Well it is a bit strange that corporate profits are at record highs and CxO's keep talking about how they are driving increased prices on their investor calls during a time of record inflation.
No, people that support the concept of being compensated in response to the value they bring, ie capitalism, are capitalists. Including most proletariats.
I'm pretty sure sanders is the most left of all the dems. The rest of them were more center-left. If he's center left, then which dem is the farthest left?
Left and right are relative, obviously. If we go according to the original definition of being opposed to the ancient regime in France then that would make essentially the entire United States decidedly left-wing. That isn't very useful.
Our industry developed due to the labour put in by so many and central planning and funding by several governments, not due to free markets.
It's a literal idealist position to insist that free markets cause development, when the vast majority of material evidence across the world points to the contrary.
Another option is a smartwatch. The screen isn't big enough to read much and notifications can be turned off. It's always with you and even has bluetooth, so no more wires.
Yeah an Apple Watch with LTE. Not sure if LTE is required, but needed for streaming. Could probably store data on watch before heading out. Need Bluetooth headphones. Battery life is ok.
LTE is not required. I use my non-cellular Apple Watch on runs and listen to either music or audiobooks. You sync your Apple Music music to the watch via the iPhone's Watch app. Audiobooks are similar, but since most of mine were from Audible I use their app to sync to the watch.
I have Garmin Fenix 6s pro and this variant has 32gb that you can use to store music. It's a nice watch, but the ergonomics of the buttons are not great compared to touch sensitive watches. It will do what you want though, and I love it for tracking my swimming laps!
Apple watch can save a few MP3s. My really old one can save at least a couple of albums and I never carry my phone with me. The watch connects to bluetooth headphones.
Proper compile time sum types would be great. I find myself reimplementing sum types at runtime far too often, especially when it comes to parsing JSON. My go to is a function with a signature along the lines of the reflect packages dynamic select:
The phone number requirement is the only thing making Signal remotely close to usable for the wider public. Similarly, non-phone messaging is niche in the extreme. Unusable software is not an ally of user freedom.
The actual problem with Signal is that they took US State Department funding. That doesn't mean it's an op necessarily, but suspicious nonetheless.
Why? If someone wants to use a phone number for their identifier, fine. But make it optional. If I join Signal with another alias (free-form string perhaps) then they could just add me via that. Not really harder than using my phone number.
> Why? If someone wants to use a phone number for their identifier, fine. But make it optional
Network effects.
If you’re only findable via custom handle versus the phone number your network already has, you’ve reduced the network’s value to your contacts. Put another way, if I join a messaging service and it says two of my contacts are on it (but many more may be), that’s close to a non-starter.
I'm fine with people not finding me automatically. If Signal wants to keep the low-resistance method of bulk-checking your contact's phone numbers, fine. Just give me the choice of joining without it.
That’s a private gain at the network’s cost. For a challenger, their decision to bar that albeit limited form of free-riding is perfectly rational. For a dominant network, I am much more sympathetic to the call for anonymity.
Why would messengers without phone number collection not be usable by anyone with a smartphone?
Even if that was the case, " it's strictly less usable than WhatsApp" is not true, because other messengers can provide other quality of life features.
" That means in practice, it's unusable." is not true either. Remove "Status" support from WhatsApp and you get strictly less usable than WhatsApp. Still, it is not unusable.
Signal is pretty close to being strictly less usable than WhatsApp btw.
People can request to write you without being in your contacts.
I have received several spam messages this week in this way.
Imagine how much more with a lower barrier to entry
If it's optional, then there is more than one way to identify users. For a non-technical user, that means they have to make a choice and understand that choice, as opposed to just always using a phone number.
China has very strong privacy laws, though. In fact, Grindr recently stopped operating there because their business model was made very difficult by the new PIPL law.
One could be reductive and say that the Chinese Government has given themselves a monopoly on privacy invasion. Is that strictly worse than privacy invasion as a capitalist business model? I think the answer to that is highly subjective and highly culturally dependent.
> The services (here: web fonts) could be supplied another way
The problem here is that every service could be provided another way. It seems that the only actual hosting option that doesn't leak a user's IP to a thrird-party is first-party only over Tor. Do we demand that every website is built that way? It turns out that outsourcing actually has a lot of value.
So where do we draw the line? Google Fonts apparently needs to be reimplemented first-party. What about Google Cloud CDN? What about an ISP that sees the user's IP in the packets?
