jeffhiggins

I agree that the incentives are perfect to be as deceptive as possible.

“He claims his Hyperloop concept could revolutionise public transport.” Hyperloop is private transport.

I’ve started leaving DND mode on 24/7. I go to my notifications, they don’t come to me anymore. This also prevents your iPhone from being DOS’d by a phone call at any moment.

Hold the lock button and one of the volume buttons for 3 seconds. This disables biometrics, and gives on-screen swipe options for MedicalID and Emergency SOS. Pressing the lock button 5 times also disables biometrics, begins a 3-second countdown to auto-call your Emergency SOS contacts and 911. One nice touch is that the language used to let you know Touch/FaceID are disabled doesn’t rat you out to the cops (just says that Touch/FaceID doesn’t recognize you, not that you intentionally disabled it). If these don’t work for you, there are options under Settings, Emergency SOS.

Interesting idea, that the mirror test for dogs is unfair because their vision sucks compared to their nose, but this reasoning seems to take quite a leap. From the article:

“This study confirmed the previous evidence proposed with the STSR by Dr. Cazzolla Gatti showing that "dogs distinguish between the olfactory 'image' of themselves when modified: investigating their own odour for longer when it had an additional odour accompanying it than when it did not. Such behaviour implies a recognition of the odour as being of or from 'themselves'."”

Maybe the dogs just recognize their own modified scent as very familliar? Not as a representation of themseles, but just a smelll they smell often. I love dogs, and don’t doubt for a moment they have some level of self-awareness similar to our own, but to me, this test stinks.

Maybe she’s wealthy enough to be able to not go bankrupt for her treatment, and staying around friends and family and avoiding travel are all good ideas for someone with brain cancer?

This entire thread seems to be missing the fact that during this period of us soaking it up, all legitimate competitors can't compete and will either disappear or suffer greatly.

Wouldn't the city be able to collect the bottle deposit too? I'm assuming 5-15 cents each is much more than they'd get by recycling the glass.

For modern Macs, this seems like expected behaviour. My 2012 MacBook Pro and my late 2014 5k iMac regularly glitch out like this.

To me, Bulletproof coffee tastes like a double double from Tim Hortons. So I agree, it's definitely an unspeakably vile tasting concoction. :)

4. Willpower and discipline.

The uncomfortable truth is that many HN readers are the ones gleefully building these tools.