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I've heard similar things said about the new Royal Enfield motorcycles here in India.

The redesigned J-series engines on their new motorcycles are smoother and I've heard some people wax nostalgic about the old thumpers and say that the new ones "lack character". I've even heard people speak fondly of the the UCE engines (introduced in the early 2000s) which were hated for a similar "lack of character" when they replaced the older engines (which were originally designed back in the 50s I think).

Your responded to a comment that brought up Japan *in comparision with Europe.*

You claim that "I said Tokyo has shit air" while ignoring the parent comment you responded to.

The comment you responded to was about how this low noise experience is not unique to Europe, and saying Japan has similar experiences.

You came in with "Tokyo has shit air" as a response. Now you claim the others are "whataboutists" when they are merely continuing the original conversation topic comparing Europe with Japan.

>And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price.

I dont think, A implies B.

With great marketing and lower volume production, you could probably make most overpriced, average quality widgets sell out.

Doesn't mean that because they're sold out therefore they were priced "right". (as subjective as pricing is)

> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus.

Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and almost always from the same location. However because they have 2 different listings and thus 2 separate menus, they are able to create a relatively cohesive and simple menu for each listing.

So on first glance Behrouz Biriyani, looks fairly straightforward. It serves Biriyanis (with a lot of variants/sizes/combos etc). And Faasos serves wraps, rolls and other related snack foods.

If you did not know that these were essentially from the same place, you would assume that these were separate restaurants with relatively focussed menu, hence passing said cardinal rule.

With physical restaurants, the rule is easier to apply. With deliveries, it's far more difficult as the huge, unfocussed menus get separated into different restaurant listings.

> If remote working was a point on the collective organizing table then management would be able to request mitigating actions to compensate for whatever they felt was lost because of WFH.

What you are missing is that there does not seem to be a "collective organizing table" that you speak of at Apple. An edict from above comes in saying staff need to return to office. Apple execs did not "request mitigating actions" they demanded it.

> This, on the other hand, is a single issue action, which involves no bargaining and places demands from 1 side without a corresponding opportunity to mitigate negative effects.

Any bargaining starts with needs and wants from both sides. Apple has made their demand to the employees telling them to return to office. Some employees are trying to organise to put forward a counter-demand. Apple execs could respond to said petition with an offer to come to the same table and negotiate, but it does not seem like they are at that stage yet.

> There are certainly better ways to communicate your point than this.

Well, do tell.

Passing along a petition sounds like a very low impact way of collectively asking for something. It's not like they are starting off with a strike.

Or are thinking of a "mgmt's way or the highway" type of deal?

> There are lots of things I’m sure you and I might find interesting. But HN doesn’t benefit from the practice of “ooh, let me use this topic as a pretense to post something I wanted to share regardless, and without reading the article”.

I disagree. The comment is related to the discussion (about SEC action) and the comment was pretty interesting and added value to the comment section

On the other hand, posting shallow dismissals and implying that they haven't read the article is not adding value to the comment section.

>> Nobody should be rewarded for that.

> One strike, you're out? Is that the rule you judge by?

That's how law works isn't it? Just because you've done a lot of good things doesn't mean that you shouldn't be tried for stabbing a person.

> Codespaces costs money.

It's going to be paid by your employer which leads to GP's concern about,

> or build a productivity dashboard so managers can fire people for not being productive enough (like Xsolla did)

Which is more likely. If your employer sets something like this up - will they use it to calculate a productivity score and use that for lay offs? Seems rather probable to me.

Amazon does operate its own sellers but through joint ventures - but the link isn't openly acknowledged on the site.

The largest one is Cloudtail. Another is Appario.

Amazon just announced that they are parting ways on the Cloudtail joint venture.

https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-end-relationship-wit...

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/amazon-i...

The problem I find is that when apps are created for the common-denominator, they alienate the power users that usually create the content that the rest consume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

The Twitter app for example, is perfectly ok for me as a lurker/consumer -- but is most often criticised by the people who i follow (and who are active tweeters)

Do you think once you are charged with possessing child porn - will you still have your job, your friends, your family, your life as you know it? Will a court decision - months or years later - restore what you have lost?

My understanding (outsider perspective, based on what people have told me) is a combination of silly complicated laws pushed by politicians to keep people from abusing the service, lobbying by private healthcare providers (insurance etc) to keep government assistance limited and purposefully annoying and politicians against "big government" underfunding institutions to see them fail.

When recipes say "caramelize/cook/brown/soften onions for 5 min", what they almost always mean is soften onions until they're a bit brown not caramelize.

The brown bits are the result of the Maillard reaction not proper caramelization which takes time for the sugars to break down, but what you have isn't "caramelized onions" what you have is softened onions that are a bit brown.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-brown-onions-913397

> The problem with using the term "caramelized" for browned onions is more than just inaccuracy. What causes confusion is that the term is used for two very different methods and results. The first method, which involves very slow cooking, results in onions whose cells have broken down so far that they almost form a paste. They brown slowly and evenly, almost from the inside out.

> The second method cooks the onions more quickly over higher heat so that they brown before they have a chance to break down. You end up with browned onions that retain their shape and some texture. They also retain much more of their volume.

> "having a robot" is not a problem statement

It is if what you want is a robot.

90% viewers / consumers of content, 9% who contribute a little (comments and occasional posts,) 1% who actively generate majority of content

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

Security != Privacy

The theory (conspiracy or otherwise) that I've heard is that the Russian state looks the other way as long as ransomware makers don't affect Russian systems. So they exclude systems with Russian language keyboard to avoid impacting Russian systems (which might cause the Russian govt to take action against them)

> I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement

If they are in a monopolistic position, why would they bother with the expense?

I have Youtube Music (through Premium) and it's still annoying. Especially when it decides some cover version on Youtube is "for Kids" and then refuses to play in the background. Which is one of the few features actually essential for a music player.

> To take that and open source the secret sauce of a fragile startup in a competitive market..

i think that's absolute bollocks.

Replit is not the first to pioneer running code online nor is the open-source project the secret sauce.

The open-source project seems to be a toy he built for satisfying his own curiosity, not scalable beyond a single-server. Something that the guy admits can be brought down by a fork bomb. it has no user-accounts, no sharing features, no persistance -- nothing that makes it the "secret sauce".

To quote the blog,

>Replit’s core value proposition isn’t letting you run code online (you can do this in dozens of places for free), it’s the features they offer on top of running code.

Running code online is not a novel idea that Replit came up with. It's the rest that made it appealing.

> criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful"

in general yes, but in this case the criticism is warranted when Replit is claiming that that the open-source toy project somehow stole their idea

Say you interned for Twitter for a while - and you decided to create a small open-source self-hosted microblogging site for you to play around with.

Bad taste? Unethical? I think that's going too far.

Since the open-source project here doesn't seem to be running at scale nor having support for user-accounts or anything as such. Is working on an open-source toy for the sake of it - somehow unethical because it's related to a previous employer's product?

I work for a financial institution, and if i create a small bit of opensource code in the future (after leaving my current job) that relates to banking, is it unethical or wrong?

Quoting the blogpost,

>there were 38 visits to Riju during the month of February. (Half of those were probably me.)

>the architecture was limited to running on a single server

>Riju categorically lacked all of these features, including: having a user account, saving your work, sharing your work, publishing webapps, persistent workspaces, discussion forums, integration with GitHub, etc. etc.

System -> Languages & input -> Autofill service

Not sure if MIUI was organised differently.

> A human was asked to fulfill a request to block the "tank man" search in China and forgot to add the country restriction.

But why would someone be asked to block it today - if it's to be blocked in China, wouldn't it be blocked all through out the year?

Why specifically would they ask it to be blocked just now and not years ago? I can't know for sure, but it just feels like a rogue employee deciding to block "tank man" globally on the anniversary ...

Is store-bought communism as good as freshly made communism?

Store-bought communism offers better value, but freshly made communism is so much better I think.

Similarly w.r.t racing - I have no problem with press conferences, but a mandatory press conference isn't really any good. The only time that it's worth watching is when they're all in a good mood and there is some banter.

But then again most of what you hear in a press conference is just useless.

Much of this I believe has to do with the absolutely inane rubbish they are asked (sometimes leads to quite funny retorts - but most of the press conference seems to be garbage) - hence you see people in F1 like Kimi so obviously disinterested in the press conference circus.

On a side note, if I recall correctly the Stig, in Top Gear, was not supposed to speak - because I believe Clarkson said "opinions of racing drivers are worthless".

And with people like Lando Norris gaining popularity due to his direct social media interactions - the press circus seems more irrelevant than ever.

This just seems to be a vindictive attempt by traditional media to keep their hold over the coverage ...

It would have taken me hundreds of hours to understand the mechanisms of derivatives like the sub-prime mortgage backed CDS-es as well.

Not a very good way to convince me of cryptocurrencies' greatness by saying 'oh its too complicated to understand, but trust me its big'.

i'm not very into crypto - and everytime i look it feels like another speculative bubble but this time the speculators are even more hyped.

> So if some plurality of rich stakers wanted to do a hostile takeover of a network, the community could create a fork where the oligarch coins are frozen and continue from there.

What's the "community" here? What would incentivise users to consider the new fork to be the legitimate one? If rich oligarchs control the first one - how do you build trust in the new one as opposed the current one? As a fiat currency - I would assume the rich oligarchs would have a great chance of leveraging wealth into ensuring that the current coin gets marketed and hence holds trust? The USD holds its current position because the US Gov stands behind it - what would keep the oligarchs propping the current coin up as opposed to the forked coin?

I'm sorry if this sounds silly - as I'm not very into crypto.