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This math is what lead me to the iUp program in the first place. It's effectively a guaranteed 50% trade-in, which came out to about $200-300 in actual money that I was theoretical…

I would guess it's a talent pool thing. If you're hiring in-office you're limited to locals and candidates willing to relocate. If you're hiring remotely, the pool is much larger n…

> The bill exempts the following categories: > The primary residence of at least one owner. > The primary residence of a parent or child of at least one owner. > Cooperative and co…

Just to clarify, income over $5,000,000/year is taxed at 10.3%. Under a million is 4-6%.

There was actually an app store rule for the first couple of years after notifications became available, basically saying don't use it for promotions. A few apps actually got pulle…

Was the terrible consequence of pirating MP3s that music is now cheap and widely available because media outlets had to compete with Napster?

So am I understanding correctly that all of this "unauthorized traffic" was their customers...using their product?

Every time I read one of these articles it sounds like the author was forced to adopt a smartwatch at gunpoint.

Similarly, the article also glosses over the issue of disability. Perhaps because the US tends to treat its bus system as welfare, it is adapted heavily to people with disabilities…

I really want to like Halide, and I've had it save a number of photos that the native app couldn't handle. But as a lifelong photographer, technologist, and occasional developer, I…

It's less an issue of access than affordability. The term is "energy insecurity" - https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications/energy-in...

The difference is that in this case OpenAI was able to produce the requested information without compromising security for their other customers.

Interesting. Apparently the photo from the article is "Voice of the ash forest" ( https://www.maximelegarevezina.com/en/tirage-voix-de-la-for%... ) and the one linked above is "Kee…

That picture just feels like a case study in why Apple drug their feet on features like that for so long. If you let people set a background and change the font, you're going to ha…

The "people think they're guaranteed a job" narrative is because the author is a right-wing journalist who "exposes" academics.

If you want to go minimal on the backcountry device as well, PLBs are nice as a barebones alternative that only require a battery change every few years and don't need a subscripti…

Heart rate sensors have a number of uses aside from fitness tracking. I'm guessing comfort wasn't considered because it isn't a common complaint.

I can't help but feel echoes of the 2015-era Pebble trying to compete with the Apple Watch, and the lessons learned from that. I have an Apple Watch, I've been wearing one for ten …

It strikes me as desperate and tacky. Definitely not a great look for a company that already produces pretty bad apps.

I agree completely about the difficulty of a hardware startup, but being "good" means knowing in advance what kind of challenges you'll face, or at least knowing who to consult abo…

I mean...back it up to iCloud, wipe it, update it, restore from iCloud. It's inconvenient but it's not like you lose any data.

I mean come on, "Psidecar"

I'm sure I could find videos of people falling off of snowboards and bikes too, so I don't find accident compilations particularly compelling. Especially since I can tell you in pr…