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New comment by salvar in "YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M"

salvar — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:23:48 +0000

Excellent, what are the metrics then? What makes a "how to do your nails" tutorial brainless stupidity?

New comment by salvar in "YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M"

salvar — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:17:52 +0000

Who decides what is valuable content and what is brainless stupidity?

New comment by salvar in "Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10"

salvar — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:55:01 +0000

> I'm not sure what more they could do. They're extremely pushy about it in Windows.

One of the things that pushed me away from Edge. Being pushy is not the same as being persuasive.

New comment by salvar in "I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back"

salvar — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:03:49 +0000

Where can you get them for $2.65? I've never even seen one for sale.

New comment by salvar in "German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:46:40 +0000

Of course it has lots to do with Microsoft's fuckery. I don't think it's a binary choice. Can you answer my question now?

Edit: Sorry, misread the author. Thought you were the same as I asked the original question. Nevermind that.

New comment by salvar in "German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:33:37 +0000

Is there any point? It seems like you're convinced enough that nothing can ever change your mind. So I'm fine with just disagreeing and leaving it at that.

New comment by salvar in "German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:27:00 +0000

I'm sorry if I come across as obtuse, but I just need to understand this clearly. Is it your belief that the low usage of Linux has nothing to do with Linux itself?

New comment by salvar in "AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:21:13 +0000

Just because something is revenue doesn't mean that the purpose is entirely to increase revenue. That is the claim you made. I have presented a counter-example to that, where revenue increase is clearly not the only reason for monetary fines. We have the stated purpose of the legislation -- you can call that PR or whatever you'd like but the stated purpose is not revenue increase -- and you have the fact that these revenues do not benefit any police departments or anyone directly. Instead they make up an absolutely tiny fraction of the total revenues of the state.

Just for fun, I calculated this fraction for a given year. The revenue from all traffic violation fines accounted for a whopping 0.1% of the total state revenue.

So apparently the only purpose of these traffic fines are to raise the state revenue by 0.1%, despite the explicit stated purpose of the legislation and any evidence to the contrary. Does that make sense to you?

Is this one of those things where you just know you're right because you feel it in your gut and nothing can ever convince you otherwise?

New comment by salvar in "German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:42:57 +0000

I'll have to disagree with that. Linux has significant usability problems, and pretending that it has none is not going to help anyone.

New comment by salvar in "German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:55:00 +0000

Yes, I really do. Why don't more computers come with Linux pre-installed? If Linux is such a great replacement for Windows, why has it made very little gains in replacing Windows? Is it all somebody else's fault and has nothing to do with the usability of Linux?

New comment by salvar in "AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:28:39 +0000

Anecdote of my own: In my country, monetary fines in traffic infringements are explicitly not for revenue. They mix into the total state revenue and form a minuscule fraction of it. The police sees none of it.

This distinction is made very clear, for example in a parliament answer by the justice minister: "...it is clear that the purpose of fines is not to increase the revenue of police departments but first and foremost to deter traffic violations and increase traffic safety."

New comment by salvar in "AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:05:33 +0000

That's quite the brush you're painting with there. Is the primary motivation behind fining the same everywhere?

New comment by salvar in "German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis"

salvar — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:36:48 +0000

So why isn't everyone using it then?

Tesla Model 3 is starting to show some important flaws in cold weather

salvar — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2018/11/14/tesla-model-3-cold-weather-flaws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18461440

Points: 2

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New comment by salvar in "My App Is Dead in the Water"

salvar — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:38:20 +0000

Fair enough. I'll amend it to "All Reddit, HN and Twitter apps I have ever seen"

New comment by salvar in "My App Is Dead in the Water"

salvar — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:23:31 +0000

I guess... but that still leaves pretty much all news aggregators. Google News doesn't let you do much other than read news from all over the internet. It's functionally exactly the same, only with a different aggregating algorithm.

New comment by salvar in "My App Is Dead in the Water"

salvar — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:11:36 +0000

This seems weird enough to be an error of some kind. Not that Apple is likely to fix it, but enforcing this rule would exclude:

- All Reddit apps

- All HN apps

- Twitter

- Facebook

- Google News

- Any link or news aggregator

I guess even a browser wouldn't fly, since it "displays full articles from multiple news sources."

New comment by salvar in "YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible"

salvar — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:59:08 +0000

Doesn't this exist already? Fire up TOR, brave the wilderness of hidden services.

New comment by salvar in "Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform"

salvar — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:01:04 +0000

I'm still not exactly sure, which is definitely a red flag to me since I'm already a nerdy type that should at least understand the value proposition.

New comment by salvar in "Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform"

salvar — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:05:28 +0000

Have you done any research into how likely it is that a visitor from your demographic understands what "federated" means in this context? I ask because it's part of the tagline, so if you don't understand a key word in the product description you're probably less likely to show interest in it.