sethherr

I think if you picked a random population of cars, and a random population of bikes, the cars would more regularly break the law - generally speeding (full disclosure, I generally go 10-15 over the speed limit when driving).

Then consider injuries caused by breaking the law on the road. Bikes breaking the law cause few, speeding cars cause many.

Dismissing the regular lawbreaking of cars doesn’t seem rational. Just because you don’t like the way bikes break the law doesn’t mean bikes breaking the law has a negative impact.

Cursory search turns this up:

> Speeding was a factor in 26% of all traffic fatalities in 2018, killing 9,378, or an average of over 25 people per day.

Source: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/motor-vehicle-safe...

Rockefeller had a tax rate more than twice what today’s tax rate on the super wealthy is.

Maybe? Depends.

But it is laughably far from the “best car [I] have ever driven" - which was the quote I was responding to, and which is the basis for the parents’ argument.

Whoah. Not my experience at all, and I suspect not a lot of other people’s experience either.

This is only true if you prioritize car ownership. I have a crappy car that isn’t fun to drive, and I’m happy with that.

To the contrary, new websites with garbage content, swamped by ads - but published recently - often rank above actual quality sites with well written content from 10 years ago.

Not saying what you described doesn’t happen, but both are problems.

Minor clarification: mix tapes were not condoned by the recording industry, they were actively opposed.

... wait, how is what you’re suggesting different from zoos?

This appears to be a pyramid scheme...

Kirkland products are actually white label versions of the products they copy, produced by the company they are copying - so it’s an entirely different situation - ie Costco is paying brands for their products (albeit at a lower price), not stealing.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23912991

It’s more like: a market says we won’t have anyone selling weed, and there are stalls selling weed, and someone says “hey, you’re selling weed even though you say you won’t”

And unlike a market, which is generally not owned by a single entity, this market is owned by the richest person in the world, so it certainly has the resources to enforce its policies.

As a pacifist (in high school, no longer), I took issue with the US war in Iraq and refused to stand during the national anthem in classrooms. I was not arrested, or fined - just teased by fellow students.

One thing being fought over is disrespecting the Chinese national anthem. Sure, I might not be “the average person” but that’s the point, small deviations are criminalized.

... international agreements protecting democracy and freedom of expression in Hong Kong. The US isn’t doing this for protestors, and it will be terrible for HK, but it ultimately is because of China’s attack on HK freedoms

Well put! But it depends on how you approach the issue.

If having a conscience means prioritizing security above all else, then Keybase is doomed.

But security isn’t the only thing that matters. Zoom seems to have focused on making a very user friendly product. Keybase focused on making security more user friendly. In many ways, the user focus of both apps is their Prime selling point.

Perhaps they weren’t buying a conscience, they were fixing a blind spot.

Not mutually exclusive, it's possible the Momo and the time thieves and the NSA are working together - the UTC is NSA, is the combined message

Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821

Or maybe just “what was wrong with existing tools?”

“What problem does this solve that existing tools don’t?”

Something that gives them an opening to explain why they went down the path they went down. Bonus - if they didn’t actually think of using sshd, this can lead to a gentle way of bringing it up.

... which is to say, anti-GMO people aren't the same as Flat-earthers, anti-vaxers, and climate change deniers, who all reject science and reason.

There are scientific, fact based reasons to be skeptical of GMOs:

- Intellectual property concerns

- Biodiversity concerns

- Glyphosate-tolerant modifications leading to higher pesticide usage

Blanket opposition to GMOs is silly, there's no real difference between selective breeding and scientific modification - but GMOs haven't yielded only positive results.

Strong preference for writing.

This is a joke? You realize work visas are different from travel visas, right?

Yes. 8000 hours was in YC for non-profits.

Documented as protected: https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2018/11/01/when-a-walkout-hi...

I’d just like to point out that I have and broke Pyrex, not borosilicate (as explained by the article).

I agree! Let’s all wear flannel and be slackers!

You’re doing a throw back to the nineties comment, right?

I also had a Pyrex bowl shatter and didn’t report.

I bought a new one and am careful about how I heat it now.

Other companies do this too, so it doesn’t qualify as secret sauce.

Bike Index | Senior Backend/Full-Stack Ruby | San Francisco, CA | Remote or Onsite | Full-time Contract | https://bikeindex.org

Bike Index is a non-profit company that registers bicycles, helps recover stolen bikes and does other bike related things, mostly open source (https://github.com/bikeindex/bike_index).

Our stack is Ruby and Rails, RSpec, ES6, some legacy Coffeescript, Redis and Postgres.

We're looking for self-directed developers who practice pragmatic testing. We'd be delighted for onsite folks, but we're mostly a remote organization. This is a limited contract with the possibility of extension or full-time consideration.

If interested, email me at seth at bikeindex.org

Go to the article. Click on the button for your country to take action.

I have no idea where public transit “fails you completely several times a month” or what that failure mode is.

If you mean transit can’t deliver you to your destination, that certainly isn’t the case in the Bay, Chicago or NY for any of my friends who take public transit daily in those cities.