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"Although its unlikely a policy change this momentous would be made, Valve has a history of making changes based on court rulings it’s involved in."

Sooo...Valve has a history of changing its policies to follow the law?

If you're seriously interested in the magic of Heinz Ketchup, this New Yorker longread by Malcolm Gladwell from 2004 remains the benchmark-

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...

Artificial refrigeration and air-conditioning also serves as a handy proof of work for all the cities that in fifty years will have newly hot climates battling scorching temperatures and partially underwater.

https://www.wired.com/story/this-scary-map-shows-how-climate...

Just last week on January 28th Vogue Business ran a huge feature on Angela Ahrendts with an exclusive interview and photo shoot, and now this? Seems like weird timing with how "work in progress" Vogue characterized her work at Apple with the tone of the piece. https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/angela-ahrendts-appl...

"After turning round the fortunes of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts is five years into reimagining Apple’s bricks-and-mortar presence. Vogue Business meets the tech behemoth's senior vice president of retail on the steps of its soon-to-be-unveiled Washington, DC, flagship"

I find it's easiest to avoid a lot of these scammy practices without the mental load of double- and triple-checking labels by only shopping at places that stake their reputation on the quality and curated nature of what they carry.

Costco and Trader Joes are two great examples.

Can't wait till rogue arrays of lasers start beaming advertisements directly into your ear while walking down the street.

If so, it'll weigh a lot more. It's easy to make a light vehicle that isn't reinforced.

How do these do in a crash test?

But Target and Walmart have a large amount of products in stock within an hour or so ready for pickup from small towns on up. That's not true for Amazon except in large cities. For most of the country, you still have to wait one or two days to pick it up if you order with Amazon.

This is what the pros use-

https://www.christmasdesigners.com/100-light-2800k-warm-whit...

They are full-wave rectified so they don't flicker, and have an interesting semi-directional output them gives them visual interest when draped on the strand that brings to mind old-style incandescent bulbs.

A warning, though--these are way too bright to use indoors.

No one uses Bing....

except every user of Windows 10 by default

I always wondered how Chinese sellers on Ebay could sell small toys and trinkets for less than a dollar with free shipping that took several weeks to arrive. It would cost more than that to send a small empty box between two addresses in the US.

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"Direct primary care only works as a complement to insurance that pays for more catastrophic care like emergency room visits and specialists."

This is like saying: "I've found a solution to high auto insurance costs! You can save lots of money and pay directly for small fender benders! Oh, by the way, if your car is totaled, you'll need to find someone else that covers those very costly catastrophes."

"Because society is sexist against women, society should be sexist against women."

"Apple removing the iPhone SE from sale does not mean you can stop designing for its resolution soon. Non-Plus iPhones can be used in zoomed mode, which means they’ll have the same logical resolution as an SE."

https://twitter.com/cocoafrog/status/1040144381112721408

If only the journalists that reported these stories in 2017 at BuzzFeed were real:

* Helping to free an innocent man who'd spent 23 years behind bars

* Exposing the true scale of Russia's targeted assassinations in the West — and how UK and US authorities have turned a blind eye

* Sexual assault at Massage Envy

* A dirty offshore bank — and its blue-chip Western enablers and protectors

* BP's dangerous accidents in Alaska

* The US government's shadowy national security contractors

* Whistleblowers: FBI software contains Russian-made code

and more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/markschoofs/the-year-in...

The front page of NYTimes.com currently lists among the hard news the headline "Dogs in Poofy Dresses. You're Welcome." but I don't think that prevents a wide range of age brackets from reading and supporting it.

All this plus-it is so much easier to have all my subscriptions for apps in one place to know who I'm paying monthly, and to able to cancel them all in one place through Apple.

I'm tired of signing up for subscriptions and going through a series of dark patterns on a zillion websites to figure out how to manage and cancel my subscriptions. The worst is when there's one click to subscribe and they make you phone in to an annoying retention specialist to cancel.

Counterfeit goods are made and sold at a scale unseen in the West in China. There are markets the size of football fields hawking these rip offs. How is it racist to suggest the Chinese have a laissez faire attitude about copying others' work?

To get accurate prices on ebay, check the filtering options in search results for your query and tick "Sold Listings."

It will then show only recently sold listings along with what they sold for. Completed listings that didn't sell because they were listed with unreasonable prices will not show up.

What do people actually use voice for besides playing music, smart home, transcribing and "widget" stuff like timers and weather?

Are there lots of people out there actually using it for productivity like scheduling, communicating, researching, comparing?

To me it seems like until voice AI gets smart enough to respond to a query like "Alexa, how will our Q4 projected net profits change if I switch widget vendors from AlphaCorp to BetaCorp?" an interactive screen will be needed.

Scary to think that the reveal of all passwords on MacOS shoulders on one person's accidental copy + paste of one line.

That they've nailed down a price point yet haven't defined the exact GPU beyond saying it's a Radeon makes the whole enterprise very suspect.

Richard Serra's most controversial piece, Tilted Arc, was removed after 8 years from a plaza in front of a building in Manhattan because "those who worked in the area found the sculpture extremely disruptive to their daily routines, and within months the work had driven over 1300 bureaucratic employees in the greater metro area to sign a petition for its removal."

"Serra states that the case exemplifies the U.S. legal systems preference towards capitalistic property rights over democratic freedom of expression."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_Arc

The major player currently is Walmart for most Americans. It's investing into online at a rapid pace, they recently added free online pickup for groceries and purchased Jet and Bonobos, so I think the real war will be between Walmart and Amazon/WF.

Value basics and speciality stores like Aldi and Trader Joes (which have very spotty coverage currently in the US) and regional full-inventory stores (Piggly Wiggly, Harris Teeter, Bi-lo etc) will pick up the crumbs.

Capitalism was a game in which the most clever Baby Boomers found a way to profit without recompense.

I've played Zelda on Switch docked for 10 hours and have not yet once experienced input lag. It occasionally hits seemingly 20-25fps with a lot of enemies and environmental grass and such for a few seconds but that has absolutely not sullied my experience of playing one of the most thoughtful and enjoyable games of all time.

Player agency in a medium without unlimited outcomes is a Choose Your Own Adventure, where the trick is done in plain sight and therefore unconvincing. Loom is just trying to tell a linear story in a convincing manner with the tools it has available, and it elevated the tools available. That's my only point.

I praised Loom for its inventive simplicity, and how it avoids text towards direct interaction, and you refute that by referencing Neuromancer, a game with, in your words, a "(comparatively) complex interface."

Neuromancer is riddled with complex text interfaces for every interaction. Every choice demands a read through, along with several text selections to decide from. Here's a video of how awful it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tNMdbq_Z7w

How is that more simple?