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i have no clue what features google play has but my guess is that a simple date check that disables the app after a certain time is possible without using any google play features. so it could be offered as a free app that simply stops working after some time.

so you offer a free trial on google play that is long enough to get people hooked. but there is no paid app on google play. instead people have to pay through other means to unlock the app?

please don't be petty. you don't own the replies to your comment. you are not the only one who can keep the discussion going. others may continue to discuss as they like, and you will have your chance to add your comments in time. removing your comment after people replied to it is disruptive and is not welcome.

the discomfort in the ears becomes a non-issue if the baby sucks on something while it's happening because sucking helps readjust the pressure. having flown with a baby myself, we never had problems with that.

and if you want my personal opinion, anyone who feels crying babies are disruptive is an asshole. i am not saying that lightly. parents are not just flying for fun and letting their babies cry to torture you.

as a society we need to be more child friendly and supportive of parents. especially when they have a baby in distress. this whole idea that children should always be quiet and never bother adults is absurd, and only really found in western culture. that doesn't mean kids should be allowed to get away with anything, but a crying baby is not something that can just be stopped until the parents can identify the cause, and we should have some tolerance for that.

i have only spent a day or so in manhattan but i have lived more than a year in some US suburbs and i don't have the same experience. i have also lived in china for more than a decade, so i believe i am qualified to make that comparison. when i said you have to go out of your way to avoid meeting people i was speaking from personal experience. something i have actually done as i was seeking new routes for my daily walk in a chinese city.

and as european i can also tell you that i am most certainly more likely to talk to someone in manhattan than i would in a european city for example.

sure, this does exist in many places, but not to the extent that it happens in china. in the west these cases are the exception, in china they are more like the norm.

what the kids enjoy is getting their parents approval. that's what encouragement does. the key is to encourage children to do things that are actually good for them. i am glad my chinese wife got trained as a montessori teacher. they know a thing or two about what's actually good for kids.

you do have a point in that separate categories reduces or even prevents both groups from competing against each other. thus we'll not know if they are differently qualified. also competition drives effort, so having a larger pool of competitors pay push participants to increase their effort.

on the other hand, in this young age physical development between boys and girls can be very different. so maybe separation is necessary because of that.

that's what i do, but the posts still get engagement, and it's the same level of engagement as the non-AI posts by the same people, which tells me they are not put off by the AI-writing.

HN readers are not average people. elsewhere i see people using AI to write without any blowback. maybe they don't want to ruffle feathers, but they are engaging, whereas i prefer to just skip over AI generated posts.

i guess that for now only the default will change for new repositories. support for sha1 is not going to be dropped, so most existing repositories won't switch any time soon. if you want to switch then yes, it sounds like a force push might be needed, although it could also be that simply switching is not possible, but that instead you have to create a new repo and import the history from the old repo, forcing everyone to clone the new repo intentionally.

make everyone's voice matter. actually listening to peoples concerns and try to address them. but also, treat everyone as being on the same side. we all want a better life. we should cooperate to achieve that. globally. it takes education. not just STEM, but also moral education. teach people to care about each other and to listen. we need to eliminate prejudice and racism and make it possible to resolve conflicts.

it's a long road to get there. but it's the only way that is going to work.

you are not going to find a city where no such people want to live. or, if you do then forget anyone there wanting to do any minimum wage jobs. because they can't afford to live there. that includes waiters and teachers among many others.

you could of course pay them more, and everything would become more expensive. might work. but i bet you don't want that either.

that's what vienna has been doing for a century, and it works. current status is that 2/3rd of any new built housing must be subsidized.

unlikely. reference please. btrfs was the default filesystem on fedora installs last time i checked. to remove it they would have to first change that, then give it a few years before even considering removing it from the kernel. redhat could remove it because it was never default and never recommended.

the downside of a stable API is more non-free drivers. the API being unstable is a strength in that it forces driver developers to use a GPL compatible license in order to get their drivers into the kernel, or it motivates the FOSS community to develop alternative drivers that are GPL compatible.

and, i believe i read somewhere that this is not an inability to stabilize the API but a conscious decision to not promise a stable API expressly because it creates the effect i described.

who is at fault doesn't really matter. the end result is that distributions aren't including it, and that kills it. unlike almost anything else which i can add to a system after booting it, filesystems need to be available from the start. until debian, fedora, suse, etc are convinced that there is no threat this just won't happen.

it is big enough that it prevents distributions to include zfs. and that in reality is the problem. i would not care much if all distributions decided to ignore the copyright issue like canonical does and i could therefore get reliable support for zfs. but alone the thought of having to boot a rescue system to fix my broken computer and then not having zfs support because no one built a rescue system with it included is making the risk to high.

no thanks to red hat. i switched to debian for servers. fedora fortunately still supports btrfs.

zfs is shunned. can't really get around that copyright issue. bcachefs just hit a setback, which i am hopeful will eventually be resolved.

because with that kind of camera you are showing that photography is your hobby/passion and not just trying to shoot pictures of people who don't want to be photographed. (there was a conference recently where you could choose a different color lanyard indicating whether you didn't want to be photographed or whether you didn't mind. i think a very good approach to the issue. don't take photos of anyone with a red lanyard)

germany had bank transfers as the norm when the US still fiddled around with paper cheques.

while that may be average german behavior, and while that is the reason i didn't enjoy living in germany i have been to many german tech events and i have to say that they are usually not the average germans there. well, i was mainly at FOSS events, so maybe the FOSS community is what makes it different.

waiting for the video by neural derp like this one: https://youtu.be/lS6dtRWXF1o

i was an active slashdot reader many years ago. i don't actually remember when/why/ or even where to i left. i guess it's worth taking a look back

to me work is anything that i am obligated to do, that i can't say no to even if i'd rather do something else. (and yes, doing housework and raising kids is work, and as a society we should treat it as such. that is, we should recognize that stay at home parents are actually working and should be rewarded for doing so. same goes for caring for other people)

i agree. if my kid would actually make the effort to make videos i'd fully support him. even with ads if that was something that makes sense. the mistake was letting the kid manage the account with the credit card on file. that's where i would have drawn the line.

while i agree with the reason, if you have to pay it back, how does withdrawing cash from a company card make any difference?

see also discussion from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616238

the article argues that work will no longer be economically necessary, and that we are capable of organizing ourselves into a community without the need to work for income.

but i disagree. even in the past those rich people had to maintain their wealth, so a lot of what they did was economically necessary.

so i don't think that the economics of work will go away. it will change, but not vanish.

there is a lot of work that should never be replaced by machines. raising children for example, but also caring for the sick, elderly and disabled. yes, some of it will be machine assisted. those will be machines that increase the independence of people. also art and entertainment, while it may use machines for assistance should remain firm in human hands. also government, laws, jurisprudence. science, research, tourism, etc...

much of it can be done machine assisted, but the human touch is not optional, and a good part of that work is still something that people may not want to do without some sort of reward.

today economic benefits are the reward for humans making an effort. in the past it may have been social status, but i don't think it is a good idea to go back to that. social status is what gives rise to prejudice and racism.

work will not go away. the economic necessity for everyone to work just to put food on the table, that may go away, but the need to motivate people to do work that machines can't do on their own will remain.

therefore what changes is the motivation. today people are motivated to study and work because they need an income. in a world where income is not strictly necessary society needs to make an effort to motivate the future generation to study and work on things we still need despite that.

money is the most egalitarian way to motivate people to do work that is hard but needs to be done. everything else brings us back to status and class, which is not what we want.

exactly. and those servers are also easily blocked because they are known publicly. i see this problem right now. 4 out of 5 providers that i tried are not working from where i am