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WhatsApp insists on having access to your contact list. Pro-privacy, it ain't. It's still a Meta product.

How I miss checkboxes instead of these god-damned Schrodinger's sliders that replaced them

Except they've now started ruining them too with the new asinine trend of making them look like radio buttons

Trucks and trains serve different purposes. My understanding is the US has a higher percentage than most of freight carried by rail. Indeed at the expense of its passenger rail

Why couldn't this also help with continuous-welded rail?

Your own video points out that it's still prone to trade-offs: rail breaks in the cold are better than buckling in the heat, but what if you could reduce the high point with white paint so you could expand the practical temperature range?

It seems like a prudent warning in a thread explaining the very basics of short selling

Also worth mentioning you might be on the hook to buy it back at any time; after all, the person you borrowed it from may themselves wish to sell it. If widespread, this is the basis of "short squeezes" (e.g. of GameStop fame/infamy), if a lot of short sellers are trying to buy it back at the same time

What context are you responding to?

It would be nice if microsoft had windows update for .net, visual c++, office, windows, edge ... just all their software in one updater...

A contract that says "we can change the terms of this contract at will" (as pretty much all "terms of service" do) is little more than an adhesive charade

Imagine thinking people who bought a device when it didn't say "in order to use the features we advertise, you must let us train our AI on your data" are the ones who are being unreasonable

No, "Microsoft Update" is what it was once called (see e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/...)

3-2-1 rule still alive and well

3 copies, 2 different media, 1 off-site

But also, what a fucking disgrace, Microsoft

Edit to add: cloud plus synced hard drives do not count as separate copies

Not only that, but developing for Windows Phone 8 required using Windows 8 (which was a flop)

That being said I don't know that there was a path to success. I don't think it was as much about the little apps as the big ones: Instagram, YouTube, Pokemon Go... Google in particular got to play the role of anti-competitive

Find another health app/service with more preferable terms if you don't like it

It never ceases to amaze me how many people defend the Darth Vader style of buying a product: "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it any further"

I assume it must be rooted in the just-world fallacy: "Clearly anyone affected must not have been careful enough or did something else wrong. Since I'm careful with my purchases, negative consequences couldn't happen to me."

Related reading: https://blog.codinghorror.com/they-have-to-be-monsters/

Adobe and everyone else. Many of those complaints resonated with me outside of Photoshop

But as I've said in the past, I think there is a relationship between subscriptions and quality: with a subscription model, feedback signals become decoupled. In the past, if the new version isn't good enough, people won't buy it. Now the calculus is changed to whether the product has become bad enough to unsubscribe

Potentially related: trust thermocline (https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01ggz99w9kvpp6yq52abes00eq...)

Related: https://newjimcrow.com/about/excerpt-from-the-introduction

"Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy"

I think this is a good summary for politics generally

None of the ways of dying in wars sound particularly appealing to me; instant disintegration doesn't sound like the worst of them

If we're going to move the goalposts, why don't we just move them to the logical endpoint and proclaim "why don't we just not have wars"

Which, by the way, perhaps it's of interest to compare the frequency and severity of war before and after the invention of atomic weapons

Anyway, I'd be curious to hear your ethical solution to the trolley problem? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)

Almost like a Prince Rupert's drop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert's_drop)

Let's also not forget how much fresh water has been ruined with fracking

"Nuclear fission: the worst energy source, except for almost all the other ones"

I don't know how to fix the social contract that "the things you buy should work and not be rug-pulled" but I certainly refuse to normalize the idea that "the issue here" lies with the author and not Verizon

So you blame the victim and also admit you haven't explored the author's use case. Very helpful

This is great. I'd begun to conclude the pendulum swung too far towards "moneyball" and both approaches have trade-offs, but this is perfectly succinct

And an indictment of the favorites/bookmarks UX

Can you at least explain the reasoning then?

Yeah, but do all those people get residuals? When you buy a real copy, who gets money from that?

Related point: try legally playing 4k content* on your PC

* obviously I mean movies/TV/etc. and the like where you have to pay money (as in the article)

Or launch atop an unprotected flat slab of concrete

Maybe multiple things can be true

Like when doctors insisted they didn't need to wash their hands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#Conflict_with...)

or "science advances one funeral at a time" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle)

Related reading (Exploration–exploitation dilemma): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration%E2%80%93exploitati...

Can you link to the source?

Peter Principle strikes again!

I don't follow the logic - because incompetent people are running the show, some other group of incompetent people can't be running the show?