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It's similar here in Sweden. Usually they require a call to support, officially. However, I think there is a law/policy that require them to accept unsubscriptions by mail/message, regardless of what they say on their website. I recently did this and it worked! Maybe there's something similar in the UK?

Maybe I described it in a bad way. I'm talking about renegotiating the interest rate with another bank. So the original bank loan is not moved in practice, it's just paid back in full. It's law here in Sweden that the mortgage plan can't be changed (I.e. number of years etc) if you change bank, so the documents are related to this.

Sure, but it's a minimum. Also, the incentive here is aligned with what's best for the customer, i.e. they probably want to make their two step subscription process to become one step which automatically gives the user an easier process to unsubscribe.

What is silly? Your statement can be true at the same time... And just to be clear, I did not mean that it's the sole reason that people refute new ideas, I was just opening up the possibility that without mortality we might still have progress without relying on generation shifts.

Disclosure: I only read up until it was revealed what the policy was.

This was always my opinion on this. "As easy to cancel as it is to sign up". It's simple, and completely shuts down this malicious behaviour without making it harder to operate for the honest companies (or worse for customers in any way I can think of). Usually these policies have downsides but I can't really think of any.

This kind of behaviour is common among banks as well, they use their dinosaur status when it comes to things that are bad for their business, but can be very progressive on the other end of things. For example, to move loans from one bank to another you need some documents (here in Sweden at least) to be handed to the other bank. I had to first wait in the support, then ask politely to get these documents. They told me that they would snail mail them to me immediately, but after two weeks I called them again, then they said sorry and sent me a PDF instead proving that they could have done this immediately...

What if reluctance to accept new ideas later in life stems from mortality in the first place?

If anybody else wonders why a 0-ohm resistor is a thing, apparently it is because it makes it possible to install a jumper on printed circuit boards with the same equipment that is used for normal resistors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-ohm_link

If it's not a joke/excuse as another comment mentioned, it might be connected to how some people sneeze when they are exposed to sunlight. Maybe it started like that for him, and then became associated with taking the hat off enough to trigger it inside as well.

Not this game, but DOS game + reconstruction made me think about something from my childhood.

I used to get around 1h of Internet time (modem) per week. I used this to download stuff that I could use for the rest of the week.

One time I started downloading a game, but a bit too late so I never got to finish the download before my time was up. Of course the game would not work as it was only partially downloaded (IIRC it was a zip file, but not 100% sure). There was some message from Windows telling me that there was something wrong with the exe. But I continued trying to open the game over and over again (maybe fiddled with the properties?) and one day it magically started, ran for a while and then crashed. It was possible to restart it, but it would crash at the same point every time.

It's still a mystery how it was possible, I guess it only had "content" left and the exe itself was fine, but that doesn't really explain why Windows initially refused to start it.

I had a summer job once, filling trains with sugar. They weighed about 15kkg per wagon (usually 5-10 wagons per train IIRC).

One time the pulling cart broke down and we had to switch it for another, but when we took it off the rails we forgot about the "shoe" that is supposed to go between the rail and one of the wheels so it can't move downhill (it was like 1degree of slope so barely recognizable as a slope).

It started moving extremely slowly, and all of us except one tried to hold back the force of the train, which of course was imossible and dangerous. The one who did not try to push it very quickly found the "shoe" and put in place. Initially it did not seem to help at all, the train just continued moving at the same pace, tearing up asphalt with the shoe. It finally came to a stop after about 3-5m(?) which takes a fair bit of time with such low speed, and felt like forever given the situation.

The train tracks headed out into an open road, so it could have been so much worse if it were not for the only person thinking clearly in the situation (he was one of the more experienced in our group).

Do you know they don't? Otherwise I would assume they have dumb incentives like that. In my previous company the legal team measured the number of "takedowns" of countefeit merch etc. as a key number. I assume this helped to hurt their effort to prevent counterfeit in the first place.

Maybe I'm stupid, but does he mean that as long as the task at hand is solved it doesn't matter how we categorize it. In the submarine case it would be "move through water", for example. Or is it deeper than that?

Or "Ultimately, ..."

All of the videos I have been watching from MentourPilot are about specific events/crashes.

I grew up in Scania and Ven is a very common day trip in the summer. Glad to see it mentioned on HN!

No, I don't work more because of the layoff waves. As a recent father with scars from a close-to-burnout situation, I value work-life balance more than anything else. So far, I'm not using AI much, mostly because I lack the routine to use it, but I'm not opposed to using it if/when it can help me.

> 370mg of sodium vs 90mg of sodium.

While I agree with your comment, this is very misleading unless you eat your steak raw and unsalted.