btmiller

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I think you’re saying exactly what OP was implying. Persecution as in legal consequences. “You can say whatever you want, but we’re going to ask you to leave our private establishment”.

I’d also really like multi-stop navigation planning like Google Maps has. I’m planning on a cross-country road trip to see family for the holidays and I’d love if Apple could improve upon the multi-stop planning experience that Google threw together. It’s nice, but it’s also cumbersome.

Sounds to me like the invisible hand of the free market economy. Use that phone, then. A given company is not obligated to serve all of your specific needs and desires.

This was only part of your comment, but I’m very happy with my Apple TV purchase (especially now with the “fixed” remote). The hardware has always been sufficiently fast which enables app devs to present the best version of their UIs. Though this isn’t a silver bullet (see the Prime Video app), the same APIs many devs are used to on iOS do enable a delightful experience (insofar as delightful = objectively better than the experiences on alternative hardware).

(Woof, so many caveats here!)

In practice it really isn’t. The city sprawls endlessly with no mass transit, so you end up staying in your corner of the greater Houston area all the time, which is 90% suburbs with no walkability. Urban Houston is more diverse yes, but once you get beyond 610 you lose all city benefits and all the neighborhoods are homogeneous and monocultural. Houston is ok. Greater Houston is a terrible place. Great food though.

These flippant type of comments are not why people come to HN comments. Please be better.

Yeah the Twitter OP is wayyyy off base here. No one compels employees to merge accounts???? What the hell is this story even. This feels like someone with an axe to grind, and external readers are none-the-wiser to reality internally at Apple.

(Obviously thoughts are my own, I do not speak for the company)

I’m not sure I understand. I recently saved and strategized and worked hard to buy a not-cheap house in Seattle. Who said I was entitled to specifically what I worked hard to get? I’m very fortunate to have what I want, and by no means is it my right to be exactly where I am in the structure that I want.

Let me know if you’re ever in the Seattle area, happy to grab a beer any time :)

From the bottom of my heart: who cares. Stop glorifying celebrities. I’m not going to disparage their earned wealth like is so popular right now, but they are billionaires and we shouldn’t be looking to them to solve all the world’s problems. So why should I, or anyone for the matter, care what these 2 do with their money. They’re playing with toys, let’s move along.

When their respective companies seriously contend with the likes of SpaceX, then maybe they can have some of my attention. But just like with SpaceX for me, I don’t give a shit about Elon, and no one should give a shit about Bezos and Branson. Congrats to them on their wealth, now let’s move on.

For good measure, maybe this post should just be replaced with the Wikipedia page for astronaut.

Here’s a good guide on how to go about this :)

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Full disclosure: I’m being pedantic. Are you suggesting Clubhouse doesn’t use cryptography?

More seriously: cryptocurrencies don’t need to be shoved into everything, and I’d like if HN cryptocurrency warriors would stop assuming that it’s the ultimate and stable solution for all payment problems today.

But it does make public bathrooms much more manageable.

Yup. It makes chasing the best storage deals an endless game of whack-a-mole.

I’m not sure which reality you live in where begging an individual on desktop to install more things is simple.

This is a dangerously bad take. Real progress is being made by this change and the assumptions you’re making risk taking wind out of its sails over essentially a non-issue.

Parler was explicitly unmoderated by choice and hate speech was its selling point. You’ll have a hard time finding a) a service provider willing to tolerate that and b) much public sympathy for the service promoting hate.

Yet it called into question freedom of speech.

Same thing today with WSB, but the focus is clearly not hate speech (even if Discord says so). I find today’s bans way more objectionable than Parler, yet I still cannot reason why people truly believe that any service providers owes it to us a 1st Amendment platform. Discord and Reddit are free to select whatever content they find palatable.

It sucks because I found WSB entertaining, but no one here should be mixing up Big Tech with the 1st Amendment.

I just bought a PHEV from Volvo and I love it. It gives me the flexibility to roam around town on pure electric while also providing the range I need to go hiking in remote areas.

A lot of the Seattle area only has street parking on residential streets. I'm curious how these folks are ever going to go full EV.

In a fit of irony, a comment I posted on a previous day referencing this paradox was removed as baiting and cliché. And I must say, I do support the removal of Parler, but here on HN having my thoughtful (at least to my perception) comment removed does serve as a chilling effect.

Apologies, that wasn’t the intention but I take your point. It’s a difficult time in the US right now and it requires difficult decisions on the type of discussions that are useful.

I’m afraid absolute freedom is slightly overrated. You have to draw the line somewhere. I’m okay with where it’s been drawn today. It’s a “you’ll know it when you see it” thing.

This isn’t authoritarianism, and we can still rightfully claim to be a tolerant society with sound rejection and banishment of hate speech. Hypothetical example, my religion does not believe in gay marriage, yet I don’t prohibit others from pursuing a happier life. But (the royal) you must absolutely draw the line at enabling hate.

Frankly yes. A tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance.

In terms of physical intrusion, a tremendous amount of security theater was exposed today. Quite astonishing how easily people were able to gain access.

Rare is not never.

That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).

Hard to read that with a straight face. What counts is what people use.

Why can’t that insight be done offline?

I finally watched Hamilton the other day and the contrasting narratives of Hamilton and Burr offer a good comparison of how Facebook sets policy. Facebook has the choice to take either take their shot and speak their mind or to talk less and smile more (i.e. leave people guessing as to what their position is).

What this position essentially shows us about Facebook is that they are more interested in policy only after watching which way the wind is blowing. White supremacy and hate groups have always been around on their platform, yet only now they decide to ban it? I think it’s really important to think about the timing of this: less than a month from Election Day, and after 4 years of divisiveness, controversy, and conflict invading their platform. I can’t imagine it took 4 years of analysis to make this decision, but now they themselves can/will claim some moral high ground for a new political atmosphere.