I don’t have spare money to spend on a Vision Pro that I couldn’t spend somewhere better but I have this thought when I was taking a hot shower. I’m here just living normally while there are millions running for their lives from war zones like literally.
I’m more worried about the multibillionaires than anyone else, glass hole or not.
> Why should all the other C-levels avoid jailtime
I don't care if the C-levels (other than the CEO and President of the board) go to prison.
I want to see the CEO and ALL board members in prison for life with no possibility of parole.
> What I have noticed is that the more menial, low paid and generally low desirable a job is, the higher that initial barrier is. I suspect it is to at least some extend intentional, though I struggle to understand why that is.
One suspicion I have is perhaps the people in hiring whether consciously or not believe making the process more difficult improves the signal to noise ratio of applicants. Makes sense when there are 10+ applicants for each open position I think. They don't care about the people they are turning away.
> The next great search engine will emerge from a niche and conquer one segment after another from there. It won't be a massive general search engine that shows up one day (which is what the Google watchers have been waiting for forever - that new behemoth comprehensive competitor is never going to arrive fully formed). There's a decent possibility consumer Web search will be a later stage addition to said new niche competitor, consumer Web won't be its primary or initial target. They'll add on general consumer Web search as a "we might as well" offering once they conquer enough niches.
I love this because I want it to be true. However, iirc Google wanted to sell itself to Yahoo! for a million dollars and about five years later again for a billion dollars.
I know there are quite a few millionaires here but for me, five million dollars would change my life. I can’t imagine being able to turn it down.
I find it interesting that you mention the word benchmark because reviewers used to rely on benchmarks for new phones and such but then iirc at least OnePlus and Samsung devices have been caught and banned from multiple benchmarks.
> There are a lot of professional workers that are on cocaine, business owners, successful artists, etc. Does that mean cocaine should be legalized? Absolutely not.
I think you are very wrong. I think there should be safeguards such as improper commercial storage should be unlawful. Similarly, distribution (sale) to minors and without proper packaging should remain against the law. However, I find no logic in trying to ban any substance from an informed consumer in a world where alcohol and tobacco are legal.
> In contrast, the majority of anti-vaxxers (not the crazy ones talking about microchips) ended up being more or less right with their decision.
I think they are idiots. As far as I know we don’t have any deaths because of the vaccine. It is safe. Maybe it could be more effective and I’m sure we will have better vaccines with time but there is no reason to not take the vaccine now and a better vaccine when it is available later.
> I see no reason people will be more reluctant to put on a pair of sunglasses than carry an iPhone in their pocket or purse.
I agree. I disagree however that VR is already here. It isn’t, not even close. And it will keep getting further away as we push for higher resolution and higher frame rate displays.
I think there needs to be some way to power this thing all day long. Maybe Apple was onto something with its Apple Watch strategy. Create a minimally viable product and only introduce new features very slowly so you can still claim all day battery life in a happy path. Tl;dr I don’t think the limiting factor is VR itself but rather how do we power it. I don’t want something on my head that I have to charge every fifteen minutes.
Counterpoint, this is what bad people use div soup for:
» Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 css classes to every single post in the timeline to make it more difficult to identify and block 'Sponsored' posts, oh my.
> In 2019, 608 child passengers age 12 and younger died in motor vehicle crashes, and more than 91,000 were injured.
> Child restraint systems are often used incorrectly. An estimated 46% of car seats and booster seats are misused in a way that could reduce their effectiveness.
> In 2004, TextDrive bootstrapped itself as a hosting company through crowd funding: customers were invited to invest money in exchange for free hosting for the lifetime of the company.[39] TextDrive and, later, Joyent repeated the money-raising procedure a number of times in order to avoid the venture capital market.[40][41][42] and began to flounder, suffering from an absence of leadership and plagued by reliability issues, with users leaving for other hosts.[42]
> it doesn't take a genius to figure out a way to get mail from a mailbox you don't own
iirc stealing other people’s mail by tampering with a mailbox is a ~~felony~~ federal crime. If they threw out the mail and you went through their trash it might be different. I anal though.
Two questions, does the area have symmetric gigabit fiber? If so, how reliable is it in your opinion? If not, what is the best option for multiple family members working from home?
How are water, electricity, sewage, road condition, utilities situation? Any reasons why a work from home worker might not want to live there?
> Using bitcoin I can send money to someone in Chi no a who's social rating was degraded by the CCP and who is forbidden from using banks
How will they convert it into something they can use to pay rent and buy groceries?
> Crime will exist forever and criminals will find ways to finance themselves anyway, so the use of cryptocurrencies for their operations is not really a factor.
Does this make it easier for the wealthy to evade taxes? I find just signing transactions using something like gpg a much easier to reason about.
My biggest concern about cryptocurrency is fees. There is no reason why fees should be based on payload as far as I understand. Whether I’m sending one satoshi (or any other unit of money) or a trillion, the cost should be the same and ideally as close to zero as possible if not zero. This was the original reason I was drawn to bitcoin but it was obvious it would never be the case.
> Yes, assuming that the previous crew left you a 'perfect and ready to fly plane' is one hell of an assumption to make. With tiny little pieces to collect if it ends up being wrong.
This is very bizarre. I once had a morning flight out of Denver (not too long ago, August 2008?) and talking to people there apparently the plane had an electronics malfunction of some sort. They said they would fly us out as soon as the plane was ready but about ten hours later, they gave up and flew us out on a plane with a different airline (which I assume was not free for them, I doubt American Airlines would fly a plane for free for United). Point is the initial problem, at least what they told us, was some lights failed to turn on but they refused to fly. I thought flight crew were very risk averse but clearly not everyone.
Thank you for the link. I checked my duckdns.org subdomain and found that I am on a blocklist and my reputation is poor. I don’t even run SMTP. Comcast Xfinity, if that matters.
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> Citizen is a mobile app that sends users location-based safety alerts in real time.[1][2][3][4] It allows users to read updates about ongoing reports, broadcast live video, and leave comments.[1][2] The app uses radio antennas installed in major cities to monitor 911 communications,[5] with employees filtering the audio to generate alerts.[5] In March 2020, Citizen added the COVID-19 digital contact tracer SafePass. The app is currently available for iOS and Android devices[6] in 20 cities,[7] including New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area, Baltimore, Los Angeles,[8] Philadelphia.[9] Detroit,[10] Indianapolis,[11] Phoenix,[12][13] Cincinnati,[14] Chicago, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Cleveland.[15]
Sorry for the silly question. I don't own a mac or an iPhone anymore. My understanding is you can sideload apps on your own iPhone from your own mac running xcode. Are there limitations to what kind of apps you can side load using xcode?
This isn't great advice because this isn't advice. It isn't advice because there's nothing actionable here. The only thing I'll say you can do if you're in a team like this is try to find your way out. Your "team" is already doomed and beyond saving.
I’m more worried about the multibillionaires than anyone else, glass hole or not.