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One question I have on this - if rail travel became more ubiquitous, would it become a more enticing target for malevolent actors and/or a higher priority for security screenings, …

Another tool to look at might be Dendron[1]. It's a VS Code plugin with similar functionality to Obsidian (according to the docs, it actually evolved from being a standalone app li…

Have to second this comment. The Audible version of it had me riveted. A great story well-told, with a raft of good quotes, such as "People didn’t like game changers in the 90s any…

> Raw materials are also not a problem Knowing very little about the topic, I recently saw an article talking about how the first wave of wind turbine blades was starting to be dec…

Many publishers and exchanges these days are using the OpenRTB format, which you can find e.g. here for MoPub: https://developers.mopub.com/dsps/integration/openrtb/ The call out t…

Without meaning to quibble with the numbers in the article, they point out that the bottom 50% of income has gone up $8,000, while the top 1% has gone up $800,000, which is indeed …

I agree a data diff would be challenging, especially at scale, but one tool I think is lacking is schema diffs. For sure one can see the sequence of migrations that were applied, b…

Does that sort of regulatory capture accomplish the same effect though? If you're a competitor in the space, you'd either a) not have any access to an ingredient you want, or b) wo…

Often, at least in the US, and perhaps other places as well, money is a pretty strong proxy for power, and so concentrating wealth can end up concentrating power as well. I can app…

At least a few years ago, Facebook did publish about partnering with Twitter and Microsoft to build tools for sharing image/content hashes [1], presumably to better aid in removal …

Great analysis and comment. A question though - was MoviePass's flameout ("dictate terms to suppliers ... didn't exactly turn out well") because Hollywood/the movie industry is far…

Yep, that's the one.

If you have a chance to watch the video, I'd recommend it (it's about 1h, as a heads up). It is certainly mature themed, so may not be suitable for younger viewers, but it is a new…

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I heard from a customer service rep at a bank that they did that based on customer feedback. The general reasoning being that large amounts were most likely to be things like housi…

> As to why buses come to the mall? Really? This is a good point, and one not well-explained in the article. I agree, what's the big deal? The Columbia Mall in Howard County, MD (t…

Yesss, I've been thinking about this sort of thing lately! Do for privacy-conscious users what Wordpress did for blogs. Users can (effectively) point-and-click to install apps to t…

"The Phoenix Project" references this - when a particular resource (expert) is the only person who can get some task done. Of course that means that person is at or beyond 100% uti…

I thought Gen-Y is the Millennial generation? At least, according to Wikipedia it is [1]. To your point, there certainly is a broad range of exposure to technology within the gener…

I really like the phrase "anti-consumerist undertow!" but I also visualized it in the opposite way - consumerism as the undertow, and "Tidying Up" as the "swim parallel to shore un…

Just an extra nugget of food for thought - I'm all for "seeing [something] through to the end," as it shows a lot of grit and determination. But in your quest for being more decisi…

Another translation for Creativity - "The best ideas come when you walk home from work and your brain just cannot stop thinking about the exciting problems you are working on." ==>…

Is it economically rational, or irrational, to pass costs on to someone else if one can? It seems a little odd to pass costs to one's grandchildren, but hey, then it's "not my prob…

I also like a similar version: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png

I'm slowly getting towards my ideal with my latest addition of a treadmill, motorized desk, and 4k monitors. I definitely could use more above-desk power though. I enjoy having ove…