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Stereotypical? The only other time I can remember that the EU adopted something and it made any noticeable difference was GSM. It was a good five to six years after Europe that text messaging took off because the networks weren’t compatible; it felt like the stone ages.

Serious question: are you making this comment to justify being cynical? I can’t tell if you’re being neutral or not.

Can you speak a little more about your experiences in Miami? I'm reading this thread and the comments are abstract; I wonder if it does better in specific situations.

I tend to drive on 95 north, in Brickell, Downtown, Little Havana, on the 395 and 112, Miami Beach, north Miami (up to 100th), and to the airport. If it can handle these places it seems like it's something to consider.

I actually find automated ticketing, such as speed cameras, less intrusive than police. But they have to be visible. I've only dealt with them in Europe where everyone knows where they are. And I find them effective.

Unlike always-on cameras I like that they're not recording unless you break the law, and I like that they're objective unlike a police officer might be.

I'm surprised given what you've written that you're still interested in celebrity opinion.

Seeing this on HN, the first thing I focus on is WhatsApp. But if you read the article, this is a story that could play out on many networks in 2021; it just so happens WhatsApp is the most popular.

In my town, in the US, WhatsApp also plays a large role in civic life, commerce, rumors, etc., for better or for worse. It does feel like the medium is the message, but all the alternatives seek to more or less replicate the medium.

There is something to be said about WhatsApp being so integral to this story, but if you read the article, that's not really the story.

Anywho, we have pretty good mangoes here either way.

I don't completely disagree with what you're saying regarding the text, but as a person who loves the arts but doesn't work in it, I would appreciate speaking to a bona fide curator if I was asked to partake in an exhibition.

Sure, there is a chance of your so-called brainwashing (influence, in more generous terms), but an exhibition benefits from coherence and thought-out message.

I have a standalone internet radio device because I also wanted buttons.

To find streams I usually use Radio Garden: http://radio.garden

Use the network inspector while browsing stations and you'll find a working URL to the stream you can use anywhere.

This helps in that you don't connect directly to the image so it doesn't leak your IP and other info that would be available from the connection.

Marketing emails still send unique URLs for each recipient so they can associate your email address with opening any images and links. Google's proxy doesn't remedy this.

I fault David Remnick, the editor, for this. He really became obsessed with Trump during his presidency.

The thing is, it seems like Mr. Remnick has been a very good administrator of the magazine, guiding it through a very rough time for print media, so the chances that he will be replaced or step down anytime soon are slim.

That said, I am looking forward to a fresh perspective for the magazine in the future even if I still mostly enjoy it now.

I'm building a tool to take Instagram posts, parse the descriptions, and spit out a calendar.

I don't like browsing Instagram but a lot of events I'm interested in are only posted there. Instagram is very ephemeral, and because of the way the feed works it's very easy to miss posts if you don't browse constantly.

It works fairly well already though it still has a few false positives. It works on simple rules because machine learning would be too laborious to train. Still, I use it regularly and it's very handy to see what's happening around town.

All music.

> My main point is that there is no objective comparison between thousand of pieces and when we take the choices of the elite circle and compare it to intersubjective choices of the masses there would be little to no overlapping. So my point would still be "Why is your elite opinion more worth or correct than the collective opinion of the whole world?"

Exactly. This is more or less the same in the music world as it is in the visual arts.

Do you get the music world and how it works? It's very similar, and someone who didn't get music could make the exact same arguments you're making.

The visual arts take a tiny bit more effort to get into but once you're over that hump it's very similar.

I don't know about how the rest of things compare but to put it into perspective for you, in Florida in the USA, you need to pay $400/year to keep your company official. And Florida is considered a relatively easy place to do business.

This looks great. Is there any plan to add time tracking? It's the only reason I'm still with my current *books hosted solution, even though I'm not particularly happy with it.

I've been using the API for a personal project, and it doesn't let you access anything that you couldn't access in the app. It was just an API you could use instead of scraping the site.

That mention in the readme from 2016 mentions a UUID banned from Whatsapp, so I'm not sure if that's what the author meant or just something copied from another readme. Either way, if Instagram was banning UUIDs it would be as trivial as getting another phone to bypass it, or to log in via a web browser.

Can I ask what music?

It's been pretty good for me with new releases. I mean, it's not perfect but I listen to mostly indie rock and it's turned me on to a lot of stuff I enjoy, and it never suggests top 40. I also never use the thumbs up/down.