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outside of the content of of the comment, top comment doesn't necessarily mean the most held opinion.

Especially if a comment is thoughtfully written, contains multiple aspects and might just get upvotes for reasonably looking at both sides like in this thread. Being thoughtful, mindful, respecting and trying to not see something in black and white can get upvotes just for being like that. And that's just one tiny aspect of why top comment isn't necessarily the most popular argument. Timing (resulting in more views and possibly upvotes) and other facotrs all play a role (not sure how much this is mitigated by the ranking algorithm.

Tesla RV for 70k? Can you teleport me into your alternate universe, please? ;) Different brand might make more sense, but even those will probably cost you at least doulbe that, unless you're maybe only talking about certain climate zones, bare minimum living standards and an abhorrent range together with some other bad tradeoff decisions regarding price vs. quality. Or maybe in a decade or two (at today's prices/without inflation).

Also, others made the point already about rent for the space to park on (most likely outcome would be high taxes and rent for RV parks (don't think they'd be much more efficient than regular housing on a sqft basis, especially if you're not putting them on top of each other, Ready Player One style).

Ever heard of a thing called counterfeit? Now combine blockchain with your favorite collectible, and you have a trustable, secure way to prove ownership of an original.

Sure, you can transfer ownership on the blockchain and still sell the physical counterfeit. But what is your "stolen" piece of art now worth without the private key to it? Probably much less, combined with a much smaller and illegal market.

Now take that concept and imagine some tamper-proof or difficult to tamper with hardware inside certain items like expensive designer clothes or bags or watches or whatnot, and you can probably make that possibility even harder.

It's a real world use case, and digital art should be self-explanatory I assume (although NFTs have a lot of problems (though probably solvable ones) to figure out..)

None of the top comments disuss the possibility of the deal not going through due to antitrust or other concerns by regulators. While it's owned by a Japanese company and being sold to an American one, China most likely doesn't approve and it could be a diplomatic issue due to security and intelligence concerns?

Not sure how relistic that scenario is, although I personally can very much see this being used as a negotiation vehicle, depending on the actual security concern (I'm obviously not an expert there..)

[1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1200871.shtml

Very sad to read this, but also an important lesson to every entrepreneur :(

The answer you never got from Apple was actually already in your own E-Mail all along.

Pay-Per-Install Ads will be a $118 BILLION industry by 2022. [1]

While you've missed out on millions of dollars, Apple sure saw this coming (Facebook probably was having quite a lot of success with it at the time?) and wanted those billions for themselves.

Protecting the user experience IS important to Apple, too, of course.., and it will always be the story they tell on the outside, but Craig, Phil or whoever was responsible for the AppStore at the time will have given a very different answer to Tim

[1] https://www.appsflyer.com/blog/app-install-ad-spend/

German citizen here.

Q1) What is (/are) the easiest path(s) to start a company in the US and/or seek funding there for Europeans? How costly is it?

Q2) If there's already a company registered in Germany for example, how costly (approximately) is the process to "register a subsidiary" in the US (required for YC), and how would the visas work? (Would spouses be allowed and be able to get a working permit?)

yeah, I couldn't find a source for this either. There are a few cases apparently, and there's still a lot about the virus that is unknown, but it doesn't look to be that high.. it could also be false-negatives that might explain this.., but it could theoretically also be that the virus is "bi-phasic", "meaning the disease appears to go away before recurring."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan/japane...

chrome let's you type the first few characters of a page, and then press tab to enter a search term for that page..

e.g. y tab will let you search youtube, which is even a little faster than the DDG bangs for some sites.., but certainly acccompanied by unwanted privacy defaults.. not sure how much of it you can turn off and still use the feature..

can you give a source?

You can definitely give an answer in the WIPO dispute, and I would absolutely try to do so. The WIPO is a joke though in my opinion - there is no appeal process whatsoever. We lost a case that we should have clearly won with jdownloader.com (our domain being .org, and us having started the project and having all the copyrights registered..) There was no way for us to answer in any way to the claims that the defendant made, and the decision was final..

In any way - I would definitely try to write an appeal.., but of course a lawyer and legal advise would be very helpful..

Well he's not dead yet or in jail ;) But will be interesting to see how this plays out.. Are there any good resources summarizing these facts/ allegations or "connecting" them? Would be interesting to dive down that rabbit hole..

thanks! Great work btw!

What's the tech stack behind the website? Just a bootstrap template?

How did you make the flat-art pictures (e.g. the one including the MIT and CC logos?) Do you have a good, preferably 'free' repository/website for those flat-art humans?

Is it just me, or are they heavily changing their product announcement/launching strategy?!

you're right. I reread the article on Spiegel, and got the impression they were.

while I have upvoted this story and deeply sympathize with the victims of what appears to be a wide 'overreach of power' by the police, I also had a look at the website that was the 'cause' of this raid.

!!! EDIT: I was under the impression, that this was their website. This is absolutely NOT proven and changes my viewpoint drastically !!!

While I deeply sympathize with the political views and what they are protesting (a far right-wing party in germany), they have published/written tutorials on different forms/tools of protesting ranging from 'peaceful' tools like grafitti and the use of colors up to how to use stones, nails in boards (wood boards? similar to this: https://bit.ly/2tTF0kp) in order to stop cars or even how to burn cars.

Now I'm not a lawyer, but while tutorials/information like this in itself probably isn't illegal, I assume there are laws that prohibit spurring people to protest using 'force'/violence. The context of this website and having those tutorials on it (including use gloves if you are using stones, because there could be fingerprints on it) combined with locations of AFD (super right-wing party) friendly locations can easily be seen/interpreted as a 'call to "violence"'.

It's a super interesting debate, but it's not as black and white as those CCC members make it appear. Again, I deeply sympathize with their cause - I am probably not perfectly OK with their methods, though.

edit: the website (in german) for those who want to judge themselves: https://augsburgfuerkrawalltouristen.noblogs.org/ Loosely translated: "Augsburg (city) for riot tourists"

Whoever is interested in this should take a look at Netflix' "Dirty Money" Episode 1. Alex Gibney (also directed Enron - smartest guys in the room) gives a good overview of the scandal, if you haven't been following it closely on the news. Very interesting, although I would have appreciated a deep dive into the actual algorithms used.. I'm sure there's articles on this though..

Regarding the human tests, as scandalous at it sounds on first glance, the SWR & ARD (government funded news channels similar to the BBC) also reported that it apparently isn't unusual to do this kind of human testing. The subjects were exposed to one specific kind of gas, and the dose, according to their correspondent, was less than what someone living at a busy street consumes regularly.

He mentioned that even Greenpeace "knows of these studies", referring to them in one of their papers.., whatever that means exactly.. He also states that the scientists were openly communicating that they were funded by the car manufacturers.

https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/bw/neben-affen-auch-menschenve... (google translate should do a good job if you don't understand German..)

I didn't even know people are working on this kind of stuff.. and on a lot of other fronts too, Apple is losing its edge by not having the newer form factors like 2 in 1s and detachables. so much potential there.. but it's really not their bread and butter any more..

Why are there two articles from wilamette week on the front page at the same time? Is it just me or does this look suspicious?

Why is this on the front page of HN? Anything I'm missing?