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But wasn’t the monitor+stand cheaper than other professional monitors of similar quality? I remember it being cheaper, if not in a similar price range.

It seems more that they’re aimed at very different customers and use cases, rather than “extravagance”

> i don't get the point of showing me something I searched for on Amazon or Vitacost about an hour later.

Anecdotally, I've often bought things from retargeted ads like these. It reminds me about things I was considering earlier.

In Notion, data is stored in generic "database" form, which is basically a table. Different views –– like kanban boards, calendar views, and gantt charts –– are layered on top.

A "new type of database" means that they've added another type of database layer to Notion. It is a perfectly reasonable way to phrase it.

Congrats to the Notion team, you've made a phenomenal product! There's some incredible product sense inside your company.

What was the project?

From my experience, the touchpad and OS experience is decidedly better. This is a subjective judgement, but anecdotally I've heard it from many people.

I think regardless of the repository, participation in the FOSS ecosystem strengthens it and encourages more people to join. The very act of doing so makes the world a better place, indirectly.

It's not the same as boots-on-ground charity work, no. But it's something.

Design as a field goes far, far beyond creating logos, interfaces and pretty pictures. Design-inspired strategy has made it's way into the US military, government, and many corporations.

That statement is deep in Dunning-Kruger territory.

I back this. React state management was always a struggle for me, but I struggled to make basic interactivity work with vanilla JS.

Next was the framework that made everything fit together for me. No more routing libraries!

I really enjoyed “Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student” also. A very in depth look, it’s a well-written textbook intended for later-year literature courses.

Because they’re largely dependent on internal, non-public infrastructure and libraries.

Open sourcing things is nonzero effort.

“Functionality and efficiency” is not always important. I don’t want YouTube to be maximally efficient, I want it to be an easy-to-understand and pleasurable watching/searching/browsing experience.

The desktop experience has a lot of nice scrolling animations you don’t see everywhere, especially the Pro page.

It’s not completely different from other sites, it’s just very well executed. High quality.

There are good benefits of having centralised services though. I don’t like this either, but I don’t think the solution is as simple as “they shouldn’t exist”.

I think the issues come down to incorrect or misaligned incentives.

I can select text on Firefox. I also really enjoy the scrolling effects, I think the experience is really high quality.

I have most of my library and radios set to auto-download. They download overnight, so I can pretty much always listen to them, regardless of continuous internet connection.

> The only convenience over Winamp is social sharing.

Spotify also lets you stream any kind of music, anywhere. It's a nifty feature that some people find useful.

The book "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student" is a great resource to improve your authorship. It's dense, meticulous, and for me, invaluable. I consider it the literary equivalent of a technical manual.

It's quite dense, not a passive read.

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Part of Go’s tradeoff is managing that extra effort (or delay in waiting for the features to hit the main branch) in return for an extremely stable, simple language.

You might find that to be a terrible idea, but others ostensibly think differently (Go is quite popular)

Personally, I prefer more advanced type systems. But I understand Go can be a good choice in other situations.

"Good" is meaningless – there is no absolute measure of the relative value of one programming language over another. C is not "better" than Python, or vice versa, just different tradeoffs for different problems and programming styles. The same is for Go.

I quite like research gate. I’ve found they more often have a downloadable PDF than other sites.

This is based on existing farming practices and the second and third order effects of using crop land. It’s entirely possible to grow plants without harming animals, but it’s impossible to eat meat without harm (barring research into lab-grown meat)

One can envision a future where more crops can grown on a smaller footprint with future agricultural developments (e.g hydroponics, multi level farms, etc)

It also ignores the fact that the production of red meat is incredibly bad for the environment, and one of the large contributors to greenhouse gases.

This argument feels similar to criticisms of electric cars because generating energy currently hurts the environment, but this ignores the future potential of widespread renewable energy, with which petroleum vehicles are incompatible.

Millions of people in India eat a very varied, inexpensive vegetarian diet. And their food tastes great.

I doubt they expect that. It might, however, encourage others to think about it a bit more.

Their message was very polite, simply pointing out the existence of other lifestyles, and barring personal tastes, it’s functionally not difficult to change your own.

Most companies have a large vision. The creation of a far reaching vision/mission is a standard management technique that allows people to judge actions based on whatever it falls in line with the (long term) vision.

This is taught in business school. It’s not a Silicon Valley thing.

Every "minimum wage" job I've ever worked (I'm in Australia) has paid at or above $15USD/hr. We have plenty of jobs and plenty of restaurants. Why is the US different?

Yeah, it’s not ideal. I’m no political scientist though, I’m just sharing my own motivations and voting patterns under a different system.

I’m Australian and I consciously vote very differently. My first votes are for small parties that are very unlikely to get elected but who’s campaign largely rests on an issue I support.

This encourages the other, more popular parties to adopt that issue if they see these parties are popular.

Otherwise I’d just vote for the “best” and most popular.

I don't remember where I saw this, but I remember reading something about each user costing Facebook about $8 a year due to all the complex DB querying they do.

That'd probably shrink if they didn't need targeted advertising, but a lot of the complex friend graphs might result in some hefty computation at scale.

The extremely deep integration with google services was always annoying for me. I'm still finding it hard to untangle myself now that I've fully moved to Apple devices.

But journals help support peer review, selecting high quality papers, etc. Their value proposition exists - if it’s worth the premium is up for debate, but still.