kirillzubovsky

No, no hippie shame at all. In fact, I suppose everyone has their own view on what a hippy is, and I should not have referred to it as "hippy" to begin with. It's too generic and yet personal, and doesn't quite describe anything specifically applicable to this case. my bad!

Good to note! One thing I definitely want to do when I have the means is built a cabin/house with the latest and greatest efficiencies. Not in a hippy-earth-loving way, but more in a curious engineer way.

Did you know there are these things called Earthships in New Mexico? It's a bit too hippy for me, but on the right track.

Smart idea. Whatever filters I picked up come with a little bluetooth chip on them and require an account with the manufacturer to get air quality information. I didn't bother for privacy reasons, but judging by 40k reviews on Apple Store, there are plenty of people who are subscribed to their air filter delivery. It makes a lot of sense.

Yup. It's been a fun weekend. Everyone in the family is feeling the cabin fever, but outside (Bellevue, WA) smells like inside of a fireplace. We put a few boxed fans with HEPA filters around the house and they are now black. In hindsight, should've bought more filters, but all the stores and Amazon are sold out for the near future.

Speaking about the future, this puts planning in perspective. With the climate changing, remote work, covid and all, the way we live in the next 20 years might look somewhat different than past 50. The new "American Dream" might be a tiny condo with great AC, minimal footprint, solar energy and rain water storage...etc.

It's a good time to ponder what the real estate and living of the future could look like!

From what I heard the translations actually came from customers who read the comic in English and then wanted it to be available in their language.

Yeah, I agree. It's easier to read if you zoom out the page a bit, but perhaps more spacing and slightly visible edges around each box would make it easier to consume.

Love seeing team Replit respond to feedback and move fast. I am using them for https://suddenschools.org courses and couldn't be happier. Being able to start with the same environment for every student is a huge plus. Keep on crushing it!

Just read one on the "Tunnel Effect." Indeed, a simpler time. What's neat is that same lessons still stand. Just because we have more computing power today, doesn't mean we should not do thing in a simpler manner.

I definitely remember "There is no speed limit," with almost scary amount of detail. I guess that's how you know it's a well written blog! Will definitely check out the rest of his posts. Thank you!

It is about time companies stop rewarding employees for time spent doing work, as opposed to results of the deliverables.

In SV there is a myth that employees that are young and single are somehow more productive. That might be in a cruel sense true for the founders, as you most likely have no obligations outside of your company and generally feel like spending 24 hours devoted to it, but for an employee, this notion is utterly false.

Plenty of married/parents spend unhealthy amount of time on their work, and plenty of single employees spend way too much time talking and playing games in the office, all to appear as if they are putting in the long hours.

Meanwhile, although parents certainly have a lot less "free time," you also learn to be very efficient with it. Talk less, do more, be more strategic, ..etc.

There is no one size fits all, and it's just lazy to say that one group is more productive than the other solely based on the factor of hours theoretically available to do work.

HODL. There is going to be a coin split in 3..2..1.

You are paying attention!

Opened this in my 64th browser tab.

FYI, they just got a big chunk of users from Mixer, a Microsoft-funded Twitch competitor that shut down.

Clickbait title. Please change to "Facebook Music Guidelines," or something that isn't editorialized to make it sound like Facebook is against music.

At most, this guideline says not to stream other people's music to the internet without a license, which is very reasonable, given that artists want to get paid and wouldn't want you to play their songs on air for 2 billion people to enjoy for free.

Otherwise, it quite literally states the opposite - please do play your music for your friends, so long as it is yours.

To piggyback on this question, I am also curious - would Optimizely choose to go this Enterprise sales route if it weren't for their sky high valuation back in the day. How much of this change was driven by the customers' need vs. a perceived opportunity to grow the company?

Right on, I too believe a big chunk of the future office will look a lot more like a Starbucks, or the main lobby of a WeWork. A place to hang out with your coworkers, and a quit room for occasional meeting, an office that you visit once or twice a week, or maybe a month. It still makes a lot of sense to meet at a place that's not a public coffee shop, but has all the atmosphere and amenities.

You could, but it's no where near as integrated or smooth. I am not advocating that Rails go away and be replaced by Next, but I think there are certain applications where it makes a lot of sense to use Next instead of rails.

Would you be keen to come on my podcast (https://www.raddadshow.com) to talk about this? IMO buying 10 years of freedom with 12 months of work is a pretty good deal! Many people that have money end up with less. It would be fun to explore your life, and maybe inspire future generations to reconfigure priorities.

Perhaps that’s an incorrect assumption, that a unicorn needs to be profitable. All they need is to be growing, and show a potential for future upside. If they make net zero, or even keep losing money, doesn’t matter as long as the growth continues because there is always going to be someone else further down the road willing to buy into the story. In theory.

Interesting. I view it as the opposite. Making the retailer liable forces them to use established supply chains and that is why we end up with M&Ms and other junk food at gas stations, instead of home-made buns, sandwiches and other food that doesn't come in a tube.

I am note sure what's the right answer. Just thinking out loud.

Oh the other hand, you can also find a "knock off" device that costs 1/4 of the original price and works just as well. It's manufactured in the same factory as the original, but cuts corners and doesn't have fancy packaging, or anything fancy really.

The argument is that in a free market a consumer should have a choice. You want a great branded product, go with a known brand. You want to save money, try the little guy, with all the caveats that come with it.

Actually, on the contrary, imagine you went to Safeway, and they sold you a carton of juice. You came home, and found out the juice was poisoned.

According to this ruling, Safeway, the delivery company, the guy who moved the boxes, and everyone in between you and the manufacturer, are all at fault.

Isn't that plain crazy? Safeway has no control over the juice in the box, except for being able to follow their own guidelines on refrigeration, and check the expire date.

Short of manufacturing their own laptops, how is Amazon to ensure those batteries won't malfunction. How is your corner 7/11 able to ensure that your Gatorade does't have piss in it. How is your gas station able to ensure that those M&Ms you bough don't have nails in them?

If you make stores liable for the products they sell, it removes all the incentive to make good products. Manufacturers can ship anything, who cares, the stores are at fault!

It's a valid point. They are probably doing R&D there because it is much cheaper than doing it in US. There was news somewhere that Zoom was moving all servers to US, and chances are they will have to move some development here as well, if they want to avoid being directed by the Chinese government.

The point about China R&D is a good one, and of course something to consider for other companies now and in the future. After all, he explains that Google was not banned in China, until Google put some operations into the country.

I think the article isn't trying to cover all the basis, but rather highlight that there are many difference ways to look at this problem.

My first impression after watching your preview is "Powerpoint which can take in screencast and live video." Not entirely if this is what it does, but is the closest thin in my mind.

The major difference from just recording via a tool like Loom or Soapbox is that video sits on top of Slides, and can be played back every time one moves up/down the slides.

Basically, unlike a typical screencast, this one has chapters, so you can give a presentation without physically being in the room. Interesting.

If it makes you feel any better, from what I heard from a knowledgeable source, this is worse in medical field. A lot of people have gotten really good at milking Gates Foundation and alike for grants worth tens of millions. They do the song and dance to pretend that research is being done, and results are just around the corner; ten years later they rinse and repeat.

Perhaps the best you can do is to be one of the good ones, and put making a difference over making a load of cash.

I worked for one of the Canadian carriers, and they are only not a monopoly as far as the paper definition is concerned, but in practice they do in fact gather in smoke-filled rooms and decide to screw their customers (your words, not mine). They are also very good at pretending they don't.

Apple on the other hand has created an infrastructure to enable a billion interconnected devices, and they are now charging a fee to operate. They are not colluding or preventing competition, they are simply saying there's a price to play, and it's 30%.

It's natural that Fortnite doesn't want to share their profits, in the same way that Apple doesn't want to be the only ones taking the loses, but every time this question comes up, lots of comments assume Apple should bend over simply because it's bigger and wealthier.

No, not at all. Maybe just a playful stomp. Here's the explanation of how it all went down - https://bit.ly/31vAPes

Reminds me of that time when Caterpillar was suing a coffee shop for the word "cat". (original story: https://smashnotes.com/p/cat-cloud-podcast/e/being-sued-by-c...).

I can understand why big companies do it, they want to protect their brand and make sure they are the only ones who are associated with any words remotely close. As a business, it makes sense. But then again, for the rest of us, it's really weird that one company want to own a fruit, and another a house animal.

Could it be that trademark system, when establish, simply did not see this coming? What's a good solution, from a legal perspective, something that gives companies a way to defend their brand, but within "reasonable" powers, where simply gobbling all words in the space is probably no longer reasonable?

Btw, I tried the API and it works! There's a small caveat, for anyone who might trying it too.

If you have an active Affiliates account with Amazon, and you qualify for the API access, it won't be enabled even when you get your key-pair. The API will throw a generic error "Too many requests."

You have to go to >Contact Us< section of the affiliate program and ask them to enable your access.