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BTC can be redeemed for tulip bulbs. ;)

Mensa most often attracts the deeply insecure and insufferably arrogant. I worked with several IITians and multiple PhD/MD’s... how many joined Mensa? Zero (0). Sure, IITians reminisced about rank every now and then, but they didn’t have social clubs about it.

But hey, to each their own. And if it reduces the density of people I’d rather avoid everywhere else, expand Mensa with gusto.

I have perfect vision now but massive genetic risks for ARMD and glaucoma; when I get much older, blindness is likely without proper lifestyle and care. I’m fine with periodically going to optometrists who’s expertise will catch such issues. I can understand people whom have stable prescriptions not needing expertise all the time, but effectively decimating optometrists would be a horrible idea. As a diversification of risk, optometrists need to specialize and/or get side businesses because automation will incessantly nibble away at every profession and risk institutional wisdom that isn’t easily rebuilt.

Ted Liew is always on-the-ball and challenging DC bozos. Props.

Truth in headlines:

Apple is close to to acquishuttering Shazam, say friends of Shazam founders to shake the bushes for a bidding war.

Conspiracy theory bullshit rhetoric has no place on HN. Go back to Alex Jones.

It’s smart because holding BTC in a Tulip-bulb crisis is insanely risky. This current crisis is due to elastic demand based on short-lived, fashionable attention of a tiny currency, whereas common currencies are more inelastic because their usage and scale lends themselves to more stability. The value will collapse when people lose interest or when large institutions get over the mania of New Relationship Energy. Durable, appreciating assets that are easily liquidated are ideal for holding balance sheet value. For transactions, BTC maybe fine but even that is risky.

It will be interesting to see if shorting will be possible.

Advertising/PR manufactures beliefs, values, preferences and consent every day. Most people these days forgot or were not aware of how they were brainwashed by content or by other people into internalizing what they believe.

The longer-term solutions to home delivery are refrigerated and non-refrigerated storage pods with universal app access. These can either be built into a house / garage or be free-standing. This reduces the risks of having delivery people enter your home, which is a bad idea.

Also, in general, in tort-happy America, delivery people and other field workers should always wear bodycams to prove they were in the right because random people can and do make up convincing stories to file lawsuit$.

Hypocracy is a bikeshedding dimension. China and the US both serve the politically-connected first and the people last; China does it by force and the US does it by manufacturing consent. Regardless of political system, the people must rise up and demand a fair government and insist on sensible regulations and justice with eternal vigilance. Power never cedes anything without a fight.

It’s a heckuva improvement on “clean” coal which produces the most greanhouse gases per BTU of any fuel. Nuclear still suffers from the distributed waste issue without a permanent storage facility or closed-loop reprocessing. Solar and wind are the ways to go long term. Solar especially, considering insolation gives a median daily recovery potential of about 1 kWh / m^2.

Nope. I remember when MTurk came out, used the API and tried some of the work units. For the most part, it really is moot though for most tasks now, except for insanely complex ones or new business processes that haven’t been automated yet. This decline of usefulness is due to the fact recent AI/ML/DL, after little training, can complete mundane, repetitive tasks faster and with far better accuracy and precision than all humans.

LOL. They must also have a patent on quantifying qualitative BS while badmouthing their competition. So professional too.

Tulip bulbs anyone?

Yup. Also, Stanford abuses temp workers for years and years as standard practice to avoid paying benefits.

New grads need to realize $100k/yr gross (~$70k net) at 100 hr/wk is ~ $13.50/hr net. So either get a better comp. package or refuse to work like a slave.

Apple along with a decline in product utility, reliability and quality, their software has been getting buggier every year post-Jobs. The QA people should be fired and replaced with a team whom insists on perfection. Otherwise, these embarrassing incidents will repeat, errode their brand and encourage customers to seek other platforms.

It’s no surprise because helicopter parents also don’t have their priorities or common-sense in order.

My mom’s family were Dust Bowl refugees, and my grandfather had to hustle to not starve to death.

On a lighter note, check out this Canadian using a large backyard as a profitable farm: https://youtu.be/KO-OuqbR3EE

Here’s also a working Swedish homestead/farm (that’s being threated by the uncertainty of oil/mineral extraction): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7GkLSNBmds1DZit_oHk-Fg

You can say that again. Cities are, for the most part, where humanity (i.e., compassion and community) goes to die. I’m seriously contemplating migrating someplace where people aren’t 80% deplorable jerks, like suburban Oregon or New Mexico.

Plus, all of the learned helplessness and ostensibly “incapable,” self-absorbed bullshit job people whom are disconnected from anything but a narrow specialty of bullshit... if food prices spiked for any reason, they’re boned.

I worked at a nuclear consulting co. where network hostnames were Simpsons’ characters and people backed into parking spaces out of habit.

Yuck. :(

Sellers need a “Maker Strike” like YouTube channels to keep folks honest. Also, raise the bar such that sellers have to put in mental, creative and time investment and are cut out if they repeatedly sell junk. Can’t just sign up as a seller the same day and spam stuff from AliBaba and say it’s “handmade” or “vintage.”

Next, have a buyer to seller/creator feedback method that influences item ranking so junk is pushed down and out.

Maybe use AI/ML/DL to spot product descriptions and images that are copied or similar to determine if items are new, mass-manufactured products... and, sure have an appeals process.

PS: My disabled mom makes handmade jewelry that people beg to pay money for, but I’m hesitant to recommend Etsy considering the diluted execution of the original business model.

I wish eBay, AliBaba or Amazon would buy Etsy and integrate the site well while keeping management and the right amount of operations independent. Etsy is, right now, a dingy in the storm of a double-ended marketplace without the reach of the 800 million pound cargo-ship empire gorilla. Otherwise, a smaller platform will likely buy it for an “undisclosed sum” and kill it, or investors will throw in the towel.

Maybe that’s what he’s doing: reducing liabilities (ie salaries) and making revenue look good to spark M&A interest, while also considering survivability without an exit.

Maybe not because it’s a confederation of peers. As for ISP’s, Australia is not a good example because it’s poorly run, which it doesn’t have to be.

Instead, perhaps a GSE value-for-money internet, TV and mobile provider that’s a non-profit, customer-first, no-nonsense, doesn’t gouge people no matter their zipcode, and upfront about privacy and pricing. That way, where monopolies / oligopolies form and rural customers miss out, there is an alternative at a reasonable price. It’s like single-payer for connectivity that’s not the only game in town.

Less extreme, more practical and better run than the post office... more like a credit-union. Heck, make it partially employee- and/or customer-owned so people care.

Yup. Increased lifespan with increased ageism results in less productivity, less income, less taxes and more unhappy, idle people.

Online comments are like online petitions: ostensibly “listening” to keep the masses from calling/mailing their representatives or the FCC directly. Persuasion requires messages that are difficult/impossible to ignore: culturally and politically.

Moore’s mock funeral for an HMO patient denied a live-saving transplant worked because it was over-the-top and so widely covered.

It’s unreasonable to reason with unreasonable people whom hold magical thinking memes with unquestioning beliefs, a priori.

London already has that. ;)

(I’ve seen the sun around Victoria Station plenty of times.)

Neat. Seems like a powerful way to do most common key remapping without a kext like Karabiner Elements.