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I would prefer 3.5mm over Bluetooth, but keep in mind most people get their music off their phones and (almost?) no modern phones have headphone jacks. Dongles are a thing, but meh.

Additionally, modern Bluetooth devices have very little friction in my experience.

If you can get the exact same result for less cost (time and money), why not? Things like enjoyment don't factor in since they can't be directly converted into money.

Netflix is paying for the infrastructure because for every byte that Netflix "pushes" there is a "pull" side who is paying for their residential internet access. What is the consumer paying the ISP for if the ISP is charging every service that the consumer is using more money separately?

Yes, but Yahoo Japan is a completely separate entity.

That's assuming that hiring a person is the exact inverse of firing someone, which is often not the case. Firing someone has more negative effect than hiring's positive effect when e.g people move, leave previous jobs (possibly), have children, buy houses.

I assume they are talking about E2E-encryption, since that would prevent them from spying on their users even if they wanted to (assuming the client doesn't leak the key).

That said, E2E-encryption doesn't come without drawbacks, for example you would lose all your messages if you lost access to your device and any backup mechanism.

If it were encrypted with a private key the device would only have a public key and you wouldn't be able to encrypt your own version of the software.

Unless I did something wrong with my setup the elixir LS is kind of lackluster compared to a full IDE. It doesn't have any automatic refactoring (even variable renaming) nor does it provide automatic detection of syntax errors. It's pretty much just symbol lookup and some autocomplete functionality.

+1 on wanting a HN Seoul group. If there isn't one, maybe we can make it

This is what I assumed considering it had the right answer but the explanations were garbled. Presumably it reproduced the answer, and then some weird patchwork of the various explanations in its training set.

I don't get region restricted apps. Sometimes it might make sense, but 99% of the time it's just unnecessary and achieves nothing except annoy travelers. Is there some incentive for app developers to region restrict their apps?

Yeah, I find the signature example kind of unimpressive because it can just pick up the meaning of the code from the function name and variables, which an experienced human can do just as easily. If it could get "validates a signature with secret key" when all the variable names are obfuscated it might be useful in some code bases.

Presumably the upfront cost for a solar panel, and then assuming 0 cost for electricity past that.

I don't know about Mandarin, but Korean counting words are very different from English collective nouns.

English: one animal, one person, one book

Korean: han mari, han myeong, han gweon.

Where 'han' is one, and the other three words are the counting words specific for counting animals, people, and books respectively.

Some make direct sense like the tree/forest, others you have to deep dive into their history for them to make sense (if at all).

For example, the character for people (民) comes from the image of a person being pierced through the eye, which was done to mark slaves in ancient China. Eventually the character and meaning evolved to the way it's used now.