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Having lived in China for five years and seeing how it is done there (literally everywhere), I see this as a payment problem. There is no sensible, low cost payment infrastructure …

I’m in a similar space. Solo working on an Edtech solution. Man it can be hard. @cjs_ac, I’d be keen to chat, if you’d have time.

I’m a solo founder/developer ( https://kayshun.co ) my relationship/usage of LLMs for codegen has been complicated. At first I was all in with Copilot and various similar plugins f…

I like this view. I’m not especially successful (by any of the measures knocking about) but in the midst of a startup again for the last year. This time I work how I want to work a…

I really cannot understand consciousness. And if I am honest nor do I see peoples fascination with it. Especially now that scientists are trying to measure, they seem to come up sh…

Fairly common in Australia and New Zealand to relocate complete houses. I’ve seen them done here in NZ fully furnished. Most houses here are wooden construction with corrugated ste…

Slightly tangential is the work I did on a National digital identity platform. It enables personal information sharing from trusted sources (birth records, tax records, banks) and …

I have to second this. No one I know complained when it was introduced, and I saw no complaints aired in the media of any noticeable degree. We still have too much unnecessary plas…

My take is that it is attempting a similar “intervention” as the Agile Manifesto did, but less well thought through or phrased. The data science/ engineering domain appears to ofte…

Isn’t this a building quality concern rather than a concern of building location and style? I live in a townhouse with shared walls on both sides and we never hear our neighbours. …

Sorry cities are much more efficient than any other form of human living [0]. It is suburbs and rural sprawl that creates the energy waste. Population drift towards the latter may …

I led the technical design team for RealMe, New Zealand’s digital identity service. Sadly, the service is woefully undervalued and poorly used. The technology is now out dated. It …

Honest question: is there an example in history of when a new technology led to the loss of jobs and didn’t just lead to a shift and further growth? I’ve tried to think of one, but…

Aligns with our experience in China for the four years before the pandemic. Apart from a couple of apartments we visited in Harbin that had gas boiler radiators, everwhere else we …

Uric acid may be a complex symptomatic expression rather than a cause. My own journey may reflect this. I suffered from gout and also other worrisome blood work markers that indica…

I use Teams a lot with some Zoom. I've also used all the competing tools - Slack, whatever the current Google branding gives, among others. They all kinda suck. But hang on, am I a…

I agree with this; we’ve only been recently witnessing the awakening. My view entirely: (some) people will start to see themselves as the true commodity of value and either move to…

Great STEAM project for schools (who likely have the needed DVD players).

The road toll in the US is staggering given its wealth. The conversation to reduce it doesn’t obviously exist like it does in other places. The NHTSA figures showed an increase per…