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I've talked to Dang many times about these posts, and never been an issue :)

Ya just like NYT or The Atlantic or any of the sites, we have to pay for the servers, the book database licensing, etc. :)

I don't understand; every page says the site is owned by my partner and me. We are building something really cool :)

You realize that every website is owned by someone trying to build something cool right?

hah i know, his own man raised rates, he will probably send the military out to get Walsh

Remind me in 6 months :)

I'll be you; they are higher this time.

Definitely the right move, 100% agree.

I don't think that mortgage rates are going to go down; I think they will go up. Just my opinion.

I also think oil is about to go up even more, maybe for multiple years, which is going to be inflationary on everything we do. But, could be really good for solar growth, electrification, and electric cars.

Get ready for a fun ride my friends :)

Fun ride =

Oil is going up, possibly for a long time, which will have a big inflationary effect on everything. And it appears the USA government has lost the conflict it started and effectively given control over key oil delivery channels to Iran. Not to mention Saudia facing real issues from rebel groups / Yemen (simplification).

Government debt is high in several key economies, and the bond market is being saturated with AI-related bonds, as well as possibly people finally tired of lending the USA/France/UK money at low rates and demanding higher ones. And with higher interest rates and bonds rolling over it means more and more money going to pay for the debt, rather than core services.

Wild cards lurking in the bushes... AI, AGI, RSI.

And yonder you have a nuclear power floundering; its only source of hard currency is being rightfully degraded, and its leadership delusional.

And the one to watch IMO... Russian wheat export ability: wheat prices are up considerably, and combined with inflation from oil, this is the kind of stuff that creates waves of political change like the Arab Spring.

Of the 348 taxes levied by France, 243 are “low-yield taxes,” which collectively bring in relatively little revenue compared with the country’s largest tax categories. In contrast, employment taxes brought in more than €800 billion in 2024, while taxes on goods and services added another €300 billion in revenue.

nah, it is a race; nation-states are in the midst of a big upheaval. Nobody is going to give up a possible advantage.

No in no way this is an ad, this website is built around a shared love of books and finding new ones.

This won't work, China/USA are in a race.

How do you create a treaty with binding provisions when you have such incompetent leadership in the USA?

I'm building Book DNA to help people get book recommendations from humans (mostly authors and experts so far in our early days).

-> https://bookdna.com/

We started with the website, and now we are building a full app: a private, personal way to track your reading and get personalized recommendations based on your tastes.

-> https://building.bookdna.com/

We are aiming for a soft launch in a few months :)

If you want to be an early user and give us feedback, sign up here, and I'll get you going with the early version. We are adding imports from Goodreads now, and user folders to organize books how your brain works.

-> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOdeqpZCS95FMRy_tE...

It is on my list as I keep hearing great things!

I removed all friends years ago. After I read about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I quit, but I still need an account for a few groups I moderate.

I think it has done more damage to this country than tobacco.

FB is built on rage bait, what else do they have beside cute videos?

I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there.

I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip every year. It has improved, and they do a ton of user interviews to improve it. So far I've been happy.

I'm not happy they fired the old team, but I put that on the sellers and I don't know what was going on there or the company's finances.

Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.

Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.

I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/

If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now.

We are working on goodreads/storygraph imports, and then adding folders. It already supports multiple reads and more.

I run two plugins to just invisibly make them go away, I don't care, they are a waste of my time :)

I live in Bordeaux, although thankfully out of town for the month. This is insane to watch, and friends say the city is full of smoke

oh gosh no, love books, building it for free. We are direct funded with premium accounts by authors and readers.

I live in Europe, I can make an appointment with my dentist tomorrow. I was sick 3 weeks ago and just went on video conference at 6am with my PCP.

Just to help out there :)

This has been the case in every country I've lived in within Europe (3 and counting). And a mix of rural (50,000 town) and big urban areas.

How does this work with sunglasses?

Ah gotcha, ya that will be interesting to see, but does seem like a more likely life of 7 to 10 years is possible.

I am curious on actual hardware failure rates due to heat etc.

Anyone got any good testing data? Surely someone knows rough failure rate from constant usage?

Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage?

Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?

My son loves these books, I've read them to him hundreds of times :)

Down and out in Paris and London was a life changing read for me :)

Ya, but this is a proof-of-concept rip-off. The fact that the indexes don't have our back is a huge problem.

I should note, mostly we have screened, and then paid them to come work with us for 3 to 4 hours on a real piece of code.