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> We say it's a four hour assignment, but in truth people who do well take around 6-8.

Speaking of insults. You are wasting people's time and treating them without respect.

I say this as an applicant who has also wasted an entire day on an outrageously complex take-home assignment "estimated" to only take a couple of hours. It left a bitter taste.

In my view, anybody who phones in one of your assignments, or walks away altogether, is dodging a bullet.

Why would you use a liner bag vs wrapping the exterior of the pack in plastic (as in a rain cover)? Wouldn't that keep the whole pack dry?

It's also possible to team up with friends who do have a car, or use social media to find a stranger who is making the same trip (and pay them).

> There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in work is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ...

Some of these jobs can involve crunch time, low pay, and other forms of employee abuse, since people are willing to suffer for the sake of their passion. Sometimes boring work is the healthier option.

Obviously we don't know the details of this bust, but it probably happened just before Alaska legalized posession of plants for personal use. The article was written in mid-2015, and legalization passed in February of that year.

Whatever pointless, unjust penalty this person suffered, in addition to having their property seized, makes this story seem less than amusing. Maybe the words you're looking for are "tragic" or "dystopian"?

I think GP is trying to make the opposite point, that Calvus (not Curio) introduced too much nuance in his speech, making himself a less effective orator.

The problem with this design is that anything that rubs or bounces against the cable transmits sound into your ear (like a children's cup telephone). This makes them annoying to use while exercising. I find that the style connected by a solid hoop mostly avoids this.

$300-400 could be the electric bill for a large house (in winter). If this is what you're spending to heat a small apartment, something may be wrong with your building.

Wool is more effective insulation than cotton, and also insulates when damp/wet, unlike cotton (thus the saying "cotton kills"). I suspect the reputation of this type of jacket is more cultural than anything.

> Note that the soldier is naked except for his helmet, a sensible adaptation to a hot climate. This may also reflect an awareness that garment fibers driven into a wound by a spearpoint promoted infection.

Pretty sure this is erroneous speculation. Nudity in Greek art is meant to symbolize heroism - the Greeks did not actually fight naked.

It makes me doubt the accuracy of the entire article.

Israel is ostensibly a Western ally, yet they sell weapons that are used to attack Western nations and their citizens. Can you see why some people might consider that a problem?

Your accusations of anti-semitism are unwelcome and without merit.

What's the use case for these products?

Even if the radio is blocked, how does that stop a device from collecting data anyway, and exfiltrating it the moment it finds a network? Won't it look for a network the moment you take it out of the bag? And don't you have to remove it from the bag to use it practically?

Ultimately, if your device is compromised or untrustworthy to the extent that it has to be policed this way, is it not safer to just... get rid of it?

I've been in a true, physical life-or-death situation. The dominant thought was not an urge to pray, but a perfect clarity of purpose pushing me to take action towards survival. To surrender to chance was to accept and embrace death.

What he's describing sounds more like denial. The situation was already over. He lost everything and was trying to wish it back into existence.

HN has its own share of extremism, uninformed opinions, and misinformation, just like any other social media. The participants here are just more civil and articulate.

People can also understand each other through combinations of obscure slang, garbled audio, thick accents, and drunken slurring. It's still an unpleasant way to communicate.

Shall we be satisfied with the same low standards in a technical field, because it is how it is?

Hands-on users of math notation are complaining that it sucks. I'm not sure why a dismissive "works for me" is so often the default response.

> I don't think they will stop if I ask them. So I guess I have to shoot

You are not saying "I would confront the thieves and bring a weapon in case I am attacked".

You are not even saying "I would use a weapon to threaten them into compliance".

You are saying you would shoot on sight. Instead of de-escalating, you would take the opportunity to ambush and kill. Can you see why some people might call that "hunting"?

I'm sorry you live in a world where the theft of a car part is a life-threatening event. I can see how vigilante justice would make a crazy sort of sense in that situation. However, in a stable society, those actions would be considered a serious crime.

OP was trying to justify killing thieves and trespassers on sight. Self-defense is a completely different issue.

> Yeah, if it's not clear cut - don't shoot anyone. I'm talking about people who are in the process of the crime when you caught them as it happened

Can we trust you to accurately determine which situations are "clear cut" (and therefore justify summary execution)? Can we trust any random with a gun to make that determination? And can we trust them when they're the only surviving witness?

Is it a crime worthy of death when someone wanders onto your property due to some kind of mental illness? Is it a crime to accidentally open the wrong door? What about when you accidentally open the wrong door (see Amber Guyger)? Is it a crime to be in a store 1 minute after closing time? Or to walk on someone's property to deliver a package?

Is it a crime to upset someone at the bar and then turn up dead on their property, "in the process of committing a robbery"?

You are advocating for giving everyone the power of judge, jury, and executioner, regardless of whether they are qualified or honest. And you are encouraging those people to engage in gun battles where the "victim" is also at risk of death.

Spend more time thinking about your opinions.

Netflix has special agreements with Apple. Other apps have been rejected for doing the same thing:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302931/hey-email-servic...

There's a reason human nature is to criticize and focus on flaws - that's how progress is made.

Great achievements speak for themselves. In most cases, people readily adopt proven new practices or inventions, flock to groundbreaking ideas, and celebrate those who produce them.

Meanwhile, they will happily stay silent about uncomfortable truths. Who dares pipe up about the charismatic but incompetent colleague? The successful boss who skims a little off the top? The beloved politician who touches female staff? Etc. Mistakes and wrongdoing have a way of hiding in plain sight.

Yes, people are complicated. It's better when folks point out the complexity, instead of sticking to the sanitized version.

Project-based creative shops are known for having lots of crunch time (long hours), and judging by Glassdoor reviews, Weta is no different.

Plug-in gardening equiment also exists, along with extension cords that should work with a yard of that size.

> Roman plasterwork was applied in layers, and in first layer (which is quite rough) a diamond pattern is scratched.

I don't think that's correct. I'm pretty sure the pictures actually depict opus reticulatum, which is a style of brick-lined cement work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_reticulatum

I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.

It's on the Apple App Store, but not on the Google Play Store (since November 2020). The officially stated reason is something about a change in file formats, but that seems like a flimsy excuse for being unavailable in the most popular app store in the world for an entire year.

I also installed it on an unused spare phone, and consider that device tainted forever.

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances.

From the HN guidelines. I'd rather read about the drone.

This reminds me of a fun internet rabbithole. Feeling a little too comfortable? Need a little spice in your life? Why not watch some... surgery videos?

In the wake of having multiple surgeries myself, I became interested in watching procedures like the one in the article actually being performed. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfRKTKmq80 (warning: may be disturbing).

I don't consider myself squeamish, but just try finishing a video of, say, knee-replacement surgery. Imagine carpentry, with someone's living bone. Yikes.

Massive respect for the people who successfully do this every day without being completely overwhelmed by the complexity, the high stakes, and, especially, the cringe-inducing gore.

"Unfilmable" just means impossible to translate into a sequence of scenes, with characters and a coherent story. For example, long internal monologues about the design of space ships, etc.

You could try, but it wouldn't be entertaining in a classical sense without deviating strongly from the source material. Animated shows would have the same problem.

> On 1 September 1950, in the middle of a holiday in Italy, Pontecorvo abruptly flew from Rome to Stockholm with his wife and three sons without informing friends or relatives. On 2 September he was helped by Soviet agents to enter the Soviet Union from Finland.

It's always fascinating to see otherwise bright and competent characters end up making such bewildering decisions outside of their professions. In Pontecorvo's case, he condemned his young children to spending the rest of their lives in Soviet Russia - at a time when Stalin was still in power, no less.

It seems his son Gil eventually became a successful physicist in his own right, but I couldn't find out how the others fared. Based on my own experiences with communism, I can't imagine it was preferrable to life in the West.

I had to look this up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down

What tool should have been used to do that conversion (in reverse)? To their credit, it sounds like they solved the problem and moved on.

The OP accuses Bezos of being a horrible person, not a criminal.