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From a consumer perspective, ideally it’d be clothing retailer adjacent: find outfit online, you become the model. However, not sure if desirable for the industry as many people mi…

Related story, In the US, so YMMV: I tend to try to pay in advance when I order so I don’t have to wait 5-10 minutes to get a bill, then have them run off as I grab my payment meth…

Clever idea. I like it. Maybe visualization of the brackets could be improved a bit. The overriding problem for me was the nonstandard keyboard. Would love to be able to use my dev…

Reminds of the old Gbbs days :-)

Laws should have built-in expiration dates so they would be forced to be renewed/refactored every period to expand robustness or trim cruft.

Is there any kind of usb device that you can put between your usb port and a usb stick that would limit the device to charging or just reading the usb device (but not writing to th…

Based on my own genealogical research, you can’t expect exact fidelity over time once you go back 120 years or so. From my Irish side we haves back and forth over recorded name, ba…

My go to. +1

Maybe I’m reading this wrong: - ask people to get creative and give ideas for worst possible outcomes from use of AI and ways to prevent it. ..then give them a ton of credits for u…

Why do I feel like we put more effort into vetting/interviewing employees than political candidates in the US? Say we had to choose candidates like we choose employees, we should h…

I think the proper first place to look is Hernando De Alto’s class Mystery of Capital… most entrepreneurs are small gray market businesses. They can’t grow because they lack access…

I don’t understand why anyone is going to Threads at all. I mean, post Drop Facebook and all, why would you go back into the Zucks social arms?

Not a plug, but I subscribe to the newspaper.co. It’s kind cool in that it: - removes/neutralizes words that tends to flavor articles toward any particular position and focuses mai…

The ultimate beneficiary is the owner since his business model makes an assumption on tipping to employ waitstaff and run a "viable" business. Business models that rely on tipping …

Yet keeps legal eagles in business :-/

Looks awesome! Very easy to read! Can't wait for an Obsidian plugin! :D

Become a substitute teacher first. I've heard good STEM substitutes are hard to find. (and frequently rebooked) It'll also a low bar way to test out whether you enjoy teaching, and…

I’ve heard it said on some podcast that race cropped up as an intentional structure to obfuscate class distinctions: - post slavery, many formerly enslaved people had better skills…

Based on his experience, we should require all newly elected politicians to go into space. ;-)

Regarding some of the conversations about programming something to obey the law or obey human convention: - it’s tricky because the people on the roads expect human convention and …

Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. Narrower market phones by OEMs sounds like it’ll lead eventually to the ‘Easter phone’ or ‘mothers days phone’ — rampant consumerism wit…