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I mean, mathematically it certainly does, but maybe the metaphor is getting a bit strained.

And as you expand to a global audience, the lowest common denominator gets lower.

Just to clarify, do you tell them what needs to be done and do it, or only tell them what to do?

I think there's a difference between agreeing to hold the manufacturer harmless for anything that happens and accepting basic liability for purchasing the car and putting it on the road.

I guess jedberg's idea is that there needs to be a place for the buck to start, as it were, wherever it might end up. Currently that is the driver. However, I don't see why it couldn't start with the manufacturer. They could always try to shift blame to the owner if they were misusing it somehow or interfering with its correct operation.

Expedia did that? That's great. I've always avoided them and their competitors and bought directly from the airlines because I was afraid if something went wrong I would get better service that way.

> 2. Automated tests for “broken” front end based on how the side renders on various devices. Pretty sure a machine learning model can recognize broken design. I still think it’s a good idea but potentially a pretty complicated sell!

Now that's a pretty neat idea. I don't know about recognizing subjectively broken design, but recognizing discrepancies between screenshots seems quite doable. Could be a good thing to integrate into a test suite.

Reminds me of the chapter of Blink where Gladwell delves into the correlation between a doctor's bedside manner / tone of voice and the likelihood of them being sued for malpractice. The whole thesis of the chapter seems to be that people are more willing to sue docs who are less nice, and then at the end he says if you don't like your doc, your intuition is probably right!

If you scroll down far enough there are some (perhaps they were added later).

The 'wrenches' look to me like some thing used to pull on or to tighten some sort of string or rope.

Yes, it's dishonest. If you know that a large portion of readers understand X, when actually it's Y, then you are knowingly misleading them.

Maybe for some category of apps. I can't believe that's the general case - there are too many to bother the higher-ups with.

Thin laptops are like big screens on phones and cheap airline seats. Lots of people say those aren't the most important criteria, but the tyranny of the majority says otherwise.

As far as this particular tech goes, the frailty of the butterfly keyboard is only half the problem for me. The other half is the lack of travel itself! I'm going to hang on to this 2015 model until it completely dies and then go find something else if what's on offer from Apple feels like typing on a sheet of tin foil on a kitchen counter.

The clever part was using his secretary's instead of his own.

The original quote was "Throwing money at social problems doesn't typically fix them." and it's really not far off of "money alone doesn't fix social problems". The difference is mostly of tenor.

Do you really think he was canned because of this one incident? There are years of bad behavior here.

"We will, as always, be treated to much examination of the precise nature and mass of the last straw, with observations that it would not by itself be sufficient to cause spinal damage in camels, and is therefore utterly harmless."

https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1173796229131767808

By offline do we just mean the passenger's device? If the POS is online, then what might work would be to hash the ticket's details (user id, journey, time) with a per customer secret. Embed that in the QR code and it's basically a claim that, yes, this passenger would like to be billed for this ticket. The POS would then check the passenger's account balance or for a previously authorized credit card or whatever.

It also seems to imply that as discoveries on the surface dry up, we could make many more with deeper excavations.

This was the denouement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11647165

So if you immediately went into a face first dive with your mouth wide open, could you catch enough air to stay conscious?

Unless the person you're replying to thinks you are personally currently maintaining such equipment, that's a general 'you'.

"And even if there weren't, if you've been thinking of the airgap as a "solution" and not keeping up with patches, ..."

Nobody here is going to say airgap and done, but out in the wild they will certainly deprioritize updates on airgapped equipment.

It's C. Hoare & Co. and at least some of the family running it still have that name.

I was going to jump on you to disagree, but I think you're partly right in that some people do understand something different from the word.

Still, it's important to understand that there are people who disagree with you, and who do things that you view as objectively wrong, that are driven by idealistic impulses.

Without getting into the voluntary/involuntary debate, which I think is a bit murkier than your last paragraph would imply, I think companies like FB are much more dangerous in the long run than companies like Equifax.

I was referring to the required punctuality and I wasn't being entirely serious.

This would only work in Germany.

Right, but why did they do that? The familiar mode above described their inability to get out of the stall due to the misleading alarm pattern. How do you go from cruising to stalling in the first place?

How did they get into that situation in the first place - with airspeed at less than 60 kts while at cruise altitude?

I think this post by Dan G. the other day both supports your hypotheses (about the down votes) and undermines it. Either way, I recommend reading it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214965

> But don’t then try to replicate meat with not-meat that’s just lazy.

Considering the amount of effort going into developing meat substitutes, "lazy" seems like a strange characterization. Besides, if someone has decided for reasons external to taste that they're not going to eat meat but they miss it, why shouldn't they try meat substitutes?

I don't use the automatic fill option, but LastPass can usually fill on demand even on no-paste sites.

What is the actual logic behind banning pasting, anyway? Is it just anti-scripting? If so, it seems like locking the account after a small number of bad attempts would be enough.