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??? everyone I know who's gone fold hasn't gone back.

yes, battery & camera are a generation back and water/dustproof is even worse.

but productivity and fun are off the charts: slab phones feel pathetic once you've got a fold. Communication apps show you the list of conversations as well as the current one - or the current one and the details/multimedia. Google Maps shows the map and the listing details/reviews. Games and multimedia are delightful. Photos are full sized, and you can see what you're shooting in detail - if you shoot with a digital camera, remote shooting is amazing because there's enough space to show detailed focus.

-1: if the fix breaks customers in other ways, they're screwed as well. Damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Criticize the argument, not the speaker.

also:

- early social media really struggled to scale the social graph algorithms. Facebook made real technical innovations.

- early social media had serious problems with trust/safety and really nasty content. Many complex problems from deeply adversarial userbase.

Together, Orkut got bogged down and couldn't compete for resources with ads/search/maps/etc.

wow, that's a lot of hate and presumption.

law of diminishing returns? i.e. any reasonable frontier lab will have enough user logs...

yabut... airliners require constant maintenance and periodic rebuilds.

In nearly all cases, I recommend people use TIMESTAMPTZ with UTC timezone (i.e. convert on the way in). If possible, operate your apps with UTC until it hits a user's eyes, i.e. internally define your "day" to start in ~Greenwich UK.

This saves a __lot__ of headaches, of which timestamp vs timestamptz is the tip of the iceberg.

this is not limited to democracy - every form of government does this to varying degree, and in fact democracy tends to be (perhaps marginally) better than say autocracy.

as is often said with a sigh, "democracy is the worst form of government, except for every other."

to me, democracy is really about giving the masses enough feeling of agency, because the alternatives are either revolution and/or disengagement / low productivity / low creativity, and both are "bad for business" i.e. cannot compete with democracies.

China will be an interesting test of this theory. Notably, in China they have a terrific education system and the government is able to attract/retain smart ambitious people.

Another test will be the power of governments to thwart revolutions using digital and kinetic assymmetry. The masses have individual hackers and pea shooters and the government has digital armies and autonomous drone swarms. In turn, since revolution is off the table, governments don't need the overhead of democracy. In the US, we see this with the rise of Executive Orders for example.

actually, human latency is quite slow and distracted drivers often have 1sec+ latency.

it works because 99% of the time you don't need fast latency because you can accurately predict things.

that's why a standard recommendation is to drive 2+ seconds (time not distance) behind the car in front of you. also why experienced drivers instinctively move their hands/feet into position during tricky moments when they need to cut the latency.

fun exercise, try taking your foot off the gas and hitting the break - slower than you think!!

The argument goes:

Iran has repeatedly called for "death to America," "death to Israel" and so on.

Israel's leaders do not generally call for the destruction of other countries.

+1000 did _exactly_ this right down to the ziploc. Also a bag for audio, HDMI, old apple cables, and "random" cables. These days, I store the ziplocs in a pelican-type case and that goes in a stack with cases for power cords, camera gear, SBC gear,etc - and the stacks all go on furniture dollies, so I can roll them out.

nah they have AI bots for checking security, performance, etc so it's all fine!