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TL;DR: Someone asked on Quora if 35 was too old. People answered no.

> Apple is the worst company for those who love freedom

I'm not really pro or anti Apple, but I'm having a tough time coming up with what you might mean by this. Can you elaborate?

Is the EU tax based on revenue instead of profit?

Or is basing it on revenue in this instance just supposed to make the "percentage paid" smaller to make FB and Google look worse?

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The obvious logic here is that people need to have played a sport as a child to want to watch it as an adult. I'd be curious to know if there is data to back this up.

Anecdotally, my dad played football growing up, while my three brothers and I played soccer. My dad and 2 of my brothers are extremely dedicated soccer fans now, while I and my other brother love football despite having never played.

> It belonged to Amenemhat -- which means the god "Amen Is In the Forefront" -- and his wife Amenhotep, said Mostafa Al-Waziri

Is this the same origin as for the word "Amen" in Christianity?

I wouldn't say that mobile apps "won" anything, just that networks and hardware aren't fast enough yet for browser on mobile. Desktop started the same way, and just as most of the desktop apps have moved to the browser, so too will mobile apps. React native, cordova etc are just the early signs of this transition.

Answer: "Maybe your single page app is different, but the ones that I know break most of my browser’s features, such as the back and forward buttons, page refresh, bookmarking, sending a link, or opening a link in a new window or tab."

Would you get a heart transplant to save your life?

More accurately, an operator will want lowest cost of operation. You can add complexity, cost, and failure modes to every single truck by making the battery swappable, then build infrastructure to swap the batteries, or you can just build more trucks. Given that wheels and axles are likely to be the cheapest part of the equation, I'm betting they'll buy more trucks.

Cost of fuel will also be greatly reduced for the use cases within electric range:

- Removing the driver allows for more aerodynamic cab configuration, or no cab at all

- Electric motors are more efficient, particularly in high-torque / low-rpm environment

- Massive & inefficient 18-speed gearbox can be avoided

- Cost of fuel itself (electricity) is much cheaper

I'd also add that virtually the only compelling reason to have a single, large load like a big rig is to minimize the cost of a human driver relative to payload shipped. Without a driver, the optimal load size will likely be much different and will vary more by industry than it does today.

All of the comments re: swappable battery packs are missing the end goal. Once the driver is gone from autonomy, these fleets are going to be dirt cheap to operate.

It won't make sense to swap a battery pack when you can just park one truck on the charger and let another take its place.

I'd disagree here too. Trains and planes have extremely catastrophic failure modes, while cars do not. Cars have the added benefit of being able to quickly come to a stop in most situations.

An even bigger driving factor (pun intended) will be that the cost of a driver relative to operation is much, much higher in a car. A solution that is better on both safety and cost will be quickly adopted.

The argument is not that it's because how humans do it. The argument is that the entire system was designed to be consumed as visual cues.

So you believe the technology gap for assembling a human brain out of regular atoms is similar to that for navigating a road using cameras?

It seems like you're taking your own opinion as a universal truth. There are many people (myself included) who will happily ride in a well-tested autonomous vehicle, particularly if the alternative is a taxi, uber, or bus driver who is just going through the motions. 5x safer is still an improvement in my eyes, even if it's still short of the gold standard for aviation.

It depends on what you're optimizing for. Others using LIDAR are optimizing for speed to market, while potentially sacrificing ability to solve the problem as fully. Musk's argument is that we know for certain that the entire road system can be navigated by visual cues, because that's how humans do it. We do not know for certain that this is possible with LIDAR.

I have mixed feelings about these types of comparisons.

On one hand, they provide some directional information. I wouldn't be surprised if a Go framework is generally faster than .NET.

On the other hand, they're usually set up in some suspect way: not quite apples to apples, the author knows one framework better than the other, or, most commonly, neglect other more important concerns. If I were considering Go vs .NET, I don't think serving 5 million requests in a burst would be very close to the top of my wishlist. Tooling, documentation, ecosystem, ease of hiring, open source projects, etc etc etc all seem far more important, but you don't see these in comparison articles all that often.

That is what's happening today, offered by the only company with the scale to do it: Amazon (It's called FBA). Then when they see your products are selling particularly well, they stock them, undercut you, and put you out of business.

I ran an ecommerce company for about a year, and one click checkout was the least of our concerns when it came to Amazon.

The speed of delivery, prime benefits, brand recognition, and willingness to lose money on many if not most items are absolutely brutal to compete against.

I'm glad one click checkout will be more broadly available, but it's probably not going to make much of a difference...

Google has not criminalized anything, certainly not beliefs. A different word might suit your argument better.

Some examples would help here. Reading this did not bring any real world situations to mind for me.

Sorry, "badge seekers" then if you must insist on precision for the same idea. It's all fake internet points.

Just an odd take to me. HN was started by a Harvard alum based on experiences in the Harvard Computer Society, so this should be the last place that's an issue...

What is offensive about this? The fact that someone on HN went to Harvard?

I was really hoping the article would touch on Saturn's north pole hexagon, as it completely blows my mind every time I think about it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon

I don't know if anonymity is supposed to be the differentiator here, but true anonymity is not delivered by an end product -- it's essentially a "client side" concern.

I had this happen to me 2-3 times as well. Incorrectly flagged and closed by point seekers in a hurry. It made me respect the platform less and honestly I find myself barely participating anymore after years of activity.

Speaking as someone who used to answer regularly and now doesn't at all, it's because the moderators have gotten insane and taken the fun / interest out of it. So at least in my case, your thesis is incorrect.