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I love the concept; who wouldn't really. You wonder what the actual consequences will be though when it's a broad market policy decision.

For example can you count that as income for a mortgage; if so then house prices will rise and all that will happen is the government will have given up more money for the private sector to use versus the government to use for public services.

Another thought, but related is can someone lose their right to that income? Can you hit me with your car and if I win do you lose a percentage of your financial means that's calculated with that income too?

What I'm trying to say is that the income must be a protected source that can't be used by any financial institution or instrument but to spend as cash. At least off the top of my head this is something I think that makes some sense.

A sideshow win would be the millions/billions saved from administratoring welfare and other subsistence incomes. That's definitely no small win.

In my mobile device it's just irritating how much padding he has. It's basically 3 words at a time. I'd need a phablet to get through this piece even though it's enjoyable righting.

Simple but big issue I have is getting solutions that suit the platform. Often when I'm looking for help on something it gives me the on-prem solution. Docs on your website are confusing for this reason and that's why I stopped using. Takes me 30 seconds to solve a problem on GH and 5min to solve the same problem on GL. Clean that up so when devs try out the platform it's slick and easy to buy into not annoying and difficult.

I agree with that. Cops that get into their career because they believe in Justice will follow the letters of the law. Only as they gain experience to they see the big picture and become the best kind of cop. Someone that uses good judgement

I got your point Tom and I agree with you 100% that owning your address is just the first big step.

I'm like you a self taught for the most part and I find algos boring to learn alone as well. They aren exactly head turners, but still in a group would be nice.

Also I was thinking the same thing about the UI. I hope there is an answer somewhere. It's very Balsamiq looking and I love that!

Nothing can be done.

It's a wildly asymmetrical relationship that means 9 billion people get a try to knock you out and your team of what??? 25, 50, 100, 1000? Security specialists have to see everything possible and plan for any and all possibilities.

It's never going to happen.

This is the simple reality of the internet and I'm sure you know this, but I saw your comment and thought I'd add this for the next person who may not realize this.

I'm personally curious to know, because I'm no SecOps; if there is even a theoretical solution to the internet that would have greater integrity for the users or if this is as good as it gets.

It's why I'm on digital ocean. Cheap, but good quality service that's comparable to the big boys and it's capped. $5/month is perfect for me

Probably drivers from the local transit union. I've seen/read about (union) activists doing some crazy things and it wouldn't surprise me that someone or some people would try to show with their life that this is a bad idea and therefore shouldn't replace a human driven system.

I don't believe you read the article, because if you had I believe you would have noticed that they nearly all but dismissed this as climate change related. Scientists did that not, HN commentors.

You are shifting the purpose of the article from informative news to something that suits your agrnda; via shaming I might add, very weak style of argument to make in this group I imagine.

Why do you say that? Remote is remote, is I'm hiring remote, why would I care if the person is in Spain, Portugal or anywhere else? I'm sure you have context behind your comment and it would be great if you shared it.

I love this stuff. Coolest science to learn and read about. Thank you for sharing it!

That's like my favorite comedy, but few people know their history well enough to laugh at the jokes anymore :(

I'm willing to bet GH is being mirrored internally as you suggest otherwise you'd be exposing the only current digital copy to hackers. That just seems a reasonable expectation to me.

So the activity is likely happening on the larger and more exposed GH service, while internally there is a daily copy bring backed up that isn't (as) exposed to hackers.

Something life that would be a great way to displace risk.

In Germany I think it's different. If you cross when you aren't allowed the car has the right of way. I have actually no idea why this isn't the case in Canada. Seems pretty reasonable; light shows 'walk' symbol and you cross knowing you are in the right of way, but the hand stops flashing and if a car hits you then your dead and wrong. Seems a really reliable system that will safely predict outcomes consistent with obliging behavior.

To be honest, I walk quite often and yet I'm absolutely against pedestrian rights as they are today and I believe it's totally impractical and against any common sense having the laws in favour of pedestrians as they are now, nor do I believe it makes roads safer for anyone. In fact if you apply human psychology/behavior inclusive of a person's ability to focus on multiple obstructions, notifications, etc, I'd be willing to bet that drivers are by far overwhelmed in modern cities and that it's reckless disregard for public safety that pedestrians are given absolutely no accountability for their actions beyond dead right or right.

Happy to connect anytime and share. I'm on most platforms with this handle.

So I'm a Firefox user. Went back for reasons everyone here already knows; lots of privacy issues. I use a VPN too.

Anyway I switched to Firefox on my computers and mobile system. I use that VPN to try limit Google's tracking of me and I use duckduckgo for the same reason.

Long story short I just switched back to chrome on my Android, because Firefox has kinda stopped working. I used to be able to keep 100 tabs open, not I can't even keep 1 open in the background. When I go back it just forgets what it was and won't refresh. I click refresh and it shows it's refreshing, but then nothing happens.

Nothing I can do. I'm reading some or I see a great article and I open it right away in a FF tab for later. I go back it doesn't load. Then I can't reset/restart it, because it won't die and then it stops syncing, etc.

It's really really bad. Sadly this wasn't the case when I decided to switch about 8 months back, this is only in the last 60 days.

I'll keep using Firefox for now on my desktop, but honestly I really rely on profiles and sync across profiles, which is a pain to get around on FF as it is, but now it's a big burden I can't really see my way around.

Too bad, but honestly I need a reliable tool more than I need privacy at this stage.

The best part about this moment right now is if TSLA immediately starts looking into restructuring their debt while interest rates haven't taken off and while everyone is excited again about TSLA's future. Seems to me this would be a savvy time to milk the market and roll over all their non-optimal debt.

I think you are oversimplifying.

'Tech' as a commonly applied label typically involves widgets and software. Not large manufacturing and supply chains that involves world trade, weather, regionalism, human resources in the hundreds of thousands and years of planning to work with many similarly configured partners.

Tesla for all it's glory isn't the greatest endorsement for Tech as some (not necessarily you) like to claim and I like Tesla.

Everyone that says car companies don't move fast seems to be picking and choosing the facts that suit their own bias towards 'traditional' industries.

Car companies only look slow on the outside, but they really aren't when you look at the totality of their products scope.

For example car companies go through millions of dollars in just testing alone with nearly every country operating their own testing center. They need to be weather tested in so many different environments, they need to meet regulatory hurdles that are different from state to state to State. It's just massive what goes into what they need to do just to get the right to sell their product in a region or country.

Yet they do all this with significant upgrades to models that are now coming nearly every 3 years. I remember when it went from 10 years to 5 years. Wow!

I remember when the assembly got so complicated that cars were squeaking due to the materials rubbing against each other. So in comes material science guys trying to get that sorted in all weather conditions.

I think Waymo is far more likely to be in the sidelines than people think, but we'll see; I could be wrong.

This article was clearly written by someone who hasn't taken their head out of the sand for at least 1, maybe 2 years.

Maybe I'm wrong, but a great deal of what he/she says doesn't seem to chime as current. Like the issues with mobile apps, no offline capabilities, etc. That's all old news. Over 85% of people have modern browsers that support a modern web that allows for offline capabilities and more.

I currently use Dev.to as an app on my phone (headless Firefox for those curious) and I love it way more than having to choose an app.

In fact it's my most popular 'app' now. On a personal note I definitely prefer mobile web apps over sharing access to my private information for a marginal UI gain.

Fair enough.

Moving forward with my assertion and based on what others are saying about the Apple testing practices; I'm guessing that this was something that Apple should have caught in their testing, which if true would go towards proving culpability.

Negligence would then be the argument I'm guessing and then liability would follow.

I understand from many other situations it's arguable about whether the company could have foreseen the issue.

Typical breaches like the Dropbox breach which passwords were still hashed and therefore the request to reset the password was proactive. That's an acceptable breach to me and is bound to happen, but negligence such as Apple's or in the case of BA (British Airlines) breaking with known and valid credit card processes should result in conseuqences up to the criminal level depending on the situation.

BA link: “So, about that BA hack …” https://medium.com/the-automator/so-about-that-ba-hack-a82e5...

This is a huge lawsuit. Apple clearly states in the press and in advertising that the app store is the only way to get apps that are assured to be safe.

I can't imagine it'll take long before there are many and massive class action lawsuits over this incident. The legal bill will be massive.

I can't wait to see how many precedents get created over the total fallout from this event. Should be interesting.

I don't think that's a reasonable comment. Any business first needs to address a marketplace that's enough to sustain itself and assure it's future existence. Beer chased men because more men drank, then when more woman started to drink it they started advertising to it.

While that's perhaps a different example due to one group not being actually excluded from something it shows how business behaves. Then you consider the risk of staying a startup to your future, your retirement, the funders cash/investment and honestly I'd you spent a dime on accessibility at this stage it would be reckless behavior.

Now having said that, once a product mix and the positive trajectory path has been established, then I don't think it's reasonable to delay, not even to say 'wait until we are profitable', because at that point you need to start addressing access to everyone equally as part of your business and if your business cannot sustain itself being inclusive then it's best to establish that earlier than later IMO.

Ps. I'm in no way poo pooing your point about the needing to be more training around accessibility, because ultimately that's part of the meat and potatoes of bring a dev. Like knowing SQL, JS, etc. All part of the basic skills we all need to survive most days at work. And accessibility is in the group. I'm only saying that a startup needs to first determine demand for it's product with the largest addressable group in it's core target audience, then branching out should immediately include accessibility IMO.

I'll do my best to relate what my wife tells me and you guys can dissect from there.

The situation for the populism send simple. I've listened and asked many questions and from what I've heard from her parents as well is this:

1. Chavez gained power as a populist movement for to the fact that whole the poor may get medical services and basic education they didn't appear to have any chance to participate in further education. This kept them poor. Born poor and then you stay poor. 2. Second big thing is that labour made very little money. If you were lucky enough to get a job in the oil industry maybe you could get enough to lead your family out of poverty, but even then it's only marginally possible.

Noteworthy definition of poor here is like shanty town type poor. Not like Canada type poor where your kids have 100% the same access to university as the rich kids.

This set the stage for the populism. Apparently her father used to drive his employees during voting day and encourage them to vote. So he'd hear what they were thinking and so on along the way. Chavez was definitely their guy, but in the beginning even middle class people were divided about whether he would be bad due their concerns about corruption. I guess the hope was that he'd remove it decrease corruption and that would be a win for everyone.

Where we are today is actually very much different than what any geopolitical conspiracy theorist boosting for the US client state story would have wanted. Currently China is taking control over the country, they are treating it more and more like a client state. It's basically criminal what's happening with oil for money deals being agreed that undervalue the oil immensely. China then imports their workers to work on the extraction of the oil further decreasing the value to the country. It's a horrific downward cycle that is putting them into China's hands not the US, so if the US were to have been involved then it's really backfired on them.

Where are we today on the ground? 1. Imagine waiting all day to walk into a grocery store and find you can't get tooth paste it the only thing you can buy for breakfast is fruit loops? On Instagram there are hundreds of photos of nearly empty grocery stores. These are not exaggerations. We get those pictures from her family directly.

2. ALL (and it's just about meant literally) educated people under the age of 40 have left. I'd say better that 50% of those in their 40-50s are also gone now or trying desperately to leave. This has compounded problems further because universities don't have the staff to train the next generation. They don't have engineers to run or manage the industry. They don't have entrepreneurs or businessmen to run basic stuff from cafes to car dealerships.

3. Medicine is so scarce she has lost already one family member due to a medical condition that was treatable. I don't recall (honestly) what it was but I'm not going to ask her to tell me for HN. Right now she has one Uncle struggling with a minor heart condition, but he can't get the medicine that would allow him to live happily and heathy in a country life Canada. Another Aunt is going to lose a chunk of her foot; the debate currently is how much they will amputate. I shit you not. This is also due to the fact that her diabetes is unmanageable without medicine.

What's happening today in Venezuela Is probably one of the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis's in the world today. It was self-inflicted initially, but now people are dying daily for no good reason, dogs and babies are being left in the street to die and diseases that shouldn't be tolerated are coming back. I won't mention the one she said she heard, because I don't want to be a fear monger without facts, but the shit is crazy.

It's too the point where we (Western societies) should do what we do when things get too crazy and with the support of Latin America we need to bring in relief with a plan together with region partners in how to reconstitute the nation. Anything less is basically uncivilized at this point IMO.

I can totally agree with that. At the end of the day if a patriot is a guy standing between you and your leader and taking a bullet or on a field of battle losing a limb or pulling what Snowden did it's all a risk you take for participating in that level of game. It just is what it is and fairness doesn't enter into the equation.

Thank you for dismissing my concerns; I'm probably just a nut job that clearly doesn't know anything about products or positioning.

I guess the issue is that there isn't anything. That's the core of the issue. We don't have an alternative or we'd all be gone already. I'm certain that when we find a solution it'll be front page news.

I can't give up that much screen real estate. I need the 13.3" screen that I get. It's the absolute minimum and I shouldn't need to buy a Pro to get a 13" screen; that's not reasonable.

A Macbook is a 12" screen versus a 13.3" screen, so this not even a reasonable comparison.

Couldn't agree more.

From this conversation one thought has occurred to me; what would a new Air in the current context look like and it gave me chills.

Can you imagine a single port Air? Or the removal of it's triangular shape that makes typing long hours on it totally doable versus other chassis designs? I'm just horrified when I imagine the loss of the magnetic power port; which has literally saved me thousands of dollars due to it not being an effective trip wire.