calciphus

I was always a fan of the nine (+) different Silicon Beaches

Isn't every beach covered in silica?

This is a confusing take on free speech - that not only must anyone host that speech (in this case, Spotify) - but that it is censorship to say "I don't want to be associated with that so I'm choosing to leave"?

That is a pretty extreme view of what "free speech" entitles, to the point of significantly restricting the free speech of (in this case) Niel Young to preserve Joe Rogan's.

If I walk out of the room because someone is spitting nonsense is that censorship?

That was more interesting than I expected it to be! Well done random article.

Regions like "Americas", "Western Europe", etc often have far more variance within them than is worth accounting for in a printer ink formulation. I can travel within just the state of California and have more humidity variance than could possibly justify region locked printer ink.

It's for price localization - sell at what the market will bear, and different regions have different price points.

I agree - it is getting harder and harder to fully turn off skin smoothing on cellphones and webcam software. You can turn it down, but rarely off.

If you're using this for anything besides screening actors for a role, you're opening yourself up to a mountain of lawsuits. I can't imagine even semi-competent HR signing off on "let's have all our pre screening include the race, gender, age, and nationality of all our candidates!"

You're responding to data with feelings. Overfitting that data to your narrative is pretty unconvincing.

If we agree that incalculable, diety-level wealth affords benefits of immunity from the law, that doesn't translate to "reducing or increasing an enforcement budget is pointless."

Are you arguing that enforcement is without merit if it doesn't catch 100%?

Increasing the capabilites of those responsible for enforcement of tax laws does not typically result in more tax evasion. Sure, you can argue the merit of those laws or the effectiveness of them in supporting the State's goals, but it's hard to argue "fewer enforcers benefits the must vulnerable" in the most modern economies, when we have significant and ample data to the contrary.

When someone versions the internet it is safe to disregard the other terms in the sentence.

In the US they pay for your college (at Arizona State University) if you work at least 20 hours a week, and offer you stock. Their base wage is well above the competition and minimum wage in most locations here, before tips (another US oddity).

There are always reasons to form a union, but I would be surprised if adoption was particularly high. Starbucks ranks highest in employee satisfaction among national fast food chains. https://www.comparably.com/companies/starbucks/happiness

> are fired the moment they declare they are pregnant

In the US this is illegal and a really easy lawsuit to win. Does Switzerland not have laws protecting workers from being fired for being pregnant?

Why is it no one can talk about crypto without TLAs?

I definitely had a similar experience of not realizing my memory and recall was uncommon - and assuming the people in my life didn't care, rather than didn't recall. A number of times in my head the same experience played out:

"Of course I know what you wore on our third date and what you ordered. How couldn't I? It's important! Am I not as important to you as you are to me?"

Only after spending time and putting in the work with a partner who had their own memory issues did I actually bring this up to them and a therapist. I recall a conversation where I told them it was OK that they had forgotten what we ate on our first date or what I was wearing, because I didn't want to be resentful over unimportant things. The therapist asked me if I remembered most of our dates - where we went, what we wore, what we ordered, movies or shows we saw, etc. I remember being confused - of course I did! Who wouldn't?

My therapist explained that this was really uncommon, especially in the scale of years and decades. I had never considered it before that. It changed how I interacted with the world and I wish I had known sooner.

I guess this is just one of those things where people have fundamentally different motivations. I don't get up every day and try to figure out how to get away with not paying for anything while benefiting from everyone else who does. Am I a little less rich for it? Sure. But that's fine.

Because they shipped to a bunch of backers of their kickstarter over they last two weeks and people are excited?

They have unity, blender, and unreal sdks available. Also a sdk for custom integrations.

https://lookingglassfactory.com/software

I have to say that while I enjoyed baking breads before covid, it definitely went into high gear during lockdown.

Multi-day breads were easy to time. I could schedule meetings around complex timing or steps if I had to.

Eating more meals at home meant more lunch and breakfast with delicious fresh bread.

The whole world (or at least a lot of mine) having a shared baking experience meant I could converse with many friends about a hobby I enjoyed but no one else I knew was into. Suddenly I could give helpful tips when people posted their frustrations or questions online. Like an earlier comment, I already had ingredients in bulk, so it also meant I could share with people who needed some.

Not entirely accurate. It's a dock connector, not just power. The $160 USD dock gives you two more USB-C display adapters, two USB-C ports, 2 USB-A ports, an ethernet port and 170W (if I recall) adapter. It's big but incredibly useful for a desktop dock. Slip one reversable magnetic connector in and you've got all your accessories out of the box. If you just want to charge, USB-C is fine.

Except that major banks now can and do. The "Zelle" network contains thousands of member banks and moves money instantly between accounts. The limits on amounts sent vary (my Wells Fargo account can send to my friend's Bank of America up to $2500 a day, no fees).

The claimed advantage of crypto is that there's no oversight or limits on the amount you can send, whereas banks report any transaction over $10k (or something like that) to the IRS.

The thing that makes ticketing difficult is not minting and selling unique items of inventory - that's a well understood problem with many viable solutions. Nor is verifying at any given moment if a single piece of inventory is valid and who owns it - again, that's a solved problem.

The secondary markets in ticketing exist because there's an excess of demand and entities who can exploit access, speed, or technical know-how for arbitrage. Blockchain ticketing companies don't fundamentally change that statement - they enable it.

No one likes Ticketmaster - but to call them a 3rd party service that takes a massive cut is inaccurate. Ticketmaster is owned by Live Nation, which usually owns both the venue and the artist's tour schedule. And owns the primary and secondary ticketing sales. So Ticketmaster is usually the first, second, and third-party in ticketing.

Blockchain doesn't magically fix this. It doesn't change the deep relationship Live Nation has with labels and artists, their fodness for excluding artists who play at rival and independent venues, their habit of defining contract requirements that can only be fulfilled by Ticketmaster software...

Blockchain is solving all of the wrong problems in ticketing. I don't need a distributed, trustless ledger of who owns a ticket when all of them are issued by and redeemed at the same location. The only real reason to push for blockchain in ticketing is to help scalpers hide what they're doing.

I worked in a high end jewelry store for about two years (the kind you get buzzed into, in downtown Palo Alto, during the first dot com, across from the police). We daily sold six-figure jewelry and the store had tens of millions in inventory easily.

Never once was I searched.

There is an Apple Store a few blocks from that location. They were getting searched to make sure no one left with headphones.

Private groups don't have to swear fealty to the government. Individuals are allowed and encouraged to dissent, form groups of dissention, and don't owe it to anyone to grant them access to that group.

Regardless of one's personal politics, insisting "if the government says it's ok, you shouldn't be allowed to reject someone who supports it" isn't really in line with the core ideals of the US, where YC is organized.

I hadn't heard of this recently. Where could I read more about it?

Most phones built in the last decade the majority can accept a Bluetooth or USB keyboard. If you were so inclined, I suspect the exact keyboard from your Commodore 64 could be connected to the phone of your choice with nothing more than off the shelf adapters.

Verizon owns the "Droid" trademark and is very litigious. Wouldn't be surprised if they got a nastygram from Verizon lawyers.

I'm confused by your statement. Why should those companies give 30% to Apple? Also, many already do.

That's the point - zoom prioritizes shared screen content over video (rightly so). Since this uses a camera for capture, it'd be best to trick zoom into thinking it is a screen.

Just slightly scale up the window you're capturing in OBS and move the top menu out of frame.

Compile it, run it with the same inputs the prosecution claims was provided, and see if you get the same result. That's sorta the point of computers, right? Same inputs on the same program, same output?

This is the weirdest thing to me. I use a surface book and I've never had the fans turn on during video calls, even full-screen with lots of people on external 4k monitor.

Everyone switching to the new M1 talks about how quiet they are and I've not had a computer make noise unless I'm playing a serious 3d games. Why were the last gen macs so noisy?

I've never seen an apple laptop with an anti-reflection coating that worked. I think that's just marketing. Sit in a well lit room and you stare at yourself on anything besides a 90% white background.

Wait, is this why they push minimalist, tons-of-white-space design?

That sounds like you had several people to do one person's job, not like it's a job that doesn't need to be done.

Solid UX people think like product people, but you either over-burden them, have them shift part of their roles off to others (research, user testing, etc),or do both jobs poorly. Good product people not also doing design, research, technical work, etc...they should be able to manage several teams / projects in a related area at once.