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Baader-Meinhof phenomenon got you good!

“There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money.

Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost.

Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch!

Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government.” -Milton Friedman

“Carl’s contact did not reply, and when I called them, their phone number did that fuzzy-dial-up thing where it sounded like someone signing into AOL in 1995.”

This, I believe, is a fax machine answering your call.

It sounds to me that what you are describing is known as olfactory fatigue. A new smell will become ‘normalised’ after a few moments, and you’re unable to distinguish it any longer. That would not work in the scenario that you described since the scent of the candle would be ‘new’ in the context of the normalised home environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_fatigue

I always find it fascinating to browse AV Herald. I never thought that there would be this many aircraft incidents, like engine failures mid flight or other serious events. Thinking of the overall amount of flights that take place every day I guess it makes sense though, statistically speaking.

http://avherald.com/

MPE stands for MIDI Polyphonic Expression and describes a standard for encoding multi-dimensional values into a MIDI note/event. Typically with a normal MIDI controller, you have values like key, volume etc on an event level, and then channel wide values like pitch bend.

With MPE, you can think of it as each note having its own channel, with added dimensions like pitch bend, vibrato, timbre and more all encoded into a note.

This allows you to interface with new kinds of controllers like the Roli Seaboard for example, which are much more expressive than your standard midi keyboard.

In terms of Live, MPE wasn't supported until now and connecting an MPE controller to the DAW was a massive headache and super hacky.

I love the UX of Live, and especially how it seamlessly integrates with Push 2 - really a joy to use. It does offer a great amount of depth in terms of capabilities for power users, but always refers back to basic UI concepts that can be applied to many different contexts.

What truly amazes me though is the stability of the platform. Yes, it's great for home recording and casual use, but the same application is used as a core piece in live performances with huge audiences. There's not a lot of "consumer" software out there that I would trust with that. Ableton Live is certainly one of those.

Laser printers are better in so many ways. Just make sure that they are not placed too closely next to your desk or in rooms where you spend a lot of time in since they can emit toner dust and volatile compounds that could potentially be harmful to one’s health over a long period of time.

Have a look at F1 - Drive to survive on Netflix. I never considered myself to be “into” F1, and this series really opened my eyes to the sport and everything that goes into a race.

It provides a view that normal TV doesn’t give you, but will have you watch the regular TV broadcast of races with very different eyes.

Let’s not forget about the disgusting sexual abuse they have to suffer from, under the premise of medical treatments. They caught Nassar in 2018 but god knows how many others are still out there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/well/live/pelvic-massage-...

Fairly certain GP referred to the market cap, not the number of businesses on Shopify's platform.

1984 here and buying. Spot on!

Similarly, you can see in the video how windows of the surrounding cars are largely unaffected.

Apps are great to recommend a training and exercise plan, showing you different ways of working out etc. However I found that without having a professional by my side, especially in the beginning stages, it was impossible for me to know if I'm making mistakes in the way I carry out the exercises, wrong postures, incorrect movements or alignment of limbs. Once you learned to do them incorrectly, it can be very hard to correct this and have bad consequences for your health to a point where you can seriously hurt yourself. No app can do that for you.

Not with put options, no. You can make 1000% return on these, especially when you control the exact moment the tweets will be published.

One major advantage that China has is an insanely good transportation and logistics network. Anything you need for production, you can get in a very short time and large quantities.

I can see how population density would be a huge factor when it comes to how feasible it is to establish and develop these networks.

On the surface, it doesn’t sound like a big difference. In reality, I find using the native /call command in slack a game changer. It opens up a call immediately, no links, copy/pasting, changing applications etc. It just feels right.

Not in a hundred years could I imagine going back to Photoshop for doing product design. Figma is a joy to use. Photoshop is a slow, clunky thing of the past in this particular field of design.

How can I setup a trustworthy adblock solution for my iOS devices? I don’t want to re-configure or having to maintain my router settings etc.

Please, for the love of whichever god you believe in, stop asking me to buy your premium service Every Single Time I open the app. No means no. Such a bad experience.

You should charge $9.90 per year for this.

Sounds like severely limiting access to guns in the US would be great place to start then.

Asking what is “1000+5%” in MacOS Spotlight (command + space) has a different result than using the calculator or Siri. It doesn’t make it less confusing that spotlight is even showing a calculator icon when doing that!

Spotlight: 1,000.05 Siri: 1,050 Calculator: 1,050

I wonder now what else I screwed up by using the spotlight shortcut.

There is also a tendency with these kind of businesses to happily disclose sales, but not much beyond that. Sure, making $200k a month is great for selling courses but they don’t tell you they had to spend $199k in facebook ads to get there.

It's gotta be 100°C.

The top cover part between the touch bar and the screen regularly runs so hot that touching it really hurts. Can't leave my hand on there for more than a second or two. Ran all sorts of diagnostics and according to those everything is fine.(MBP 2017)

I like the idea, but why is every suggestion about something to consume? I find that being at home is worse when all you do is mind numbing media consumption.. it would be awesome to include activities that can be done with common house hold items or your phone (photo challenge etc) to spark some creativity.

Mango languages app offers Canadian French/Québécois - I find their approach to language learning much better than Duolingo. Plus it comes free with your library card if you’re in Ontario!

From the article: “[The farmers] also completely disagree that one almond takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow and are appalled to think people would believe that. On the other hand, there are countless articles that stand behind the findings of almonds and other nuts using too much water. If I had to chose who to believe, I would stick with the farmers since they are dealing with the almonds first hand, and not the media []”

Starting the week on a Sunday seems to be a very american centric view for a ‘World’ Calendar. I get that it has to start on _a_ day but don’t see how a consensus could be reached here.

This is not quite accurate. The same seat can have different prices depending on a number of factors such as booking classes, availability rules, fare components, time of booking, OTA mark-downs etc http://www.ai.mit.edu/courses/6.034f/psets/ps1/airtravel.pdf gives a good overview what goes into pricing, although said being said it's from 2003 so things have evolved since then.