This is awesome! I actually was tinkering with a community driven review aggregator for all things. Post a link to the product and your review.
2 issues I ran into were:
- "taking" product info from the links to be resilient to link breakage without breaking conditions of use
- moderation of user submitted content in order to prevent the bot/fake review issues on platforms like amazon
Seems like you only take the photo here? So that's a good mitigation of point #1. What about point #2? Curious to know if you have a good plan to deal with that :)
It opens up a whole can of worms though. What's "political"? Nowadays anything uncomfortable is brushed aside as political? Racism? Political! Gender inequality? Definitely political! Wealth in... you see where I'm going with this. So what that screams to me is this will to bubble up Coinbase with people happy in the current status quo, whatever that is!
Is there a npm package or a "component" you can drop in a website's source with some config that would allow you to block off anything that's not on the configured "allow-list"? Sounds like a "privacy badger" or "uBlock" of the web-app could be a neat thing
Funny how corporations are ok to regulate the heck out of their "open platforms" but people see the government enforcing fair(er) trade as anti capitalistic and freedom slashing. Is it just me or that's cognitive dissonance?
That said, it's a dicey subject, what's fair and what's not.
> I think most people would be happy to go without the next generation of iPhone
But it's been a while that people are not at the centre of our economy anymore (have they ever been?). The issue is political. Politicians, backed up by economists, sell the dream of ever-increasing growth as a way to maintain peace. It's not reasonable in a finite, and like OP mentioned, chaotic world.
Sounds like something "influencers" and racing drivers will get for promotional reason and a handful of FU money holders will buy. But I wouldn't be surprised if the units produced stayed in the double to low triple digits.
Gotta fuel these flaky startup investments somehow! I always wondered how this company was still alive despite terrible investment track record. I guess they are at least good at financial engineering and market manipulations...
I will not argue that Tesla is doing things differently. I have one gripe with the absolute truth suggested by "good for the planet and its inhabitants" that so many EV manufacturers ride on. Are electric cars good for the planet? Nope. Are they less bad than gas cars? Maybe. It's like saying that Diet coke is good for you because it replaces normal coke that is bad for you. That's an erroneous and arguably dangerous dichotomy. Sorry if I'm being facetious but that kind of marketing bothers me and I believe is damaging (to the environment in this case) by making us more inclined to settle for non optimal solutions.
To the risk of being naive, I'd imagine that gentrification can be at least somewhat mitigated by adding housing as the location becomes more desirable. This can take various shapes and forms depending on where. In the Bay, open space is mostly inexistant in desirable areas, so (one of) the main solution would be increasing density.
I really like the current forced WFH experiment but I have one major issue:
How do you emulate serendipity in work remote. Finding it hard to have ad-hoc engineering conversations when you have to book a 30min cal window to talk about anything : /.
Personal productivity is up, creativity, down.
Yeah, I am more interested in union in it's power to uphold moral values. If you ever were to be sued for whistle blowing something despicable or wrongly fired for defending a coworker's right and other behaviors we see at the likes of Amazon. There is power in unity beyond money.
I wish there was of some sort of association or union for people in the Software industry. While we are typically much better treated than basically every single other type of worker out there, we lack the assurance of protection when it comes to challenging our employers. In a country where your healthcare, your retirement and possibly your immigration status are tied to your employment, how can one feel confident that sticking to their convictions like you did will not cost them and their family a cost so great that they cannot bear it.
I would like for Software and more generally tech workers of all trade to be able to say NO or ENOUGH, when working for a company that steals tips, coerces workers into unfavorable situation or plainly disrespects human rights. I dream of a world where workers can rely on something having their back when making the right decision.
Food stamps come with a whole bunch of restrictions on what you can and cannot buy with it. Want a big jug of milk to save and you need a big one anyway cause you have kids? Nope, the only approved milk is the half gallon, etc. etc.
So for some people, while it might not be the top #1 problem it's def up there.
The market doesn't reflect the health of your local businesses. It's largely chains and massive corporations that are publicly traded. Between the fed's $1.5T injection in the markets and the $500B bailout/loans for corporations, you can see how the numbers might not look too bad from Wall St's disconnected perspective. Today a lot of companies were announcing their numbers and matched ~ expected earnings. Q1 wasn't 100% trashed by Covid. Q2 might be a lot more interesting especially if the shelter in place lingers towards the end of the summer which would not surprise me.
The modern American society has put a ridiculously disproportionate value on capital vs individual which is driving the dissonant signal from the stock market. People could be dying of hunger, but if the SP500 companies kept their numbers in line with expectation, the "stock market" would be green all over...
I really miss working with Phoenix/Elixir. While switching to the latest hottest tech rarely make sense, I really feel that the Phoenix core team has its head in the right place and when I see the features they put out it really makes me want to switch every project to it.
My issue with "traditional" cloud gaming providers of the like of Nvidia (on top of non stellar perfs), is they they have a limited catalog and offer no system control. I like to play old games that only run on windows and could therefore use a service like workstream. (Currently playing Warhammer online which requires dx9 so unless you have a way to manually install old drivers etc you can't really play)
Anybody used it for gaming? I was a beta user of the Nvidia service which is dedicated to gaming and while overall acceptable, lag spikes would render the use of the platform really frustrating. Everything would be smooth for 30s and then "lag" or freeze for up to 1-2s and then resume. Fine if playing the sims, but when you are in a fight in fast paced games it's a deal breaker. To my knowledge, so far, no platform has figured out the proper streaming/input lag management to make the experience truly seamless. Is this one different?
Looks clean. Wonder if that means the array of sensors needed for AR/Face id is still that expensive to make that they can't add it to their $400 phone. You'd think that by now after having multiple gens of flagship phones using it cost would be low...
This is how you realize the power of marketing. Despite many other options for video calls out there, Zoom seems to be grabbing the biggest slice of the pie, while not being provenly any better or superior to alternatives. See DHH's tweet: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1243907341868609537?s=20 as well as others (he's been pretty vocal about zoom's flaws) :)