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I just wish I could still download all podcasts without needing an Apple or Google account to do so.

What happened to podcast RSS feeds? Many are still available but it certainly isn't universal like in the past.

Is this sarcasm? Apple pretty much invented the walled garden of personal computing.

Especially since HN readers are more likely to be using ECC memory

Are you referring to Microsoft Recall? My understanding is that is opt-in and only stored locally.

Are you using the word tweens in some sense other than its usual definition of pre-teen? My understanding is that discord, like most online services, requires registered users to be 13 years old.

My 85 year-old father could probably resolve 90% of his personal technology problems using an LLM. But for the same reason every phone call on these subjects ends with me saying "can it wait until I come over for lunch next week to take a look?", an LLM isn't a viable solution when he can't adequately describe the problem and its context.

I am a sailor in the present and this same rule is why I have 3 digital multimeters on my boat.

On a related note, I'm eternally grateful for the conversion to open source of the Squeezebox platform (now known as Lyrion Music Server) and SageTV. I use both of these every day.

Habits vary (vegans exist!) And I agree 4 oz is a pretty small portion. But I don't think I personally know very many people who eat beef daily. For me and my family it is once or twice a week.

I'd be interested in a filtering feature where you could pick a book and disregard all data from anyone who has it listed as one of their favorites.

Things that are largely caused by lifestyle choices.

Medicare is for those over age 65. They aren't having a lot of babies.

I would like to get a catastrophic plan that doesn't cover things I would categorize as consequences of bad choices. I get that covering these things is less costly for society than just letting things run their course, but it does drive costs onto everyone else's premium.

Catastrophic plans are still quite costly because they aren't really a pure insurance product. Mine is over 2k/month for 3 people on an ACA Bronze plan with HSA.

HDHP is good advice but doesn't save anything from the prices cited above. My HDHP Bronze plan is over 2k/month for 3 people.

Yes it is a NAS and it is cheap and convenient to repurpose hardware.

But for anything where your data is important isn't ECC memory still critical for a NAS in this day and age?

I agree that satire and parody have a valuable place in discourse.

But I believe there are some subject matters including sexual assault and more specifically pedophilia that are pretty much never in good taste or useful to parody. Apparently this position is somewhat outspoken here.

Swift's Modest Proposal mentions eating babies which is very obviously an extreme behavior that is not tolerated by anyone anywhere, which is a distinct contrast to sexual assault which has victims in the millions if not billions.

Also just to note that the comment I replied to is now dead and flagged, so I guess I'm not the only one with these opinions.

Why isn't it a privacy and security problem if it is just done for a single phone number?

What is this was not WhatsApp, but it was a website or service dedicated to something unethical or illegal or just extremely embarrassing? Something that could ruin a marriage or career if it was known someone was a registered user? Would it be OK if someone could punch in phone numbers to find out who is registered on these sites?

What if someone automated and correlated this information to produce a profile for a phone number of all the shady/embarrassing services that phone number is associated with?

Why is it OK to allow enumeration of accounts with a given phone number, when it is generally considered to be a privacy and security violation to allow someone to enter email addresses and confirm if they have an account with a service or app?

I've never understood this idea that phone numbers shouldn't be protected the same as email addresses or other personal information.

Part of the purpose of sarcasm is to inject humor. Personally, I don't find anything humorous about sexual assault.

I have experience where my child with a working android phone was socially excluded by the girls with hand-me-down Apple products because she couldn't "text" with them. Most of them didn't even have working cell service, just iMessage over wifi.

Thanks that rings a bell. I remember reading complaints about how the change reduced the overall shower capacity and led to longer shower waits during peak hours.

Anyone know which Seattle gym the author visited with an all-gender locker room?

Funny how they don't mention Al-Qaeda's use of the the F-91W as an IED timer.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...

Washington State (where this company is based) has the same law about including salary ranges in job postings

They are legally required to include the salary range in the job posting in Washington State.

We are self-employed in the US and buy our own high deductible plan on our state's marketplace. One of my family members needed a fairly routine planned surgery, so I went through the effort to try to determine in advance how much I would be billed. What a waste of time. My favorite was the hospital who told me the fee for a one night stay would be 73k. But, good news! Your insurance has a contracted discount that brings it down to 13k. So what does the 73k price even mean? At this point I shelved the effort as I correctly concluded we would hit our household max out of pocket for the year, so anything above that would not affect us.

And hey! Silver lining: in a year when we max the out of pocket limit, no more cost-sharing on any other services for that calendar year! Time to pack in some care we have been deferring mostly due to cost. Except the care providers and insurance company are well aware of this, so they don't bill you for up to a year from the date of service, so you can't be sure you "hit your max" until the subsequent year.

It is enough to induce strong negative emotions.

Post title is missing the first of the four words: Why

Which made me think this was going to be an article about delegating or otherwise assigning work to others. Until I noticed that's only three words.

I switched to a Kobo device and have zero regrets other than that I didn't switch earlier

I found the Kindle ads particularly infuriating when they advertised books I had already purchased from Amazon. They were insultingly brain dead in their targeting especially given how much Amazon knows about me

FAANG is a whole other world from $ENTERPRISE.