SixDouble5321

Is it still a donation if it's quid pro quo?

It's a lot of words to say that they are going to track space debris and rent satellites so people don't have to launch their own.

Wasn't this the app that might wipe your drive if you put in the wrong key?

OK, but aren't they still preventing residential users from leaving a smallish geofence? What gives?

I think we are getting teased along a bit with all of the 'almost there' posts. I want to be excited about it, but I feel they are spoiling the suspense.

My western biased understanding of China has me convinced this is at least mostly true. I am confused, though, about the calculation of what percentage of Chinese netizens saw the video.

Let's agree to disagree that you proved the OP wrong. I think it is clear from my comment that I understand I am not representative of the market. I am still frustrated with the trade-offs that exist.

I am US based, and I wrote about my personal experience buying a "dumb" TV in the US.

It appears you made no attempt to understand the problem.

People want a decent TV. They want the alphabet soup 4K UHD OLED QLED etc. They want to be able to pick the size of the TV. And they don't want their TV to spy on them or show them additional advertisements.

My experience with digital sign TVs is they are much more expensive than the equivalent TV. They add on small business tools to display advertisements and in some cases still come with "smart" features. You generally can't get them in a big box store either.

When I bought my "dumb" TV I couldn't get all the features I wanted and I couldn't get one larger than 45".

The jist is that adding and cheap computer to the TV subsidizes it by allowing unlimited data mining and advertising opportunities for the manufacturer. There is little incentive for any company to cater to the crowd that doesn't appreciate this trade-off.

In what way? Having read several of the comments here from various angles, I can't imagine what you mean.

Saved you a click, there is no evidence of this, currently.

We should be cautious about suggesting unproven remedies.

You'll have to SHOUT or he won't hear you.

It's a very loose interpretation of the word joke. It was more of an apocryphal explanation for a Roku bug.

This, in my opinion, is a salient and hard to solve problem with unions.

Unions can't hope to eliminate thugs.

There aren't any obvious or inherent problems with unions, unless you are an exploitative employer.

Maybe you missed it, the sellers think this program is meant to benefit the corporate resellers and harm the individuals selling on Etsy.

OK, but how do I surround a word with asterisks as an example to others without emphasizing the word inside?

In most cases people don't even have the means to leave their home town or province...

Thanks for putting this into words. I will still probably read too many of the treads.

Meanwhile, moving into the deep woods is not just for Bible-thumping gun-nuts anymore.

Can someone provide examples of when unions are bad?

Idk, my manual Honda was stolen after living near Seattle for about a month. Luckily it wasn't valuable enough to chop.

Would love to see something with a source or something verifiable. Until then I have to assume this is mean spirited hogwash.

Lol where have you been? There must be a dozen or so articles on HN in the last year alone.

I think scum is a bit harsh, but some people lack empathy.

"Seattle is dying" arguments are so tired. Seattle has a lot of whiners who think the place should never change and are thoroughly intolerant of people who don't have a home. They are willfully ignorant that their lifestyle and choices could be exacerbating the problem.

This video is age restricted. It will be unviewable by a large number of users.

It was striking, that's for sure. I am guessing the author felt only pride.

In response to the edit, I also read that and immediately came back here to check this thread.

The only thing I want in this context is for you to understand people have motivations that are not solely based on profits.

You having continuity for two posts in a row would be a nice-to-have though.

Are you on HN? Are you making a point? It appears you should check the mirror for whiners.

Not sure what this is in reply to, my post answers why a person may do something with no profit. Not everyone is an asshole.