fkdo's comments

They could just be hedging their bets.

Theoretically if 51% of ownership of an oil company wants to seal all oil wells isn't that what the company should do?

Free software plays a very large role in our communication infrastructure.

The Xbox One X doesn't maintain those specs. The resolution drops during game play.

You actually need a machine north of $2k to support 60fps 4k.

> every OS is calling home to some degree.

It's funny to speak in absolutes. Plenty of operating systems don't phone home regularly, just not ones popular with consumers.

I think it would change the VC market too. A lot of companies are funded because they potentially make good acquisitions for larger companies.

> it would be atypical for a suburb to have significant independent restaurants within 5mi of any given point

Some cities, like Dallas, seem to have a higher percentage of chain restaurants than the average suburb. Other cities, like Seattle, have a ton of restaurants that seem independent but are actually part of a portfolio of restaurants owned by one person, private equity, or a corporation experimenting.

I expect uber eats will scale very well in the suburbs if they can get multiple orders in the same car efficiently. Restaurants are experimenting with food that travels better.

> "It's immoral to eat them because they can have thoughts and an internal experience, just like us," and "But they taste good" is not a counterargument.

There is an implied "We are on top of the food chain" along with "they taste good".

There is some legitimacy to the idea that we should eat whatever we please because we are the apex predator. Ultimately market forces should align the price to equal the cost of framing / hunting. Additionally we have huge ethical problems in how humans treat each other we should work on before even worrying about an invertebrate's problems.

I don't actually hold those worldviews, but they are implied with the sentence "but they taste good"

Almost nobody tracks their time to better understand how they are spending it. I've talked to several people that have started, but even the most detailed oriented find it to not be worth the hassle.

If you really want this data, I think it's best to correlate data crumbs you leave after the fact and tally up your time at the end of the week. GPS data, computer activity logs, phone screen time, etc.

Another good enough answer is to track the time that is most important to you. Billable hours, exercise time, etc.

Yes. I remember AWS asked about the size of the databases I have worked with in the past, and then negged me when it was smaller than their databases.

Of course the databases I worked with were smaller, they deal with some of the largest in the world.

Someone can be sane but still have poor mental health.

Healthy people don't kill innocent civilians.

I disagree about banning guns. There are other weapons mass murders could use. Anthrax in the mail and homemade bombs have both been used in US history. We cannot reasonably prohibit access to all dangerous materials. Even a large SUV can be used to kill/injury several people.

I think the biggest gains come from focusing on mental health. I see this is just one symptom of a much larger mental health crisis in the US. Other symptoms include high depression rates, high anxiety rates and high addiction rates.

I bet there is a direct correlation between how much good will someone extends DOD and how much they believe their history books.

I think most Americans receive a quality education that covers a lot of really valuable material. The US population isn't the most well educated, but it's unfair to our teachers to say that most Americans are poorly educated.

Does the first amendment apply to none us citizens/residents?

I don't see a single open platform or piece of free software in this entire situation.

The article says nothing about Tinder making this release on App Store, just Play Store.

If Tinder requested this update be sent to Apple users than the review process would reject the update. The Play Store doesn't put a person in the app update loop.

It's my right as a member of a democracy to call out when a company is doing something unethical with the hope of swaying the opinion of my peers against such business practices.

It's my privilege to do so on this platform.

This type of behavior is unethical which is an entirely different thing than illegal. I hope we can adjust regulations on the market to make such behavior illegal. I have this hope because I don't want to live in a society where an increasingly portion of the population is addicted.

> I have quit social media

The comments section of Hacker News is social media.

Yes but it seems like many video game designs are engineering towards exploiting addictive behavior.

This is predatory business behavior.