezos - maybe in ten years you'll be able to dock with the ISS...
It's about Visual Studio NOT Visual Studio Code
The examples are a mouse pad for 60% cheaper and knock off products 15% cheaper made by same mfg as brand name products- absolutely miserable business practices for other businesses but don’t they need to show some consumer harm? For all the antitrust claims?
> If I buy services from the EU, I can assume that they comply with the GDPR, and I know that I'll get a proper invoice with VAT, and I won't have trouble with the tax authorities.

VAT and invoices are part of GDPR? Financial regulations yes - sure, of which the UK is pretty darn good upon.

But if a company invoices you with bad invoices then you can just refuse them and ask the correct and resubmit - even in the USA. As you say, you need them done right for tax reasons and believe me, countries and tax laws are tight, so to ask a company to redo it with the missing information is hardly going to be an issue - more so if they want paying.

The whole aspect of assurance of compliance you make though - very valid point. Just shame such things like GDPR need to be driven by countries and not some global standard that could be audited and approved that is not tied or limited by any country.

So if there was say some International standard with an ISO number outlining such standards, companies could adopt that and get certified compliant and it gets driven that way. As with many standards, adoption by insurance/reinsurance companies goes a long way indeed.
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Because I wanted to express my genuinely personal opinion about the situation and the company blog isn't really the place for that

The whole thing is about the company. Not washing.
I would expect that when returned clothing is not restocked, then it is at least sold to second-hand shops. They often offer newly-looking goods.
Actually, we literally can’t.
What are Amazon's profit margins? They are already deep into the "destroy all other retail" part, but it's not just about retail for them. They are vertically integrated, so it's also about distribution, fulfillment, and product search/discovery.
> But it knows! Why should I now train it on a picture if there are live viruses of all the mutations all over around which I have already encountered countless times and keep encountering every day?

Ok so when are you going to get a booster shot or your first COVID shot? Or are you planning on getting the disease again and letting it run its course?

Any why would you treat this vaccine any different than the flu vaccine or w/e? It makes absolutely no sense. If you don't understand the science, how are you making informed decisions?

> nobody wears masks in business

False? Who cares? I'm in business and wear a mask all the time when meeting with clients if we even meet on-site.

> which suggests they are renewing given regular contact

Which also suggests you are getting the virus again and giving it to people you interact with who may now be getting COVID-19 for the first time. You're literally perpetuating the disease! But hey screw everybody else right? Those who might not be able to get the vaccine, like, oh idk, my nephew? Or maybe kids who BTW aren't immune from getting sick.

Your mentality around this is selfish and bizarre.

> How can we possibly suspect my immune system still has not enough clue and an instruction can be better than what it already knows?

The person you are replying to was discussing your complete misunderstanding of how vaccines work. Not commenting on naturally acquired immunity, which BTW doesn't mean you're 100% immune because that's now how things work.
Totally ignorant guess: sounds like they're invalidating too much sometimes, like having one core clear all the shared cache instead of just the lines it stepped on or something.

There's big hairy problems down in the tiny little details there that are easy to have come out and eat you.
> What would we see if we add up all gamers on the planet?

A gamer can only run one machine at a time and, as much as they might try, they can’t play 24/7. It wouldn’t even come close to the cost of powering Bitcoin.
OK, thanks, that answers my question: there is not continuity whatsoever, you have to take care of everything yourself.
He can opt out of the system and go to the middle of the forest and plow a small field. Most of the good patches are taken, but he can go to another country with less population density. Anyway, I don't expect this solution to consume less time.
When you think about it, the behavior isn't all that different from the way MLM converts act. MLM true believers would tell you it's the future of commerce or something and that it'll provide them financial independence or early retirement.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are actually making people money so it's different than the average MLM experience, but that makes the fervor all the more intense. Then there's all the shitcoins out there that people have lost money on.
I assume this is much more about either very lightly used/unused or the sort of things they normally sell in their outlets. I may be wrong but I doubt they are selling stuff that's truly worn out.

Not sure why you think it's gross. I know stores that sell used hiking/camping gear on commission. A lot of people buy such gear and then don't use it much.
I have recently moved to NL and am making use of the 30% tax ruling. To me, another attraction was the exemption from capital gains for the 5 years I have 30% ruling. If I get lucky with my investments, I can get more out of them.
> Why would the EU ever want us back?

It solves a lot of problems for Ireland, assuming Northern Ireland hasn't rejoined the Republic first.
I'm not sure that is in the dictionary. You can get more consonants with slechtstschrijvend and zachtstschrijdend, which are perfectly normal Dutch words but unlikely to end up in the dictionary (worst-writing and softest-treading). With the transliterated Russian borsjtsj you can get one more: borsjtsjschrokkend (Borscht-devouring).
I think in this case it was just too generic - basically boo Facebook - and that moves discussion into a predictable pile-on rather than reacting to anything specific or interesting.

I'm not saying you owe $BigCo better, but rather that HN threads are good when they're specific and unpredictable, and bad when they're generic and predictable. Here are a couple of heuristics that I like to go by:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Plenty of new customers since 2016, worldwide. Aren't worried about identity data, but are worried about their calendar?
Other people in the thread have argued that "consumer harm" is difficult to prove and easy to disprove, and not strong enough of a criterion because the harms from monopolization can span decades, and don't just apply to direct consumers.
Explicitly instructing the public not to hoard is probably the fastest way to induce hoarding behavior. People will hoard two extras so that their family can have those as backup rather than risk them being sold out to the person who hoarded 10 extras when it's time for resupply.
First order effect might be a benefit to consumers, but this kills competition. Those brands and products that amazon copies could eventually die out, and now there's less competition in the market and less forces for better products for customers.
Most of the workers that left the food sector have become white-collar workers
semantics > syntax
OT, but I'm reminded of the Mitchell and Webb sketch which describes one of the social experiences that snails find completely mortifying: seeing a snail that you recognise at the other end of a long corridor, and coming towards you, and then being stuck for, say, 30 (!) minutes, in that awkward bit where you don't know whether to acknowledge their presence now and then make or break eye contact, or pretend that you haven't recognised them until they are much closer.

Also, given that this was from 2015, and even accepting that this is not a fast event, it's a shame that the results aren't in yet.
Aaaaah good old net send *
To my mind, it's only anti-work as in it's opposed to the current way we structure employment. We still use systems that were designed to manage manual labour and I think we've known for a long time that this is a bad fit for knowledge work or work that has been highly automated. It breeds a culture of "looking busy" which is a detriment to both the employee and employer. I think we desperately need new paradigms that are better suited to these types of work.
Closing specific borders because you don't like the people who come through that border is racist. Closing them all probably wouldn't have done enough anyway since it would have to be combined with mandatory and strictly enforced total lockdown to also prevent the spread internally.

We were able to affect the curve. Maybe it would have been flat or even inverted if people actually stayed home for 2 weeks.

They said not to use masks because hospitals needed them. They weren't sure at the time if the masks were effective enough for others to wear them anyway. Later we both got our supplies in order and determined that even cloth masks limit the spread by significantly reducing the radius around you that is dangerous. We said masks weren't needed for the vaccinated because there was solid safety against the original strain. A few months later, the delta strain became a problem because people didn't do enough to stop the virus from spreading, so we had to go back to masks since the vaccine only partially protects against delta.

Protest crowds were certainly dangerous when it came to spreading the virus. However those people were also far more likely to be wearing masks than people at Trump rallies. Also there's a difference between pushing back against people getting murdered by police and people all gathering to hear a politician that they were already going to vote for tell them all the things they wanted to hear.

I don't want to put any more time into this comment, but I think I've made my point that the changes have been logical.
For sure this thread of his is passionate, but I can't really refute any of his points. The current NFT market is hot potato.
Are you sure online shopping is killing the planet faster?

Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores.

I didn't see anything in the way of the discussion of these tradeoffs,

but physical locations for big box stores certainly aren't environmentally free.
The one that has always frustrated me is “valid,” which has mutated from a word to acknowledge something’s objective recognition under a well-recognised schema to one that simply signals that it matches the speaker’s viewpoint.

Not that I have any issue with people believing whatever they want to, but using a word associated with objectivity to lend your inherently subjective statement of opinion a false imprimatur of hard truth is certainly disingenuous.
> use anonomised NHS data

If you've successfully anonymized it, it's no longer personal data subject to GDPR?
It's probably worth discussing the reasoning behind a statement like this. I don't pay attention to low-end Android phones - maybe they really do this to you. But it seems really unlikely.

Do you have examples?

I know many people complain about battery degradation. But really, these phones are using about the most advanced batteries that are available in the relevant price range. They are degrading because you are using the device a lot. You really are. Are there any credible claims that batteries are degrading faster than "normal" given usage patterns?
It isn't true that antisemitism specifically breeds in anonymous and non-moderated communities. That can be empirically disproved since it is present in communities that have both. Being victim of some nebulous group is a concept not only employed by groups described in the article which serve as easy targets.

Indeed you can find some notorious texts there. You could easily find them for as long as the net existed. It wasn't taken that seriously as long someone didn't "crack down" on it like suggested here and advocated to ban people left and right under the smallest suspicion of "hate".

There are also no transnational nazis. Fascists is a better descriptor.
This may be difficult to do as an employee, but if you call it "consulting" it may be fine.