1. Try using the web browser in "private" mode for all your browsing, so there's no autocomplete. Get rid of any bookmarks and don't install any apps. Instead, go to mobile.twitter.com/id_aa_carmack or whatever manually. This slows you down and makes it easy to forget to check Twitter for days and weeks at at time.
2. On the migraines and eye strain issues, this may be solvable by getting glasses or an updated prescription.
1. I don't have the problem of feel like Chrome being slow, and I don't hear this complaint much. The complexity of the web is not increasing as quickly as computers are increasing in power. This seems like a temporary and niche problem to be working on.
2. Reliable low latency streaming on wired connections is pretty straightforward, and should work fine. This is an easy problem.
3. Reliable low latency streaming on wireless connections is an unsolvable problem due to the nature of physics (basically), and will be an endless source of frustration. There's a reason no FPS gamer would ever play on wifi by choice. It will work fine at times and then randomly start sucking right as you're trying to do something important.
4. If it turns out this is useful in some cases, Google can easily do a better job than Mighty. And there's no reason this couldn't be done by AWS and Microsoft as well. It's trivial for a major tech company to do this better than Mighty does. They already built Stadia and the rest. Unlike when Dropbox launched, these companies aren't sleeping on stuff like this anymore.
This seems like a response to Spotify locking up the JRE podcast on their platform. This takes the world further in the direction of podcast centralization. The plague of all other content creation.
They will, of course, pretend they're doing it for the creators but it's bullshit. The creators do want money, and subscriptions are a good way for them to make money, but creators do not want their podcasts to be centrally controlled or exclusive to any platform.
This is another example of where Apple's centralized/walled garden approach puts them at odds with what is best for the world. It's understandable, but unfortunate, and we can ultimately do better than this.
"There's no indication that Iran is any less deterrable than every other nuclear power."
Iran is an extremist theocratic dictatorship with a history of violence and threats.
There's very little rational concern about the U.S. or the U.K or China using nuclear weapons against Iran. If nothing else, they've had decades to do so and have chosen not to.
There is completely valid concern that Iran might use nuclear weapons against Israel or the U.S, in some future circumstance.
At the very least, Iran might hold Israel hostage by threatening to use nuclear weapons.
Dismissing this as an extremist, imperialist, or Zionist viewpoint just doesn't cut it. This would be a very reasonable viewpoint of for any rational disinterested observer.
"We didn't start WWIII when Kruschev banged his shoe at the UN like a maniac"
The U.S. had tons of evidence and intelligence that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the USSR had zero interest in a full scale nuclear exchange. In fact, the U.S. employed the "Mad Man" strategy throughout the Cold War, which meant it was generally more belligerent about threatening nuclear war.
It's not "political battle" as no one is fighting anyone. These are discussions of philosophy much more than politics. And it's the topic of the submission. If the submission hasn't been removed, then it seems entirely reasonable to discuss the issues it raises. Entirely earnest and in good faith on my side.
Why do I have to keep track of my throwaway accounts? The whole point of a throw away account is to throw it away. My browser doesn't save history. I can't remember what my username was the last time I restarted my browser.
I could easily create throwaway accounts through IP proxies that would make banning/linking accounts very difficult. I don't bother because I assumed a high level of ethics and competence on the part of HN moderators. I don't want you to look up my accounts at all but I trust you enough to not doxx me.
The fact that you are looking up throwaway account users and linking it their other accounts seems like a huge ethical violation. I don't know why you would do it in cases where the person is not actually violating the guidelines except for the dubious throwaway guideline.
1. Please change the guideline on throwaway accounts. Since cancel culture has become a thing, any opinion outside of the orthodoxy is "sensitive." The idea that "users should have an identity that others can relate to" seems incredibly unimportant by comparison. HN is so large now that I doubt anyone but moderators can really keep track of usernames anymore.
2. Please stop looking up people's accounts yourself. And please stop threatening people for using throwaways to participate anonymously while putting forth unorthodox views in good faith.
3. Please start deleting identifying account information (IPs/user agents) after some number of days. Make it impossible for a future hacker (which could be a hostile state actor) to doxx people that used throwaway accounts.
"For example, how can it be that a large number of reasonable, intelligent people worry about something they call "cancel culture," while other reasonable, intelligent people deny that it's a problem?"
I'm not sure the other side of this issue are reasonable and intelligent. It seems to me that anyone who swallows the orthodoxy of the day wholesale is unreasonable and unintelligent.
They seem like the kind of people that have always led mobs.
What seems to have changed is that now they have a voice on Twitter. They finally have a modern platform on which to organize their mob behavior, and cancel culture is the result.
Most DOCSIS 3 cable internet connections I've tested are under 10 ms round trip to the gateway. With consumer fiber, it's usually under 5 ms. These are far better than anything SpaceX will do.
PC gamers will want wired internet. Everyone else could probably do with deal with 80 ms without even noticing, so SpaceX will be very successful as long as it's affordable and reliable.
Neither of those are counter examples. Both had issues that have nothing to do with trying to live in a commune within the US, something that many groups have done successfully.
"truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else"
This is the primary problem with woke ideologues. They pretend to know the definitive answers to problems that have plagued societies for hundreds and thousands of years. Anyone who disagree with their answers at all is "problematic" at best but much more likely deeply racist or sexist anti-progress bigot -- an enemy.
Back in the land of reality, problems are complex and full of nuance. Guilt is almost never one-sided. Meaningful or useful blame is often impossible to assign. Solutions are never comprehensive. Perfection is impossible.
This "better example" would not exist on earth, so there's nothing useful to learn from it.
The US and USSR were equally powerful, playing the same game, with the same population. Ideology vs ideology. Capitalism won by a mile.
Because fundamentally the US isn't driven by an all-encompassing ideology. Capitalism doesn't dictate how every citizen live their life. It only describes how the economic system will work. Anyone inside the system is free to create their own enclave. If you want to move to Oregon to live on a commune, no capitalist commissar is there to stop you. Starting a capitalist enclave in a communist country would have had to sent to the gulag.
You spent four hours of your life thinking about a rich guy that likes to have sex with young women and underage girls?
At most, he was working for intelligence agencies creating blackmail material. Not even the story of the year, let alone the decade. Even if he was actually murdered in prison by powerful people or an intelligence agency it wouldn't be very interesting. There's no broad trend. No betrayal of public trust. Just run of the mill spy stuff.
The strongest result of the Epstein incident is that it will serve as a strong warning to powerful men not to put themselves in a compromising position.
The idea that a communist movement could have existed without KGB interference is equally absurd.
Communists in the USSR (and backed by the USSR) stole property on a vast scale and murdered or enslaved people by the millions. The CIA did many bad things but it is very hard to out-do the USSR on evil acts.
West vs East Germany was as good an experiment as anyone is likely to ever see. It was capitalism vs communism head-to-head. The communists had to build a wall to keep their enslaved population from escaping from a secret police controlled hellscape to what was (in comparison) a capitalist utopia.
The US is a fundamentally mercantile country that found out the hard way (through two world wars) that non-interference doesn't work. It very reluctantly adopted the role of world police.
In many ways it resembles the problems all policing forces face, which is that people tend to focus on the mistakes rather than the successes.
The people that spend time railing against US policing failures spend no time trumpeting its great many successes.
It's always easy to point the finger. It's much harder to explain how one would have done a better job solving such complex problems.
Because cable has improved enough that no consumers really needs fiber to their homes. You can get 300-1000 Mbps cable internet now in most places and it is far more than anyone really needs. Upload bandwidth is the main limitation of cable internet but that's not a major factor for most people.
If cable internet was still stuck at 25 Mbps or similar, the pressure for fiber internet would be a lot stronger.
But cable internet got good.
The backwards and scandalous aspect of modern American internet is that the ISPs managed to roll out 1 TB data caps without being blocked by lawmakers.
2. On the migraines and eye strain issues, this may be solvable by getting glasses or an updated prescription.