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Why was the title changed to a single line from the article? Isn’t that in violation of the HN guidelines for submission?

Sure, I guess that’s not out of the realm of possibility. But when you’re holding your keys in front of you when walking to your car to unlock it in the parking lot someone could snatch them out of your hand, sprint to your (unlocked car), turn on the car (because they have your keys), and speed off into the sunset. Now they have a $20k item. Possible? Yes. Practical enough to lose sleep over? Probably not.

Do you have a source for these claims? Specifically the ones about your locations being sent to Apple and then Apple sharing all of this data with the ‘US federal government’.

> Apple Watch seems to have declined in use…

Source please.

The "dawn of humanity" was many millennia ago. What are you referring to?

Unfortunately, it's probably not. But it's another case of someone not being able to tell the difference between a law and guidelines from a public health agency. (Or someone ignoring the difference so that they can be "outraged".)

This New Yorker article is dated Dec 20. The tweets from the ‘stalking’ thread were posted Dec 21. Not defending Nintendo for anything here, just pointing out this theoretical ‘PR spin’ timeline doesn’t add up.

‘Recent controversies’. Care to elaborate? I follow Nintendo news pretty religiously and for some reason can’t figure out what you’re talking about.

Could have

Can you be specific on what issues we should berate Apple and why? Not being argumentative, just curious what they are doing that harms you as a customer (?) shareholder (?) employee (?)

Care to elaborate?

Weird. I see that too. Not sure what the table is trying to state then. https://www.apple.com/homepod/

The comparison table makes is seem like the mini can't be paired with an AppleTV at all like the regular HomePod can.

You realize the event wasn't live, right? And Tim's watch clearly shows 10:09 the second he shows up in the video which was 10:01 at the latest "real time".

Look at the watches on the wrists of the speakers in the first 15 minutes of the keynote. They are all set to 10:09.

Wait until you notice that everyone's Apple Watch is set to 10:09.

Yep, you're right. What you said is what I intended. I've updated my comment.

Any time you print something at FedEx they make you accept an agreement stating that you are not printing or copying copyrighted material. I'm guessing those other places have the same type of thing. Even if it's a piece of paper posted next to the printer at a public library stating "By using this printer you acknowledge that you are not printing or copying any material for which you do not have the right to copy."

To be sure, it's a pretty loose contract and you could probably get away with printing a small amount of copyrighted material. But it at least shifts the liability onto the customer so the retailer can always point to the agreement and say "hey, they said they weren't printing anything illegally; that's on them for lying."

The second to last paragraph states that the author gave a version of the document as a talk at a conference in 1997. So it appears that your memory is spot-on.

Sounds like a similar feature (“Sound Recognition”) that is coming in iOS 14. https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/features/

It’s not clear from the article but I assume the Google implementation was pushed out to users and turned on by default (likely without a notification that the device would now start doing this). Since the iOS feature is listed under “Accessibility” I would assume that it’s opt-in.

I've been looking for an alternative to Simple for a while now and haven't heard of this until now. However, I don't think this is my answer. It's slightly confusing to me what Google is offering here since it appears that BankMobile already has apps and accounts?

In either case, Google being tied to this doesn't give me much confidence. "Google will provide the front-end, intuitive user experience." Ah yes because Gmail is the pinnacle of UX. I haven't used any Google services in years (other than YouTube I suppose) but the last I remember of them were not impressive.

Thanks for the info!

Hmmm. Both of you are getting me very close to pulling the trigger on the M3i. Just so I’m clear, you have to buy the “M Series Converter” bluetooth device as well so it can connect to 3rd party apps, correct? Or I could just record an Indoor Cycling workout manually on my Apple Watch, right?

Yikes, the name of the website is right there. How did this post title get so screwed up. @dang can you fix the "There" in the title?

Agreed. I planned on moving my money over the next few weeks but now I’m just going to close my account.

About the support, (of course) it was two different people who responded. Even though I kept the same email chain.

Sorry about the pastebin links. I ran over the character limit.

Which one improves reading comprehension? Because I had read this headline about three times before I realized it didn’t say ‘Regular medication more beneficial than vaccination’!

More on topic: I did some mindful meditation a few years ago when I had some issues to work through. It really seemed to help. I should probably get in the habit of doing it again.

That said, I won’t be giving up vacations anytime soon. I don’t even go anywhere. I just take a week off from work and get my mind off of that stress.

Looks nice, thanks for sharing. I do find the three pieces of configuration to be inconsistent however. The first two have you flip a switch _on_ to turn something _off_. "Turn Off Quick Directs" and "Turn Off Deep Searching" would probably be better as "Quick Directs" and "Deep Searching" where the toggle defaults to the "on" state. They look very similar to iOS controls so I think the users' understanding of on/off state is already there.

As for the third option "Strict Search On", "On" seems redundant at best and misleading at worst. Misleading because I'm not sure if the text is going to change when I toggle the switch. Meaning I don't know if this is a static label telling me what the setting is or a dynamic label telling me what the current state is.

In summary, I would make the button text more consistent and change their default states: [x] Quick Directs [x] Deep Searching [] Strict Search

As a side note, the controls are different on the main page vs the result pages. On the homepage they are switches while on the results pages they are check boxes.

The Wii is the console you are thinking of. And that console came out in 2006. So I'm surprised you decided that things haven't changed in 14 years.

> So are you absolutely sure that I can buy Nintendo stuff today and get games from anywhere in the world?

Yes, absolutely sure. You just need to create an eShop account for each region. There are countless articles on how to do this.

The Nintendo Switch is not region locked. You can play any game from any region on it.

Moving to new hardware is more complicated than it needs to be but is not restrictive.