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Yikes.

Similar background and weariness with tech, but I’m a bit older, and I’ve actually left and returned to tech a couple times.

A question I’d ask you is, are there other things that really call out to you? If you could do anything as a career, or at least in a phase of your career, do you have deeply felt answers?

I’ve made the “anything but tech” move before and regretted it after a period of decompression and perspective reset.

Huh? Defend your thesis.

Curiously the “get full database access” link on many entries takes you to dodoengineering.ru.

Not sure I follow. What do you mean by “officials that can’t be trusted”? What list?

Is Trek not one of the dozens of bike brands made in the US? I’d always thought they were.

Edit: this looks like a good source on US bike manufacturers: https://thebestbikelock.com/bike-brands/bikes-made-in-usa/

Overly lenient? On the whole I’d say the press has been aggressively assailing anyone/anything they think deserving. MSNBC certainly doesn’t back down on their reporting and narrative crafting.

In your opinion what would appropriate reporting look like?

What exactly is at risk wrt social security? My parents both receive benefits and are worried by the signs they see in these protests, but there’s nothing specific about benefits actually being stopped or reduced for them that we can find.

TikTok itself isn’t subject to penalties - it’s any company providing services to TikTok that need assurance. Hosting, collocation, network providers, etc. They face 5k/user/day in fines.

These pop up during every launch.

YouTube takes between 30 minutes and days to take them down after being reported.

I haven’t listened to many Supreme Court hearings. Historically has their line of questioning been a good indicator of how they ultimately ruled?

What is the general consensus on “curbs on automation”?

Interest in protecting jobs makes sense. But it seems like a balanced ramp allowing for innovation and the transition to automating away manual labor is positive for civilization. Is it that no one can agree on what that ramp looks like and how to approach things like retraining?

Not sure which town got the prominent coverage, but here in America a lot of the coverage we saw looked like a peaceful presence, organized to allow emergency passage, and frequently we saw what looked like a fair - lots of families strolling through, eating food, adults and kids dancing, buying random things from vendors. We saw interviews with drivers who told their stories and said they were there to peacefully protest, as was their right. It’s one of the reasons, I think, that the actions by Trudeau seemed so disproportionate.

This strikes me as another of many paths Mark is taking to get closer to the new administration. He reworked his own image to appear more patriot-bro, he’s brought in a conservative to lead global policy, and he was one of the first to show up at Mar-a-Lago after the election.

Was there a race between the two?

https://divestos.org/pages/about https://divestos.org/pages/faq

“DivestOS is a full-time passion project (not a company) maintained solely by Tavi since 2014. It has many goals, but primarily: prolonging the life-span of discontinued devices, enhancing user privacy, and providing a modest increase of security where/when possible.”

Merry Christmas!

The current US presence is hosted by Oracle. That would end as it would cause Oracle to be fined, and the content moved outside the US. The direct oversite by the US government via Oracle would end. Access by US users would have to be via web since App Store distribution would subject Google and Apple to fines.

Rational from what perspective? The US is a top market for TikTok in terms of revenue and users. Bytedance isn’t just some cohort of Chinese bureaucrats with bottomless pockets sitting in Beijing. Its major investors and BoD include large global VCs and individual investors who are not going to walk away from a successful app that prints money. Ironically the way TikTok’s presence is built and audited by Ellison and Co in the US is far more secure than if it were sitting outside of the US.

And aging very, very well.

Instagram? Facebook Reels? YT shorts? Snap? X’s newish video swipe actions? All have complex recommendation engines built to keep attention.

If you’re going to highlight short form video be complete, else your motivation is sus.

Other than the selectable profanity filter is it doing any other filtering or word biasing?

Absurd.

“Our results suggest that advancing the timing of administration (3 h before the desired bedtime) and increasing the administered dose (4 mg/day), as compared to the exogenous melatonin schedule most used in clinical practice (2 mg 30 min before the desired bedtime), might optimize the efficacy of exogenous melatonin in promoting sleep.”

Can confirm.

The Big Ink lobby is alive and well.

https://www.dailynews.com/2024/08/13/counterfeit-printer-car...

I’ve nothing substantive to add, but I note that the logic gymnastics on display in comments from all perspectives is somehow telling. Of something. Not sure what.

Forbes’ articles on tiktok are always a mixed bag. TikTok and bytedance can’t be interchanged 1:1, and TikTok does not exist in China. The whistleblower didn’t work for TikTok, they worked for bytedance. Forbes knows this.

And then there’s things like this: “The former employee did not claim that ByteDance had knowledge of, or was complicit in, the Chinese police’s alleged intimidation of his father.”, in an article with a headline that forms a soft implication between TikTok and this incident. But it wasn’t a “TikTok” whistleblower. All reporting about TikTok is hard to take seriously while there’s so much political energy pushing narratives.

This seems like a purposefully loaded headline. What would be the reasons for describing an astronaut by their wealth status? Not to mention there are 3 other astronauts on the flight.

This may not be a popular opinion, but this news reminds me how much I miss the Block-era Engadget, and even the old Gizmodo. Both have woven politics in so deeply and the writing at times so clearly uninformed that they are not enjoyable.