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Why can't you be an astronaut? Sounds to me like you are limiting yourself...

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/astronaut-se...

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/779261100

That stat is so impressive that I'm struggling to believe it. Is there a source you can point me to?

I don't believe whether ones finances allowing someone to have children is the factor for whether they will. From my observation (i have not researched this; this is anecdotal), wealthier people opt to have fewer or no kids, and larger families are usually those of lower income, like there's an inverse relationship between wealth and desired number of children. Even I used to want a large family until I acquired a higher standard of living and certain luxuries that I would likely have to give up if I got married and had kids.

There's a popular line of thought that motherhood is below a working woman, and men and woman alike are enjoying increased ease of living and a consumerism lifestyle. The folk who still have to stretch and sacrifice to make ends meet already have the mindsets needed for children (sacrifice, hard work) and aren't affected by the line of belief that motherhood is 'below' since they already have learned not to compare themselves to others.

Again this is speculation. I am not a sociologist.

I currently use nextcloud, but while I was deciding my infrastructure, I also tried syncthing. I'd recommend trying it out since your preferences make me think it may be a better fit for you. Its pretty painless to set up, auto syncs based on your preferences. I dont know how fast it is, since I only used it for trivial testing purposes while deciding which to use, but I'd say worth comparing.

Angelbroz is not an outlier, nor out lying. Several premium payers who use adblock for other sites and dont disable for YT have the same issue

Thanks for the corrections. I didn't realize how behind/mistaken I was on this tech

I'm not saying it is limited to 2D, rather that they missed out by using something that can render 3D to only render 2D objects. Everything they showed off was just apps with layers at the most. When they showed the recreation of the guy, I thought that would be 3D, but they still distilled him into a 2D box

Everything is 2D, making it just a TV/phone on your face. Although these other products were never released commercially, the google glasses and microsoft's hololens both envisioned adding 3D objects that interacted with your real space. In comparison, the Vision is very dull. I'm glad they are actually selling commercially though, so maybe we can soon see these features that AR allows, from them or competitors.

Where are these advertised? This is the first I've heard of a meetup

Just because you can spread out doesn't mean you want to. I have enough plates at dinner for my kids to spread out, but both of my kids want the plastic red one and will fight over it. Anciently, people are going to fight over what they think is the more ideal spot to live, or mine, harvest, etc. even if the other side of the mountain is exactly the same.

I'm getting a blank page from your link

And to clear any ambiguation, it's not the Bitfrost security used in the Childrens Machine[0] , the 2012 laptop for developing countries

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO

I found this product and am leaning towards it, because it could adopt the roles of both my PC and phone, since it can run both Linux and Android aplications as a degoogled fork of ChromeOS. I still have reservations, so I am interested to hear other recommendations for tablets as well as any comments on this product.

> I have been looking for a good book about that (some kind of "ethics for engineers 101").

When I was in school for my engineering degree, a few required classes had ethics sections. It always wound up talking about an international standard like those from IEEE, understanding international business and supply chains, and preventing a conflict of interest.

> Does somebody here have recommendations?

Sadly I have no recommendation for you as everything I read as a student was very dull, but I can't overstate how easy a conflict of interest can arrive and cause huge problems. If you include that topic in your search for a book, it may have good application. I'd be interested in what you find as well.

> otherwise there's no reason for modifying software to affect a warranty on hardware.

I think you bring up a really good point. Except for extreme cases, such as a software that is designed to be self destructive on the physical components in which it resides, the hardware should mostly be unaffected by the software. Mostly that some components get used more or less than they were before, changing efficiency of some functions. Then we get into the grey area of whether or not the unorthodox use of components caused damage.

> if the manufacturer can show that damage resulted from the user modifying the device then fine

Here you are putting the burden of proof on the manufacturer, which seems a little unfair. If anyone can make a complaint (make use of warranty), and you the manufacturer are guilty as charged automatically unless you can prove the software caused the damage, then there will be an insurmountable amount of work to thoroughly review all software not sourced from one of your already-vetted approved sources.

Then again, if burden of proof falls on the accuser (warranty holder), it is a catch-22 because you can't prove that a software is without any issues. Companies are constantly creating patches not because they intentionally want to have a fault until x day, but because they genuinely thought the software was good until y vulnerability was found/exploited.

I think this is why companies take the 'any usage outside these specific approved usages voids the warranty' approach. In application to this conversation, this means while you may change your OS, it doesn't shock me that a manufacturer wants to keep their hands away from those consumers

This is precisely one of the perks of rooting.

Unless you mean as a right, without needing to root? I'd disagree (from a corporate/warranty perspective), but I'll bite

There's some hiccups when you first set GrapheneOS up, but after that it is as smooth as, and blends in with, any other Android device. I've never used Librem or PinePhone to comment on them

> And why do we have to accept that phones just turn into garbage after a few years? Even my old 2009 laptop* still runs an up-to-date OS but my 2016 phone is obsolete after 2-3 years?

It is because computers run one of a few available OS's. The OS is being maintained by the distributer (MS, Apple, Google) and your hardware is good as long as the drivers are still receiving updates.

Phones are different because even though everyone only uses iOS or Android, every Android manufacturer puts their own layer onto Android, so Google can continusously update it but the manufacturer might not. Most companies only maintain their phones for about 3 years, giving a significantly reduced lifetime than computers.

It still works fine, from from a security perspective, keeping the phone without patch support is a bad idea.

Can't we just disconnect the transmitter physically inside the car? Assume we don't care if we void a warranty. This is my plan for when it is no longer practical to buy old/bricked cars.

When I first started playing I had the same reaction as you. I was trying to win and the rules didn't seem clear. I continued not because I liked the game, but because I enjoyed the company of my friends, even if the activity didn't make sense to me.

Now, whether as DM or player, I enjoy it not as a game to win, but as a story to explore. Like an interactive movie. Even when I am the author of the plot as DM, I can't predict what my players will do, and it becomes an enjoyable discovery as they force plot twists from their end.

> I rolled a 15 sided dice

15 sided die? Why didn't you also roll a 58 sided die then?

> I will be reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Great luck! I loved that book as a child. It may have been what led me to HN...

Their pay should be what the contract agreed it to be, regardless of how popular it was.

Imagine someone makes a popular show. They are hired by another company in hopes of a repeat, but it flops. The company doesn't get to hold back the money because it wasn't "replayed constantly for years" or a more measurable contribution to their companies worth, unless that was written in the contract that the performer would assume the risk. But usually companies accept the risk, which is why the risk holder, such as a CEO or lenders, make more money (or lose it all if the risk fruitioned ill)

In markets like freelancing, authorship, etc; where the risk is assumed by the creator specifically, their performace can directly influence their pay. Most people would prefer a steady, risk-free paycheck though, which is why your contribution is most likely less influential to your pay, except in the case of when you go out of your way to get a new contract via promotion or job hunting.

Yes, however most people have google accounts. For example, with an android, it is impossible to download an app from the Play Store without a google account (assuming you aren't using a mirror, and other stipulations), so that alone encapsulats half of Americans, and google has several other products unrelated to android you could be using.

The people in developed countries who this doesn't affect could be negligible.

I deleted my history several times back when I used a google account. It can be done in two places, but the easier is, starting from any google application, click ProfileImage > Manage your Google Account > Data and Privacy. On that page is Location History, in the Things you've done and places you've been category. In there your options are Delete all, or Delete activity older than <range>. And it can be recurring deletion as well.

In the same Privacy page, you can easily delete or download anything you want.

> I'm going to get the Qwitzatteracht discussion going on the three internet forums.

I used to play Qwitzatteracht with my friends as a schoolboy and love following the stats of players as an adult. With it being dropped from Sky news, I've been looking for other outlets on the sport... Where are you going to talk about this golfing varient? I would love to be more connected in the Qwitzatteracht world.

> And then I use libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts.

Thank you for this! I know of and use some of these already, just from luck of discovery, and having a compilation of several more is so freeing!

Obviously there's going to be some abuse of this system (by the homeless), but overall I think this is really cool, and I fail to see how this makes bank for any of the orchestraters involved.

Cities that deal with high levels of homelessness are usually places that are deemed unaffordable anyways by the common American. Also if the place is warm, has easy access to drugs, and generous help with minimal requirements of the beneficiary to receive that aid. I awknowledge there will always be individuals who would rather have awful living standards than assume any responsibilities, but for those people who actually want to forge a better life for themselves, who fell through the cracks and are homeless perhaps to poor decisions but otherwise want to stand back up, this is awesome.

The article you labelled "SF -> ??" Specifically said it was tranporting them to family or friends who know that person, ie. someone who would have individual concern for them to get them back on their feet.

> “We consider a person being removed from the street and reunited with a stable, loving family as the best possible outcome,” Hussey said. “This is not shifting the homeless problem to other cities. This is a person being removed from the street and being helped by the people who love them the most — their families.”

"NV -> CA" ironically goes against your statement, because the article is saying that Nevada stopped sending people to SF. Also they were trying to replicate what SF was doing, sending them to families, but in the worst possible way that was guaranteed to fail, because they sent them to a location without contacting any family or even seeing if any lived where they were putting them.

> Homeless patients are no longer bused to other areas and state officials want to move forward

"NY -> Hawaii" is similar to the "SF -> ??" one because despite the title, they were sending them nationwide, not just Hawaii. Their approach was the most easily abused, because they paid for a year's worth of livelihood. However, for people who have real intentions to improve their lives, this provides great hope in that dream because they get a fresh start, and in a place that is not impossibly expensive to live in and guaranteeing future impoverishment.

Regarding "WY -> UT", SLC, where they are being taken to in UT, is one of the few places where they focus on rehab rather than perpetual homelessness, and basically all homelessness programs are focused on addiction recovery, and acquisition of a job. It is illegal to beg there, or to give money to homeless, because the only possible way to be homeless there is by refusing rehabilitation. I have no proof of these comments of SLC, as this perspective is based on what I've heard from others, so it could be wrong, but I've heard nothing to the contrary. So I am again optimistic for this approach from Wyoming, although I think it'd be better if they just adopted the same system instead of overloading another states rehabs.

The last article you posted has no relevancy to the topic, as it discusses migrants and the border issue, not homelessness, so I will skip it.

I considered buying a xiaomi 5 years ago and this makes me glad I didn't

> I get the order of the words mixed up to the other language.

I'm trying to piece whether this would be anicdotal evidence for or against the previous statement of

> All brains work that way.

Since there are many ways this could be occuring, would you say that you are ... • putting the 2nd language in the order of your native language (or opposite) • putting word order in active voice (or passive) regardless of which language you are speaking • or putting the words in the order of whichever language has been dominate at the time. Like if you are somewhere where you mostly have been speaking Language A, and suddenly switch to Language B, you accidentally use Language A grammar

I have dreamed of ditching the phone but haven't because so many sites that require a phone number to make an account, and some that use that number to validate your identity. How do you get around this?