The Green Bubble status of non-Apple users creates a hostile environment where non-apple-participants are discriminated against, where pictures are crushed low-res and the perps (the apple owners) eliminated from discussions by apple owners. This needs to be addressed. We don't need the division. What other tricks are used to crush interoperability? Access to apple photos?

Pump and dump is the name of the Game. Dan Olson has a great but long review (youtube - "The line goes up" ) of 2008 to crypto and shows what a nothing burger that it is. The "energy wasting on purpose" angle even makes it seem actually evil. Block chain as a tech is way cool. but the way Srypto/NFT - there is just no value, only a quest for the greater fool. A previous post mentions this. Sure seems like a pyramid scheme. Scarcity without purpose does not represent value. Contributions to societies needs does. The bored Ape folks are on a fools errand.

Say a company that once yelled "think different" is now quietly insisting that all of your pictures and videos are now belong to us and our customers only. You can't share those baby pics with your grandmother if they don't buy into our pay-walled -hardware/software-scheme. Can't use an Android to access iMessage and iPhoto/Photo etc... unless you purchase their hardware. Eff that. I'll pay for access but as a member of a different hardware ecosystem. I'll think different. If they made a non-standard-compliant service thats difficult to port to other platforms, shame on them. Software Products should rely on their quality and not on an enforced hardware paywall that divides families and friends - spake the GreenBublled miscreant.

Each fish that is caught doesn't have a chance to reproduce, or be consumed by another. Take take take. We are good at that, most of us thing the ocean is inexhaustible.... Good news is that it will rebound if we don't get in the way. Each Store that sells fish must be tossing a fair amount of them after they are old. Does anyone know the percentage that are actually sold/eaten? We should rework our methods to get the percentage of discard as low as possible.

Was wiggling a lightning adapter right and left just last night. Seems pretty lax in the flat plane ( wouldn't describe it as a chunk) that lightning is. The metal wrapped USB-C is definitively more secure when seated - its form resists motion in multiple axes.

If every phone manufacturer made their own cables, as a technology^H^H^H^H^H^H^H profit benefit, we'd have a lot more EWaste. Standardizing on a format that will reduce it makes sense. So so sorry if it replaces a profit center for a phone company that used to advise "Think DIfferent". the power capacity of USBC seems to have a lot more headroom: https://www.thestreet.com/inve... - and on another (parallel) front: The EU is also forcing interoperability between chat platforms: https://www.europarl.europa.eu... - consumers win.

Why anyone would think crypto's reliance on uniqueness independant of value should be the basis for a financial product is beyond me. Some people argue it's a pyramid scam, a quest for a greater fool... not something that balances the effort of a baker and carpenter. My granmdaughter makes a lot of cool crayon drawings that are precious to a very few people, but have no real value outside that audience. Am I missing something? Is there value in cryptographic trivialities? Blockchain is cool in it's own way, but crypto seems destined for irrelevance.

ISP - should we split Internet service from Cable infrastructure as is done with Natural Gas? Pay one for Physical connectivity, and another for content... Physical connectivity by nature will be monopolistic. The content should come from anywhere. Performance tickets - Sports and entertainment are sold by vendor (naturally a single source phenomenon) , at $X and slurped up by uninvolved third parties, and sold at market value which is sometimes 10X markup. Why is this an acceptable solution? the Third party provides no real improvement in the product? Why is this acceptible to the arena or artist?

Using functions (for most things ) can make bash methods a lot more readable, better flow. easier to debug and document. Got a kick out of the loss of Goto from Basic many moons ago.

Those that said that lockdown wasn't needed only judged in retrospect. If the virus had been more virulent, we would have lost many more people. Lockdown saved many lives as our medical community of heros found a path thru the affliction. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude. It's real easy to say no.. there isn't any creativity in no. Often, there is no solution in no. Instead, we need to appreciate those that come up with ways of navigating such emergent things like pandemics. People that find solutions to issues should be thanked by deniers, not castigated. What is the cache' that people feel they get by being deniers?

Will the monopolies that ISP's crave/foster/assure-each-other become apparent? There are enough handshake deals that wont be obvious from 'lookin around' at offers ... until you see the patchworks of solid colors where the monopolies are.

Not that there is not interest in it, there is no inherent value in it. Scarcity is great, but it has to be paired with relevance or some notion of value. My grand-daughters sketches are very precious to a very select few people on the planet. They are very scarce, but have little intrinsic value to most people. Crypto seems the quest for the greater fool. I bought for 0.0001, need to sell at 0.001 and make 10x. then that person has to sell for 0.01.... But what is it that has value? Is it associated with a kickstarter?

Gaming drives hardware - better performance means more sales. It's a niche. But when a browser is maximized on your laptop (or tablet or bigscreen or phone) the underlying OS is not relevant. The goodness is not local, it is whats available out in the sea of the internet. Those that try to cling to the remaining scraps of proprietary isolation will be soon eclipsed. Open is the path, things just have to work, things have to connect.

Reading is fun-damental: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/... summarizes: "Among more than 2.5 million vaccinated HCO members who were 16 years of age or older, 54 cases met the criteria for myocarditis. The estimated incidence per 100,000 persons who had received at least one dose of vaccine was 2.13 cases". So, the risk of getting ravaged by covid vs any mydocarditis from Vax says.. "Yah, get the vaccine" Fight Disinformation. https://www.google.com/search?...

Good point. The art of selling us what we already have. Every few days there is another technique with a cute word that makes us feel like we have wasted our previous year. Has the pace of software utilization methodology outstripped both people's ability to keep current and industries ability to actually vet/train/deploy before it's stale or unfashionable?