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In many respects, I think you already break your stream of consciousness when you sleep or are knocked out. When a copy of your brain is made, that copy will experience what all of us do after a good night’s rest in a train: waking up to an unfamiliar environment, subtly changed by random firing of your neurons when you were asleep. The “you before sleep” is effectively not the “you after sleep” because there was a break in the chain.

Thus, there’s no benefit to the “you that didn’t go on vacation”. There was a benefit to the “you that did go on vacation”.

I saw “amazon book clubs” today as a preview and wondered how indiebound integration could help make a third party book club a reality

Do dating apps fall into this at all?

One thing I tend to see a lot (90% of requests) is from people who are stuck with mediocre CRMs and want better analytics and email reporting than they’re given. The only way to accomplish anything is to spoof login and scrape because the only api is through “partners” who either pay a premium or are giant.

I turn these requests down because it’s a ticking time bomb when you add in the element of login (password resets, 2FA, another point of change). On the other hand, I wonder how different this is from what Plaid does...

I don't know how this would happen under their policy.

> Adding dots doesn't change your address, so dots aren't why you got someone else's mail. Instead, the sender probably mistyped or forgot the correct address.

> For example, if someone meant to email john.43.smith@gmail.com but typed john.smith@gmail.com, the message went to you because you own johnsmith@gmail.com.

I’m a full time software engineer for a small company. No amount of googling answers my question: what exactly is part time consulting? At least, in your context

I just finished playing through Horizon Zero Dawn which had been untouched, collecting dust on the shelf for a couple years. Found more time in the pandemic and I'm wondering what else I've missed out on! The only other titles I've played with great acclaim are God of War and Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

From a brief wiki search, it seems outside of Nintendo, studios only tend to have one-hit wonders. I never played the Infamous games, but will take you on your word on Ghosts of Tsushima.

Look up desk pads, I have one that covers the majority of my 5’x30” desk!

My Corsair PSU is an old 750W and they were synonymous with accessible modular power supplies for a while. Made them last longer by design when that wasn’t a given design choice. All in one heatsink units are more popular now, but they used to be the only option in that category too.

I believe the parent comment isn't bemoaning the business practices of these landlords but instead addressing the unethical behavior of its patrons.

Or as other commenters pointed out, get some EU intervention

Small nitpick, but the hamburger menu bar on the top right is unresponsive on Safari (iPhone 11 Pro iOS 13.6)

Because flat earth and chem trails don’t encourage policy changes or have representation from (potential) elected officials

But it’s not __approachable__, at least not to me. Seems like survivorship bias to point to nearly every dev with a toy language project. I might feel similarly if I finish nand2tetris

Data communicated as PDFs when it shouldn't be has frequently been a pain. Recently, I needed banking data that was _only_ available as bank statements in PDFs or an unpredictable web ui.

Consuming banking data as PDFs is a nightmare. The bank I was working with seemed to have spent _some_ money on its website (Regions Bank in the US, if anyone wants to know, but just so happens to provide .ofx exports for 19.95/month starting from the month you sign up, but not generated for previous months, although that's tangential). Meanwhile, my local bank that at first glance from its website seems like it's in the stone age provides a PDF statement that looks like it was made in the 80s (all monospaced font, no graphics), but they also provide a .csv export for transactions with seemingly no limits on date.

The latter bank approach signals to me that data is in the format it should be in. No more, no less. The former suggests The PDF and a pretty web UI is the de facto standard for communicating tabular data when it shouldn't be.

I get that PDFs online are a great alternative as a document that was originally meant to be printed and mailed, but it is a poor substitute for consumable banking data.

> The report notes that this security flaw is present in all the devices running chips between A7 and A11 Bionic. Apple has already fixed the exploit in A12 and A13 Bionic chips so newer devices are safe.

That's four generations of Apple hardware, the latest being iPhone X and iPhone 8/8 Plus (Sept 2017). The patch being fixed in A12 means the iPhone XR and iPhone XS (and later) are unaffected.

My mistake, I was on a Mac and I intuitively look for app settings in the main menu bar, which is what I was describing. I should have looked up the process on other platforms to determine if it was just as intuitive

Firefox > Preferences > Home > New Windows and Tabs (very first option!) > Homepage and New Windows, New Tabs > Blank Page

I like that Firefox Home is the default option because you as the user are offered something. If you don't like it, you say no, go to the settings page, and are never offered it again. If you do like it or don't mind it, you keep it. Win-win.

If Firefox Home wasn't on by default, those that might have preferred it wouldn't know what they're missing. It seems difficult to think someone would actually prefer ads but if there's some engagement, then that speaks for itself.

This is less an issue of biased narrative vs the truth than _your_ values vs BLM values. To BLM, nothing excuses someone who is supposed to protect and serve putting their weight onto someone's neck for nearly ten minutes. Is a stained toxicology report and non-compliance permission to kill? The BLM "narrative" assumes the answer is no. The right-wing "narrative" assumes the answer is yes. This is less a question of reporting and more a question of what is justified.

Thus, the BLM narrative that police violence is excessive is still compelling if you subscribe to the belief that someone placing their knee and weight on a detained person's neck for 8 minutes is excessive, regardless of other circumstances.

Ask yourself if you think the situation could have been resolved differently, without loss of life. If outcome isn't important to you because of a toxicology report, mannerisms, circumstances of arrest, other reason to deny life... then a certain unorganized group of people would like to remind you and many others like you that _black lives matter_.

But alas, to say the leaked body cam footage "destroys the BLM narrative" implies you won't care about reporting at all if you resort to regurgitating clickbait-language.

Weird question, how large would an alien spaceship have to be to position itself between the sun and the earth and cause us major problems? Distance would also play a factor as would the degree of “major problem” (varying effects on plant life/temperature). The equivalent of finding a parked car in front of your driveway, on a cosmic scale.

Would be fun to learn the mathematics, physics, and macrobiology to solve this!

Since Highrise doesn't take new signups (for the last two years actually), it was just a fun story

I met Professor Malan once and asked him for some advice on overcoming imposter syndrome. His advice was a matter-of-fact, learn the things you feel like you don't know and it shouldn't be an issue. I still feel like that sometimes, but the way MOOCs are today makes it easier to approach anything I feel like I don't know.

That’s hyperbole. More like the beginning of the end of elected officials’ use of social media.

Raising the price and adding options are both perceived as frustrating experiences. Requesting donations (raising the price) on top of adding two negative choices (do I ignore donating and therefore spark feelings of being cheap, or do I donate and lose more money than I anticipated).

AirBnB is in a tough spot right now but this is a good reminder for product makers that people generally do not respond well to the above.

Reminds me of a more work-calendar integrated Timeful (which was purchased and killed by Google). I mourn it a lot since I never found a 1-to-1 replacement, so I'm rooting for your team!

Couldn't they offer a required in-class portion of their degree (INT 5001: "Let's Talk about COVID and being international students for 20 minutes") for all international students where completion is required for their degree but attendance is optional? Effectively, no one physically goes to the class, but it's enough to keep students in the US because it's not an online-only class.

That sounds difficult, it seems like your feelings are still pretty raw. I’m sorry you went through that.

Out of curiosity, do you think there’s a difference between me asking a government to remove something from a web platform vs me asking the platform to remove something?

Perhaps my position is I don’t think anyone should appeal to a government for web censorship, but hold platforms socially accountable for the content they host. If they hear my (and the potentially ensuing mob) complaints about content I found objectionable, the platform can either ignore my complaint or acquiesce. What can I do if they ignore me? Start a boycott? That kind of pressure is an economic one which leads to the platform making a business decision. The content creator that feels slighted starts their own competing platform for a different user base. We now have meaningful competition. It’s the kind of libertarian value that I think is just right for the web.

It might seem unfair, but it doesn’t feel like mob rule/leftist hypocrisy more than the invisible hand of the information market working against your content.

It does seem odd you can’t delete your own content, but beyond that, I don’t think any of our comments are worth paying for. Comments on HN feel a bit like recorded discourse in a techie Roman Forum. No one invites you to participate but people will remember what you say

I feel like Apple is incentivized to move slowly on PWAs.

The pros for bringing more features to PWAs: a small subset of users care, and an even a smaller subset of them care enough that they might leave the platform.

The cons: a direct competitor to the app store (imagine Hey as a PWA), undercutting their 30%. For the independent developer, sure, the app store may be great distribution, but I can imagine paying for your own marketing beats the 30% you lose to Apple.

I feel like HN as a whole want blogs to come back, and part of that is well written exposition (the technical details) followed by near-outlandish opinions that tend to generate discussion. It's more fun, it leads to more conversation (here we are!), and clarifies our own values.

I think three monitors is distracting, but that whole community discussion gave me the opportunity to compare how I use a multi-monitor setup compared to others.

I generally dislike how fonts are rendered at floating-point scaling or lower resolutions, but I too just learned to live with it over years of ignoring it. Unfortunately, now I can't unsee it!

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but good stats. From #1 ranked dangerous country in 2012, a disbandment in 2013, and #10 today seems at least somewhat successful to me