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Prusa has a customize build of Octoprint that addresses these problems. As long as you’re not using a webcam with it (and you can’t if it’s embedded anyway), it runs fine, if a bit slow.

One of my favorite things about the Prusa 3 series is that you can embed a Raspberry Pi Zero running OctoPrint in it - it fits right inside the power supply enclosure. Bam, you've got a networked Prusa with no external anything.

This is a very important point, thanks for saying this. It’s amazing how many people think they can start an indie SaaS and think that all they have to do is build it, deploy it, and buy AdWords or whatever. Talking to your customers is more important than any of that, and it’s fun.

This is an interesting line of thought, which I don't know if I agree with or not. It might be worth exploring the contrapositive: "If a piece of speech is tolerable to at least someone, then it shouldn't be censored."

And that raises an absurd but still interesting thought experiment: if by some process, someone is able to create a statement that is intolerable to every single person on Earth, would it be okay to censor it?

To be fair, I come to HN because most posters here are in fact smarter than I am. One person’s toxin is another’s tonic.

Please don’t do this here.

Matt Stoller’s “Big” includes an interesting (though flawed) history of how anti-monopoly efforts have often been sacrificed for the good of the consumer. Which arguably was a short-term good.

To quote Thomas Frank, we have created a system that offers most people two choices: “toil without hope, or go to jail.”

Seems like there might be at least a cottage industry in small wearable devices that would foil this kind of thing.

Though, extending this thought experiment a bit, if you asked the average shopper how much they would pay for such a device, I’d imagine the most common answer would be nothing, since the average shopper cannot perceive the cost to them of this surveillance.

Which in turn suggests that maybe a better countermeasure would be some way to show consumers what those costs to them are, in estimated dollars.

Much like Facebook, RH’s users are not its customers. RH’s actual customers are no doubt thrilled with what the company has done.

Agreed. Seems like a small intersection of users who would be genuinely inconvenienced by this.

It's telling that there are a number of commercially available Python libraries targeting enterprise customers for which the Python 3 version is free, but there's a hefty license fee for the Python 2 version. Maybe that's an appropriate tax on sluggish software/IT departments.

In 1983 a group of people actually did bomb the Senate, which seems much more severe than just a bunch of rednecks roaming the halls and yelling stuff. Democracy endured just fine.

It's something that Ibram Kendi has pushed back on: https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/26/anticapitalist-sponsore.... But he does not represent the Black community, despite the amount of media he gets.

I honestly think my mental and physical health are so much better than they should be at my age because I don't take work as seriously as my colleagues. Though, I'm fairly certain I've missed out on a few promotions.

Excellent comment. I'd say there are at least three possible answers to the question you pose at the end of it:

1. As another commenter replied, Big Tech will have to start charging market prices for their services.

2. Big Tech will be unable to charge for their services, and the business relationship between them and their users will collapse, taking Big Tech with it.

3. The relationship between Big Tech and its customers will change from a business relationship to something else, where the truism you stated will no longer applies.

One might argue that (3) has already happened, and the "something else" is more like a manorial or totalitarian relationship, in which the interests of the users are irrelevant.

Let’s not assume that one “side” is racist and the other isn’t. It’s both wrong and unproductive.

They are anything but countless. There’s a specific number of unarmed Black people who are killed each year by police. That number is typically less than 30.

Which would be worth every penny, gauging from the M1.

I upvoted you because you’re right and I’m wrong, which is the most un-Reddit thing I’ll do all day.

Regarding products, I'd divide biotech into three very broad categories, medical, industrial, and food. Medical biotech is generally the most well-established, from Genentech (now Roche) on down to the companies being created today. Most of that work are novel and very promising therapies for a range of diseases, and diagnostics/prognostics to detect and track disease states. Both are generally at the level that's popularly known as "personalized medicine" (specific to your genome, epigenetics, and in some cases microbiome). Some of the diagnostics in development and hitting the market now would be considered sorcery just five years ago.

Industrial biotech is harnessing biological and biochemical processes for industry and production. That's much smaller but growing fast; people outside the industry would be shocked to discover what chemicals and other products can and will be produced simply by fermenting various microbes. Zymergen is one company doing this, and among the biggest but by no means the only one.

Recently there's been a surge in biotech-based food production. Most people don't realize that the Impossible Burger (and other products from Impossible) taste so "meaty" because it contains transgenic yeast that secretes cow heme. There are companies that are creating cow dairy products from transgenic yeast - you can actually buy their ice cream today - and companies like Memphis Meats are working on cell-cultured meat, made entirely from animal-free processes , minus the initial cell biopsy. Same with Finless Foods. All of the above are within a couple miles of each other, and these are only a few examples.

Let’s not ignore biotech. It’s experiencing a tremendous boom in SV (and in the Berkeley-Emeryville area). It gets way less attention than Tesla and Facebook, for some reason... probably because its products and innovations are much harder to explain to the public. (Though that may be an overly cynical answer with regards to the media.)

Is it, though? Maybe there’s been some regression to the mean as the readership has grown, but Reddit is pretty much intolerable drivel these days. There’s no comparison. dang and his team have done some heroic work to keep a high quality of content here.

This is great! Self-promotion or not, thanks for sharing.

You still haven’t explained what difference it makes whether the majority of people have ancestral roots or not.

I once spent a couple weeks in a village so remote and underdeveloped, it was essentially in the Bronze Age. No electricity, no running water, only one primitive well, no mail service or any government presence at all, beyond the village chief. Poop was everywhere and inescapable, in a way I hadn’t prepared for.

The food in SFO’s international terminal is excellent.

We also call them “behavioral psychologists.”

Probably a similar percentage as the people with drinking problems who will tell you to abstain.

Please read my post a bit more carefully. I’m addressing the “acceptable” part, not the legality.