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maxwell··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Nothing to prevent sovereign countries from declaring to be on different day if they want to.

The BIT anchor would not be changed for political reasons, unless approved by residents of Baker Island.

maxwell··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
Higher quality and generally made in free countries (https://www.restaurantsupply.com/saute-pans), versus the cheap stuff made in authoritarian countries with questionable coatings/materials that some consumers opt for. Vollrath stuff has always been good in my experience. Preventing sticking and scratching are mostly skill issues, but everybody burns something (during prep) every now and then. I never saw a new pan or a pan thrown away in any kitchen I worked in.
maxwell··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
No, not with UTC-12 (all positive offsets) or UTC+12 (all negative offsets). Any other anchor time zone creates separate days, i.e. positive and negative offsets.
maxwell··on Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
That's not true at all. Go to any professional kitchen. You'll only see metal on metal.
maxwell··on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
UTC is problematic since it splits the day: when it's midnight in Greenwich, it's still yesterday for half the world. The Unix epoch occurred in 1969 in Hawaii.

BIT (UTC-12) is better. Only positive offsets. Everyone on the same day.

maxwell··on Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical games online
Most of their IP is itself derivative: fairy tales, mythology, classic novels, a Buston Keaton film, etc.

With OG Mickey now lost to the public domain, they're shifting to trademarks [1], merchandise, media access (i.e. hastening the demise of physical media [2] to regain the cinema-style control they always favored until VHS busted open their vault and briefly enabled media ownership/collectibility/free repeat viewing), sports, and theme parks. Note that they now bring in more from sports and experiences than entertainment. [3]

They'll look to commoditize copyright, so creators continue working for them for distribution instead of operating independently. If they can't automate the creators.

1. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-courts-dog-toy-ruli...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2023/08/02/with-sale...

3. https://www.statista.com/statistics/193140/revenue-of-the-wa...

maxwell··on Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical games online
That's what Big IP wants. If copyright is drastically shortened, Mickey Mouse can rake in new IP more quickly and further reduce royalties for creators.

Instead let's support creators directly, boycott publishers, buy and produce physical media, avoid media subscriptions, and shift gaming to open source.

maxwell··on Buy payphones and retire
Makes sense. Also would probably hit into full occupancy pretty quickly. I guess you could use it as a warehouse for black market goods or something too though.
maxwell··on Buy payphones and retire
I was thinking the other day that self-storage facilities seem ideal: you don't even need to account for discrepancies in utility usage, as in missing water at car washes and laundromats. Just say units are rented and paid in cash. Not aware of any KYC laws but haven't looked recently.
maxwell··on Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds
Pine. Oak. Jute. Bamboo.
maxwell··on Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results
Looks tippy.
maxwell··on Web Browser Engineering (2021)
Which do you recommend?
maxwell··on Meta Movie Gen
Such as?
maxwell··on The Birth of Synthetic Entities
Nah
maxwell··on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Sounds like a healthy competitive marketplace!
maxwell··on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge
Speak for yourself. I love shopping around and comparing prices. Competition is not bloat.
maxwell··on Meta Movie Gen
What remaining institutions still command any trust?
maxwell··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
How will you know when it's sufficiently general?
maxwell··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Won't need most of humanity wasting time gatekeeping and toiling, to instead focus on study and leisure.
maxwell··on WTF Is a Moat?
Usually network effects.

https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-manual

maxwell··on Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)
https://youtu.be/BD-z8ZqVpP8?si=yBdJmDrDWXrJMpvz
maxwell··on Vanishing Culture: Preserving Cookbooks
Cooking isn't baking. Recipes with a mix of languages are usually better. Those units are fine for home use. Recipes, as algorithms/programs, are meant to be run, and iterated on. If you do make them, you can also weigh out all the ingredients in grams for future cooks if you want more exactness, discarding volumes and multiple units.
maxwell··on Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
Boris Vallejo vs. Frank Frazetta

https://www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/blog/2015/09/3388

maxwell··on Behind OpenAI's plan to make A.I. flow like electricity
But he has such force of will.
maxwell··on Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate
On the contrary—preventing modification of cars is illegal in my state.
maxwell··on You can now preorder Jony Ive's new jackets
Hideous.
maxwell··on Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects
What do you advocate for an alternative identifier and how do you combat spam without verifying a phone number?
maxwell··on Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?
Sounds like Gusto is the only acceptable option then. Thanks for the info!
maxwell··on Why GitHub won
They're now calling it "Google Workspace" for the moment.

Like Google Domains?

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6069226

maxwell··on Australia to Impose National Age Limits on Social Media Websites
It's the way they're used and how they alter behavior and affect those in the vicinity. Phones are antisocial. Tablets and watches and laptops are not.
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