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notadoc··on Apple has locked me out of my developer account
Public shaming a corporation often reverses course, fortunately for this particular developer they enough exposure to stir that up.
notadoc··on Don’t Charge Your Phone This Way
How about a TLDR since it's nytimes?

Also, what a trash headline. But it is the nytimes, and they've taken a huge fall.

"don't do this specific thing" (click to find out!)

"this one weird trick you must do" (click to find out!)

"you won't believe how annoying this headline type is!" (click me)

notadoc··on Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival
The best social network is already on your phone. Call and text people you care to engage with.
notadoc··on Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
Are any meetings ever useful to anyone?

Rarely. Most could be summarized in email.

notadoc··on Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
Wikipedia is far from neutral and full of activists and people with agendas.

It can sometimes be acceptable for a broad overview of a subject, but it's so full of opinion, inaccuracy, and misinformation that it should have near zero credibility for anyone who is seeking truth and bias-free knowledge. Appropriately, it has zero credibility in any credible academic environment BTW.

notadoc··on Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
Someones job function at work is to perform their job duties. Unless someone works directly in politics, then politics do not belong in the workplace.

There are plenty of other impolite subjects that are inappropriate to discuss at work too.

notadoc··on Brave launches 1.0
I'd happily take plain old web banner ads over push notification spam. Are people nuts?
notadoc··on Brave launches 1.0
> Brave ads show up as a notification in your operating system outside of the page

LOL WTF, no!

notadoc··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
Big plus to regain the Escape key.

Hopefully the new keyboard is reliable.

The Touch Bar is forgettable and a row of physical function keys would be an improvement. I don't know any "pro" user who likes the Touch Bar or who wants to look down at the keys when typing or interact with a microscopic touch screen.

Still puzzled by the lack of ports for a pro laptop. It's 16" with a huge body, not particularly thin or light, and they couldn't add two USB-A, SD slot, HDMI? The age of a dozen dongles continues.

64GB RAM option is a big plus, though the prices are 2x-3x market.

Presumably the SSD is still soldered onboard, which basically makes these unrepairable and disposable premium priced laptops.

Overall far better than what it replaced, but still missing some key features from the 2015 MBP line which remains the best Mac laptop ever made.

Will be interesting to see if they ditch the 13" and move to a 14" with similar specs.

notadoc··on The magic of generating new ideas
For many, exercise works for that purpose
notadoc··on The U.S. could slash health-care costs with two fundamental changes
Most ERs would be well served by opening all-hour urgent care clinics directly adjacent, and triaging the roughly 70-80% of people with non-emergent and/or minor issues into that wing rather than to the ER.
notadoc··on The U.S. could slash health-care costs with two fundamental changes
> Yeah, people avoid care when they have those plans. Is that a good outcome ?

Note the article is about reducing health care costs, not patient outcomes. These are usually two separate goals.

notadoc··on Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe
Social media anecdotes! Oh my!
notadoc··on Viral Tweet About Apple Card Leads to Goldman Sachs Probe
> I guess it worked for him to throw a hissy fit, but there's absolutely no reason to actually believe they're conditioning on gender.

Of course not, but why spoil the outrage mobs victimhood narrative du jour?

notadoc··on Vaping Illnesses Are Linked to Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says
Total media/moral panic about a virtual nonissue.
notadoc··on Delays in Emergency Care and Mortality During Major U.S. Marathons
> 2757 deaths in 11,074 hospitalizations

That seems like a high death rate for hospitalizations, does it not? Would be interesting to see the breakdown of admissions and cause of death.

notadoc··on Effects of Vitamin D and Omega-3 Fatty Acid on Biomarkers of Inflammation
How far from the original source is the end result? If it's packaged and has a list of 1000 ingredients that you can't pronounce, it's probably heavily processed.

Otherwise, don't overthink it.

notadoc··on Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa?
No
notadoc··on The Humanoid Stain: Art lessons from our cave-dwelling ancestors
If you were hoping for an insightful piece written by someone with an archeological background on the subject, or even avocational interest in the subject of rock art, you'll want to keep looking. This piece is borderline ignorant, wildly factually inaccurate, and full of strange conclusions and opinion. Pass.
notadoc··on Friended is a new social network that wants to get real
The world needs less digital "social networking", not more of it.
notadoc··on Risky Mortgage Bonds Are Back and Delinquencies Are Piling Up
> Mortgage debt will probably not be a problem in this cycle.

Disagree if you consider that many people are getting mortgages on overvalued properties at or near market peaks now, and in another significant downturn those could easily be underwater by 15%-50%. The same thing happened widely in the prior real estate bust in many trendy areas, leading to many foreclosures.

notadoc··on Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake
I have no idea, I've never made an artificial walking stick. Good strong wood is quite sturdy however, but not nearly as light as a synthetic walking stick. Trying to replicate the strength of a hard wood in a very lightweight synthetic material is probably a challenging engineering task.

Anyway I'd think production/manufacturing and quality assurance would be more to blame, particularly if the same products used to perform better than now.

notadoc··on An act regarding the use of offensive words
"B-word"? Are you serious?

Don't give words so much power.

Trying to bend laws to ban words and speech you don't personally like is really not a good idea, in case it isn't blatantly obvious as to why: it will only be a matter of time before your speech is the target.

notadoc··on An act regarding the use of offensive words
The 1st amendment applies to states

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine

notadoc··on Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake
> I'm not sure whether it's a case of more people arguably abusing the spirit if not the letter of the policy as part of a modern take everything you can mindset.

That's probably a part of it, a long running joke in the skier community was that "REI is an acronym for Return Every Item."

That plus blatantly notably lower quality Chinese production probably put an end to it.

notadoc··on Backcountry.com sues anyone who uses its namesake
> Don't forget, Black Diamond laid off much of the Utah engineering staff and their climbing cams will now be made in China...

That might be why

notadoc··on An act regarding the use of offensive words
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

An old dusty document should settle that one quickly.

notadoc··on Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
Apple seems to have lost their focus, and that is reflecting all over their product line.
notadoc··on Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (2015)
There are tons of horrible managers (and horrible employees) out there, do your best to avoid them.
notadoc··on Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement
Keep in mind the original post is an opinion piece with a political agenda, it is not evidence based.

There is no shortage of bad opinion pieces with all sorts of terrible politically driven opinions out there. This is one of them.

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