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At least we now know how they are getting around charging fees on subscriptions: Force you onto Anchor where they get a cut of ad revenue. Have to say I prefer the Apple approach, being able to host anywhere but giving Apple at cut of subscriptions because for most shows the total of ad-rev taken by Anchor will be greater than the subscription cut amount from Apple.

Looks pretty cool!

I have ended up settling on a similar setup for my writing in VS Code. I am a heavy outliner so instead of [FileTree][Markdown][Preview] I use [FileTree][Outline][Markdown].

I'm not sure I would find the various bits of stats useful, although I am sure there are some who do. I think it would probably just cause me anxiety or cause me to put too much focus on numbers.

Or maybe they are just following the "don't use your own supply" rule.

Torque is certainly important, which is why I was a bit surprised that they haven't released torque figures for this. Just the ever nebulous "twice as much as similar sized competitors"

Those were my thoughts as well. Around the size of a hobby tractor and it will be interesting to see if they can scale it up without losing endurance.

I also feel that 10 hours of battery time isn't sufficient outside of the hobby space. Especially when considering that it probably isn't road legal in autonomous mode.

A great read, really gets at both what military history can be, and the way that it can be reductively criticized. The roots of military history within the education systems of the elites is important, it promoted so much focus on military history as a way to teach future military leaders how to win future wars, not to understand the past.

Unfortunately, I don't know if it can, as a discipline, break away from some of the problems that it has been saddled with. There is a lot of bad military history out there, and specifically a lot of REALLY popular bad military history.

A lot of people don't want critical and expansive (beyond the battlefield) military history. They want either good guys vs bad guys narratives or deep rivet-counting/platoon-chasing level histories that ignore anything beyond a very narrow focus on specific actions on the battlefield.

You are absolutely correct, I should have been more clear that I meant they would be too expensive to go to the number of ANG squadrons that currently fly the C/D, I think they would have to double current F-22 numbers.

Seems mostly like a stopgap to me. This is meant to replace a bunch of old F-15 C/Ds which are aging out of their operational life. The -18s are Navy, and so using them in the Air Force to replace existing -15s would be pricey on the logistics side, F-22s aren't being manufactured anymore and would far too expensive for the National Guard units these are going to, and the F-35s just aren't available in large enough numbers yet. The -15 has also turned into a very versatile aircraft, and it a lot cheaper to operate than a -35.

Part of the reason these old aircraft stick around is due to the very low risk involved with upgrades. We have -15s, we know they work very well, we know how to fix them, we know what to do with them.

You can, but you will not get ad money (which requires Affiliate/partner).

Monetization. The platforms require Affiliate/Partner streamers (so people with Subscribe buttons) to be exclusive streamers on their platform.

I'm not entirely sold on the design, but at least it will make macOS look a bit more consistent, up until now there have been little pockets of "old UX" like Finder, Mail, etc. and "new UX" with the Notification Center, News, etc.

During the "Golden Age" of Usenet, which I believe many people to consider to be pre-Eternal September, the number of Americans with any form of internet access was just a fraction of the population. I am finding varying figures online, but they seem to hover at <15% of the population of the United States.

Given the costs of that access and the costs of the computers. It was both a very small and a very specific type of person that was accessing Usenet at the time.

You are correct, copy paste error. Thank you for the correction.

I have also updated my information above.

Definitely very US focused. Misses out on some of the areas where the pandemic had the most devastating effects.

One interesting story from The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry:

"Freetown, Sierra Leone, was a major coaling center on the West African coast, servicing ships traveling from Europe to South Africa and the Orient. On August 15 the HMS Mantua arrived there with two hundred crew suffering from influenza. Sweating black men loaded tons of coal into her, guided by several crew. When the laborers returned to their homes, they carried more than their wages. Soon influenza spread through the force of men who coaled the ships. [...] The transport HMS Chepstow Castle, carrying troops from New Zealand to the front, coaled at Freetown on August 26 and 27; within three weeks, out of her 1,150 men, influenza struck down nine hundred of them. The death toll on her was thirty-eight. "

Yes, this was a big reason why it was initially named the Spanish Flu. At the time that it began (with the war still on) Spain was one of the few countries that did not have very stringent press censorship in place.

This is discussed in several sources, but this is the one I had most readily available:

"In a month or two everyone outside of Spain was calling it "Spanish influenza," not because it originated there, but probably because Spain, still a nonbelligerent, had no wartime censorship to keep its health problems secret from the world. An estimated eight million Spaniards caught flu in May and June. The Spanish claimed that it had come from the battlefields of France, blown over by the strong winter winds, and that it would have been even worse but for the snowy Pyrenees."

America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby

This is what runs through my mind everytime one of these articles shows up on HN.

There is no easy way to undo decades of urban sprawl across the US, especially when many cities have huge amounts of space around them to make this possible.

Also, one of those steps is probably sinking incredible amounts of money into initially barely used public transit which is bound to be politically unpopular.

When I read this Vienna article, I agree that it has perhaps a bit less marketing speak (although I don't think the two paragraphs from the Wiki Intro you pulled are indicative of the whole article) but it is not any less positive on the city.

In the linked article I think paragraphs 3 and 4 ("Vienna is among..." and "Viennese Lebenskunst...") basically read like they are from a Travel Guidebook on why you should add Vienna to your next itinerary.

I think it also showcases two of the major problems I have with Britannica and most other "old school" encyclopedias:

1. A general aversion to putting dates with facts. For instance the article states that 2 million visitors comes to the city annually. The Wiki article links to statistics from the city that put that number much higher. I understand that the 2 million number may be from some time ago, but I have no way of knowing. My assumption has always been that they do not put dates on things to prevent appearing out of date. They are really good at putting dates on "history" but seem to be much more hesitant on putting dates on "current" information which makes me think that a lot of that "current" information is already "history"

2. Lack of any sort of citations. I do generally trust Britannica, but it would be nice to get information about where they are getting their information.

I think in that case the value of unionization might not be in the present but instead guarding against future problems that the union would seek to fight against. It is much easier to proactively organize, and then keep those problems out, then to try to organize and fight after they already are present.

I don't have a business, but I have been working on a side project for almost 5 years after hours, I commit about 20 hours a week to it. At the beginning I tried what I called 'super days' that sound a lot like yours. What I found is that while I was 'working' those 5-6 hours at night I was not very productive mostly due to mental exhaustion. Then on 'off days' I was way too exhausted to do anything, and I never fully recovered. For my project (creative in nature) this caused crippling Creative Productivity Anxiety and depression.

About 1.5 years into the project I broke my foot (long story) which meant I had to change things, then I had a kid about a year later, which caused me to change again. Both of those were really good developments

What I found is that a far better schedule for me was to spread things out. Now I still put in about 20 hours a week, but it is in the form of 1.5 hours at night on week nights and 6 hours on Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday. The Saturday and Sunday time is generally split three ways (morning before family wakes up, kid's nap time, evening after kid goes to sleep) I feel like I get more work done because I have the mental ability to actually work for each of those pieces of time.

Schedule may look different for you, hobbies, family, etc. But I would definitely suggest with exploring smaller pieces of Second Work, especially on week days.

They definitely get the money before distributing it. They will also pass any payment processing delays onto the creators, which just happened at the beginning of this month.

Judging by the amount of emails I get form them I think a good portion of those new people are part of their Creator Growth team (or whatever they call it). In the last year there has been a huge increase in Patreon created content trying to make creators better at getting more patrons.

This uses a very common, very oft quoted, but also very wrong myth about why the Maginot line was created and what its purpose was.

Its purpose was not to stop a German attack head on, it was not to defend the entire course of territory that needed to be defended. It was instead designed so that the numerically inferior French army could free up as many troops as possible to meet the expected German invasion in the north. There is a reason all of the best French and British troops were positioned to meet the expected German invasion through Belgium and not anywhere near the Maginot Line.

When compared to its actual purpose the Maginot Line performed perfectly well. The Germans did not try and attack it, they instead attacked to the north, just not quite as "north" as the Allies hoped.

I don't think it is either too challenging or too complex for politicians and people to understand, the problem is one of incentives.

Those with the resources that could be taxed and redistributed do not want to be taxed and have resources taken away from them. Since they have resources they can use some percentage of them to both influence politicians and influence other people. The people who do not have resources cannot do either of these things.

A bit of self-promotion here, I am the creator of a World War 1 podcast focused on being approachable to people without a ton of knowledge about the war called History of the Great War

Website: https://www.historyofthegreatwar.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-of-the-great-war...

I am fortunate enough to be on the $10 plan, but given how little traffic my site gets cutting it in half with the smallest DO box would still be nice.

That is what I am moving to. I currently use their hosting but plan on moving to a DigitalOcean box soon.

Same here except I ended up in CS. Solid job prospects and I have found other ways to engage with my love of history

I would love to see more laptop manufacturers use the 3:2 aspect ratio, especially on screens smaller than 15".

The general feeling I get when reading through some of the content released after Tolkien's death (History of the Lord of the Rings books specifically) is that the reason the first half of the Fellowship is at a slower pace than the rest is because Tolkien did not know where the story was going or where it would end.

The most telling evidence for this is how drastically the story and characters change from the beginning to Bree when looking at first draft compared to published text. It took a lot of wildly divergent drafts to get to Bree, with the texts rapidly evolving. My favorite example of this is that the Strider character was originally named Trotter, and he was a hobbit that wore wooden shoes. This type of slowly building story, where layer upon layer of idea built on top of each other is not really present for most of Two Towers and Return of the King.

It was almost like Tolkien was a train that gained momentum as it went forward.

In this case I believe it would have to be "fair" due to the political power of home owners in most areas of the United States. The fastest way to lose every vote from Suburbia is to lower the value of their greatest investment.