craftyguy

It's not about electricity. Las Vegas is literally the worst place to build a large city with extravagant outdoor swimming pools, fountains, etc because those things require water and those things lose water at a ridiculous rate in the middle of a desert. Water is also not generally abundant in a desert (by virtue of it being a, uh, desert)

LEO requires totally different technology than getting to and landing on the Moon. So yes, they cannot get to LEO, but they've been developing the machines (SLS) that should allow them to get to the Moon. It's doubtful it'll happen by 2024 though.

> it makes for boring reading

I didn't find this readers interpretation of the author's behavior to be boring. I can see how she may come across as being overly combative (though I agree with her goal).

Your frequent comments about what you find to be 'boring' is boring.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: There's no new information here. Anyone who has been paying even a tiny bit of attention would already know this. "Hacker" "news" wouldn't know an on-topic story if it hit them in the face.

Obviously the value of their subscription service is not compelling enough for their business to sustain itself.

What did they expect? They don't really offer a valuable service besides a one-off test + results. At some point you're going to hit everyone who wants to use the service, they'll use it exactly once, and you'll have no more market.

That doesn't mean everyone is OK with it. Some of us place a high value on free software and privacy.

> Could it be they bought Habana for US$2B?

Literally the first sentence of the second paragraph in the article (that you read, right?)

> The announcement itself isn’t very surprising. In mid December the company announced its acquisition Habana Labs for approximately $2 billion.

It's literally the 2nd sentence on firefox.com:

> Automatic privacy is here.

They "care" about it, but they don't care about it.

It's not free software, it includes proprietary google tracking libraries.

Agreed. For an organization that preaches "privacy", Mozilla still continues to make stupid decisions about including google crap everywhere.

Some DDX drivers handle tearing (implementing vsync). Tearing is basically not a problem at all on Wayland compositors since the spec addresses it directly (from what I understand)

> What's your approach for these cases?

If it's important enough, the caller will leave a voicemail.

controversial title --> more "hacker" "news" upvotes

Pidgin doesn't support OMEMO[0], which is sad. I've also had mixed results using MUC on pidgin/xmpp in the past..

0. https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/16801

The article says it supports OMEMO which, IMHO, is superior to OTR in many ways.

Those arguments don't hold any weight. They could have forked the OpenVPN for Android app (which is some GPL license, don't remember which), thrown in their own branding and default config, and not shipped a proprietary mess to customers. Instead they went the proprietary mess route.

OpenVPN and IPSec clients exist, why is ProtonVPN reinventing the wheel? This ProtonVPN advertisement wouldn't have been 'necessary' if they had used and supported an existing client for these protocols.. but then again, they wouldn't have had this ad on 'hacker' 'news' if they had..

> It really is a testament to NASA that they managed a moon landing without this level of testing.

NASA definitely did this exact same testing for Apollo, I'm not sure why you assumed they didn't.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=AqeJzItldSQ

(that's the joke)

"secure" and "email" really do not belong in the same sentence.

You can't "make america great again" unless you regress.

You can buy unfinished lowers ("80% lower receivers") with no serial number, since they are not yet functional lower receivers. It's really easy to buy these, and not too difficult to finish them. Then you have a 100% off the record firearm.

From the article, which apparently here actually no one read:

> However, hitman number five was so incensed at how much the value of the contract had fallen, that he told the target to fake his own death, which eventually led to the police finding out about the plot, Beijing News reported.

> Did the 5th hitman contact the police himself? Or did they find out some other way? The article is unclear about this.

It's literally right there in the article..

> The contract finally came to the fifth hitman, Ling Xiansi, who eventually told the police.

This basically means that US beef industry is 1 disease away from being obliterated. Genetic diversity is still a requirement for the survival of a species.

But it does have a method to sort containers in its standard library, `sorted`, that C++ doesn't have. And it's trivial to use it to sort lists, sets, and dicts...

> and have a persistent Facebook ad

You're concerned about Amazon giving your personal information to 3rd parties, and yet you use facebook? Sorry, but, lol.

Buying panels is still more expensive than paying an electric company for electricity. It takes many years before you start to get a return on your investment. So I don't think that's really a valid counter argument..