mikefivedeuce
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3 years ago
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on: The last person standing in the floppy disk business
I still have some old hypercard stacks on floppy from third grade that I can't bear to throw away. Every time I come across the disks I remember how awesome it was to fire up the IIGS in computer lab and create the dumbest animations.
mikefivedeuce
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4 years ago
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on: Amazon Sidewalk
This might be out of date now, but 10 years ago I purchased a couple of monitors for a digital display. IIRC the monitors were more expensive because the screen wouldn't "burn" in images if left on the same image for a long period of time.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Amazon Go Grocery – Full store open now
Yep, it's an accessibility argument. If ~7.5% of the population is unbanked, they aren't using a smartphone to pay.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Amazon Go Grocery – Full store open now
I couldn't tell from any of the articles today if they're going to accept cash or not. Given the push back they received on the first round of convenience stores, it's interesting that it's not mentioned at all.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Toyota will transform 175-acre Japan site into a ‘prototype city of the future’
These kinds of announcements are always full of hype. Panasonic has a similar concept in Denver. Google / Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. The practicalities of executing on real estate development at scale is always underestimated or neglected. Between regulations, the labor force, and tastes of eventual residents, the end result ends up close to the mean because the stakes (amount of capital involved) are so high and many decisions are prohibitively expensive to reverse.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Psilocybin found safe for consumption in largest ever controlled study
Thanks for this breakdown. Any thoughts on how this process might unfold for psilocybin as opposed to a drug that's subject to a chemical patent? Funding, timing, etc.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Chelsea Manning Responds After Top UN Official Labels Her Imprisonment 'Torture'
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the IPO Fizzle
Infrastructure is one thing. Human capital is the much more important factor for any of those companies.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi Token, Hex, to the Dismay of Bitcoin Fans
Not that I disagree with your premise, but real estate and, to a lesser extent, art and gold, have intrinsic value in that they can be used for a purpose outside of a store of value. For real estate, utility is a much larger share of the market value than the others.
mikefivedeuce
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6 years ago
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on: This week’s dead Google product is Google Trips
This is a good point. I was very annoyed when Reader was shut down but found Feedly and gladly pay monthly for their service.
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: Banksy
Correct. There's correlation with the band's tour dates and artwork popping up. Robin Gunningham is the other popular theory. Either could have been the "Rob" Goldie was referencing.
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
I don't have any insight into the rationale behind the HQ2 search beyond what was reported in the media, but I've long thought that planning for a potential government-forced break up was part of it. A preemptive segregation of business units will help their case if/when this gains some steam.
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: Some young people are buying houses with friends
Not a law but regulatory capital requirements on speculative real estate make it uneconomical for the banks to hold the properties.
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: Some young people are buying houses with friends
It's also dependent on the jurisdiction. In some cases the lender doesn't actually have a right to proceeds in excess of their loan amount (plus interest, penalties and fees).
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: The wild world of sneaker buying bots (2017)
I think it's also a demographic trend. Many of the releases are re-issues from a time when we were kids and wanted to wear the Jordans / Pennys / Grandmamas / Ewings we saw on TV but couldn't get our parents to spring for them. Now we're older with disposable income and, although expensive, for the most part they aren't crazy expensive. I mean, a pair of decent dress shoes cost more than my Tinkers... but nobody has ever stopped me on the train to tell me how dope my oxfords are!
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: On Oppenheimer: A Conversation with Louisa Hall on Her Novel, “Trinity”
Thanks for posting. American Prometheus is one of the best books I've ever read. It gives you such a detailed look into the life of Oppenheimer without much interpretation, which you don't need because his life story is so intriguing. This book sounds like an interesting companion because there were times when I wanted more of an attempt to explain or understand some of the personality quirks and contradictions that wouldn't be at home in a pure biography. Will give it a read.
mikefivedeuce
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7 years ago
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on: The Property Industry Is Falling Out of Love with WeWork
In some ways they are. The WeLive brand takes liberties with zoning laws that are in place to prevent SROs, for example. I wouldn't call it disregarding laws/regulations but they are potentially violating the spirit of those restrictions. It's not unique to WeLive - all of the co-living companies are doing similar things.
mikefivedeuce
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8 years ago
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on: Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
Second this recommendation. Hackers was a great history of early computing. The photos in this post are especially cool as Felsenstein, Captain Crunch, and others are prominent in the book.
mikefivedeuce
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9 years ago
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on: How Lyft screwed me out of a $350 referral bonus
I was in Austin two weeks ago and was worried about the lack of Uber/Lyft. I had great experiences using RideAustin. A driver even mentioned that they pay him 2x fares to drive out to areas like the F1 track because it's outside of the city.
mikefivedeuce
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9 years ago
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on: Gene Wilder Has Died
Came here to post this link as well. I remembered loving the opening scene as a kid. After reading this on Letters of Note a few years back it gave me a whole new appreciation for the genius of Gene's portrayal.
