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This is how I feel about the Libby app for iPhone. What is it with book apps? https://twitter.com/bendansby/status/1334717731925417986?s=2...

I assume that Clubhouse is almost over before it began, like Meerkat before it.

That's 12.5% of the population, which is well below the usual 25% who hold the crazy belief in polls, so this seems fine.

Covered on DF Retro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__OQDj0YbAQ

People want to possess physical objects or digital tokens or digital representations of physical objects so they can buy stuff or not have to worry about buying stuff in the future. What’s so complicated?

"Pisses off adults" is historically a pretty good metric for evaluating success.

Totally ignorant perspective with perhaps no basis: Seems like Roblox must be successful despite its games, not because. I'm sure there are gems as there are with any user-generated platform, but surely most of the 18 million games are about what you used to get on Xbox Live Indie Games: sloppy little experiments made by, well, kids.

The Reagan administration escaped consequences for pressuring NASA to launch so the schoolteacher could be mentioned in the SOTU. Good history here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1560259809/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_auQ...

So setting aside the merits of Coinbase as a business or the philosoeconomic significance of cryptocurrency, should I buy Coinbase stock? I want to make easy money by buying stock. Think it'll go up after it's listed?

Democrats massively deficit spend to save the economy because Republican policy tends to lead to economic peril, but Republicans oppose it, except when they are in power, during which they massively deficit spend not as a necessary evil but to cut taxes for the wealthy. It’s head spinning.

How do crypto emissions compare with professional car racing?

Dropbox as a small business makes sense. Quality syncing, a few productivity tools like Paper. Along the lines of https://readdle.com

Dropbox as a publicly traded global megacorp does not make sense.

Apple was trying to buy Dropbox to incorporate into the OS.

Why should they be going off like a rocket?

Is there a good primer on the good faith arguments on both sides for the employee vs. contractor debate for these gig companies?

Russian Scientists Announce Six-Month Delay In Carving New Space Station: https://www.theonion.com/russian-scientists-announce-six-mon...

Same reason religions are tamped down under authoritarian communist regimes? Nothing must overshadow the Party.

They did: https://setapp.com/

I don’t have much to say about the move to the App Store except that given that there is apparently a market for a standalone paid indie photo browser, the Mac market may be more vibrant than popularly assumed.

Seems like the changes discussed here are largely unimportant since most companies fail before they go public.

But they had no reason to be skeptical, given the A series. To only take a processor seriously once it’s housed in a case with a keyboard attached is ridiculous.

Why do people ascribe broader ARM implications to the M1? Apple uses the ARM instruction set to make an amazing CPU. It could probably make one with the x86 set too. It doesn’t mean everyone else making ARM processors will suddenly get much better. Not to mention that Apple’s very similar A series has already been around for years.

Is 2021 the year of RISC-V on the desktop?

I kinda wish we could fast forward to whatever ecological nadir we end up bottoming out on. This slow drip of Earth death is agonizing.

Framing your technology choices as a romance might not be the healthiest lens to make decisions through in the first place.

I read an article a few years ago that postulated that Vitamin D itself (whatever it is) was only part of the Vitamin D story. Essentially, sunlight confers benefits that are associated with Vitamin D, but Vitamin D itself may not be the cause of those benefits. And so, supplements are not sufficient. Does anyone know enough to comment on that generally, and regarding COVID?

Edit: here is the article https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

Around Mac OS 9, they changed some types of errors from modal dialogs to floating palettes in the corner of the screen.

iOS has no shortage of games, so that doesn't seem like a problem. And maintaining their own graphics API lets them fully integrate it into the rest of their hardware and software stack without the baggage that comes with a cross-platform standard.

“Does Java2D run on Metal?” doesn't seem like a top 10,000 question for Apple. It does however seem like a top 10 question for JetBrains. And so here we are.