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I would have bought the 13 mini except at the time the 13 Pro's 3x camera, 120hz and better battery was notable.
Now I kind of dread what will be available when it's time to finally upgrade this year. Am sure they could make a new mini that didn't seem as compromised, but now they think the size is non-viable.
Bring back when small was not a synonym for cheaper.
Walmart+ has the basic Paramount+ included fwiw
There’s a pretty fundamental difference between consoles and smartphones.
Including that most consoles are sold at a loss or close to it vs. allegedly being an open platform like iOS and android.
Epic being such an important partner to all gaming companies also gives them more skin in the game there.
They kind of do with the GPT, but it’s not as simple as just opening a Windows exe.
Need to go through the motions of configuring per game as it’s not meant to be end user software.
And I don’t think you can publish games using it directly. Still have to do the port itself.
I'll never forget the first time I booted up GLQuake. The mid/late 90s was a really special time in gaming getting to watch 3D games really get off the ground.
As an Apple user and web dev, I like some of their restrictions because I prefer incentive to build native apps for things I do all the time. They’re usually showing a lot more polish and integration.
Every time Twitter or Instagram bring up their custom share sheets I get super annoyed it’s not the default. PWA’s can probably get a lot of that, but a ton of web UX is arbitrary, unique, and more likely to feel janky in ways.
Even for well done web apps, like Notion, it stands out like a sore thumb when parts of the editor don’t work like normal Mac input controls.
I think PWA’s will have a lot of uses, but I don’t want them to take over either or Google get a browser monopoly. It’s bad enough how many devs don’t use anything but Chrome when testing. The web is what it is because it is not beholden to one company like the IE6 days
No, for decades DHH was almost obnoxiously pretty far left.
That he is now being labeled a nazi for saying we went too far with masks and that crypto might have a use after all because the ability for government to cut off all your money with no recourse is dangerous for society… it’s absurd and pretty much exactly what he often complains about now
Whether DHH is a dick (he is) or at times a diva, he’s literally none of the things this Twitter account is trying to label him as.
To call him far right is ludicrous, and pretty much the exact absurdity he’s often writing about in regards to people being unable to handle any differences of opinion anymore.
The leap to “you disagree? Nazi!” is why we all need to quit Twitter
CodeWeavers apparently has WINE running through Rosetta 2, which is wild from a technical standpoint and gives me hope for my older PC games. https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/jwhite/2020/11/10/its-great...
The real question is… how long does Rosetta 2 stick around? Rosetta 1 only lasted OSX 10.4 - 10.6.
Same with Didi in China, not sure about the Russian ride shares though
Charter cities are things that exist conceptually. Most famously Hong Kong and Singapore “special administrative zones”, but there are increasingly initiatives on the horizon trying to help fix institutions in countries lacking them around the globe: https://www.innovativegovernance.org/
Yeah, comparing WeWork to FANG is pretty silly. The benefits that matter are the massive salary on top of max 401k matching and 3 gourmet meals a day.
Free coffee and beer doesn't begin to compare (not that I don't think what WeWork offers is useful)
Churches provide a lot of charity and communal support in most places where they are still relevant.
Community masters, one of the reasons that SLC has the highest income mobility in the country
Not to mention the pension bomb waiting to go off. That's one big thing that'll help reverse brain drain in most blue states at some point.
Source: grew up in NJ and lives in MA
I don't see how moving from Boston to NYC or SF solves anything you're referring to. Boston is younger than both and while expensive to live still cheaper.
NYC is full of tinder box apartments. The dating pool in SF is way more lopsided than the east coast. Uber made the subway thing less relevant (though as someone who moved here and got older, the late hours also mean less to me now than earlier)
Also MA is allegedly top ranked for millennials https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/04/09/best-states-millennia...
Homes are expensive in MA but not cheaper in either SF or NY.
Boston also one of three US cities outside SV expected to be top 10 globally in tech for the foreseeable future https://boston.curbed.com/2019/2/26/18240310/boston-technolo...
As for families, I don't see how either NY or CA is better off for education.
There's plenty of reasons to leave Boston for either of those cities, but the ones you cite really don't make a whole lot of sense.
The alleged "socialist" success stories tend to have strong labor laws, but also much less business regulation and be much more free market than the typical American has been led to believe.
Sweden for example has no minimum wage and fully voucher-ized education which are anathema to the US left.
So I'd disagree there aren't things holding students in the US back, they just hold the entire DNC captive.
Sweden also has a flat tax. They depend on high income tax across the board unlike the US, but also have higher institutional trust/social cohesion (easier with a low pop) and frankly better governance overall.
Culture matters. It's why southern Europe is not like northern.
There's no quick fix that can be cherry picked to make the US like Nordic nations.
I don't know if it's 5g or not but I have 300-500Mb wireless internet in Boston right now. There's at least two companies doing it.
I can't say for sure, but I have a hard time believing a lot of our spend is less efficient than other nations (just like our spend on most sectors of the economy that are heavily government-involved, like healthcare and education where we get less bang for the buck)
Actually, taller is not necessarily more efficient… Consistent 6 stories may even be optimal:
These kinds of articles are laughably tone deaf.
"Economists are virtually unanimous in concluding that rent controls are destructive. In a 1990 poll of 464 economists published in the May 1992 issue of the American Economic Review, 93 percent of U.S. respondents agreed, either completely or with provisos, that “a ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available.”1 Similarly, another study reported that more than 95 percent of the Canadian economists polled agreed with the statement.2
The agreement cuts across the usual political spectrum, ranging all the way from Nobel Prize winners milton friedman and friedrich hayek on the “right” to their fellow Nobel laureate gunnar myrdal, an important architect of the Swedish Labor Party’s welfare state, on the “left.” Myrdal stated, “Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by governments lacking courage and vision.”3 ___His fellow Swedish economist (and socialist) Assar Lindbeck asserted, “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”___
If you want an article that makes LA schools look bad, it would probably be this one: https://www.city-journal.org/html/worst-union-america-13470....
Not sure about Mountain View but in SF its > 60%
https://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/12/17565192/housing-needs-trend...
It's a disastrous policy, and one of the main reasons SF housing is such a mess. Tenant laws also tend to incentivize booting everyone at once and converting to condos instead of renting units.
Fortunately modern Quake engines handle making it look closer to the software renderer in those regards...
Same w/ my Voodoo2. I keep meaning to frame it.
I think you're putting too much weight into Picketty's fairly contentious conclusions.
https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/99455/...
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/unpersuaded.html
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/capital-...
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/krugman-reviews-picketty/
(for some starters, if you somehow have not seen how it is not the Bible that some people want it to be?).
Also it is hard to compare Europe's norms which country-by-country are generally featuring a lot more ethnic-cohesion and have social spending heavily subsidized by America's military (not to mention much more density for things like trains)
I say this as someone who wishes there were more dense, EU-style cities in America.
Mobility is certainly not dead in America, and the middle class is shrinking because more people are moving up and making more money overall: http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-the-us-middle-class-is-sh...
I think anyone trying to say "you don't know how shitty you have it!" is akin to saying "you vote against your own interests" which is really saying "I think I know better than you" -- which is trash.
The fact of the matter is a lot of people prefer US-style suburban living.
America certainly has its share or problems, reliable/trustable Governance being a big one (social welfare spending in the US, despite the money thrown at the problem, is just not up to the standards of northern EU although certainly preferable to what goes on in southern EU -- see cohesion argument though culture matters a lot too)
See this as an example why both the left and right suck when it comes to US healthcare: https://www.econlib.org/the-case-for-european-health-care/
In fact, I would argue much of the problem in the US arises because our politicians are simply full of bad ideas and not held accountable to them. Fortunately our institutions restrict them from running amok too much.
ex: the US subways suck because city politicians allowed construction and transit unions to run roughshod over the taxpayers for years on top of increasingly stupid regulations (lol @ US being the reliable land of laissez-faire) and that is why it costs 7x more to deploy subway in the US than most first world nations https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Still, I am willing to bet a chunk of cash that the US generally has the better recipe for ensuring economic dynamism and mobility. I'll take the hopeful over the complacent, given the choice.
While not any HQs, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and (pretty sure in some form) Apple are all in the greater Boston area and certainly have had an impact on salaries.
As for funding: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/04/boston-area-startups-are-o...
I don't think Boston is as much as a slouch as you think, in fact it's is pretty well positioned for the long term in regards to overall industry diversity and pretty respectable funding (though not as dominated by software like SF might be)
Salaries are probably lower because overall COL has traditionally been lower here (though housing sure isn't far behind anymore). Most people I know working for the big companies are getting ~$250k total comp (8-10 years exp). Other large, if more under the radar, companies are not too far behind.
The tastiest burger
Well, if the future moves on to streaming and they can't keep pace with Microsoft or Google's infrastructure advantages… I think there's a lot of uncertainty in the market as strong as they might be with the PS4. In a world where you buy a cheap screen and never upgrade anymore, what would be left for Sony to do? I guess go for Nintendo's market more w/ dedicated portable hardware, but who knows what that'll even be with smartphones being ubiquitous for the streaming services.