Social media promotes a vicious callout culture where everything you say in the past is permanently used against you in the court of public opinion whenever you change your mind. While I did not share PG's opinion at the time I also don't think it was completely unreasonable to think that someone like Musk would be capable of running Twitter judiciously after the acquisition. I appreciate that instead of digging in his heels PG seems to have evolved his judgement after recent developments.
I'm willing to bet on it! I live in the center of Silicon Valley and it would take me a 30 minute drive to the south or the east before I lose cell phone access.
And no evidence inflation is under control + future rates increases are anticipated as well.
I'd love to get a flash poll of the finance industry and see how much people believe 1-8% interest rates are possible over the next 5 years. I bet a lot in the market think 3% interest rates are just not gonna happen.
Won’t get that high. Just what’s the max interest rate we see over say the next 5 years? I imagine there’s still a lot of denial interspersed with the fear.
Know that parents comment is /s but in truth, it really feels like interpretations of body language and text to indicate hawkishness/dovishness actually seems to matter.
Yeah, just to clarify, my own "/s" tag in this case didn't mean I wasn't serious, it just meant that I believed the market placed too much emphasis on purely subjective interpretations of things left unsaid.
It's good to try and get all all the data you can, but inferring how someone feels based on extra-textual elements is not a particularly scientific affair. Judges and lawyers commonly say "you can't possibly know how this other person felt" or "you can't possibly know what this other person thought", even when appearances are highly suggestive... for good reason.
I agree. We live in a golden age of gaming. Steam and all the game stores have a practically unlimited catalog (granted there's a lot of shovelware, but still plenty to chew on). Triple A games with budgets that rival and even exceed tentpole Hollywood franchises. New art forms constantly furthering the boundaries of narrative driven entertainment. Hyper realistic graphics pushing the frontiers of CG and even AI research with DLSS and the like. Gaming can be entertainment, a social activity, a creative tool (There's Minecraft of course, but also check out some of the incredible stuff made in Dreams on the Playstation https://youtu.be/AXtNlgjPb80?t=288).
And on top of all that, there's also innovation in the underlying business models. F2P games that are morally dubious and depend on hapless whales that get addicted to your product and subsidize it for the rest of the playerbase? Sure! Single $60 or $70 purchase without DLCs? Contrary to the author's insinuation, there are plenty of games that still follow that model. Expansion packs! Monthly subscriptions! There's just no other kind of media that even comes close -- where else can you spend $50 and potentially get hundreds or even thousands of hours of entertainment?
Worth bearing in mind that the author has himself admitted to and apologized for factual errors in his article that could change some of his conclusions.
"Factual error" is a strong word for a minor issue.
It does not change anything - because no one knows what viri were in the lab. And "China" refuses to share any data about it e. g. the missing virus database.
Please god, someone just give me a single piece of evidence of a lab leak so I can run with it and decry the corruption of mainstream media. Nevermind any evidence to the contrary; it's plausible that there could be a conflict of interest, therefore I can throw all of that evidence in the trash. Something something Occam's razor.
Carthage is a fascinating story. Driven out of Phonecia by the Sea People (another amazing story) they end up on the north coast of what we now call Africa and later another city Cadiz Spain. They had an amazing culture until a new culture, Rome, appeared across the water in what is now called Italy.
Carthage was the and only real sea power in the region and its funny yet sad that they labelled ship parts to make construction more efficient. The Romans eventually capatured a ship and were able to use the built-in guide to make their own copies. Rome used the ships to attack and defeat Carthage.
I often wonder what the world would be like if Rome fell and Carthage survived. Adding insult to injury even words like Africa are Roman terms that we use today to describe where Carthage existed.
You're painting Carthage a little bit as a victim, when it was initially a power the equal of Rome. The Punic Wars were brutal for both nations. The sack of Carthage came only after Carthage, led by Hannibal, conducted a 15 year campaign of conquest and terror across Italy. The Romans' relentless adaptation to building a navy, even in the face of unimaginable losses, is remarkable and speaks to a cultural adaptation and perseverance that was a driving force of their success.
I would be surprised if it starts to show wear within the next 10 years.
I've been using mine daily for around 10 years, and yes, you are entirely correct. If I could somehow clean all the coffee stains and grime it has accumulated it could probably pass off as new! And while I personally love the feel of topre keys, I can see why people might not like them - to each his own.
I just wish the new wireless HHKBs weren't so dang ugly!
> I've been using mine daily for around 10 years, and yes, you are entirely correct. If I could somehow clean all the coffee stains and grime it has accumulated it could probably pass off as new!
Same... Once in a while I took all the keycaps off of my HHKBs and vaccuum clean everything, then clean everything using q-tips, clean all the keycaps one by one. They're looking close to new despite heavy years of daily usage.
I've been on HN long enough to realize that the majority of comments here are going to inevitably devolve into a discussion of the sheer complexity and breadth of tooling listed here.
However, bear in mind that the site is built by a popular JS influencer whose day job is popularizing frameworks and increasing demand for services of the sort he offers.
> However, bear in mind that the site is built by a popular JS influencer whose day job is popularizing frameworks and increasing demand for services of the sort he offers.
His day job is selling workshops and training materials. No matter how you look at it, he has a vested interest in promoting over-engineering because it translates to more sales of courses and workshops. That's why this blog starts and ends with calls to action about signing up and registering for workshops.
Many of us have a vested interest in pushing back against this industry because it favors hiring younger, less experienced people who will advocate for these systems in the workplace. For many of our own sanity, we have to push back somewhat.
Now I have to literally ask to see a company’s codebase before taking the job so as to avoid this nonsense.
Last time I googled this I found it was quite expensive, basically cruise-level per-night prices, at least in my area. Perhaps if you contact the shipping companies directly you can arrange something cheaper.
I could see them considering a risk factor into that pricing. What "normal" person would look to travel this way? Someone with something to hide perhaps? Someone hoping to skirt some of the more rigorous screening of other travel options, specifically regarding their "luggage"?
I've never done this, but if you read stories by people who have, they appreciate not having 3,000 other tourists on the boat; just a few dozen or so, plus the crew members who don't talk to you.
OP here - there were zero other passengers, and it was exactly the way you say.. the crew did not talk to me.. It was great! many long hours of ocean, days, nights, out in the far blue.. with no computers at all. When I arrived in Japan I was so rested! the passage into Tokyo Bay was so memorable! it takes time.. it was an antidote and clarity..
I have read that too. It seems bizarre that it would be expensive, but there may be a supply an demand issue for the number of people who cannot or will take flight vs. the very limited number of transatlantic and transpacific ship crossings.
Think about it. A ship needs to include essentially a small apartment (with the weight of a small apartment) for a couple weeks (plus food, heat/cooling, electricity, water/sewer, upkeep for the small apartment) whereas for an airplane you just needs to do that for a chair for a few hours. A cruise ship (yes, I know, includes a bunch of luxury amenities, but still the right order of magnitude) has like 30,000 kg per passenger whereas an airplane weighs about 300 kg per passenger.
So whereas ships are more efficient per ton than airplanes, but the end result is that jet air travel is about 5-10 times as efficient per passenger-mile because it's just a chair instead of an apartment. Plus the capital utilization (renting an aluminum chair for a few hours vs a small steel apartment for a few days) aspect.
It is not their core-business like cruises or ferry companies. So there is probably very substantial overhead in coordination, billing and so on. Same goes for anything from any company, technically they can provide service and even might do, but price it is sensible due to extra work is high.
I assume it used to be far more informal and sort of a handshake deal you'd make with the captain, and then the companies formalized it but it was still cheap because no one knew/wanted to do it, but then as the possibility becomes common knowledge, there are way more people who want to do it than there are spots for, so they raise the price.
This certainly happens quite often. However, speaking purely anecdotally just to add a data point - in my current team at a big tech firm, none of my teammates have left because of compensation. We've had quite a bit of turnover over the years and the vast majority left due to a myriad of other reasons, many even having taken pay cuts in the process.
