Unless it’s some utopian value-based family company, the goal of any company will ultimately become to maximize profit and/or growth because that is what shareholders want.
It's a very interesting episode, If you're curious I would advice to listen to it in full. On this topic I perceived 'western' as a proxy for individualistic societies. The argument is indeed that these very collectivistic societies do not consider intent as an important factor. Within those societies shame is also a very important emotion versus the individualistic 'guilt'. One other interesting finding was that self-confidence has no correlation with life satisfaction in those societies.
A country like China would actually be in the middle on that scale, and it was also discussed how it's rapidly becoming more individualistic due to a number of policies, most notably the one-child policy.
Does it move in steps, or does it move continuously? Would be funny if it’s the latter and a parking inspector comes and while they are looking at the dial it is slowly turning around on its own.
For that matter, even if it only moves in steps you could still be unlucky in several ways. For example if the parking inspector is looking at it at the same time as it makes a big leap forward in time.
If the area is subject to multiple inspections every day then the parking inspector might also notice that the same car is sitting in the same spot between multiple inspection rounds over many hours. No amount of technologically advanced timers will help the cheater then.
Perhaps someone could also invent car paint that changes colour every hour :p and then hope the parking inspector and everyone else are not looking the moment the colour changes.
Well it’s different as in this case it’s translated from a Cyrillic alphabet. Also, I would be surprised to read Köln in English as an English name exists for the city: Cologne.
This is not transliteration. It would be "pyotr" then. This is just using a German letter in an English text based on a purely visual similarity to a Russian letter.
> But I just don't understand what I would use it for.
Isn’t that clearly stated in the name of the post: It “helps you remember shit you are interested in.”
Personally I run into interesting things all the time, and it seems great to be able to have a place to store them so I don’t forget about them. That’s clear value to me. I’m honestly a bit puzzled how you don’t see value.
For me, I would need an app in order to start using this though. Otherwise it’s just to much of a hassle to add stuff (which means I wouldn’t do it).
What confused me about "remember shit that you are interested in" is that I use several different kinds of apps for that already. Google, Pocket, a note-taking app, a list app. Heck, Anki fits the description as well. I watched the short video and it reminded me the way I used to use bookmarks in the browser, organizing big discouraging lists of things that I thought I should follow up on but rarely did. The option to subscribe to news about a topic by clicking a button in an app feels positively dystopian; if I'm not interested enough in a topic to find and follow specific sources, then I'm not interested enough, period. I need an app to help me filter and prune the demands on my attention, not carelessly expand them.
>Personally I run into interesting things all the time, and it seems great to be able to have a place to store them so I don’t forget about them.
>I use several different kinds of apps for that already. Google, Pocket, a note-taking app, a list app. Heck, Anki fits the description as well.
I've found an unexpected use case here for Telegram. I have Telegram open all the time in the background on all my computers and mobile devices. It has a 'Saved Messages' feature, which shows up in your contacts list like another conversation. Whenever I come across 'stuff' [or is 'shit' the cool word?] I want to remember it's really easy to just copy a link... or image/video URL... or some text I'm interested in... or scribble down an idea I've had and send/share it to 'Saved Messages' in Telegram.
Then, when I've got time to catch up and digest. I just open the 'Saved Messages' conversation in Telegram and there's all my stuff... er... 'shit' including; web previews, photos, embedded videos, etc. And it's there, instantly synced across all my devices. I also find myself using this as a really quick method of sending files between mobile devices and desktop/laptops. For me Telegram syncs instantly and 100% reliably --which is more than I've ever found Google Drive and its ilk to be capable of.
Yeah, Saved Messages is that unexpected feature for me too. I also use it to easily send photos from my phone to my laptop. It makes it convenient because Telegram is right at the top in the Share options, and it’s async, so I can send something now and use it whenever.
It can. There's a check box on the telegram desktop to disable compression and on mobile you can send the image as a "file" attachment as opposed to an "image attachment".
With the modification that if you have a very small phone sometimes the mobile site comes out ahead.
To take an example, right when a search has brought you to something you want to read on reddit, reddit distracts you with a popup telling you it is ‘better’ to use the app. Well, once you’ve installed the app they punch you in the face right away because you’ll have a very hard time finding the content that led you to reddit. (What did you think would happen, honestly?)
There are some cases where you really need a mobile app but if I have a choice at all I use the web, particularly if it involves viewing content or ordering something.
I find apps almost always preferable. Not only do I get dedicated backup, the apps are usually better for mobile UX. Of course, that excludes crappy apps like Reddit’s, in those cases there are often 3rd-party-apps.
I run a nightly backup (via neobackup [0], requires root) on my phone that backups all APKs and data. With a webapp, I’m at the mercy of the app itself or firefox storage data with no granularity at all.
Mainly just a better user experience. For now I think I will just use capacitor to package it as an app for the app stores. A lot of people just want to be able to install it from the app store.
Nuclear doesn’t produce any greenhouse gasses, but with the radioactive waste it generates it of course isn’t really clean. It’s also expensive and takes decades to build.
That waste is much easier to dispose that the waste created by "renewables" like solar panels, especially with newer generation plants that burn old nuclear waste.
I am not sure how much you have looked at these newer plants? While must can use since amount of nuclear waste (which is great), their biproducts are only somewhat less toxic than the original. These are nowhere as clean as people seem to imagine.
I think it’s mostly liberals that have been spreading this statement. If you take a look at for instance Glenn Greenwald’s latest tweets or statements from the ACLU you’ll be hearing something very different.
Generally the "rule" in English is the same as the one in German: a double consonant ensure the preceding vowel is pronounced the short way rather than the long way.
The saddest sadist, the matter of maters, and the bitter biter, for example.
German dialects are rarely written and if they are they are written different from Standard German. The written German language is very phonetic and if you know the rules you know exactly how a word is supposed to be pronounced.
You’re making a value judgement based on skin color. That’s racism. Even if you don’t have bad intentions, the black person in your example suffers because of it.
That's newspeak.
Racism is treating people based on their skin color intentionally and hierarchizing them based on their race.
There is an intention.
What a person feels is subjective and has nothing to do with what the other person intended to do.
As you can't be in other people's head (except if you have that pretension ?) the only thing that matters is what your intention were.
