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KindOneon Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages

Car dealership analogy is flawed.

In some states its illegal for the car manufacturer to directly sale to the consumer, they have to go through car dealerships.

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

KindOneon Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Same discussion, different site from 3 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24383264

KindOneon Parents got more time off, then the backlash started

Adoption is optional, you have no legal obligations to adopt them.

It is your decision.

KindOneon Parents got more time off, then the backlash started

About 20 states do not have familial status protections, so that means the boss can give me extra work while the person with kids gets extra time off.

https://www.workplacefairness.org/marital-status-state-law

https://www.abetterbalance.org/resources/family-status-and-c...

KindOneon Parents got more time off, then the backlash started

I'd argue that its unfair for the childfree people. I don't have or want kids so let me explain it from my side.

Why should I give up my social life and free time for someone else that has kids?

Why should I do more work so they can take time off to care for their kids?

The way I see it, having kids is optional in life. They knew or should have known the added responsibilities for when they had kids.

KindOneon Parents got more time off, then the backlash started

The pandemic has been making it a lot more noticeable.

KindOneon Ask HN: What's best laptop for programmer in 2020?

I think you mean 256GB SSD.

KindOneon Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files?

No.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html#why-is-there-no-io...

KindOneon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)

Wrong post. You want this one, "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342496

KindOneon Researchers are developing a battery powered by diamonds made from nuclear waste

Discussion about this topic was posted/flagged yesterday, it was a different website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324684

Discussion on reddit about this topic from 3 days ago with 350+ comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/iiedk4/energy_f...

KindOneon Nano-diamond battery that "lasts for 28k years" closer to commercialization

Discussion on reddit two days ago, 350+ comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/iiedk4/energy_f...

KindOneon Assange, Manning and Snowden Nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Case was dropped.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/19/sweden-drops-j...

KindOneon Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, Earth’s highest temperature since 1931

What about "130F / 54.4C"?

KindOneon NTFS read-write GPL kernel driver

Discussion on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/i9mdqg/ntfs_readwrit...

When exFAT was announced about 5 months ago Paragon Software posted a rant against that.

Rant is posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688058

KindOneon Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed

What about this benchmark?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i9-9900-vs-Intel-...

KindOneon AMA with the Creator of Photopea

AMA from November 2018:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9urjmg/i_made_a_free_...

KindOneon QEMU should move from C to Rust

Discussions on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/i56gzj/why_qemu_shou...

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i4rpyc/why_qemu_shoul...

KindOneon Google Earth Timelapse

USGS has a vast database of images including aerial, weather satellites, declassified reconnaissance satellites, and other sources.

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

The datasets you pick from can be a bit confusing unless you click the (!) icon next to the names to figure out what they are.

I'll provide an example for looking at reconnaissance satellite images of Atlanta, Georgia in 1979.

Search Criteria (tab):

Find Atlanta, Georgia on map. Zoom in on Atlanta, Georgia. Click on a building like the "Fulton County Courthouse" or "Atlanta City Hall" (does not really matter, but somewhere near them).

Date Range: 01/01/1970 - 01/01/1980

Data Sets (tab):

Declassified Data -> [check] Declass 3 (2013)

Click "Results".

Click one of the results.

Example image: May 15, 1979 - https://i.imgur.com/DXYxWXP.jpg - 14,273 x 1,414 px

KindOneon Ask HN: Why Do You Downvote?

>I think new accounts can't even downvote

You need 501 karma for downvoting, that exact number is undocumented on the FAQ page.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...

For anyone else that curious about undocumented stuff, here are some previous discussions with that github link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973 (Feb 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19212822 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20292361 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439437 (June 2020)

KindOneon Seven 'no log' VPN providers accused of leaking 2TB of user data

Discussion 2 days ago (222+ comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23876146 "UFO VPN claims zero-logs policy, leaks 20M user logs"

Title is also slightly misleading, multiple sources have 1.2TB, not 2TB.

KindOneon Bloomberg chief editor: We publish too many mediocre and long enterprise stories

https://twitter.com/billgates/status/1022712786449846272

I read @TheEconomist cover-to-cover because its content makes me think critically about the world. Its editors recently asked me a tough question: What is the one thing you'd do to create a more open world? See my answer below and share your answer here: https://b-gat.es/2LTs1WM

Jul 27, 2018

KindOneon California sues Cisco alleging discrimination based on India’s caste system

Discussion 10 days ago (600+ comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697083 "California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste"

KindOneon Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)

Never heard of "reveddit", I've used "removeddit".

https://removeddit.com/r/linux/comments/hnoksv/mpv_devs_cons...

KindOneon GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all

What about clang-tidy?

http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/

cpplint?

https://github.com/cpplint/cpplint