Are they still "Silicon Valley firms" when the employees are spread out around the country, and world, or can we finally retire this tedious, self-perpetuating myth of the elite workers of the golden coasts of California and New York, doing incredible and smart things the rest of the world can scarcely understand?
Good riddance to the Valley. Maybe having everyone go home will create an actual diversity of opinions, not the myopic progressive echo chambers that give rise to one Facebook after another - keep up the stock value, society be damned, but make sure no one gets offended in the process.
Wait, I thought that California was good because it keeps all those progressive near each other and away from the other states. Do you want all that California money flooding into your cities property market? Are you ready for legal marijuana? Gasp! They might pass strong environmental regulations! Oh no!
Pasco, just north of Tampa Bay, was an armpit for the last 50 years and now is a highly desirable area with many enclaves of new homes in the former pasture land. This sort of automated targeting is gross, but unsurprising, especially in a Deep South, backwoods county trying to clean up its image with newer, wealthier residents.
That sounds about right. In another comment, I cited a story about how we closed public pools en masse when they were becoming integrated[1]. People would rather have no public goods at all than share them with people they look down on.
Give me a break. I spent most of my life in this county and my family's been there for two generations prior. The "everything is racist" argument so poorly applies to the issues of these communities it's absolutely absurd. Come back when you find a different hammer.
Give ME a break! I am ALSO from Pasco County and you well know the KKK used to sponsor road clean up in Moon Lake - so don't give me any of that "everything is fine and there's no racism problem here"
_Used to_. KKK cleaning up a stretch of road in a rural area 30 years ago doesn't mean there's an inherently a racist police force, voted in by the county constituents, currently. That's tenuous at best. The existence of racists in a subset of an area does not mean that the entire area is racist.
Wait so is your problem that you don't understand when people say "place X is racist" they don't mean literally every single person in town is a racist?
It might be a class issue, not a race issue, or I'll concede it could be something else entirely. I don't know enough to say. But there is a parallel between the two stories that certainly bears consideration.
The comment I was replying to cites an article about public pools and racist behaviors from 60+ years ago in entirely different communities that borders on a non-sequitur to these issues of community policing and does so as a commentary to the suggestion that these areas are "cleaning up their Deep south, backwoods" image by behaving this way, senselessly pushing the idea that racism is the cause of this. Talk about hand-wavy.
Racism is a pervasive, if often invisible, force in American life. We've all learned over the past decade that racist policing is pervasive from New York to Texas. It would be odd if racism did not come up in the discussion.
The world is not going to go vegan. Humans eat meat. No greenhouse argument will ever change this. This is worthwhile research, as is cultured meat and other options. Evolving the tech of raising and cultivating animal protein to eat is important work.
I guess you meant "some humans eat meat", or else I cannot be human by your definition, and I sure look like one.
But then, some* humans also kill each other, rape their children (etc). But no one was trying to describe what some humans do/did but what they should better do if we're trying to live in a peaceful and sustainable world. Why should we care that some people eat meat? I don't care that some people burn their own houses unless it threatens mine or my neighbors'.
In the future, we may well learn that people were eating meat and some continue to do so. Just like some people still commute by horse.
*I realized that the easiest way to curb climate change is simply to stop eating meat. I'm healthier and can cook more dishes than ever. Why would the world not go vegan? I can't find a good reason except "because I believe so". Then, again, more and more people become vegetarian so we can only bet.
IMHO price (or price/"performance") is a serious consideration for the actual food choices of many people, much more in practice than what they would say it is.
Currently, meat substitutes are effectively a premium product - however, if (when?) they would be available at half the price of animal protein, then I believe meat consumption worldwide would decrease a lot even if people's preferences would not change. Cultural norms would shift eventually, but that's slow, and price changes can happen and affect change much faster.
Artificial chicken stuffed with soy and other fillers can't be long term indistinguishable to your body.
I wish you lasting health, but fear you are suggesting we all gamble on the oversight and benevolence of the food industry by eating even more processed, engineered foods than even Doritos or Taco Bell as your main protein source(s).
Yes, industrial food does bad things to produce large amounts of chicken, but there are quality farmers still in business, and I'll take a real, dead bird, fish or cow (and occasional pig, though harder to defend) any day over engineered replacement proteins.
Over-processed food is nothing new, and the issues with it won't go away just because you ditch the animal ingredients.
I'll happily eat a vegan meal made from fresh and locally produced ingredients and prepared by a skilled chef. The vegan "burgers" and "sausages" from the store? I won't touch them any more than I'd touch frozen chicken nuggets or fish fingers.
It’s not anti scientific to include a prior assumption that the food industry will suppress relevant data about the health implications of processed food. They have a long track record of doing this. I’d argue that this is actually a more rational Bayesian approach to the problem...
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I can't eat a lot of fats due to a bad pancreas, but I'm also B12-deficient and anemic. Doc asked me to eat more red meat on occasion, so I try to about once a week.
As an attempt at an alternative, I tried one of the popular substitutes. I tried it before my ... "pancreatic situation" was known to me. It made me sick for days. Vomiting, other digestive issues I won't list, and incredible abdominal pain and sourness of my stomach resulted.
I've even seen similar reports in various Vegan forums.
Those substitutes are filled with canola (and other) oils to add body, flavour, and characteristic "juiciness".
I'm intrigued by lab-grown meat, but those pea and soy meat substitutes are not viable. They're not even close to a viable substitute. Eating a steak or some bone marrow once a week or so keeps me feeling like I'm an alive human being, which I have to say is nice having been close to the alternative.
I take 1 1000% daily reccomended dose per day, as per consultation with my doctor.
Together with D3, Folic Acid, and Iron.
Most people are vitamin deficient, meat eating/milk drinking or not, unless you actively substitute.
It's all the same stuff anyways.
B12 is produced by bacteria living on the ground. Which would normally bio accumulate in livestock.
Howeve since most livestock is fed with silo feed, theyd too get B12 deficiency, if it wasn't substituted.
So you have the choice of eating B12 directly with a lot of control over dosage, or have the livestock swallow the pill for you.
Seems like an inefficient intermediary step.
It's not enough. And uptake is a complex process, it's not as simple as supplement with a given isolate. Unfortunately, not every human body will adhere to a textbook case where a single supplemental pill or shot does the trick. If it did, I'd be in a better way.
As it is, I'm working on staying ahead of any problems B12 and anemia can cause me down the line. I'd rather not reach the point of others I've known who have to have regular blood transfusions to stay alive and prevent their minds and bodies from eroding.
I'll stick to my physician's word and millennia of evolution on that one, if it's all the same to you.
And please, show me some respect: you must know that consuming a complex of nutrients through a food source is not the same as ingesting a copious amount of an isolate. It's certainly not akin to an animal "swallowing a pill" for me.
I'm a Tesla fan and love "electro-mods" - classics outfitted with battery packs - but this seems premature to me. There is 100 years of knowledge of these engines and moving to battery tech does not require quitting ICE entirely.
A cursory glance at the article would reveal that they are not completely ending the development either, only development of new "engine families".
> "At the moment, I do not expect a completely new engine family to be launched." Still, he wants to develop the engines currently in use and prepare them for new emissions standards such as Euro 7
I'd be curious if any of the Shopify app devs in this thread have an opinion on how they handle customer data.
As a Shopify store owner, I was aghast how common it was on the platform to require allowing third party apps entirely too much information about my end customers. I was very uncomfortable leaving some otherwise promising apps installed in my store, and eventually gave up on Shopify entirely.
Trust. Any experienced marketer will tell you that is the most difficult part of securing a transaction. Whether Android users and fans agree or not, the purchase behavior on iOS vs Android mirrors any other comparison of luxury or near-luxury shopping behavior compared to lower rent shopping options.
The rent is higher to get in to the AppStore, too, given you need a $100/year subscription and a Mac. Apple keenly understands aspirational marketing and it trickles down to apps.
Of course Android has millions of users that simply can’t afford to buy apps, but even among those that can, it is a psychological difference.
> Of course Android has millions of users that simply can’t afford to buy apps
I think the portion of Android users that can't afford to buy an app is very, very small. It's no where near big enough to explain the difference between the two platforms.
> but even among those that can, it is a psychological difference
I think so too. Even people who are able to spend a dollar or two on an app are unwilling.
As a Floridian, I am suspicious of anything co-sponsored by Rubio and Scott and look forward to reading how they and the rest of our fine state’s Congressional clown car profited from this bill.
My input as a former technologist turned marketing guy over the years - where is a decent SSG (perhaps like Zola) with page building drag and drop tools like a Wix or a Squarespace?
I'd love to move our site off of Wix - and have full control when needed and work offline before publishing pages - but inevitably you dive back into code or the guts of database queries once you leave these WYSIWYG tools.
Between Wix and Zola is an opportunity, in my opinion.
Some time ago i found about Publii which is a desktop-based static site CMS with a mostly WYSIWYG editor (i write "mostly" because you do not edit the text directly in the site like you'd do in, e.g. iWeb, but you still use a rich text editor). It works as a desktop application (it is actually written in Electron), you do all editing locally and then you upload the files to a server (you can do that either manually or using its automatic uploading functionality which -from what i can see in my installation- supports FTP/FTPS, SFTP, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages, GitLab, netlify and Google Cloud). The sites are stored in folders with an SQLite database for most stuff and media files in their own folders.
Though in terms of customization is rather lite. There is theme support with custom themes so i guess it is possible, it just looks like a baklava of webdev layers to me that i didn't want to bother with. Most themes do seem to provide a tiny bit of customization though.
I made a blog with it and so far the main limitation is that i don't feel there is much i have to write, not the software :-P.
I haven't formally studied computer science nor programming, so it's very hard for me, but I wanted to build a set of tools that would eventually allow for what I call "block-stitching": a UI that mixes the data, its editor (form fields), and its destination template.
The idea is to be able to quickly build a web page using nestable components, and being able to export/import the structured data, in as many formats as possible.
But since I hardly ever interact with other devs, I might have missed similar projects which are mature enough already? (I just like to build my own crap, it's fun)
No one will miss dealers and that is entirely the fault of dealerships. An interesting business opportunity in their wake is to find a way to profit from a multi-brand test drive center. I'd love to drive 5 brands against each other - especially unfamiliar newer tech like electrics - without driving to five dealerships. As dealerships close, it will become even more difficult to decide on a car. Not every purchase or lease is as simple as Amazon.
Perhaps, but buy (including registration, 45 forms in triplicate, insurance, etc) and return with a week is difficult to do in practice. You are also at the mercy of the seller to accept the return, not argue the tires were used, the car was rained on, or any number of blocks.
Good riddance to the Valley. Maybe having everyone go home will create an actual diversity of opinions, not the myopic progressive echo chambers that give rise to one Facebook after another - keep up the stock value, society be damned, but make sure no one gets offended in the process.