paavokoya

As someone who grew up in Portland and still lives here. Please stop telling people about Portland. The traffic is already bad enough and I personally enjoy dreaming of owning a house one day that isn't in the sticks. Portland housing is sky-rocketing because of techies leaving the bay for cheaper housing.

I switched to T-Mobile a while back. Best decision I've ever made.

That's called a summary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem

   I'd also point out that the term "nutritionist" doesn't even mean anything is most jurisdictions

As someone who is living with someone becoming an accredited "Nutritionist" I can assure you this is not the case. There is an extreme amount of scientific research and cellular biology that is studied. This may not be the case for all nutritionist courses, but to dismiss an entire field because of one case is extremely ignorant.

BUT.. this is Hacker News where coders go to confirm each other's biases about the world at large and remind each other how much knowledge you can have by sitting behind your work desk.

Not everyone wants to read through life like Nathan Lane.

I'd venture to say the reason there is 100% reliability is due to the personal and "non-corporate" aspect to the way he does business. When you stop having face-to-face transactions and stop seeing your customers the interest in maintaining quality plummets. People become numbers.

Also, p2p transactions work so well and are cheap because of the lack of middle-men taking unnecessary "fees".

As a professional photo/video/audio editor, my problem with this is not "touch-typing" but rather it's another thing I'll have to adjust my senses to. I'll have to relearn the keyboard and spend unnecessary time adjusting settings and configuration for something I don't need.

On top of all this, the keyboard will feel more fragile and have more complexity. I prefer reliability over unnecessary complication.

   But apple fanboys will keep buying it

It's extremely patronizing and dismissive to insinuate that only "apple fanboys" buy macbook pros. There are plenty of reasons to buy an apple laptop without being a "fanboy". Searching for the best laptop leads many to apple simply because of logistics/price/ease-of-use.

That said, most of the other stuff you say is true.

Yeah but most of the time laypeople disregard the scientists and substitute their own logic anyways.. People are incredibly stubborn and set in their opinions.

   letting people exchange money (directly) with whatever currencies they want

If you had any idea the amount of regulation and ridiculousness involved in banking and forex, you'd laugh at this statement.

It's the internet vs. intranets all over again. People have too much stock invested in "bitcoin is fundamentally flawed" and before that it was "bitcoin is a scam". Now it's "a different bitcoin is the answer".

EDIT: Time and again getting downvotes because of HN's cognitive dissonance. Pathetic low-tier reddit run-off is entering HN's market share.

This is my exact argument for why "free market" doesn't always work. Sometimes you need to subsidize an unprofitable venture to truly move forward. Then innovation and profit models come after the initial hurdle is over. Most investors don't want to subsidize for long-term profit though.

Does Nest ping to any companies servers?

That's a whole nother topic. CICO isn't as important as where you get those calories from. If a majority are from sugar, you are getting way too much insulin which then creates fat in the body. If you get fibrous and fatty calories, it takes more energy to break them down and store them thus leading to healthier fat/muscle.

The CIA is an arm of US corporate interests that carries out missions to benefit US corporate interests abroad.

  my Nest Cam

People buying literal spyware to spy on themselves is definitely part of the problem.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2476599/cybercrime-hack...

EDIT: I knew this would get downvotes from a crowd that simultaneously abhors surveillance yet trumpets spyware like Nest as innovative. Cognitive dissonance is strong here.

I meant confidence in what came after it. Meaning the likelihood of a backdoored and/or weak software was likely.

The way in which TrueCrypt "became abandoned" does not inspire confidence as well. Considering they left a cryptic and very strange exit note that many perceived as a notice of law enforcement activity.

I've noticed a lot of these "Foundations" for open-source projects eventually lead to in-fighting and control usurping where entire boards of directors "resign" and thus the legitimacy of the whole project is questioned. Is this necessary?

  having multiple windows on desktop really distracts and confuses them, harming their productivity.

You sound elitist about ADHD. Focus isn't a bad thing.

  it's going to be tough for existing stakeholders to back it or anything like it if the idea would result in the end of their business.

Regardless of our inflation-positive zero-rate economy that caters to the investing class, I think people will do what they want. Obviously a decentralized internet will not be for everyone but the same can be said for democratic societies.

The desire for a decentralized and encrypted internet grows with every new data-cap by ISP's and every illegal surveillance scandal carried out by governments. The people find no recourse in their established authorities and will seek to their own devices for security.

Generating revenue is an after-thought of freed men.

It seems this thread is filled with defensive cat-lovers who have no argument other than to bury heads in the sand.

  quality news sources, like NPR

NPR is CNN marketed towards psuedo-intellectuals by replacing common terms with sophisticated sounding vocabulary. Most of the pieces that discuss topics I am heavily familiar with are shallow and often misrepresented.

I say this as someone who really wants to like NPR and struggles to find any unbiased news source.

Now that subscription based walled-gardens are becoming the new internet, I don't expect freedom (outsiders) to be much of a concern for society.

No one is saying you wouldn't. The major benefit of bitcoin is a global currency with predictable monetary policy. Bitcoin works anywhere the internet does without any need for third-party. Just because I have the freedom to drive my own car doesn't mean I don't take public transit or taxis every now and then.

I think the advanced users of HN vastly over-estimate the common sense level of the general public.

http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-ide...

   minimum standards of knowledge required for the citizens

Do you know how the electricity in your wall works? What about the plumbing under your house? Would you be able to fix those things on your own?

I know a lot of people who do that.. politicians, judges, police, people on the internet.. Though, journalists and writers have a wider reaching platform.

  Yes, certain motives may be similar but the method and journey are always unique

This has nothing to do with "conversing" and everything to do with advice-driven self-help books which use vague terms to supersede wisdom similar to astrology.

  a lot of wisdom in books

I specifically said self-help books.