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I don't understand why the police has to react to an anonymous calls the way they do in the first place.

Is there a legitimate case where you'd need to call in a SWAT team and remain anonymous at the same time? Seems like if you're legit concerned about the situation, you should have no problem proving your details that could be traced back to you. If you wish to remain anonymous, then your call should be deprioritized and so maybe they send a nearby patrolling officer to investigate the situation before sending SWAT team.

I think this is already very much prosecutable. The problem is that these calls are always anonymous and it's hard (often impossible) to track the perpetrator.

I own a pair of Bose QCII and it cuts off when I'm walking down a busy street. Also, it maintains a connection to both my phone and laptop at the same time, but I can't hear the phone before I explicitly tell headphones to disconnect from the laptop via an app.

I use airpods with an iphone and I constantly get connection issues, only one pod playing, or sound cutting off.

Right. The heart performs a bunch of chemical reactions to sustain its energy needs and the fact that in 2019 we don't have anything even remotely capable of doing the same at a scale required is kinda depressing.

This article is showcasing how far even the most bleeding edge technology from recreating the functionality of basic human organs. Heart doesn't seem exactly the most complex organ structurally wise, especially compared to things like lungs, liver, or kidneys. But we can't even make a sustainable replacement for it that wouldn't require 4 kilograms of external batteries that you'd need to recharge multiple times a day.

I can't wait for the future where artificial organs and limbs not only match the usability and functionality of the normal ones, but actually exceed it.

I actually think that tabooing those topics and refusing to even discuss them makes them a lot more powerful than they deserve to be.

If a topic is not discussed in public space enough, its counterpoints and refute arguments become less and less obvious and visible, which leads to people colliding with it for the first time not being mentally equipped to muster rational arguments against it out of their own brain due to not being mentally equipped or mature enough. Not everyone can recreate a hundreds of years of mental and cultural progress on the spot without any external references and talking points readily available.

So if you know nothing about holocaust and encounter a convincing-looking argument that it's a hoax, it's very easy to adhere to this idea and move on with your life thinking it's the truth, especially if you don't see any moral issues with it.

Tabooing controversial topics creates an ideological vacuum that is very easily gets filled with garbage. Especially if the the only actors willing to break the taboo are those who have questionable motives and pushing some sort of angle.

Could also be related to the fact that Google is hiring a ton of people fresh out of college, given how politically active and sheltered from any kind of dissent views current college kids are.

Are you saying you’re going to stop breathing after receiving the money?

Curious what kind of content will be in there.

I can't personally imagine Joe Rogan or Sam Harris kind of conversations under the Apple umbrella, since no matter the topic, there's always going to be someone offended and it's now a question of who's gonna spin the "Apple is sponsoring nazis" kind of narrative first.

check your subscriptions page and make sure you opt-out from everything you don't want amazon to email you about

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I actually tried doing this at some point before 1Password. One obvious problem with this approach is when you’re forced to change your password. You can’t change salt, or hash function for obvious reasons, so you have to change site name.

At some point guessing the original input becomes tedious, when you’re trying to remember if your github password has name “github.com2” or “github.com-3”

Edit:

Completely forgot about another huge usability issue. Some sites enforce weird rules for what symbols are allowed, or what length your password should be. Every time your function generates something that doesn’t pass validation, you’re forced to pretty much revert to your pre-password-management behavior. Obviously you won’t remember that a year later when you suddenly realize that generated password doesn’t work.

Cool story bruh. Especially the part where you basically let a known criminal go without notifying law enforcement that later lead to said criminal raping and killing a 13yo girl.

I can't get over how casually he dropped that fact as if it had nothing to do with him.

This is silly. Spending time doing interviews is a part of running business and doing some prior research on a candidate helps not to waste too much time and money bringing them in only to find out they lied on their resume.

I’m a bit worried about how we’re throwing stuff at space as fast as we can afford it without any legitimate way to clean it up after it becomes garbage. This project intends to have interlink based on 7k+ satellites and they will undoubtedly become outdated in about 20 years and will have to be replaced by next generation. This is tons and tons of useless metal and silicon orbiting Earth colliding with other useless silicon forming a layer of very high-energy fragments that will destroy everything they come in contact with. And we currently don’t know how deal with it.

It feels uneasy especially when you recognize parallels with climate change in how we’re creating a problem for future generations chasing shorter-term goals.

Seems like those new motors are cheaper to produce and more efficient, however, they suffer from a negative effect called "torque ripple" that a lot of people notice on single motor model 3s under full throttle.

Here's a video that among other things attempts to explain this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzspO4-T7t4

I'm not in the market for Teslas atm, but after watching this, I think I'd prefer the old smoother motor over the new one.

He had a huge benefit of being a US citizen. The worst they could do, is to intimidate and introduce a lot of stress into his life. They can't deny entry into the country to the citizen at the end of the day.

As a green card holder with my whole life being here, I can be denied entry for whatever reason. This makes it pretty much impossible for me to maintain my rights and refuse to cooperate in any way.

Twitter is actually very bad at this. It's designed to amplify the most fringe, outrageous, and reaction-provoking hot takes, and trending stuff. A lot of sensible people either don't comment on twitter, or their voices get drowned in a sea of outrage and more engageable reactions.

Funny you should ask, but as someone who's left Russia 8 years ago to come to the US, I'm now considering other options. There's a lot of reasons, but Trump is definitely one of the big ones.

Am Russian, software engineer, left ~8 years ago, currently in US (Seattle) on a greencard. Not planning on coming back, or even visiting for what it's worth. In all these 8 years been to Russia once for a week.

I just got the latest air and it has the same keyboard that current mbps have. They’ve added some rubber membranes, so it’s hopefully less prone to broken keys, but there are reports that the problem still exists, unfortunately.

Current gen MacBook pros can’t fit latest intel processors into that thin body. Other vendors already leave mbps in the dust performance wise. That fact makes me hopeful that apple will have to go thicker for the next mbp generation and that will maybe warrant a better keyboard.

This form-over-usability-and-function madness has to end.

Software relying on undefined behavior like that deserves to be broken and made fun of. I fully support breaking it and the idea that they had to revert the error message change horrifies me.

This is why we can't have nice things.

That produces an unavoidable special case when the number of elements in the list is a prime number.

The author mentions how after he's deleted his facebook account he started seeing weird instagram ads and I can very much relate to that.

After I deleted my facebook a bit over a year ago, instagram suddenly switched to showing me Mexican targeted ads despite the fact that I've never been to Mexico and don't even speak Spanish. There's pretty much nothing you can do about it as far as I can understand, so I've been diligently marking all Spanish ads as "non-relevant", which I suspect accounts to nothing.

Well, there's also Sam Harris, Brett Weinstein. Both are strongly left wing.

I hate being a Pewdiepie advocate here, but this is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened.

Christchurch terrorist was trying to make his attack as viral as possible and saying something like "subscribe to Pewdiepie" was the best way to create perfect shit-storm online achieving exactly this goal.

PDP never expressed any views adjacent to white-supremacy or whatnot. I've been following his story for quite some time and haven't seen any proof of the opposite that could be argued in good faith.

> including encouraging his fans to follow one of them

This is also while technically true, only presents half of the story. PDP has made a video promoting 40+ other youtube channels with low subscribers count. One of the channels he's promoted for making a funny anime review turned out to be pushing some questionable content outside of these anime reviews. PDP cut out this part from his original video and apologized. Seems like his only fault in this situation was not doing enough research before recommending those 40+ channels.

Again, I'm not a huge fan of his, but these kind of bad-faith attacks on someone who's just making funny meme videos on the internet seem very unjust and counter-productive.

Pewdiepie has some over 90 million followers. Judging such a huge number of people by the actions of few representatives as not too far from "all muslims are terrorists" and "all christians are pedophiles"

I'm pretty sure it's broader than this. It's a narrowing range of opinions that are allowed in public discourse. It doesn't change people's minds, it changes what they can and cannot say without risking their careers and public standing. It causes people to internalize their opinions. That leads to resentment and the resentment fosters the intensity of the feelings and pushes people into extremist territory. The extremism will always find the outlet, no matter how hard you try to control it.

Think of Gab for example. The site has been described as "extremist friendly" or a "safe haven" for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right. The only reason the site exists in the first place, is that those people were pushed out from Twitter, outside of the realm of "allowed" mainstream opinions. The problem is that by pushing them out, you don't make them disappear, you make them less visible and more radicalised and dangerous.

I think the main reason is that Spotify provides an option to pay them and not deal with all this bullshit. Facebook doesn't.