csdreamer7

Most news articles are not worth paying for. From leaving out details to serving an agenda; a lot of news has lost it's credibility. WSJ is a good example. It had really great long articles backed by real research before it was bought by Murdock.

Slightly related to your post. I forget the name of this book but it went over common tactics of American police. In it describes a tactic by police 'to flush out a hare'. When police have a slow day they will look for and get behind cars models that are in the top 10 most likely to be stolen. They will turn on their sirens and see if the car will speed up to get away or pull off to the side. If they sped up, they got a hare to catch as in they just found a criminal in their stolen vehicle.

I traveled with friends on a road trip and they drove such a car in the top 10. When I told them that they told me that explained why cops were always turning on and off their sirens behind them.

These top 10 cars were likely to be cheaper sedans.

Agreed, what if the cops miss something? The PR would be bad and they could be in violation of the same law they arrested the guy for.

As far as I know the card networks do insure the transaction in cases of fraud so the merchant is still paid. The same per swipe fee for $2 does not make sense for $2000.

I know in practice the merchant is left holding the bag with charge back fraud, but it is a devil's advocate point.

> At work you can say things and say them in a manner that you think is justified, or you can behave in ways that let you keep your job.

I saw nothing in the post that is even close to that.

> I want GOS to succeed.

By making poor arguments on HN and being rude to them? Sounds productive.

You think you can do better? Contribute to another/Make your own fork of Android and help the community reduce it's dependence on Google.

> It seems especially dangerous being entirely dependant on Google's goodwill; Google has zero need for GOS.

Google's justification for Android over Apple is it being open source and attracting this crowd and people they recommend it to. They have a very strong need for it or they would have stopped contributing years ago.

> GOS can just talk about the upside, their solution to this problem. That's great work. But they often choose to denigrate others, which is destructive, damages relationships (the most essential assets - especially when you have no money to offer!), and is myopic: GOS's sh-t stinks too; they f- things up too.

Look up false equivalence.

GOS isn't a trillion dollar company with a massive possible budget for quality control. Google can do better and they should do better.

If Google's internal issues (or deliberate withholding of source code) is causing a small group to surpass them in product quality then that is something to talk about. Especially without the ad tracking and data collecting money Google brings in.

If it gets Google to improve AOSP then all the better.

> would tell GOS to zip it. > Just zip it, be professional,

This is very rude-esp for a group trying to make Android better. I downvoted you.

What I care about is banking app support. Both my credit unions (large, national ones) lock down their phones apps so they do not work on GrapheneOS. Yes, you can install certain Google packages to change that, but no guarantee that will work in the future.

The money he is giving away is going to foundations managed by his children (last I read).

> Presumably, in absence of major conflicts between Iceland and its trading partners, as a result of economic imbalances. Those won't go away if Iceland were to join the eurozone, either as a EU member or via the Kosovo/Montenegro route.

Part of it would. There is a cost to maintaining your own currency that can drag down the economy.

Counterfeiting is an obvious one, getting software and markets to support is another one, but what parent above you is likely arguing against currency speculators/manipulators.

You need to defend it to keep it relatively stable so it stays as a store of value or your companies will just use dollars or euro anyway. If your currency is so small a firm in New York can force your currency to change by 50% in a night, regardless of the fundamentals of the businesses who use the króna, you have a problem. Using the Euro also means businesses do not have to pay conversion costs or deal with additional accounting issues for tracking the fluctuations in the currency.

I live in one of those all electric homes too, made in the 2000s. Doesn't change that a bust will dry up the work and homeowners won't fork over the money for something that has few benefits for their daily life and requires expensive changes to the house.

To add to this there are jurisdictions that will require you to still pay a small monthly fee to support the gas pipes if you cut off gas service.

It is really nice not having a gas bill and not requiring maintenance for gas appliances, but most people won't care if they lived with it for long enough.

The only case I see it working is in a disaster area or blighted areas where the builder decided to bulldoze and rebuild the houses. The southern California fires for example; the city gave priority to permits to houses that went all electric since the gas pipes were destroyed. Permitting and inspection is so much simpler with all electric.

That has been my experience (blank screen and jank). Literally had to pull out the Nvidia card and run on the iGPU for my work because of suspend and resume issues.