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*per potential impressions per dollar

You can actually use that as a negotiating point. Let's say a new route is opened causing traffic to bypass a normally high traffic point. The advertiser might still price per potential impression per dollar when the reality is significantly different.

Not to nitpick but it's important for people to do their homework on this and realize that those selling the ad space are going to price on the higher end of potential impressions.

Serious question: is it the same law that requires websites to give a cookie pop up?

Because I let users know I'm not going to spam them with that shit at those that enacted that law can go to hell for every site I visit having it. It's a good thing but really annoying. There has to be a better, more interesting way.

It's been like that for a while if you have your wifi/Bluetooth on when airplane mode is on, it will do it the same way next time you turn on airplane mode. I used that frequently on my 5S, spare 6, and iPhone X.

I absolutely agree with you on this.

When I had an office as a graduate student and then consultant, adjunct faculty, and other positions, I was almost never in my office.

I simply could not focus on work there the same way as elsewhere. I'm a highly social extrovert and in order to get things done that don't involve directly interacting with people, I "introvert myself". If someone comes to chat with me they snap me out of that mode and it's almost impossible for me to get back in.

I find libraries, coffee shops, empty offices to be the best places for me.

But remote != digital nomadism despite the 2 being able to go together.

Tipping before the service is weird. However, I don't know if you've ever worked on the other side of the counter, but it's a lot easier to get someone to tip when they already have their wallet out and cash in hand. Getting someone to take their wallet out a second time, regardless of how "above and beyond" the service or product are is tough.

I'm glad I never worked at a restaurant where pay is supplemented by tips. That's an unacceptable practice.

At Starbucks, tips were in excess to wages, so anything people gave were a really nice bonus.

Tipping should be done out of generosity. Do you value that person, their time, the level of quality they bring you?

If you look at Japan, tipping is not a thing. In some places it might even be considered an insult to tip because that level of quality is a deeply engrained part of the culture, not something to be rewarded extra for.

However, I see it as a way to show my appreciation, my gratitude.

Yes, I believe that people who have the means to tip who don't, yet greedily eat up high quality service and goods, are being stingy in the worst sense. Just from my experience at Starbucks, it seemed like those who tipped most frequently were the people who might not really been able to afford it.

An extra dollar from 100 customers, for whom that is less than 1% of 1% of their net worth means $20 for a 5 person shift. That extra $20 usually is gas money, college supplies, or a couple bucks to spend for something fun.

However, we completely and utterly lack empathy. So many people DON'T know what it's like to be on the other side of the counter and they completely forget that those people are thinking and feeling humans like they are. That those people have dreams and ambitions just like they do. That they are working because they have SOME goal. There is more depth to the person than the apron they wear, the smile they put on, the job they do. We forget that. We view them as objects and we devalue their existence.

But those who do tip, those who don't necessarily have the means to but still do, they have not forgotten. Perhaps it's because their situation isn't too far removed.

I think Steinbeck said it well:

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

Science fiction and scientists have been proposing alternate forms of life for a long time.

I love TNG (and SW) but have to point out that their ideas in many places aren't new.

Example: Silicon based lifeforms

It's in the same column as carbon so we can have similar bonding structure and properties, so why not silicon-based life instead of carbon-based?

It strikes me that either you legitimately can't relate but might think you can, or you aren't empathizing with the author (nothing wrong with that, sometimes we legitimately can't put ourself in their "shoes"), or you may possibly be unintentionally gatekeeping nonconformity. None of that is meant as an offense to you but just the 3 impressions I get from your comment after reading the article.

James provides many meaningful thoughts, and even gave a disclaimer that this is something he's still thinking through more.

One of those meaningful thoughts I felt was particularly provocative was this:

> I also learned that being a successful non-conformist is easier when you have security.

It's easy for the rich kid from a well-connected family to be a nonconformist and still succeed at what they hope to do in life. Take a poor kid, who is also well-connected but not necessarily to those comparable to the rich kid. Poor kid might have a lot of social capital among their community such that they can get things done, but compare that to rich kid who can always fall back on a family friend hiring them for a junior management position where they'll get paid orders of magnitude more than the poor kid... Now imagine that poor kid with low to no security being a nonconformist.

For them, that could go one of two ways:

1. Ostracized from community for going against the grain/not getting in line

2. They get lucky and some aspect of nonconformity brings them great success and even wealth

Which of those two do you think happens more frequently?

So, I politely disagree. While it does seem that he's sharing some raw thoughts, there are some good clear items in there to think about.

I hope you realize that doesn't mean that you disconnected.

Try opening an ad-monetized app that requires network connection to load the ads. Make sure cellular date for that app is off. You'll get ads. Unless something has changed in the past few weeks, you should see ads load despite the fact that they should not in this scenario.

This means the Wi-Fi isn't off, isn't even in a respectful hibernate state, it's on but telling you it's off. It's your child telling you "yes mommy/daddy I'll do it right" and then cuts corners knowing you're going to trust them.

In the past few weeks my iPhone X has been having a strange Wi-Fi bug where it says it's on in the top corner of the screen, but in settings it says it's off. I didn't turn it off. When I go to turn it off, it's frozen and I have to restart settings. I'm highly suspicious it's related to Apple's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth default hibernate code or implementation of that code.

Apple screwed the pooch on this one. They should allow us to toggle the hibernate mode or long press to choose whether to go into hibernate or actually turn off, not force us to use it in a misleading way.

I've trained myself to always turn it off in settings, it's annoying, but it fits apple's product motto:

It just works.

Just like Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, Microsoft backpedalled between 2011 and 2016 versions (those are for Mac) and removed a significant amount of functionality.

Files closed with the application no longer reopen, UI elements are gone, and, worse yet, you can't completely customize all of the possible keyboard shortcuts any more, you can't even find access to them.

To my understanding, this was for 2 reasons (excuses):

1. Some OS changes Apple made*

2. To push people to subscribe to office 365 and "gain" that functionality

* I paid full price for both 2011 and 2016 (and the corresponding windows office copies). 2011 still works on the most recent macOS with all of the functionality. So, claiming that Apple did something to make the feature of automatically reopening the documents you had open when you quit broken is bull. Their old version still does that on the new OS just fine (despite that little pop up claiming the software is incompatible...it still works, why not use it?)

After buying MS Office with removed functionality, I will sadly not be buying office again. Nor will I be subscribing to office 365, nor will I be supporting it in any corporate ecosystem. The files from the old versions are perfectly fine and when they no longer are, Libre office and (almost embarrassingly) Google docs will have to do.

I'm definitely not the only one bailing. My father has been off for many years and, as a principal engineer at a Silicon Valley medical device company he helps others see that we don't need to let Microsoft maintain a stranglehold on us.

But, I was happy buying the new versions of office year after year until these most recent changes. Excel 2005 was one of their best versions. That was my subscription model: I pay full price every couple years you put out a new version and, in return, you give me a good, solid product that built off the prior one (or at least stayed damn near as useful) while providing support to that product through updates and bug fixes.

Subscription services are already gaining groans from people and we don't need another subscription in our lives.

But, to wrap up, back to the point: even though excel (and the other MS Office software) were incredibly versatile already, you still had the option to install the Analysis ToolPak if you needed to work with complex statistics or engineering analysis or even write your own plugins or macros for it, instead of those features overburdening the software and overwhelming the users by "covering all the use cases".

Apple's podcast app used to be great. I used to be able to easily subscribe and download all the episodes for a show, navigate to any show, and get back to what I was listening to all in a few taps.

As it stands now, if you want to add all of the episodes from a show that you have listened to for the past 14 years that somehow was not subscribed to on your device, you have to go to the show and subscribe, go to available episodes and tap on the + next to every.single.episode and even then sometimes episodes get lost.

You can set the custom settings to download all available, but it won't download the episodes of a subscribed podcast if you haven't explicitly added them (tap that + sign)

Also, can we just set the screen podcast app opens on to our own choice? I literally have to go through an extra menu just to see my show listing. Yes, I've created a "station" for the shows but that's immensely inconvenient if I want to listen to one show continuously without having to navigate to the shows page (guess I have to create a station for every show...)

I don't think the Apple funded shows will be bad. This article really seems to be creating a mountain out of nothing. Hopefully, this means that some lucky podcaster or media group makes $$$ off of a deal with Apple.

How is this misleading?