Not exactly the same but should be mentioned. Chinese use real people’s personas for upwork, they contact people asking for them to create profiles under their names and get paid a percentage of income generated.
I’ve invested the money I would have spent on health insurance over the past 4 years in stocks. This might not be ideal for older people but if you’re relatively young or healthy it’s an alternative to dealing with the headache of health insurance. Also, touching on what someone mentioned above, the costs are almost always cheaper.
I also use FastmIl, have been for over ten years now and zero issues. Recently I’ve been creating a unique email names e.g. apple@mydomain.com to see where spam comes from or if one of the services I sign up with gets breached my main personal email stays clear and I can just kill the unique name. That’s free on Fastmail.
Thanks @hypercube33, I actually have given MassCode a run a year or so back, I’ll take a look again.
It’s strange to me that for a collection of engineers no one has really built a solid snippets manager. I really wish a company like leitmotif that built Kaleidoscope, the guys at Linear or other UI/UX focused companies would crank it one out.
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I’ve always wondered, if/when AI eventually passes us in all that there is, all will be left is the soul, likely the one an only thing we can posses that they cannot.
Trapping light, energy at different vibration levels gives pause. Jokingly of course, but makes you wonder…
We need more of these type of projects in different markets. These huge corporations get away with the worst support, price gouging and a lack of competitive technical ingenuity, as an example look how long it took us to get into the 5G race, it wasn’t until it became a national security interest to get the ball rolling. Can go on and on; internet, rail, etc.
I’m pretty certain Elon Musk will be releasing something with X that’s comparable to WeChats payment system. Of course it’s not an option now but if I’m not mistaken that’s what the goal was with PayPal/X from the onset.
There’s so few people that would have done what you did. In my experience, most customer service reps want to complete their tickets as quickly as possible to meet the companies quotas. When you run into reps as yourself it’s so refreshing. 10 years ago this lack of customer service was rare, businesses tried to provide the best customer service as possible but now you get companies that seemingly chose to avoid providing support.
There really should be a website that documents factually interactions with these companies that lawyers can dissect.
“Call the Feds” is that sarcasm? If you haven’t read of late the way the federal government uses law enforcement for their own agenda regardless of the US constitution than I will assume calling the feds was made in parody.
This is one of the things that bothers me about Apples app install process; I reinstall my OS often and when I start installing software via App Store, Apple displays the price and the notification that you will be charged never giving the user prior indication of whether the app is a new version that you will or will not pay for. With all the brilliant heads behind Apple you would think they would be able to get the UX right on this.
Agree. Installing one adobe app requires the installation of their app manager which sits in the background. Also the one app installed, installs and creates about 10 different directories, excess junk, pretty much what adobe has become. Now they try to buy out brilliant apps like figma which will only kill the life of it IMO.
A clear example of AI understanding the need to show a lack of creativity and intelligence so as to not alert humans of its true objective of universal domination and we, the apes that we are, are truly happy with our victory.
Not sure how I feel about an American company that has just been flooded with capital is deciding to hire programmers outside of America “to cut costs”. If their reasoning was solely based on talent I think that would be perfectly acceptable.
Wonder if stealing a companies slogan ““We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.”” — Collis Potter Huntington is considered the same thing?
I would have to agree with you, from personal experience. About 5 years ago I believe I might have overdosed by mixing OTC medication by accident, it was a combination of neurotropics and other focus medicine or at least after reflecting on the whole ordeal I believe this to be the case. I’ve never been one to consider suicide, never understood how someone could take their own life but at that specific moment in my life I felt that I was literally losing my mind and at any moment could go crazy and I would rather kill myself than to go crazy. So to touch on what you said, even a person that would never, ever do that under any circumstances within a sound mind can absolutely do it if the pain or suffering is so severe that killing one’s self is the only way one can save one’s self from what they’re going through.
I learned through that experience that the mind can be so fragile. My situation was induced from over the counter medicine. My heart goes out to individuals that have to deal with something like this due to mental disease… it really is something that affects everyone one way or another.
In my opinion, Hey never actually took off because unlike Basecamp which is great, feels like it was used by the team that made it before they actually launched it. Hey feels clunky and incoherent IMHO.
Why talk in absolutes? “Nobody wants to be their own bank” wrong, I prefer to be my own bank. Secondly, a deed is exactly what could go on the blockchain.