alexanderdmitri

I think this exact thinking has perverted the idea of business and has steadily been eroding consumer trust in small business and their offerings.

Octal as an HN reader, love it.

Your business mogul father had said the same thing to you. He seemed to believe money was the only thing that mattered.

Luckily you were not that shallow or self-deceived and realized that living a humble life and taking the time to work with your students one-on-one was true value you could provide.

Unlike your father, you will leave this world having given more than you took. You will have truly empowered the children to work for a better world than the one they were born into.

What if you had super rich parents and you decided to become a school teacher (~$60k/yr in the US)?

Being raised rich taught you that wealth isn't everything, in fact it can be quite toxic and maddening.

So you end up owning a house and some retirement investments after 40 years, but most of all feel proud of the work you've done and the lives you've bettered.

To be called the biggest loser in the world seems like a stretch.

The door was closed and locked, but they a) didn't revoke an old key that got tied to it and b) didn't attempt to verify it was expected person using it when it was tried on the door. Making the distinction because I don't believe they were explicitly inviting people to rob them as much as they didn't take sufficient precautions in a bad neighborhood.

Akamai's privacy policy on personal data: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/privacy-policies/privacy-shield...

Eh, I think it depends on how the technology advances and if the battery remains a primary feature going forwards. We already have lots of battery powered devices and device consumption of battery energy could just as easily become the place to optimize. It's the primary hurdle now for EVs, but when people swap the AAs in their devices, I hardly can imagine anyone feeling as if they're degrading the product. I imagine in this scenario, quality control and branding would still play a pretty big part of the process as well.

Assuming a lab leak, but not judging, it's surreal to think what it would be like to be someone involved with the initial handling of Covid-19.

I can't imagine being in those shoes while this unprecedented, global event unfolded with political and economic consequences on such an insane scale ...

With a battery swap out model, you could have spots where you pull in and swap a drained / semi-drained battery (or batteries) for a fully charged one. Maybe like the way it's done with propane tanks in some places, but more complicated.

Quality control, general standardization and ease of access would need to be solved, but if done right this could be automated by pulling up to a vending machine and maybe eventually (super futuristic) on the fly like the way they can do in-flight fueling for aircraft.

The initial overhead could be worth it to not sit around charging, but I could also see other interests winning out here (bored people spend money, standardization isn't necessarily win-win, enabling third party service is less profitable for the car makers, &c).

I think you're right. I could see a future where the charge station ends up just swapping batteries with you (kinda like the way propane tanks work in some places). Give them your used one and they give you a charged one. Adjust for power left on the trade-in and quick quality checks and validations on the units being swapped.

Of course, it's like many people in American health insurance are making a buck off a system that bankrupts the sick or maybe people who are worried about climate change but still work for a company that disproportionally exacerbates the issue because they have too many other personal priorities to account for. Also like these other issues, there's creeping normalcy and once the effects are apparent, it's very difficult (if not impossible) to rollback. This is more a systemic conversation in that individuals who find themselves having to choose between concrete, personal growth and more nebulous (often controversial) public good can't be expected to be accountable on both levels in many cases. I don't understand the argument that people raising ethical or even general concerns about their work/industry should quit and get replaced, and then point to their replacement as the reason the original concern was unfounded.

They pay well, are influential in several high-profile and widely-used projects and have lots of really interesting challenges to work on and solve at their scale.

Many people on HN are the ones making the "sausage" grandparent refers to. Maybe the more general public still eats the free food and looks the other way to give the benefit of the doubt, but it's surely a signal that a good deal of people involved with the factory process and its engineering are having a hard time stomaching it.

I believe this is commonly known to mathematicians as the 'karma is a bitch' rule.

They suspended the vote to extend it, so currently expired yes, but I think if/when it goes to vote it will continue to live on.

Also, I have not seen evidence that its effects have been nullified with its expiration, but I'm willing to learn.

Yeah, I guess it depends on the level of data sharing and how good AmEx is at identifying its users based on other data points. Either way they are explicitly stating they're gathering data and passing it on in a much more standardized and defined form than they're willing to share with the consumer. Entities buying the data are probably throwing a lot of capital into joining datasets on a macro level.

Another comment mentions privacy.com as a solution. I've actually thought of creating a little terminal program to leverage it because it's a neat product and super cool they're maintaining a well-defined API for it.

All this ultimately bums me out though. Jumping through so many hoops to avoid this intrusive (and increasingly default) behavior can't be good for mental health. Plus where do you draw the line? When it's so widespread and largely unaccountable while everyone is saying it's up to the individual to avoid it, it really starts to feel rather quixotic trying to take measures to protect yourself.

I think you're right unfortunately, maybe the Patriot Act will get expanded or maybe there'll be a sibling Good People Have Nothing to Hide Act.

Speaking from my vantage in the United States, I can't believe how quickly the population has become knowingly accepting and complicit with a mass surveillance culture. I'm equally concerned with how quickly ownership of purchased goods has been undermined by the server-client model of the internet. These two things are linked and fundamentally disagree with the basic premises the US believes itself to be founded on ...

It's hard to draw parallels historically in a way that gives hope. There is quite a lot of middle ground and reasonable solutions that just don't get mentioned in the political theater of today's corpocracy.

I know all this has basically become a meme on HN, but every government not following the EU's example and iterating on things like GDPR is implicitly supporting authoritarianism (if not explicitly) and setting up an oppressive future that their children will be trodden down by.

It was a tongue in cheek comment on my part, but now that you mention it, I don't see how it wouldn't be a logical thing to do in this situation.

First off, the issue would probably get routed to the local police who take these kinds of calls, not the state police who planted it.

This would probably create some paperwork that would frame the event as a crime before it comes to light that the state police were behind the planting. Bring in a good lawyer and you might have a better shot in court over this nonsense.

Regardless, if you're not trained, probably best not to destroy a suspected bomb on your own unless you have no choice.

If you think it might be a car bomb, I would suggest not trying to destroy it without training. Best to call the police and let them deal with it.

From the AmEx giftcard holders agreement:

> We also use Cardholder Information for marketing purposes and to conduct research and analysis. We may provide certain Cardholder Information to companies, including our affiliated companies that perform business operations or services, including marketing services, on our behalf. We may provide certain Cardholder Information to others outside of American Express as permitted by law, such as to government entities or other third parties in response to subpoenas. We may develop marketing programs and send you offer for products and services. We do not share customer addresses with other companies for them to market their own products and services.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/2x5vcnvffh4i/7it0e2T8WQ8fl4DmkL...

I was scratching my head this week when they were releasing the time the 'Hamas' bomb threat email came in with regard to Belarus high-jacking that flight.

It seemed rather fine-grained knowledge of specific communications that doesn't serve the narrative of privacy first. The articles I read made it sound like ProtonMail had just decided to share details on it rather than a more formal, court-ordered process.

I know in this situation there aren't too many people who would raise questions, but it did strike me as strange given how they market their service.

iPhone is the only apple device I own but it crashes it can't go too far back into my messaging history for any one individual too far.

Usually once I scroll to ~5 months back with people I text regularly the iMessage app just straight crashes ... it's a little absurd. To top it off, every couple pages it gives a loading icon and introduces severe latency for whatever reason. There don't seem to be any apps in their App Store that let you search and lookup old messages either.

This is actively biting me right now. Are there any solutions for accessing the iMessage/chat.db database on my phone or via iCloud from a Linux system (Ubuntu in my case)?

Average salary for a hitman is actually over twice that: https://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-k-hitman-jobs.html

> Offering an ingenious array of connected, intelligent features with over-the-air Software Updates to help ensure your truck can get even better over time.

Anyone else think it's anti-consumer to not be able to opt out of these 'features'?

Related article: https://time.com/5925206/why-do-we-dream/

Why wouldn't executives just start having their personal transactions and outsized living expenses conducted w/ untaxed corporate revenue? This sounds like fixing a loophole by making the hole so big you can't call it hole anymore ...

Not Dutch, but I imagine the CEO directly tells the 500 people who disagree to piss off.

I don't know, if they just called it co-pilot or wingman it'd still be cool, but also more accurate. I thought the big thing was bringing an electric car to market, this feature got overblown and it's become dangerous.

My friend Eddie, who knows a lot about Elon Musk, says Musk is setting the stage to start his own coin, funded by divesting bitcoin. Mining will be performed on the moon and powered by solar. By using Luna Block Coin you'll be supporting the first moon colony and also helping save the planet and get a favorable warranty on your Tesla. Eddie's a little weird (his walls are covered in clippings about Musk with all these strings and sticky notes over top), but I kinda hope he's right here.

as an 80/20er myself, i have "80/2" tattooed under my right eye ... i regret it every day.