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Comment · 3 years ago
Can you elaborate? I’m not familiar with why android fans would make those particular arguments.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's mentioned briefly in the article, but I really think the Rebuild Penn Station project has the right idea:
https://www.rebuildpennstation.org/
All these various other proposals ignore the main problem: the original station never should have been demolished in the first place. The only proper solution is rebuilding the original, not designing some new thing that is slightly more acceptable than what's there now.
Comment · 3 years ago
What's particularly amazing is that it's the free market at work -- the privately run railways have an incentive to develop the land near stations to get more people to ride the train.
Draconian zoning laws and car-dependence have really screwed over the US when it comes to housing policy.
Comment · 3 years ago
This was basically the plot of that movie Snowpiercer; we accidentally geoengineer a second ice age.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'd love to sideload on my iPad, but let's be realistic, Apple will do everything in their power to sidestep the spirit of the law. Here are some guesses:
- Sideloading only works with an EU Apple Account, on a device purchased in the EU, while you are physically in the EU
- Enabling "sideloading mode" will disable a bunch of other features for [IMPORTANT_SOUNDING_REASON]
Comment · 3 years ago
Not to fully excuse Google's behavior, but baking that behavior into an operating system seems far worse than putting nags on a website.
Google's prompts weren't that different than those "Get Firefox!" badges people used to put up in the 2000s.
Comment · 3 years ago
Who would have thought that laying off most of your staff, implementing poorly conceived product changes, and alienating your advertisers with edgy hot takes would cause your company to lose value?
Comment · 3 years ago
It's kind of unfortunate that Twitter has become so politicized that people will downvote you for pointing out that Twitter has bugs.
I suppose if it agrees with one's politics, it therefore cannot possibly have bugs, and if anyone reports a bug, that person is obviously just faking it for political points.
Comment · 3 years ago
Have you used Twitter lately? About 25% of the time I open it, random content fails to load and I have to refresh the page.
I assume the lack of remaining software engineers probably has something to do with it.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I read HN on my phone I have to zoom to be able to reliably click a link.
Overall I like the HN UI and wouldn't want it changed, but I do largely agree with this particular criticism; a lot of the click targets are too small IMO. (In particular, the upvote/downvote buttons' 13x13px targets stand out as way too tiny on mobile.)
However, saying that the click targets are too small means the whole UI is terrible seems a bit on the hyperbolic side. You could maintain pretty much the exact same UI with slightly larger click targets and it would fix your issue.
Comment · 3 years ago
The James-Bond-like part is doing it from your watch specifically. (Consider the various wrist-gadgets found in the movies over the years.)
Comment · 3 years ago
My hot take is that all zoning should be abolished. It serves no legitimate purpose whatsoever.
Comment · 3 years ago
"CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet. Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide."
Wow, amazing! Let's all move to Venus, the greenest planet of all!
Comment · 3 years ago
In theory, but I think the problem you'd find in practice is that reviewing 100s of nearly-identical AI-written articles gets very boring very quickly, and a lot of errors would slip through.
Comment · 3 years ago
Eh, seems like it's basically a random new stab at becoming The Everything App.
Job posting is a pretty saturated space already (see also: the fate of Google and Facebook's job listing products), so it's not necessarily an easy space to break into. Having already alienated a lot of his potential advertisers probably doesn't help either.