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I don’t think bills like this will matter in several years for phones, unless they somehow start forcing manufacturers to design for manual repair. The end game for all these manufacturers is a phone assembled, repaired, and disassembled for recycling entirely by machine. I believe they already do this for the recycling.

I support right to repair in general, and I’m not particularly opposed to this bill, but it seems a bit hopeless in the long run.

> If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies?

NATO, Five Eyes, and close allies like Japan need not bother. Russia, China, Iran, and a few others should, and mostly do.

I thought TikTok’s CEO did a great job in the hearing defending themselves, but ByteDance ultimately owns them. We compel companies to provide data silently through court orders all the time in the U.S. and to think China isn’t capable of accessing whatever data they want, at any time, assumes major incompetence of their intelligence services.

I think it comes down to this line of thought.

China can, so they will, because when we can, we do. China no doubt knows many of our non-public exploits, as we do of theirs.

In a real way, this forced sale is a sign of respect.

He could have worked on the inside, but it would have taken years of hard work building his credibility and power within the organization.

He chose a much simpler path. Disruptively virtue signal knowing he would be fired. Now he can slide into a smaller progressive tech company where he will be lauded for his virtue, used by the company for PR, and ultimately not judged by the quality of his work.

This was a thoughtfully orchestrated career strategy first, protest second. It was well done and I think he’s set himself up nicely for the next 5-10 years.

If you disagree and think he was risking his future instead of securing it, I would humbly ask why? Both the media and Google’s response were 100% predictable.

If I were him I’d try to move into a fuzzy, semi-technical role with some public presence. Something like DevRel seems the ideal target and maximizes the PR benefit for his employer.

On an iPad most of text is obscured and I can’t read some of the bars in landscape or portrait mode. The sideways text is also hard to read.

There's a lot of relevant information we don't know (targeting, platform, demographics, competition, payment etc.).

If your 6 signups are paying anything, I would continue iterating ads and working on the product.

If those 6 signups are unpaid, and just people who signed up after viewing the site, I would stop spending and reassess the product and marketing. I'd expect only a small fraction of those people to ever pay anything, with many never returning to the site at all.

Also I wouldn't focus too much on the CTR or CVR - you are getting dirt cheap (likely untargeted) visitors ($0.019/each) so you should expect low rates. What matters is your ROAS (return on ad spend). You should be tracking that obsessively.

All 30 episodes of the Chinese adaptation are included on Amazon Prime and been up for a while already.

I was hoping they had a reason other than “for the attention and lulz” that would be explained in the repo. I guess not.

I’ll take the one with 50 crashes any time. That’s 50 times something went catastrophically wrong and 50 times measures were taken to fix the underlying problems.

A brand new plane will undoubtedly have brand new problems.

I’m just curious about the intent, as the article implies it was a deliberate prank. That would definitely have professional repercussions. We can laud him for drawing more attention to a major problem, but many (perhaps most?) potential employers may not see it as a positive.

So the “prank”, as called in the article, used the same flaw that allowed someone to do it last January. His apology appears deleted along with the repo.

Was there a legitimate purpose or is he just a troll?

I was very impressed with Nashville as a tourist, felt like a booming economy with a bright future. People seemed generally upbeat and hopeful. No doubt there are downsides (and I had a limited viewpoint) but I can see the appeal.

Looks like they include retail, warehouse, contract, part time, and seasonal workers in their data. Also only includes those with LinkedIn profiles. Kinda makes the conclusions pointless. They are just shooting for viral blog content.

> Methodology & sources

To find out which companies employees don't want to leave in 2023, we analyzed the LinkedIn pages of the top 100 companies in the UK, U.S., Canada and Australia and compared them to see which businesses have the highest average tenure.

First, we collected the top 100 companies by market cap using CompaniesMarketCap.com for the UK, U.S., Canada and Australia. Then we analyzed each company's LinkedIn page and collected the median tenure when available, ranking each business based on its average tenure.

The data of this analysis is correct as of June 2023

If they think he’s that evil why aren’t they publishing glamour shots and rationalizing his actions? Maybe they have changed,

Isn’t the remaining leadership the ones that want to slow down, seek regulation, and erect barriers to entry? Why would they give it to the public?

I was being snarky, but I am a little impressed they did more than the usual nothing. Kudos to whomever fought for that.

Google in 2023: “Before we pull the rug out from under you, we’ll throw some packing peanuts down.”

Yes, his celebrity and fame stem from the performance, not the art. He could still have a long and successful celebrity career, periodically making waves with more commercialized and staged performances. Like Banksy, but with a good face and real backstory.

$0.20 is the minimum, you pay for every device they install on every time. Anytime they offload and reinstall, you pay again. Every additional device, upgrade, or replacement, you pay again. You’ll also pay then current rates, whatever Unity decides those are.

No abuse needed to lose money with this, I’ve probably installed the same games 20+ times over the years.

Kudos for having an interesting take. I assume you already live by these rules you’d set for others? If so, you have my respect. Not my vote though, I travel frequently and far for both pleasure and business.

What a convenient revelation to have when it comes time to sell some books.

The math is still dire, without forced subsidies from non-viewers the pie is shrinking fast. You can cut ESPN out all you want, but there aren’t enough sports fans to make up the revenue gap.

He did monetize videos of visual novels, completely spoiling and showing all the content for free. Kinda pointless to buy it after watching. He also knew it was illegal and the risks he was taking. Unless I’m missing something?

Not sure jail is warranted but I’d be upset if my work was distributed for profit.

4th time being rescued at taxpayer expense, before a hurricane, no support. Brandished a knife and claimed to have a bomb he would detonate.

He’s not serious about the endeavor, he’s a mentally ill troll looking for fame and publicity. All he needs is a support boat tagging along (at least to international waters), but then his failure and/or death would be on him alone.

Where’s the attack surface to exploit this analog and unencrypted data? A government can order their telecoms (and they do), but the same happens with emails providers. Neither is secure from government intrusion, but email is easier to compromise than traditional fax systems because their exposure is so limited.

I’m not arguing against your point, it just appears completely irrelevant to the article under discussion, so I asked for clarification instead of just assuming you didn’t read the article.

Isn’t it though? You can attack email systems, network operators, and end users in a myriad of ways remotely from anywhere in the world. How can you compromise a traditional fax? Eavesdropping the PSTN itself? Physical access to one of the machines? Stealing the printed document?

Network fax systems are more convenient to use than traditional, but still more secure than email because they’ve been designed to be so.

It’s about fraudulent data requests using hacked email accounts from government bodies all around the world. What emails are you referring to that should be made public?

Bespoke. Allocate the savings from lab diamonds to design and you can get a more meaningful ring with higher quality materials for similar cost.

Customization has been on the uptrend for several years.

> Besides the point, innovation has been stifled because of no reinvention.

Yes, because the advice is meant to improve business survival, not societal innovation.

If optimizing for survival isn’t your primary goal, it just doesn’t apply to you. It’s still great advice.

The 100x-or-nothing game has different rules.

99% of supermarket SKUs are luxury items, at least salmon is one the healthiest choices you can make.