Yes. It's commonly called "peer pressure". People do things to fit in with the group that they feel they belong with, and avoid things that they feel will alienate themselves from "their group"
Very interesting that it has Thread too. I wonder if that will be a somewhat viable system in a decade. (Show me where I can buy a cheap Thread border gateway that isn't an Apple or Google voice assistant or whatever.)
We're now on the third generation of iPhones that include Thread radios. Mines been sitting dormant for two years waiting for software that utilizes it.
The Aqara Hub M100 is a nice cheap Thread border router.
its a low level protocol like WiFi on top of which Smart Home protocols, like Matter, run. It allows for IoT devices to be managed, registered and configured completely local with a hub (any iPad, HomePod and so on) and requires no servers. It is private by design and more secure in some ways, as no one but your hub can control the device. Currently a lot of IoT devices rely on a server that registers and controls them, and is in the hands of a random company you need to trust.
NFC is handled by an NXP chip which is completely different than the Broadcom (wifi, BLE) chip. its a simple, extremely well engineered chip that costs nickels and is passively powered so it doesn't affect battery life at all. No incentives whatsoever to build it in-house. Broadcom and Qualcomm were a whole different story.
Yes they can. For example, an ethnic minority could assume that a stupid white person is stupid because they're white. That would be a pretty clear cut case of racism
"All models are wrong. Some models are useful." is the way that I have heard this thesis quipped. I suppose "All models are wrong. Some models are more wrong than others." would fit Asimov's points better, but I've never actually heard that one
My father-in-law, something of a renaissance man, and also a long-time successful commodities trader, regularly uses your latter expression. The first time I heard him say it, I attempted to correct him (“some are useful”) and he confidently brushed me aside. As I’ve matured, I’ve grown confident that his (your) version is less wrong.
Exowatt requires rethinking the solar energy system entirely. This is meant to be bolted onto an existing solar panel field that is mostly selling energy to the grid, but gets curtailed sometimes
.. if you read the full article, you would have learned that "I subscribe to a lot of recipe websites via RSS, and look forward to new posts from some of my favourites", which is a much different way of consuming recipes than you proposed
For recipes specifically, yes. I am not much of a chef, and, when initially learning, I often used to search for a recipe based on a few ingredients I wanted to use. I was never looking for an expert's take on a crafted meal, I was exactly looking for something "that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without any of the credibility or soul". Frankly I'm amazed that recipes were used as the example in the article, but to each their own
> Does everyone at Oxide have the same equity grant?
> equity compensates for risk – and in a startup, risk reduces over time: the first employee takes much more risk than the hundredth.
I think that paragraph answers the question pretty clearly. As an Oxide employee you will get equity. It will generally be less than the people that came before you, but more than people that come after you. So it's obviously not the same as everyone else
Do two people hired at the same time get the same equity? Or is there room for one candidate to get more equity due to their experience or simply because they negotiated more?
Obviously early employees get more equity. The question is whether or not there’s room for negotiation. They heavily imply that everyone is paid the same, but all of those claims are about base salary.
