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Yes.

Jeff Yass?

Me personally? I am pretty afraid of nazis, that's their whole deal, violence on people, that was kind of the whole big problem with them initially and what led to a world war and genocide. A nazi isn't just someone with different viewpoints from my own, it's people who based their whole ideology on violence, against me, my wife, my children, my friends, my coworkers.

> The other social media gets to stay, though, because they are all in the USA.

And for two of the biggest social media companies specifically, they'd get to stay anyway because they're paying off the POTUS.

Funnily enough there are full movies uploaded on TikTok split up in to parts, they come across my feed every once in a while.

> It seems to lead inevitably either to (obviously repugnant and utility-destroying) communism

Why is that obvious, why is that inevitable, and how is this inevitable communism utility-destroying?

Well now you can't go without mentioning sampling machines, a way of taking audio samples from others (or yourself, any audio sample) and using it as an instrument.

.....which also did lead to numerous legal battles around sampling and artists paying royalties for sampling, so in general "society" didn't go "oh sampling is fine to do all willy nilly" out of that, it made artists pay other artists for using their work.

How come your car isn't accepted as a passenger car? 2 door coupe or something? Delivery van?

Well.......if you weren't able to walk, you would be moving differently, not exactly pretending would it be?

I mean hell it's not even a less accurate description, you're not able to walk but you're able to move around using crutches or a wheelchair or other mobility device. A person who isn't able to walk may still be able to do almost everything day to day (well aside from walking) that a non-disabled (or non-differently abled person, ok that sounds kinda weird) person would be able to, albeit in a different way.

Judging by the history of the Los Angeles Police Department and their own gangs, run by members of the department, policemen, getting rid of cops might actually help reduce crime!

I heard this anecdote of theirs in a clip of whatever podcast they said it on, either on youtube or instagram, now I see it in a headline here, and as you say, going to be propagated out through all the different streams flowing to the grand ocean of readers.

The motherfucker has 11 kids _that we know about_, maybe he should stop being so worried about passing on his genes Nick Cannon-style, and more worried about being a father to the ones he has.

And worth saying that not all of the petroleum industry in Canada is oil sands, wikipedia (I'm lazy) gave a figure of 64% for the oil sands, so 36% is still the conventional pumpjack crude that's not as polluting (albeit still polluting) as oil sands, and not as dependent on gas prices being high to be viable.

Just in case anyone else is a dummy like me: Spirit _AeroSystems_, not Spirit Airlines. Airplane parts manufacturer, not airline.

Why do poor people love noise?

I'm not actually suggesting that, just flipping the headline around, I find it a weird thing to posit like this is purely some class-based thing.

How do you know they are synthetic drugs? What kind of synthetic drugs are these?

They could have changed their names, but they would have recorded the changed name on the passenger manifest before setting sail, or after arriving and being processed. Ellis Island, the facility and staff, didn't determine anyone's names, it only cross-checked the names on the passenger manifests. Ellis Island didn't change anyone's names.

Hey! Whaddaya know! https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609

Well from some logical point of view I don't know if I have a good case to argue off the top of my head, nor do I want to come up with one.

On the other hand, its because it fucking sucks. It's the largest company in the world (by market cap) which has a revenue of a third of a trillion dollars every year. They can afford to make it free but they don't for their own gain. All their competitors make their myriad of chat apps (that only Americans don't seem to want to use) free and available on as many platforms as possible. The only real reason Apple doesn't is because they want to hoard more and more of their money and become an even bigger company. That just sucks, it's shitty, it's worse for the world. They have hundreds of billions of cash reserves that they don't even know what to do with. I don't give a shit if it's their right or whatever to do it, I still think it sucks and is worse for everyone who isn't a VP at Apple.

Open standards are nice, decentralization is nice, having options and choice and cross-platform things are nice. Having a gigantic company make a choice to create a silo where they're the only ones allowed to use it is not nice.

In case anyone thinks its an overstatement, no, it's not.

The only reason iMessage isn't available on Android, is because Craig Federighi explicitly wants it iPhone only to lock users in to iPhones.

https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609?la...

It's super non-stick.

I know you're going to rebut with saying that iron pans are too, and I'm sure they are, but most people don't want to put in any level of the effort needed to make iron pans as non-stick as teflon.

A lot of people care only a mild amount about cooking, and don't want to invest the time to know how to properly use a cast iron or a carbon steel (which I have and only seldom use). They'd rather get a non-stick pan which lasts a while anyway, throw whatever on there, and never worry about food sticking or cleaning it after.

They're dumb, and overconfident, and reckless.

Short, snide answer, wouldn't normally chalk it up to just that, but I feel like given all we've seen and read from this, that's a fair assessment of this whole debacle.

It's America, so lower your expectations :(

Although, the first Shinkansen model had a max speed of 130mph, so one could say 125mph is bullet train speed.

Now, that was in 1964, and the second model (1985) topped out at 137mph, and the current series (introduced decades ago) are around 180mph -- but again, expectations.

> significant additional resources to provide to dev.

Ah sweet, even more problems to deal with then. More people to onboard to support you in writing the 3x more code, more managers needed, or more strain on the managers, etc. We'll just fix it by hiring even more people.

How far away are you sitting from your TV, and how big is it?

I mean there's only like one person who has the job of "Crossword Making Guy" and it's Will Shortz, the crossword editor for the NYT.

If you want to get your crossword published by the NYTimes, all you have to do is write a good one and submit it.

I've met a guy who has a couple of crosswords published by them. He didn't have personal connections with anyone, he's not anyone special, he's a regular guy with a regular job. What did he have to do? He liked crosswords and tried writing them, then submitted them. They got accepted and published, that's it. There's no shadowy cabal of crossword writers secretly running the world.

Choosing the 1950s as a great time for air travel seems like an odd choice, the first pressurized airliners to be used widely started in the late 1960s.

Air travel in the 1950s was done in slow propeller planes like a DC-6, which were very loud, had a low service ceiling, had a low range, weren't particularly safe, and were unattainably expensive for most people to use.

The 747 was only put in to service in 1970, the 737 in 1968.

Verizon still has you say "at verizon, my voice is my password" for their voice authentication over the phone.

Not a fan, I disabled it right away.

Out of curiosity, what were the alternatives to Figma you were looking at and were more in favour of?

The NYTimes had a good article on this, along with some examples of buildings that have actually undergone the conversion:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office... https://archive.is/gQiQW

Floor plans are awkward if you had to segment them in to apartments, having each apartment meet code for residential spaces turns in to a puzzle in ensuring things like light entry. Math that made sense for office buildings doesn't translate as easily to residential, so you're paying for more elevators (made for an office building) than you need, you have less floor space you can rent out because you need it for amenities, you have to do extensive renovations to make it suitable for living, and then have to hope the commercial real estate market doesn't surge in demand after you've done it.

It's apparently doable, but not easy, and has a significant downside if there isn't enough demand to meet your new luxury apartment building, and the risk that commercial real estate bounces back after you've done it.