seandoe

Err does go far, right? Japan is pretty cheap in my experience.

Make having kids a zero-cost endeavor. If that doesn't do it, make it a profitable one. It's as simple as that.

It seems like a step in the right direction to combat scalpers.

I've wondered though... Why not have a non-transferrable ticket system? If you can't go then you return your tickets to the pool and if they sell you get your money back.

Many versions are made, the best ones get the most views. You don't need huge budgets and guaranteed revenue to make great art. In fact, I'd argue it's often the opposite. Most big budget movies suck these days.

Ok yea that makes sense.

And the atproto is pesetas right? You publish to bluesky or whatever and the content is replicated to your pds. I recognize the minor difference, but if you have the energy and wherewithal to orchestrate pesetas across silos, surely you can setup a pds elsewhere.

That's just not practical for most people (the publishing part). And in relation to microblogging, are you going to publish every 140-character, out-of-context thought on your personal website?

This is great news to me. I'm going to celebrate it. As evil as everyone thinks they are, they did the right thing here. Thanks google.

Wow, total scam. Sad.

I like it. It makes me smile. Don't take it personally.

I think OP means "regardless of the CEO's political stance." And yes, your comment does sound self-righteous.

This point has been made so many times. Know your tools and use the best tool for the job.

each of which individually must be an improvement over the status quo

I agree. And looking at the average web user specifically, is "owning your own data" enough of a UX improvement? Maybe paired with less ads and products that optimize for the end-user rather than advertisers? I think... maybe. I hope so. It's going to take a lot of work done for little money, which is concerning, but I'm optimistic.

gemini.google.com

I was thinking something very similar as I read the letter and hear people talk about luck in a similar way. I think attributing things to luck, while seemingly humble, can be dismissive and/or simplistic. Yes, we're all lucky to be in our situations -- living in this time, fed, privileged. Though, whether this luck is experienced positively or not is entirely subjective. Also, to ascribe our given situation to luck dismisses the concerted efforts of all living things of this time and past that have guided us to our current situation -- once again, without qualifying it as good or bad. It is almost disabling in it's message. The flip side is that many things happened that were dreamed, planned, intended, and carried out to land us in our situation. This to me feels more empowering, hopeful, appreciative, and also responsible than casting off as merely luck.

Apophenia

Yes. Yes it is.

Ah cool, I didn't know that. Sorry, I didn't intend to encourage that impression.

Amazing story. I read the book and couldn't put it down. Highly recommended.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Maybe because it _is_ how things work, not seemingly.

I think you and many people in this space are just ignoring traits.

Or people just disagree with you.

They're playing the game on a scale of centuries

What's going to be left of their population in a single century?

You're right. This is what it says. I don't think you have to buy anything outside of that. I think most Americans are more comfortable with American entities spying and manipulating them than a Chinese entity.

Widjadidja?

Oh right, strictly for spas.

I think they mean storing an identifier in local or session storage and then sending it in the header.

Crash? I understand people's gripes with ui, hardware compatibility, etc, but stability? All my Linux machines have always been very stable.

cream

Ace and Gary

Totally agree on the confidence metric. The way chatbots spew complete falsities in such a confident tone is really disheartening. I want to use AI more but I don't feel I can trust it at all. If I can't trust it and have to search for other resources to verify it's claims, the value is really diminished.