ErikVandeWater

> I'd rather waste wind than waste money.

How is paying wind farms hundreds of millions of pounds to turn off wind generation not wasting money?

> Investigators felt that quality control experts, had they been present, might have been more skeptical, but none were on site, because Air Transat’s quality control personnel only worked Monday to Friday.

Highly motivated/skilled people will probably do valuable things with their time off that is not measured well by GDP.

Even if you leave DNA everywhere you go, but if law enforcement doesn't have your DNA on file, there's nothing to match it to.

Counterpoint: NIMBYs in SF preventing development of new housing by even a small entrepreneur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

Something tells me JP Morgan would have an even tougher time getting past the NIMBYs.

The time they spend on the metro isn't necessarily productive time. Many people would be enjoying leisure with that time.

If you told New Yorkers they had the option to live 15 minutes longer, but that is added time on the NYC subway, I think most would turn it down.

Couldn't find anything about the use of (sic) or [sic]. Maybe they want leeway on that so as not to be offensive?

There is no safer time to invest in nuclear power than after a nuclear disaster.

That seems like a severe lack of imagination/empathy on your part. Others won't be "drowning in the sea of nostalgia" because they didn't find the past enjoyable.

People always leave out recommending medication. It is most effective to have medication and therapy.

Income minus basic living expenses would be one way.

There are nuances. It's obviously less okay to effectively ban public (edit: and even public health expert) criticism of public health policy than it is to ban sharing the live location of other people.

> 2. No one knows who’s in “Elons jet”.

There's very good ways to guess who's in Elon's Jet.

Wasn't the Summon feature downgraded when they moved to a vision-only approach? One YT video I saw compared a version 1 and a more recent version and the vision-only wasn't able to do as much. Contradicts the idea additional sensors do not add value.

How is being arrested sufficient to say she is held to account? She needs to be sentenced to a fair punishment first. And then she needs to serve the complete sentence and return all ill-gotten gains.

> To recap: a law was put in place 5 years ago that said if you get consent you can basically use data in any way, with some very vague and general language about how consent can be gathered and what it means.

The article makes it seem pretty straightforward:

> Meta explained that its updated terms rely on the GDPR concept of "contractual necessity". The GDPR mostly prohibits companies from forcing users to turn over personal information to use their services. The only exception is when that information is necessary to execute a contract: For instance, a car sharing app needs to know your location so that it can show cars near you.

For a car sharing app, it is necessary for them to get your location for the service to work. In Facebook's case, personalized ads are not necessary for Facebook to work. Since it isn't necessary, Facebook needs to get express permission to use personal information for ads.

Facebook took an overly optimistic view of the law expecting regulatory capture to allow them to skirt the rules. It didn't work, so their investment was a poor one. Regulators didn't force Facebook to make a poor investment.

Also, Facebook can decide to pay the users it tracks in Europe. Maybe the investment has poor returns, but the money hasn't entirely gone to waste yet.

Counting ad-blocking as a barrier to entry on HN is probably unfair.

Obviously the best solution is that every urinal be equipped with an extremely powerful fan that sucks in the pee, so no matter what direction you aim, the pee always ends up in the urinal.

>> The far-right politician is not known for his economic erudition, as he gained notoriety by being the standard-bearer for impeached President Park Geun-hye and claiming that the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which South Korea’s dictatorship massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters, was a North Korean insurrection.

> So he acts on gut instinct alone, without listening to expert advisors

This statement is not supported in your quote, or in the article. One can listen and disagree.

> A reasonable tradeoff to me seems to be that people do not have to take precautions like vaccination and masking but if so they can be restricted from public society

If you have this low a bar to holding people accountable for negative externalities, no one would be allowed outside.

> In this specific example, where the claim is that Amazon and Apple colluded to raise prices by only allowing authorized Apple resellers on amazon.com, I guess I'm kind of sympathetic to Apple.

This is false:

“Ultimately Apple proposed, and Amazon agreed, to limit the number of resellers in each country to no more than 20. This arbitrary and purely quantitative threshold excluded even Authorized Resellers of Apple products.”

Apple is alleged to have created an Agreement with Amazon that retroactively limited the marketplaces where Apple Authorized Resellers could sell Apple products.

> DOC has employed more guards than the average daily population, with the department employing 1.7 guards per incarcerated person in FY 2021.

That stood out to me.

Best guess is that the business model in music has moved to live performance. It's important for stars to get their music heard by the most people so that they can have the greatest demand for concert tickets.

There's no parallel in movies. But it would be interesting to see the actors of star wars in a play that tries to recreate the movie.

Hoping the CEO gets sacked and they get a promotion?

Is concern about free speech really the right concern? The right concern to me is the lack of critical thinking skills that lead to being swayed by rhetoric. Policing free speech is not the answer, because it will certainly lead to suppression of legitimate speech.

"Very permissive" seems an odd way to put it. It's a human right. The way this is stated is just as if giving women the right to do everything men can do was "very permissive."

> What could possibly go wrong.

Simply stating a council will have diverse views is enough for people to ring the fire alarm these days.

> Neonazis on social media is an ACTUAL PROBLEM

No, it's just easy ratings when the media can find examples of Neo-Nazis.

Pretty sure plenty of people have seen missiles on the evening news at some point in their lives.