Gustomaximus

Years back I lived near a cheese shop La Fromagerie marylebone/London.

The owner would travel around Europe finding amazing cheeses.

If you enjoy cheese and ever get the chance I'd highly recommend visiting. I've never found another store of similar calibre.

I'm in the middle, cameras can be useful in a crowded society as we see with body cams on cops. The can show truth really well, helping innocent people also, but there needs to be serious guard rails and criminal ramifications for misuse by users and companies itself so this is treated very seriously.

I am different in that I would be fine with these BUT only if there is super strict guardrails with real consequences for misuse:

- Super strict rules around information storage and access. - Ensuring access can only be for an active investigation where there is direct reason to look for a name, face, number plate etc.

- Ensure there is reasonable crime threshold for use so cops don't have the right to track someone because they jay walked or something frivolous to justify use.

- Add a requirement any person looked up then they must be informed within ~6 months with reasons why (or a judge warranted delay every 6 months).

- Legal use only and the data can never be sold for general commercialisation.

- Require human verification of hit if police are going to take action on data so there is clear ownership of incorrect actions.

- Some level of data deletion, after a year type thing.

With something down that route, and naturally more than my quick comment, I feel it could balance benefit vs cost. Without real guardrails and consequences it's openeing a risky path for totalitarianism misuse.

I feel it would be good to bring in (or back) compulsory partnership structures for key professional businesses like GPs, dentists, pharmacies, vets and accountants.

The PE buy-up of these core local businesses isn't great for society generally, service delivery and the existence of a middle class.

The other thing I feel gov should do is force a separation of distributors and point of sale, with rules that allow smaller business to buy at the same pricing as larger.

People seem to forget a key requirement of capitalism is for government to create a level playing field for business. I cant see a better way to do this, and I suspect it would be very beneficial to the bulk of society if gov made some changes down this line.

Effectiveness can vary a bunch but the majority of the time bad results are correlated to the setup quality.

There are definitely industries and situations where ads are difficult to make perform, things like a single business working against aggregator heavy environment or markets where growth is more important than profit, but overall there's reason for hundreds billions spent on online ads, this when most business can track ROI results.

One of the bigger issues I see is even 'experts' hand over control to the ad platforms to optimise their spend. For better results often you need to manipulate the systems to work in your favour, which platforms try to limit but you do what you can.

One change I feel we need is for regulation around controls and data on ad platforms to stop this ever increasing 'give us your money and trust us' type behaviour.

> advertising isn't nearly as effective as advertisers let on

Most marketers should know exactly how effective their ads are by measuring to the end of the funnel. This is standard for most business and while bots are a problem, if you're judging online advertising at the front end of the funnel that's to a large part on them for a bad setup and/or optimisation.

I feel the opposite, the more chrome abuse their dominance the closer they move to a tipping point where enough people become browser interested to return to browser wars. It's likely one of those things where it has to go to far, then change will happen fairly quickly.

A mysterious shortwave radio station began broadcasting strings of numbers in Farsi on the day Israel and the United States first struck Iran. It hasn't stopped since.

If confirmed, it would be only the second new voice numbers station to be classified since a Vietnamese station went dark in 2016.

Dmitry Argarkov

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/08/14/man-who-outwitted-...

That seems crazy to me I read news there occasionally as I like to view opposite sides. Go to BBC, RT, France24 ,Al-Jazeera type sites and see what each has as their focus stories.

You're aware news sites are used to push agenda, some more than others, but that's half the interest of seeing what they push. And sometimes the more fringe have stories on what should be news but don't make it to mainstream media channels.

...anyway I'm more a believer in assuming people have a brain and can figure stuff out vs banning sites, both have danger to them but censorship seems the bigger danger to me.

Australia centric: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

Great site and community. I suspect keeping the interface so basic has kept it that way.

I was thinking the issue might be its much better for factories to automate sections of production over time.

It must be a huge expense with risk to design a new factory, automate it end to end and push live hoping the market expectation for the product exists and the automation is as good as planned.

Whereas if you have a manual production line you could have a massive advantage as they can automate out sections ongoing and it allows engineers to build skills in this also as they go.

I use a VPN for 3 main reasons:

1) I need to come out of a particular country for some systems access. If I'm travelling it's easier than having IT team change permissions.

2) I use dedicated IPs for some systems.

3) Testing websites where I want to appear local to a particular country.

Not my experience or people around me (rural area so it's common). WFH with no fibre and patchy mobile so starlink is a godsend.

The most common outage is a regular 3am reboot. Otherwise outages are infrequent and typically a few seconds.

Also the latency is surprisingly good, it's not fibre but can game FPS on it.

Was a long article and only skim read, but wouldn't a bigger factor be rising living standards? As more of the world moves to developed world living standards, which would be ideal, if this shift is faster than green technology + depopulation we are going to see increased climate pressure. I didn't seem them mention this but my inexpert view seems the rising tide of living standards may present the real problem.

> I'd love to make that I think would honestly be worth a small subscription ($5/mo maybe)

I buy a few things for web dev side. I'm a sample of one but I avoid /mth pricing for most stuff if I can and prefer annual. Maybe me but the 'another monthly subscription' feels annoying as much as I respect I want this for my own business.

Will almost always start using free first then pay if its business beneficial to feature enrich of scale.

I think your best focusing on free and getting users. Once you hit a threshold you can ask for some $$ and some people will feel that's reasonable. If you start paid I suspect you'll have little chance of growth unless you come out with something truly amazing.

Unless it really doesn't suit your commute, pay more to be central. This will help you see the city + be social. It can be really difficult if you are one side of the city and your friends end up being the other side as you can have an hour travel to see people type deal.

With location, proximity to a station & what train line matters - you'll likely use the underground a bunch so consider your commute for this closely.

Take one of those bus tours. I did only after living there for years as 'that's for tourists' but its really worth it and gives a good city perspective.

Do lots of travel to Europe from London. So much is on your doorstep with cheap flights if flexible on where you go. Take advantage of this especially if kids are on the horizon.

If you dont already, learn to like beer and pubs. There's something better about British pubs and pub culture. Also it usually well priced reasonable quality meals.

Speaking of pubs, anything crowded in the city will have pickpockets so watch you phone/bag closely or it wont be there.

Its quite common to rent flats furnished, this is likely a good option for you to start. Also what I did as I had no rental history there is offer to pay 6-months up front (and requested a discount for that) to show there financial risk was reduced.

Its an awesome city - I personally enjoyed immensely. I noticed people tended to be there 6-month or 6-years - it was kind of love or hate though, with the majority loving.

Oh and go to Shakespeare's globe theatre for me will you. I walked past that place for 2 years thinking I'll line that one up sometime and never did!

> There is no untapped source of demand anywhere in the world.

What about global growth and development? There are ~billion living in poverty + general low income for even more.

If India and other high population poor countries achieve what China did over the last ~50 years, while China continue to export while transitioning towards a consumption/service economy, there is another engine for global growth. I'm sceptical this will happen, but the potential source of demand is sitting there.

I live in an area where we get a handful of outages every year. From a few hours to a few days.

My current setup is a 2.8Kv generator I haul our of the shed, run a few extension cords to core things like fridge/freezer, internet, office etc.

This is a nice fit between a generator and a Powerwall. Generator is a pain if you have to setup + if not home the fridge stays off or my wife will leave to me unless its urgent. A Powerwall (or similar) is a significant investment.

This product covers people like me with occasional outages but it doesn't have the setup or out of home hassle, and its a more financially accessible solution than a Powerwall. I could def see people interested in this.

I wouldn't take that as face value.

We know how big the taxi market is and it's growth rate. There is clearly room for a few businesses here alone. Then consider driverless will go beyond taxi to general transportation like trucking which is massive market. Also likely play a significant variable in what cars consumers choose.

I think the risk here is software tends to a winner (or small number of winners) gets all market.

That has to be a major risk/reward concern on the companies investing in this tech.

In my very limited experience of firing a handgun you shoot with a slight pause between shots to bring the muzzle back down on target.

If you go full auto, I suspect the shooter would find their muzzle going higher and higher so after the first couple shots they are shooting way high. So if they have 15 bullets in the magazine 3 are good and 12 are way off target type deal. Whereas if they were pulling the trigger at each shot they might aim the '12 air shots' more effectively.

Pure speculation but as I said has the feel of one of those things that may be counter intuitive to what you would initially expect.

Obviously not supporting having these switches, but wondering if it makes shooting more dangerous or less.

My non expert guess is the people using these 'pray and spray' in something I suspect is very hard to control. This would serve to make a heap of wild shots plus make them run out of bullets very quickly for any kind of follow up or ongoing fight. But at the same time send a heap of bullets fast.

I wonder if it becomes one of those events that on the surface looks far worse but statistically is not. Or more unintended bystander deaths?

To be clear. I don't know the answer or are promoting one, but it has the feeling of something that might have a counter initiative answer.

We focus on discussing their work effort and minimise focus on the grade.

That said we do have a 'B' rule where our 2 kids get an ice-cream for B's.

Our daughter is straight A student so we like to take the pressure off on getting a B.

Our son is dyslexic and tends to get C's so he gets an ice-cream for his B/A grades.

For emails, I generally feel these are a 24hr thing. I turn off email alerts so I can focus on my tasks then check a few times a day only.

I used to filter CC emails into their own folder for reading maybe once a day which worked mostly well but occasionally people can't seem to use to/CC as they are supposed to.

Calls I always try to pickup or callback asap but my job calls usually means urgent.

Chat like Teams I'm mixed. Often it's urgent but too many people use Teams in my current company like email and it's really disruptive to work flow getting 50 unimportant messages a day + long "just one more thing' task requests. Ive considered putting an auto-reply of "if it's not on JIRA it's not a task" but that would not come across well.

But generally I feel a better law change would be right to work your contracted hours. Put the onus on the company that they have to get your workload to the contracted hours or pay overtime. Some exceptions for execs on top end pay, but generally this would be a better win for employees, and then you can get that after work call but your being paid extra, which in itself will make people think twice about calling etc when they know there is a cost.

Not the best example for a tech savvy person. He had that image as he made a heap of $$ investing in some early internet company, but yeah he didn't seem to actually know what he was doing tech wise.

His real crime was playing a part in destroying the fibre to the premise internet rollout across Australia. He thought he could do it cheaper with mixed copper/coaxial technology.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/malcolm-turnbu...

I can't imagine how many billions this has cost the country and generally lowered our internet standards.

Would it be worth putting a price to investigating? Message like:

"Our premium support can investigate this for $XYhr. If the fault is at our end we will waive any fees. Please let us know if you wish to proceed."

> It's absolutely common for many 30 year career stretches to never actually see a decent hard-working executive out in the wild.

Really? In my bubble this is far from common and more likely ignorance to what executives are doing. Execs tend to become so because they are highly motivated people willing to dedicate themself to their jobs.

I had an employee once would would constantly complain about their old bosses, all of them as far as I could see. He was a really smart guy with potential but so negative about anyhting leadership. One day I decided to roll the dice and said something like "you always talk about how bad your bosses are, and no doubt you'll add me to the list when you move to the next company. Have you ever considered we all get a bad boss or two, but when every boss is bad maybe you're the problem not them". I knew this was a risky move but it worked. He took it on board and became a much better contributor and dropped this 'all bosses are bad' type approach.

I assumed they could accept the next ride while close to dropping someone off, but the app limits their location while they drive the last bit to another customers house for privacy.