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Edward Benjamin Zitron (born 1986 or 1987) is an English technology writer, podcaster, and public relations specialist. He is a critic of the technology industry, particularly of artificial intelligence companies and the 2020s AI boom.
I often think about how unreasonably great the regulations around “Unsubscribe” links in emails are.
There really seems to be no loophole or workaround despite there being huge incentive for there to be one.
My spam folder constantly receiving new messages from political campaigns under new lists and org names begs to disagree. One donation in 2008 and I'm simply trapped in the system with no recourse.
Seems like the rules selectively don't apply to certain classes.
How many collective human lifetimes have been eliminated by security theater?
A lot of those big box retailers have long opened up their digital storefronts to the "marketplace" concept too. Best Buy, Home Depot, and Walmart are the first three that come to mind.
College isn't just a place that teaches you how to do a job
Sorry, what? This statement feels like the exception, not the norm for most people who have attended college.
As an aside, this website has one hundred and sixty seven trackers and loading them caused my CPU temperatures to spike so high that my fans kicked into high gear.
I lost a lot of weight on ketosis several years ago but could not maintain the diet and gained it all back shortly after. Since then I've found something that works better for my body that I can sustain which keeps some of the principles of keto.
I no longer limit my carbs, but when I eat carbs they come from rice and potatoes instead of wheat because I wore a CGM for two-week periods of time multiple times last year and the year prior and found that wheat was always the number one culprit spiking my blood sugar which would result in massive carb crashes, which overall affected my energy levels which snowball into negative second-order effects on my feelings of productivity and mood.
I fired my local hospital earlier this year. I had to get a biopsy and I did not receive my results in a timely manner because my specialist's office decided they needed to play phone tag with me instead of just sending me the results through the godawful amalgamation known as Epic.
The biopsy was indeterminate, and instead of immediately sending it out for a second opinion or molecular testing they decided to wait until I could see my specialist before giving me the options. I immediately told them to go for the second opinion and to check about insurance approval for molecular testing.
They had no idea how to bill me for molecular testing because the pathologist for some reason never suggested it in their report (which I later learned from another peer specialist at another hospital that molecular testing would have been written on the report for insurance approval purposes).
My insurance adamantly insisted that it would be covered, and then turned around and told my hospital that I would have to pay nearly six thousand dollars out of pocket.
The second opinion took three weeks, which concurred with the original pathology report and finally put the magic words "recommend molecular testing" on paper which got insurance to approve it. But rather than push it through, my specialist decided to play phone tag with me for a couple more days to make sure I was okay with the fifty dollar copay.
This entire process, from start to finish, took six and a half weeks to learn that the biopsy sample was benign and nothing to worry about. Now imagine if this were a serious thing and that I needed to have surgery as soon as possible. A six and a half week feedback loop to begin scheduling surgery (every surgeon for this issue in my area was booked at least five weeks out) may as well be a death sentence.
I've come to the conclusion that in this country, even if you are extremely proactive and aggressive about advocating for your own health, it's still not enough. You have to supplement this with something proactive like a full body examination in a foreign country (i.e. Japan's Ningen Dock system), otherwise you risk dying from the apathy and bureaucracy of the American medical system.
I am! I pay for apps and IAPs if they're useful.
Hello! I apologize for this being extremely out of context but five months ago on one of my comment threads you recommended Takayama Showa-Kan and I wanted to let you know that I visited it last month and loved it (and Takayama as a whole). Thanks again for the rec!
"Historic" has been a pretty popular adjective these days used to overstate the significance of a statistic or fact.
From the FBI's own data[1], which is used as the main citation of this post, these were the homicide rates per 100k for the past eleven years:
2012: 4.7
2013: 4.5 (-0.2)
2014: 4.4 (-0.1)
2015: 4.9 (+0.5)
2016: 5.4 (+0.5)
2017: 5.3 (-0.1)
2018: 5.0 (-0.3)
2019: 5.1 (+0.1)
2020: 6.5 (+1.4)
2021: 6.8 (+0.3)
2022: 6.3 (-0.5)
Using this data, the same headline could have been run in 2018. This number is +1.2 pre-pandemic.
[1] https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim...
I flew ZipAir earlier this year and I liked how they handled boarding.
Their "full flat" (the Business section) boards at any time because the seats are to the left as you enter the plane, but the rest of the cabin begins boarding from the rear rows first in groups of something like ten or twenty rows at a time.
I'm still not sure where this $5k number came from. The description says:
REVR could cost as little as $5k without rebates and can be installed in under a day.
What are the conditions in which it "could" cost this amount, and has it already been achieved?
If I were looking for a job, I would gladly pay a couple hundred dollars to use this. There is real value in a streamlined way to track all of my applications' statuses like this. I've used lists on Asana with custom categories in the past, but this is a lot cleaner.
If you'd really rather not go the monetization of job seekers route, one suggestion would be to try and sell this to people running upskill programs i.e. coding bootcamps as a product they could give their students/graduates access to.
Seems like an American version of capsule hotels that have been prevalent in Japanese culture for decades.
It turns out that PayPal's stablecoin contract allows them to freeze holders from transacting, amongst other things:
https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672
The USDC contract also allows for the freezing of addresses.
https://twitter.com/0xCygaar/status/1688592430315036672
PayPal's stablecoin contract allows for the freezing of funds in any given address.
An mp3 player was in every kid's jeans pocket before the ipod was even announced
This is a strange statement. I grew up in the Bay Area and a CD player was in my hands/in the back pocket of my backpack for the longest time. It wasn't until the second iPod Mini that I even knew what an iPod was.
I don't see anything in OP's post nor the linked "why I built it" that would suggest ActivityPub or federation. What are you seeing that suggests that these terms are missing?
There was nothing in GP's comment stating anything covered by your hyperbole.
You're right, I was lashing out at the general vitriol in every comments section involving cryptocurrency. GP, I'm sorry you caught a stray.
we can say that it's probably never going to be a reality where NFTs are the solution for cross-game item trading.
I don't see the model with today's system either, but I'm going to leave it to people smarter and more ambitious than myself to figure it out.
Not sure why you needed this passive-aggressive hyperbole
I'm simply done with the portion of the HN readership that decides to switch over to Reddit Mode whenever the topic of crypto comes up. It's simply anti-intellectual cargo culting drivel.
do you have any issues with people criticising NFTs?
Nope, I have my own criticism of NFTs and cryptocurrency. But I don't believe it's good for the health of HN to continue seeing the same vitriolic ad hominem every time the topic comes up. There's plenty of ways to give good criticism of the space, i.e. Moxie[1]
Again, reiterating that GP caught a stray in this context. The general outline of this response to you could in theory be its own top level comment.
[1] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
I agree. We've had physical cash and the postal service for centuries now. Platforms like Patreon, Subscribestar, etc. are also solving nonexistent problems. We can already pay artists by mailing them cash or a check, there's no reason for any of these technologies to exist.
So nerds don't exist in crypto? Because that's another loaded statement.
So you made a prediction and presented it as objective fact?
This is a community created for scammers by scammers
Provide deterministic evidence.
You can purchase access to phone numbers for the purposes of verifying accounts. While phone numbers are a method to prevent easy sybil attacks, it is not effective when dealing with a determined actor.
Not once have I “passed” a take home interview
I have had the exact same experience. They have always been a complete waste of time for me and I have since adopted a policy that any takehome challenges = automatic close the loop for me. It's not worth explaining why either. If this is your process and you find it appropriate to offer it as a first option, then it's just not a good fit.
I received my Bluesky invitation a few weeks ago, and from what I can tell Bluesky in its curent state is full of people sharing screenshots from Twitter and complaining about Twitter.
It doesn't feel vibrant to me at all. If anything, it began as an echo chamber on day one and doesn't seem to want to be anything else. As someone who has been on Twitter since early 2008, it certainly doesn't remind me of an early Twitter.
Also (d) please do not take this purchase as consent to enroll me in a perpetual drip marketing campaign
Replying to this comment once more in case anyone else is interested. I believe the museum in reference is Takayama Showa-kan in Gifu prefecture[1].
Originally I found a Showa Museum in Tokyo[2] but the aesthetics of the one in Gifu were much closer to what we had in mind in the context of the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum's "alleyways" and the arcade at Super Potato.
[1] https://www.hida.jp/english/touristattractions/takayamacity/...
Thanks, I'll check that out next time I find myself in Japan. I also really liked the Shitamachi Museum in Ueno, similar aesthetics there.