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Ad hominem; Not everyone standing in support of IA in this case is even a user of their emergency library.

It should be noted that the cumulative annual revenue of these four conglomerate were north of $4B in 2017.

Unfortunately, they own so many smaller publishers, that it's very hard to boycott all of their subsidiaries effectively and without harming the small fish.

But I do share your sentiment; I haven't loaned even one single book from IA emergency library and I still stand with them in support against opportunistic greed of these publishers in this case.

It sound apologetic to me to write their jerkiness to stress and high responsibility of leadership.

> Name one famous historical figure who had power of some sort who didn't do anything "jerk-like".

Since the list are of kings, I namedrop Marcus Aurelius.

Add power and stress to unchecked emotional and psychological deficiencies of the susceptible person of power strong enough to derail their sense of ethics and morality and one comes face to face with a war criminal, a psychopath dictator, or a jerky maverick CEO.

Increase or decrease elements to get Caligula or Steve Jobs.

The page doesn't load for me. Here's the content from the Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200226133832/http://www.davisr...

And information (and software) could use matter or energy as medium for storage and transfer; e.g storing that python function as carbon traces on a piece of paper or transmitting it with photons through the fiber optic line.

For the lack of a better word, information (and software) is culture while matter and energy (carbon on paper, photons) are nature.

Thank you. Appreciate the info.

To someone unfamiliar with p2p web core concepts (Hyperdrive, etc.) an "About" page would be helpful.

Neat. First impression; how do I turn pages on this thing? Hmmm...arrow keys? no. spacebar? no. Page Up/Page Down? No. Ah...click and drag by mouse.

Yes. In the "Download Options" sidebar there is a link to the torrent manifesto file.

They do seem to have an export feature[1]. The dashboard has been "Loading trips..." for minutes to download into a CSV a measly number 2K trips I had.

I'm sorry that people are losing jobs over such closure, but usually the writing is on the wall.

[1]: https://help.automatic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000599847-Ho...

Not an answer, but may be add "Ask HN" to the title?

Yeah...No. Others provided enough wisdom for ya. Enjoy reading.

Do you believe they shouldn't? Enlighten us.

Definitely not just you. To quiet such anxiety, I usually ask myself whether the length of the function is affecting the readability and speedy understanding of the logic. Longer functions are not necessarily bad, but if they pack so many logical units and so many scope variables, they could be improved.

Since I was introduced to it few years ago, I've been watching it every year on New Year's Eve, with friends or alone. "Same as every year...".

To me it is a light-hearted, almost dionysian, meditation on memory, friendship, isolation, loss, and time.

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18794397

Edit: link to previous thread.

Some suggestions:

– having a "how to" page and actual focus page, would allow removing distraction of instruction texts

– although it's tricky to disable notifications on the browser and the OS, it'd be a nice feature

– for too granular a session length dropdown, one could use a text field with suggested time.

– adding basic calculations (e.g. 2+8) for which the user should enter the results, is also an option

– better typography: e.g. numbers appearing are too small

– check out https://www.psytoolkit.org/ for ideas and inspirations.

Edit: format, typo.

I think there are few important keywords that could facilitate OP's research on this:

- moral relativism and ethical subjectivism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism - In-group vs. out-group

I think an objective might have been demonstrating the benefits of Oracle Autonomous Linux regarding automatic patching and tuning; lower TCO being the advertised selling point.

Auto-backup alternatively to two Time Machine disks. Off-site backup using Crashplan for a portion of content critical. Manual regular cold storage to S3 Glacier.

Like all such quotations which are taken out of their natural context (and even their wording is altered), it all depends on many factors. For instance, whether or not the choice comes down to only these two options, whether there is a prominent hierarchy of power at play, is the cost of being a maverick among the conformists majority a justified one, etc.

But if a person has their ego and individualism in check and trust their instinct to be in benefit of their larger group and their goal, then sure it is justified to proceed now and ask for forgiveness later.

The interviewer who expects me to have every little detail about every single technology I've used in the past stacked up in my mind, won't be worth my time, not to mention joining their company. The comparison to spelling prowess is apples and...melons. Use your favorite search engine to look up "what is the difference between insight and information?"

Libraries are public safe space. Get over it.

Lesson: have the product's landing page ready when the PR goes out.

https://thehub.amazon.com/

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Inaccurate. Quote:

> We are here to hold Facebook accountable no matter who’s using it, and to push it and other tech companies to do better for users.

In other words, regardless of whether something is necessary or not, if users are using it, EFF would be watching.

And I don't even think Facebook is "necessary" as assumed. Hence, I find it irrelevant to go meta and discuss my assumed understanding or consideration, or lack thereof, of others feeling.

I found the generalization above regarding computer literacy of "most people" unfounded and very troubling. This comment also handwaves the inconvenience caused to users who were promised access to the information they need across their devices.

No anger. Only demanding responsible handling of users' information. If Facebook or any other social platform doesn't deliver, users could go elsewhere.

I also think that there is not much honesty in your question, by the way.

Read the EFF post again.

The way I understand it, long term thinking is neither about the future nor about predicting it or planning something significant for it; it is rather a thought model which tries to extend beyond the timeframes humans might feel at home with cognitively. An off-the-cuff, superficial yet interesting example is the lack of a common word in English language to express units of time longer than 1000.

This style of thinking sometimes has its benefits, like gathering together a community to build a mechanical clock, create a manual for restarting a civilization[1], or write a non-fiction book about "earth without people"[2].

It's just an interesting intellectual, cultural endeavor.

[1]: http://blog.longnow.org/category/manual-for-civilization/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us.

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Also, a while back CHM did a live event talking to the author of _The Preservation Game: Saving Bletchley Park_: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-preservation-game-h...

I agree that like many of such documents, it is CYA indeed. I don't mind CYA, but this is just sloppy encroaching legalese gobbledygook.