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> NFTs give artists and photographers a new channel to sell their work without being constrained too much by middle men.

This is a benefit of cryptocurrencies in general, but doesn't explain specifically how NFTs themselves (rather than a generic selling platform not utilizing NFT tokens) increase the artist's economic freedom.

Can someone explain how NFTs accomplish Coinbase's mission, which is to "increase economic freedom in the world"?

Wait, is the hate transitioning to WebView2 or is VS Code? If the latter, do you have a source? WebView2 is a Windows-only API, so I don't think it'd be a good match for VS Code.

> I don't get Jira hate. It may be clunky, slow and overcomplicated

Ding ding ding!

Seriously though, I think a lot of issues with Jira stem from poor implementations that cause it to perform terribly, which impedes an engineer's ability to quickly get in and out of Jira. For example, the on-prem Jira instance for one of my clients would take upwards of five minutes to render the board, and another 30+ seconds to render the ticket page. Adding comments was another frustrating experience. I'm sure the OOTB experience with modern Jira is probably fine, but it seems that hardly anyone uses Jira without some resource-intensive customization.

Previous discussion with 160+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28632373

I think the idea is just a larger number of drivers driving smaller, typical vehicles, not literally using Uber/ride-share drivers.

LSU alum here, and I can confirm that our athletic performance is a rising tide. It's my understanding though that LSU athletics pays employees from its own revenue. So it's not like LSU is diverting funds meant for academics to athletics (in the macro sense). As an alum I frequently get asked to donate to the LSU Foundation which is an entity separate from the Tiger Athletic Foundation, which is where you can donate specifically to the athletic department.

With all these updates, I really hope Rakuten takes note and releases a true Paperwhite competitor this year. I'm leaning towards Kobo for the more open ecosystem, and the fact that you can sync books via Dropbox officially or via big standard Linux applications sideloaded onto the Kobo. However if Kobo even updates any of their readers this holiday season, I suspect they'd only update the Forma, which has a form factor more similar to the Kindle Oasis than the Paperwhite (and a price to match).

I saw those lawsuits as well, and I was also unable to find a definitive mention of Amazon selling an FBA seller provided item under the "Ships from and sold by Amazon" descriptor. The Daimler lawsuit from 2016 alleges that Amazon did in fact do this, but as far as I can tell that lawsuit didn't go anywhere, so I'm not sure if any evidence was presented.

I did read the FAQ that Amazon provides to sellers[1], but it doesn't definitely say whether Amazon Retail items can be fulfilled by FBA merchants. (Interestingly, it does say that consumable products like cosmetics aren't eligible for virtual tracking, and a lot of the online reports from people are those types of products.)

[1] https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G200141480

Was the microSD card shipped and sold by Amazon? You should be able to confirm on your order details page.

If they're not genuine, these things are absolutely remarkable forgeries. Indistinguishable.

I mentioned the mixing of inventories, but as I've said, I've purchased literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of items from Amazon. I average about 1.5 orders per week over the past decade, and I've never received an item that I doubted the legitimacy of. Furthermore, after some research it seems that Amazon does not mix their own inventory with third-party sellers inventory; they only mix third-party seller inventory when the seller opts into having their inventory mixed.

Genuinely curious: would you mind confirming that the seller of those items was Amazon (your order details should mention the seller)? I've purchased Samsung microSD cards nine times, and various flash drives also nine times over the past decade and all have been genuine. Small sample size, I know, but hardly a Russian roulette from my experience!

One of the upsetting things about this crackdown is that some of the brands mentioned in the article actually produced good products. I'd have much rathered people purchase products from Ravpower and Aukey than DiHines, AINOPE, Ailun, yootech, SMALLElectric, TT&C, or Amoner, all of which appear on the first page of results for "USB C charger".

Besides the review misconduct, I do think a lot of people's issues with Amazon stem from purchasing no-name products from unknown sellers, an action that is made horrendously easy by Amazon's UI. I've purchased tens of thousands of dollars worth of items from Amazon, and I have had a perfect experience by following two rules: (1) always buy from Amazon (not a marketplace seller), and (2) always buy a reputable brand.

Others have mentioned the issue of co-mingling inventory, and while I believe it's an issue, I've never come across a purchase from Amazon that looked anything less than legitimate.

> When was the last time they created a new category?

Almost every current Apple product (save the HomePod) is the category defining product of it's class. The iPhone, the iPad, the M1 MacBooks, the Apple Watch, the AirPods, the Apple TV, the iMac, and the AirTags are all essentially best-in-class, and the standards-bearer for the category.

The ADA already requires Apple Stores to provide interpretation services or other reasonable accommodations for customers, so it's not much more of an ask to provide those for employees as well.

> The app to check if you're ready for Windows 11 is a "preview" less than 30 days before the FULL retail release of Windows 11

Unless something has changed recently, I believe the release of Windows 11 will only be for newly purchased devices. The update from Windows 10 to 11 won't be until sometime next year.

I'm curious: is there a fair use argument for videos recording police activity in which the officer plays copyrighted music? I understand the intent is to trigger auto takedowns via something like ContentID, but beyond that would you be in the right, legally speaking, for uploading?

Recessions.

Right, but the executive order issued doesn't usurp the authority of a school district to require a dress code, and as such masks could technically still be required under that authority. I believe this is what's happening in some Texas schools as well.

I'm curious if this ruling would have any impact on a district's ability to enforce a uniform policy/dress code. If a district doesn't have the authority to require masks, how can they have the authority to require that students tuck in their shirts?

You do realize this issue was on Windows 11, an unreleased operating system correct? I'm not saying Windows 10 hasn't had its share of critical issues, but I can't remember the last time Microsoft released widely a show-stopping bug to the LTS branch of Windows (that is, the branch you'd be using for "mission-critical" applications).

IANAL, but I think this would qualify as a resale price maintenance agreement[1], which is legal at a federal level and in most (but not all!) states. I guess it really depends on what exactly "not undercut each other" entailed.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/resale_price_maintenance_agr...

> Or what about the fact we are 2 years into this and we still haven't built a significant amount of hospitals?

If I understand correctly, there isn't a lack of literal beds/space; it's a lack of personnel. Basically hospitals are unable to staff themselves at the levels needed to accomodate being basically 100% full. This is compounded by the fact that hospitals are struggling to retain healthcare workers, who are burnt out, and the fact that healthcare isn't something that someone can easily switch to.

One thing that's important to keep in mind is that esbuild is a bundler, in that it can take an input file that imports other JS files and create an optimized ready-for-production output bundle file. SWC cannot, yet, accomplish this.[1] It is in the works, however! But if I was choosing a replacement for Webpack to use today, I'd definitely go with esbuild.

[1] https://swc.rs/docs/spack-basic/#mode

The site is hosted on Netlify, which I believe in turn uses AWS for some infrastructure. Looks like Nestflix got unlucky and was issued a reused IP address for its A record.

I was very resistant to signing up for TikTok because I didn't think I'd enjoy using the app in public with my sound muted. However, while home one evening a few days ago I decided to give it a shot and was completely astounded at just how fast the For You Page was able to adjust to videos I found entertaining and enjoyable. I think it boils down to a few factors, but the main one is simply that it's able to get a ton of interaction data in a very short amount of time. It's basically all the same data points as from YouTube, but nearly thirty times faster. While a YouTube video is typically eight or so minutes, a TikTok video might only be about 15 seconds. And since your entire screen is dedicated to a single video, TikTok is able to make very specific inferences that something like Twitter isn't able to. So after just a few minutes of swiping through videos, liking a few to indicate I wanted to see similar content, and following a few creators, I was able to get a FYP that felt specifically catered to my interests. Over the past few days, it's even changed dramatically, while still feeling personalized to me, whereas I find YouTube takes days, if not weeks of watching to accommodate to a new interest or topic.

All that being said, it's certainly not without its frustrations. For example, there's certain topics I'm interested in that I can't seem to get it to show me videos from (mainly technology topics). I even went as far as searching specific hashtags in the hopes that was enough of a signal, but the FYP still didn't seem to suggest any videos from those topics. It may just be that tech-related videos don't do very well on the platform, and thus the algorithm is unable to collect and process enough data to make useful recommendations.

Finally, I absolutely despise the fact that the Following page isn't chronological. I follow a few creators, and I want to see their new content, so you'd think Following would be the place to do that. Well as of right now, the first video on my Following page is from July 11, despite the fact that specific creator has posted six newer videos since then.

One of the biggest things holding me back from transitioning my open source projects over to Yarn and PnP is Dependabot support. I'd even settle for support with the `node-modules` plugin at this point, but GitHub is of the opinion that there isn't much community usage of yarn v2 to warrant the additional development required to support yarn v2+.

I'm really glad for all the forward thinking projects like yarn and pnpm are bringing to the node package management space, and I'm also glad to see that npm is listening and taking those advancements into consideration. I'm currently exploring using npm v7's workspaces feature, which was something I originally wanted to use yarn for.

I'd love to hear from someone with diabetes if this version of insulin is comparable to the typical high-end modern insulins. I remember at one point Walmart had a $20 insulin, but there was something about it that made the dosing a royal pain compared to other insulins. Is this any better?

Leaked pricing was $31 USD for 2 CPU cores, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. It does have 10 Gbps download and 4 Gbps upload though!

Windows Sandbox on Windows 10 is pretty quick to boot, and uses a base copy of Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if that's similar to whatever solution they've created for Cloud PC.