I guess for a change Americans will experience what Indians have been subjected to since forever.

Just about anything useful and high quality has been tariffed out of existence in India. It is done in the name of protecting our industry while they catch up with rest of the world.

Exactly backwards has happened. The cars we get here are so bad they are sometimes called tin cans on wheels. Without competitors from across the world Indian auto makers have absolutely no motivation to build world class cars. And it shows on the road.

Heck yea.

I expect lower tariffs in India to cause harm while also forcing economic activity.

Tata Motors have really good cars. But they suck big time at Quality Control and after sales service.

Yes they do own Jaguar and Range Rovers but it’s not meant for the Indian market. They do sell them here but not many takers.

Almost every single one of Adbobe post on HN has a top comment about this evil subscription plan.

I fell for it once. But I’m in India so I just cancelled my debit card and that was that. Good luck to them to chase me through legal means in India. It was still bit of a hassle though.

I had to cancel a card thanks to PayPal’s shenanigans.

Now it’s much easier to deal with the subscription problems due to the new RBI norms.

Which norms?

Any renewal must be preceded by a notification from the vendor and the owner of the card has to enter an OTP to allow the transaction.

Earlier the vendor would just take your money and you’d have to fight a long battle to get it back.

> But I’m in India so I just cancelled my debit card and that was that.

i also use separate cards for everything, just through privacy.com, so i also can just cancel things. services have started falsely blocking it for abuse though which is really sad :/

As someone who is learning probability and statistics for recreation, I wholeheartedly agree. I wish I had come across R and dplyr/tidyverse/ggplot2 back in college while learning probability and stats. They were quite boring and drudgery to study because I wasn't aware of R to play around with data.

Well, better late than never I guess.

R was the first thing we had in our syllabus for (shallow)Machine Learning.

the ease of doing `model <- lm(speed~dist, cars)` and then `predict(model, data.frame(dist = c(42)))` is unparalled.

Exactly. I’ve commented here on similar topics before. Britain’s success was in large part due to being able to combine financial innovation with daring voyages and physical innovation. But beginning from 70s they over indexed financialisation at the cost of building physical things.

In comparison, China has actively suppressed over financialisation and results speak for themselves.

Visiting China earlier this year broke me, left the place dismayed about the situation back home.

I'm no communist, just someone who recognizes the social and economic benefits of abundant housing, cheap energy, and forward thinking transport policy.

I have no idea how we'll get back on the track of improving human development but it's not going to be easy.

I have similar vivid memories. I saw win 95 first in my room mate’s PC. I was completely blown away, like “what sorcery is this” level of mind blown.

I’m not in Windows ecosystem for more than 25 years now. But I had to buy couple of windows laptops for sales team at my business. I tried very hard but windows wouldn’t allow me to set it up without first creating Microsoft Account online. I’m in Apple ecosystem, not that they are significantly different but they atleast allow me to use the system albeit in limited capacity.

I’m seriously considering going back to Linux for my next work setup.

There was a trick to bypass the online account requirement. You press Shift+F10, which launches a command prompt, then use `oobe\bypassnro`. This reboots the system and adds a button to set up offline.

We’ve been running our company (6ish people) solely on Fedora and it’s been a breeze, but then we’re a bunch of nerds, so not necessarily a surprise. The real test how much the Linux desktop has matured happened when I set up a fedora laptop for my parents to get around hp desperately coaxing them into some kind of subscription and an endless stream of ads/complaints from Microsoft to buy into a cloud service. After setting up the laptop and explaining the very basics of Plasma, I’ve had to deal with it again. Because with printers, it just works (tm)

Yeah, for anyone with a modicum of technical capacity, the year of linux on the desktop was about five years ago.

> I’m in Apple ecosystem, not that they are significantly different but they atleast allow me to use the system albeit in limited capacity.

Define "limited capacity". Other than Apple Services like iCloud, FaceTime, iMessage, Apple Music/TV, etc, it should just be the App Store that's unavailable without an Apple ID (which _is_ crippling on iOS, but not so much on macOS).

Is it?

You can have a variety and a single largest.

Mean and variance

To add four year degree is a very recent phenomena. For most of the people it was an exception. The norm was to become an apprentice after or during high school and then go on to become a master tradesman. We might just be seeing a reversion to the norm.

This is OTC trade right?

Yeah the first thing I did after a fresh windows install was to create boot disk, and have 2-3 copies just in case because floppy disks were notoriously unreliable.

Oh wow yes, you made me remember I didn't much like that. Money was tight as a teenager and it always hurt a little to "spend" floppy disks on multiple copies.

A little bit earlier, but I remember dumpster diving behind a big company in the early 80's and finding a couple boxes of probably about 200 blank floppies. Couldn't believe my score! I pretty quickly found out about half of them were bad, which was probably why they were in the dumpster. But still there were plenty of discs for Apple II games copied from all my friends.

That's what all those commercial demo disks were for, or AOL disks for those in regions where that was a thing.