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phoe18on Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

Rick and Morty and the Meaning of Life by Daniel Jeffries

https://hackernoon.com/rick-and-morty-and-the-meaning-of-lif...

A blog about meaning of life and its purpose using clips from popular shows and movies. I have re-read this piece several times and I come out with something new at the end of each read.

phoe18on U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

> "The involved subject vehicles were all confirmed to have been engaged in either Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control during the approach to the crashes,"

No mention of the deceptive marketing name "Full Self Driving" in the article.

phoe18on Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

Its not accurate though, Apple can and does still track users.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074

phoe18on Analytics suggest 96% of users leave app tracking disabled in iOS 14.5

> This is gave us a sense of "justice as been done", but now we should look deeply into what the gatekeeper is doing, to what benefit, and how balanced it made the playing field.

Interestingly, Apple's Ad tracking doesn't show up under 'Settings > Privacy > Tracking' but instead tucked away at the bottom of the 'Settings > Privacy' menu. Apple's tracking also defaults to opt-out instead of the opt-in route taken for other apps.

I am all for providing privacy settings but whats with the double standard?

phoe18on US Europe holding back critical raw material needed for Covid vaccine production

I wish the article had more details -

1. What is the raw material ?

2. Why did the CEO of SII mention Covaxin in his complaint when the article exclusively talks about Covishield?