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This discussion is like the discourse about work from home/return to office.

but this makes sense to me: https://x.com/DavidOndrej1/status/2019126831761572169

AI slop.

Don't ban it, just require that next to the current price merchant displays low/high/median price for the same good/service in the last 30 days.

NautiKron seems to show the current hour in the top row. Why not project it on the tide curve?

Newsom

https://www.spacepak.com/

What will happen on 2022: https://avc.com/2022/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2022

All nine Justices agreed on the merit, including Justice Thomas who was in majority on Quill which he now voted to overturn. The decedent argued that the precedent, while wrongly decided, should be upheld on stare decisis grounds, and it should be left to Congress to correct the mistake.

Quantum computer would enable systematic approach in areas like material sciences and molecular biology, which today are essentially trial and error.

The top product on cooking page [1] shows the folly of using reddit for product recommendations...

[1] https://thingsonreddit.com/things/r/Cooking?page=1&order_by=...

What is wrong with gerrymandering?

It is a political solution to political problem. It pushes decisions locally (to the "laboratories of democracy"). It is responsive to "We The People" but with a built in delaying mechanism to smooth out changes. It generally leads to competitive (but not toss-up) districts (the goal is to get as many seats as possible so huge margins are wasteful).

What's not to like?

Better comparison is tax burden/spending as % of GDP:

                        Tax %   Gov. spending %
    United States       25.1    41.6
    Sweden              44.5    51.2

https://github.com/artursapek/mondrian

The touch screen on the Surface has one killer application: scrolling while reading. It's very natural to scroll content with a thumb on the edge of the screen.

Or:

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Using a physical button to move slides...

I don't think this is a good URL change. It is not like http://conversationswithbillkristol.org is a blog spam for "Conversations with Bill Kristol". And the original site has video divided into chapters which is useful.

https://on.google.com/hub/blog/2016-03-17/speedy-wi-fi-with-...

Private Preserve [1] is a good, inexpensive solution to this problem.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Private-Preserve-Wine-Preservation-Spr...

Since you are an expert, what do you know about Costco branded oil?

I admit I buy it for two reasons: it's cheap (I use a lot of olive oil) and is marked with the harvest date. It is sold as Italian oil (from Tuscany, I believe). Is it?

Prisoner's dilemma?

Relax. Even if there is such a law it certainly is not illegal in USA to "advocate (...) opinions (...) in public". See what happened last time someone thought advocating opinions was illegal [1]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

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I think the algorithm for story ranking is a bit more complicated than that...

Only if it could be formally proved wrong...

Worth noting that the AQI scale you are citing (100, 150, etc.) and the ug/m3 used in the article are different numbers. AQI of 85 is not so bad. 85 ug/m3 isn't good.

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There is no doubt that masterful branding of the bug helped with patching of vulnerable systems in this case. It is not at all clear that the trend it will surely start will be a good thing. Marketing does improve visibility. But it also, inherently obscures the truth. Even in this case: some people on HN don't know that it was a Google researcher who first discovered/reported the bug; the actionable/technical information on the bug was hidden below the fold because the primary goal of the page was to be a long term marketing tool for the security firms, not the shortest path to patch vulnerable systems. We will see how this trend develops but I would not be surprised if we get more and more marketing with less upside (necessary visibility) and more downsides.

I don't really have any objections, or really any opinion on whether Colin should or should not charge more.

I was just pointing out that it is a good thing that there are smart people who are "bad at business", who are "irrational" as you put it. Many good things we have came from such irrational people (that was the point about Linux parallel) and many ugly things come from people who are only following the bottom line.

In the 90's Microsoft could (presuming, perhaps unfairly, that Linus is/was rational) have bought Linux kernel for pocket change.

The community values when money/power is not the only/main driver for people creating technology. And for a good reason, I think. When we ask ourselves "why we can't have nice things", more often than not the answer is that "people in charge" are motivated by making more money, not making better stuff.

Yes, there is some naivete in this mindset. But I think some of that innocence is a good thing. FWIW, I liked patio11 more when he was excitingly writing how he earned $30k on Bingo cards then the new incarnation that is proud of using a shitty ThemeForest template because A/B tests well.

What patio11 doesn't get, is that part of the reason why HN crowd considers tarsnap "the best backup software" is exactly because Colin Percival is what patio11 calls "bad at business" (and what I would call "motivated not only by money").

BTW, that is the same reason for the backlash over Oculus acquisition: people are upset that it will no longer be run by "bad at business" engineers like John Carmack, but instead by "very good at business" Mark Zuckerberg.