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This is pretty much a textbook example of an attempt at regulatory capture, though more explicitly aimed at hurting competition than normal.[0] It's hard to take Apple as sincerely looking out for the best interests of consumers given their stance against repairs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Not stopping for the other car betrays their complete lack of ethics.

Agreed - a ridiculous omission. Imagine if Microsoft in the 90's tried to exert an appstore level of control over all software that could be installed on Windows? And took a 30% cut of revenue!

I don't understand this legislation or this perspective. If it is the job of the government to provide a strong safetey net, then it shouldn't be incumbent on private employers to do so. Why should Walmart be tasked with providing a complete livelihood for its employees?

If a job is beneficially for the economy, and individual, and an employer, though not enough to keep someone out of poverty - this is precisely when government programs should fill in the gap. And I would think should be the perspective of someone who calls themselves a "Democratic Socialist."

A huge part of the problem with how healthcare and labor benefits are handled in the United States is exactly this - that they are far to tied to an individual's job. Divorcing them actually helps all parties. Most developed nations operate this way.

Naming this legislation after Bezos is petty and vindictive. It's below the office of a Senator, and a bad precedent to set to using the power of lawmaking to single out individuals.

I would be curious to hear your perspective on the impact of loneliness and isolation that the article touches on.

Could you explain this more? A Tesla car is largely the same as any other modern car in how it functions and is manufactured. The major difference is the battery + electric motor. So besides the production of the battery and motor, how are the internals so different? Certainly nothing on the scale of computer vs. typewriter.

I would suggest mechanical vs. electric typewriter as a better analogy.

There's an important part of the Tesla story about what they've gotten wrong. Musk has admitted, and perhaps downplayed, the mistakes made in attempting to overly automate the factory and becoming distracted by the "art" of the Model X.

I would be curious to know more about the impact producing so many of their own parts, to custom specs, has had on Tesla's successes or failures. This is another area where Tesla has diverged from the norms in automotive manufacturing.

Generally, it is unclear to me why Musk has taken Tesla on a course so different from how cars are typically produced and assembled, besides where it really count: electric power.

A modern car is far safer, far more reliable, far more efficient, far more powerful, and far better than the environment. The added complexity only makes things better, in this example.

Interesting - any idea what the other circumstance are? Is there a statute for this? Have you considered requesting some specific source code and publishing it yourself? Might make sense to start small here.

I have a lot of experience in making public records requests and would be happy to help.

This was hilarious

There are sooooo many companies that offer a "university" - do they make you attend school for 4 years solely, working at most part-time? Just more marketing mumbo jubmo.

This is cool, I installed and gave it a try. If I can offer some unsolicited feedback:

This opens up directly to recent images, this is somewhat unintuitive and jarring- I wasn't sure I was in your app to get started, and didn't realize immediately I needed to select a photo.

I used one of your promo codes, thanks for this. I found the blur feature to be the most useful, I'd suggest making the free version of the app allow you to experiment with this feature. Maybe have the free version watermark images? Or limit the number of images you can save.

A walkthrough/intro screen to get started would go a long way.

Anyways, cool project, thanks for sharing

Free cash flow is king

I don't understand this at all. It reads like PR boilerplate:

"Used by 99% of Stripes in the last month, Home is the source of truth for who we are, what we’re doing, and why—and a platform for enabling individuals and helping them get to know one another."

If it's the intranet/homepage/directory, of course everyone at Stripe uses it. If this is something worth talking about, let's dig into the real metrics around engagement and usage. It's strange to me to see a YC company so distracted by something this far outside of their core competency, especially to the point they would announce publicly all of the time and effort they put into it. This seems like a pure vanity project at best, and at worst evidence that Stripe is misdeploying resources as they scale, which happens and is often unavoidable.

>The hope, Sanchez says, is that if the decoy buses are also attacked the agency can “[look] at damage on the bus and [look] at what angle the projectile is coming from.”

They're not saying it... but there must be cameras all over this bus to catch the shooter, right? Trying to figure out "the angle of the projectile" is almost nonsensical if they have a decoy bus set up.

Isn't latency a major issue for connectivity with satellites in geosynchronous orbit? I'm curious what their approach is here, either technically or what customer use cases they are targeting.

>1) Non-existent if you didn't declare you're Chinese

This is ridiculous equivocation between a democratic society with a rule of law and an authoritarian regime. You're kidding yourself if you don't think the Chinese government has an interest in data owned by foreign nationals that they could gain access to.

This is really interesting, thank you for sharing.

so that we can have nice things like roads, a power grid, environmental protections, etc.

Spotify does this! Check out the "Made for You" / "Daily Mix" playlists.

Very interested to see this rolled out to Airtable

It's already pretty difficult for magazines and pdf files to gain a significant audience on YouTube.

>Will "trusted flaggers" be allowed to make Dabiq inaccessable?

The answer is no. This post is about YouTube. Presumably a magazine won't be impacted. Also, new content is not being removed, but rather:

"If we find that these videos don’t violate our policies but contain controversial religious or supremacist content, they will be placed in a limited state. The videos will remain on YouTube behind an interstitial, won’t be recommended, won’t be monetized, and won’t have key features including comments, suggested videos, and likes."

Which is ironically not dissimilar from your suggestion that hateful and ignorant views be taught in context to school children.

You comment reminds me of those news stories where the headline is a question. When you read the article, the answer is always, "No."

Excellent comment

Made HN when we launched late last Summer- we're doing our first 5k+ unit wholesale orders and have shipped caffeinated toothpaste to thousands of customers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12504012 https://www.powertoothpaste.com/

I'd suggest to the mods that all threads about health insurance be removed and perhaps moved to a new post. Though an interesting discussion, Aaron's article explicitly does not address healthcare. The dynamics of healthcare are so different than P&C, it is a wildly off-topic discussion.

I'm surprised by how often (and by how many people!) someone suggests roads should be covered with solar panels... Asphalt is very different than glass...

huh?

Whole Foods Market. WFM was also their stock ticker.

Are you still working on Whale? Also, what's going on with Zero-F?

https://zero-f.co/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/06/just-kan-zero-f/