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This.

There's been a huge turnover this year, with people quitting the committee out of protest for an absolute lack of oversight into how Google will be using the "smart data" and piss-poor management by the city.

From what I can gather, some politicians want to add a "success" to their career with zero care about the long term consequences. I'd like to see every politician involved in this put their entire net worth into the project so that they have to care about the long-term success. People simply don't care about other people's money.

I'd have loved to see Kathleen Wynne go bankrupt over the hydro projects.

But why would you want to do the credit card company's work for them? That regulation is in place purely because of political bribery by the credit card industry.

The consumer-friendly thing to do is to charge proper rates for things with higher processing fees, like credit cards, and not subsidize them by punishing everyone else.

This.

Canada Post went on strike early winter as a pressure tactic because it knew the company would suffer going into the holiday season. Ultimately, that only screwed over the customers.

It would also seriously stymie innovation. If I risk having to refund an item when I push out improvements, I'm never bothering to push out improvements except bug fixes.

I'm also incentivized to release a new model every month with ANY improvement in order to limit my liability to a smaller window of revenue.

The current system isn't perfect, but it could be much worse.

I like rapid unscheduled disassemblies as a term for things blowing up.

Sugar is absolutely addictive. And juice is just sugar.

Whole fruits are healthy because of the fibers and nutrients in the pulp+skin. The fiber slows absorption and helps with insulin spikes.

Even "fresh juicing", which is crazy popular, isn't the same as just eating the fruit.

Actually, the flat lining investment from the Chinese in Vancouver and Toronto is partially due regulations put in place exactly for that purpose. Additional taxes on non-primary properties and vacant properties were aimed at curbing this.

Step 1: define "good"

Step 2: compare to alternatives, factoring in geography, culture, scale of operations, political environment

It's a hugely complex issue. I wouldn't define Toronto's public transit as bad, but it's not world class.

if you're doing SEO beyond making your page lightweight and useful to people, you are a part of the problem.

This is, unfortunately, an overly simplistic model. Everything can be manipulative if done to an extreme extent.

There's no individual thing that you can easily draw the line at. The question is where do you draw the line, and what combination of factors is ban worthy.

It's not negative, it's a genuine questions about something that _will_ happen. The number of relationships that are permanent is not 100%, therefore the website _will_ run into this at some point.

If I had to guess, it would be much more than 50% of submissions. Who wants to have a permanent page of their past relationship for all to see?

Also, keep in mind that HN is mostly user curated, and represent the views of it's participants more than ycombinator itself.

What happens when the couple splits and wants their page taken down?

I find this advice useful for breaking out of a slump, not for preventing burnout.

I have to take the opposite approach for burnout: cut things out. Do less. Cross things off the Todo list and _dont_ add a new one.

I find my biggest sources of stress are those little tasks that take you 10 hours, but would take someone else 1 hour. Constantly fighting against unknowns and feeling helpless leads to frustration and burnout.

You can do one or two things in life really, really well. If you're juggling too much, you'll be mediocre and never make try progress you need to find value and positive reinforcement through praise.

There's huge value in novelty seeking as parent pointed out, but I've always had to approach it from a "fill in the missing piece" point, not from "add this extra thing to my overworked life" point.

Again, I disagree. You're beginning with the assumption that native is the only, and best solution. As a user, this is simply not true. You may _prefer_ to develop for native, but that doesn't mean its the best choice for the user.

Very, very few apps need to be developed natively.

The vast, vast majority would be better if developed for the browser.

This obviously depends on exactly what you're talking about, I concede there are some specific applications that require it. Maybe _your_ specific app requires in, in which case, _you_ have to live with the trade-off of the gatekeepers.

Mostly, it's a self imposed prison.

This isn't correct. There are "comingled" and "non comingled". Sellers pay more for the latter.

Also, there's FBA and non-FBA.

Better distinction on the buyer side would go a long way

Of course, Amazon doesn't want any 1 seller becoming too poplular because that means they can stop competing on price.

1. This is easily done, both on free and gsuite (paid) depending on how you want to implement it. I have multiple Gmail accounts with dozens of emails attached to each. Multiple configuration options.

2. I've never used a calendar outside of Google, and avoid it where possible, but find Google's calendar easy.

3. I think this is a great feature. I use it to collaborate on tons of things, with the understanding that it's not 100% secure, and acting accordingly. Maybe it doesn't suit your particular use case... and that's fine. It doesn't mean it doesn't work great for other uses.

^ all of that considered, I still agree fully with the original article. I've taken a few steps to have working backups and have fallback plans but having an account closed would still be disastrous.

there isn't a software distribution channel apart from the one sanctioned from up high.

I'm disagreeing with the premise that you have to develop for their platforms and distribute for it. That's not a fact. That's an opinion. While there may be some apps that _couldnt_ operate on the web, 99% of apps don't fall into this.

Facebook. Instagram. WhatsApp. Gmail. Google maps. Pinterest. These can all be done in a mobile friendly way in browser. They're intentionally not done because of "performance" and the fact that apps want deeper access to the device.

I don't want any or those apps getting access to my GPS. Or my files. Or my contacts. Id rather take additional steps to upload a picture, or type in my "from" address rather than auto-GPS.

I don't have to install any :)

Drains batteries. Consumes storage space. Requests unnecessary access to my personal files and contacts. Difficult to shut down. Push notifications. I want NONE of this.

The last straw for me was when Facebook messenger pocket dialed a "friend" I hadn't talked to in 7 years. Not only was it something I had no use for, it was outright invasive.

I disagree with your argument as a whole.

My device is little more to me than something to run a web browser. I despise native apps. Facebook and Googles apps can - and should IMO - be run from a browser without crossing over into my personal contacts and photos.

Apple has zero authority over who I contact or what content I access over the web.

With any luck, this drives development back towards the web. I haven't had Facebook on my phone in years because their mobile layout is unbearable and their apps are invasive.

To be fair to cloudflare, this is what the website being protected pays them to do. They can't effectively block malicious actors that are 100x more sophisticated than me, without being able to analyze that data.

I understand the risk of "evil" they could pull off with such a huge portion if internet traffic flowing through them, but the "you pay us for this service" model means they don't _need_ to monetize in evil ways. Whether they end up doing that or not remains to be seen.

I'm 100% against AMP though. As noted elsewhere, Google has repeatedly demonstrated they're not to be trusted.

What about using the Gmail API into an app that gets overlayed into Gmail via chrome extension?

I'm inclined to believe this as well. It's so hard to get a statistically significant effect and approval for drugs that are worth billions of dollars, that there's simply little incentive to study and promote "natural" alternatives.

Maybe moving to a city with better drinking water is the best move for a small subset of the population. There's no sinister cabal trying to hide this, there's just no incentive for anyone figure this out for you in an individual basis.

I could see pharma working the other way though. If you could identify a location with a population who exhibit a deficiency and your drug is more effective there, there's an incentive to better promote it there. I don't think the industry is sophisticated enough at this point to accurately track this though, as individual patient response is difficult to measure and report on.

Source: dated someone that did marketing for one if the top 5 pharmas.

Is it possible to build a browser extension to replace the existing functionality?

Is this even news? This has been common practice for 10+ years in online lead generation businesses. I'm sure it's roots extend further back than even that...

+1

Second part talks about work being play and how it was so much better. Just ignore the parts where you starved to death or had neighboring countries invade and pillage.

And slavery DEFINITELY wasn't a thing.

What a joke.

No, poor form can lead to injury.

Poor form is sometimes caused by fatigue, but that's about knowing your limitations.

Parent's point stands. Anything - in a reasonable sense - is better than nothing. If you do handstand push-ups day one, you deserve what you get.

PopSockets is currently moving over 10 million products a month, with a unit price of just $10.

10 million units per month at $10/unit? I call bullshit. That would put them at $1,200,000,000 per year.

I've seen them around, but maybe 1 per 1000 people. Amazingly successful, but someone screwed up the numbers.

I apparently spent my free articles this month, and barely had a decision in the matter — lead their by HN, and wasn’t paying attention

"I already read so much great content that people find interesting that they TRICKED ME into reading"

What's the theory here? If only you knew which articles would be out in 2 weeks you'd better be able to budget your free reading?

Serious question: what's the threshold at which youre willing to part with $10/month?

The idea that everyone should simply pay the same regardless of use is wrong.

Cell phone plans have data tiers and pay-per-use. There's no reason cable companies can't do this either, except it prevents them from fudging costs.

I probably use as much bandwidth as anybody else, and I'd prefer to be accurately charged for it rather than have my provider pull shady net neutrality things or try to become an ad network or buy a media company to "bundle" their services or sell my data to third parties to juice their income.