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Wasn’t meant to shame, just a shocking thing to take in. Make as much as you can, if that is what is sought. Those numbers are a rarefied circumstance. It sucks that they cuffed you, but great you escaped. Tough decision to make.

It’s genuinely great to read you’ve found happiness.

Sure thing bud. Take away whatever you’d like.

It remains privileged. I have my golden handcuffs too, probably most on HN do. That doesn’t change the reality expressed.

This should trigger all of us to be spinning up lawsuits. This whole thing is an absurd grift.

Bully for you

Cost of alternative investments not pursued as a result of deployed capital.

Is it lesser?

Up until the 2010s the US was generally pretty good with EU & EU adjacent. It’s likely to return too, as there remains a strong societal will for it.

I ask this - which has the more persistent track record of a free or more free society?

I think recency bias and online discourse has polluted perceptions.

So you’d enjoy being like the free and happy people of Tibet then, eh?

I would hate it if the system removed nodes from my network without my influence. Perhaps a rules engine with user defined criteria would be useful.

Ultimately, users define their network in current-day social media and the relevance of any celebrity or other person within it.

400M people still find Selena Gomez relevant to themselves - she’s simply not relevant to you. I asked Gemini very simply “is Selena Gomez relevant” and it responded with essentially “more in 2026 than ever.”

Helpful info, thank you for sharing this.

I’d be curious to hear more about how you use it for those 3 categories. Care to share?

How to say you play 4D chess…

Hrmph I say!

Say more

In that list of Apple products that you own, do none of them match the ops comment? You’re saying none of those products are or have been in their time in the market a perfected version of other things?

There are lots of failed products in nearly every company’s portfolio.

AirTags were mentioned elsewhere, but I can think of others too. Perfected might be too fuzzy & subjective a term though.

How many generations are we even into cars?

Maybe 4ish? Most kids alive but not yet driving are likely to own only hybrid ma or electrics.

Seems like a relatively short term problem overall.

In some cities. I happen to be from one of them. Now I live in a far bigger city (Los Angeles) and the closest Microcenter is 2 hours away. Worse with traffic on a Tuesday afternoon. They’re only in a handful of states, sadly. There are not many places that offer a reasonable selection of boards that are close. Fry’s was the last bastion for many folks. Best Buy sometimes has a few options. But today is a far cry from the days of Circuit City, Computer City, CompUSA, RadioShack… not to mention dozens of mom & pop stores. Online is the main way nowadays.

Uh… So the argument here is that anticipated future value == meaningful value today?

The whole cryptocurrency world requires evangelical buy-in. But there is no directly created functional value other than a historic record of transactions and hypothetical decentralization. It doesn’t directly create value. It’s a store of it - again, assuming enough people continue to buy into the narrative so that it doesn’t dramatically deflate when you need to recover your assets. States and other investors are helping make stability happen to maintain it as a value store, but you require the story propagating to achieve those ends.

I can’t think of a major city I’ve been to on earth where 10M from a hung cable is realistic outside of some suburbs and rural areas.

Not even deceptive. This is relatively normal business practice.

It’s easier to think of this as “project risk” as opposed to corporate risk overall.

This isn’t different than creating a subsidiary to embark on a new program, with its own debts and assets, collateralized by a parent company.

It’s effectively the same as what happens every time a major movie studio starts a new film project.

Old-ish data, but US Census states that 81% of American households have at least one laptop or desktop. Tablets at 61%.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/computer...

I’m wondering what the sample size is for this assessment. I know gen z people that don’t buy stuff on Amazon out of anxiety, let alone booking a 4 figure flight.

Let’s not forget that a plurality exists.

This is cool. Love little tangential info bombs like this. Thanks.

If I did this, my notifications would never stop. I get tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of emails every day. Even heavily filtered, I can only afford to check work email a couple times a day. Most that make it past the filters are still ignored and immediately archived.

Many have tried and hit the very same obstacles you mention. Quite the quagmire.

One of the most significant problems, agreed.

Also, email is free to the sender but costly (in time) to the recipient. This is reflected in the quantity of messages, but also in their verbosity. People rarely expend the effort to edit or be concise. Both are costly to readers.

This makes my brain hurt. Few things I hate more than email. The single worst way to get in touch with me. As a user of it for more decades than I’d like to recall, I despise email.

Sure, the infinite archive is mildly helpful. But search-ability is marginal in any tool I’m aware of. The folders, filters and other management suggestions mentioned make it a second job. Email is a life tax we’re all forced to pay. It is a problem that is yet to be solved, though many have tried.

So are you saying the only difference between a woodwind instrument and a fan is the column? What about a stringed instrument then?

Every sound found in nature contains multiple frequency components. When these align as integer multiples of the fundamental, they are harmonics; when they do not, they are inharmonic partials. Only a pure sine wave lacks them, and such signals don’t occur naturally.

I disagree on this.

I’ve used both interchangeably for decades and can swap between them without slowing. So much of this comes down to knowledge of and experiences with the quick/er ways for getting around.

For quite sometime using search tools is vastly more efficient for navigation and file movement than Explorer or Finder anyway.

This math sounds really simple until you work for a company that is “profitable” yet constantly turning over every sofa cushion for spare change. Whuch describes most publicly traded companies.

It can be quite difficult to get this kind of money for such a nominal tool that has a lot of free competition. Docker was very critical a few years ago, but “why not use podman or containerd or…” makes it harder to stand up for.