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The study seems to be strictly for TV watching. I mostly watch science/math/history/economics related videos on YT. I prefer the more in-depth ones; I also watch gaming/movies rela…

When I find articles like these, I remember I haven't watched TV for almost 12 years, except when at someone else's home. By this, I mean I never turned on the TV to see what's on …

> When getting something out on the market, they woudn't take this risk and still have a commonly used port on the side. The consumers as well would prefer to not take the risk of …

The point is, if the regulation works as intended, it consolidates USB-C as the standard and slows or blocks new types of ports from being designed and tested. If it doesn't, then …

What's interesting to me is that this is a bit like how the USSR worked. They were relying on the West for high-tech tractors and even to build factories (I know Ford helped them b…

I replied to a similar question here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711705 . If I wanted to buy a device with a different type of connector, including a different form fact…

> you just have to provide USB-C option as a fallback. Given you must have a USB-C port, the design would still be limited by the USB-C form factor and adding another port would ev…

> On the other hand, USB-C wouldn't have become a true standard if no-one forced Apple's hand I don't want a state-dictated standard like this. What you're saying is that because s…

It doesn't really matter to me, because even if that's true for Apple (or it was at the time), it still means other companies can't test new technologies. They might as well be OK …

> I don't have this particular problem, so it doesn't exist! No, what I said is that you could find devices with USB-C in all the categories that are now regulated. This means it w…

This is exactly what I'm talking about. A short-term view of the world, progress and technology. All my devices supported USB-C before the EU regulation. But if I wanted to buy a d…

The education system has failed in the EU, but in a different way than it has in the US. I realised this when people thought mandating the USB-C connections was a good idea because…

Not sure what you are referring to. Can you elaborate?

Just to be clear, my definition of free-market is just that there is no centralised authority that can use force to set prices/quantities/quality/type of services offered. Of cours…

> You can't prove your free-market theory because it's not falsifiable. You can prove the logic part starting from the assumptions. It's also falsifiable. I just mentioned it was l…

This is a very bad analogy. Markets behave like an imperfect optimisation algorithm, and you can prove that, under some conditions which are most often met, they give people what t…

A more realistic estimate of the total number of addressable things should take into account that for anything to be addressable, its address should be stored somewhere at least on…

It's not just about intentions. To convince me that the Government can improve things through regulations, you'd need to do a few things: 1) You must convince me that optimising fo…

There is a problem with this comparison. The agent had access to open-source browsers in its training set. So you'd need to compare the cost of creating an equivalent browser for a…

What I find confusing about this comment is that to me, authoritarian and libertarian are opposites, but have only to do with individual freedoms, not the political system. With th…

The first one is basically some glue code using pipes. The ones I'd say are not trivial are the VMs in Python. However, I'd say they are entirely useless, and not too complex eithe…

All of the linked apps look trivial to me. Also, the first one, the UI has no feedback once you click the answer (plus some questions don't really make sense as they have the answe…

I believe the problem with democracy is that it's affected by various problems analogous to the ones of markets, but often amplified. In this case, to me, it really seems a matter …

It seems it was her wife who pushed for that. By reading the article, it doesn't sound like he believed any of that. > "If it makes you feel better, go ahead and do it," she quoted…

What you are actually doing here is moving allocation logic from the heap allocator to your program logic. In this way you can use pools or buffers of which you know exactly the si…