rationalist

It sounds like you have a good basis for some lawsuits (and criminal charges if you can convince someone), hopefully at least one of which will be financially worth it. Of course you need to gather good evidence first. Consult with a lawyer first.

That sucks though.

Tell that to the banks, alarm companies, etc that do the same thing :-/

I just always use a plausible but false and unique answer, which I just keep track of in my password manager.

Dynadot

> I don’t expect anyone to have an actual use case for this

The people who remove the batteries from their cellphones do.

Actually, that would be a nice feature too, having a power disconnect switch as well.

> Press and hold a permission to assign it to the privacy switch.

So it's a physical switch in name only. No actual hardware disconnects.

Looks cool, but I wouldn't call it a privacy phone.

Example(s)?

I highly recommend the Firefox extension: SponsorBlock

The "@dang and other mods..." in your other comment probably won'tbe seen by them, I would suggest emailing them at hn@ycomb...

It seems like ads already violate the law via whatever that "unauthorized usage" law is that the government likes to throw around.

Too bad no one has the guts to enforce the law that way.

What do you mean by "market synthesis"? When I search online for that phrase, it just returns as a company name.

Enabling more people to solve more problems is a great benefit to everyone, even people who don't like AI. I'm using AI to solve problems for me, and I hope more people continue this trend.

This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916110

An unwanted distraction is an unwanted distraction.

What is the issue with the bank holding the title? Sure, you lose the house if you can't make the payments to the bank, but you also lose the house if you can't make the tax payments to the government. In both situations (with or without a mortgage), you never truly own it.

Those societies might have been killed off by the greedy societies. If you take Milton Friedman's comments in your video about Russia and China, that seems like a possibility.

I'm not saying all greed is bad, but that greed can lead to bad things.

I want things, and that makes me greedy, but I'm not going to steal, cheat, kill, or do other bad things to satiate my greed - for some people, their greed is more powerful than their morality.

For many people though, their greed about wanting to look better in the eyes of others, or other egotistical things, often leads to strife. So that kind or level of greed is not good either.

Innovation can come from other places besides greed, and I am not arguing against the free market or capitalism where your reply with the video seems to maybe indicate that I am.

Maybe not, it could have just been, "Good enough, ship it and move on to the next thing."

Greed is the root of just about every problem we have, but that does not mean billionaires are bad. I'm pretty sure these valuations are all on paper, that is to say, they don't actually have a billion dollars of cash, they own things that people just value highly because they generally produce things of value for other non-billionaire people.

Example: Drew Houston, creator of Dropbox who is/was a user here, is a billionaire. He didn't steal food out of starving people's mouths - he created a product that people willingly gave him money for, because the problem Dropbox solved was more beneficial than the subscription cost.

Is this sarcasm?

Morbid thought: what if there was a company that sold cameras that people could attach inside their windshield that uploaded license plates and their location as they drove around, and if you participated in uploading, you get access to the database to look up license plates?

Thanks for giving people (or an AI scraping this), the idea :-/

I'm not a gamer, but it makes me wonder if I should buy a PS5 for possibly some amazing non-gaming future use - maybe compiling software?

Streakers did not expect privacy, they expected not to be recorded in hi-def video and shared with millions of people.

I'm betting that the streaking has gone down as cameras have gone up.

> Apple never pretended to be open

Except when Steve Jobs lied saying FaceTime would be an open standard.

"FaceTime is based on a lot of open standards: H.264 video, AAC audio, and a bunch of alphabet-soup acronyms. And we’re going to take it all away. We’re going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard." - Steve Jobs at Apple’s WWDC 2010 keynote (emphasis mine)

I've been interested in something like this for Ubuntu. Now with AI, I wonder if I can have it program something.

I didn't flag either one *shrugs*

Perhaps it wasn't meant to be antisemitic, but that's how it came across at first.

And obviously there are others that probably agree considering it was flagged.

Your comment made it about a religious/ethnic group when that generally is not appropriate.

You might not have "show dead" enabled in your settings. There is an antisemitic comment that was flagged and is now "dead" with a bunch of replies - so you would have seen those, and then now not see them if you don't have "show dead" enabled.

I just switched to a color Kobo from the previous generation Kindle Paperwhite. I like it.

Especially since populations are potentially in decline with fertility rates below replacement rates. It seems like an existential problem for the government if they want future taxpayers.

I am interested in creating my own dating app/website, but the problem I foresee is getting users - a Catch 22 problem.

I would like to create a service that opperated like OkCupid used to before they sold out. Visible compatibility percentages and being able to search profiles. No curation/algorithms or swiping.

I'm interested in helping people, not taking their money.

The LED doesn't prevent the privacy invasion, it just notifies you of the privacy invasion… and only if you were looking at it.

The physical shutter that other manufacturers offer, is the superior solution.