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They're a bit expensive, but from personal experience and recommendations from friends: Riese & Müller, Stromer, Koga and Flyer. Be aware of trendy brands like VanMoof or Cowboy. An electric bike is not really high tech, no need for brands that act like they're a tech company or the Tesla of electric bikes.

But first of all, look for local dealerships and find out which brands they're selling. You need regular maintenance for your electric bike and many bike shops refuse to work on bikes bought elsewhere, especially cheap bikes bought online, and I can't really blame them.

A good electric bike ain't cheap, but lasts a lot longer than a no name/cheap one. A cheap bike with one problem after the other sucks all the joy out of owning one and is the surest way to a dust collecting piece of metal in the back of your garage, nevermind the extra costs.

And get electric bike insurance. Budget for it in advance. Getting your brand new expensive ebike stolen is quite traumatic.

That's a whalesome thought.

Be careful what you wish for. It reminds me of the Four Pests campaign in China around 1960, especially the extermination of sparrows, one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine.

500k feral cats: that's a lot of mice, pigeons and young rats! Without predators like feral cats, NY's rat problem could become even more, well, interesting.

Humans kill far more birds than feral cats. Agriculture, pesticides, deforestation, destruction of fields and grasslands, the use of mice and rat poison, car traffic, wind turbines, ... it all adds up. It makes feral cats look like amateurs showing up on a gun fight with a pencil.

In the EU, a 2021 study of 378 bird species estimated that bird numbers fell by as much as 19 percent from 1980 to 2017. And that's not because of cats, feral or not.

From the description: There’s a tsunami of science spam on YouTube. Why does it all look the same? How much harm does it do?

I had to look up Arc, there are different arcs.

You probably mean this one, a new kind of browser: https://thebrowser.company/

First of all, thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you’re feeling ok right now. As a chronic pain patient myself, here are some of my thoughts.

Opioids have a bad reputation, rightfully so in some cases, but it can be part of a solution to treat chronic pain. I’ve been taking a a mild opioid (tramadol) to reduce my pain for several years now and it has been literally a life saver. There are downsides, but the reduction in pain out-weights them, at least in my case. I understand the resistance against opioids and they are not very popular right now, but if it really helps to deal with your pain, it may be worth considering it.

Consider counseling with a psychologist or psychiatrist. Depression comes with the pain territory, sadly enough. Most people don’t understand the severity of chronic pain. As you said it yourself: you can move, you look ok from the outside, but in reality, you’re far from ok. It’s mentally draining and can cause severe depression. Be aware of that and be prepared.

Try to find the causes of your pain. From your writing, I can’t make up if you know the sources of your musculoskeletal pain. It took me years, several specialists and hospitals to find all the pain triggers. A specialised pain center of a hospital can really help you we with that. Then again, I live in Europe and benefit from universal healthcare. The costs of treatment can be a big issue in the US, sadly enough.

Knowing what causes your pain is really important, just like knowing how to deal with it. Plan your day accordingly. If you know you can be active for three hours without much more pain, divide you day in blocks of three hours, followed by rest. This can be difficult, especially with work, social contacts and in relationships. But it’s really important to know your limits.

Talk to others about your pain and let them know how it affects your life. Others don’t feel your pain, you may even try to hide it. This can result in a lot of miscommunication and wrong assumptions. If you’re in pain, let the (significant) other know so they can understand your behaviour. You’re acting in a certain way right now because of your pain, not because you’re not interested (in them), not because you’re ignoring them, not because you’re lazy, etc.

Don’t give up. Stay curious.

Fun idea.

Unfortunately, I get an error message when clicking on any buy button: The link you clicked on is malformed. Contact the editor of the originating page.

Maybe they don't need a cooprerating witness or special deals. Apparently the companies were really badly run, with lots of clear-cut violations, making it very easy to file charges.

From The Verge article about the arrest of Bankman-Fried ( https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23506483/sam-bankman-fri... ) :

John J. Ray III, who has taken over for Bankman-Fried as CEO of FTX and whose credentials include supervising the corporate cleanup after Enron imploded, has already said, 'Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here.'

mIRC ended its lifetime license agreement with all who purchased its software 10 years out. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33864660

He didn't try to commit fraud, he just did it right away for real.

"It has been speculated that the message was computer generated, with the text to promote its cheesy chicken being automatically connected to current anniversaries and events to stimulate sales."

What exactly is Twitter's core value?

Some say it's the world's town square. Fine, but how do you support (pay for) that? Town squares are generally funded and maintained by public organisations and tax money. Twitter is a private company and I don't think there's much enthousiasm for giving Twitter public funding in order to run it.

What about Spanish olive oil?

> I'd much rather consumers just don't subscribe to these features

Sure, if the consumers actually do have the choice. The heated seats are pre-installed and you pay for it, whether you activate the subscription or not. You can't choose a cheaper, non-heated seat, as far as I know.

As an individual consumer, you don't have that much leverage or power. As a group of consumers, aka voting citizens, it's easier to handle such rent seeking businesses practices through legislation.

A bit off-topic, but why are proctologists despised in America? I can understand it's not an encounter you're looking forward to, but why put them in the same category as care salesmen and lawyers? Are they known for using shady tactics, being extremely expensive or untrustworthy, or something else?

> I have actually been receiving much spam from gmail addresses lately and have considered banning the domain altogether.

For some accounts I block all Gmail usernames ending with a number: from 0@gmail.com to 9@gmail.com. The only exceptions are addresses that I have added to my whitelist. A bit drastic, but it did wonders to my mailbox.

I don't hate Meta/Facebook, I like it as much as cancer.

Super cool tech is not a free pass. The tech doesn't stand on it's own, the Quest Pro is an integral part of a dystopian world ruled by Meta.

It's not hate, I just don't want to support or enable Meta's dystopia.

The energy crisis is pretty bad right now, with no end in sight, for now. But that's only a short term problem. It's just a minor bump.

The demographic trend is what it is: baby boomers are retiring en masse and the influx of a new qualified employees is simply too low. Unemployment remains low. Jobs will be fine.

Just ask the Taiwanese, Uyghurs and Tibetan people. To name a few.

Maybe they should use Nimbus for their documentation? Nimbus Note, that is: https://nimbusweb.me/ . I use Nimbus Note occasionally, it’s a bit confusing, both using the same name.

I’ve tried to search for supported Samsung devices, especially the S20 FE, and it’s a nightmare to find anything relevant using Google. Google Search ignores /e/, making it all but impossible to find anything about the /e/ project.

I can relate to the OP, /e/ is nit a very handy name for Google searches. It’s like it doesn’t exist. What’s the point of a name you can’t Google, or pronounce?

In case someone might have the same question: the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE is not supported. In fact all recent Samsung devices are not supported. Support for new Samsung smartphones seems to have halted, most recent model in the S-family is the S10, released more than 3 years ago.

Does anyone know why recent Samsung devices are unsupported? After all, Samsung is one of the biggest smartphone makers. It seems odd to ignore such large user base.

Well, you still have the option to get up, march the streets and demand for better representation.

Democracy is an active, ongoing process, it doesn't stop at the election booth.

You deserve better than unelected leaders (unelected as by the people, not by a few selected Tory party members).

Thank you for recommending alternatives!

That's a very US-centric point of view. The world is bigger than US tech companies. Mollie is very popular in certain regions in the EU, with lots of local integrations. It would make little sense to use Stripe in such cases. Look for what works best for you, not what you think you should use according to US-based platforms/media.

Posing with a cat makes a man less dateable is not really an issue. As long as it attracts the right person, another cat loving partner.

That never happened.

Venting doesn't work: https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/venting-makes-you-feel-... .

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30601594 .

Let's ignore personality and societal issues for a moment and look at the value proposition. The 'best and final offer' of $54.20 per share is just too low to be acceptable for major investors.

Just over year ago, Twitter shares traded at about $70 per share. Musk's offer is about 25% lower than last years peak. There's no reason to assume Twitter shares can't reach the same levels ever again, nothing much has changed fundamentally over a year.

Musk's offer is a cash only offer. $43 billion is a lot of cash. That's a lot of Tesla shares to sell, or massive loan. If Musk thinks Twitter is that valuable to take such risks, current major investors will probably want to unlock that value themselves.

I think the takeover offer is just as believable as last week's announcement that Musk was joining the Twitter board.

I'm getting sick and tired of baseless comments like this being the top comment.

I want to read about the real topic, additional information, different insights, ... a real discussion about the original article, link, project.

Too many discussions are getting hijacked and turned into irrelevant clickbait and a waste of time.