Readit NewsI did buy an EV recently, but at that point, Tesla really doesn't have a competitive edge. They made EVs cool, but other manufacturers now have cars that have better interior styling and better performance for a comparable price.
Another problem is that HOAs are the worst possible size of a government. They're large enough that you're in the minority, but small enough that they don't have anything else to preoccupy themselves with but how you're using your own property.
I've heard that "just imagine what kinds of horrors happen without HOAs" argument many times over, but... I live in the Bay Area in a densely-packed but older neighborhood without a HOA, and I'm yet to witness the terrible consequences of my neighbors' supposed recklessness. Yeah, the houses are painted in different colors and picket fences have different styles and heights, but I think I can live with that.
Most people are reasonable. When you bump into people who are truly unreasonable, a HOA is unlikely to save you. How peaceful and pretty a neighborhood is depends largely on socioeconomic factors (not just wealth, but also the prevalence of problems such as addiction). It just so happens that many new and expensive neighborhoods have HOAs, but that doesn't mean that HOAs are to be credited for good outcomes - or that they will be able to prevent the decline of such communities if the economic climate changes.
Not in Europe.
A seller does not necessarily have to accept returns if you changed your mind, found the item cheaper somewhere else, or just don't like it. Pretty sure that's also the case in the EU.
But, if you violate the terms of your bail, you can end up back in custody.
Wait, why are we normalizing this? Getting on HN is always the second-best way to get it looked at by a human. The best would be, you know, Google devs doing their job and helping their users instead of solving LeetCode or writing their next promo packet or whatever it is they do all day.
I'm not a big fan of this trend where Google and other companies are essentially outsourcing their (horrible) customer service to this message board.
I mean I'll still upvote the post in case I need to invoke this terrible fallback in the future, but I think it's reasonable to grumble about it.
The problem might be the business model itself. Google is not attached to any one of its billions of users, but they can cause a lot of pain if they randomly cut you off - especially in a world where email is essentially online identity. But then, I'd wager that a good 90% of us are employed in places that want to replicate that model at any cost... glass houses and all.
It's possible that their logic has some sort of a bug, especially if it only happens when you visit a specific service - and in that case, getting on HN might be the best way to get it looked at by a human... but also make sure you don't have any other issues going on.
But I think it's pretty easy to understand why it's unpopular. First, AC is popular in the US, so a system that can reuse the same ducts is a lot less expensive than something entirely separate. Secondly, it's a lot simpler and cheaper to service. If your hydronic heating system freezes or develops an airlock or springs a leak, you might be looking at five-figure repair costs.
1. Invest in negative security warnings. This is fair, but how would that really work? HTTPS seems like an odd example, given how binary it is. How do you generalize it to online safety? Blocking known bad sites or behaviors is a never-ending game in a world where it costs next to nothing to set up a new phishing site or roll out a new malicious binary.
2. Unphishable credentials. This is reasonable - but what about attacks that don't care about credentials? Again, malicious downloads and plenty of other things that are happening today.
3. App-level content moderation. Sure, but this works only as long as you stay within walled gardens of a small number of platforms and are not an interesting target. What if you go to an URL not ending with .google.com or .facebook.com? What about specific, targeted populations that aren't adequately protected by the heuristics used at that scale?
Google’s chat bots are way ahead of ChatGPT, at least from what we can see from the outside. (Nobody has mistaken ChatGPT for a sentient being, but they did with LaMDA.)
ChatGPT is clearly nowhere near being ready for actual product use. Jailbreaking and bullshitting are both fatal problems. The fact that ChatGPT is a really cool demo just brings the public to where Google was a few years ago.
Until these models are safe to put directly in conversation with a child, they will not be deployed to replace Google search. Google knows this and is already working on fixing these problems; indeed LaMDA’s main innovation was adding an anti-BS fact-checking layer.
If the NYT really thinks Google is somehow caught unawares here, they clearly have no understanding of what Google’s research program looks like.
This is analogous to writing “Uber is going to beat Waymo to self driving cars” 5 years ago. The reason Google hasn’t released this product yet is they (unlike the NYT) well understand that it’s not ready yet.
I'm sure there were quite a few SGI, Sun, and IBM executives laughing at that amateurish thing called Linux...
Cameras like the Sigma FP are built around the heat sink and have vents all around to dissipate the heat during long recording sessions. Most typical DSLRs simply have recording limits e.g. Canon R6 = 30 mins.
Pretty big issue for a device they are aiming to be around your head for hours at a time.
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