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$20 billion sell price is no longer a “startup”

Diamonds definitely chip.

Synthetic diamonds are so cheap now that even de Beers closed their online store.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonydemarco/2025/05/09/de-be...

You're a few years too late, as this trend has been been happening for a decade at this point. You can find many articles online about how millenialls and now gen-z are ditching diamonds.

You're giving a MFA number to someone that called you?!

That ship has long since sailed.

OED dates the first known use of "to reduce drastically or severely; to destroy, ruin, devastate" to 1660.

When I’ve closed down an LLC, I’ve received a document from the Secretary of State certifying such.

The vast majority of stars don't supernova.

Also, we're at the tail end of star-forming era. about 95% of all the stars that will be formed, have already been formed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/life-unbounded/the-s...

Not even a mention how this is deeply unconstitutional in the article. The media is failing us.

This is why many states base the sales tax of used cars sales on the market value, not the actual sales price.

It's relatively easy to make a thick leather wallet that will last a couple decades.

It's hard to make a thin leather wallet that will last a couple decades.

Most of the online leather brands that popped-up in the past 20 years are the former, not the latter.

Well-intentioned? This is I’m just anti-homeless legislation.

The author should redact the face of the woman whose photos were stolen

That's not what loss leader means.

What if you lose the private key to the NFT?

What if you sell the NFT with a fake item?

What if the blockchain splits and there's now two NFTS?

What if people collectively think that NFTS are stupid and forget about them, so now the physical item owners are no longer the same the NFT owners?

Definitely not "on all accounts superior."

> (just the OS updating?)

"Just the OS updating" is not insignificant. Software developers, in general, are not known for making sure latest versions of their software run smoothly on older hardware.

Also, performance on iPhones is throttled when your battery is very old. There was a whole class-action lawsuit about it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/106348

On the most recent episode of ATP podcast, an anonymous person wrote in to say that when they worked at Apple until ~2013, there was effectively no QA team on macOS.

Granted that was over a decade ago, and "no QA team" doesn't mean no testing, but given the numerous bugs in macOS today, and that they almost never get fixed, I'm not surprised.

(FWIW, I do not experience this bug you mentioned)

It's all very superficial. When you get up close to it, you can see it's not built very well. And if you just walk a block or two away, it gets significantly more dirty and grungy.

I wouldn't be surprised if 20-30 years from now, it's all crumbling.

SwiftUI is a joke when it comes to performance. Even Marco's Overcast stutters when displaying a table of a dozen rows (of equal height).

That being said, it's not quite an apples to apples comparison, because SwiftUI or UIKit can work with basically an infinite number of rows, whereas HTML will eventually get to a point where it won't load.

I live in the middle of Manhattan not near a park. There is zero grass near me that I would touch.

Who said a free market must be cheap or accessible?

Yeah, the USA (in general) won’t do anything at all.

A few medium-sized cities like Austin are the exception to this.

Better cold water and not PFAS/firefighting foam

edit: apparently Canada banned PFAS in firefighting foam.

My washer/dryer had to be replaced, and I was able to convince my landlord to split the additional cost of a heat-pump dryer. (The QoL improvement is great since there's no vent in the unit, though it's unclear if my energy bills are actually lower).

But he's just a single-unit condo landlord, and I'm a pretty good tenant, so we have a good relationship. I can't imagine a multi-unit corporation doing this.

NYC buildings now have an "efficiency" rating they're required to post on the front of their building. Doesn't give you a $, but maybe a gist of what your energy bill might be like.

He sounds like a prig to me /s

I'm looking at you The Verge's homepage.

State Farm is a mutual insurance company, so it's owned by its policy holders. It's not quite non-profit, but it's in the same ballpark. I've gotten money back from State Farm one year when they (we, I guess) made too much money.

You know what’s more unsafe in than the subway in NYC? Walking across a road in NYC.

You sound like you don’t live in the area.

It’s not a tax.