idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: DJI stops blocking drones flying over airports, wildfires, & the White House
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idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: I'm a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban
Adding friction to bad choices is good.
Sports betting apps are worse for society than betting parlors.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Don't forget that it was also unanimously upheld by the supreme court!
Maybe this will be the hill he dies on. I can't bring myself to believe that he'll be allowed to literally become the day 1 dictator he that he promised he would.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: What is there left to believe in?
yourself
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: UK's hardware talent is being wasted
Fair enough, I'll add some nuance. The government that I am a citizen of is a special case of a non-human entity, they do have entitlement to my property (which includes my attention).
Traffic signs put up by my government are different than billboards put up by a company. The former is to protect me, the latter is to exploit me.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: UK's hardware talent is being wasted
The fact that ads work doesn't mean that they're beneficial to the economy.
I disagree with the premise that non-human entities are entitled to my attention.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Thank you for clarifying!
The english translations are similar enough that I assumed a connection.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
Trump should launch a Tiktok clone on Truth Social in 90 days when the reprieve expires. I'm surprised there wasn't a new platform ready to pounce on new users. Absolutely nuts that one of the biggest refugee destinations is literally named after a Mao-era propaganda tool.
But in all seriousness, there's 3 branches of government and 2 of spoken. Trump's voice should be moot. Hopefully he's put in his place by our institutions and shamed for attempting to subvert the system of checks and balances described by our constitution.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: Colossal Biosciences raises $200M at $10.2B valu. to bring back woolly mammoths
The Siberian steppe is huge.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Underrated emerging fields in science/engineering?
Embedded systems
There'll always be a demand for physical widgets with ever increasing computational capabilities. And it'lll be a while before ChatGPT can poke a circuit board with an oscilloscope and tell you that your software bug is because your I2C pull-up resistors are too large.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: Japan's elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail
Is that true for elderly non-violent men confined in Japan? I thought solitary confinement was mostly a US barbarity. Does Japan use it as frequently?
The women discussed in the article had compulsory work. That's probably part of the appeal, it's good to stay busy and feel useful.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: Japan's elderly are lonely and struggling. Some women choose to go to jail
Humane jails are the safety net of last resort. I wish the US had a humane enough incarceration system for it to provide that role to unhoused folks.
But yeah, there should be a lot of nets above that too.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: TCL's bet on screens that look like paper
Similar - Minimal Phone
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
Health insurance profit margins are regulated, so UHC earning higher margins does seem like overcharging.
Perhaps we need antitrust action in healthcare.
idhegeu | 1 year ago | on: Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
Could companies place an explicit value on WFH vs WFO? e.g. Set WFH salaries to 50% of the WFO rate and let the market sort it out.
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