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The Verge is pretty well-known for their ethics policy [1] (they won't take money from any company they talk about) and that actually enables them to highlight interesting stuff li…

Is there really a meaningful distinction between how libraries treat digital book licenses and physical books when you actually hit reality? My knowledge of how libraries work is v…

I can’t believe you made me sign in just to downvote this.

Anecdotes, etc. but my 65 year old dad is pretty low tech and he was paying OpenAI $20/month before I was.

Netflix has raised prices about 25% at the premium tier since they released the ad-free version in 2022. The with-ads plan has also seen increases since launch.

I don't think there was any sarcasm there.

I'm sorry, I must be missing something. Which companies make up the index funds if (most) CEOs liquidated their companies and invested in index funds? And how would they liquidate …

Honestly, Zen has done a good job of replicating most of the best parts of Arc; the big missing piece, IMO, is Little Arc, which was pretty workflow-changing. I'd love to see Littl…

But that's just ... Not what a bubble is. A market leader having viable competitors doesn't make them any less of a market leader, and doesn't make them "a bubble".

If AI as a technology is not a bubble, why would the by-far-far-far most popular consumer technology leveraging that technology be a bubble?

I listen to a lot of this world – David Sparks, the Relay podcast network, MacStories, etc. I have been varying levels of Apple Fanboy over the years, but even when I haven't been …

I don't know if you have any data to back up your claims, and I have nothing to back mine up but anecdotes but – all of the most active people I know have kids and all my single fr…

I think you're probably right on a lot of this. I do think the pace having more granularity than five seconds is important for anyone who's doing any kind of speed work, where a pa…

I would love to hear more about your opinions on this as someone who has been experimenting with as a semi-serious runner after years of being Apple Watch exclusive. What I see is …

If you want to maintain anonymity, building a character with false traits could be a part of that with no desire for fame.

Has it been? I own one, did a bunch of research before I bought one, know others who own them, and the positive stories massively outnumber the negative ones from my perspective.

I am using the CalDigit TS4+. Expensive, but flawless.

TB4 should be able to handle that resolution – I am running 2x Studio Displays + gigabit ethernet + countless USD devices in to one TB4 port on my MacBook via a TB4 dock.

I think I agree that AI will be a net benefit, but in world where it is difficult to have a meaningful conversation with a human because that human is so used to talking to a chatb…

What's the opposite of the slippery slope fallacy, where we convince ourselves that there isn't a slope at all? I agree that there has been doomsayers with every technological adva…

Why do you feel like you “need” this, though? I think that’s exactly what GP is saying – not disagreeing that it might have utility, but that there is a cost associated as well. Th…

Is there a good way to read your own books that you load yourself, across mobile (iOS specifically) and the Kobo hardware? That has always been what's kept me tied to Kindle. The i…

I assure you that many people spend $300 annually on news and journalism.

I am not sure about the rest of their nice, but at least the Logitech MX Master 3 allows you to switch between 3 paired bluetooth devices via a button on the bottom.