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I agree. This is one of those things that feels like real science fiction. It feels like the researchers are playing God with parts that they have no idea how they work.

I think I'm in favor of this work, but it is alarming.

I wish they explained what the actual issue/ FCC regulations were. The website's lack of information makes me feel suspicious

In most countries, people generally live with or near their extended families, and grandparents/aunts/cousins watch over the children if the mother works. This is much less common in America.

Probably less than 1%, if you mean actually buy vs. fractionally own.

I'd never heard of Cliqz before, but just did a couple of test searches, and I'm honestly super impressed with the results. I found the result relevancy seemed to be closer to Google than DDG/Bing

Ugly is the purpose. And I fucking love it.

I actually support this, despite being a strong advocate for privacy.

Statistically, assault by Uber drivers is really rare, but enough people take enough rides that I know multiple people who have had these experiences. Uber needs to have super-strict privacy controls and auditing on this, but it'll make a lot of people, especially women, feel more comfortable with taking Ubers.

I think you may be reading a different WSJ than I am

I don't know a huge amount about the manufacturing of the materials, so I'm not sure. The binding material may also be different for CLT.

That's incorrect. The structural properties are completely different.

It burns slowly enough that it doesn't conflagrate like unprotected hardwood or plywood might, so there's much more time to evacuate. If the fire isn't put out quick enough, however, the building may lose its structural integrity

The answer is basically that they don't know at this point. (Reference: I did extensive research on CLT as part of a project in LA a few years ago and talked to CLT experts from the Wood Products Council)

CLT is stiffer than plywood, and the construction techniques are closer to steel/concrete, so it'll likely need reinforcement or dampering. Traditional wood buildings these days are designed to flex in earthquakes.

But it hasn't been extensively tested for seismic properties yet

I use Tik Tok every day and like a good percentage of the content it shows me I’d consider “gay.” They may have restricted LGBT content in the past, but they definitely don’t now.

All the other comments are focusing on the Apple angle, but I want to comment on how amazing the developer, Riley, is.

I've seen him working on this project (Delta and the AltStore) for four or five years. It's a project he's passionate about, and he's building it for himself, not to try and make money. (In fact, he's turned down offers from startups and top tech companies to work on this). More than almost anyone else I know, Riley embodies the classical hacker ethos. I believe partway through the project he decided to make this open source, so he then went back and re-factored a lot of the code to make it easier to learn from.

Here's the repository, btw: https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore

It wouldn't break functionality for developers releasing apps in the app store, but it would break functionality for kid/teen developers and coding classes and people teaching themselves to code, which Apple cares a lot more about than people putting a Gameboy emulator on their phones

Newsletters can be incredibly profitable for media organizations because it 1) gets people to return to your content on a regular basis 2) can allow for more targeted advertising

I personally hate this trend, but almost everybody's doing it these days

but it's still cold as fuck

HL7 is just a text format. It doesn’t say anything about how the data is transmitted (which should always be encrypted these days)

Yes, there are newer standards, specifically FHIR (OAuth authenticated API). But why switch over to FHIR when HL7v2 works really well? Everybody in the medical industry supports this standard, and it’s super easy to work with once you know what you’re doing. It’s also arguably more interoperable than FHIR, because the sending and receiving parties don’t need to fully agree on the spec (like they must for an API). For HL7 messages, there’s a layer that sits in between called an “interface engine” that can modify messages, which opens up more capability with less development and coordination.

I can't find any recordings of 800 WPM synths. Would it be possible for you to make one? I'm curious of what it sounds like.

That's actually not that far off from what many cities end up spending per-ride for lesser-used bus service

The best way to reduce costs is likely to get more people to use the service, which will result in more trips being shared with more passengers. They could also look at usage data and consider developing fixed, regular routes which if done right will congregate more people into fewer vehicles

1) For anyone wondering, yes, many of these companies would have the same (or worse) problems if they tried to manufacture in the US. Our domestic supply chains for a lot of industries have dried up (or never developed). US factories also usually have higher minimum quantities and take much longer to tool up.

2) I'm surprised the article didn't mention Africa at all. A lot of Chinese industrialists are investing in Africa, and I suspect that Chinese-style supply chains have a good chance of developing there. If I was looking for a country to for long-term manufacturing strategies right now, I'd be taking a hard look at African countries.

Against my better judgment, I'm gonna comment that I hate this.

This is certainly a good business/investment opportunity. If your algorithms are any good you'll make a lot of money, and you'll help your customers make money.

My problem with Lofty is that it is bad for society.

Fundamentally, this is gentrification-as-a-service. You're driving additional demand to neighborhoods at inflection points, and if it works well it's definitely going to accelerate displacement. It is true that Blackrock et al already do this and likely have similar in-house algorithms, but this will widen the market and make things worse. I'm not completely against gentrification, especially when there's development that increases market supply- and when done right that can actually decrease displacement. (an example you're probably familiar with is the USC Village. Despite the criticism it gets, it removed thousands of student renters from the South Central LA market which likely resulted in downward pressure on prices) But housing speculation like this drives up prices and only hurts poor and minority communities.

To Jerry and Max: did you consider the ethical implications when deciding to start this? I completely see the angle that you're democratizing access to an investment asset that currently mainly benefits wealthy institutional investors. I imagine, though, that a lot of people are going to see your team of young almost-all-white males and paint you as everything that's wrong with tech, and you should consider to what degree that assumption represents the truth.

Probably. For example, transcranial magnetic stimulation is already being used to help treat depression, and there's likely a lot more that can be done among these lines.

I believe the mice used in a lot of research studies need to be genetically identical, so they need to be certain generation crosses

Except everyone who owns one seems to love the interior

I agree about long-form articles, but this isn’t an article, it’s a personal essay.

The problem with DE is it takes awhile for the bug to actually die, where as poison is instant

This concept really appeals to me, but I’m disappointed the article failed to talk at all about what could go wrong. Another comment here discussed the difficulty in decision making for big life choices, but in addition to that what happens when one of the couples falls out of love and wants to divorce? Suddenly the other couple might be expected to “choose sides” and the messiness of a normal divorce is compounded by semi-related children and communal responsibilities.

I use Notion for my personal productivity, and I highly recommend it. It's one of the few personal tools I'm happy to pay for. It many ways it's a personal wiki, and it is incredibly easy to use.

Notion has made it much easier to keep track of and refer back to my old notes. For example, I used to draft emails in an unorganized OneNote notebook. If I needed to find an old draft, I'd have to use search and hope that I remembered the right keywords. With Notion, I make all of my email drafts a subpage of an email page, which makes them much easier to find.

I hope my high school margin-doodles make the news in 300 years :)