jmcdiesel

No to mention your mobile data wouldn't be going through the device?

Getting the URL of every site a person visits is quite a data mine... not something I'd personally be up for paying for. I have to give AT&T Gigafiber extra money to not track my stuff...

Without trying to be insulting, I think everyone is getting a little too greedy lately with the information they want sent into their "cloud".

I didn't mind it, but I wont miss it either. I usually end up typing my whole search as a matter of "my brain sent these words to my fingers and my fingers are going to type until they are done" kinda thing anyway, so it was a wasted feature

It was good for the time. So were java applets... but, as they say, to everything there is a season, and the sun is season is changing in the web media space..

A good bit. Payday loans aren't something anyone wants to do, ever. They are predatory, they know people only turn to them at the last resort (ie, cant feed your kids) so they can charge whatever they want.

The justice comes in the fact that they lose a shit ton of money, because of how sleazy they are, the important credit companies (Equifax, Transunion, etc) wont work with them, so if you don't pay them back, your only loss is not being able to get more payday loans... (there is a specific payday loan/pawn shop loan credit bureau).

So, dont give people shit if they have to take a payday loan, i've been there... i've had to, when i got laid off and went 2 months without income and borrowed from about every family member I could... i basically asked my prior manager to lie and say i still worked there so i could get a loan to feed my family. I'd never walk into one of those places if I werent in dire straits...

Facebook didn't make the area expensive. No tech company did. Those local businesses, and the chains alike, have made it expensive. So much blame gets put on the tech companies, but the tech companies aren't raising the prices, they are just paying people better, and the local businesses abuse that to the fullest extent. There is no NEED to charge $6 for a gallon of milk, when milk from those same cows is sold for $2 50 miles away... thats not a SV valley tech company problem, its a SV valley retailer problem, and the blame needs to shift that way...

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Have you tried it? Its actually quite nice. You don't have like it yourself, but you don't need to declare it bad for everyone else

Blame in the juvenile sense is useless.

Blame in the sense of figuring out who is the person responsible for the offense is very important. If you don't know within who lies the responsibility, you don't know how to fix it.

IF the problem is littering, you fine littering people more. IF the problem is trampling flora, then rope off areas or add signage to prevent walking in certain areas and ENFORCE those rules...

Thats a bad argument... There are plenty of places that rules in place to prevent "homeless tent encampments" from being a thing. The same laws that prevent you from camping in city parks. Thats a bad example...

Staying past park hours for the most part is dumb... as far as being a big deal, its not. People walking around trying to play a game after hours is no something that needs policing in the first place...

Is the game responsible for people littering? Or tramping grass (seriously, its grass... lets get over ourselves) or flowers... Is the game responsible for that, or are the people who do the wrong thing responsible? This points at the overall shifting of blame for everything that is becoming so common in our culture... put the blame on the person who does the wrong thing.

Or... we place the blame on being in bad places where the blame belongs.

If I throw $10,000 over the white house fence and you jump the fence to get to it, its still YOUR problem and YOU are the one at fault for being where you arent supposed to be.

Place the blame on the people who disregard the rules, the game isnt responsible because it placed something there.

This would be like... "Hey, you shot a deer in the middle of the street downtown during deer season, i guess its not your fault that you were hunting deer in the middle of the street, there was a deer here afterall..."

Funny how for the longest time now, cities and counties take more and more money from public parks citing their underuse... then when they get used, they cry out legally to stop the use.

Part of the costs of a park is cleaning up after people, its already in the budget. So is the landscaping. So is the coverage for wear and tear in general.

Its also funny to see the difference. National Park Service embraces Pokemon Go and enjoyed the increased park traffic. Austin embraced it and stores all over downtown and even government buildings had specials for Pokemon GO'ers (some public art museums here gave like 50% off admission if you were Pokemon hunting)

And the fact that so many normally sedentary people were getting up and going out and doing shit and getting exercise .. and people still went out of their way to be dicks about it... I don't get it.

Aside from Niantic's handling of the game, its PR and its issues, the pokemon GO craze was probably one of the most positive, healthy things to go viral in a very long time in the US...

The fact that so many of the comments here are focused on running and its pros/cons and not on the actual point of the article (self control) ... its kinda strange for HN to completely miss the point by such a big margin...

"I block HTML and your site doesnt load for me, defective site!"

I know JS isnt HTML, but at this point, it basically is. Complaining that a site is broken because you choose to break it is just astounding.

I dont think its unfair at all. If uber profits from the trip, they should be ensuring the safety of the trip and passengers, end of story. If uber were a non-profit that simply matched drivers to riders, it would be different, but they are making profit... that makes it a little more on them to handle stuff like this.

If a contractor for a public utility like a phone company comes in your house on a repair call for said phone company and pisses all over your couch and takes a dump in your fish tank, do you think that the phone company has no liability for setting up the whole thing and sending someone like that into your house?

> You are blaming unethical people for profiting from a flawed system. I would say fixing the system is a easier problem, then fixing humanity as a whole.

Find me a system that isnt flawed...

I think the fact that said labor is profited from by private companies changes the dynamic, though...

Can smart police be smart if they enforce ignorant and unjust laws?

Valve seems to have a slow pace for a reason...

With games, you seem to have two choices...

Do you want a game now, or a genre defining masterpiece that maintains playability for a decade later?

They also don't sell your car to another person...

Its not quite analogous

I know the comment trend here is bashing the author... but i gotta step out of that to say... holy hell... i feel dumb. Never knew temple of the dog was Vedder and Cornell ... and i've always loved that song.. not so much lyrically, but the overall sound..

No, that kind of logic is a strawman...

You earn your effort. You _EARN_ your wage. If you work less, if you put in less effort, if you give less... you get less in return. Its balance. Its equilibrium... without it, with more people taking more than they are giving out, you end up with bad. Bad all around... giving more to people who put in less effort solves nothing

Its not disdain... its a recognition of effort. Most of us with 100k+ jobs, have put in the time, went to school, gained experience... etc...

The last time I worked minimum wage I was 16... because I decided pretty quick i wanted to do better than minimum wage...

Nobody is forced to work a minimum wage job... it might be hard, but it can be worked out of... but there its difficult so most dont even attempt it

So the people that lose their jobs because of this suddenly need less subsidizing? Its become expected now... with min wage hikes, that businesses are turning to automation and cutting jobs... thats becoming the norm. Those people who now lost their jobs, you feel, are less of a burden?

Yet a safe alternative in many cases (not all) is still illegal federally and in many states... while we continue to allow pharma to roll in money made from products knows to have horrible side effects...

When you can explain to me why you SHOULD be able to make a full living wage putting books on a shelf, or pouring coffee, or putting hamburgers in a bag, you can claim it as a terrible salary.

Western Union at least requires ID to recieve money, and you have to go into a location to do so (you cant claim it online) ... so you will be on camera...

Checks and money orders have to be cashed...

Im not ranting against anything, just a curiosity...

Is this a point to the downside of bitcoin? Im not against it at all still, but this does prove it to be a viable method of payment for shady business that can't reasonably be tracked... without bitcoin (or other crytocurrency), what methods would be in place to collect this money that wouldnt be easily tracked?

only if you stop smoking? :)

I would think the leaders of said countries would count as those specific people...