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Anyone with substantial following, who would be most likely to get snitched on with this new policy, will be making money from twitch.

It doesn't matter to me how you categorize that relationship, my point is valid. "Basically employees" was a plenty fine layman's categorization, though. We aren't lawyers here.

I'm one who mostly cares about money. It's funny that you say "career progression" as something separate from being motivated by money. I care a lot about career progression because it means more money.

If I could continue getting a 10-15% raise every year, I wouldn't care if I never got promoted. Call me "Junior Engineer" for my entire career idc.

What's your point? Does it change my point if they're considered contractors vs employees vs hobbyists vs whatever?

I'm not sure why you say "arrived". People have always been fired for arrests at some companies. Twitch is basically their employer, so it's not much different here.

Whether it should be allowed or not by law can be a different discussion, but we don't have to pretend that this is new

> Just a technical issue, right? Nothing going on there.

Well no. It's literally the second FAQ on this website: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

HN demotes heated discussions, regardless of the topic. That's probably a big factor here.

Be careful about jumping to some kind of conspiracy theory for explanations. It's not healthy.

I have no idea what you're trying to say with these questions if it's not to be snarky, so I'm not going to answer them.

All I'm saying is that it's not productive to say that people are "brainwashed" into thinking they have rights.

People in the US have certain rights, and we have mechanisms to enforce those rights when they are broken. It's not perfect. It never will be.

It's extremely snarky to look down on those who "passionately discuss and debate" the topic.

This sounds deep, but these comments don't actually mean anything.

We live in a practical world where "rights" are implemented with enforcement and mass acceptance. Sometimes it doesn't work perfectly. We're doing our best.

Calling rights "theoretical" or whatever may be technically true, but it doesn't really matter in the real world. You're not coming across any kind of deep revelation by saying it.

You can still make mistakes while not being to blame. Pointing out those mistakes doesn't change the fact that they're the victim, but it might help them or someone else later.

If I leave my car unlocked with an iphone on the dashboard and it gets stolen, I made a mistake, but I'm not to blame.

I bet they'd move faster if they could. I'm guessing for takeoff there's a good amount of analysis to do beforehand. Terrain, weather, system checks, whatever.

I don't know the actual list, but it's not hard to guess why they couldn't do everything, including ejecting it from the main rover and getting the main rover out of the way, in the ~12-14 hours a day that they have to do stuff.

My problem with vitamins and supplements is that the vast majority of people who take them are self-diagnosing a deficiency or listening to random people on the internet who think they're able to parse studies on their own.

For anything: go to your doctor, get blood work done, and listen to their advice. Don't just go to CVS and pick up some pills and go to town after reading about Vitamin D on HN.

It's probably as simple as: they didn't have time. You have to move slowly and carefully on Mars. One rushed mistake and it's over.

Holy hell, talk about premature. That's 100 lifetimes away.

Is it still April 1st?

> It's a holiday dedicated to reminding people that they have to use their critical thinking and maintain a healthy skepticism

What? You just made that up. It's a holiday dedicated to pranking people and trying to have a laugh. There's no deep meaning behind it.

Because there's no useful news. Anything and everything could be fake. Even stuff that you'd think wouldn't be fake, like Voltswagon, you apparently can't trust.

And it's not even one day. It's several days before and after. It's frustrating in a world of lies and misinformation that I don't even have the most trustworthy sources telling the truth anymore, even for a few days.

So I buy the Haynes book for my car, wait for it to be shipped and delivered, then finally figure out how to do what I need to do. Then I put it away for 1-5 years until I need it again, and hope I don't forget where I put it.

Or you want me to build a friendship with a retired fridge repairman? I don't understand that one.

With youtube I get to watch a pro do it right in front of me for free instantly. There's nothing like it.

ifixit is good, though, I'll agree to that.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but something to keep in mind is that most are reboosted every once in a while. Once this happens, it should be completely off.

ISS elevation chart where you can clearly see when they boosted up: https://www.heavens-above.com/IssHeight.aspx

I'm sure plenty of people would/did complain about the website as well.

"They have news conferences and can release memos. Why would you need a website!? What a waste of money!"

Considering you also mockingly call it "twatter", I'm guessing you might just be out of touch.

There's a huge difference between petty hourly charges and WFH accommodations.

If I'm WFH forever, I need a larger living space with an office. It's been horrible the past year posting up in my kitchen, with the family running around the entire time. And since many companies are doing the 1-2 day in office hybrid model, it's not like I can just up and move to a cheaper area.

If a Cat 5 hurricane is heading directly towards you, would you stay and say "If nature wants to kill me it can. Nothing I can do", or would you idk... go somewhere else?

When the tide comes in while you're on the beach, do you stay and accept your fate? Or do you move?

> Having a major vaccine lead to serious issues puts all of vaccines into question, creating a far larger problem spanning time.

Is pulling the vaccine (with minimal evidence that it's causing issues) worse? How many people are going to turn down the AZ vaccine now, even if there's not actually an issue?

How do you recover your account if you don't have the app?

> How many lines of vimscript have you written? [...] How many times have you opened the source code of some vim plugin you are using and tried to modify what it does?

Zero, thank god. I have enough work to do at work. I don't need to make a hobby out of my editor.

> I tend to disagree - better to let people sleep.

I'm not advocating to move around the standard work day, but grown adults could just go to sleep an hour earlier. "let people sleep" makes no sense. It wouldn't take away an hour of their sleep.

> I think most jobs are that flexible these days.

Are you joking?

Several companies I know seemed to lie and use Covid as a convenient excuse to not give out raises (or give shitty bonuses, etc) to save money in the short term. Meanwhile hiring and earnings don't match up to those actions.

FWIW Alamo is really strict against talking. I've never had an issue, and they have staff walking around enforcing (they're already walking around for orders anyway).

Uh, we also don't overhaul car engines every several thousand hours. That comparison is basically useless.

> I think the point stands

No it doesn't. The person was trying to say SpaceX > NASA. Many people here are trying to shit on the other side as if they have a real point.

They're both doing cool and useful things and they're both really really good at what they do.

> Also, remind me, did NASA develop reusable rockets?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but... yes, of course NASA developed reusable rockets. The space shuttle missions reused the shuttles and the boosters.

> What's the average effective tax rate for high-net-worth+ individuals if unrealized capital gains are included as income?

That's a completely pointless question. If I own 50% of GameStop, my net worth will have gone from $650 million to $12.2 billion to $1.8 billion in like 45 days. Sure, this is an extreme example, but it happens over longer stretches of time to a ton of the richest people.

How exactly do you expect to tax that movement of those unrealized gains?

> You can get variable and fixed rate loans against your investment accounts.

That you eventually have to pay off. The money you pay it off with will be taxed.