Thimothy

I'd say it's more of a regression, or the usual progression inverted.

Dude, you are 20 years ahead of your time.

Correct answer is stop using Uber if you don't like their rating system, not risking the livehood of people because it doesn't fit your mental mode of how the world should work.

If you poke the internet, you will find people having tons of problems with virtually EVERYTHING, hell, I'd bet that one of the bigger uses of the internet is searching for every kind of solutions. The notion that the number one OS used by non-technically minded people, the OS that supports the greatest amount of HW, has the loudest crowd of people looking for help is perfectly understandable and doesn't signal anything by itself.

Mayor OS upgrades are painful, no matter the flavor, and it totally looks like Microsoft has made some mayor blunders with this one, but if I wanted to know whether this one is specially abominable, I'd probably pay more attention to what sysadmins have to say about it, and not some randos in the internet.

If I were you, I'd try to forget it as soon as I can, becouse it's wrong. 2.4 GHz is not in the water absortion band (I'd show you a nice graph, but I can't find one that goes to such low frequencies), a microwave would work as nicely in 1 GHz or 5 GHz, what matters is the H-O bonds, that are esentially electric dipoles and are excited when high-ish frequency and power hits them. You probably have noticed that fat heats much faster than wattr in the microwave oven, that is becouse is full of OH bonds, just as the GP is full of shit[1].

This is one of those moments when I wonder if most of the things I have learned in HN are bullshit, I'm usually struck with awe at the sapience of the HN hivemind too, but in times like this...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions#...

I find the idea of using the most advanced VR technology for your olde command line terribly funny. All those 80s cyberpunks imagining people actually traveling through cyber-information highways, using them in combination with feedback gloves to browse and actuate on the information in a myriad ways... And we just want a command line. I'd love to go back in time to tell them that this is a major use of VR and see the abject horror in their faces.

That opensilicium magazine seems pretty awesomely cool. Does anybody know anything similar in English or maybe German? I'm afraid my french ain't that good.

In Spain, several tourists die every year trying to jump from their hotel window in the 5th floor to the swimming pool (balconing, look it up) under the influence of their own stupidity. Some people are just looking forward to dying, they just need an excuse.

It's creepy as hell how reasonable it sounds, and yet, it says nothing. I mean, if I didn't really care about it, like most people, I'd probably think something in the lines of "Well, that's sensible", and forget about it.

I wonder if the next Bethesda games will ever see such success after The Witcher 3. That game is so high above Fallout 4, in terms of quests, characters, and anything you could think about, that I seriously doubt Bethesda is capable of producing something that could even be compared.

Every western European country has one of those nowadays. Though I never heard about anyone trying to exercise that kind of right, and I wonder if there is any way to verify that your data has actually been removed, or just a NO_SEND_MAIL flag has been set.

I'd argue that, while most of reddit value is in the niche and heavily moderated subreddits, it's not where most of the eyeballs (revenue) is. If they start moderating heavily, deleting the jerk subredits, they are risking the ire of most of most their user base.

I bet they checked it a long time ago: How many of the users that hang out or lurk in those "jerk" subredits also participate in more civil subs? If those people where in their own jerky Venn circle with little superposition with the rest of reddit, I think they would have deleted those subs by now.

Dude, read your internet history. We don't have a bunch of incompatible protocols tied to different vendors (That was how things were developing) because the DoD of the US said that anything that was to be sold to them HAD to use this TCP/IP thingy.

That's not the same as "enforced regulation", but it certainly walks and cuaks like it. No direct government intervention -> No freely interconnected internet.

I'm not arguing against your point, but most western countries manage to have a more or less competent police without such adherence to libertarianism. Maybe is easiest to implement, they have done so.

Does it really matter if the vehicle is not connected to the Internet in any way?

I mean, if an attacker has physical access to the insides of your car, all bets are off and is now his vehicle.

Yeah, and they were doing that well before automatic online monthly payments were a thing!! People actually took some minutes every month to send them money.

But, to the point, it's not like you could accuse the Zach bros of "selling their own image as a brand". They just have this thing they are making, a healthy relationship with the community (but nothing histrionic like your average youtuber), and people just gives them money because they want them to continue making that thing.

The Dwarf Fortress authors set up their Patreon[1] a while ago, haven't updated it much since, and is giving them 4K per month, so... I guess that if you want to throw some money regularly at some project it's one of your best options, regardless of the author's ability to sell the brand.

[1]: https://www.patreon.com/bay12games

Well, the explanation for that looks like it's a job for survivorship bias, isn't it?. I mean, we could not know about the huge amount of people that have died by betting their livehood in the wrong risk. Only that the stakes are higher this time, we are not talking about a few tribes trying their hand with agriculture, but messing with the food chain in a way that could spread continent-wide easily.

Come on, you don't go to a mall with a pencil, a brick or a bow and kill 50+ people. The point of assault weapons ownership laws is to introduce friction, so getting a weapon that can go through kevlar is hard, and if you get caught, hell rains upon you.

The line must be set at some point, and of course people are going to tip toe around it, but that's not the point. And don't go Switzerland, if everybody in the US had proper training in how to use and (more important) store their weapons, and the government had an exhaustive control of every shell... Well, it would be different.

Yeah. I've been a fan of the Borderlands franchise since the first game and I couldn't believe the guy had the courage of pointing to the pre-sequel as a success. It felt over-extended, and it should have been cut to a third, at most, and sold as a DLC for Borderlands 2.

While the Borderlands 2 and most its DLCs have been really fun and great value for the money, the pre-sequel has left me wary of the 2k shenanigans around the franchise. Won't make the mistake of pre-ordering again.

Why aren't other manufacturers following this model? I've seen 12-year Mercedes with internet connection, so the infrastructure has been there for a while.

China is replicating exactly, step by step, the soviet space program, and the next stop is their own MIR. There is a lot of technology to be learnt there about maintaining medium-term live in space and basic science research that could be done.

Ah, the Nordic model... The country in the middle bans prostitution and offloads it to the neighboring countries. I have yet to see any macro advantage on it, besides a little reduction and a lot of smug people feeling better about themselves.

A while ago I spent quite some time researching the prostitution thing, trying to make up my mind about it. I remember the UN report on global trafficking[1] being specially enlightening. The conclusions I took from it:

-Prohibition doesn't work. It just drives the prostitution underground, and as the pimps are already doing something illegal they don't mind going the extra mile, make it straightforward slavery and abuse the women so much than they are too terrified to escape. A small country (like Sweden) can offload the prostitution to nearby countries, but if all Europe were to do that the consequences would probably be really dire for a lot of women.

-Full legality increases human trafficking. As there is a lot of legal prostitution going on, it's easier to get away with the trafficking. In Europe usually takes the shape of organized crime importing awful lot of women from western Europe to Holland and Germany. Long term, it's thought to increase the well being of prostitutes, both imported and local, but we still have to grok how to do it without make it without the traffic.

-Not legal nor illegal. This is the situation in most countries, and the implementations vary wildly. In some countries the police does not intervene at all and it's a cesspool of mafias fighting for control, others make it a tourist attraction, while others haven't made it legal but don't prosecute the prostitutes. Curiously enough, this last approach is the one that gets the best results at stopping exploitative human trafficking as long as pimping is really prosecuted, don't remember anyone really explaining why. My guess is that in this situation large scale trafficking operations stand out much more, but who knows.

TL;DR; It's hard. Swedes are a tiny bit hypocrites in this one.

[1] http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-repor...

In nordic countries is common to let babies sleep in the outside, in freezing temperatures. You would think is crazy, but not many seem to die from it.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988

That Slate Star Codex article is one of the most depressing things I've read for a while, thank you.

Anybody knows if it has something in common with the Ye Olde MSN Messenger?

First time I saw it I couldn't help to notice the similarities. Even the emoticons were the same!

It needs drivers, they are just the same as the audio jack. At least in my computer (not apple), the same board that drives the audio jack is, at the same time, providing output for the optical plug without any special software.

I've never used an external DAC, but it seems that the parent is weary of companies fucking it up with the usb drivers (or the firmware in the device) and introducing delays or artefacts in the audio stream. An optical to audio converter is easy, probably any third year EE could produce a working prototype.

As self-driving highways, with cars that move at 250 km/h (155 mph), become common, regular driving will probably be restricted to secondary roads first, tertiary later. As time goes by, you will be seen as a nuisance from most of the drivers, as your car will be restricted to driving 60 km/h (37 mph) less than the rest in the same kind of road.

So by the time a law passes that forbids non-autonomous driving, it won't be a "fascist government" but your own countrymen who will take your "basic freedom" away.

But don't worry, I was using the "you" figuratively, by the time this happens, I don't think any of us will be alive. And, of course, there is always the off-chance that someone codifies in the constitution the right to drive a car, assuring that future generations have the freedom to kill themselves in the roads as we proudly do today.

Yeah, if you want different and (more or less) independent between them personas you still need different accounts. What the parent is trying to emphasize is that the transition between them has become really easy and seamless, so if you really want that feature, might be worth it to spend a little time in the set up to create those accounts.

Anyway, these days I just use Google+ to keep contact with a group of friends and follow Linus rants, but the circles mechanic is so muddled that I wouldn't really recommend anyone to actually use it if they want airtight separation.

Well, some people may be forced to move to a simple live, others may be forced to not live, others may continue as we go... Deciding who is going to take which path will probably be the topic of the next world war.