julienb_sea

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by julienb_sea 4y ago
It seems bizarre to me that any serious podcast would fail to retain: - Their own backups of their master audio - Separate uploads to competing services with significant market share (e.g. Spotify) It's not really surprising that Apple
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
If you don't care about max current performance (frankly you probably don't), then picking up a used M1 pro or M1 max is a much better value proposition. It doesn't seem like the other upgrades are very substantial, maybe Wif
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
2019 MBPs unfortunately weren't great. I had horrible battery life issues after years of heavy use and got my work to replace it with a M1 max 16". Night and day difference, a huge huge step up. The thermal issues on the 2019 mode
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Consolidation is not inherently anti-consumer. Example: in this context, consolidation could lead to a merger of Blizzard games and subscriptions into Xbox game pass without any price increase. This would be a pretty clear win for consumers
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
This reminds me of the Juul ban, which flagrantly ignored the trivial availability of competing vape products. Then again, the Onewheel system is rather unique. I would be curious to see a safety comparison of Onewheel versus the much more
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Hot take. As long as ads are clearly indicated, and non-promoted results are easily accessible and usable, I don't have a problem with Google relying on ad funding for their main development efforts. The amount of behavior they have ma
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
It's a fair argument that Ticketmaster's monopoly position could lead to extortionary fees with small artists. This is unlikely to be a factor with larger artists, and its wholly unrelated to the practice of dynamic pricing. A mon
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
The Jones Act limits intra-state transit of goods. Trade efficiencies create new economically viable business opportunities, which in this context are definitionally domestic. Outsourcing the ships used for intra-state transit would unlock
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
NYC tap to pay is a beautiful system. Seamless with any mobile phone, and if you have an apple watch the integration is insane -- just put the watch near the reader and it knows it's a transit reader and just works, no need to even ini
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
I'm really conflicted about if I'm going to be shooting in 48MP or 12MP for normal use. Most of my photos are taken of friends in casual settings and used for social media. Many times a good shot requires capturing a number of pho
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
He's taking responsibility for over-hiring relative to the needs of his business, and taking corrective action for the long term health and viability of the business. This is the right thing to do. Yes, it sucks for the people who lose
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
The benefit of credit cards is no one can literally drain your bank account via fraudulent access to a payment card directly tied to your bank (i.e. debit card in US nomenclature). This is a clear benefit regardless of location. Courts are
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Broadcast radio & tv are definitionally auto-play, arguably much moreso than social media apps which have pause and rewind and browsing functionality. I digress, the scalability point is fair and this is an irrelevant sidebar
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
The irrationality presumes: 1. That the decision-making activity itself is wasteful. 2. That the decision-making time would, if not consumed by decision making, be spent elsewhere in a more productive manner. These are hardly safe assumptio
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
This is a great way to ensure politicians are utterly disconnected from the private economy. I don't think we want this scenario to play out. Politicians need to have skin in the game and a real understanding of the consequences of the
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
I wouldn't dwell on how you "should" feel about your current situation. Reflect on what it is you value in life. Are you meaningfully fulfilling and working towards your values? If not, think about what aspects of your life a
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
This is super cool and if I was working on more personal projects I would be tempted. In an enterprise context, moving to a reimplementation of core Node APIs is a terrifying prospect. There are infinite possible subtle problems that can ap
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
This is basically self sabotage. Building the yacht in Rotterdam, as opposed to a shipyard elsewhere, is good for the local businesses that are a part of the ship's development, and helps solidify the reputation of Rotterdam for future
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
In a sense this is the market answer to the problem of incentivizing people to live in less risky areas. This is going to become increasingly important around the world, as assuming sea level rise there are many low-lying areas that will ha
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Why exactly would we not leverage established desalination tech, already deployed at scale in Israel and other nations, to alleviate this problem? Reducing the stress on aquifers would bring us much closer in line to equilibrium yield, espe
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Renewables come with major constraints that fossil fuel sources do not share. The value of the grid is rooted in its consistent availability. Renewables cannot replace on-demand generation because they are definitionally cyclic, constrained
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
That's kind of the value add. TikTok's recommendation system is miles ahead, I mean incomparably better than any social media competitors. This is largely responsible for its market growth and staying power, but ultimately it reli
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Energy security is mainly what I was referring to. Inconsistent access and/or prohibitively expensive electricity and gas is a huge problem for personal health, healthcare, education and access to economic opportunities.
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Fantasizing that we can eliminate and reverse fossil fuel emissions without dramatically affecting global standard of living (acutely in less developed societies) is also a non-solution. We are going to have to deal with slowing but non-zer
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Juul has taken a lot of active steps to eliminate this portion of their business. At this point there are myriad fruit-forwards disposable competitors eating their lunch. See elf bars etc. Banning Juul is utterly irrelevant at this point an
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
This is the true absurdity. You can actively buy high percentage nicotine in any flavor you want online, delivered to your door with minimal age checks.
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
I'm amused at the mix of condescension and vehement beliefs contained in this essay. There is some irony as his beloved typewriter is a consumer-good technological invention which happens to be his "established" tool. There a
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
Anker sells a lovely 65W USB-C power adapter ("USB C Charger, Anker 65W PIQ 3.0") for 34$ on Amazon, which I regularly use to charge my 16" M1 pro macbook without issue. Would recommend over buying the Apple option for 2x the
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
I've had a touchbar on my work macbook for ~3 years and can't say I care at all. I use the touchbar controls without issue, the non-physical escape key is irrelevant to me (actually I find press-and-hold on the virtual escape key
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by julienb_sea 4y ago
This technology seems inevitable. Do we really think foreign manufacturers will have qualms about developing armed (non-lethal or lethal) autonomous drones? China will have this deployed within a decade. It seems shortsighted for Axon'

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