AmericanChopper

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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
This is the main reason I never plan on buying one. I really hate all of the car-driven-by-a-computer functionality. I don’t want to drive a car where an internal computer can take over control of the vehicle, I especially don’t want one wh
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
> consumers are never satisfied because they have wrong expectations Consumers are satisfied with buying ICE vehicles, which is why 90-something percent of them do just that when buying a new vehicle. You’re not saying anything about con
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If you want people to choose one thing, then you want it to be better than or at least as good as the alternatives. The idea that EVs need to be comparable to ICE vehicles isn’t just some silly argument, it’s literally the choice that consu
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I agree that it usually doesn’t fly with clients, unless you already have a good relationship and track record with them. But I don’t think it’s supposed to be a trick. On the client side somebody either has some funding for a project and n
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I’m not a big fan of the “my opinion is fact” or “your opinion is wrong” headlines. They can be mildly funny in the right context, but it’s been done so much that they’re just a bit boring now. I’m especially bored of seeing this convention
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I think it’s an excellent comment, and I’m very happy with it.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I’m happy for people to keep writing M$. It’s a great way to quickly identify comments to scroll past.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
To say that some quality is embedded in a culture isn’t even close to the same as saying all people originating from that culture possess that quality. The extent to which India’s (racist) caste system is embedded in its culture is hardly u
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Most tremendously wealthy people don’t want to be known for being tremendously wealthy. Unless being known for being tremendously wealthy is a part of your wealth accumulating strategy, the attention it brings is almost entirely negative. B
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I’d say it stops being a useful descriptor at that point. If any activity that a person can possibly find rewarding in any way can be addictive, then everything is addictive. Because for any activity that you can possibly think of, you’ll f
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I never suggested shame as an effective treatment. But refusing to acknowledge the reality of the situation is not an effective way to discuss the problem. Obesity is the result of lifestyle choices, and those choices do impose their costs
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Well the food addiction or sedentariness addiction diagnosis are a lot more controversial than a heroin addiction diagnosis, though I can see how they have some things in common. I think labelling any observable manifestation of poor impuls
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I would say that your suggestion that grown adults should be absolved of responsibility for their own decisions is actually a quintessentially childish idea. The fact that you are so deeply offended by any suggestion otherwise is even more
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I don’t think being addicted to laziness and having a glutinous appetite is exactly comparable to say, being addicted to heroin. But yes, I do think addicts should receive treatment, just as I think obese patients should (and do) receive tr
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Health care costs is how individual people’s terrible lifestyle decisions end up impacting everybody else. If somebody wants to live some awful unhealthy lifestyle it really should be their own choice to do so. Except for the fact that it d
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I was going to comment basically this. Everything you could possibly want to know about how LI systems work is documented by the vendors online. It’s really just network interfaces that forward intercepted traffic to aggregators. The thing
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
And publishing software that decodes encrypted Switch ROMs is protected speech and not a copyright violation. Releasing it accompanied by a statement that said something to the effect of "here's some software that decodes encrypte
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
The main subject of the article seems to have come to an amicable agreement with Nintendo, but for all of the “copyright infringement enabling tools” that do get forcibly taken down, the way to avoid that just seems so obvious to me. The em
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
You really have to be doing huge levels of throughput before you start to struggle with scaling MySQL or Postgres. There’s really not many workloads that actually require strict ACID guarantees _and_ produce that level of throughput. 10-20
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
This only matters if it's important to you that everybody believe the same truths, which I would suggest shouldn't be important to you. Some people will believe one thing, another group will believe a different thing, and those di
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Scottish history would be far too dangerous to teach today. Undermines the narrative that all white people have a detestable history of colonisation and exploitation. The history curriculum I was taught in school was terribly boring and pol
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I’m not sure I would call it a dark pattern, it’s the stated goal of the product. To remove as many expenses as possible, and turn as many things into paid options as they can. They don’t make any effort to hide this and the RyanAir CEO tal
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
We don't have to speculate about what they might do, as "the whole flight is economy class" is basically the budget airline business model (even though some of them have some flights that have a premium class). Apparently you
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
When airlines were first created there was no classes at all, there was also more space and comfort for everybody. Also, the ticket prices for those seats were so high that any ticket was just as unaffordable as first class would be today.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If the data was publicly leaked then this argument would have some merit. But it wasn’t, the only people who could have accessed these passwords were insiders, and those passwords were used to protect data that many of them would have acces
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
It’s a reasonable possibility, it’s also a reasonable possibility that nobody did. But somebody incidentally seeing them, and maybe, maybe not recognising they were passwords is not a breach. Somebody intentionally misusing them would be, a
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If this control failure allowed malicious insiders to access private data, and misuse people’s personal accounts, then a data breach would have actually occurred. But I haven’t seen any suggestion that this happened, only references to the
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Sure, and I don’t disagree that it’s a bad situation for Meta to have created. It’s being fined for “potentially violating” a statute that I find objectionable. Being breached implies that some harm befell consumers, this article (and the o
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Even by the broadest possible definition of a breach, this is still just a control failure rather than a breach. The control that failed might have made it possible for Meta employees to perpetrate a breach, but the article makes no mention
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
You didn’t edit the link out, you replaced your comment with a completely different one. I always though HN was pretty good at preventing ninja edits like that…

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