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reciprocityon Amazon adds gasoline discounts for Prime members

I highly doubt it. Amazon doesn't need to stuff more ads into its video platform to be able to introduce another feature they can tell people in its promotionals for Prime. More ads are being introduced to Prime for nothing other than increasing the return on a revenue stream. It's not something the company ever needed to do.

reciprocityon Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/newsom-vetoes-sb-1047

This link convinced me otherwise. I wasn't too sure before (I'm a little ashamed to admit I hadn't been following the development of SB 1047).

I will also specifically share this talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ

I think this passing this bill would have probably been a very good idea. Not perfect, but far, very far from broken.

Edit: I'm actually not sure if we as a community gave this topic enough attention leading in the months leading up to the announcement of this decision.

reciprocityon Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

That's not a tip. It's a "processing fee" assessed by credit card companies (a revenue stream). The 3% charged on top of a large purchase like a vehicle goes to the payment processing provider (the credit card company). To cover the cost of professing fees, most dealerships often offer a cash discount (meaning they will quote a lower price if paid by check).

reciprocityon DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

Wow, the Kalamazoo Promise has been going on since 2005. I wasn't aware of this program; that's very cool.

reciprocityon Medieval

I'm very sure you'd quickly get tired of that demo track.

reciprocityon Tokyo dating app to promote marriage, keep out phonies

As far as I'm aware there have been a number of efforts to counteract declining birth rates - in South Korea, at least. I think this idea is worth exploration but I hope they're giving this great consideration and thinking about this idea in terms of its success in any long term time frame.

More generally I'm wondering if there are more reasons as to why the Tokyo government is pursuing this other than declining birth rates. Wouldn't broader reform be more effective over a dating app? I guess a dating app would be "way easier" to design and manage (if this isn't just two programmers and a parrot in some basement somewhere), but by that metric wouldn't you view this as a half-baked solution to a much larger problem? Declining birth rates is a pretty big reason to look into implementing or passing something that isn't low effort, comparatively? One advantage here is that this wouldn't have misaligned incentives like the dating apps people here are already familiar with. The housing market, financial security, loneliness, work/life balance; this idea is interacting with many themes.

reciprocityon Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC

Microsoft isn't the company to bring what you're picturing here into reality. Honestly what you really want is a journaling software like Obsidian.

reciprocityon CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

This is ridiculous. Firefox doesn't beat around the bush with telemetry and makes this clear when you install a new copy of it to your machine. It also does not require "messing around in about:config", this option is presented to the user in Settings, in plainly stated language and in a central location (unlike other browsers, particularly Edge, and Chrome, with privacy related settings in 40 different drop down menus).

reciprocityon Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/senate-votes-to-...

reciprocityon Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud

Describing Azure as a dumpster fire doesn't strike you as hyperbolic? Could you elaborate?

reciprocityon Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate

This rule applies to the taxiing, takeoff, and descent into landing phases of flight only. It isn't enforced above 10k feet. Idle chatter is important for numerous reasons in any professional working environment and it isn't a reasonable conclusion to say that it should not be allowed in this one.

It's also unfathomably unreasonable to call for storage of all voice recordings of the flight deck in perpetuity. That's ridiculous and is privacy invading. If you want to improve the state of this industry, you are looking in the wrong place.

reciprocityon FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s

Intercom announcements like "flight attendants check-in" are a matter of routine.

reciprocityon The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)

This blog hasn't been updated in some time given this entry is also its last entry. Are you still working with FOIA in some way?

reciprocityon Scrollbars are becoming a problem

Jargon to another social circle doesn't help you or your audience.

reciprocityon Tests find many popular omega 3 supplements are rancid

Three sentences with a "tl;dr" at the end?

reciprocityon PSA: Don't base your business around Discord.7yr account banned for posting ASNs

I think it's a bunch of bullshit that Discord employees also control the Discord subreddit. This wasn't always the case until the previous moderators thought it was a good idea for some reason to have employees moderate the subreddit [0]. Your case is yet another example of why that was a bad decision. Employees get to filter out anything at their discretion.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/9pbpc4/people_w...

reciprocityon Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

What? Where did you get that from?

reciprocityon Uninstall the NightOwl app

A Firefox equilivant: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/

reciprocityon Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

I haven't been able to find a single differentiator between the two add-ons in my experience using them.

reciprocityon Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems

That is absurd.

reciprocityon Honestly, It's Probably the Phones

I think you completely misread parent's comment.

reciprocityon Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

Parent comment is referring to uMatrix which is no longer maintained and last updated 20 July 2021.

reciprocityon Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

"Breaking all of their extensions with the depreciation of XUL" is one interpretation, another one is that it was needed (of course it was the correct choice!) and there wasn't going to be an easier approach than just ripping the band-aid off. It needed to be done, it's done, and now instead of discussing the larger picture, we're talking about XUL depreciation from Firefox which happened in 2018. So what's your point?

reciprocityon Proxy Chrome extensions are not going to be usable in MV3

Your claim is that you suffer a _40 to 60_% performance impact by using Firefox from Chrome? Would you like to try that again? I see egregious comments like this of Firefox every so often and I always have to wonder if the last time people making these remarks actually used Firefox was in the pre-Quantum era (assuming one charitable interpretation). To claim that its performance is equivalent to using Chrome on a CPU from 2013 is disingenuous at best.

Firefox is not just perceived as 'counter-cultural', its importance lies in the fact that not using Chrome and similar browsers is also a vote not to support a browser monoculture online.

reciprocityon Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?

Could you please elaborate further?

reciprocityon Is everything falling apart?

Thanks for the recommendation.

reciprocityon Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost

That is high praise. Could you elaborate a bit?

reciprocityon I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)

FAANG usually refers specifically to those companies. GAFAM is another acronym which exchanges Netflix with Microsoft.

reciprocityon Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Anything in particular that you would recommend?

reciprocityon Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?

One of the most successful methods I've found for me is to rewrite the material. I haven't seen anyone suggest this yet.

By rewriting the material, you are recoding it. You are forcing yourself to think about the information differently: what you are doing is explaining it to yourself. This to me is far more effective than something like highlighting, because in rewriting that material, you are also clarifying your understanding.