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A_Parr··on Go through your family's phone settings and turn on all the privacy features
>I don't really get it.

You get it perfectly. They'll try to make any connection they can between what you want and what they want to show you, but they'll just throw it in randomly if they can't.

A_Parr··on [dead]
Black text on a red banner on a white background is offensive to my retinas.
A_Parr··on Work Shorter Hours in Winter
Could just move them to the equator once.
A_Parr··on UFO: Pilot who spotted famous Tic Tac breaks silence after 15 years
If spending a fortune on the B-21 program ensured no adversaries believed the US invented a fundamental breakthrough in aircraft design, that would be the best reason to do it.
A_Parr··on Google Donated To A Senator Who Voted Against Gay Conversion Therapy Ban
If they do the same thing Microsoft did, but get away with it, they've clearly not become Microsoft.
A_Parr··on Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
Sort of. Someone bought the leftover parts from the original factory, and brought back the company name, selling completely refurbished ones. They've been trying to sell completely new ones as a low-volume automaker, but haven't successfully navigated the bureaucracy on that so far.
A_Parr··on VW says its Autonomous Braking worked flawlessly–So how’d I crash?
Even the description of the feature quoted from VW in the article doesn't say it stops for you.

What it does do is determine whether or not you're trying to panic stop when you hit the brakes and stops hard before you press the pedal down far enough to do it on your own.

What it doesn't do is stop for you while you're accelerating.

If they want to claim the collision warning system failed, fine. But they didn't mention if the warning went off or not.

But they're trying to claim that VW said the car would stop for you, by quoting VW not claiming that the car would stop for you.

“If the system detects a hazard in front of your vehicle, it will alert you both audibly (with a chime) and visibly (with a small icon on the dashboard). The system also prepares the brakes for emergency braking, meaning it will take less time and power to slow your vehicle to a complete stop if you need to avoid a collision. If you don’t apply enough power to the brakes, the system can help to stop your vehicle automatically.”

A_Parr··on Ask HN: A hobby makes money on YouTube. Should I share the revenue?
I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt he's entitled to any of the content you've made. So the only discussion should be over actual money.
A_Parr··on Who Was the Buddha?
The word carpenter originally referred to carriages or carts.

They just happened to be made out of wood and the people who made them were apparently willing to apply those skills to more than wagons.

A_Parr··on Show HN: A christmas story (with programming and logic)
Alice likes candy

Children who read are well read

Kids who like candy have red hair

Well read children do not misbehave

Children who don't misbehave are nice

Books are read by children with red hair

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Conclusion: Santa's a nutjob.

A_Parr··on N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack
Can you prove you didn't pay?
A_Parr··on Csiro scientists: Humans have a “natural” lifespan of around 38 years
1: They threw out the 120 year number since it was reported differently for humans than it was the rest of the animals in the data set. Those numbers would have been the average of the 10% of the eldest members in the study, while 120 is the maximum reportedly seen in humans.

2: You're thinking of life expectancy instead of lifespan for the last part.

A_Parr··on China Plans to Build the World's First Solar Power Station in Space
You can build a bunch of smaller microwave transmitters instead of one really powerful one. Not only is it safer, it provides redundancy.
A_Parr··on Why we fall for cons
That's not a real car.

If you want a second car, get a cadr.

If you want a (second (car)) get a cadar.

A_Parr··on CIA Gift Shop
Because they haven't figured out how to monitor God yet.
A_Parr··on SoftRAM 95 (1996)
They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
A_Parr··on Ask HN: Can 20x price difference hurt us?
Call it a holiday sale and drop the price for a few weeks to see what happens.
A_Parr··on Ford Dealership: You Can't Charge the Mustang Mach E at Home
How long did it last?
A_Parr··on NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander Vikram
About 1/3 of the way up from the bottom and slightly to the right, you'll see a small dark trail and a black dot in the top right of a crater. That seems to be the largest noticeable piece. That spot is about 2x4 pixels in size, which is about 1 1/2 by 3 meters compared to the scale in the picture. That's roughly the size of the craft so it's most likely the main portion of it.
A_Parr··on Pilots Revving Engines Too Hard Led to IndiGo’s Airbus Woes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan
A_Parr··on Pilots Revving Engines Too Hard Led to IndiGo’s Airbus Woes
The problem is that it's not directly unsafe. It's within the capabilities of the plane, but wasn't intended to be the normal usage.
A_Parr··on German parliament passes bill allowing banks to sell and store cryptocurrencies
Internet fun-bucks
A_Parr··on Cows wearing VR headsets might produce better milk
Just wait until VR is good enough to do office work in.

Also, the Matrix would have been better had Neo woke up as a dairy cow after taking the red pill.

A_Parr··on Russian dairy farmers gave cows VR goggles with hope they would make better milk
In winter, in Russia.
A_Parr··on Would social media be better if we paid for it?
Imagine all the people saying the crap they do now, but feeling even more entitled to say it because they paid to do so.
A_Parr··on Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?
Specifically, Hershey's Chocolate Bars did it to maintain a 5 cent price from 1902 until 1969. By then, the bar shrank to half the size as it used to be, so they doubled the size of the bar and charged 10 cents for it.
A_Parr··on Do you know how much money would you make instead of sitting in Facebook/Reddit?
Don't forget the time spent in your app.
A_Parr··on Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
"EPR involves rapidly cooling a person to around 10 to 15°C by replacing all of their blood with ice-cold saline."

That part seems to be new.

A_Parr··on Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (2014)
Both. They can't differentiate between red/orange/yellow, can't differentiate greens from grays, but can see further into UV at the cost of not being able to see as deeply into red as you can.
A_Parr··on AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
It rarely even worked in Star Trek.
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