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1. Such a device will require significant local compute, generating a lot of heat. It cannot be too close to the body, and require efficient cooling. In the cowboy hat, the processing can be placed above the head in the bucket of the hat, and the cooling dispersed in a large surface area around the brim
2. Such a device requires 360 degree camera vision, thus cannot be a backpack or vest type design (which also bring heat too close to the body). It also must be close to eye level (cannot be shoes).
3. Has to be able to be worn in any environment, with any style. A cowboy hat is great for sun protection, and in the rain.
Headline is obviously far more simple though, removing most adjectives does most of the job, and goes a long way in the content itself as well. Something like choosing which photos to run or editing of video clips would be a lot harder to quantify impartiality/bias, both measuring and for the person doing it I think. As for overall article frequency and depth of article per subject, I think that's where your Overton window question becomes far more difficult - you could quantify a given piece or source against all other news sources and find the edges and the median, but yeah, in most cases just everything is biased by the window at the macro level. You could go back in time and find the dead center median bias media source publishing glowing reports on bloodletting and public executions.
That was more or less the arrangement between Magna Steyr and Fisker, which failed
As far as what should bitcoin's utility be valued at to the world at large, sure this is in a volatile state, but I don't see how that bears on it's classification as an asset.
Consider going to work for any other company, let's say a publicly traded one for simplicity - if you work there for 5 years, and the stock price stays flat adjusting for inflation, is whatever you did objectively non successful? Of course not, in this case you would judge your success based on what you shipped + your own career growth. I don't see why you should look at it any differently from a founder or early startup employee perspective in retrospect (though believing this before starting is probably not healthy as if you believe in the VC recipe you should really be abiding to success as a forcing function).
For 100% bootstrapping to avoid "pandering to VCs", your success metric is narrower (you have to achieve monetary success in a rigid, often short, timeframe) and your risk threshold is lower thus the successes on the learning side/pushing tech forward are less likely.
If I had stayed with the acoustic ceiling job, I would be doing the exact same thing I was doing then, for a bit more money. I may or may not have inherited more responsibility if people more senior to me retired, moved, changed jobs, or died. Really this would be capped though, as company ownership has nothing to do with the labor, so if you start your own company, what you are doing has little to do with you having been in the union (IDK how this applies to contracts for city jobs and all that). If I invented a magic spell that installed an acoustic ceiling for $1 in 2 seconds, I would have been actively encouraged to destroy it or hide it. The union ethos I was in was to promote mediocrity, not accidentally provide too much benefit to your employer or customer. I really don't know where this idea that unions would stop mass layoffs comes from that is brought up on HN all the time, but that's simply not true, union people find themselves out of work all the time, and it's very hard to do any job on the side if you are hoping you get picked out of the pool to work a job. Really worst of all, which is the prime driver that got me to leave, is I knew exactly what this path would look like for years to decades in the future - many people promote that as a positive (which makes sense as most people are scared of risk and change), but I found it soul crushing.
I won't go into my engineering career other than it has completely changed my life for the better both financially and just in general leading a rewarding life, and operating without whatever safety net I had in the union (which was basically nothing anyway) is not even a passing thought I've ever had.
Have any other posters either pro or anti union actually worked in a union? Curious about your experience and thoughts.