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slayed0on Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

They do have a bearing on other rights though. I issued a blanket statement and wanted to make sure to list that there were exceptions.

slayed0on Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

Great news. Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election. There's been so much time wasted on this issue when, at the end of the day, any 2 consenting adults should have all of the same rights as any other 2 consenting adults (barring felony conviction, poor mental health eval, etc).

slayed0on Tell HN: Entrepreneurs, make sure you are getting guaranteed wins in life

give it a rest

slayed0on Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store

Short term vs. long term. The immediate short term loss (probably very small) is income from these apps. The long term gain is company image and being known as a company that "does the right thing". There are countless examples of Apple giving up short term profits to preserve this image, which they obviously believe is responsible for greater profits in the long term.

slayed0on Report: millions of Uber’s China rides are faked

hmm

How do the driver and rider that are in cahoots ensure that they are paired together for the ride?

How much more money does one make using this method vs regular uber driving?

Why do accounts need to be bought and sold? is it a small minority that are doing this in bulk on one account at a time until it gets banned?

I have a lot of remaining questions that I feel like this article did not adequately explain... (or maybe it did and my comprehension is just low)

slayed0on Not OK, Google

I've always wondered this. Who would subscribe to a newsletter BEFORE they've read an article on the site?

slayed0on IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars

I think that's worth a lot. You don't often see such a sincere apology in situations like this. Very cool on IMAX's part.

slayed0on IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars

Not necessarily, before this article I did not know that the range of screen sizes considered IMAX™, was so large. That's a pretty damning detail Ars slipped in there and will definitely make me think twice when going to the movies.

slayed0on Blow Up the Tax Code and Start Over

https://youtu.be/fibDNwF8bjs

Whitest Kids You Know illustrated this perfectly in a sketch routine

slayed0on California Is Sitting on the Solution to Its Drought Problem

iirc the desal plant was disassembled and sold to Saudi Arabia sometime in the 90's. I have no reference for this at the moment.

slayed0on AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data

That's a terrible argument. Would you say the same if they only allowed 100kb of data transfer before switching to a throttled service (@ 1/100th the original speed)?

What you are doing is allowing them to draw a line in the sand and then standing by it and saying it is reasonable. This line should not exist and throttling should only occur when absolutely necessary (when the network is over-saturated). Even then, there should be reasonable expectations of them to not over-subscribe the network based on statistical projections of network use.

slayed0on California Announces Restrictions on Water Use by Farmers

edit: read that as countries, not counties

India is getting there [1]

[1]http://thewaterproject.org/water-in-crisis-india

slayed0on I quit the tech industry

When they said "investment.interest" I think they meant investment return percentage. I don't think they were advocating for investing on margin and maximizing leverage/risk, but rather deciding whether to put your $ towards your debt or towards an investment.

slayed0on No, you're not 'running late', you're rude and selfish

You're conflating the start times of meetings with the start of your personal work day. Sure, no one cares if you come in at 10:25 because you're still going to make the 10:30 meeting. You're not making anyone wait for you... That's the whole point of this article.

slayed0on Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements

These aren't 20-something coders living in the valley with an endless list of job opportunities and 30+ remaining working years. These are employees who are very close to retirement who live in an area where Disney is the giant in terms of tech job offerings. They have families and financial obligations that are dependent on the salary they were receiving. As the article stated, many were forced to retire early and many others have not been able to find work.

They likely don't enough time left in their careers to be able to 'look back on it and laugh'.

slayed0on Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements

I feel like in such a highly technical field it would be fairly easy to deliberately omit plenty of critical details without anyone noticing. It seems it would also be possible to make small additions to the system such that you would be the only person who really knows how things work.

As long as you answer all of their questions you would certainly be meeting the good performance stipulation. There would be no way for them to know whether you are providing the whole story. Why offer up information that is not specifically requested? After all, the hardest part of engineering is knowing which questions to ask in the first place.

slayed0on RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts

probably try to sell you one (with a $14.99 insurance policy)

slayed0on RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts

I used to use this at the grocery store/kmart/wherever and just tell them to pick the top name off the list of 50 or so that came up per area code, (woohoo key constraints!) but eventually they caught on.

Poor Jenny can't get a rewards card anywhere these days.

slayed0on RadioShack Sold Consumer Data to Pay Off Its Debts

I've adopted the same method of dealing with this. Let me provide another anecdote: I went to a new dentist a few weeks ago and greatly confused the staff when I requested they didn't take a picture of me to attach to a personal file. They were equally confused when I told them I didn't want to watch anything on the TV during my appointment and would prefer instead that they turned it off.

I wasn't trying to be difficult or prove a point, I just really didn't want/feel comfortable with either of those things. As they did not impact the office's ability to perform their dentistry, it seemed perfectly reasonable for me to opt-out of them. The strangest part was, based on their confused reactions, it seems I may have been one of the first to deny one or both of those options.

slayed0on Uber Tests 30% Fee, Its Highest Yet

It's already rare in San Francisco. The only difference now between taking a taxi vs uber is convenience and price. Those are admittedly huge factors, but without the clean vehicles and personable drivers they started out with, my brand loyalty for uber is gone.

Lyft seems to have good intentions in this regard so I've been using them exclusively for the last few months. We'll see if they can keep it up.

slayed0on Ask HN: How Do I Learn to Type?

Ah that's clever. I'll definitely pick up a cheap secondary "practice" keyboard next time I'm near an electronics store.

slayed0on My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator

I obviously don't know your story or any of the specifics but it might be worth taking a second look at whether or not being pushed while you were scared helped you eventually outgrow those fears.

slayed0on Narrowing a residential street – McAllister

It makes sense that not all items can be delivered. They still have to retain their profit margins. As automation ramps up and demand for services like this ramps up, the overhead for the markets will go down and it will be easier to offer the cheaper items as well.

I realize this is a bit of a chicken and egg problem but we have seen how quickly startups or even technology being implemented by existing players can respond to increased demand.

slayed0on Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?

Having large strong back muscles pulls your shoulders back and keeps you from slouching. The opposite happens if your chest grows disproportionately larger than your back (whether the weight up front is due to muscle or fat).

Also, the core strength developed when climbing supports good posture by makes it much easier to sit or stand up straight for long periods. Not sure

slayed0on Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?

This is the dream... Unfortunately it doesn't seem feasible to set something like this up in my SF apartment so for now it will have to wait.

slayed0on Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?

Obesity and climbing are a tough combination. I would recommend trying indoor climbing at first and working on routes that don't overhang (wall is <= 90 deg from the angle of the floor). If you work this in with a routine like cycling/runnning/swimming and a proper diet (start eating less carbs unless you plan on working out within the next couple of hours), you can develop a body built for climbing while picking up proper technique at the early stages.

Source: I've been climbing for 6 years

slayed0on Four Years of Success and Failure on the App Store

Why should they be ashamed of that order? How would you reorganize it? I would say that ordering is pretty much required given the fact that they are a publicly listed consumer technology/software company.

slayed0on Uber leaves Kansas after lawmakers demand background checks and more insurance

It's also governments that require adherence to civil rights laws, not markets. Governments were required to step in to disallow landlords and service providers from discriminating based on race, sexuality, disability, etc when a free market otherwise allowed them to do so. There are two sides to the coin.

slayed0on Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'

They used to allow this (as recently as a few months ago). You could download any windows 7 iso and then would have to activate after install. They even provide a utility for making bootable flash drives from an iso (presumably for installing win7 without needing a disc). I have to imagine they stopped offering the images due to the high level of piracy.

With an image from microsoft and an easy to find, spy-ware free, super easy to use executable (I'll avoid mentioning names on here), it was way too easy to pirate windows.

Also, not sure why you still got bloatware with this method. Manufacturers typically offer all of the required drivers individually online. The drivers themselves are bloatware-free but maybe you got roped into installing a software pack for the machine or something?

slayed0on Lenovo: researchers find 'massive security risk'

You can download windows 7/8 iso's directly from microsoft with your product key:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery

You would of course need to grab drivers from the manufacturer as well, but you can skip all of the bloatware (and borderline spy/malware) that comes with a retail machine.