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Trains go at 400km/h

>and rebel against

i.e. intentionally use definitions you know are confusing and then - as language is famously a single person endeavour - blaming the listener when they misunderstand. This arrangement works particularly well as a shibboleth to prevent people knowing what you're saying if they have the poor foresight to choose another language as their native tongue.

Eminent domain exists in the West, too

Sorry, I'm not as enlightened as you. Which self driving car do you own?

Games are very un-'clean'. They can stop working just a few years after release and they don't support any kind of developments in the platform (framerate limits, resolution limits, OS support). Understandable, there's no financial reason to support a game that won't sell anymore, except they're also hostile to passionate users who would do it themselves if things were opened up a bit.

If that was true, you wouldn't be behind the wheel at all.

The transmission can't see the road ahead and prepare in advance.

I'd consider 35 people who felt that suicide was better than leaving is a pretty solid display of why that argument doesn't work.

c++ is in narrow niches?!

You need to pay commission and spread every time you rebalance your portfolio (daily, if you copy the frequency of modern funds)

So at the £5ish/trade of my current broker, that's a cool £912500/year on just commission.

For some reason the massively reduced ease of entry to a trading strategy like this is never considered when lauding its historical performance.

I haven't managed to get this working yet on my phone but: would it be possible for the same code to be used for the tones of other languages?

I think it's worth noting that S&P 500 index funds didn't exist until the 70s. You'd be spending a lot of time and money to approximate it before that.

Let's be honest, people on HN aren't limited in where they live by poverty.

As I said, it was possible 100 years ago. We -as a society- have brought this rut on ourselves.

You only chose to live that far from work, in a place that gets a foot of snow, because you assumed you could make the journey in a petroleum car. It wouldn't have been possible 100 years in the past and it won't be possible 100 years in the future. Same for your employer choosing not to provide showers.

She lives in Hong Kong.

Well firstly, you as a reader did actually know the context. That's why you could tell everyone else.

Secondly, giving that context requires the writer to know that it's not normal. If it's not normal. Yet you've failed to give that context. Your comment could just as easily be linked to in a forum mainly used by Hong Kongers or Singaporeans. Obviously, you have no reason to accommodate them because you shouldn't expect them to be your audience.

That's an extraordinary level of understanding of someone's motivations and morality that I would characterise as 'baseless'.

Celeste (a platforming game) has an enemy who copies your inputs, making them appear to chase you.

A reporter in China tweets to people who choose to follow a reporter in China and you accuse her of being disingenuous for failing to accommodate it being posted on an international website, out of context.

That's quite self-centred.

Unfortunately, pragmatism like yours sounds unconvincing compared to the more passionate positions of somebody against nuclear fission power. It doesn't mix well with an expensive project with a long development time that risks being cancelled in a temporary shift of public opinion.

I hear Softbank are offering 20 billion

Why did you choose to live 8mi from your daily obligations? I think walking would obviously be even better.

It's just nationalism

The reasons in the link are fairly ridiculous

>Noise should be opt in; not opt out.

That's a great way of putting it.

One of my pet peeves is along a similar line. I have a quiet voice. When I was younger, I had a quieter voice. The change happened because people were happy to ask me to repeat myself or, in a more blunt way, that I need to speak up. That's fine, it's my problem, it's me failing to communicate properly, and I've learned to be loud enough most of the time because of it.

But it doesn't happen the other way. It's not 'OK' to tell someone they talk too loudly. You can try, and they may temporarily adjust (while, actually, thinking it's your problem) but they won't change their voice for good, like I had to.

If it's a failure of communication for me to be heard by the person stood next to me, it should also be a failure for a person talking to someone at the same distance if I can hear them on the other side of a busy office or a train carriage. And if someone has a bassy vocal fry that penetrates walls, they should raise their pitch. I don't want to have to opt out of their conversation and, if I do, I have to be confrontational.

I think it's silly: the idea that free software is primarily done unpaid is just a myth, as can be seen from the attendees of any major free software conference, or the commit history of the major codebases. The killer feature of copyleft is as a way for standards to propagate within industries so that duplicate work can be avoided. Any benefits that end users get are a happy coincidence.

So what is to stop someone else who wants a slice of that 3 billion? We have AWS and Keepass (though it is GPL) for anyone to quickly implement there own competitor, or the already-huge userbases of Google, Apple, and Mozilla's implementations. With such a low barrier to entry, won't it become a commodity? And aren't we moving away from passwords as a whole?

That's actually what I ended up doing to 'fix' it. It's disappointing, yet not surprising, to learn it's intentional subversion of the API.

I also noticed they've started resetting the notification settings I set through the Android settings menu for Messenger. I didn't know this was supposed to be possible.

What remarkable luck they were born after planes were invented!

And to have them all agree to do it with you. Which they won't.