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I meant that he built the business out of attaching sandy hook parents and similar actions. I think that's the obvious reading for anyone who knows anything about Jones.

I sure could have been clearer. But what exactly are you saying? That he didn't build his business this way? Or are you just trying to attack the words I used.

What are you hoping to accomplish by parsing my words technically?

>> Whatever you think about Jones, it doesn't do anyone any good to portray the Sandy Hook case as being about other things.

What do you mean? My whole point is that Sandy Hook is not different from what Jones did every single day, and you don't seem willing to disagree with me. You just seem to want to parse my words.

Why? What exactly is your point here? Why are you arguing this specific turn of phrase? Unless you think that Alex Jones is a voice you want to hear and protect. Why don't you just say that?

The poster suggested that Jones actions on Sandy Hook were an outlier. One 'bad' action. They were not. He built his business on Sandy Hook and similar actions, and that's clearly what my original post intended and I stand by it.

I think it's intellectually dishonest to suggest Jones faced consequences because of one bad action. I have stronger words for it honestly but I'm trying to stick to the rules of this forum.

This whole thread only shows me it's time for me to leave HN. You're welcome to it.

That is exactly what he built his business on - attacking people with bald face lies and using the generated outrage to sell snake oil.

This answer is the only intuitive one for me, thanks.

My parents transferred an old car to my older brother and insured me and him on it and signed something saying we were not permitted to drive the other cars.

Not sure if that is permitted/possible everywhere, but the problem is if the parents drive nice cars the insurer presumes the kids will also drive them (and crash them).

You can desire the police cooperate with the hostage takers, without taking the side of the hostage takers.

The proof is in the pudding - the police ended the hostage taking with no lives lost. To after the fact continue to take the side of the hostage takers is pretty terrible to me. All of this is Olsson's fault.

But the hostage takers are the ones who created the hostage situation, not the police. They are the ones that caused the risk to the lives of the hostages - in fact that it the whole purpose of hostage taking, to use human lives as bargaining chips.

I understand it is rational to want the police to cooperate with hostage takers if you are a hostage. But if the police successfully orchestrate a rescue, how is it rational to prefer the hostage takers to the police? One created the problem, one solved it?

I don't feel the need to pay a commission for a digital storefront. I know a lot of folks find value in app store/steam etc... but I find almost no value. At the same price, I would rather the money go to the seller of the product and I definitely don't want to pay more for a storefront.

I find the normal reasons people like digital storefronts not very compelling: safety, reviews, all in one place, etc...

I also worry about everything being in one account. If I lose my epic games account, I'm not going to worry too much. If Valve locks me out, I'm in trouble, so I would rather diversify away from Valve if I can.

I am a fan of fidelity. They have a cash management account with checking features. You can choose between a bank sweep at ~2.5% or a money market at almost 5%.

Edit: There are always non-checking accounts that do better than the above, but I think there is real value in focusing on your checking account -- if you have to move money back and forth to get good rates, is that worth the effort and what's the opportunity cost of the funds that sit in the low paying checking account.

Why do we have interoperable email but not interoperable text? Actually we do now, thanks to regulatory action forcing Apple.

>I like it. If I didn’t, I just wouldn’t buy Apple products. I’m not sure why that’s so hard for people.

Because Apple is so aggressive about lock-in that it excludes reasonable interaction between people with Apple and people without. The texting situation with pictures and videos is the most glaring example. You are not forced to purchase Apple products, except that you are.

There is a rather large difference to having plans and dealing with an actual incident. Not to bicker, but a dedicated command room sounds like a fun plan but the opposite of what was needed in the incident described in this story.

Camera's don't have to be hidden to prevent guests. It is allowed and becoming very common to have cameras at entrances and becoming common to restrict guests during the day as well as overnight.

It's just basic urban planning and zoning. You can't run a factory in your apartment and you can't run a hotel. Plenty of cities restrict where hotels can operate. This is nothing special and certainly not authoritarian. These measures are quite popular because, shocking, people in residential neighborhoods like have real neighbors rather than hotel guests.

>>The artists aren't reaping these fees

This is not true. The fees are just there to mask the cost of the ticket:

>>According to Ticketmaster, the fees are determined “in collaboration” with its clients, all of whom receive a cut from the charges.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/ho...

Taylor Swift doesn't care that "it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste"

She wants privacy, as is amply demonstrated by her actions on this topic. There is zero evidence that she cares about people monitoring her fuel use.

The article goes even further off the deep end, suggesting Swift is trying to game search engines to bury jet fuel stories, with zero evidence.

Tabloid nonsense.

The fraudsters are American so the US Government certainly has jurisdiction over their actions. Blockchain doesn't really matter to that.

I'm surprised the article makes no mention of lead.

>> Aged vinegars, favored by gourmets and sometimes costing $100 a bottle, contain more lead than the quicker brewed, less expensive kinds. For three imported varieties tested in 2002, people who eat one tablespoon per day would be exposed to seven to 10 times the maximum daily level of lead set by California.

https://www.ehn.org/special-report-some-vinegars-often-expen...

Artisanal production is very interesting and can be great, but not always.

The calculation is wrong. With daily revenue of $520.4mm, it takes less than half a day to generate revenue of $196mm.

It's also a less interesting approach than it would be by looking at profit, which is closer to the real impact.

>Epoch Times is also owned by the Falun Gong, an outlet that plays a significant part in US politics

I was aware that Epoch was owned by Falun Gong, I was unaware they play a significant part in US politics. What does that mean? I honestly never see it referenced anywhere. I have seen them in free giveaway newspaper containers pre-pandemic, but I would not view that as a sign of influence (the opposite really).

Another comment suggests the free version simply doesn't accept 10 bit input files. I use kdenlive for my limited editing and was thinking to try Davinci but that seems like a deal breaker as 10-bit is coming fast to consumer, prosumer devices.

With roughly half the number of passengers.

I don't think your experience is common, at least not post COVID.

Just this year, flying direct to Hawaii, checked a bag because of baby gear. United cancelled the flight and due to staffing, would not/could not return checked bags (so I could fly Alaska) for almost 24 hours.

The bags has not left SFO. They literally took a day to move them from the back to the front.

I only made my new flight by finding the right person who was willing to task someone to go pull my bag early.

>>It was never about the resolution of pictures and even technical limitations

Sure, to some degree, but I'm not convinced all or most of the shame is only the iphone cachet -- the quality is incredibly bad, like shockingly bad. It's unusable, particularly for videos. As those things change, I can't help but feel like the shame moderates.

But I don't have a teenager, so I don't have that perspective first hand.

Interesting thanks, I'll try that next trip.

T-mobile has free low speed data, reasonable calling/text rates and a $35 10-day 5GB pass and $50 30-day 15 GB passes. Works for me to avoid the hassle of local sims.

No international roaming (or crazy prices) is one of the big downsides of MVNOs. And no, I'm not interested in buying a local sim card. Roaming is quite affordable these days with the big three and the hassle is not worth it for me.

If you don't need that, I think trying some MVNOs make sense.

Another item is hotspot - typically MVNOs upsell that into a higher tier plan, although presumably not all of them.

That said, if aren't willing to bounce around, prepay months, etc... and are careful about buying new phones on decent promotions, I think the big three are not nearly as much more expensive as the article suggests.

EDIT: I should say, I do have to make phone calls with my existing number, and can't always use wifi or app calling, so I am more inclined to use roaming. I guess for many esim apps work well.

There is a significant difference between "stealing" artistic ideas, and impersonating individual humans.

How folks can think it's reasonable to impersonate Morgan Freeman and use his voice to sell, for example, crypto crap. It's gross and should absolutely be illegal.

No, the minisforum will be much more powerful. I think that CPU will be roughly twice as powerful and the GPU included (6600M) similarly roughly twice as powerful.

As the other commenter said, there are other handhelds, some getting better chips. But for your use case, you could also choose a small gaming pc or a laptop.

If you would get use out of a gaming laptop separate from attaching to your TV then that's pretty attractive choice because it does everything the mini PC does without that much more space.

The asset is the positive operating properties/leases.

The idea from WeWork management would be to shed the bad properties and keep the good ones and operate them as post-BK WeWork.

Creditors could say, great idea, but we want to sell that remaining business for cash rather than leave it in your hands because we don't trust you to continue to run this.