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I think Japan did something similar to eradicate the Yakuza.

To quote Hamilton (the play): "Make it impossible to justify the cause of the fight"

But can we get scheduled SMS yet? Samsung has had this feature for ages...

Payday

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Ugh, I want to be optimistic, but I think this feature is going to suck and here's why:

I use snapchat, but I actually hate the app. It's a bloated memory and battery hog in my opinion. Is Adaptive Battery going to think I love Snapchat and prioritize more system resources for it just because I use it? Cause I want the exact opposite to happen. I want Snapchat using 0% of my system resources except for the few times a day when I check my snaps.

Also I hate losing control of my system in favor of some nebulous decision making criteria I can't control (ML)

> people are bad at evaluating risks

People are easily emotionally manipulated. Show some pictures of cancer or disfigured babies and you can get everyone to rail against nuclear. Media does it all the time to skew our priorities. Think medical malpractice and healthcare is a big source of death in the US? Think again, bump stocks and crappy 3d printed plastic guns are the types of killers you should be worried about according to the media. Rinse and repeat.

And that's a darn shame. As a result we have markets saturated with snake oil while the good stuff (medicine) rots away in obscurity.

> It's always amusing to find out what Americans think is old.

It's not that we "think" those buildings are old. They are the oldest. There are no older buildings. Age is relative. If you colonize a pacific island, the oldest building will be 1 year old. That doesn't mean the colonizers think 1 year is a long time.

If you want to get into a manhood measuring contest we could broaden the criteria to include native american structures.

Woah, I thought the PICO-8 was a fictional game console within the Celeste universe!

Plus, programming is extremely broad. You could spend 10 years mastering embedded linux programming yet know little to nothing about data science programming, game programming, GPU/VFX/shader programming, HDL programming, etc. There's simply too much to learn.

It's always hilarious to see a 1 rep StackOverflow question about a "compiler bug" when the problem is very obviously a user error.

Now if only we could do this in America...

> France is a country where failure is a taboo. People see it as unwise to start anything and will try to discourage you.

Maybe part of the reason there is no "Silicon Valley" of Europe is cultural? This attitude will have a chilling effect on anything that requires risk...

From my perspective, any company that goes public will eventually turn to crap (or go through decades-long crap/good cycles). It's not MBAs that drive for growth at all costs - I would argue it's shareholders. Shareholders are greedy and don't care about anything else besides ROI. Even if that means throwing the consumers under the bus in the long run to achieve that.

One nice thing about 3 month summer is the ability to get a temporary job. When I was in high school I worked every summer as a landscaper/food service/lifeguard/etc. and gained lots of experience/money I otherwise wouldn't have gotten. With year round school that doesn't seem possible.

I thought the glass sphere was pretty sweet

> Yet Americans falsely believe they are overtaxed.

Perhaps the observation of government wastefulness is conflated with feeling overtaxed. There are two ways the government can raise more money:

1) Raise taxes

2) Use existing taxes more efficiently

If you look at where the tax money is going, infrastructure is one of the smallest pieces of the pie. Why not divert defense and/or social service tax to infrastructure for a few years?

Ah, it was showing up as a box in my browser

With a touch of honey

> They might have a good viral marketing department, but that's none of my business.

Unsure if you are a part of the viral campaign yourself or if it was just a subtle joke...

How do you insert spaces with that layout?

> The ideal Italian pizza, be it Neapolitan or Roman, has a crisp crust flecked with dark spots

That might be true of Naples, but definitely not Rome. The perfect Roman pizza is rectangular focaccia style.

For speaking, sure, but if you are writing then Spanish will take longer because you have to physically type out more characters.

Every language has tradeoffs. Sure, Spanish might be easier to pronounce since the rules are more rigid, but on the other hand the information density is way lower. It takes 2-3 syllables of Spanish to communicate the same information as 1 syllable of English.

Define "discrimination"

Is is discrimination to require a fitness test be taken for certain jobs/insurance?

That's why people who attack trust (mainly social engineers, but other types as well) annoy me so much. Not if they are doing it because someone asked them to, but when they abuse trust and then act like it's a bug of the system and are all high and mighty that they got away with it.

Pompous social engineer blog post: "Dunkin Donuts is laughably insecure. I was able to steal lots of donuts by lying and abusing the trust of employees. Hahaha, Dunkin Donuts security sucks, what a joke. They don't even question that my story was completely fake and that I was just a good actor, what a trash company"

You have that problem with any theory, not just religious ones. You could argue that God was created the same way we were - by another God. Which eventually leads to "Gods have always existed", which is similar to Big Bang's problem of "matter has always existed".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_why_there_is_anythi...

Yeah, and my point was that your use case is the minority compared to the average user, and when you scale up my use case to billions of people, like the article says, it's not a viable.

Well, before my Android phone I owned a Nokia Windows Phone which was also 1/10th the price of an iPhone. Not sure how that point of data fits into your narrative...

This seems like common sense.

I bought a Macbook Pro in 2010. Eventually I realized I only used my laptop for internet-related tasks, mainly when I was traveling or in my living room (instead of my office). After my MBP's battery degraded and I had to replace the hard drive cable I threw in the towel and bought a Chromebook for less than 1/10 the cost of the MBP. Not only has the Chromebook lasted longer (more years) than the MBP, I've never had a single maintenance issue with it, and it serves my needs just as well as the MBP, if not better.

So the question is, why pay 10x the price for power and features you will barely even use or notice? I could buy a stack of 10 Chromebooks for the price of 1 MBP, which, at the current rate, would last me 50 years. Same goes for smartphones. I can buy a stack of five Nokia 6 phones for the price of 1 iPhone. This is a no brainer for financially sensitive people.

It depends. If Uber was truly marketing itself as something you should stake your livelihood on (i.e. a viable career), then it's understandable that people would do that.

People are only idiots if they take something that is only obviously meant for non-sustainable income, try to turn it into their livelihood, and then act surprised/outraged when it isn't sustainable. I kind of got this vibe from ride sharing - I never thought it would be sustainable as a full-time job, I thought it was more for just some fun side income.