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We live in a bubble, I feel so out of touch with how people live in many of the other places in the world. Last October I visited Pakistan and what I saw there really made me think about the scale of globally inequality that’s just allowed to “exist”. Not just in food, but so many other places in our lives we take for granted.

Thanks for the detailed analysis, I was near ready to take my pitchfork out.

It's common knowledge that people don't want to strain their mental ability when making decisions. So, it makes sense that people will go the easier route when making choices. Mental fatigue when making decisions is a real deal breaker. It is my belief that it gets worst if you don't pay attention to how you are making decisions.

This. I agree with.

I have to force myself to only check my phone at certain times, and ensure that I don't use it too often. Ever since I have enabled night mode on my iPhone I find myself less distracted and getting better sleep. I also put apps like instagram, snapchat inside folders on a different page so they are always out of my sight.

I am in deep sadness over what has happened to Lee, and I feel for his family, especially Kristin.

I can't help but draw parallels between this story and Flowers for Algernon. It's just sad to see such a young brilliant mind be broken down by this disease.

I wasn't expecting him to be diagnosed with FTD, I will admit that reading the first part of the article painted a very different picture of what might be causing his issues.

Also, since he had a heart condition, I wonder if for some reason that might have accelerated his condition?

Give me a taste of what the app does, and if I like it I will download it. I wish you could redirect deeplinks from the browser to the appstore on your phone (something like google maps on android). That would also be acceptable.

are you a fellow Canadian?

A suggestion! While logged in, when you want to track a trend, it isn't clear how I can track it after I search for it.

Instead of having a dropdown list menu for choosing frequency, it would be nice to spread them out. Like a normal list, or 4 types of buttons. Or you can also add a plus button which might bring a popup asking the frequency type too.

My guess would be to integrate it into their own weather app. Darksky has better forecasting than Apple's own weather app, which I believe is powered by the weather network.

I can't answer any of your questions except the last observation, there will be an uptick in the sale prices for sure.

Ho lee sh, that is absolutely crazy.

I am sure its affecting you internet speed, what sorts of tasks are you generally doing now that the entire is state is pretty much on lockdown?

Here in Alberta, although we are told be socially distant, there is no full lockdown and I want to know what kind of issues would I be expecting to run into in the up coming weeks/months?

I am also in Calgary, using a bidet. The cold water gets to you but you need lots of pressure to knock those pesky poops off.

Ideas are worthless.

wow TIL, thanks.

Fair point, I am sure they have people much smarter than me in charge of making decisions like that. I am purely speculating at this point but that route could also lead to just being dragged out (if the offer was made public).

There might be a lot of reasons, and I am sure there would have weighed all their options and gone with this decision.

I mean, I get where you are coming from but it still is a huge stretch to make a blanket statement like that.

If they decided to cash out for any amount, that would go against their track record of holding on to companies and exiting when they are much larger in evaluation.

This would not only raise eyebrows, but eventually the truth will come out. Put yourself in the shoes of a buyer, if you were buying out Sequoia's shares and after a few weeks/months news came out that they only sold their shares because of this. Not only that, but that Finix is pretty much competing with Stripe, which they have no chance of succeeding at, it would tarnish Sequoia's reputation and also open them up to litigation. As someone else in this thread pointed, $21 Million is a rounding error for them.

I think that might have opened them up to even more press. It would have also made the next investor not be as keen as to why Sequoia was pulling out in the first place... Looks like they weighed all their options and went with the one which would cause the least pain to them and the company.

Its literally the same layout and styling...

same here, ill do some digging once i get home and report back if i find a way.

edit: couldn't wait until I got home so I found a solution for mac users. You can use this[0] package to load screensavers from urls.

[0] https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver

It's not just about facebook logins. Any website that you visit can send information to facebook and that's where most of these websites are sharing info with facebook.

I just checked my own off-facebook activity and I am blown away at just how much information is available on me. They have a fairly concise list of all the websites that I have visited in the past month, none of which I used facebook for logging in.

I understand, but my reply was meant to allude to both how out of touch the older generation is and also how they look down at snapchat. I have snapchat and I use it everyday pretty much, its so much more than just sending nudes, so it irks me a bit when someone calls it just a nude sharing app. Thus my reply.

Try this if you are using chrome:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I think there is also a firefox addon by the same developer.

As someone who is a bit more involved in iOS development, I am also standing on the sidelines. Mainly because any apps that I am developing for, I can still keep on using NS Layout Anchors that work wonderfully. One of the biggest reasons I have decided not touch it is because of problems like these, until there is a v2 or v3 for swiftUI, its just not worth it to include it in any projects. (imho)

Do you mind sharing some of your conversations?

Although it would be funny if your results were different than your brother's.

This is what differentiates the comp sci & (some) engineering crowd from anyone else. If you ask anyone a question on here, everyone will jump in to help you out and it's like this in real life too. Throughout my degree I noticed how eager my fellow classmates would be to help others solve difficult questions, problems etc and generally be nice.

Compared to business or even some engineering classes it was pure cut-throat. So, it's always refreshing to see stories like this, restores my faith in humanity.

Merry Christmas everyone! All the best in the next iteration of life!

Thats very beautifully put. I am definitely going to be using this analogy the next time this topic comes up. Thanks.

Is this some sort of a plug?