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The burden of proof isn't on the reader, it's on the writer.

Not claiming it's not true, but according to the article, the author is "president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement".

So could the story have been embellished or made up to push a narrative and stir upset and outrage to get exposure? There doesn't seem to be any authoritative third-party evidence (public records) supporting this story.

What a great story! I remember also "hand running" programs at times.

While the Dec 77 issue of Byte[0] had Star Trek on the cover it didn't contain a BASIC listing. Could it have been either the May/June 1975 issue of Creative Computing[1] or one of the compilations (BASIC Computer Games[3])?

[0] https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1977-12....

[1] https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingv01n04MayJune19...

[2] https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput...

I'm not familiar with ARM64. What about it makes it hard to write assembly in it? Is this also true of ARM32 or RISC-V?

Sounds like a wonderful college experience. SPARCs are nice... I was a little before that, our assembly language course was 68000, which was a nice step up from 6502 I was familiar with. But I do love RISCs. I am curious what were the main things you liked about SPARC and disliked about ARM?

It is. So my advice is to build something that is interesting, and might have some value, and don't worry about it being financially viable. Then get it out there, iterate, pivot, learn and eventually you may find viability.

My point is, more often than not, there isn't a eureka moment when a fully fleshed out idea with financial viability just pops in your head. Oftentimes the best ideas start out small and boring. Use your day job as the de facto funder of your quest for viability.

While 'reverse discrimination' can end up being a concern, the societal reason for it's use is to correct for past legal or defacto discrimination that may have become structural.

Discrimination can have long-lasting or multi-generational effects that can persist. Men may consciously or subconsciously prefer other men, calling it "culture fit". Today's minorities may not have the same wealth distribution, which allows for greater risk taking, due to historical redlining and discrimination for jobs.

So 'reverse discrimination', when applied correctly, can help to break those structural inequities.

I mean have everything I have but using a different email address, a GMail one. Your solution doesn't solve moving purchases from the Play store over nor any shared photo albums, etc.

Right, there is NO option to pay to increase storage for a single user. I have to start paying $6/user/month for EVERY user to increase from 15GB to just 30GB. A regular GMail account can increase to 200GB for $3/month.

I'm not complaining, I just want a way to migrate off the (originally) promised "free for families" GMail For Domains to a regular GMail account. That's all. Or at least ALLOW me to PAY for increased storage. I don't even have that option now.

How is a link to a 404 error on the front page of Hacker News? Do people upvote without actually clicking the link?

I believe it was done by projection onto a wall or screen, for example through a pinhole projection, rather than looking through a lens directly.

Hey, just a note that the YouTube links are the same, which I don't think you intended.

> They said that some PE firms were on a mission to acquire all of the vet firms in metro areas and then drive prices up even further because the demand is so inelastic.

This is why medical care (human or pet) and capitalism don't mix well. If you are having a heart attack, you aren't comparing prices, and if your animal "child" is throwing up, you aren't calling around various vets.

I've often wondered... what is the most advanced civilization (human or not) that could have existed some number of years back and not left evidence, or the evidence was destroyed through natural processes, or the evidence would remain in places we can't/haven't discovered?

Conversely, at each known stage of human civilization, how long will it be before evidence of that civilization becomes unknowable through future archaeology?

Perhaps a more important question is when do you know to pull the plug? At what point do you stop investing resources into the project?

I haven't heard "Borland's OWL framework" in over 20 years. Wow, that brought a flood of memories and nostalgia back. I used Borland products starting with Turbo Pascal back in the 1988-1992 time frame before switching to Microsoft C/C++ and MFC. Thanks!

Right, even VCs don't know the answers. But the difference between a VC and a founder is that a VC invests in 100 companies not knowing which will succeed, but a founder only is investing in one.

> For me, personally, I like the concept that noon is when the sun is at it highest point or closest, I can adjust everything else around that

Then you must not like time zones, as that is true only in one particular sliver of a time zone. You want true local time, like before the railroads time.

All true, and I would add to #5 is the only reason I'm not a millionaire is that I haven't found the right product/market fit, nor a market of a size that would support a business where I would be a millionaire. It's more than just finding the right salesperson, it's also finding the right market and the right product for the salesperson (and the marketer and the developer) to succeed in.

Your employer is the best source of seed funding for a solo founder venture. In other words, use your steady income from a job and turn your software business ideas into hobbies. If one takes off, great, if not, you have a hobby.

As others have stated, being a solo founder is almost the LEAST about programming cool things and more about marketing, sales, invoicing, payroll, etc. And especially if you are successful, you won't be programming for long.

How long did the process take for you? From getting the word out until sale? Once you had an offer, how long did due diligence take?

Could platforms like this be better served as non-profits?

Additionally to the points raised by other replies, Ownership/power currently is in Binance and Coinbase, because very few people transact directly in Bitcoin, and those that do realize gas fees are so high so Binance and Coinbase provide convenience ledgers that they control. This is exactly the same process as if you were trading stocks on the stock exchanges. Everything eventually becomes centralized, to solve the problems like transacting and punishing bad actors that develop in the bazaar.

That would be a great solution. I would imagine many "legacy free" users are old GMail for Domains users who just want the same Google One functionality of @gmail.com addresses but with a custom domain.

Same here. Was an early GMail for Domains user with my entire extended family (10 users). Have had problems with many features not working because "Workspace" (for example, adding a user to Google Home devices). Only did GMail for Domains for the custom address, would just be on GMail otherwise. Hate that there has never been a migration path, and will lose 13+ years of app purchases, pictures, email, youtube history, etc. without a migration tool.

I was an early "GMail for domains" user, and have felt abandoned as there are services in Google Home I can't use as a "Workspace" account.

I would gladly transition to a @gmail.com account and just do an email forward, which is why I had originally signed up, IF ONLY GOOGLE WOULD HAVE A MIGRATION TOOL. They pushed my family into Workspace as they abandoned us, and give us NO OPTION to transfer 13+ years of history.

What's the difference? Aren't both knowingly lying to affect an outcome?

An Olympic swimming pool is 50m x 25m at a depth of 2m, so an area of 1250 square meters. The continental US is 8,080,464,252,719 square meters, so it would take 6,464,371,402 Olympic swimming pools to cover the continental US. Stacking Olympic swimming pools in layers it would take about 37 layers swimming pools to cover the US with 240 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools.

So the volume of water is enough to cover the continental US with water to a depth of 75 meters if I did my math correct. And that second zone, three times larger, could cover the Continental US to a depth of 225 meters.

My recollection matches yours. Smalltalk was too expensive and hard to program user-facing apps as quickly as VB or C++ with MFC. So front-ends were either VB or C++/MFC if speed was needed on the front end, and C++/DCOM on the back end.