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> They cherrypicked 15 countries. The "world" chart shows an increase from 19% renewal to 34%. Did they cherry-pick that? (Also, "European Union" is more than one country.) > I don…

Agree with your broader point, but out of curiosity: > It cost her nearly $10k to have a _used_ aluminum ramp installed for her house. Why so expensive? I did a quick search, and t…

Some people actually care, but they can't always win the battle at their own companies when there are other priorities, much less go fix all the other websites, pour concrete at ot…

The author is seeing that it's easier for one team to get backing (VC money, course credit, design awards, TED talk applause, etc.) for "solving" an accessibility problem than for …

> I'm pretty sure doing janky things to the AC you don't own is a lease violation. Why? Not all "janky" things are the same: * Sloppy changes to the internal 240V wiring: yeah prob…

Nice. I don't have any ESPHome thermostats right now, but I have an ESPHome fridge/freezer temperature monitor. I adopted the same idea: it should integrate with HA when HA is avai…

> The rest of this blog post is a walkthrough of a software engineer’s approach to home automation and building custom hardware, and let me tell you: both the final product, and th…

> Honestly, back when the 737 MAX debacle happened, a lot of consumers claimed that they would stop flying aircrafts if they ran into 737 MAXs. And I don't think it happened in eno…

I read ryandrake's comment as saying this accidental sharing is a rare opportunity for wired to audit actual video of (some) drone use, and they might yet review it more and find s…

> In its statement, the SFPD notes that it adheres to a “strict policy” around drone use, and that “drones can only be used to assist with active criminal investigations, to assist…

I'd be interested to hear the author's answer to your question, but I see it as an interesting proof-of-concept. It's testing the viability of not only rewriting PostgreSQL in Rust…

> Disclaimer: An earlier version of this post claimed the structure is wait-free, this is incorrect. Being wait-free requires that failure or suspension of any thread can’t cause f…

> I mean I might not know what a strawman is, but I thought it was claiming people were making an argument that in fact they were not. What I mean is: I expect you originally heard…

> Going from "predominantly what happens" to "it's theoretically possible occasionally" is a question of magnitude rather than direction. Okay, fair enough. I took "without adding …

>> Even your straw man version of this argument is pretty convincing to me... > Wouldn't that make it not a straw man argument? I think the "even" and "..." are doing a lot of work…

> Increasing inequality is bad I'm not at all sure everyone in these discussions agrees on this point! I agree with you not only that this is bad but also that wealth taxes are not…

I agree: there is no precise, objective way to compare the utility of two arbitrary wealth distributions, and redistribution does not always maximize the total well-being of societ…

> The people behind wealth taxes generally handwave explaining how their system will be better at allocating than the people who make a living of allocating wealth effectively beca…

> The annual turnover for e.g. Apple stock is ~0.4%, so a 0.8%/year wealth tax would triple the number of sellers without adding any new buyers. Is that assuming the tax money is g…

Well, I qualified with "here in California", and I don't know if that's where tancop lives. I think the current situation is not great, but I'd want to fix it by investigating why …

> What do you think the chances of being caught shoplifting is? If it's less than 50-33%, then you have the same problem as the OP where it makes sense to shoplift. Don't we alread…

> I'd love to look into the Quick Access placement. It is supposed to appear on all spaces and sets an NSWindow property to do so. Is there anything particular that you think trigg…

> These are tiny paper cuts that add up to pain, like the ones you mentioned that affect me/a tiny portion of the user base so they aren't worth fixing. Is the justification I'm su…

Can you give me an example of a UX problem that you attribute to the password manager? That'd help me understand. I often hit problems with 1Password's autofill on particular websi…

ceejayoz> You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy? Remember the site guidelines: SG> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretat…