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It wields a heck of a lot more power than many countries on Earth. It's not that fatuous.

I hope he is being ironic. Because it's not always possible to change companies for people, let alone entire countries.

Perhaps you could contribute better by citing examples where Google does care about blind people instead of calling an actual blind person's argument ridiculous.

These kinds of things have me quitting most things recently.

I don't own a TV, don't own a car, don't drink coffee anymore, don't subscribe to any streaming service, don't have a TV, don't have social media. My internet usage basically boils down to NYT, HN, Reddit and Youtube.

I can't say I miss much of what I gave up. My life is far from deprived. The caveat is that I live in western Europe, with good public transport, accessibility to plenty of nature and many things to do outside of glowing rectangles.

There is most certainly a category of people who cannot save at all because some combination of life factors lead them up shit creek, but there are plenty of low income people who could do with a lesson or two from Mr. Money Mustache. He has various case studies involving low income people and there are legions of journal entries on his forums where people earning pittances have nevertheless saved enough to be secure. Many have saved enough to retire early.

Nothing is one-size-fits-all of course, but I'd much rather be surrounded by those kinds of 'can-do' types who don't sit around waiting for life to come to them.

I am a Matlab person, among other tools as well. I do something of the sort that you suggested in your second paragraph to plot time-varying diagrams by generating successive frames and then making a gif.

Matlab can also do some very nice colormap stuff. Just wish there was a method with less friction!

I do simulations for a living aka numerical modelling. The results that I obtain need to be explained using plots. How behaviour changes with time, how component sizing will affect xyz parameter etc.

What I would dearly love is some way to animate the systems I simulate. A way to show HOW MUCH flow is going through a pipe, or how much heat transfer is happening in a heat exchanger. Something that's easier to grasp than dull plots.

Sadly, a) I do not even know what to google to find solutions for this, and b) all my primitive searches seem to lead to Blender, which has a large learning curve and way too much time investment requirements.

There is a way to get rid of Edge by renaming its install folder or something like that. I did it, and I love it.

Obligatory further reading on this subject is Maciej's blogpost [1]

[1] https://idlewords.com/2003/12/100_years_of_turbulence.htm

With each such iteration, the advertising punch is diluted. At this point, it's a stretch to imagine someone seeing the mirrored M-W logo and going "God, I need a smoke". In this way, we are all the better for it.

And you're going to tell me a bunch of anons on HN are bout to invent it from first principles?!

While 'we' (I'm not American) might have plenty of stupid laws, we also have some very good ones. We've gotten there by taking necessarily-flawed first steps. I have no doubt Twitter will overlook something. But I'm glad they're doing it anyway, and we will get somewhere better in steps. It's better than navel gazing about "What's a law anyway?"

Also, granted, GP didn't explicitly state that he's against the law, but this kind of smug, condescending slippery slope argument keeps getting brought up all over HN, hence my over the top reaction. So many thread seem to devolve into this kind of pointless "Yeah but define <> first" at the hands of Rationalists™ and are worse for it. They get nowhere and it makes for infuriating reading.

This level of pedantry drives me up the wall. Not everything needs to be invented from first principles.

Profile ads are banned, yes, because they involve teh candidates. Policy ads are banned because they again involve politics.

We can start anywhere! Let's say 'nothing from any entity that receives money from a political party'. Or 'anything mentioning election candidates'. Or 'anything with certain keywords in it'.

What you're not stopping to ask yourself is 'who are the kinds of people that need to advertise about politics'? Yep, exactly the kinds of dickheads you don't want polluting our information streams with their bullshit. Out with all of them!

In which case, your point was quite tangential to what was being discussed before, no?

Brother, you need to grow the fuck up. Right now, you're coming across as one of those try-hard college students on a 'Rationality Rulez' bender.

Morality is subjective but not in the manner you're describing. It's not arbitrary. Our values are conjured out of thin air but for reasons that DO involve the betterment of humanity.

Slavery isn't subjective, and extermination camps sure as hell are not either.

The guy from PracticalTypography also recommends Source Code Pro as his free monospaced font of choice.

I think switching up how you do things from time to time keeps things fresh. Change your wallpaper! Rearrange your office! Go without syntax highlighting for a day! And, yeah, change your programming font.

It's depressing. I recently finished a hike from Chamonix to Zermatt, which passes near a ton of glaciers in the Pennine Alps. They are all dying. Moraines exposed everywhere. What is supposed to be a glorious celebration of the beauty of the Alps turns instead into sombre contemplation of whether the next generation will ever know such beauty.

Mer de Glace, near Chamonix, is a particularly tragicomic example because the authorities need to add more and more steps each year in order to take the tourists down to the glacier. It's receding that fast.

Some of us are skinny. Or we hate lugging around weight. With something like a laptop, which you're carrying around everyday, half a pound saved makes a big difference.

I won't say I'm for thinner laptops, per se, because I'd rather that every laptop came with the maximum permissible 99 WHr battery, but I want everything as light as possible hell yes.

Fucking hell, that made my blood boil.

The guy on the phone was totally right. What if it was that nurse's mother? Why the hell would they think standard protocol was to talk to someone who lay dying. It's nuts. The supervisor is nuts. The nurse was nuttier still.

What a clueless comment.

It's a tragedy for reasons MUCH beyond 'unnecessarily lost wealth'. I know you are trying to argue in good faith, but you're flat out wrong in the sense that doomsday despair is EXACTLY what we should all be feeling.

A world depleted of its glaciers, lacking in drinkable water, lacking in animal diversity, lacking in arable land, lacking in coral reefs, coastal cities with all their rich history and culture buried underwater and on, and on, is EXACTLY a hellish nightmare.

Who'd want to live on such a planet? Who'd give a fuck about 290% richer?

He did take pains to specify it was just his experience. And even the fragment you quoted tries to be diplomatic by saying "it _seems_ to be"

Fuck yeah to all your points

I'm not saying we are particularly good at not eating meat. I'm saying we are evidence that not eating meat need not be a deprivational scourge.

Do you have a source for your claim? Here[1] is a link I found breaking down the fuel consumption by sector. Seems Motor Oil vastly outscores Residue Fuel Oil, which I believe is what tankers use. I may be wrong, though, and would be interested in being corrected.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec3_23.pdf

> Look at pandas

Look at Indians instead. We eat a primarily vegetarian diet. I assure you we sleep nowhere close to 16 hours a day. We also work in the sweltering heat etc, which our diet seems more than capable of taking on.

Yeah, eating raw food is great, and eating less is also great. "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" and all that, but Indian cuisine stands as an example that eating vegetarian food need not be a bland affair.

That is quite literally what the "Pro" stands for. What's more, a functional keyboard is a VERY low bar for a very expensive laptop to clear.

For sure. There are so many more parameters to physical store. Proximity is a HUGE one. Quality of service. Specific items that they stock. These kinds of things allow smaller stores to exist in my small town even while there is a huge supermarket nearby.

On the other hand, I do not use ANY one-stop site for online shopping outside of Amazon.

Succinct and ever so apt.

I sort of get what you're saying. A lot of formerly-anti-Apple people have started looking at them with new eyes because of their welcome stance on privacy.

But even with the Apple example, aren't they the most valuable company on Earth? Despite having anti-consumer policies like removing the 3.5mm jack or making their laptops nigh-on irrepairable. Clearly the market shrugs at those 'tradeoffs' in exchange for Apple shifting more product more quickly. This is what I mean by the market not being the perfect device to self-regulate. Perhaps on a VERY long term scale, but not on human time scales.

But your life is the perfect example to make my point!

We SHOULD use cars. But we should treat them as garnish, not the main course. Use them for exactly the things they're great for: moving houses, needing to visit the hospital, long road trips to a destination where you'll need flexibility to drive around once you reach etc.

I'm not advocating a ban on cars. I'm not even advocating not owning them. The simple step of banning them on the main shopping street is a far cry from any of those things, but makes the actual experience of being on that street a lot better for the shoppers.