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Bing and thus DDG's index really isn't that good.

Is Microsoft an underdog now? Why do you consider them any better than Google, especially after the "tank man" fiasco?

I don't see why it's a bad thing to make your own thing or to only promote your own company.

Brave isn't reinventing the wheel either, they purchased & revived Tailcats from Cliqz (https://0x65.dev/)

The bang operators are a small feature that are easy to implement, nothing special. Taking inspiration and features from competitors is nothing new.

Even in this thread there was a user asking for them, saying they'd switch over if Brave implements them (they already have them obviously)

I don't even think DDG came up with them first...

DDG just uses Bing results. This solution is completely independent.

You may ask why that's needed, just recently DDG was censoring the "tank man" photo on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square because Bing was censoring it.

This new indexer is very much welcome and I hope it stays free of censorship from the CCP, marxists, and others.

Trying to spin a strict definition of propaganda to include all propagation of information is disingenuous, regardless of where the original word came from.

And even then you're wrong, you have to go back much earlier to find the shift in definition of the term. The negative connotation that led to our modern definition originated in the French Revolution, not the Cold War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda#cite_ref-13

> Academic Barbara Diggs-Brown conceives that the negative connotations of the term “propaganda” are associated with the earlier social and political transformations that occurred during the French Revolutionary period movement of 1789 to 1799 between the start and the middle portion of the 19th century, in a time where the word started to be used in a nonclerical and political context.

Before the French Revolution the term was used by the Catholic church and was considered "an ancient and honorable term".

https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-hist...

WWI & II made the modern definition we know today popular, but both the American and French revolution guided it there.

You know exactly what you're doing. It wasn't a big deal then, and it shouldn't be a big deal now. It's cancel culture and you're participating in it.

This is an amazing release and I'm glad Brave revived the technical marvel that was Cliqz, you can see that on display in their blog: https://www.0x65.dev/

But no, you decided to bring up bullshit drama. You're not generally curious, and even if you were, it's not really on topic. It's negative and non-constructive.

You fool no one when you hide behind your "I was just asking a question" defense. You knew ahead of time what your question would provoke.

Pretty overblown, been WFH in Texas for 8 years now, the big freeze was the only time we had a power outage, and the only time in my life in Texas we had ice for more than 3 days for that matter.

Is it much better WFH in California during fire season? Seems worse with controlled shutdowns vs friendly letters to conserve energy.

edit: actually a squirrel blew itself and a transformer up on our street one time, that took down power for an hour or so.

edit2: to the poster below, it's possible Oncor in that area is mismanaged like most of ATX, but your experience does not align with my experience.

Our homes are usually very well insulated to keep our cool air in, we also don't usually have multi-stories, just a long ranch home that's easier to cool.

What you saw mentioned during the freeze was the conflating of pipe insulation with wall insulation.

We usually don't insulate our pipes because we don't have freezes, this led to bursting of pipes, that was the main damage during the freeze.

There's flex piping that doesn't need insulation, but squirrels and such can chew through them and it's just expensive to re-pipe your home.

I'm sure everyone that had their pipes freeze most likely has flex piping now, at least partially.

People are paying for the resource, they should be able to use the resource. If there's not enough resource then the supplier should not sell the resource. No need to shame people for having a preference and using something they paid for.

The hospital and nursing home bit is nice fear mongering but unless you have an instance where that has happened it's not relevant. If we neared too close to capacity due to over demand the electric companies would due controlled brown outs for residential areas. There's also backup generators at hospitals for natural disasters incase a brown out is not possible, and those would not have been prevented by rationing.

Source? Everything I've seen says 1 foot rollout is industry standard.

You don't see how acceleration is a relevant metric for a car?

Yes, there are other metrics that are important for electric cars such as range and safety, and Tesla leads those metrics as well.

Your bias is glaring in your comment, they set a record for world's fastest production car, your response, "meh that record is irrelevant".

Pretty impressive that Tesla not only broke the record, but broke the will to keep records. The power of salt is crazy.

Fully autonomous is another topic that noone has provided, being mad that you don't have it yet is just about as useful as being mad cars can't hover yet. It benefits no one and is not relevant.

I for one am glad that Tesla put a fire under these other car makers ass. They've been coasting for so long, gouging for expensive upgrades without actually improving anything. They made electric cars shitty on purpose to keep ICE around. Now Tesla is making electric competitive in both looks and speed and your response is meh. I'm glad to see Ford and others taking electric seriously, but it's only because Elon is making Tesla so damn enticing.

I may be a bit biased as well, but I prefer Tesla and its goals and track record vs the automobile giants very sketchy record.

Also I remember the HN discussion from that tire emissions study, consensus was the numbers were fishy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22517621

Not a great analogy. Table saws try to prevent you from cutting your finger with flesh-detection saw stops.

Wouldn't hurt emacs to change the default keymap, just like it didn't hurt table saw manufacturers like SawStop or Bosch to include safety mechanisms, it helps.

His categories are false. You think all the farmers that don't have an education are the same ones that choose the brand based on status?

No, education is generational. Most younger farmers have gone to a good ag science school like A&M. Most older farmers don't have an education but have tons of experience and use techniques passed down that are essentially the same as what is taught in schools.

Whether you brand whore or not is not based on your education status, which is what OP suggested.

An anecdote is not a simplified model. They were stereotypes.

He shoved "uneducated farmers" into the same group of people that idolized John Deere for the brand alone, but did not offer any connection between the two.

Typical HN elitism. My anecdotes do differ, and it's mostly generational. Either you're a younger farmer that has gone to A&M and you're heavy into Ag Science or you're more old school and you use techniques passed down. Or you're a big time operator and none of this applies.

Nothing to do with what OP said.

Try sitting in a Kubota for 12 hours vs a JD. Your ass will be able to tell a difference.

At this point it's better to buy a Kubota to avoid the lock-in, but JD is still far superior when it comes to the attention to detail.

> 'Likely barely passed high school due to a complete lack of effort, because they were going to be farmers and school, "couldn't teach them nothin."

> The problem with these individuals as it relates to business is that they do not understand business or accounting and probably only have a rudimentary understanding of ag science.

> their only basic ag science understanding leaves them unable to adapt as well as the pros to droughts, infestations, and other adverse conditions."

So please tell me, how did you come to realize these faults in these people you met. Did they explain to you that their accounting was bad, did you see their books, did you test their soil, did you see them struggle with an infestation, or are you simply guessing and hurling insults?

Since you prefixed your statement with "probably" I'm going to guess that you're using the #2 category to shit on a group of people while the #1 category is used to argue your point that smart farmers support your conclusion that john deere = bad.

This situation has nothing to do with "uneducated farmers" and everything to do with JD being the top tier brand but also shafting its customers by not allowing them to repair their product.

Kubota doesn't come close to JD, especially in larger tractors and integrations.

The tone of your comment changed dramatically in this reply. You didn't have to say hick, you implied it with your uneducated rant. You simply don't understand why they want a John Deere, and it's not because they are uneducated.

Also, maybe never try to shove people into categories, especially only 3 categories. Especially one category being "uneducated". You reached all that from a topic about repairing tractors and their choice of brand. Think about that.

Your "anecdote" doesn't match my experience and it lines up with an outsider perspective with a dash of elitism. You said you don't know anything about AG science, so how could you judge others knowledge of it?

Wow. What an incredibly offensive comment. I love how HN understands the right to repair when it comes to their gadgets, but when it comes to tractors it's probably because the farmers are uneducated hicks. Please tell me more how they don't understand AG science enough, but you have such a strong grasp on it.

JD tractors were and are reliable and top tier in quality, that's why they are popular and that's why people stick to the brand. I've built Kioti tractors when I was teenager. They'd do the job if you had to use it, but it's no JD in terms of quality.

Farmers just want the quality they've always had with JD but the ability to fix simple stuff like they used to without it costing them an arm and a leg.

The stereotypes you listed off don't sound like anyone I've ever experienced. They sound like caricatures you painted in your head with your lack of understanding.

They're not limiting any student from talking about it, just it from being taught, because it's indoctrinating Marxist bullshit. No different than them trying to teach Creationism.

Wanting secure voting is not restricting it. Fighting for rights of the unborn is not a bad thing when you believe they are alive at a certain point before birth (some people are fighting simply for abortion to be banned after birth). Antifa/BLM has done more damage and death in these past years of riots than anything the "right-wing extreme" has done in terms of body count and property damage. What right wing group and what event are you talking about? Jan 6th, the only person who was killed was shot by a cop. Something tells me you just wanted to lay hyperboles down in an unfair way and scuttle away.

Locally, the border issue matters greatly to me and I feel a strong stance is both the moral, economic, and secure choice. We shouldn't incentivize people to make that terrible trip. The cartels make more money off of trafficking humans than drugs. Letting wall parts rust that are already paid for is a stupid move. Complete the wall, it works. It frees up agents to handle other areas and keep the cartels from smuggling and lets more people come in legally.

All that being said, those issues aren't even on the table. Currently the important issues are the 1A and the 2A and the Democrats seem to HATE them, they vehemently support censorship and gun control for law abiding citizens. If you can't even support the first two amendments, how are you going to get my support?

Others do like to travel and be able to work without their battery dying within a couple hours.

If you like wasting your battery that's fine, but not the typical use case for someone with a portable device.

The screen size thing is a separate issue and alleviated by using screen switching gestures or a secondary screen using an iPad.

Many macbook developers do care if it's a native app or a battery draining chrome embedded app.

Kinda defeats the purpose of having a specialized CPU, OS & software to optimize battery usage.

So is the Uighur genocide, lets be angry about it all.

The difference is, the Uighurs only crime is being ethnic, there are other things at play with incarceration numbers.

All races are incarcerated, only Uighurs are rounded up and sent to their own special work camps with no crime needed.

You're trying to compare prison with concentration camps, that's FUD.

Because they were terrorists, we didn't hold 3 million of them in gitmo simply because they were ethnic minorities.

Orders of magnitudes in difference.

Holding a few dozen suspected terrorists !== holding 3 million people (nearly an entire race)

You can justify there may be proof for those few alleged jihads. You cannot reasonably prove those 3 million people are all terrorists.

Where are the cries to shut down these camps like there were cries to shut down Gitmo?

Complete FUD. Nice article full of nothing to distract though. There are millions of Uighurs in concentration camps right now, sterilized, raped, beaten.

https://www.saveuighur.org/camps/

I don't know if you are part of the 50 cent army, but your talking points mirror them.

This comment downplays the CCPs authoritarian regime. It matters what you do with the surveillance (Uighur genocide).

In many ways China's tracking is much more intrusive. Noone should spy on its citizens, but at least you have trials in the West.

I don't think that would solve the North Korea, Uighur, Hong Kong, or Taiwan crisis. Holding China accountable would solve 70% of human rights abuses.

Appears to be sympathetic to? Are there specific examples you take issue with, or is this from hearsay? This account is for political or controversial opinions and is not related to this discussion, no.

Well his comment was greyed out from downvotes and nothing he said was wrong, just there's a different atmosphere for everyone. His views aligned with a libertarian which I think were once accepted here. It's gotten more leftist here for sure. Part of woke socialism/marxism is shouting dissenters down, downvoting in this case.

* others response to you *

Hey get that libertarian common sense out of here! Downvote!

Both of those categories are where most of these girls are, they are the bulk of those categories.

> Ideally everyone would be protected from random attacks on the street, not just those able to pay.

Exactly. You are advocating for a paid service, some sort of commercial company to do the enforcement. How do you think they'd generate revenue otherwise? Currently San Francisco is setup that way, you pay private security because the cops are useless. That's not like that everywhere. You should fix your police, not bandaid fix the problem for the people who can afford it while leaving the people who can't to suffer.