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Nah, 25 cents in 1939 is 6 dollars today. There are 200 new books on Target.com right now for less than 6 dollars. Their own article has a grocery store spinner with $4.99 books and under.

Your library and project gutenburg have a bunch of books you can read for free on your phone or web browser. Or the kindle/Kobo ecosystem. And with the web, you can reserve physical copies of paperbacks or expensive new hardcover books at the library and have them waiting for you to pick up.

We live in an era of unprecedented super abundance of good reading.

This "i just found something unfair" style journalism is very frustrating because they only consider evidence that you are powerless.

You are not powerless. You can read great stuff and don't have to pay a lot. Go get it!

I, for one, favor having a .1 cent piece, a third the size of a penny about the size of a shirt button.

Because San Francisco sales tax is 8.63 and something the costs 1 dollar is really 1.083. And I would like 91.7 bach cents when I give 2 dollars.

What's sad is that unionizing will accelerate whatever the decline of the company is causing the dissatisfaction. Wiser for employees to just jump ship or found a new game studio when this kind of decline happens.

The chances of a company turning around are super low, adding a union makes it harder. Just run.

I stole a lot of books too, reading them and all. Just integrated them into my worldview, and don't pay a license fee when I use the ideas in new contexts. Sometimes I even quote from them. A lot of them I didn't even pay for, I borrowed them from libraries or friends.

I dearly wish Apple would just publish Dark Sky again. Let the Weather app be whatever super clean design hero you want, just give us back this perfect information dense weather app to use day to day.

There have to be dozens of devs in apple who would love to be on the 1-2 person team it would take to maintain it. (It was a 2 person startup for years, don't come at me with how hard stuff is.) It could even be a reward for good service, "ok you successfully mucked around with weird EU privacy law in the health app for 2 years, instead of a sabbatical for therapy how about you get to work on Dark Sky for a year?"

No, it's painful.

What a great update, thanks for posting!

The problem is that average sms security is higher than email, but email CAN be much more secure. So for mass market accounts sms makes a good login confirmation and improves security.

But if you've bothered to have somewhat secure email it sure would be nice to use that instead, and not worry about the 50,000 retail and support staff at telcos who can grab your sms account based on a convincing phone call.

So, please, I beg of you login developers, offer email wherever you use sms now.

I'll second that for Waymo.

Just took a Waymo ride across San Francisco 3 nights ago in hard rain, at night. A hilly complex city with bike lanes, kinda oddball medians and bollards, many pedestrians, and homeless people wandering down the middle of streets. It did great.

I've taken 5 trips so far, and all have been great and better than the average uber driver.

I've had 3 sketchy Uber rides out of about 10 total in the last 3 months. One older woman was was peering over her steering wheel commenting that she really can't see that well at night, she'd kinda guess and head over to next lane, and had to abort once when she almost merged into another car. One plunged across 3 lanes of traffic without signaling while looking at the phone in her hand, twice! Another did a no look left turn while looking at the map and almost hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk. I said "stop!" and he did and looked up shocked. Slow enough that it would have only been a broken leg, but still...

Nah, it's failure mode is to slow down and pull over. It would be amazing if drunk humans did the same.