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> Knobs in the car and on appliances.

I want knobs in my car, but I specially want no GPS tracking, no connection to the internet. My not-that-old dead-dinosaur-powered car doesn't have it, but I'd like to switch to an electric car in the next few years and I'm fearing it.

Will anyone build an electric but dumb car? I know some of the earlier electrics were dumb (in this desirable sense) but they also had significat compromises. Will it be possible to buy a privacy-respecting, good, new-ish electric car in a few years? It looks unlikely...

(I'm honestly asking, someone here will know way more than me about this)

I missed those, my bad. I didn't search correctly.

Previous discussion in 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23744613

People in there remarked that it was not very effective, but from that NY Times article it either has improved, or works great for journalists who are somewhat publicly known?

I'm not willing to upload my picture to test just yet.

I can understand not liking Sanchez, although your comment seems too much.

But El Diario, while being biased to the left, has never seemed to me like particularly loyal to PSOE. I used to read El País and I stopped exactly for that reason, but El Diario seems to me like one of the few still doing real journalism.

I love it when I find comments on HN discussing their own countries politics, especially if I don’t know a lot about their country. I hope other readers remember to take your comment, and of course mine, with generous pinches of salt.

No official document, not even the Constitution, can be a final authority on what a nation is. That's just the official definition.

Many scholars, politicians, and citizens, even excluding people outside of the Overton window, describe Spain as containing several nations. At the very least Catalonia, the Basque Country / Euskal Herria, and Galicia are widely (but not unanimously) considered to have the historic, cultural, social characteristics that would make them nations. The spanish constitution is a document of compromise, born of a very special time in history; whatever it says about what Spain is, we don't have to accept it.

(Biases disclaimer: I'm Spanish, specifically castilian; I don't support Catalonian independence, and I dislike all nationalisms; all nations are more like big balls of wibbly wobbly... nation-y wimey... stuff)

This piece of news doesn't yet show up on the spanish newspapers I trust; I'm really curious to see if it makes the news. I'll be extremely concern if, as I fear, if doesn't.

There is a DC barrel plug for charging too.

The USB-C port is Thunderbolt 4. I think that means it should support DP too, but don't take my word for it. USB-C/Thunderbolt confuse me.

I don't read the internet just to enjoy the wonders of efficient, plain web design.

I'm not gonna stop reading the newspapers or blogs I consider most trustworthy (or less bad) just because I don't like their design choices!

Why? Why is competitive advantage the only thing that matters?

OP is just ranting about people who pay more getting a better experience, making paying such a central part of gaming. They just hate this, which I agree with, although I know others don't.

In a way, getting a better experience just for being able and willing to pay more is a basic feature of our society. Why should we expect videogames, being as expensive and lucrative, to be radically different from the rest of society?

I'll just continue appreciating those games who are, those who actually work more like art. If I ever decide to try a F2P loot-box generator-style game, it generally puts me off quickly.

I love the contrast between reading this and the new Apple product being announced today.

Part of me wants a Mac Studio. Part of me wants to buy a Raspberry Pi and see how much of my work I could do on that little thing.

To me, it only sounds dystopian if a distant, all-powerful big brother is running it. Not everything has to be like that.

If it's under your control, like it is here, it doesn't sound dystopian at all.

This person has noticed something in their life that they don't like, they get too sucked in into work and need to snap out of it a bit.

In the future, they could notice themselves watching too many memes, and they could add a new feature that sends them a though-provoking quote when their face is very relaxed for a long time in front of the computer.

> Just saying, there used to be real technical ammo to bring to the table

You're right, but those are 2 different discussions. On the one hand, why did Firefox stop being a relevant web browser in the general consumer base. On the other, why did it stop being so great for advanced users. There is some connection between both, of course, but...

Not even all technical users who were promoting Firefox originally actually did use that many advanced extensions. Even if you or I may think FF went to shit, for most even FF advocates, it didn't change that much. That's not why they stopped promoting it.

For me, personally, it was losing Pentadactyl. I'm using Vimium now but it's not even close. I'm still mad about losing that.

Today? Nothing.

I used to hop between browsers often, and for a few years Firefox felt significantly slower. Does that really matter that much? I don't think so.

I often think that Firefox never really got bad, the difference between FF and Chrome was never massive. It's a bit unfair that FF lost so much market share for that small difference.

> Mozilla systematically shut down all the reasons to advocate for them back around 2015-2016 when they assassinated their extensions

I don't think most people advocating Firefox did it for the extensions. My non-technical family and friends don't care about that.

Firefox used to be just better, obviously better, than what people were using before. Chrome changed that, but still Firefox was the one you could trust not to syphoon your data without your knowledge. It was about having the web not be mediated by a for-profit company that only wants you for your data.

Having competition in the browser-engine space is important, but outside of the HN crowd I don't think most FF advocates did it for that reason. If you didn't suffer IE, it doesn't seem that important.

FF lost because a) it stopped being perceived as better than the competition, b) Chrome took a lot of it's ground through attractive design and marketing, c) Chrome was perceived as better (and I'd argue it was in many respects, at least for a while), and d) Mozilla ended losing a lot of the trust of its previous advocates (with the pocket thing, the Mr Robot marketing stint...).

> Mozilla seems to ultimately draw funding from Google.

I never felt that bad about this point, but may be I was deluding myself. I trusted Mozilla to take Google money without compromising on making FF private and secure.

> t the most interesting challenger browser I'm aware of - Brave, run by ex-Mozilla people - is itself using the Blink engine

Here I agree. There can be lots of innovation in the browser space; may be not the engine, but I'm not sure we totally need it as long as the engine is OSS and there are other companies using it.

Brave does some interesting stuff, but I still would love to see more innovation in how we experience the web. The UX/UI of a browser hasn't changed in a long time.

And aren't the existing anti-cheat technologies the reason that cheats take that form?

You see no cheap aimbots and conclude the anti-cheat is not relevant anymore. May be the right conclusion is that they're working.

Not saying this justifies the kernel drivers. I don't trust my gaming computer precisely for this reason. I wonder if some form of containerization/virtual machine could make it possible to both allow for this kind of kernel-level anti-cheat without exposing my whole system to untrusted code.

Unaffected? I don't think so.

Oulu proves that temperature is a surmountable obstacle. I think the parent comment was right in that biking is very difficult to sell when those circumstances aren't right, even though some cities might overcome anything with sufficient bike culture and good infrastructure.

Well, yes, of course it does.

I'm willing to limit what apps I use and carefully consider what I install. I'm not yet willing to abandon my smartphone.

Choosing the lesser of N evils is a pretty common and often rational choice, in life and in engineering. May be not in this case, and it's good to be unsatisfied, but disregarding the debate just because neither option is great makes no sense.

Did we do that? Where are my infinite dollars then? My bank only shows a few thousand.

Care to elaborate?

Not old enough to verify anything either, but I'm really curious about why you think this.

My impression is that the smart kids from a few blocks would go to Nasa, and those are the ones we remember. Many smart kids had no access to higher education, or were lawyers and doctors (which is absolutely fantastic).

When I recently watched For All Mankind I wasn't thinking "people did cooler shit then". I was thinking "that particular shit was really cool, overall most people then and there were worse off, including most smart people".

May be it has to do with me being spanish and our specific culture, but Im pretty sure there were plenty of geniuses doing bullshit or evil back then. Why do you think otherwise?

I've been wanting to test this for a long time, but every time I research this I find that the Occulus seems like the best option, but I can't stand the FB account requirement, and I wouldn't feel comfortable with that.

What alternative would you guys recommend? Would the experience be significantly worse if I tried to do this with an Index, for instance?

> Electric car fires are no big deal anymore.

> Easy solution: Put them in a tub full of water for at least 24 hours

How is this not a big deal? This forces firefighters, which sometimes are small departments without a lot of resources, to transport the cars. It's a nuissance if it's 1 car, but a parking lot caching fire would be an absolute nightmare.

If a car catches fire in a narrow street in the middle of a city, and it jumps to just a few more cars, you may have a massive issue.

It's great that you guys have adapted to this, and I'm sure we will learn how to make battery powered cars safer. This is the early-ish stages of a new technology, which are always rocky times... but it is still a big deal which shows how early it still is, which would be fine if we didn't need to stop using gas ASAP.

PD: I tried not to sound snarky but I may have failed. I intended no snark. I'm actually asking, how can this not be a big deal? Because it sounds like a big deal to me.

To clarify, Pessoa did write also in English and French. His poems in English are not translations, he did write in those languages.

If I'm not mistaken, his famous "Give me some more wine, because life is nothing"[1] was originally written in english.

[1] https://disquietthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/11/there-are-dise...

(Not an expert, I just happen to have read a fair bit about the topic, grain of salt highly recommended)

Cities. Very deadly pandemics generally come from diseases that jump from another species to humans.

It is not advantageous for a virus to have a very high lethality, for any parasite there is no advantage in killing large numbers of your host. It's the diseases that are kind of new to the host that can be more lethal.

This jump of a disease from one species to another happens more easily when there is a lot of close contact between them. Large cities where humans lived with animals, and in not-very sanitary conditions, were a perfect ground for this.

In America cities appear to be less dense, and animal husbandry was way less extended (AFAIK, llamas and alpacas are the only animals domesticated in America).

I understood it as a contrast with the wider tech world, where most people, and specially most people leading, are white males.

I feel like us (hyper connected city dwellers, constantly chasing personal growth or success or novelty) are the deluded ones.

Why do you say he seems deluded to you?

Would you mind sharing other interesting examples of projects in this vein? Thanks!

I'd guess this was always true, but to a lesser extent. Movies today are super expensive, and at least the movies discussed here are considered failures if they don't reach a huge ammount of people.

The risk was still there before, but may be not to this extent.

As others said, I think you're being selective. The article focuses on mainstream action movies.

The boys has had great success but still has orders of mangnitude less cultural impact than the MCU for instance. It's actually making, to some extent, the same point the article is making: super hero movies are bland and childish.

I didn't even know what Orville is, sounds interesting.

I'd say the _slice of current cinematic culture_ selected by the article is broad and impactful, and represents fairly well an important part of the whole. It's not the whole story, and you're right in pointing that out, but I don't agree that that invalidates the article.

An app that does nothing passed review? I hope this doesn't happen often, and that the processes are reviewed. May be reviewers have too much work to do and just click OK sometimes to move on?

Also, I understand that the App store has a million apps, and they can't be super thorough with all of them.

What I don't understand is how an app that is actually getting a lot of downloads and reviews, and that charges a huge ammount of money, and that is promoted very up in search, doesn't make it to the top of the "let's really review this" priority list.

My 2 cents:

I've read some books on evolution, many about philosophy and religion, and I find it all fascinating, but I didn't completely escape that feeling that it's not enough...

But, instead of saying "these explanations aren't satisfying, there must be a god behind these misteries", my position is "these beautiful explanations aren't completely satisfying, I'm left with some uncomfortable questions, and that's just part of being a human being".

I've been a devout catholic, I've been a kinda-skeptical non-denominational christian, I've been a staunch atheist and a buddhist-leaning agnostic... and I've never felt that I could find perfect answers. Some uncomfortable questioning will always be there, and it's better to try to make your peace with it before trying to solve it.

Trying to solve it is also fine, but not the complete answer.

> It's such a silly “thought experiment”.

> The simple answer is that “identity” is pseudoscience and does not exist; it's a man-made delusion created by the human mind to simplify reality and deal with it more easily.

I agree, identity doesn't exist really, not in the physical, natural sense of existence...

Which is what the "silly thought experiment" is pointing at. He wouldn't have taken it that far, but the philosopher was trying to make a point in that direction.

Just because you reached such a level of enlightenment without silly thought experiments is no reason to be dismissive of the ladder that takes others to enlightenment. /s