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> I can take it home with me. I own part of Google. I can't take it home with me. I don't even know what that would mean. > If I own it, I can get a permit to build on it. It is in…

> I don't own the USPS nor do I own the national parks. Yes we do (if you're a US citizen). You even get to vote for the "board of directors" so to speak (the legislative/executive…

I'm not sure what you mean. What would the alternative world look like in this case? Less safe / a lack of tires until we confirm every chemical used isn't dangerous? I don't think…

Strange tone to the article. Very adversarial and doomy. Sounds like 6PPD is essentially required for modern tires. People are researching alternatives but haven't scaled any yet. …

> I did not read the original paper, so maybe they accounted for this Then why say it's an issue?

Putting the annoyance aside for a second, I think this is partly a difference of viewpoints when it comes to what constitutes being a "slave to your device" as you say. Having the …

> but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it. Three actions (volume button, tap, tap) on my Android to turn my…

It annoys me either way. Just put your phone on silent (unless you have certain contacts that need to get through in an emergency). It's especially annoying when you don't look at …

I know some folks that do this and indeed I do hate it. But not because I'm a slave to my device. I hate the buzzing because you should just put it on silent if you don't care abou…

Could have just been someone going around with a bomb sniffing dog while they were assessing the package. I'm guessing they weren't searching everyone's hotel rooms afterwards...

> Numerous agencies have been documented using this sort of dishonest and dubious tactics, so I do not think that possibility could be dismissed at the start. The wording of this i…

But that's not the type of story that's being claimed from the person I responded to. Of course the lead developer waved you off. You wondered why things took forever, and the lead…

What FAANG have you seen this at? I've been at big tech companies for most of my career and I've never seen anyone deny the existence of a technical bug. I've seen plenty of teams …

It's not an example at all. It's just as baffling to use it as an example when there are much better sources. Pre-Elon, you have financial statements showing the strength of the co…

> Aliens have super sophisticated tech that is hardy enough to travel millions of light years through space but it crashes so easy on earth? Selection bias. We don't know how many …

The irony being that he presumably wants more information on the mailing list to keep a good archive, while not giving enough information for people to understand that and follow t…

What do you mean? Those who follow absurd conspiracy theories, like the theory that mask mandates would never go away and that it was somehow solely a power play by government lead…

> I don't think I nor anyone should be held accountable at work for comments made on Hacker News. > FWIW, nobody needs to worry about me. I do not have a boss. Great, but now bring…

I can't help but think that the author of the book as an artist, who I assume is not in a 9-5 job and whose work necessarily requires unusual uses of their time, can't possibly rel…

It's completely missing a huge part of the equation though: comparison to cheaper options. Something might not sound so expensive if you frame it as $0.50/hour of use. But it certa…

I would? I don't see how those have anything to do with the price. The newly announced Pixel Tablet screen is 4 times larger than the newly announced Pixel 7a, and they're the same…

> If you use your phone an average of 5 hours a day for two years and then throw it in a junk drawer the hardware would cost less than 50cents per hour of use. I don't understand t…

> If they believe it will increase profits without longterm harm then layoffs/salary freezes are the right thing for them to do as a company even if they are wildly successful. And…

> Is it not better/preferable to freeze salaries than to cut more staff? Hint: Neither is needed for most of these big tech companies.

The money has to go somewhere. Why don't you want it to go to the employees?