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I'm thankful for having had people in my life that have given me opportunity when I frankly didn't deserve the opportunity. I'm very conscious to make sure that I pass that kindness on when it's appropriate.

This is absolutely, unquestionably, spot on. It's a societal level change that's required to unpick what we have right now. It's incredibly complicated and there's issues everywhere.. but I think we can (mostly) agree that our current system doesn't benefit the many. And that can't be the way we want to be forever.

Open question; What's the long game on securing the way credit cards work? Who's working on something interesting that could thwart the whole 'name+number+ccv' leak thing that's been perpetuating in this industry for decades?

I'm just reaching out for anyone who knows about any grand plans, initiatives or rehabs of how credit cards currently work. Keen to read more.

I don't know why you're being downvoted. You've got a point. There's no perfection in the App Store when it comes to review, but it's an ecosystem that is built around trying to create a sense of control and privacy. Sorry if you don't disagree but I reckon facts overwhelmingly disagree with you if you do.

That's not to say in any way ANDROID BAD or anything like that, it's just a broader attack vector that you're up against with Android unless you're a very careful experienced customer. Most people aren't. :/

Again I feel like I'm reaching out to be educated here.. but if Safari is attempting to validate URLs for safe browsing using the Google API (which it states it will do, quite openly), and Google products is quite clearly blocked in China so it resorts to Tencents API (which it states it will do, quite openly).. why does this seem to provoke anger?

I mean this in the most equitable way possible, I'm more trying to understand where Apple has done anything wrong here?

This, if accurate, is quite reflective of all online forums of discourse unfortunately.

The game is rigged.

Here's a broad and perhaps a bit naive question on this;

Reddit, Imgur, and any other site that uploads significant amounts of images from significant amount of users.. do they attempt to do this? To de-dupe images and instead create virtual links?

At face value it'd seem like a crazy amount of physical disk space savings, but maybe the processing overhead is too expensive?

To (most) people commenting and reading this, the question 'why would you pay that much money for a car' is just about context.

To much of non-first world countries, buying an iPhone Pro Max would evoke the same question. That amount of money symbolises food for a long period of time.

Unfortunately your context shifts out a lot. It becomes normalised to buy an iPhone. It becomes normalised to pay a lot of money to buy a house, and if you're lucky enough to build wealth the normality bar just keeps being raised.

And then, poof, you just bought a supercar. Or a Patek Philippe. Or whatever other expensive thing that has no real purpose beyond it's a thing that you like.

I feel the same way with private jets. But a private jet was a completely trivial sum of money for me, maybe I would. Hard to say.

Correct or incorrect, good answer. Appreciate you taking time writing it!

I have to say, as someone who's been somewhat critical of Facebook's dealings for the past years, I read the entire thing and I can't pick up on anything that doesn't seem like a reasonable thing to say to your team.

Is anyone able to educate me on why there seem to be some air of hawks swooping on Zuckerberg because of this?

How is the FireFox experience on OSX these days compared to Safari? This is 100% a nail in the Chrome coffin for me.

I'm in the same boat, friend. Expelling Google from my life.

Apple Maps works for me. I appreciate that's not the case for everyone, but it's come a LONG way. I sincerely use Apple news (on iOS) and have been loving it, but appreciate it's not for everyone's use case.

Google photos.. yeah wow. There really isn't much like it. I've resigned to storing my photos myself on a private server and slowly making albums/things come together. But I have to NOT use google photos. It's too scary.

Gmail was easy

Youtube I use a fake gmail account that's not linked to me in the slightest and only use it on 1 iPad, else not logged in.

It's a quest. But I'll get there. Someone really ought to make a Google Photos competitor though, there's nothing that has the same level of polish right now.

I'm surprised at the lack of support (hacker news) for Safari. It's a fantastic browser, made by people who have a track record of not being evil with data. I know that might seem like a big statement, but in the face of Google I will happily trust Apple.

This whole story is so familiar, yet so devastating.

Great specific product that solves one, or a few, problems very well, maintained by a passionate group.

Into

'Ok' broad product that tries to solve 50 problems in an 'ok' way, maintained by a group that doesn't care all that much.

Not all products are destined for mega million profit. Trying to make them into that very often ruins the kernel of truth. It's really disappointing.

While you're not incorrect, there's a whole slew of the 'on the fence' produce that DOES get sent to supermarkets, and then don't get sold. There's been a few documentaries about it, well worth a watch.

This reminds me heavily on the 'perfect food' issue primarily in western countries. Every apple that's not pretty, every cucumber that's not straight and so on. All just goes from the supermarket into a bin.

It's a really horrible amount of waste that easily could solve many issues around poverty and hunger, but yet, very little action. Good to see more momentum around food waste.

Honestly, this read so much like desperate marketing. You're making baseless claims. "Senior people rarely use Slack channels". Care to back that up with some facts please?

It takes away from everything the product is trying to do by focusing so intently on misguided flaws of the competitor product. It's like those Galaxy vs iPhone ads.

Make the product better.

The Magic Mouse 2 charging situation is entirely by design. I'm totally serious.

Apple stated they don't want people to leave the mouse plugged in forever, hence having an unnecessary wire, so the design ended up the way it is to force wireless use.

I don't really mind, can see that point I guess. I like the MM2 to be perfectly frank, but I recognise that I'm a minority.

This is a really good summary of how it tends to play out in the real world.

In particular it is the readiness aspect. When time has come to actually think like a business, and be less of a passionate founder of your own little baby.

Lastly, on the last point, I'd offer a slightly different pov in that these people will drive out cost that you might have overlooked, or have some sort of personal opinion on. These people will be ruthless on empty costs and you need to be okay with that.

How useful is this attitude really? I understand the underlying aspiration of creating a 'known' ecosystem, but passive-aggressive callouts like this doesn't do anyone any good. Signal has done us a lot of good, let's keep that at the front of mind instead of trying to impart weird statements like this. Kinda sick of this internet logic.

I don't know that this is true at all. Yes, complexity has shifted, yes today's market is different.

This does not really change the fact that a focused, driven leader can impart a strong sense of company focus and vision that becomes a really powerful driving force. I've seen it, it's definitely still a thing and I don't see a great leader being less important anytime soon.

Look at the amount of jobs they are hiring for:

https://www.magicleap.com/#/join

Astounding.

While much of this goes over my head, detailed write-ups like this by people who have no direct way of gaining a financial outcome from all their hard work is the cornerstone of why the internet is fantastic.

Amazing work!

It's interesting that you call Uber 'surging' but cabbies doing the same 'scamming'. I understand what you're saying but they are quite comparable..

You probably mean 2SA, not 2FA.

Also Google 2SA allows you to 'trust' or 'remember' devices to circumvent multiple queries for a code. Is this what might have occurred ?

you're missing part of the point.

The $200k pool of money for an actual 'celebrated' poker player is absolutely not worth the time and effort. Hence why you get a few tiers down in terms of player skill. Still valid tests though, you can't only compare it to the top 1%

Really great writeup man, and for a good cause too. I've done something remarkably similar but solely for myself, and it's great to see someone going one step further.

Best of luck, hope you make your money back and get a nice kicker in the end to fund a few late night college parties.

You, sir, have just landed at an important topic that we're all too lax on. This third-party injected javascript into otherwise 'trusted' pages is a real serious issue.

Besides the 'kill all ads' talk which isn't very helpful, there really needs to be some serious conversation about how this particular issue with the internet is addressed.

30 minutes to download the bank statement? No paperless billing?

so many questions about this amazing bank.

You mean Two Factor yeah? Because telegram already relies on two step.