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Verizon Outage 2 years ago

Congratulations to the app I used today that initially sent an SMS code, then offered it via WhatsApp.

I think some of it is organic, but it has been interesting to watch city park organizations build (or convert old tennis courts into) new pickleball facilities. It helps to have something that is both active and easy to start. You don't have to be particularly in shape at the beginning, gear needs are low, can be done year-round.

I love getting ebooks from my library. I can even request new books within my system that aren't out yet, then when they're released and purchased by the library, they are automatically put on hold and added to my account.

Do we have a word for "pining over something you never got to experience?" The whole born in the wrong generation effect. FWIW, arcades were always alive and well in movie theaters. Maybe not the big, expansive arcades, but <30 year olds at least understand the concept (also Dave & Busters, GameWorks, other similar outfits)

There's a service named Everplans that walks you through passwords, important documents, making an end of life plan, other stuff. They released a whole book on it that I haven't finished yet.

You setup contacts in the app and the contacts confirm they want to be involved. They receive a special link (or some other access method, I can't remember) and when you die, your contacts can say "(person) died, give me access to their information."

A confirmation is sent to the person that setup the account, they have a pre-determined amount of time to block the request. If the request is ignored the data is released to either some or all contacts. It's pretty slick but I would be terrified to start a business like that, with something like this you can't just let the business go under if things aren't going well.

Somali Law (2013) 4 years ago

Turns out it's actually a longer book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318933

tldr political systems in other countries are different

Judges are not officials with a position and salary but arbitrators accepted by the disputants. A judge has no special rights,16 such as the right to summon or cross-examine a witness. Nor is the judge viewed as an authoritative source of law. His job is to settle conflicts by applying the rules that people in the community normally observe. A judge who produces verdicts that meet general disapproval is unlikely to be asked to judge cases in the future.

Neither politicians nor religious dignitaries are responsible for developing or interpreting the general law, and, as a rule, neither can function in the law as judge, witness, or enforcer. Folk wisdom includes the sayings “One can change one’s religion; one cannot change the law” and “Between religion and tradition, choose tradition.”

It further goes into the intricacies of how conflicts are meant to be handled.

Not really. What's done is done as far as them having my data goes. The fundamentals of the app haven't changed yet and I plan to evaluate anything else based on the future.

I think people want authenticity and quick videos/answers, so Tik Tok and Instagram are really valuable in that sense. Especially for things like recipes, a lot of people don't want to scroll through a blog and a story just to get to the recipe content (and it's so much easier when you can visually see a recipe).

There are some good points in this piece but some of the conclusions seem like downstream impacts of reduced density and not inherent functions in the apps themselves. As an example: FB's recommendation system was probably great when a ton of people were visiting, checking into, and rating restaurants nearby. Less people, specifically young people as they mentioned, are contributing to that system which makes it worse.

This also seems like a natural outcome of FB's (well-meaning?) intention of making a business's main website their FB page; this makes small, less technical business owners happy, but end users not-so-happy when the hours, phone number, etc aren't updated. To say nothing of the many aforementioned people that deleted Facebook and can't properly review a menu or the restaurant's posts because they don't have the app and aren't signed in.

If you see a recent TikTok titled "top 3 places I'd recommend to someone visiting my city," you know those places are open + what the vibe is like + the type of people that go there.

What's funny is that Instagram and TikTok are similarly inauthentic, but TT (seems to be) more choose-y about which creators they'll show you. Further, sponsored ad regulations haven't caught up with TT in the same way as YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, secretly sponsored content is common but easy to spot. There are just as many influencers peddling ads on TikTok as Instagram. The positive user reaction is probably related to:

- format (you can only lie so much in a video)

- comments (if someone has their comments off you know something dramatic happened, also navigating comments on IG is a disaster)

- micro-influencer support

I expected it with web apps and can almost excuse it there, but switching native desktop UIs to this format seems weird.

Interesting to get data on this. People that use Twitter frequently take breaks, come back, and only tweet about how great life was without Twitter. I also think some function of this is in follower count. It's fun to have ~500 followers, somewhere around 5,000 is when your tweets start circulating to people outside your normal sphere of influence and the replies get annoying.

Restricting replies to mentioned users doesn't stop quote tweets, which doesn't stop your tweet from reaching even more annoying, more unrelated communities.

A bit macabre but some non-zero number are dead. I've frequently wondered if there will be a way to scrub/compile my online activity (within reason) for my family and friends to review after it's all said and done, otherwise I'll just live in a database forever.

I think it started as the latter, but the ideology kind’ve got away from itself and slowly manifested into reality as voters demanded more and more extreme positions from politicians to consider them “authentic.”