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“In each case, the device collects intimate and detailed biometric information about its wearer and uploads that data to servers, communities, and repositories. To the providers of the devices, this data and the subsequent processing of it are the main reasons the devices exist.” This statement is a complete non sequitur in the case of the Apple Watch. The main reason the Apple Watch exists is to sell it to people in exchange for profit. What part of the business model there is about intimate data collection?

Or you could just block it connecting to the internet with an application firewall…

I’ve been doing the same. The potential downside risk of having LinkedIn/Facebook/Instagram profiles just keeps growing and growing. I’m a complete ghost on the Internet. I have Google alerts set up for my names and email addresses, and I regularly attempt to docs myself to find any leaks. I also can’t understand why anyone in the public eye doesn’t completely sanitise their social media profiles. The amount of people brought down by 10 year old stupid tweets is insane.

The interest rates they charge on these loans and their mission statement suggest two very different motives. Mine is approaching car loan interest territory.

Why would this disincentivise asking for a raise?

I'm interested in your personal experience with r/uk vs r/ukpolitics. I've stopped reading either as to me it seemed that they both had a pretty strong auth-left bias. I felt this was more pronounced in r/uk - to the point that it was/is a continuous stream of Twitter style hot takes. Although I suspect most of the readership/commenters are edgy 16 year olds so it's probably an unfair expectation that any of the discussion would be particularly nuanced. UK based threads on HN seem far more level headed.

This is hilarious. The US has a more painful past than Germany or France? That’s some pretty strange American exceptionalism.

I mean, what is the alternative? We spend the rest of our lives hiding in our houses? He is right - at some point we will collectively decide COVID is a risk worth running to actually live life. And it might be that it does make day-to-day activities more risky than before, but again, what is the alternative?

That’s completely untrue - The design of crumple and impact zones like the hood, bumpers and headlights absolutely do help pedestrians. There is a suite of Road safety tests designed to specifically evaluate exactly that: https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...

Your second point is also untrue. The shape and structure of traditional car crumple zones and impact areas like the hood and headlights have a significant impact on pedestrian survivability: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257775117_Crumple_z...

These zones are explicitly designed with pedestrian safety in mind, as it is a specific area of testing for roadworthiness certifications: https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...

Ideally in the moose test the moose and car never make contact. It is a test of the car's ability to safely support extreme evasive manoeuvres, rather than its crash survivability.

Tall SUVs typically fare worse at this because of their higher centre of gravity causing instability:

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

Electric vehicles often have much better safety credentials than their ICE powered counterparts for a few reasons:

* All of the weight is in the bottom of the vehicle, giving a lower centre of gravity. I'd bet this will kill the old F150 in a moose (or child!) test.

* The lack of engine means the entire front part of the car is a huge crumple zone. This gives designers more wriggle room for pedestrian protection too. This is an increasingly important requirement in road safety standards.

* The electric motors are able to respond with torque far faster (in ms) than an ICE engine, so traction and stability control are more effective. Again good for things like the moose test.

* Switching our road transport to electric will probably save more children, and the adults they will become, from a lifetime of lung problems and premature death from pollution than better pedestrian safety features ever will.

Correct - the homebuyers report on my house cost £300.

Thats true, but you really can't have it both ways. You either want a professional opinion on the quality of the house or you're willing to run the risk. Anyway, the banks aren't doing inspections for the benefit of the buyer. They want to know that should the house be repossessed they are likely to recoup their investment. The fact the buyer might find something out about the house is a happy side effect.

Thats just nonsense. There absolutely is a requirement to disclose known faults with the property, and if a survey (which every buyer does) shows up something serious, there is a legal requirement to disclose it to all parties. Also most banks will cover the cost of a survey.

I’d be pretty careful drawing any conclusions about the mood of the nation from Twitter. The Twitter crowd are very loud and quite extremist but I believe they are small in number. To be honest I’d just avoid Twitter all together. Nothing good comes out of it.

God this story is so over-represented on the Internet. There must be other interesting mysteries and stories from this period in Soviet history, surely?

Why not just tax gas? It’s the perfect solution. The more you drive, the more you pay. The more polluting your car, the more you pay. Long term it seems inevitable that tax will need to move onto the electricity used to charge cars.

Sure, many of us can do stuff like that, but the average user can't.

How is installing an executable on my machine and then entering my financial info any less sketchy than entering my data into a website? The average user would still have to take it on faith that the data isn't going anywhere, and as an industry we have spent the last 20 years telling people not to download unknown software onto their systems. I think it would be a complete own-goal for the builder of this to switch to that model.

It is almost difficult to describe someone who hasn’t seen it how powerful tides in the UK can be. Where I live the tidal range is over 12m from low to high tide and flows like a massive fast-moving river at peak times. It can easily overpower small boats and drag them out to sea. The amount of energy moving through the waterway is staggering.

This is a great post let down by the need to inject some lame shots at the Tories. A quick Google search shows that smart motorways first came about under a Labour government, and were extended several times during their tenure.

Yeah this is exactly the situation I find myself in. I regret the ethical and environmental consequences of eating meat, but I found it very hard to replace it completely and still have a balanced diet.

Not meant as joke. I'm aware that there are lots of good reasons for not eating beef, I was wondering if prion exposure risk is one of them, as the meat/no-meat argument is one I try to revaluate regularly as new info comes to light. I eat beef once or twice a week as I have found it hard to get sufficient iron, protein, b12 and enough calories in general without it (and other meats). That and it tastes good, but I'm always receptive to new counterpoints.

Does your second point suggest that we should avoid eating beef?

It’s worth noting that the article describes how syphilis is common in high risk groups engaging in high risk activities in a high risk part of the country, rather than the general population at large. However it seems inevitable that it will spill out into the wider population too.

Do you have a link so I can read about this? Sounds bad

What would stop Adobe selling the unpaid amount as a bad debt to a collections agency in this case? I have been hounded by debt collectors for far smaller amounts that slipped through the net.

Hey if someone said by the time I’m 40 I wouldn’t have to live in fear of peanuts anymore, I’d pay whatever they asked.

Eh? I'm watching TV in the UK right now. Nothing is cancelled.