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> "...suicide by defenestration..." as an aside, my first thought at this phrase was that "he died by removing all the windows?" it took a second to process th
by clairity 7y ago
> "...suicide by defenestration..."
as an aside, my first thought at this phrase was that "he died by removing all the windows?" it took a second to process that properly.
but to the point, that's the kind of anti-competition we need to root out quickly. compete on merits, not on demerits.
i'm sad about the embark app, but i'm hoping that the dark sky integration means no more sending data (however "anonymized") to the shady data broker that is the weather channel.
- Someone 7y agoFor those who wonder: it’s not a neologism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague: The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražská defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz, Latin: Defenestratio Pragensis) were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which multiple people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window). The origin of the word "defenestrate" ("out of the window") is believed to come from the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates threw two royal governors out of the castle window and wrote an extensive Apologia to this act.
- clairity 7y agoyes, mine was more a temporary confusion between the common notion of the "de-" prefix in english (~"remove") vs. latin (~"out of").
- rhizome 7y agoFunnily enough, they're two different Latin word elements. Simplified, there's the "down" de-, as in "destroy," and the "undo" de-, like "defrost." The "undo" de- is also the "not" de- and the "away" de-, related to dis- ("disallow", "discard").
- thinkloop 7y ago> This drove Armstrong to suicide by defenestration For those who are extra slow like me: he killed himself by jumping out of a window.
- rapind 7y agoThis is a systematic problem with crony capitalism. It will always be with us so long as lobbying and corporate campaign donations are a thing.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoFingers crossed that all the shenanigans preventing cheap ventilators coming to market will force some regulatory action.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoBy shenanigans, do you perhaps mean the rigorous testing regime applied to a device which will literally be putting the air in your lungs while you're unconscious?? I for one am super happy that people with this attitude have been totally unable to penetrate the medical devices field!
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoYou might want to read about the sort of malfeasance that has put us in this situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v... TLDR: A $3000 ventilator was “on schedule to file for market approval in September 2013” and then Covidien bought out the competition to prevent it coming to fruition.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoCovidien at the time already sold a $5000 portable ventilator, which was never rejected by the FDA. The prospective Newport ventilator was rejected for neonatal use, which was a requirement of their BARDA contract.
- simonh 7y agoA badly made ventilator can kill you a lot faster than the virus.
- PaulHoule 7y agoWho needs the weather channel when we have the national weather service publishing forecasts on a 1km x 1km grid? Is the value of the weather channel that investors expect the national weather service to be abolished?
- clairity 7y agono, to clarify, apple has been using the weather channel (exclusively, i believe) for weather info across its ecosystem. you can't get integrated weather info on apple devices (iphone, watch, etc.) without it (you can download other apps but they wouldn't integrate with the OS). i'd be super happy if they switched to the national weather service, but absent that, dark sky is more privacy preserving than the weather channel (who reportedly sell location data, for example).
- ceejayoz 7y ago> Is the value of the weather channel that investors expect the national weather service to be abolished? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/25/weather-is-big-business-its-veering-toward-collision-with-federal-government/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/11/25/weather-i... "In 2017, Trump nominated Barry Myers, the former CEO of AccuWeather, a company that has advocated for the privatization of large parts of the National Weather Service, to lead NOAA. However, his nomination stalled, in part because of conflict-of-interest concerns since his family still owns the private forecasting company."
- Spooky23 7y agoMyers doesn’t want to abolish the weather service, he wants to limit who gets the data they collect. It certainly wouldn’t be profitable for Accuweather to have to do things like gather weather data and have supercomputers to analyze.
- yborg 7y agoThe value of these APIs is that they aggregate data worldwide. I don't want to write against the API of every national weather service in the world.