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The interesting thing is that Delta (and others) have been devaluing their loyalty points for years, to the point that a few years ago frequent flyers started referring to Delta points as "SkyPesos" instead of "SkyMiles"

Thanks for finding the original source.

@dang could we switch the title and link?

> high profile think tank and a high profile consulting firm

The high profile consulting firm probably takes up the majority of his week. What's his role at the think tank? I've looked at some staff there and they just seem to do "research" and then write "articles" that they publish for their own prominence. So doing both may be reasonable.

Im not a tax lawyer or accountant but I don't see the IRS getting involved here either, nor it raising red flags, unless this went on for greater than a year. A W2 doesnt indicate the dates you worked for an employer, though the stock vesting would indicate overlap. Not sure about California tax forms though.

>> There are other tokamaks, but the MIT scientists expect their large tokamak to be the first in history that is capable of a self-sustaining reaction, and the first that generates more energy than it uses. And they expect to pivot immediately from this historic engineering feat to commercial energy production, and to do all of this on a relatively modest budget, and on a timeline of just three to four years.

This has a lot of expectations, but will be super exciting if they pull it off! By 2024 would be incredible.

I don't mind hold music, but it's the constant fake interruption with advertisements that interrupt the hold music every 30 seconds that destroys your ability to multitask while waiting. Looking at you AT&T.

Looks like someone moved the wikipedia link to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV_(discontinued)

... so now my post looks inaccurate

>> Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services?

Yes. Unsuccessful products get cancelled.

The successful services get to stay but the customers get hit with "insane price hikes":

https://www.geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-go...

Don’t forget Google already abandoned Google TV once: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV

I bought it as a gift for someone once and they cancelled it and deleted the SDK.

Not sure about this but I’ll mention The FireTV stick will show you shows from multiple services without entering those apps. And any given show/movie has a “more ways to watch” Option to show where else it’s available (such as when a specific app has it for free). I can also watch HBO shows directly in the firetv’s native viewer without entering the HBO “app”

I've watched several lectures on the subject. Teaching isn't learning, and some of the best teachers rather motivate children to learn on their own through internal or external motivation

Could you elaborate on the insight you learned from "A mathematican's lament"?

There are different levels of nursing in the United States. Not all of them require uni education, but they also do tasks most people would not want to do

You could update it with more accurate information

That’s a different argument sure, but that’s not the argument here.

>> But this potential privacy feature also comes with privacy risks, says Ryan Calo, associate professor at the University of Washington School of Law, in Seattle. “Fixed cameras can be avoided, whereas mobile ones can’t, which can make it impossible for a child, spouse, or roommate to get away from the camera,” he explains.

That is a contrived argument. The first time it launches without my permission, i would knock it out of the air and immediately return it or trash it.

It’s not like you would just continue to own it when you’re scared of it

> because you naturally take on debts and consumption to match.

While this is certainly the common natural path, not everyone does and the "financial independence" movement is a community of those who actively try to avoid this natural path

> Yes. Because this has historical significance.

Every day brings historical significance. I'm not sure this particular event merits 14+ posts -- that's an RSS feed not HackerNews. What happened in today's post that has more significance than compared to the previous 13 combined?

How does it compare to U.K. rules or Australia & NZ?

Are these (proposed) rule changes more in-line with other nations? I’ve looked at student visas years ago but many of them were very strict and required taking English competency exams, with extension requirements. And when traveling on a work visa I wasn’t allowed to even pay for classes.

“Among other changes, the proposed rule would limit the time students could spend in English language training to no more than two years over a lifetime and impose limits on the number of times students can change programs at the same degree level or move to a program at a lower degree level”

I’m actually surprised that wasn’t already a rule, and probably has been ripe for abuse!

> Tyler Tech has pivoted on the threat of ransomware as a selling point for many of its services, using its presence on social media to promote ransomware survival guides and incident response checklists. With any luck, the company was following some of its own advice and will weather this storm quickly.

That's going to be an awkward consulting service to sell in the future.

That's impressive that you've been able to be independent for a decade; congrats!. As I'm looking at your site, it appears you only focus on Law schools. Why haven't you expanded to include B schools or Med or others?

>> As options increase, expect Google to "comfortably sunset" their solutions.

Read some of the other comments here. This is anything other than “comfortably” and will create a lot of pain & churn for Both the devs and users

Are we talking about founders or FAANG developers?

Last I’ve read on HN, most founders are not making “SV salary” because they’re expecting the golden ticket. Here, it appears you get an equivalent salary + job security with a capped upside.

It can be local common knowledge to one country (like a tradition/custom) while not being common to another country

A physical switch does not necessarily mean the microphone is disconnected at the hardware-level. I checked these and I don't think it does

https://support.google.com/googlenest/thread/24537110?hl=en

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Google+Home+Mini+Teardown/10...

More important than speaker kill switches, we need physical/hardware microphone switches that disconnect the circuit. These are built into Amazon Echo devices, but it's unclear if Google Home or other Apple HomePod have this (a quick revealed they do not).

Wait, so is this fairly common knowledge or expected behavior?

I thought that the Ig Nobel Prize was for discovery of the evidence of something funny/interesting/unusual, not for common knowledge...

>> Among its varied applications, Gore-Tex is used in medical devices including heart patches, guitar strings, space suits, and vacuum bags.

I have always considered GoreTex to be one of those simple-but-brilliant inventions. Tiny pores to prevent water droplets, but still breathable, but I had no idea it was also used in medical devices or space!

I'll have to watch Adam's episode, but I watched a Netflix documentary five years ago (don't recall the name) that presented the argument that it was primarily the (cotton?) industry that lobbied to classify weed as illegal, because they wanted to destroy the hemp industry (and succeeded) as they were producing clothing.

So it sounds like original bad intent (destroy competition) led to it being abused for further bad intent (racism).

>> appears quite watery.

Particularly watery looking for a cold brew