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That's why marketing works. If they called it a micro-oven, it would be too similar in consumers' minds to appliances they already own.

> It’s really a badly marketed product.

I think the marketing is really smart.

It's positioned as a new category of product. Oven on steroids won't sell because people already own ovens. It has to be a distinct appliance otherwise it's competing against a full sized oven. That's not the comparison you want a consumer to make.

I disagree. They both have the potential to cause serious harm in different ways.

Candy is more destructive physically. It's everywhere. No one parent has the power to stop it, so it makes sense for the state to do so.

Obesity is a problem too - no chocolate without ID /s

The state can't be a substitute for good parenting.

Semaglutide is available on the NHS but I wouldn't currently qualify. It'd only be prescribed if I met certain criteria such as having type 2 diabetes.

It's a case of either paying for a private prescription now, or waiting until it's made more accessible on the NHS.

I did a little bit of research and for people in the UK it appears to be substantially less. I found a few health companies offering it for <$250/mo. I’ll probably wait until it’s readily available on the NHS but it is tempting.

I wonder how widespread the phenomenon is. I'm based in the UK and those are my thoughts exactly.

Convenience.

I want to use the built in apps for Netflix, YouTube, etc.

LG gave me the option of being tracked. I declined. That’s the only thing that should matter.

Yeah, that'd be my guess too. Either that or an update.

Regardless it's convenient that it forgets my tracking preferences, defaults to the most permissive options possible, and doesn't forget all my other settings.

LG enabled tracking without my consent.

I have an LG C8 OLED. I wanted the convenience of a smart TV without being tracked so I carefully went through every setting and turned it all off. I followed an article detailing what all the tracking settings were, how to disable them, etc.

I deliberately disabled all tracking options years ago.

Imagine my surprise a couple of weeks back when I looked in the settings. All of it was magically enabled again. Personalised ads, screen recognition, you name it, all switched on. How long for is anyones guess.

My trust for smart TVs is at an all time low.

40 hours of total work. Not 40h of your best work, 40h of output.

If that lands you in the bottom 15%, I’d start looking for other opportunities.

I’ve been in your shoes. We had time tracking and for me to consistently log 40h of actual work in a week, I’d have to sit in front of my computer from morning to night. Even weekends sometimes to catch up on what I’d missed.

What a fool I was.

I did that for years for mediocre pay (although I couldn’t see it at the time) to the detriment of everything else around me.

It wasn’t worth it. Now I couldn’t care less. The whole “quiet quitting” phenomenon resonates deeply with me.

That’s minimum wage in most countries. Tech salaries are lower in Europe than the US but that has to be exaggeration. Either that or you’re looking in the wrong places.

That's not the way I read it.

Like you said, they must have agreed a per unit price. The mistake had to have been purely in volume.

When they recognised the mixup with cases / bags, they wouldn't have pushed to deliver the actual expected volume had the unit pricing been a problem.

It’s hard for people to engage in pile-ons for their own amusement and maintain that they’re a good person if they spend too much time dwelling on the lives of the people they’re ruining.

That trivialises the destruction of peoples’ lives.

It’s that sort of thought pattern that allows the mob to justify its behaviour.

Getting “cancelled” causes real world harm. Imagine losing your job, being too toxic to find work elsewhere, being unable to pay your mortgage, being unable to keep a roof over your family’s head.

No, that’s highly unusual. Maybe people know a handful of greetings / numbers in other languages but I think you’re vastly overestimating the number of people capable of speaking more than one language.

I think the other problem is that when people are thinking up “random” words on their own, they aren’t pulling from the English dictionary. Common vocabulary is a much smaller set.

Regardless it’s inappropriate to republish that email address unless he displays it publicly himself

Is that same risk present if you use the app?

My understanding is the app decrypts the vault locally. I guess they could put out a malicious update but then you’d be impacted whether there was a cloud-free option or not.

TSB’s parent company is Sabadell which is a massive Spanish corporation.

I was a Solbank (one of their brands) customer and can safely say tech isn’t their strong point. Awful UX and a pain to deal with.

Is that relevant though? Twitter is stable (enough) now. It's competing against present day Twitter, not the Twitter of years past.

> The Fediverse will eventually establish a concrete way for handling that sort of matters.

They've had years to get this right. This is their moment to shine and they're blowing it.

What better way to prompt someone to establish themselves on an alternative than demonstrate just how fragile their presence on Twitter is.

Photos taken on phones often contain GPS data. If someone publicly shares a photo they’ve taken and the data isn’t scrubbed, it’s trivial to find out where the photo was taken.

Just because it’s easy to uncover doesn’t mean it’s fine to go off and broadcast it. That’s doxxing.

If that’s true then it’s not doxxing at all and fair game.

Ultimately planes are tracked and the information made public. If you’re concerned about privacy, travel by different means.

I would have agreed and recently made the same argument on HN re the Twitter bans.

What I’ve since learned however is that tracking his jet requires a combination of public and private information. He’s part of a privacy scheme which routinely changes the plane’s identifier: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/160385752457453...

At that point, I think the argument that it’s doxxing is justified to some extent.

I don’t think the severity of the injury should dictate whether a corporation is at fault or not.

Accidents happen in unexpected ways.

If you drop a glass in a restaurant and cut yourself on a shard, is the restaurant to blame? After all, they could have served your drink in a plastic cup instead.

Hearing some of the responses to my post, I suspect there may be a slight cultural difference in expectations. Being from the UK, I wouldn’t find it remotely surprising to be handed a boiling hot liquid.

I feel you’re presenting a straw man. I’m not suggesting we hold corporations blameless in all circumstances, merely that we can’t abdicate all personal responsibility for our own safety.

Like many British people, I drink several cups of tea per day. A process that entails boiling water to 100C. Most people here make coffee at home in the same way. We trust children to have enough common sense to realise that boiling hot water can cause a nasty injury.

To put a cup of practically boiling water between your legs is utterly absurd. The companies actions are irrelevant, they did something silly and only have themselves to blame.

> I hear people saying the hot coffee lawsuit should have been thrown out , and to me that's just crazy that anyone would want to allow safety standards to go on ignored to that level.

I think it's a matter of taking personal responsibility rather than finding someone to blame when you make a mistake.