DarylZero

>I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices.

LOL, as if Firefox provided a stable API to extensions

We talking tumors in the state of metastatic solid?

Despots make sure the people who care are killed off (or at least marginalized, say in prison), leaving only people who don't.

It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception.

Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this instance.

They're both cyclical.

> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform

Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mostly crypto coins.

When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

Sounds like you're talking about a one-time thing then rather than a sustainable practice. I think if you loiter in front of a gas station you will be rousted by police in much less than a week.

For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!

I guess they're not allowed on Google Drive either.

Domains aren't free, they're limited.

>Why would a person make $14.50/hour when they could make $15/hour applying directly to places?

Yeah, the generally wouldn't, which is why you have to conclude that they don't have the option.

> maybe that negotiated difference leads to the profit slice

Of course.

DUI example is strange. There are blood alcohol tests, can't really avoid conviction if you fail the test. What's the explanation supposed to be for all the acquittals?

The way you say it, it's like you think that more and more acquittals is evidence of guilt, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Repeated arrests would be no accident of chance, but those repeated acquittals would even call into question a conviction in the future. Something is going on to generate false accusations.

Prison populations skew toward violent crimes because the sentences for them are longer. They aren't representative of the number of convicts.

At least, the staffing agency can negotiate a better deal than you could find and secure for yourself.

Most people don't have the location. It's expensive to live where that kind of opportunity exists.

That's the standard line. Don't let it be a thought-terminating cliche though. There's no solution to the problem there.

Maybe question the idea of strict social segregation of children by age, social segregation of children by academic status, etc.

> ensure that they get better advantages/opportunities than others

Gifted kids don't even need "better advantages" -- just either give them appropriate level material, or at least don't force them to do inappropriate material.

They used to let kids skip grades. Nothing "better" than anyone else, just the exact same thing earlier. Recognizing their actual abilities rather than declaring that their abilities are determined by age.

>You can't run a harvesting tractor through a greenhouse.

Sure you can. Just needs to be big enough.

So you have to put electrodes on your neck for this?

Fuel cells are batteries that you pour fuel into.

I powered my house for a couple days with my hybrid Camry on much less than a single tank of gas. Hooked it up to the breaker through an inverter.

The "generator" in this setup automatically turns on and off according to need. Mostly it was off.

I wasn't running the house at full normal electrical usage. No AC. Kept the lights and fridge and computers on though.

Of course you can do this with any kind of car. But a hybrid (not a pure electric as in the article) is surely ideal.

That's just describing the problem.

Competition will fix asymmetric information? That's _not_ how the theory goes.

LITERALLY children.

Not everyone can take ownership of everything. Some people are literally children.

You're spinning it like a matter of choice, but I would doubt that it is.

The farmers probably can't sell their product any other way than as futures; and can't buy energy any other way than at the current market price.

That would mean the actual choice involved is just the choice to go into the farming business. Not exactly fair to compare that to casino betting.

> - "RAID is not a backup" primarily because "you could rm -rf". ZFS snapshots cover that failure mode to the same extent that synchronization with offsite does

Not really. You need to be synchronizing to a _write-only_ backup archive. A local ZFS snapshot can be deleted locally.

(Also fire, compromise, police confiscation, etc.)

>The security argument doesn't make sense because if they don't already have an existing phone number to compare to, they can't authenticate the newly-provided phone number

From a security standpoint, the point of requiring a phone number is to increase the expense of the request -- like a captcha.

(Not to say that there is a real security purpose in this specific case.)

All they need to do is open the protocol.

But they want to keep everything under their ¢ontrol.

The solution is not to ask for support but to boycott this nonsense completely.