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ecf··on Fractal Vise
A Chinese machinist is already selling these on Alibaba while the American machinist attempts to repatent something invented a century ago.

One wants to produce a tool that helps others make cool stuff, one wants to rip off an inventors design to try to pass it off as his own.

This is everything the patent system is supposed to protect AGAINST. Differences in societal values I guess.

ecf··on A farmer responded to a contract question with a thumbs up – now has to pay $82K
> who have to be protected from themselves.

Taking a look at how much they receive in government subsidies quickly proves that, yes, they need protecting from themselves.

ecf··on White House opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming
Well let me know when another county is in a position to stop America from doing anything.
ecf··on Biden Administration Ordered to Limit Social Media Contacts
Looking at this conversation makes me believe the US won’t exist as we know it in 50 or 100 years. We’re too far gone as a country, and there is no going back.
ecf··on Next.js is the most frustrating, opinionated mess I've ever had to deal with
After debugging an issue with a customer using using App router I decided to never touch NextJS and learn Remix instead.

Their official documentation for early loading scripts simply doesn’t work.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/51242

Did any of this stuff get tested at all before being labeled production ready?

ecf··on Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
> Unreviewed content

> This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

Reddit is trying so hard to keep this under control.

ecf··on State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California
> Refusing to renew

It seems they’re trying to make it so insurers simply can’t cancel your policy out from under you. Note how it specifies “renew”. These were people already paying for wildfire insurance and the law prevented them from being screwed over. Insurers just want a way out of paying up unless they can renew your contract into an absurdly marked up premium.

ecf··on State Farm halts new property insurance policies in California
This is all fun and games until insurers just stop insuring Midwest homes in tornado zones, flood planes, etc. Not sure why this idea is being upvoted simply because it’s about California.
ecf··on UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal
I’d love to see the deal going through anyway and Microsoft pulling COD out of Britain. Just once I want to see this bluff get called.
ecf··on Ask HN: Do you think this is the start of the new financial crisis?
Say it is a new financial crisis. What can we do to actually make a profit from it like all the established players are doing?
ecf··on New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
Hype driven developers/marketers believe the only type of websites that exists are those which need indexable content for SEO purposes. More news at 11
ecf··on Reddit is currently down
> We're almost back! You can find us hanging out in /r/downtimebananas, join us!

Who comes up with this, and who is it for?

ecf··on Reddit is down
I don’t ever want to be asked to do a system design interview for a YC startup when HN is crushed this much by just few high traffic posts.
ecf··on Ask HN: Has GitHub Search always been broken?
Maybe a bit off topic but I dislike the recent change that makes searching within a repo the default if you’re in one and you click on the search bar.

I’ll hit “T” if I need to search a repo. The search bar is 100% only used for navigating between repos.

ecf··on Why Sony says it can’t trust Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer? Answer: Bethesda
> I also still think that Sony is being incredibly hypocritical here with how they are responding considering their love of making exclusive contracts. Final Fantasy being a big example right now but it seems to be a trend that Square and Sony will continue.

At the end of the day this is literally all that is needed to get this merger approved. Sony has exclusivity for one of the top MMOs and Microsoft wants a competing offering in World of Warcraft.

It’s so beyond hypocritical for Sony to be taking this stance and I hope they are eventually laughed out of court.

ecf··on SVB collapse: Peter Thiel’s role scrutinized as spark of bank run
Can’t wait for the day there isn’t this hive mind surrounding VCs and the tech elite at large. Bank runs, mass layoffs, etc. All of them are just copying what others are doing.
ecf··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
With so many banks dropping 20%+ I don’t see how this doesn’t result in an economic catastrophe.
ecf··on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank
So is this going to be a “privatized profits, socialized losses” type scenario? Are taxpayers going to be bailing out this bank and the companies that use them?
ecf··on FTC bars GoodRx from sharing consumers’ sensitive health info for advertising
The wealthy already have so many ways to get out of paying their taxes that a flat tax might result in them paying more.

Our legal system was also created during an age where there weren’t so damn many billionaires with a net worth greater than tens of millions of average taxpayers combined.

ecf··on FTC bars GoodRx from sharing consumers’ sensitive health info for advertising
America desperately needs percentage based fines for everything.
ecf··on Elon Musk apologises to sacked Twitter worker over online row
Threads talking about the original exchange have comments numbering in the hundreds yet the revelation Musk was unequivocally an asshole in this exchange results in barely a peep.

Great look HN Musk-apologists.

ecf··on Twitter's own internal url shortener ran out of API credits
> The other comments in this thread are doing nothing if the sort.

> It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.

ecf··on Less than half of California students read or do math at grade level
Half of adults in the US read at or below an 8th grade level so I don’t see why this is surprising.
ecf··on How they filmed The Last of Us arcade scene
I looked at a couple different subreddits and their threads for the latest episode.

/r/television has a few dozen hits for “boring”. It really was a slow episode, and combined with the previous episode it’s starting to become a slow series overall.

The one on the official subreddit? Zero. It’s eerie just how _positive_ everyone is which is hard to believe considering reactions elsewhere.

ecf··on OKRs will never be enough
By their very nature OKRs are terrible. It’s purely for the benefit of management/executives because they’re asking rank and file employees to go above and beyond their job duty all in the name of squeezing out more performance with the same amount of resources.

Supposedly it’s the leadership’s job of steering the company in the right direction but in the end they throw their hands up and ask the people doing the REAL work to simply do more.

ecf··on 30 years ago; Marc Andreessen proposed the <img> HTML tag
Wish I was starting my career in tech 30 years ago when new ideas were this easy to come up with.
ecf··on Parched California Misses a Chance to Store More Rain
Simply providing a counter example to a statement. Take a moment to reflect on your behavior and ask yourself why you’re taking it personal.
ecf··on Parched California Misses a Chance to Store More Rain
> unlike California they actually build things in Texas

Except reliable power infrastructure, apparently.

ecf··on MS Teams 2.0 – trying to fix the issues
OneNote users have been asking for full-featured code blocks for decades at this point and MS can’t or won’t do it.

Not surprising to see it suck so bad in Teams.

ecf··on My class required AI
A whole generation is going to start relying on AI and never do any actual writing or critical thinking for themselves. This is a problem when the average reading level for half of American adults is already below that of an 8th grader.
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