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They could just be hedging their bets.

Theoretically if 51% of ownership of an oil company wants to seal all oil wells isn't that what the company should do?

Free software plays a very large role in our communication infrastructure.

The Xbox One X doesn't maintain those specs. The resolution drops during game play.

You actually need a machine north of $2k to support 60fps 4k.

every OS is calling home to some degree.

It's funny to speak in absolutes. Plenty of operating systems don't phone home regularly, just not ones popular with consumers.

I think it would change the VC market too. A lot of companies are funded because they potentially make good acquisitions for larger companies.

it would be atypical for a suburb to have significant independent restaurants within 5mi of any given point

Some cities, like Dallas, seem to have a higher percentage of chain restaurants than the average suburb. Other cities, like Seattle, have a ton of restaurants that seem independent but are actually part of a portfolio of restaurants owned by one person, private equity, or a corporation experimenting.

I expect uber eats will scale very well in the suburbs if they can get multiple orders in the same car efficiently. Restaurants are experimenting with food that travels better.

"It's immoral to eat them because they can have thoughts and an internal experience, just like us," and "But they taste good" is not a counterargument.

There is an implied "We are on top of the food chain" along with "they taste good".

There is some legitimacy to the idea that we should eat whatever we please because we are the apex predator. Ultimately market forces should align the price to equal the cost of framing / hunting. Additionally we have huge ethical problems in how humans treat each other we should work on before even worrying about an invertebrate's problems.

I don't actually hold those worldviews, but they are implied with the sentence "but they taste good"

Almost nobody tracks their time to better understand how they are spending it. I've talked to several people that have started, but even the most detailed oriented find it to not be worth the hassle.

If you really want this data, I think it's best to correlate data crumbs you leave after the fact and tally up your time at the end of the week. GPS data, computer activity logs, phone screen time, etc.

Another good enough answer is to track the time that is most important to you. Billable hours, exercise time, etc.

Yes. I remember AWS asked about the size of the databases I have worked with in the past, and then negged me when it was smaller than their databases.

Of course the databases I worked with were smaller, they deal with some of the largest in the world.

Someone can be sane but still have poor mental health.

Healthy people don't kill innocent civilians.

I disagree about banning guns. There are other weapons mass murders could use. Anthrax in the mail and homemade bombs have both been used in US history. We cannot reasonably prohibit access to all dangerous materials. Even a large SUV can be used to kill/injury several people.

I think the biggest gains come from focusing on mental health. I see this is just one symptom of a much larger mental health crisis in the US. Other symptoms include high depression rates, high anxiety rates and high addiction rates.

I bet there is a direct correlation between how much good will someone extends DOD and how much they believe their history books.

I think most Americans receive a quality education that covers a lot of really valuable material. The US population isn't the most well educated, but it's unfair to our teachers to say that most Americans are poorly educated.

Does the first amendment apply to none us citizens/residents?

I don't see a single open platform or piece of free software in this entire situation.

The article says nothing about Tinder making this release on App Store, just Play Store.

If Tinder requested this update be sent to Apple users than the review process would reject the update. The Play Store doesn't put a person in the app update loop.

It's my right as a member of a democracy to call out when a company is doing something unethical with the hope of swaying the opinion of my peers against such business practices.

It's my privilege to do so on this platform.

This type of behavior is unethical which is an entirely different thing than illegal. I hope we can adjust regulations on the market to make such behavior illegal. I have this hope because I don't want to live in a society where an increasingly portion of the population is addicted.

I have quit social media

The comments section of Hacker News is social media.

Yes but it seems like many video game designs are engineering towards exploiting addictive behavior.

This is predatory business behavior.

I use to be hyper motivated and constantly working towards a goal. I worked full time, went to graduate school, ran a small business (~10k annual revenue), maintained an exercise routine (3hr/week) and did household chores like cleaning and cooking(4hr/week). My total scheduled time towards those goals every week was 110-120 hours and I slept 5-6 hours every night. I remember scheduling one meal a week to eat while not commuting/working and one night a month to see friends.

I burnt out. At first the lesson I learned was that I can only do so many things, and I always get a full night sleep and I never let my schedule get near that full. Now, five years after I stopped that lifestyle I find that the things I do spend time on I do even better. I'm performing at a higher level. I think it's because I'm less stressed because I'm not constantly pushing myself. I work when it's time to work and play when it's time to play.

You cannot do all of the things that you want to do. You're time is finite. Your energy and passion are finite. Accept this. Internalize this. My advice is to pick one or two things you really care about. Devote all your passion there, but don't devote all of your time. You need some time to relax and you need some unstructured time. If you don't give yourself unstructured time you'll take it by procrastination.

Walmart has been known to put pressure on brands to reduce the cost of their products. Sometimes they can find the cost savings in the economy of scale of doing business with Walmart. Sometimes they find cost savings by making a cheaper product.

Buying something from Wal-Mart is far from a seal of quality.

In this argument fusion energy would eliminate the need for wars, because all countries to safely generate huge amounts of energy, enough for desalination even.

Why would you want to lock into a cloud provider? You're losing a lot of operational flexibility for less devops and sysaadmin work.

You are really limiting your tech stack by using standardized things like Jenkins, Docker, K8, mqtt, kafka.

I'm going to pile on this point.

Each state requires different health insurance plans, so the employer would need to supply 50 different health insurance plans.

It would roll back local minimum wage hikes.

Forming unions would require national coordination inside of local.

Many states have extra protections for the workers, like California protecting IP generated outside of office workers.

National politics are very unstable and the rules and regulations for everyone would be under threat of change after every election that changes the balance of the president, the house and the senate.

What if both companies have a production outage at the same time? The employee would have an obligation to give 100% focus to both of his employers.

On top of that the employee is probably providing microfriction in day to day life: asking to reschedule meetings when double booked, having a longer than necessary delay in email/Slack responses.

If the person is a contractor it's a valid thing to do, but going to work for a w2 implies that job will be your primary commitment outside of family.

Missiles are bigger (they carry their own engine and fuel), are in the sky longer due to their longer range, and shooting missiles from the sky has never been implemented with a high success rate in active combat.

If building codes were increased to force these nicer buildings how much of an increase of rent tenets would see.

My understanding is most of the price of housing in West coast cities comes from the value of land, the building permits, and the low supply. How much does construction cost really factor into rent?