Having a clear clause to point to when terminating the account seems useful.

Banks can (and in fact are highly incentivized) to close your account if you're using it for criminal activity with or without you lying about it on some silly form.

If wind is "weather-dependent", how should one describe oil? "Peace-dependent"?

Israel(US) toddler tantrum dependent.

Although I found this funny, I'd prefer to see this kind of message on reddit than on HN.

It was not meant as a joke unfortunately.

But thank you for expressing your disapproval so kindly

Yeah lots of sites are reporting 39 km/h but they're wrong. The plane is clearly travelling a lot faster than that.

I find it remarkable that people can put so much effort into a site like this and fail to provide any context at all in the first paragraph.

> Our current voting method is inherently unequal

Who is "our"? Current voting method for what?

Reading on, it seems they are talking about US presidential elections, but would it be so hard to simply state that?

I think the idea is if you're attempting to actually use crypto in the way that you would normally use money (ie, to buy/sell stuff) then you don't want the volatility. So in theory, it takes away the volatility while living within the crypto ecosystem.

But obviously...things happen. Just like cash is usually relatively non-volatile, but financial crashes happen.

How do stablecoins fit in here? You can buy a car with crypto but not cash?

Many EU countries have limits on cash payments, and the EU will enforce a union-wide limit of 10,000€ in 2027. Of course, this limit won't be reevaluated over time, so the real value will decrease with inflation.

The use case would be for transactions between individuals. A friend working at a large industrial firm told me recently that crypto would solve a problem that they have in Asia: orders are often done during auctions from the producer, and require instant payments; however the payment rails take two weeks to clear a transaction. Crypto would fix this.

The fact that it's not widespread doesn't mean that there isn't a usecase.

Exactly as I remember - very few of them actually usable as backgrounds because they're so garish.

But pleasant enough when viewed on a monochrome display.

It says the spacecraft was tumbling, but implies that due to regaining solar power it has achieved a stable position. I'm curious about the missing steps there...

It depends a lot what kind of thing you're building. If it's a simple marketing website, sure. But any application that does stuff is likely using dependencies that provide a lot of functionality.

I make a lot of sites with maps. There's no real alternative to mapbox/maplibre/openlayers.

That should be self-evident and obvious, but apparently it still needs to be pointed out.

On one extreme, you have the current world where there are millions of 1-line or 1-function packages like leftPad and isArray.

On the other extreme, there are no packages and everyone builds everything from scratch, every single time.

It should not be controversial or groundbreaking to suggest that perhaps there is a reasonable middle ground in between! Someone builds a substantial piece of functionality, and it can be reused.

I feel like modern tv remotes are the opposite of this principle. It is often the case that almost every single button will when pushed in some way interrupt the current program, often jumping out to a different menu or changing to a different program or something. It makes handling the remote or trying to change the volume a fraught experience.

This is why I have a drawer full of antipattern design remotes (which is almost all of them really except perhaps LG Magic), and use a Logitech Harmony instead. Worst remote I've ever seen was a Sony, just a solid grid of tiny rubber squares with functionality arranged apparently at random, this sort of thing: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/574AAOSwevZalUBY/s-l1600.jpg. Note the grey mode switch which changes the function of a lot of the controls. It was like Sony's engineers had an internal competition to design the most unusable remote in the industry.

OMG you hit my third rail when it comes to the brain-dead-designed Apple TV remote. After using one for many years I STILL press the wrong button many times every day, and in the dark, since the buttons are NOT backlit, I routinely press an unintended button. I think the user interface designer was promoted to create the Vision Pro UI/UX which is even more dreadful.