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Yes, but would it have been done as well?

What was the issue with the official API? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/

Sure he had to settle, but the question is how much did he have to settle for ($X), and how much money did the web design company net him ($Y)? And how much more was $Y than $X?

It would be a contest with cats, whom we scoop up poop for.

> Never before in human history have humans lived in densities that they live in modern cities, especially surrounded by strangers.

The Roman empire, which existed from 27 BC to AD 395, had Rome as its capital, and while numbers are subject to discussion given the age, the floor for the density of the city of Rome back then, which had a large number of insulae, or apartment buildings, is 30,000 people/sq km. A more recent estimate put it at 72,150 people per square kilometer *. For reference, Manhattans' population density as of the 2020 census is 72,918 people per square kilometer.

This was 1,600 years ago! That is to say, there is precedent for humans living in the kinds of densities we have today, without anywhere near the kinds of technology we have. There was no electricity, no cars, no Internet back in '400. They most modern revolutionary thing was running water, and even then they used lead pipes for it and had no electrical pumps to pump it up to the 9th floor. One thing that will be familiar to modern readers is that the government came in and imposed regulations, making some buildings illegal due to height restrictions.

* https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA20586744&sid=googleSc....

And that, dear reader, is how we ended up with hundreds of bland copy-cat Android phones to the iPhone. There's something to be said, mentally, for working somewhere that's inspiring. A shitty office in yet a clone of all the other office parks, buried in office-park-landia of San Jose, is not it. Even a stroll through the secret underground parking lot at Apple is inspiring with all the exotic cars that are owned by early Apple employees, instead of Honda Civics and Toyota Camrys. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I drive a Honda, but they just don't have the same emotional pull.

Right. $3,000 is obviously a luxury/niche product, but $450 Nreal Air (which is a product you can buy today off Amazon) much less so. It's like 3D TVs, the idea will never die. Even if it's doesn't work out time around (which I doubt, having spent a tiny bit of time with an Nreal Air), expect to see it again in 10 years or so.

Does it? Twenty years ago you could buy a souped up Honda Civic with a twin-turbo and NOS that could beat an exotic off the line, and the world of supercars didn't implode then, why would it now?

~$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ziglang/zig/7cf2cbb33ef34c... 2>/dev/null | wc -l 541 :~$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ziglang/zig/7cf2cbb33ef34c... 2>/dev/null | grep '^[ ]try' | wc -l 114

541 != 114

Did you mean figuratively*?

> getting away from all the noise traditional social media has.

Why do you presume the general population actually want to get away from "the noise", or that they even consider it noise? They're the ones making the stories and posts and aren't so happy that you called their feed "noise".

I think the future of social media looks a lot like Instagram, because that's where social media is today, and it's crazy, I know, but some people actually like Instagram.

You should worry about everything you interact with, not just text on some small Internet forum. After all, you could be the star of your own reality-tv Truman Show, and everything you see is made up for the benefit of a TV show that you're the star of, but aren't privity to? How do you know your mom and dad aren't just hired actors along with all the people you interact with? Maybe I'm secretly being paid by producers of a TV show to write this comment to provoke you into discovering the truth of your existence for the season finale?

Not to get in the way of a good rant, but https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJYT2AM/A/lightning-to-sd... lets me copy photos to the phone just fine.

Nreal sells glasses that are available today, on Amazon, and their Nebula virtual desktop app is available for Mac and Windows. The FoV on the Air isn't great, and if you wear corrective lenses you'll need to wear contacts, or get their prescription inserts, but that future is already here. It connects via USB-C to your existing computer, though dongles are available if you only have HDMI.

The software isn't quite there yet, but it's still early days for it so it'll hopefully get better.

Nope. Government salaries are public information, and are reported all over the usual sites (levels.fyi, glassdoor, indeed, etc) More importantly though, the government doesn't give out stock options with a vesting schedule. Meanwhile, techs who were at Tesla and got a small grant when it was at $20 are likely pretty happy with the stock being at $170. (Tech's that got grants at $400, less so.)

Right now on the front page is a post about where to see Hokusai's Great Wave today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35985221) or Why is my dryer radioactive (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990858#35992719).

They may not hold up to morepablo's bizarre demands of hacker purity (like the off-kilter conversation reported in the linked article. If I talked like that to someone who approached me, I'd be so embarrassed. Definitely wouldn't plaster it all over the Internet on my blog where I "look for ways to... empower [people]"), but it sure looks like the hacker spirit to me.

California's state income tax is 12.3% starting at $677,276, so the top rate is 49.3%, and actually surpasses 50% once other taxes are taken into account, and then you have to factor in healthcare costs on top of that. Which as you get older and later into your career (which is when you'd make that much money anyway) can't be ignored either.

I have discovered the ultimate secret to skipping YouTube ads! See what you've got to do is sign up for YouTube Premium and then the ads magically go away! Crazy, innit?

If people are getting the math wrong (as is what happened here) then maybe the math isn't so simple?

That's Typing of The Dead, which was originally released in 1999 to arcades, to Windows in 200, to the Sega Dreamcast in 2001, and to PS2s in 2004.

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

Still, it is an FDA approved treatment, so for other readers suffering from depression, it's worth seeing if your insurance covers it. For me, it was covered, and worth it.

The move to remove the rectangle and drop shadow around a clickable button hasn't helped things at all.

It's anarchy that says companies can do whatever they want including create and protect moats, sign exclusivity agreements, and do all sorts of anti-competitive things. (Eg: Microsoft licensing deals in the 80's and 90's) In order to have a free market that's actually guided by an invisible hand, it must have competition. A market with monopolists is an unfree market.

It exposes you (the merchant) to PCI auditing requirements (which isn't mentioned once in the article‽) far in excess of what you'd get if you just used the vendor (be it Stripe or Adyen or Square or Paypal or whomever your payments process is)'s tokenization. You don't really want that. It's a total distraction and bunch of noise if your core competency isn't payments processing.

Doing your own tokenization isn't going to shield you from chargebacks or their costs.

That's a service provided by both MasterCard and Visa where they update the merchant that the card's been updated.

https://paymentcloudinc.com/blog/account-updater/

Carfentanil, not to be confused with fentanyl, is a an opiod used by vets to bring down elephants and rhinoceroses. It's approximately 100 times more potent than fentanyl.

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2016/09/22/dea-issues-car....

You can't measure "reduced confidence" like you can a dollars going out for not meeting an SLA, and what are you going to do in this case? Move to Microsoft Teams? Please.

If you're finding it too challenging, might I reiterate my suggestion to take a break from the keyboard? it's not a good look.

Autopilot has some serious issues but it's live on customer cars. Can't fake that.

In fact, there's an inverse incentive at play here. Slack is on the hook for missed SLA, so any admission of issue is legally and financially culpable. This means they don't want to admit to an issue until it's impossible to deny there is one.