peace2all

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by peace2all 6y ago
It’s not “justified”. I’m merely pointing out (a) hypocrisy by BaseCamp (and subsequent marketing lies), and (b) the old adage that you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. It might be nice to believe you can snip at a company’s products (an
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by peace2all 6y ago
Or could we get rid of ALL federal holidays and put everyone back to work? Everyone wants their pet project/idea/ideal/personal-fetish as a "federal holiday" which then all but forces States to also adopt them (or g
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by peace2all 6y ago
Maybe because Hey/Basecamp decided to target Apple's email platform on Hey's home page as the cause of all Inbox woes? Maybe before you go griping about technical details in Apple's App Store rules, Hey/Basecamp sho
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by peace2all 6y ago
News about... what? The Kardashians? It's 25% of 18-24 year olds, according to the story. So, basically people who would never read the WSJ or NYT or New Yorker or The Guardian, or probably even the BBC. Or read anything more than 1-2
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by peace2all 6y ago
Not so. Nothing fresh about it. https://mrtechimist.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/apples-email-an...
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by peace2all 6y ago
Huh? In what way? Nearly everything they "invented" has been around for years, and in some cases a decade. They blasted Apple and Gmail for causing Inbox problems, but all their "solutions" are common ways we have always
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by peace2all 6y ago
Who is “we”? How many people go to museums and really explore them? But at least you made my point. IA is a museum, but run by amateurs displaying not Egyptian history, but homepages of 13-year olds from 1997.
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by peace2all 6y ago
> “Today we discuss”... Meaning, today I write. Because what I say is necessary. Can’t just be silent. When is he gonna give up the ghost? He’s not at Apple for a reason. Yet he’s obsessed with them. No one at Apple sought him out befor
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by peace2all 6y ago
I no longer support the IA. They are a few people who needed a “mission” in life. But they aren’t true librarians or historians. They waver between flighty utopian idealism and arrogance and self-justifying activism. It’s getting old. For e
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by peace2all 6y ago
TL;DR: He relies on 3 different online services to scan business receipts and track expenses. None are needed. He spends hours (days) trying to automate what he himself claims is only a few expenses per month (and shows a photo of a very th
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by peace2all 6y ago
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson.
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by peace2all 6y ago
Agree in part; disagree in part. Most WP site owners are average Joes and Janes. Probably 95% of them. They get a ‘dev’ (college kid) to help them here and there, but most are being ‘run’ by complete amateurs. On the other hand, SSGs are a
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by peace2all 6y ago
Amen! Absence makes the heart grow fonder.