junaru

> Do yourself a favor and avoid Euro motorcycles.

I was considering triumph as my first bike but after reading this its a hard pass.

To your knowledge are there any brands known for being DIY friendly on current models (read being able to provide/sell offline service manuals)?

How is it highly contrived? Its generic household chores, who does them for you?

> Are you suggesting they're a reasonable justification for a $14K annual public subsidy per household (TFA)?

Yes, i would take those numbers with a grain of salt but yes. If you remove roads and cars neither the goods nor people you hire will get to you.

At that point you are left with just leaving for somewhere else and starting the whole 'defund public infrastructure we rely on' campaign all over again - it's shortsighted at best and borderline malicious.

Congrats on big family! How do you manage home improvement without car? I always run out of some small stuff during the weekends so its either 30minute turnaround by car or an hour and thirty by public transport and that's usually near the closing hours so its either car, or no one has running water for the day because some kitchen appliance has no valve and the connector hose is leaking.

That's not true, how many kids take the bus to daycare?

Also, number of kids and population count of your town please.

Number of kids and population count of your town please.

Thank you.

> I certainly see families on subways / bikes.

So metropolitan area. Do you think its by choice or necessity? The way i see it no one would take their sick kid to the doctors by subway/bike if they had a access to a car.

> will provoke such rage as you wouldn't believe from otherwise seemingly sane people.

That's human, we all participate in recreational outrage when it suits us be it drivers or those who oppose them. Sorry to hear about that crossing and hope your kids will be fine.

Question for those thinking car infrastructure costs too much etc:

How many kids do you have?

The way i see it all arguments for reducing reliance on cars comes from people in metropolitan areas enjoying single life and not planning for a family.

Giving the way my generation is with money the hostility most likely comes not from ideological reasons but simply because we are unable to afford them altogether thus it's being masked as some honorable cause instead of petty spite.

> when you bring this up you get attacked

Good, ignorance should not be rewarded. Start by googling COMETA report, Rendlesham, Ariel or the flavour of the month - Varginha.

Those boards alone cost half a MiSTer.

The studios will bleed money from yearly superhero movie sales and WGA will starve because they long forgot how to write anything unique. Meanwhile talk show hosts will blabber and laugh at their own jokes to fill in the time just like they did during the 2008 strike.

General public once again will realize just how unimaginative and unfunny political commentators actually are without scripts and how much of the insight is actually meticulously crafted.

Its 2008 all over again, and its a good thing.

How is this Microsoft fault? Google presumably made their browser go around the usual interface for changing default browser( via some sneaky api manipulation?). Microsoft patched it to require more than a single click.

The only reason Edge or whatever Microsoft is pushing these days didn't trigger the issue is because their browser didn't make the API call on every new window event and not because of some sinister plan to increase their market share.

Back in the day trying to do things as silently as possible was reserved for malware.

Pretty sure everyone is entitled to severance package regardless if you sign something or not.

In this case, one would suspect, they got either regular deal without gag order or a better one with one.

Now they don't want to follow on their part of the deal.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

> Otherwise the tip left on the card goes to the business.

Good, and the business should compensate the waiters like in rest of the developed world.

Once people stop tipping waiters will quit and businesses will be force to either pay them like regular staff or move to self service.

Wish rest of the world did same for FANG.

Blue checkmarks were never neither interesting nor part of any culture.

Well if i understand correctly those are the people that got denied service in the first place. So since having a truly neutral payment processor is not an option having an alternative at the opposite side only brings more 'freedom' to the market.

> YouTube Vanced

I get why they want to stay anonymous but that website is no different from any other malware site - no source, no authors just some affiliate links. Putting your google credentials in an app like that is not something people should be comfortable with.

> power button between backspace and delete

How layouts like this reach the light of day totally escapes me.

Yes, since it was named Phoenix. Id pay $50 every five years or so for a new version. But for that five years they only introduce bugfixes and introduce zero UI changes.

This, last time i encountered it even windows 10 didn't display them and wanted me to buy a decoder from windows store. This was probably due to licensing fees. This story shows what happens when you 'think different' from established standards.

I would be happy if i got 2mb GIFs these days. You click on something that ends with gif or mp4 and you get half a megabyte of tracking javascript instead of the file you expected.

Why is JPEG the de facto lossy compression format for photos? It always bugs me that video formats get something new every 5 or so years yet photos are in JPEGs for decades.

> blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram

And no one in marketing said anything about naming your platform and curency after units of mass. How come no one raised the SEO issue?

> I know exactly how convincing I was, but I was never called out enough during the meeting to out me.

I'm the technical guy on the other side of the table. We don't call people out of politeness - just smirk and enjoy the ride. After the meeting we talk freely to people in charge and destroy all your hopes of sale.

Not sure if the title is ironic or actual clickbait.

Archive.is is not privacy friendly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

We are loosing more due to Google every year than we ever did with Microsoft.

Doesn't work if they use any transactional mail service.

Why is this press release getting massively upvoted?

> If you run computing hardware at its thermal capacity for long periods of time, this will cause more wear on the parts than if they are run well inside their limits.

How true is this actually? Personal anecdote is an I5-2500K overclocked to 4.6ghz with budget aftermarket cooler (its at 4.6ghz constantly regardless of load). It's been running 24/7 in my desktop since 2011.

When will it fail? I see these disclaimers all the time and they sound logical, but does anyone have some numbers on these fail rates under these 'prolonged extreme loads'?