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Recurring tasks or tasks far into the future is what has me locked into Todoist. I love how comprehensive the plain-English scheduling is, such as "Do task every third Friday of the month". It's clearly got a lot more power than I use too.

I think the chances of the kind of person who steals your wallet also being able to leverage pilfered two-factor authentication codes to hijack your accounts is almost zero.

Then we're not just talking about a settlement layer, right? We're talking about holding crypto instead of cash, and self custody.

I don't see why having a different settlement layer would prevent the bank from freezing money that they have custody of.

A less charitable way to look at it is that they weren't taking things seriously before the incident, and they're still not taking things seriously now.

What the most appropriate way to view it is, I don't know. I think I'd need to know way more than I do about Crowdstrike leadership.

One of the things that's stopped me from doing something like this so far is that the benefits are intangible, difficult or impossible to measure, but the costs are obvious and often measured in dollars.

> If people are willing to spend more, then nothing really changed. If anything, goods and services were mispriced beforehand. If they raise the prices too high, nobody can afford the vet services and they will go out of business.

I don't agree with this theory or pricing when the purchase decisions are often made under duress, and the market is opaque. The last time I called around for quotes for getting my cat's teeth cleaned, nobody would give numbers over the phone, they all wanted me to come in for an exam first, and the next exam opening wasn't that week, it was in like 2 or 3 weeks. If a person is at the vet for something relatively urgent, they don't have much of a choice.

Last time I tried to get quotes for cleaning my pet's teeth nobody would give them over the phone. Not even ball park ranges.

Some of my stuff can take quite a while to dry still though. Particularly if the drying rack is very full and it's cold in the apartment. For everything to fully dry sometimes takes 24 hours.

Are you sure you're washing the clothing sufficiently, and that the detergent is working? I dry all my clothes on an indoor drying rack that gets zero direct sunlight, including 100% cotton items. I don't have any problems with washed items still smelling. Is the water chlorinated? Admittedly it's usually not tropical-level humidity here most of the time.

> Force passenger to check hand luggage in.

For the most part, this is on the passengers. Everybody wants to bring the largest hard sided rolling luggage that could possibly be a carry-on these days. Those things take up space in the overhead bins very inefficiently, and the planes weren't made with that amount of carry-on capacity per passenger.

But something I thought of the other day is that when they start gate checking bags, it means they sold too many tickets that include a full size carry-on, right? Counterpoint would be that the later boarding groups implicitly may have to gate check their bags, and that's why they're cheaper.

I'm pretty adamant that most people should use soft travel backpacks or duffel bags. The proliferation of hard sided rolling luggage as a carry-on is a scourge.

I think you misread or misinterpreted what I wrote. They don't have any specific attraction to committing crimes, but rather an aversion to spending time and effort to do things legally. Getting licensed and insured is expensive. It's much easier if you can ride without those things.

E-bikes were already in very wide use well into the food delivery app era. The explosion of mopeds in NYC was in the past 2 years.

I believe the reasons were three fold: they are more capable than e-bikes in range and speed, the bargain basement Chinese models are almost as cheap as e-bikes, and the police were not sufficiently enforcing any laws regarding them.

Part of the switch to gas mopeds was due to the fact that most of them were being ridden around completely illegally; without license, insurance, or plates. The barrier to entry there was artificially low because the NYPD didn't prioritize taking them off the street. I think they're starting to crack down now so maybe we'll see fewer mopeds.

It seems only through incompetence though, I think that's important to note.

I mostly agree, however DRM does stop laypeople from directly pirating, they have to rely on technical people to do the ripping or cracking, and also find out where to procure those copies.

The optimal DRM is something that prevents theft by lay people, but minimally inconveniences legal users. I think a good example would be how you can't just copy PS2 games with a CD burner and play them on an unmodified console.

Very unfortunate, but true. Opera was the first browser I remember using besides Internet Explorer, and the amount of features it had compared to IE was a total game changer. I want to say Firefox was just called "Mozilla" back then and used a dinosaur logo. Eventually I switched to Firefox for quite a long time, but I'll always remember Opera fondly.

Spotify if you already use it.

I liked Beyond Pod, but haven't used it in a long time. The ability to schedule automatic downloads was great when I was more aggressive in reducing cell data usage.

I think a reasonable fear is that long stretches of exceptional safety could breed complacency and cause aviation companies to feel like they can slack a bit on it.

The same thing happened with vaccines to a large degree, right? A generation grows up without measles, and then they think maybe vaccinating against measles isn't really that important. After all, they never knew anybody who got it, how bad could it be?

I thought ghost kitchens was a good idea: optimize for delivery, focus on foods that travel well, cut costs by using cheaper real estate in a smaller footprint and eliminating all the expenses that come along with people sitting in a space for hours. Probably less regulatory burden than a full service restaurant.

The reality was it just enabled a flood of crap onto the delivery apps.

If that's true why wasn't it already made the safest after the two Max 8 crashes that killed everybody on board.

That wouldn't defeat the purpose of it.

I seem to remember true crypt would allow you to make an encrypted container with AES, two fish and serpent. But it was all decrypted with a single password. So if you found that password you would have gotten through all three layers.

The ASIN is the product identifier, 10 characters, and it's what the buyer usually sees. Amazon would use something else behind the scenes to ensure things aren't comingled, probably FNSKU.

If the ASIN was different it wouldn't be comingled, but I don't think Amazon wants sellers all creating their own ASINs and thus new product pages when one already exists for the product.

Anybody who has used Amazon enough has witnessed when there's multiple separate listings for the same product and how annoying it is to compare.

Isn't that the same as every other marketplace though? The mall, Amazon, Steam, you name it.

Immediately upon implementing that we'll start getting presented with the tip screen.

I think most people who use Okta probably do so because it's required by their employer.

I get the emotional response, but it's not logical. The only thing the advertiser did wrong was pay Google to advertise their product. Can you imagine what percentage of products or services you regularly buy that have done that?

So if you see 10 ads in a day, say while you're sitting in a doctor's office, you hate each advertiser? What if one of them is from a business you already patronize?

I use an ad blocker just as a blanket response to too much crap on websites and being uninterested in having advertising be in my face as much as it would be without. However, that's not to say that all advertising is irrelevant, or that I'm immune to it. When an ad gets through usually my response is something to the tune of "oh well".

The devil's advocate argument against your second to last point is that you'd actually be getting higher value from getting an ad on the eyeballs of an adblock user, because your ad is a bigger slice of the total ads they might see in a day. Do you want your ad to be 10% of the total ads somebody sees, or 0.5%?