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I have two side projects. The first is a PDF reader that persists reading state between devices and has a queryable notes overlay. For this project I am using SwiftUI and targeting iPhones and desktop MacOS. The second centers around exploring how to conduct interactive virtual lessons in VR using Mozilla hubs.

It truly is ridiculous that we are forced at gunpoint (through taxes) to give our hard-earned money to an organization that too often actively works against our interests. I feel like the only way to ethically tax people would be have a process to enable taxpayers opt-out of funding with their tax dollars government programs they have a strong moral or personal disagreement with. For example, I would be too happy to fund schools, poverty relief efforts and infrastructure but it sickens me to think that money is being taken from my paycheck to fund pointless wars, genocidal racist thugs and immigration policy that is both racist and destructive to our economy. If financial contributions are a form of free speech, is not the forced usage of my tax dollars for these morally abhorrent equivalent to a law requiring me to purchase display an I <3 ICE bumper sticker on my car?

Honestly, if I ever start a SaaS company, I'd rather just bootstrap from a developing country than deal with the hassle of messing with VCs. It doesn't seem worth it unless you are in an industry that requires a heavy capital investment to get off the ground.

I hate to say it, but I'm concerned all the establishment of a regulator is going to do is push tech companies to lobby more heavily. Thus, the end result of this measure will be simply to cement the positions of established players with the capital to get policymakers on their side while denying new players access to the market.

I think this would be super helpful within the context of a jupyter notebook

This is a seriously cool project. My girlfriend is Chinese and I currently attempting to learn her native language and have often run into the problems you mention.

Super cool but I'm curious if anybody has figured out how to use the VSCode Juypter notebook integration with Google Colab?

The solution here is a free market approach. Apple or someone else can be a more strict gatekeeper for people who want that type of service, while users who what a more laissez-faire marketplace can go through some additional hassle to install a 3rd party app store without Apple support.

I take notes on an iPad using an Apple pencil. It seems to right balance between using the digital to organize and correct things and the cognitive benefits to handwriting.

I hope someone can figure out how to root it and wipe all the FB crap off it.

How about the government doesn't steal people's stuff!? Unless the item contained improperly secured radioactive material or something like that, I see zero reason why the state should have the right to seize someone's property for attempting to ship it into the country from another locale. If society is concerned about vendors here in the USA selling dodgy stuff, there are far superior solutions like regulating retailers and hold them accountable that do not require invasive boarder searches. Customs inspection are 99% a complete scam designed to enable the government to steal money and property from people.

I'm in a similar situation and I found corporate housing to be a good option, they typically are fully furnished and have good wifi and other amenities necessary for remote work. A lot of them are very flexible these days given the lack of corporate travel.

Nation-states need to be consigned to the ash heap of history. They do not bring value in the 21st century, the lessons of the 20th ought to show we need to be implementing better solutions for organizing people, making decisions and building public infrastructure.

Nope. If a person "owns" a piece of hardware, it should be legal to jailbreak it without any consequences (except perhaps lack of support for 3rd party software) and companies that sell products that build off of jailbroken products should be 100% legal. Edge case products like Prima Cinema can simply lease the hardware with restrictions on how can be used under the terms of the lease. If Apple feels so strongly about locking down their platform, they can adjust their business model and lease their hardware to customers. However, companies should not be able to legally "sell" products that transfer ownership if they are going to include "strings" restricting the usage of the product.

Funny, both the USA [1] and Australia [2] can compel its companies to hand over all private data if asked and regularly exploit the security systems of their own companies with little to no due process to obtain data on people. Nation-states interests are disjoint from those of its people. We need global unity, not petty tribalism if we are to make the world a better place for all. The internet can be a powerful tool for unity, but state actors and other narrow minded selfish actors are currently seeing the value of it and manipulating it to support their political objectives. We need to unite and quash this menace to free societies and global free economies. Recent measures by the current US regime stoop to China's level and usher an era of balkanization that will ultimately destroy the competitiveness of US companies and promote petty nationalism and racism.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/national-security-letters [2] https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/14/oz_encryption_backdoo...

I'm in the OMSCS program. It sounds like you might want to be involved in an Educational Technology project. David Joyner [1] is a professor in the OMSCS program and does a lot of research into MOOCs. You might want to look at some of the research groups / projects his lab is involved with as a starting point.

[1] https://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/david-joyner

This is quite interesting. I would love to learn more about economic simulations. Does anyone have a good intro for people coming from a CS background?

Perhaps you can mirror it to an s3 bucket or GH repo for people to CURL more easily?

That's very sad to hear, I've been an avid user of HabitLab. Thank you so much for developing this tool! I wonder if you've ever considered doing a Chromium fork with the HabitLab interventions integrated deeper into the browser? I think there's a lot of potential and interest for a productivity-oriented browser that helps stay focused and develop good time management skills.

Hi! I'm interested in the full-stack developer role. Is there an email address or online application where I can submit a resume?

Our tax dollars at work... It sickens me that the Federal Government is allowed to waste money on this type of things while there are people dying from a lack of access to insulin here in the the USA becasuse of the cost. Why not simply let people come and work here if they so choice and use the taxes we collect to support our failing education and social services system. #AbolishICE

Awesome! I'm not seeing your email on your profile, but feel free to drop me a line at zphillipsgary8@gatech.edu if you're interesting in talking more.

Hi Sova, Super cool! I'm presently learning Mandarin Chinese and prototyping some series of language learning tools that try to use the user's surroundings to deliver context-aware lessons. I'm very passionate about this space and would love to connect!

I'm interested in learning more about the Adventure Fellowship role. However, the link appears to be broken.

Firefox is open source, just fork the project and make your own custom build that retains these features.

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