But it is evidence for causation.

Is it?

Yes. If A is correlated with B, is A more likely to cause B than if A is not correlated with B? Clearly yes.

Maybe that would be a good opportunity to offer them a quote for how much you could do the work for.

Yeah, that's what I do. Anytime anyone from a company sends an email about whatever, who wants me to help them (for their company) in private with something, I ask if they're willing to pay for my time spent on it, maybe 20% says yes. Most of the time they end up getting redirected to use the same venues the rest of the community has access to too.

Assuming you want to. But if you do, understand that accepting payment for services creates obligation to deliver, and possibly liability for poor performance. You may or may not want that.

Not really. They said in their comment they deleted their whole account and everything. They probably don't want to continue to be ridiculed and to link the identity of that account with this one.

It's not "funny" ironic but still ironic, given jb1991's ambiguous accusation around his past ambiguity, with no follow-up information to clarify.

I agree about the marketing. I just heard about this phone now and was confused about if I could just use it as a primary phone. It would be nice if they talked more about what the phone is like to use, show what is the home screen and stuff. I'm wondering if I can use it well with some other utility apps that I don't think I'd want to do without like Maps, Parking payment apps, Podcasts and Spotify.

For the Home Screen, they've announced a collaboration with Niagara Launcher and it appears to be close to AOSP+GServices, so I suspect that'll all work out of the box, but yeah, they really should be clearer. Also has both a NanoSim slot and eSim support powered by a not yet public Mediathek SOC.

Major concern as is often the case with new phone startups is the update policy and more importantly whether they'll be able to actually deliver over the years. Has been literally half a decade since I last used a Mediathek device, so maybe this changed, but back then they didn't have the best reputation for long term maintenance, providing drivers to enable updates, etc...

What do you use for maps? Or paying for parking which maybe isn't the case for you but in my city requires use of a smartphone app. What about music and podcasts? Asking cause I would like to use a dumb phone if possible but it seems like it would actually introduce a lot of friction into daily life.

I pay for parking with quarters or a credit card.

If necessary I use a piece of paper for maps.

For music I have an ipod.

And you watch movies on your VHS?

Why are you trying to make fun of me?

The Keyphone they are referencing is Android, so those things can be worked around to some degree.

Hopefully! Supposedly it is pretty locked down but I'm hopeful there is a way to get other apps onto it.

That's a huge exaggeration. National Post is absolutely not more unhinged than Fox News.

> nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR

I think it's fine to have a whole bunch of "WIP" commit messages on intermediate commits while the PR is in a draft stage, but then all of those garbage commits should really be squashed down into one commit and you should at least write a one liner that describes what the whole change is doing. I think it does materially make repo history harder to understand to merge in PR's with 10 garbage commits in them.

Which app do you use to read?

Play Books is actually really underrated! It's quite minimal, cross platform with cloud state and does everything really well. One cool unique feature I found is that it can sync notes and highlights straight to a google drive folder.

> Criminals by definition don't need to follow the law and they don't need the 2nd amendment.

This is kind of an argument from tautology that is disconnected to reality. In the real world, supply of criminality and violence is elastic, if you raise the cost, you lower the amount supplied. Crimes and violence committed are affected by committers having the opportunity and tenacity to do so. If you erect more barriers to achieving it, make it less convenient or straight forward to do it, you'll deter some percentage of violence/criminality who just give up or don't make it past the hurdle or whatever.

Otherwise, to take your argument to its logical conclusion, we could get a whole bunch of dumb conclusions, like:

We should just abolish auditing and other anti-corruption accountability mechanisms. By definition, cheats don't need to follow the law, so auditing doesn't catch them, it just imposes extra paperwork on law-abiding citizens!

Why's that? What has changed that makes selling nicknacks on Ebay less worth it?

I never found selling cheapish knicknacks on Ebay very attractive financially but it seems like it's less of Ebay's business these days and just not something I'm willing to devote a lot of time and energy to.

More generally, I do think it used to be more of a flea market even if I never found it a great selling platform for cheap items.

Unless it’s your business, or it’s high value items, the dollar per hour is pitiful.

$10 item sells for $9, charge and ship it, eBay takes its cut, barf. Garage sale or just donate would be simpler.