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I've been there as well.

In reality 99% of the time you don't need new gear. However there is also a delicate balance where a new piece of gear makes you excited to go out and do your hobby more and it's that going out more than makes you get better at it.

Big Tech's latest ploy: using live facial recognition to monitor and control riots. Surveillance overreach meets dystopian nightmare. Because nothing says "protecting democracy" like treating every citizen as a potential criminal under the watchful eye of an algorithm. Welcome to the future, where privacy is a relic and Big Brother is always watching.

Intel's recent struggles are the result of a decade-long failure to diversify and innovate beyond its x86 stronghold. The company's delayed pivot to AI and smartphone SoCs, coupled with poor financials, make its current woes unsurprising. Cost-cutting measures might free up cash, but without groundbreaking changes, Intel risks becoming a cautionary tale of how not to manage a tech giant.

It's disappointing to hear that Paddle requires three months of processing statements before allowing integration for new SaaS products. This creates a classic chicken-and-egg dilemma: without a payment solution, you can't generate transactions, and without transactions, you can't qualify for Paddle.

For new SaaS products, starting with an alternative payment processor like Stripe, which does not have this requirement, seems to be a necessary step. Stripe is straightforward to integrate and widely trusted. After generating the required transaction history, migrating to Paddle for its comprehensive tax handling could be considered.

Alternatively, many tax solutions can integrate with Stripe, providing similar benefits to what Paddle offers without the initial barrier.

This requirement seems counterintuitive and might deter new businesses from considering Paddle from the start. If Paddle could reconsider or provide a pathway for new products without existing transaction history, it could be more appealing to startups.

In San Francisco if you make $1M as a W-2 employee your marginal tax rate is ~53% and your effective tax rate is ~47%.

If you make $1M on your own the rates are even higher.

(That's not including the 10% sales tax you pay on almost everything you buy with the money you have left, property taxes on property you thought you owned, property taxes landlords financially pass onto you as a renter, etc.)

Sure, but it also feels slightly pretentious. Is representation in PR what the community wants? Why not actually uplifting the community such that artifical representation isn't necessary?

Something I think which really needs to be discussed. Why do tech companies always put a token black person in their PR videos but yet their hiring doesn't reflect that?

No, you don't want dumb people to have representation, because idiots will spread misinformation (everything from climate change being fake to masks being unnecessary) and adopt corrupt practices to garner their votes. Smart people are less vulnerable to misinformation.

You want people who believe science, have a sense of foresight for several years, understand international politics, and how resources and economics work to decide the future of the country.

It also gets rid of people who are too dumb to understand RCV. Hee hee. Intellectual filter on the voting population. :)

I used to use "anting" to refer to the behavior of cyclists who stand on the pedals and don't sit firmly planted on their seats, as if they have ants in their pants.

And then there were "beeing" which are the cyclists who do the above while also rocking the cycle from left to right -- that's more like bees in their pants.

It's probably not compliant. As with all good things, if you're in the Land of the Free (TM), eventually people will hunt you down if you try to do good things.

Alternatively, base your site out of a country which gives you the freedom to do things like this. Build it in China and you'll be applauded instead of sued. Copyright suits for petty things like this would laughed off when it's something actually useful.

> fears of others

Fear of other people based on disability is discrimination. I have zero fear of blind people.

Fear of other species is not immoral. I'm afraid of snakes and alligators, and I'm just as afraid, if not much MORE afraid, of dogs, and my fears are justified by both hard data as well as past trauma.

No you haven't. ADA should be supporting people who have fears of animals as well, IMO. It's about supporting everyone, not just one class of disability.

For that matter, a driver with a severe back problem shouldn't be forced to help a disabled customer with lifting their luggage into the trunk. A different driver should be found. ADA should support both individuals in being safe.

I don't think that's funny or a valid comparison.

Dogs aren't even the same species. It's not immoral to be afraid of them and having PTSD because of negative interactions with a particular predatory canine species is very normal.

Hopefully service robots won't be very far into the future. I don't want to discriminate against blind people. But I really don't think there is a problem with not being okay around a particular set of non-human species (alligators, hornets, lions, coyotes, dogs, bears, mosquitoes, ...)