OneLeggedCat

I much prefer the product to be charged 15% more to begin with, rather than the shameful manipulative dishonesty at the end.

I really, really wish people would leave negative reviews at Yelp and Google and everywhere else when they see these 3% "service charges" that were never disclosed before I walked in. I will never knowingly choose to eat at a restaurant that does that kind of thing.

Because it is.

> Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead

Probably thousands of airline and US government employees have had access to this list over the years. Yet neither you nor me can see anything on it, here in January 2023.

I can't wait for insurance companies to start charging higher or lower rates based on the personality traits they've gleaned.

What would be your favorite way of standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters?

> why all the pearl clutching?

My vehicle has a cellular internet connection that I cannot easily disable. My insurance company is among the many that would love to get at that data. TV's are valuable enough that such a connection will be coming to them too eventually.

Hail to The King, baby

> couldn’t Twitter have simply told him to buzz off when he proposed buying the company

There are very few accounts here on HN that will sympathize with such an extremely uncapitalist, anarchist take.

> makes opening in a new tab impossible

This has been happening to so many commerce sites for the last several years. It's infuriating. They absolutely hate the idea that you might want to look at several items at once.

Anyway, in Firefox I kludge around it by right clicking the tab I'm on, selecting Duplicate Tab, then clicking the item in that new tab. Sometimes you gotta duplicate a lot that way, but it usually works.

> Good written data (not corrupted while being written) will last a long time, probably more than any magnetic media, so data resiliency is good

Are you meaning generally any kind of solid-state storage here?

Well yes it would have, but Congress keeps extending it.

Yes, definitely. I was infuriated by many of W's policies regarding war and domestic spying, and Obama said he would stop those abuses, but instead continued on as was, or worse.

Probably they actually would. But neither of them would get their party's nominations today.

We haven't had an honest president since Carter, and we haven't had a good president since Eisenhower. The math and process of our U.S. electoral system guarantees poor results.

That changed setting should have been a huge story. I've paid for ProtonMail for like 6 years now, and this was the most disappointing thing I've dealt with.

Around 2003 Hotmail deleted half of my emails. I was able to reach an actual Microsoft employee, who apologized a lot (this happened to a lot of users nationally that day), and told me they were gone permanently. They weren't even backing up these emails. Glad that you have had no problem with them. I haven't either since leaving them behind.

I agree. I feel like I now have issues with all well-known providers. Have you found any paid webmail provider that you can trust?

This is just terrible. I've trusted ProtonMail for a long while, but my trust in their openness and decision-making has kept eroding for the last several years, and now it's gone. There are now possibly no good options that I can pay for "set it and forget it" open source webmail.

This isn't the kind of angry reviewer I was expecting.

> Kittyhawk says on its LinkedIn page that the company has flown and made over 100 aircraft

Wow. Wonder where all these are?

There was a Black Mirror episode that almost went this far.

As you can see from the other replies, you are wrong to not love the locked-down Apple way of doing things from the bottom of your heart. Science has proven that people who are given options are less happy than those who never had options to begin with.

I too am in the wrong group, like you. I was finally talked into becoming an owner of an Apple device for the first time in my life about a year ago (an iPhone), and I have hated its interface with increasing passion every day since. I hate getting rid of electronics before the natural end of their lives, because I'm cheap and I'm environmental and I'm obstinate, but I may actually do it in this case.

But anyway it is all right, everything is all right, the struggle is nearly finished.

That feeling of absolute helplessness when trying to deal with any issue on your Apple device, you must embrace. It is by design. Your helpless feeling will some day be transformed into a warm feeling of being nannied, which will eventually feel maternal, and that will eventually become love.

We will win the victory over ourselves, and we will love Big Brother Apple.

> on an iphone

I was so happy to discover this. Went and tried it on Firefox on iPhone... Nope. Apparently it works on all other browsers on iPhone. Just not Firefox. Sigh. I found that the bug report for doing javascript bookmarks was already filed years ago, and Mozilla just ignores it. Mozilla has a bizarre decision making structure.

Peter: "So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it... So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life."

Therapist: "What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?"

P: "Yeah."

T: "Wow. That's messed up... I'm sorry. Go on."

P: "Is there any way that you could sort of just zonk me out so that, like, I don't know that I'm at work... in here? Could I come home and think that I've been fishing all day, or something?"

T: "That's really not what I do, Peter"

Oh hell yes they do. At least on rural highways in the Southeastern US.

> Already there are a (small) number of modern restaurants that don't accept cash in my area.

Wow. This year in my area, a lot of the restaurants started charging 3% extra if you DON'T use cash.

And generally, in my state of Montana, there are still restaurants that won't accept credit cards at all.

I like this idea, but when I go to the web page...

> Download the Font… and change the world! By downloading, installing and/or using the font software, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms of this End-User License Agreement...

Sigh. I guess I need to read that EULA.

Anyway, clicking on that then downloads a pdf rather than a nice link to some web page text. Sigh.

So then anyway, trying to open that pdf then fails in the first two readers I tried. Sigh.

Why must everything in the world be so hard? Fuck it, never mind. I'll let someone else change the world and wait for widespread adoption for this font to reach me in whatever other ways.

> You just replaced ISP tracking with VPN tracking

Huge benefit in my opinion.

Yeah he's not really using the term "survivor bias" in the way that statisticians do.