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901.
by ballenf 6y ago
I wonder whether the Apple silicon will also feel like "buying usage" or if we'll have low-level enough access to feel like we own it. I don't think having physical possession of the thing is always the best criteria for
902.
by ballenf 6y ago
Civilization short-selling + DIY.
903.
by ballenf 6y ago
Would RSS be in a better place now if Google Reader had never existed? Interesting to think that an attack vector against an open standard is creating the objectively best implementation and then shutting down after killing competition and
904.
by ballenf 6y ago
I don't think community wiki's are what was described at all. I'd describe as every question starting out as a forum post and only upvoted questions become Questions. No one's question gets deleted. Question quality does
905.
by ballenf 6y ago
When you're mortgage has been passed around a few times and is little more than a PO Box across the country, that's not an option.
906.
by ballenf 6y ago
Even McDonald's and other fast food is extremely expensive compared to the cost of other goods in society. I would love a deep-dive on why eating out is so expensive in the US. My point of reference is traveling through Germany recentl
907.
by ballenf 6y ago
If you lived in a multi-generational household, your share of the household labor absolutely decreased. And neighbors also picked up some of the slack. I'm talking about early 1900s, based on stories from my grandparents about what lif
908.
by ballenf 6y ago
Had a child due around Christmas in our family, and I think both you and parent are both correct. The mother really didn't want to miss Christmas and the doctor offered to schedule an early induction. They didn't offer to induce o
909.
by ballenf 6y ago
The pressure to schedule an induction up to a week or so early is also very strong. The sales pitch is "we can schedule at a convenient time for you and ensure that you'll have a bed". Implying that you're being super ir
910.
by ballenf 6y ago
For me the issue is that it was apparently done in secret. The difference between CCTV that's stored for a day or two and then permanently deleted and cameras tracking behavior and recording data forever is different enough to require
911.
by ballenf 6y ago
There already are private prices -- the result of targeted coupons that certain customers get. Those coupons are tied to the SuperSaver(tm) account and aren't transferable.
912.
by ballenf 6y ago
> So you should "just be following orders" if that has a positive impact on you? If having blood on your hands has a positive impact on you I doubt you're reading a HN thread about ethics, so you weren't my intended a
913.
by ballenf 6y ago
Not sure where the disconnect is exactly, but I feel like I'm saying the exact opposite of your characterization. I'm trying to give people the mental clarity to easily reject unethical work without worrying about whether the ch
914.
by ballenf 6y ago
With this issue and most ethical issues I've encountered, it's important to realize that the work is still going to get done by someone. Don't fool yourself into thinking you're going prevent Pfizer from marketing their
915.
by ballenf 6y ago
I'd argue there are ethical issues in letting them turn it off. It makes the user less aware that the site they're using is accepting money from that ad source. It reinforces their bubble. And it overall makes them feel like the c
916.
by ballenf 6y ago
If the people blocking roads were a majority of the population, they wouldn't need to engage in such protests. Control of the majority by the minority is by definition not democratic. Authoritarian regimes are the exact ones who contro
917.
by ballenf 6y ago
Reminds me of a personal rule I have about real estate: there are no undervalued properties, except those resulting from my personal value system differing substantially from the market and I'm planning to hold on to the property lon
918.
by ballenf 6y ago
Can someone explain the 600% cost to short Tesla(1) stock that's discussed? I mean in terms of how that is set -- is it market driven or regulator driven? What would cause such a rate to go up without the stock evidently coming down to
919.
by ballenf 6y ago
I think it's perfectly ok that if I save and work that my kids will have a leg up on my peers' kids who don't do the same. Don't we want, as a society, to encourage parents to do these things for their kids? Isn't t
920.
by ballenf 6y ago
Kind of humorous to imagine a researcher suing apple under the anti-gig California law. Would be a factual question of whether the researcher has sufficient control over their work under the agreement. Apple would almost certainly win the s
921.
by ballenf 6y ago
But government action against an individual comes with at least some due process rights. At least, theoretically, which is better than contracts of adhesion everywhere else.
922.
by ballenf 6y ago
Just got flashbacks of basic programming line numbering.
923.
by ballenf 6y ago
There are costs to living in a free society. Harm from letting people believe falsehoods is one of them. Soldiers dying to protect you from those seeking to destroy you is another. If people aren't free to believe false things and even
924.
by ballenf 6y ago
If javascript had one (or if Node had one), wouldn't top-level await be unnecessary?
925.
by ballenf 6y ago
That's also a good reason for news orgs to have strict policies around never taking down articles or changing URLs. It happens enough to give cover to the behavior you cite. News sites could also replace their 404 page with an explanat
926.
by ballenf 6y ago
Or just get an iPad, Chromebook or the like for your media consumption.
927.
by ballenf 6y ago
Video quality is more important for coding instruction than movies, imo. If you can't read the code or gets blurry, the feed becomes nearly worthless. I agree that here auto-bandwidth adjustment is the wrong answer here and would not b
928.
by ballenf 6y ago
"None of the above" is sometimes the right answer on exam questions.
929.
by ballenf 6y ago
I agree but because I don't think those at the top would ever let the transparency be complete. Unless the company was started that way and managed to keep it while growing. Which experience seems to show is hard or unlikely.
930.
by ballenf 6y ago
The svelte creator talks extensively about this on a recent Software Engineering podcast: https://www.se-radio.net/2020/03/episode-402-rich-harris-on-...

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