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Secret other option: Disagree and convince your boss to change their mind

That, of course, probably doesn't apply in this situation since Trump rarely changes his mind. But it does apply in other situations.

It seems unlikely that there's any practical chemical batteries with 0 fire risk.

But I do think there should be home energy storage that doesn't involve chemical batteries. Where are all the pumped hydro, flywheels, and compressed air storage for consumer use?

For some government and commercial interactions, printing things out is the only way to get something done

Consider a similar tasks that are practiced by thousands of professionals daily: Live translation, flying a plane while talking to ATC, playing music while talking. Some people find these things nearly impossible, but with enough practice it's definitely possible.

It beats figuring out which of the 5 typical buttons are up/down/left/right, in my opinion. It's only the build quality that seems to be the issue, not the concept

Seems to me they might have been saying the cost for the drug therapy rather than the bloodletting

For anyone who also thought that was a weird way to say the stat, it's £2,000 upfront and £4,000 a year for one person.

It does seem awfully high. Donating blood costs way less. Maybe the treatment they're saying the cost for is the drug rather than the bloodletting?

It's already profitable, or at least net-zero, it's just not politically correct. Here in Minneapolis (more generally: Hennepin county) we industrially incinerate our trash. The site lists many benefits: https://www.hennepin.us/your-government/facilities/hennepin-...

That doesn't negate their point. Starlink satellites still pass over Africa regularly and completely.

The only caveat I'll say is that starlink generally requires ground stations to provide connection at scale. So it's not 0 marginal cost for them to provide it for free. But the general thought is right: the marginal cost is small. Launching satellites is the expensive part, and once you have them up there, you might as well serve Africa

I think they're referring to Home Assistant, that's what they found

It definitely is for you and for other people. I challenge you to describe what it's for if not those two things

I think you're missing a small yet significant portion of people who will pay for content after consuming it. Off the top of my head I've "tipped" after the fact for: An awesome free work time recording app, "free" walking tours when I'm traveling, free online chess, Wikipedia — all after using them.

The only thing constant is change. Queens and Brooklyn used to be a marshland swamp. If somebody proposed we build a metropolis in the everglades, we'd say we're ruining that too.

Cities should densify as needed, not be held to some arbitrary "good old days" ideal

There's a little bit of feedback: Each belt has a rotary encoder to track position, and the motors apply positive torque rather than positive position. This is in contrast to how stepper motors work on a 3d printer, for example.

Yes, they support either setup, vertical or horizontal

Why tune anyway? Isn't the job of speakers and earphones to reliably reproduce the sound that the person who produced the track wanted? The only tuning that should be done by default is to compensate for the form factor or the room, such that what the listener hears is exactly what the producer heard when making the track. Of course, give the user an equalizer with some presets they might want, but leave it up to the end user, not what the manufacturer thinks the user wants.

If you want to have different preferences, bookmarks, extensions etc. set for different profiles.

For example, I might want to allow 3rd party cookies on a work profile but not on a personal profile.

You only need a ham license for transmitting, not for working on radios or listening

You're right! But also, it's effectively the same as ionizing:

"UV-A and UV-B are technically non-ionizing, but all UV wavelengths can cause photochemical reactions that to some extent mimic ionization. For example, ultraviolet light, even in the non-ionizing range, can produce free radicals that induce cellular damage and can cause skin cancer."

https://radiation.ncdhhs.gov/NonIonizing/UVRad.htm#:~:text=U....

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation :

>Exposure to ionizing radiation causes cell damage to living tissue and organ damage.

>Gamma rays, X-rays, and the higher energy ultraviolet part of the electromagnetic spectrum are ionizing radiation, whereas the lower energy ultraviolet, visible light, nearly all types of laser light, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves are non-ionizing radiation

In other words, the UV causes cancer because it's in the ionizing range of the spectrum. Radio waves don't because they're not.

I'm not convinced, both android and iPhone have a feature that shows you when it's recording microphone or camera [1] [2]. Moreover, those things require app creators to request microphone and camera access.

If this happens, it's likely limited to when those indicators are lit. App creators need to get that permission from the OS and they can't override the light.

[1] https://support.google.com/android/answer/13532937?hl=en#:~:....

[2] https://www.asurion.com/connect/tech-tips/how-to-tell-what-a...

> There are things we can do now—things we need to do now, like video conferencing and real-time collaboration—that couldn’t be done with traditional desktop software.

This is not at all true. You could have desktop software with networking that could do things like real-time collaboration. In fact, that's exactly what happens now in Office; I can collaborate with others on a Word doc right in the desktop app. It's just not how it happened since we decided to focus on webapps instead

Bcachefs has this too

Really impressive that they got thru an entire develop, build, approval, and documentation process in just about 2 days. Not that any of those steps are extremely hard for this fix, but I'm always impressed when big corporations can move so fast

Did anyone else's brain refuse to parse this sentence?

"Long before it became the place we think and work and talk, the air that we (and the bots) now breathe no matter how polluted it’s become?"

What is that supposed to mean?

The reason that SMS is preferred is that "everyone has it". Requiring all customers to get an app is much harder than requiring them to have a phone number than can receive SMS

If you read the article, it's not some random unrelated person. It's the last person in a long line of heirs. Basically, Ravel's brother got it, and then various people via marriage and death assumed it, ending in this woman

Is "procedural units" a commonly used term? I couldn't find any info in a quick search. I'd love to hear more about the concept

Title doesn't reflect the article's title (emphasis mine): "Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work'"

Without "probably", it sounds like he has insider information and can say it as a fact. With "probably", it shows that this is an educated, yet falsifiable opinion.