betteryet

4 ms·

1.
by betteryet 1mo ago
The dictators part is false, the EU is not a structure you can easily dictate. But this encryption backdoor thing is somebody's pet project and extremely alarming. The UK has a similar bend they've already put in place with IPA an
2.
by betteryet 1mo ago
Many countries including European now have just scan a QR code. The EU payment scheme Wero is bringing that cross-border for EUR. Instant and very low fees.
3.
by betteryet 8mo ago
This stuff is important and can only happen at this level through legislation. If you don't do it this way to apply for everyone, then any good actor products will be crushed by profitmaxxing competitors. Or any good actor executives a
4.
by betteryet 8mo ago
Back in the day, Heroku, Stripe, and GitHub were iconic engineering organizations. They had this culture rooted in Unix ethos with a sprinkle of modern minimalism and style that was outstanding. You could really see people give a damn in th
5.
by betteryet 10mo ago
Exactly, societies need to be stronger than states too and really need to act early. States can become one person or party and it's game over for a long time. Actually, the American Constitution is pretty great at preventing this exact
6.
by betteryet 10mo ago
EU is holding, but the fact that every authoritarian (US, China, Russia) is trying to break it apart should tell you something. It's like the only one remaining, and they don't like it. You may not agree, but VDL and KK have more
7.
by betteryet 10mo ago
Not my point. The original comment said the tech industry can decide to break up the federal government because they don't want to be forced to clean up their act. Societies should be stronger than any industry and fight to maintain fr
8.
by betteryet 10mo ago
How about we break up the tech industry instead? This muskian "I am above laws so I'll break up the USA/EU" is asinine and societies should come down on it like a ton of bricks.
9.
by betteryet 11mo ago
Love the use of space weather
10.
by betteryet 1y ago
Neon is a great product because they are run by Postgres enthusiasts. They have decent customer-friendly pricing, real serverless HTTP endpoints, and they're always on the latest version of Postgres as soon as it is stable. From what I
11.
by betteryet 2y ago
Same thing with Gandi, which is a shame. Domain renewal price silently went up 3x or so last year after getting acquired.
12.
by betteryet 3y ago
San Francisco is fantastic, but you can't use it outside of Apple platforms. Anything in this style better than Inter, even commercial? Graphik, Circular, Neue Haas Grotesk, Proxima Nova have been popular at various times, but are not
13.
by betteryet 4y ago
Prompting an AI for 5 seconds to write a bunch of paragraphs that your human counterpart has to then read and think through is incredibly disrespectful of their time. AI assistants that summarize and enrich information for you, fine. That a
14.
by betteryet 4y ago
They did let the bank fail. The bankers lost any wealth that was tied to ownership of the bank. Of course, a bunch of them sold shares as they saw the end near, but that's something the SEC should prosecute as insider trading. They&#x2
15.
by betteryet 4y ago
Even osteoarthritis is now understood to be mostly caused by inflammation rather than wear and tear. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUOlmI-naFs - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=osteoarthritis+infla
16.
by betteryet 5y ago
Katherine Eban is exactly the right person to be reporting on this. Her work on fraud in the generic drug industry has been eye-opening.
17.
by betteryet 6y ago
This just happened to me today with Epik, another old-timey registrar. Added a .com to their shopping cart yesterday, then went to pay for it this morning — no need, it's been registered during the night to someone in Japan. Not a supe