jakebasile

I was paying extra ($36/y vs $10/y) for the native app 1Password provided. Why would I keep paying more now that AgileBits decided not to offer the feature I wanted?

So if a company wants to take the other side here and say they only want to work with unvaccinated people, would that be ok too?

What if an employer decided not to employ anyone who had received a different medical procedure, such as a splenectomy?

If unvaccinated employees can just find other jobs, why can't vaccinated employees just find other jobs?

Of course you can, a minority is determined by population. There are other populations to move to where any given human would no longer be in the minority.

This is the same argument being presented here: the employees can just choose to work for another employer.

For years employers discriminated against people for reasons that are now illegal and considered uncool at best. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is morally right or just.

There is no bad faith argument from me. I'm simply asking what characteristics of an employee are acceptable to use to determine if they should be fired. What medical procedures can they choose to have?

If you're vaccinated, and the vaccine works, how does an unvaccinated person endanger you so greatly that you feel the need to discriminate against them?

Literally all characteristics? I think there are some which are protected by law and generally considered not cool to discriminate on. I'm just asking which ones are ok to discriminate on since apparently submission to medical procedures is one of the good ones.

I wonder how people would feel if an employer required other medical treatments, or the inverse: if an employee had a medical procedure the employer doesn't like.

Also, I'd like to clarify that your comparing a company requiring a medical procedure to be performed on all employees bodies to an acceptable use policy telling employees not to use Facebook on their company machine, right?

What other characteristics is it ok to use to determine who can earn a living or not?

The next version of iOS supports older hardware than the next version of Windows, from what I can tell.

My 3 year old top of the line gaming PC won't get Windows 11. It's annoying.

If anyone has suggestions for a good chair for overweight people I would appreciate it. I'd love to get an Aeron like others suggest but I'm over their limit and would worry about breaking the chair. The options I've found for big and tall have left me unhappy and uncomfortable.

Looks like if you long press on it in iOS it gets through.

Yep, this is what I do now. The dry run is the default, you have to flag `--really` to do anything permanent.

Wow, how have I never heard of this tool?! Thanks a lot for the link!

I'm not sure what you're saying here. I never stated that the right to keep and bear arms (or any right) is inherently given by the Constitution since that would be false. The Constitution does _protect_ and specifically enumerate some inherent human rights.

I admit it's a somewhat broad brush - I should've said the _party_ that generally says we need to rethink policing and so on. It is hard to break away from the two-party system in the US.

> First, the "right". Well, it's not absolute. If it was, it wouldn't be denied to felons and there wouldn't be background checks or waiting periods.

You're using circular reasoning here. Just because the right is currently infringed doesn't mean the right doesn't exist. That's like saying that if some people's right to vote is infringed, there really isn't a right to vote.

> There's also the Second Amendment specifically noting a "well-regulated Militia".

"well regulated" meant "in good working order" at the time the BoR was written. The operative clause is "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", which is a pretty strong statement.

> The disastrous War on Drugs created the drug cartels.

What do you think a new "war on guns" will do?

> Guns easily obtained in the US. That's how the drug trade works: drugs into the US, money and guns out.

Sometimes the US Government gives guns to the cartels which are ostensibly illegal for US civilians to own! [1]

> a problem literally no one else has.

The US isn't even close to the most violent country per capita. Other countries with less recognition of the right to keep and bear arms just resort to other forms of violence [2]. The "assault weapons" people are very concerned about are used in less than 300 homicides per year. More people are killed with hands and fists than all rifles (a subset of which are deemed "assault weapons") [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

[3]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

As one of those vilified "gun extremists", I'm cautiously optimistic here. We'll see what happens when the decision comes out, but maybe we'll get nationwide constitutional carry out of this.

It's bizarre to me how many of the same people that say we need to massively rethink policing still think it's a good idea to put the right to defend yourself from people attempting to do you harm behind a piece of paper given out by the police. Or to say that someone should go to jail and lose the right to vote/own a gun for life because your barrel is 15.9" instead of 16". Or that you should have to wait a year and pay a tax to have slightly less hearing damage.

No amount of lighting can make up for the difference in sensor size, quality, resolution let alone the aperture and quality optics of a photographic lens.

I'm sorry but you're just incorrect here. It might be minimal at Zoom resolution but it's absolutely there.

All of the camera manufacturers tried to jump on the Zoom call train to some extent. Every one of them released some form of Webcam USB driver, where you don't need a video encoder you just plug the camera directly in via USB and it shows up as a webcam. The downside is it's not as high quality as you'd get with an encoder, and not every camera supports charging during use.

Canon at least released a couple "Webcam Accessories Starter Kits" that include a little tripod and an AC adapter to work around the USB charging limitation. I'm surprised the manufacturers didn't jump in even more but perhaps they were hampered by the pandemic. There have been significant supply chain disruptions in photography/videography industries for the past year.

Oh, it's definitely more than most people will need. I had the camera for photography and just decided to repurpose it.

That said, a webcam can only do so much even with proper lightning and a clean background. They're never going to be as sharp, or as bright, as a nice fast lens on a quality camera.

I have no evidence to back this up, but I strongly believe that video quality would have similar effects. I am a hobbyist photographer and began using my gear to improve my video quality on calls 6-8 months ago and people have continually commented on it, from executives to regular schmucks like me. We're a visual species and having a better view of the person you are talking with will help form connections.

It doesn't take a lot, but it will take a bit more cash outlay than improving your audio. You can get a cheap camera capture card for ~$15, a tripod for ~$50, a quality camera that supports running indefinitely on power with clean HDMI out (I use a Nikon Z5), and of course a compatible lens (I use a Nikon 50mm/f1.8 Z). The camera and lens you use will vary considerably in cost and quality, so you'll need to do some research to see if it will work for this. The result is amazingly clear video.

Every once in a while I learn of something on HN that really changes my life. This is one of those times. Thank you.

The Wheel of Time series is intimidating to me. I have a bad habit of putting books down midway and forcing myself to restart them later on. I think it would take me a decade to get through Wheel of Time!

I read in waves - I'll get the itch occasionally and knock out one or two novels in a few days each then ease back into a much slower pace.

Almost exclusively fiction. I like the Harry Dresden novels, and lots of older science fiction and horror.

Reading on a Kindle really improves the experience vs on a LCD/OLED screen.

Looks neat! I wanted to try this type of app but Clubhouse is too full of NFT scams and influencers. Any plans for an iPad app?

If not for Apollo (third party Reddit app for iOS), I'd have dropped Reddit long ago. Every change the company makes only serves to worsen the service.

I have had some thoughts that even though the NRA is no longer the organization I want, it's name-awareness serves a purpose. I hadn't thought of it serving another purpose by "drawing the fire" so to speak.

It will be interesting to see how things shake out as the NRA falls by the wayside. Unfortunately it's hard to remove the threat to the things I value from the situation, so I can't look at it passively.

As one of those who believe that self defense is an inalienable human right, I left the NRA years ago along with many in the gun community. They're a laughing stock among the younger crowd (Negotiating Rights Away is a common epithet). They are seen as much more focused on fundraising and slush funds for executives, while being far too open to yet more compromise with too few successes. Meanwhile other organizations seem to be getting things done even if progress is slow.

All my "gun advocacy" money goes to:

- Gun Owners of America

- Second Amendment Foundation

- Firearms Policy Coalition

- Texas State Rifle Association (technically an NRA affiliate, but most infringements are state level and there are a number of important measures this legislative session in Texas).

I think the Z series is fantastic. The native glass is all around great and mostly reasonably priced (as are the bodies). They have the best ergonomics for my hand of all the mirrorless I've tried.

I have a Nikon Z50 and Z5. I adore them both but I think I like the Z50 just a little bit more. If only it had image stabilization.

It's pretty much impossible to make a truly bad choice right now by buying a recently released camera from the major brands. They're all top quality but trade blows over minutiae. See if you can rent or just hold a few different bodies in your price range and pick which one feels the best in your hand. The more you feel comfortable with the camera the more you'll use it and the better you'll get at making photos.

Happy to chat about photography anytime. Contact info in my profile if you so desire!