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I would have bought the 13 mini except at the time the 13 Pro's 3x camera, 120hz and better battery was notable. Now I kind of dread what will be available when it's time to finall…

Walmart+ has the basic Paramount+ included fwiw

There’s a pretty fundamental difference between consoles and smartphones. Including that most consoles are sold at a loss or close to it vs. allegedly being an open platform like i…

They kind of do with the GPT, but it’s not as simple as just opening a Windows exe. Need to go through the motions of configuring per game as it’s not meant to be end user software…

I'll never forget the first time I booted up GLQuake. The mid/late 90s was a really special time in gaming getting to watch 3D games really get off the ground.

As an Apple user and web dev, I like some of their restrictions because I prefer incentive to build native apps for things I do all the time. They’re usually showing a lot more pol…

No, for decades DHH was almost obnoxiously pretty far left. That he is now being labeled a nazi for saying we went too far with masks and that crypto might have a use after all bec…

Whether DHH is a dick (he is) or at times a diva, he’s literally none of the things this Twitter account is trying to label him as. To call him far right is ludicrous, and pretty m…

CodeWeavers apparently has WINE running through Rosetta 2, which is wild from a technical standpoint and gives me hope for my older PC games. https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhit…

Same with Didi in China, not sure about the Russian ride shares though

Charter cities are things that exist conceptually. Most famously Hong Kong and Singapore “special administrative zones”, but there are increasingly initiatives on the horizon tryin…

Yeah, comparing WeWork to FANG is pretty silly. The benefits that matter are the massive salary on top of max 401k matching and 3 gourmet meals a day. Free coffee and beer doesn't …

Careful, if we stopped subsidizing so many bad things (corn syrup, meat, CO2, housing for the wealthy, college for the wealthy, insurance for the wealthy, union labor in cities fal…

Churches provide a lot of charity and communal support in most places where they are still relevant. Community masters, one of the reasons that SLC has the highest income mobility …

Not to mention the pension bomb waiting to go off. That's one big thing that'll help reverse brain drain in most blue states at some point. Source: grew up in NJ and lives in MA

I don't see how moving from Boston to NYC or SF solves anything you're referring to. Boston is younger than both and while expensive to live still cheaper. NYC is full of tinder bo…

The alleged "socialist" success stories tend to have strong labor laws, but also much less business regulation and be much more free market than the typical American has been led t…

I don't know if it's 5g or not but I have 300-500Mb wireless internet in Boston right now. There's at least two companies doing it.

I can't say for sure, but I have a hard time believing a lot of our spend is less efficient than other nations (just like our spend on most sectors of the economy that are heavily …

Actually, taller is not necessarily more efficient… Consistent 6 stories may even be optimal: https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1097802322627813376

These kinds of articles are laughably tone deaf.

"Economists are virtually unanimous in concluding that rent controls are destructive. In a 1990 poll of 464 economists published in the May 1992 issue of the American Economic Revi…

If you want an article that makes LA schools look bad, it would probably be this one: https://www.city-journal.org/html/worst-union-america-13470....

Not sure about Mountain View but in SF its > 60% https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/12/17565192/housing-needs-trend... It's a disastrous policy, and one of the main reasons SF housing is…

Fortunately modern Quake engines handle making it look closer to the software renderer in those regards...