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And even if it's iTunes Match and not Apple Music, it's still a pain. Half the time it tells me it's playing the song I wanted and in reality it's playing something completely different. The other half the time it can't find the song.

When I needed a plumber I reached out to a bunch of buddies to see who they use.

I got quotes from three of their recommendations and ended up using the one a buddy found on the back of a church bulletin. Guy was amazing - a one man shop - super professional, fair price, quality work and replacement parts. Done in less than 1 hour. It's great to have a trustworthy plumber.

Flip side is identity thieves do your taxes early for you and get your refund.

Other large companies are similar. I worked for one multinational where they only allowed employee donation matching in narrow cases:

- certain large universities

- certain large hospitals

And that's it. I wrote to HR multiple times asking if my local health related charity could be part of their matching donations. Finally got a terse answer saying "no, only the ones on the list."

Some enterprises are so scared of anything remotely resembling controversy that they severely restrict matching, and others just don't offer it at all.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is fantastic about employee matching.

So there is no info or post-it notes on any of the record sleeves that indicate the original owner? No markings or perhaps labels indicating where the records were purchased?

I'm guessing maybe the police didn't want to deal with storing all these boxes, taking up space while waiting for someone to claim them.

Another happy itsycal user - I love how tiny and customizable it is.

One thing you might try is reading aloud. Ref: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200917-the-surprising-p...

I find this really helps me both focus and retain what I'm reading, even though it takes a bit longer. It also helps tremendously when reading ancient texts, the Bible, etc.

Good idea, but I think it might work better if you had an Android device. Siri is not great at definitions and you often have to literally spell things out for her. (if she hears you at all and doesn't start randomly calling your aunt instead of providing a definition)

I've tried this, but I find the screen refresh of e-ink displays very distracting. I also prefer scrolling text when reading vs. flipping virtual pages - which limits me to non e-ink displays.

I just created a Reading Focus mode on my iPhone that automatically limits the number of apps available / notifications visible when I'm reading. We'll see how this works.

My first computer had an amber monitor. With a Wang keyboard. And a turbo button.

This podcast is a good way to get the gist of a book directly from the author in 50 minutes without having to actually read through the whole (padded) slog.

I learned about a simple way to improve my balance on the last episode I listened to: stand on one foot while brushing your teeth. Is this manly? I'm not sure.

"Potty Training in 3 Days"

Worked for my children. Saved us a bunch of money on diapers as they were both ready and asking to use the potty at slightly over 2 years old.

Agree with your second paragraph, but for some books, I've gotten too used to being able to look up words/topics directly from the ebook. I find myself annoyed I can't long press a word with a physical book.

I then end up grabbing my phone and looking up the word/topic, and then it's back to the electronic device that I was trying to get away from with the paper book.

Can you use ChatGPT without a phone number yet? I thought about signing up a while ago but don't see a reason they need my phone number. Popular VOIP numbers don't work either.

Note that Brave Search also has "lenses" / filters, and it has them for free. https://search.brave.com/goggles

There's a copycats removal goggle and a HackerNews-top1000-sites goggle. I use them from time to time, but wish I could automatically include the filter with all searches by default (or maybe there's a way and I don't know how).

Good overview. $1400+tax though, wow. That "speed walker" he was racing against really looked like he was running ...

If alcohol can damage your short term memory imagine the damage alcohol can do

Then it's time to vote those city council members out until they start listening their constituents.

Sometimes this is self evident:

For the Young/New: souped up fart can cars / Econobox

For the Elderly: Pale Blue Lincoln Town Cars

But I would like to see these stickers in the U.S. too, along with Germany's much tougher driver education requirements.

Thank you. I had no idea what this signage meant.

I've been wanting this for years. And just left feedback for Apple Maps for exactly this feature: https://www.apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ipados.html

Maddening when you have to scroll through several paragraphs and repeated mentions of DFS just to find out what DFS stands for:

Dynamic Frequency Selection

To quote Elon: Acronyms Seriously Suck

I can’t find much in this article about why food deserts exist in the first place. One big reason is it costs more to deliver food into high crime areas. It costs more to secure the property and employees who work in those areas.

Scroll view is way better, it’s how you do most of your other reading on the phone.

The old page flip animation was always distracting to me. I haven’t used the new one.

I agree it's difficult to care for an impoverished child. My mom was a single mother that was close to becoming homeless, and we both survived. There are many free resources for single mothers. (for example, WIC, a program that provides nutritious free food for Women, Infants, and Children)

But imagine a two-year old child in front of you. His mother is poor and feels she cannot care for him. He lives in the slums of a country where children cannot be adopted. Should his mother be allowed to kill him?

> We'll also never know how many people who made big contributions would have been murdered by unwanted, abused, and neglected children who grew up to become criminals.

It's probably true that if we kill impoverished unwanted toddlers, future crime rates could potentially decline. That doesn't make it moral to do so.

That's 60 million children missing over almost 50 years, or ~830K/year. But not all of these were "unwanted". Many women are pressured into abortion by abusive, manipulative, cowardly, and responsibility-shirking men.

As for the truly unwanted ones, ~33 million couples in the U.S. are infertile. There are untold thousands of families waiting to adopt. A few of them are listed at https://www.americanadoptions.com/family_profile/browse

As for me, I'm raising several children. My wife and I have considered adopting on top of that. I was adopted.

Steve Jobs was adopted. So was John Hancock. Nelson Mandela. Leo Tolstoy. Ray Liotta. Simone Biles.

In terms of economic and societal impact, I'd wager somewhere in those 60 million missing children, there were a few hundred kids that could have grown up and made a real positive impact on our lives. We'll never know how many diseases would have been cured by now, or Olympic medals won. Millions of lives. Just gone.

Unpopular opinion, but I'd argue the last ~50 years of legalized abortion, with over 60 million lives lost, also accounts for a large percentage of the missing workforce. (Even more so when you consider the loss of their children and their children's children.)

> 18% of the workforce has been wiped out by abortion, and this number will climb to 23% by 2035.^1

> While labor force participation may rise in the short run due to mothers choosing to work instead of taking time off to raise kids, unrestricted abortion is likely to decrease labor supply in the long run. Since the Roe decision in 1973 an estimated 63 million abortions have occurred in the United States. If all of these aborted babies had been otherwise carried to term and survived until today, they would add nearly 20 percent to the current U.S. population, and nearly 45 million would be of working age (18 to 64).^2

(1) https://www.hli.org/resources/abortion-affect-united-states/ (pro-life site warning, but it cites sources including the Census Bureau and Planned Parenthood's own research arm, the Guttmacher Institute)

(2) https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b8807501-210c...

My wife has an iPhone and is able to use her Nest app at the same time I'm able to.

But we generally don't use the Nest app much any more, except to use its horrible scheduling interface (horrible because Google's UI for changing the schedule is way too finicky and non-standard).

Everyone in the house uses HomeBridge which has a fantastic Nest plugin. The plugin uses the API you mention. Much faster than opening the Nest app. Less than 1 second to update the temperature and hear the furnace kick on via the iPhone's control center.

For more like this, check out Fadell's interview with Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/tony-fadell/

I'd be interested in any research that backs up your point 1. Russia is not all that economically prosperous. Neither is Mongolia.

Singapore and Taiwan are very much so. And Singapore is right on the equator.