narrowingorbits

With taxes, you do.

Most spam calls in the US originate overseas (India) and ignore US regulation such as do-not-call registries.

Cheap, off-brand USB chargers often have poor or no circuit isolation. Some have even been tested to expose one leg of full AC current to the USB ground. Not a problem until you're between that and a ground.

People whose reactions when confronted with something new, unknown, and unexpected are to laugh at it or respond sarcastically, instead of to accept the surprise, approach with curiosity and humility, and question if there is something they're not understanding, are unlikely to ever discover anything new.

Everything that we call science today was once alternately laughable or mysterious.

I also used to do exactly this. Except with Safari as my untrusted 3rd. Eventually, I just got tired of the trouble and found that having a complete, searchable web history was actually so much a useful feature for me. So I stopped pretending and sold out to Google completely.

One of those times I should have read the comments first. Thanks.

But that would be SQL injection! Unlike the parent. Barbaric.

*Conscientiousness

A guy in my office ordered a 60-inch LCD TV. They delivered. Two weeks later another arrived. Customer service wouldn't acknowledge the first, so now he has two.

What you describe there is a broken and unusable value system.

Exactly right. For at least some of the 99% of startups that are not VC-backed, it can be the constant struggle between working /on/ the business and working /in/ the business, when resources are limited. That can mean a CTO deep in the code on a daily basis, or even the CEO taking a project from time to time. When you're small and broke, you just get what needs to be done, done, regardless of titles.

As I said, that makes sense, and I agree. That does not mean it's financially possible.

This makes sense. But, for many (at least bootstrapping) startups, $1800/mo for the database is not in the realm of the possible. Is not having to deal with (future) sharding headaches "worth" that much? Sure. But that doesn't mean it's possible.

So by pricing us out of the entry level, you will forgo having startups build their platforms on it and get hooked (while it's still at 1-node mysql scale).

When the sharding headache hits and they're scrambling to scale, will they switch to Spanner? Maybe. Probably. They'll want to, anyway. But there is a big market that will be missed.

The server.

The demand for source code would likely include accompanying documentation necessary to build/use.

Nope. Incorrect. Google and Apple both have open SDKs for streaming to their devices. Amazon has chosen not to support them

Sounds like a market for an aftermarket service company to reprogram the pumps not to break!

> Victims have every right to hate their offenders and a just society should do everything they can to help the victims...

Yes, society should do everything it can to help the victims---to help the victims to heal. Society has no imperative to help the victims to hate.

Or else they're making such a fuss specifically to help sell the supposed effectiveness.

> If I 3D printed a set of lock picking tools would Wired run a story on me?

Yes.

This is not SkyBox related, but rather aerial. Note the 15cm resolution.

> Seriously, he is more insignificant than any random educated citizen

Wow. You're really living in your own little bubble.

> I'd rather not be born than be born in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery.

Seriously? You prefer a 0% chance, over, say, a 60% chance?

But then I'd jump at the offer of a 4% chance of making it over a 0% chance any day, so I guess it's just a different mindset.

> More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives.

I rather think living is a necessary prerequisite to living better.

Yes.

OP is on flaky legal ground reproducing and distributing other's designs without permission as it is; but then to suggest that MailChimp is in the wrong, simply for, in a very polite, even friendly, letter, acknowledging their brand and their legitimate copyright, and asking OP to play fair...wow.

Also, he wanted someone from MailChimp's design or development team to reach out to him? Really? Maybe they're busy, you know, designing and developing things! This is not a design or development issue. They have legal council to worry about copyright and brand dilution issues.

Sure, but I guess a question, then, is whether "social mobility" is the highest end in and of itself.

And I guess that's the important dichotomy here. There are many, many choices that people can make in life that are qualitatively neutral. For instance, the decision of those female Ph.D.s to value marriage over a career utilizing their education. It saddens you, because it does not mesh with your priorities, and so it seems like a bad choice. But qualitatively, it's just a difference of taste and preference.

But there are certainly choices that are qualitatively worse. Such as building, or letting yourself be dragged down by communities that destroy you with shame, racism, classism, politics, etc. Or, as you pointed out, the choice to ignore the imperative to create a foundation for one's family, to have some way to provide, if family is your priority. Because that is actually a failure of their own priorities as well.

We've just got to not muddle those types of choices too much. Our preferences vs. other's preferences vs. truly damaging choices.