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> In my idea world (everyone has an ideal world), Linux would be standardized in everything but GUI, and the DEs would run their own distributions with their respective DEs.

Try a BSD!
No. The worst they can do is send you to collections, which they won’t do, or charge you for back charges if you sign up again.

Canceling a credit card as you did may hurt your score though.
> They answer immediately and than play the "it is ringing"-sound forever.

Except that clearly is a number which exists? One that answers, GP isn't fighting 1980's phreakers with a bluebox, they are using Twilio, Signalwire, etc to make automated verification calls/sms for a very large company as far as I understood it. The call being answered is baked entirely into your programmatic logic.

Unless I'm missing some niche telco semantics or lingo here? Or they are rolling their own?

To embrace the "don't question it, you don't understand" narrative, I'm actually quite stunned someone would let this go on for such a long time, if this is corruption, crime or some other sort of telecom fraud aided and abetted by foreign governments/companies why not just turn off the tap and ban the country code if it was such a cost sink? Why not use some of the many alternative (and significantly more secure) verification methods for your customers?
Affinity on Mac is also pretty solid, reasonably, and most importantly not a subscription.
It's a huge win everywhere it catches on. Let's hope it's a generational thing and it accelerates.
I suspect parent commenter is looking for more major browsers like Opera (4X market share [0]), Vivaldi, Brave, Chrome (leader), Safari, Samsung default, Android default, etc.

Firefox isn't widely used anymore for mobile, especially with their recent user-hostile approaches of deprecating extension access, removing about:config, devs alledgedly flipping off users on twitter, and so forth.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile-table...
None of this is censorship.
There’s also MIB Group (Medical Information Bureau) which collects healthcare data as part of an exemption to the fair credit reporting act, along with an extensive astroturfing campaign to hide their activities (the Wiki article on them is useless).

> In addition to an individual's credit history, data collected by MIB may include medical conditions, driving records, criminal activity, and participation in hazardous sports, among other facts. MIB's member companies account for 99 percent of the individual life insurance policies and 80 percent of all health and disability policies issued in the United States and Canada.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/1995/06/medic...

You may request the data they have on you and allegedly you can dispute the information.
You might be able to quantify internal culture, process and behavior, by applying some of the qualifiers from the human development index and happiness index to your company.

Just a thought.
Use a virtual card if you can, delete that card once you start the 'free trial' then cancel after the trial, or within 1 month to not get charged.

Thats some hoops to go through just to get a 'free trial' to see if the products actually work for you! At least back in the CD days you got 30 days to actually try it out, then either buy it, crack it, or stop using it!
ITT: People confusing "free speech" with what a corporate entity does with it's private platform.
TARP didn't buy shares. They loaned money and charged an interest rate.
My rabbits move maybe 50m per day.
"One can create almost anything using computer programming. This is not true with any other artistic tool."

Well, with computer programming you can generally only create stuff that is displayed on a 2D surface (unless you bring other tools). The same holds for a pen, or a paint-brush.
At some point they switched from "free 7 day trial" to "if you cancel after 14 days" so I don't know what's really going on there.
They've removed comedians mostly because they talk about "sensitive" issues openly and without taboos, oftentimes politically incorrect and careless: ex. transgender and alike themes. Isn't this what comedy should be like? [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHr5baraKo
Yep. In Amsterdam it's an easy ride from Schiphol airport to the city center.
Benedictine monk wrote earliest known reference to ball lightning in England
This segregated kind of infrastructure is what it would take for me to consider riding a bike. The typical US painted bike lane is just way too dangerous.
But thats a monthly plan? I would pay monthly... an annual plan I would pay once per year... or is that their cunning terms - 'contract' rather than 'plan' kind of thing
In general, they can and do send this sort of stuff to collections since you did sign up for the terms and it's a non-trivial amount of money owed. Gyms do it for far less, so I don't see why Adobe wouldn't.
this looks alarmingly like a destruction of wrongthink. comedians, musicians, joes friends. this isnt just the rambling conspiracies of alex jones or covid skepticism with non-consensus doctors.

rather than debate the meaning of IP, free markets, or the first amendment, we should he focusing on us - the people. our communites.

why is it that companies think its advantageous to silence people like this? it must be following the money. spotify is following the zeitgeist. the fact that everyone would rather erase this content because its existence is unbearable is a warning side. engendering disgust is a half step from dehumanization, and dehumanization is a half step from death.
A known problem since the early days of the public internet,

http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/
Or google, they’re just interested in making more money
Ha, I'm glad you got this. As someone who can use Linux all the time and does, "Windows" just seems sillier and sillier; especially with Proton et al.
>> crew would probably be awake at all times for repairs etc

If the ship requires human crews to conduct regular repairs, then the ship probably won't last long enough to get where it is going. A ship that is going to last for 10,000 years will need to be built like an Egyptian pyramid, solid enough to last forever and be functional despite millennia of erosion. Putting someone on that pyramid to conduct repairs might sound good, but after 10,000 years those repairs would become just another source of erosion. The activities of that one person would wear down any system with which they interact.
My brother recently moved to Tilburg and I've visited a couple times and had a great time there. It's a quick train ride to Rotterdam, where there is lots to do. Then there are some nice trails and towns nearby to cycle to, including in Belgium. And given the proximity to Belgium there are lots of great breweries nearby and so the beer quality in many bars is really excellent. Sure it's maybe not as alive as NYC or London but you will find life if you look and the standard of living, when considering basics like housing, transit and food quality, is unmatched to any I've experienced.
Because you are dumb and typical socialist kid with pink hair
You mean why free market proponents are disturbed by a consequence of copyright law?
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Sure, me too. Annual plans are great. The issues here are:

1. All of the marketing language shown in the tweets present this as a monthly cost, rather than an annual commitment. This is deceptive. The other, truly monthly plans are default hidden on the plan selection page.

2. The enormous contract cancellation fee is buried inside the fine print.

Contrast this to the USA version: https://i.imgur.com/TDptfcI.png
Worse still is having to merge in/out of traffic to avoid parked vehicles. In the state of Oregon, you are legally entitled to the same rights as any other vehicle on the road, but that also means you are legally obligated to move over when possible so faster vehicles can pass. In practice, this means swerving into the lane of car traffic to get around cars parked on the curb, and then moving back into the "bike lane", repeatedly. It's frightening, even if drivers here tend to be very considerate to pedestrians.
Sorry it is not. On my computer it looks like a poorly made artefact from the 90-s. And it's slow.
The sentiment is mostly popular in dense city centers where it does make a lot of sense. Manhattan NYC has always been "anti-car", as has London UK. The car will still be king in less dense areas.
When the smallpox genome was first published about 30 years ago we didn't have commercial laboratories that could synthesize a virus based on a sequence. So scientists probably didn't anticipate the current risks. At this point it's too late to censor.
For me my student membership fee went up without me noticing it. From somewhere between C$20 to C$44 or so,
If ones goal was to preserve DNA, might it be more feasible to build a digital representation of the DNA and create multiple copies with parity data stored in multiple mediums and distributed to reduce risk of physical damage? Could the DNA be regenerated from the digital data? If not now, in the future perhaps?
i have a rack of servers right next to me, i'm not a pro sysadmin

just because your average developer today lives and breathes AWS and PaaS doesn't mean it's impossible to use the bare metal
Haha, yeah the whole ‘high speed’ thing is pretty much only at 2am on a Wednesday in many parts of California now.

One key thing at the time I believe was the grade separation/right of way stuff, which I think had only occurred on toll roads for any distance before.

Previously almost all highways ended up having to stop or intersect with other roads (and hence stop signs, or traffic lights, or whatever). Most highways are still that way, outside of major arterials.

Most major arterial highways are the same as freeways now everywhere of course, but I think that’s more about economic factors. California I think was just the first mover on it (and got exposed to those same economic factors earlier than most).

At the time (and still does, though it gets less press now), California was a huge oil state, and was at the forefront of designing and building refineries too.
> privacy.com

Not for those of us who don't live in the US unfortunately.
> Colin Powell’s presentation to the UN did not lead to the invasion of Iraq. He was there to persuade the UN to pass a second resolution supporting military action against Iraq and at that he failed.

Powell knew it was going to fail, because he knew the contrary information available from UN inspectors that was going to be presented at the same meeting and which was already broadly available to decision-makers. The target of the UN speech wasn't the UN, it was domestic public opinion. And many who were not ideologically aligned with the President or previously committed to the war were, if not actually sold on the war, at least made afraid of Iraq’s potential by that speech (I had a lot of people say report their personal response along those lines to me at the time.)

It was an important, key part of the domestic propaganda campaign, despite the venue.
Meh. It’s not great, could definitely be clearer, but it’s also bordering on intentionally obtuse to claim you have no idea what ‘annual contract paid monthly’ means.

I mean, all of the words are right there. Any time I sign up for an annual contract I assume I’m in it for, well, about a year.

If I didn’t want an annual contract, or wanted to see if there were options, I’d simply hit that little drop down box there and voila - it’s even clearer.
To the parent: please give an example of the vaccine misinformation being spread by Joe Rogan. Do you know who was actually promoting vaccine misinformation? Joe Biden & Kamala Harris, back when it was a "Trump vaccine" https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/campaign-press-rel...

To @p49k, you are a BSer. Joe Rogan apologized on twitter and even linked to The Guardian article where he got the "misinformation" regarding myocarditis. Here' a retweet by the guy that corrected him in the episode: https://twitter.com/joshzepps/status/1481834278271225864

> To people who think that
@joerogan is closed-minded or that he’d get pissed when I disagree with him, here’s Exhibit A. I love the guy
How do you feel about that Wu Tang album that sold to Martin Skreli? Should the government have stopped that sale?
A monthly plan would be one that you can cancel with a month's notice

An annual plan would be one you can cancel with a year's notice

The payment terms might be all in one, or in daily, weekly, or monthly amounts
Difference is a mobile view is often designed with that in mind, so it works across the board.

On desktop, I've had random horizontal scrollbars even on big sites like GitHub. Non-functional as the content had enough space, but still there, because no one bothered to test.

I do think hiding it on mobile devices is bad as well, though. Leads to exactly the issue in the twitter thread, with more content not being noticed.

Found an old discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293421

Working link: http://web.archive.org/web/20210226184710/https://svenkadak....
There's a setting on MacOS: System preferences > General > Show scroll bars > Always; but neither developers nor end users seem to enable it.

Plus — and this is a pet peeve of mine — there's a growing number of developers who would use the Tailwind CSS library and apply its "w-screen" class to their elements. The w-screen class sets element width to 100vw, which does not take into account the width of the vertical scrollbar. So the moment the page content gets taller than viewport height and a vertical scrollbar appears, the 100vw width of an element exceeds the available width of the page, and causes a horizontal scrollbar to appear as well. Argh!
I am not quite sure why people don't grasp that it's an annual plan for really expensive software.

"Annual plan, billed monthly" is about as easy as it's going to be in four words on a button or by a button.

If you could rent it for just a month now and then, wouldn't you only rent it in the months you need it?

They make it so you can't.

There's a solution: DON'T USE IT.

Ask yourself seriously: what is it you want to do that the Affinity Suite (which costs about, what, £150 and then £20 each for the two iPad apps) cannot do for you. It's not toy software; it's enormously capable (and improves on Adobe's approach in several places). It has surprisingly complete PSD and Illustrator import, it runs Photoshop plugins, it's cross-platform and it runs well on old hardware (at least on the Mac).

Failing that, you have Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, Darktable, Rawtherapee, GIMP if you must, and they are all pretty surprisingly good. Plus there are video options that are cost-effective or free (Resolve, for example, runs on Linux). There are all sorts of viable competitor apps on other platforms.

Adobe aren't really evil -- they are a giant, slow-witted, largely benevolent monopoly, weighed down by a lot of cruft. (They are also fairly reasonable on the phone and support portals). But you don't need to use their stuff; you can create a sane workflow that routes around them with decent tools.

Complaining about a "dark" pattern that up front tells you that you're getting into an annual commitment for something incredibly expensive strikes me as missing the point; the point is subscriptions are tricky and you shouldn't expect to be able to game them.

Vote with your feet.
Win popular approval. In the past it has been shown the popular view to not be the best, what makes you so sure the current trend is perfect and deserves no opposition?

Say you are leader of your tribe and you get bit by a dog. Then you decide all dogs should be removed from your village because dogs caused harm to you.

That's what the current social justice machine looks like to me and I don't think they are right.
This is backwards. If content is available, and you don't want to be exposed to it, then you just don't view/listen to it.

If you want the content and it is not available, well then you just can't have it.
I want to watch _Get Back_, but the only way to see it is to sign up for Disney+. It's not worth the agony of navigating a subscription.

The US legal environment and lack of consumer protections makes it too difficult to spend money and get what you want in return. It's incredibly hard to avoid getting ripped off by technically-legal-but-predatory schemes.
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The Dutch Headwind Cycling Championship is tomorrow for example (expected 7 to 8bft so it will be tough). There is a good cycle path where they will hold it and people regularly cycle there, it's almost never below 4bft there.

Also there are plenty of hilly parts of the Netherlands which have the same cycle infrastructure and usage. The fairy tale of "but it's flat" has been around for a while and used plenty of times by opponents without actually looking into it.
For anyone stuck in this dark pattern here is a trick I've used in the past:

Adobe won't let you cancel without paying the remainder of your subscription fee however you can switch to a different plan. As soon as you switch you'll have the ability to cancel your "new" plan within 14 days. If you cancel after 14 days they'll charge you the early termination fee.
CC chargeback.
For future reference, just tell the vendor "I did not authorize this charge. Please refund me". Don't engage them further.

When that call fails (or, if they don't pick up the phone in a reasonable amount of time), call your credit card company and say "I want to issue a charge back".
They'll ask if you tried to work with the vendor. Answer "yes", full stop.

There should be a phone number associated with the charge on your credit card bill. Start (and end your interaction with the vendor) by calling that number.

Edit: You can also say "this service wasn't rendered", or "I never received the product I ordered", as applicable. Those are specifically listed as valid reasons to issue a chargeback. The person at the credit card company has to enter a numeric reason code for the charge back, and by using those phrases (or similar), you're making their lives easier.
I think customers are a bit to blame for such shady companies. So many good alternatives to Adobe ecosystem exists but customers are mostly unwilling to switch to them and as result Adobe doesn’t have to worry about keeping customers satisfied.
Indeed, feel free to scrutinize my numbers, I just did a quick search for the statistic (and looking at your link it's entirely possible that it was showing me a number in Canadian dollars, oops!). Even still, I've broken even from moving to the city and selling my car; a lot of the "cities are too expensive" arguments overlook the possibility that if you can get away with not owning a car (which, maybe you can't, I don't know your situation) then that can easily offset the sticker shock of urban rents. Plus, for me there psychological benefits; I used to drive for an hour every workday while commuting, and the drudgery was killing me with a daily infusion of dread; these days I would voluntarily take time out of my schedule just to bike for an hour.
Manjoo is normally somewhat reliable but from time to time he heads off on some political bent. Here he seems like he wants to believe. Okay. The flip side is that the Jalopnik article is kind of a Debby Downer of a piece that wants to obsess about the official meaning of words like "self-driving." Who died and made the Jalopnik author in charge of that word?
yeah, i'm in agreement with you
> These are somewhat contradictory: someone spending less upfront on an internal combustion engine will be paying considerably more for maintenance and fuel.

Yes, but the salient bit is that the average car isn’t brand new nor high end (my Model Y cost $62k). The payments and insurance for a mid-range used car will certainly be a lot lower, and the difference should more than make up for fuel and maintenance costs.

> It's also a bit of a challenge to talk about this since it's a distribution — the _average_ new car bought in the United States was $47,000 which is more than the Tesla Model 3's base price of $40k:

But the average car certainly isn’t a new car?

> The other big thing to remember is that taxes, insurance, parking, and tolls add up quickly.

I factored in insurance already, parking and tolls vary widely (most places these aren’t an issue)

> Now, if we look at used cars it's cheaper but that's still $28k and since a used car is going to need more maintenance you're definitely looking at a substantial amount of money:

That reflects the chip shortage. Per your own article, that figure is 42% higher than December 2019 ($20k). And again, this is the average cost, which reflects what the average car buyer can afford—it doesn’t indicate the entry level.

> In a city or area with high car theft rates, insurance is going to be steep even if you're a low-mileage driver and the cost of parking can easily hundreds of dollars a month.

I have name brand insurance in Chicago and my coverage (brand new, high end car) is only $130/month. Plenty of car theft here, and I haven’t bothered to cost-optimize my insurance yet. Agreed that parking, tolls, etc vary widely depending on where you live (certainly biking in the city is a much more practical choice than in a rural or exurban environment).
That's an odd take considering bicycles are among the most efficient machines ever invented, quiet, environmentally-friendly, a great excuse to exercise, capable of carrying cargo, and allow people to easily cover ground too far to travel on foot. Why can't we have both?
I love how the article says that ground water and microbes are responsible for most of the degradation, then blithely quote the computational evolutionary biologist “This confirms the widely held suspicion that claims of DNA from dinosaurs and ancient insects trapped in amber are incorrect" though things trapped in amber are protected from exterior microbes, groundwater, and even oxygen. If they did the study on things trapped in amber they could have come to that conclusion, but they didn’t. Scientists are people and have the same flaws as the rest of us.
In the construction industry, there are construction managers and individual skilled workers but behind it are the architects. There’s hardly a mention of the solutions architect role in tech work discussions. They are neither manager nor IC in the definition of what they do.
I guess not, just tried that and there's an additional step at the beginning - where you have to explicitly choose if you want monthly billing ($79,49/mo), yearly but billed monthly ($52,99/mo), or yearly paid upfront ($599,88)
> you're still legally obligated to pay for the subscription since you have agreed to the terms of service during sign up

Except they didn't agree to them, because they didn't know about them, and they might not be legally obligated to pay, depending on the jurisdiction.

It's pretty clear that there wasn't a "meeting of the minds" in most of these situations.

I don't use Adobe but if I got bit by this I'd definitely take them to small claims.
Ask HN: How to get good at building functional prototypes fast
Hi HN,

I'm currently in high school and want to learn how to be able to build prototypes fast to validate ideas.I'm proficient in javascript,particularly in react, and some python as well. However Im nowhere near close to be able to building out projects fast .How do I get better and faster at building usable prototypes that can work as MVP's?