Well of course you would say that

That’s why I say I’d do it Kickstarter style. I’d get investments from business and people who wanted to live there and if it went south we could at least sell off the land.

I’d create a new city from scratch, sort of kick-starter style with like-minded residents and businesses. It would be built up with good public transit from the beginning and solid anti-NIMBY policies. Something radical like not being able to own your property. Instead the city would be owned collectively and you could have shares. But you would never have an incentive to deny development to increase your own home’s value.

There’d be participatory planning and cutting edge democracy: participatory, deliberative, representative.

Great title

It’s a service. It doesn’t just run in the browser.

Noo! I loved Pocket. It’s integrated into my Kobo eReader. It was the only good way to get articles easily synced on to an eReader. I hope Kobo buys Pocket. Or Rakuten, since that’s a tech company and they own Kobo.

A lot of the programming that I do for fun is programming challenges like Advent of Code. They’re more like games or puzzles than projects. You don’t have to wrestle with build tools or old libraries or other people’s crappy code or learn complicated frameworks.

I like the art of programming. I like to find elegant ways to express ideas. I like to learn new paradigms and language features that allow me to think differently about problems. It’s nice to find a way to make the code readable by matching the code to the problem statement.

Or there’s the challenge of fluent style, where instead of the code reading in the typical programming style with caveman grammar, you go out of your way to make read like English.

Land Value Tax would solve this.

George Carlin having a stroke

This is the same thing as a graph where the y-axis doesn’t start at zero.

He was sentenced to prison for that crime. It wasn’t part of his sentence for everyone to impose their own abuses and disrespects on top of that.

I can only get habaneros in a big bag, so this is perfect

I have a framework laptop. The Wi-Fi chip is its own module on an M.2 slot. LTE modules in this form factor already exist.

I use Linux. Can someone explain this meme to me?

One thing about having a computer on a mobile connection that’s not as great as you might think: it’s easy for something like a software update to blow through a ton of data and cost a lot of money.

There are different cellular networks and frequencies in different places so computer manufacturers can’t pick one module and expect it to work everywhere. If you’re paying for service, you’ll want to get the most out of it by having a modem that’s up to date and maximally compatible with the network. So it makes sense to get a plugin device or a WiFi mobile hotspot from your carrier. A WiFi mobile hotspot can additionally be used with other devices.

Also mobile network hardware updates at a decent pace so it’s nice to be able to update those single purpose devices at their own pace independent of your laptop upgrade.

And then carrier and FCC certification are an extra hassle for laptop makers.

That’s stuff comes on the regular release cycle. Chrome and Firefox are both on a release every 4 weeks.

Yeah, Netflix knows I’m watching Stranger Things. But afaik they don’t sell that information. And even if they do, there’s still reason for this company to try to get it themselves for cheaper. And they know something else about you based on these crappy apps they’re embedded in. So that’s all extra data points they can cross reference and get even more data.

If it’s trying to figure out if you’re watching Stranger Things it can look for when you’re stationary at home and just needs to record a few seconds at a time every few minutes. I don’t know how the fingerprinting works. It might be able to run locally and not use a ton of power. We’re talking Shazam, not full text transcription.

Can we talk about how screwed up that streak notification is? Let’s encourage people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform to further their addiction?

You have a 300 day streak of using heroin, don’t stop now!