AlstZam (u/AlstZam) - Readit News

AlstZam commented on News Minimalist – Only significant news newsminimalist.com/... · Posted by u/t0bia_s

1123581321 · 3 years ago

Nice job! The high-rates articles all seem weighty.

0.5/10 might be the sweet spot for best of the worst.

- WWE Draft 2021: Triple H announces draft picks and new brand exclusivity.

- Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson reunite at 2023 Met Gala.

- Vladimir Putin's lover Alina Kabaeva makes rare appearance at gymnastics event in Siberia.

I’d love to see some dials to find even worse news in the future. :)

AlstZam · 3 years ago

Strangely i enjoyed it more like that also but it's probably not the goal :)

AlstZam commented on Marriott refused to host Uyghur conference, citing “political neutrality” axios.com/marriott-uyghur... · Posted by u/codechicago277

simonh · 4 years ago

The management of this Marriot Hotel did yes, but it's encouraging that Marriot's corporate management immediately overruled the Hotel on this and apologised to the group.

Marriot do have a spotty history on such issues, but I think we should commend them when they attempt to do the right thing. Yes this shouldn't have happened in the first place, but given that it did they do seem to be doing their best to make it right.

I'm not going to post this reply to every single other comment ragging on 'Marriot' here, which is all but one top level comment, but come on people. Read the article. Oh, and now that top level comment that was actually informed and provided useful context is getting downvoted into oblivion. We can do better than this.

AlstZam · 4 years ago

Maybe I'm too pessimistic but at first I only see a big corporation (with an history) putting the blame on the local management.

Maybe it's due to my bad English, but I'm not able to find any sign of actual "overrule" of this decision. Is the WUC was finally accepted at this Hotel?

AlstZam commented on SpaceX ships 100k Starlink terminals to customers techcrunch.com/2021/08/23... · Posted by u/underscore_ku

inglor_cz · 5 years ago

This is a global network. Population of the world is around 8 billion. Even if some countries like China ban Starlink for political reasons, you should be able to find tens of millions of customers among the rest.

There are a lot of places where local providers act like robber barons.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

> There are a lot of places where local providers act like robber barons.

I agree, this may be the best effect Starlink can have : create competition.

> Population of the world is around 8 billion

Yes but which part is able to afford 99$/month (+antenna) + bad local provider which refuse to adapt to competition (first at price/offer level before even infrastructure) + no political reason for a global-us based provider ?

AlstZam commented on SpaceX ships 100k Starlink terminals to customers techcrunch.com/2021/08/23... · Posted by u/underscore_ku

AlstZam · 5 years ago

Sorry but i have difficulty to understand Starlink business : who are really their potentials customers ? It seems there is only a few possibilities :

- rural area (with sufficient incomes to afford the price)

- urban area with highly expensive/bad quality landline internet (but still with sufficient incomes to afford the price)

With the development of fiber in most urban area (usually fist in high income part) and the small number in the first category, I don't see how deploying tens of thousands of satellites could be profitable. The only option will be to be able to lower the price but it will need a lot of customers... Could you help me understand ?

AlstZam commented on Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States 4dayweek.io/blog/software... · Posted by u/philmcp

vjk800 · 5 years ago

> government paid health care, so it works out

This argument always gets brought up. The thing is, even in much of the Europe, highly paid professionals don't use the government paid health care, but instead get health insurances from their employers, so the situation is the same as in the US. For some reason those health insurances seem to be much cheaper here than in the US, though.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

In France (and probably in other European countries), private health insurances from employers are complementary to the government health care and don't replace it. That's why it is much cheaper. And so even highly paid professionals still use the government paid health care. Moreover, if it wasn't the case it would make the national health care system a lot less efficient.

AlstZam commented on Compare AsciiDoc and Markdown docs.asciidoctor.org/asci... · Posted by u/mad2021

reacharavindh · 5 years ago

We use Dropbox Paper for team documents(not source code documentation). I actually like it.

The thing that makes MarkDown documents less appealing is the inability to handle images seamlesslessly(drag and drop). Most of the time, our documents involve images to explain stuff. Uploading them somewhere, and then manually adding a tag and correctly copy/paste the url in MD makes it less appealing that just drag & drop an image in a WYSIWYG editor and spending the focus on _documentation_.

What I’d like is a MArkDown Editor that also simply allows me to drag and drop images and it should handle uploading and linking the images transparently.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

> What I’d like is a MArkDown Editor that also simply allows me to drag and drop images

Have a look at Typora [0]. It's my main Markdown editor for this reason (and others).

[0] https://typora.io/

AlstZam commented on Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gmays

reedjosh · 5 years ago

I can't just walk in.

That said I know several people that have had it. Some elderly with existing conditions. Worst case was my aunt who got pneumonia from it. She's in her mid sixties and diabetic. She was in the hospital for a week.

Was in the emergency room with my son a few months back, not overflowing or anything, but I wasn't there to track Covid cases.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

> Was in the emergency room with my son a few months back, not overflowing or anything, but I wasn't there to track Covid cases.

In most (all?) hospitals, Covid cases are separated from general emergency because you don't want your emergency room transformed in a constant cluster.

AlstZam commented on Google have declared Droidscript is malware groups.google.com/g/andro... · Posted by u/croes

thisisjustmine · 5 years ago

They have a subscription model and ads which are not allowed on FDroid. FDroid also requires the software to be opensource.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

This is true for the official FDroid repository but independent repo can be created [0]. This helps manage independent signing as well.

[0] : https://www.f-droid.org/en/docs/Setup_an_F-Droid_App_Repo/

AlstZam commented on Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers freethink.com/articles/fa... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist

pitaj · 5 years ago

Paying people to walk through fields picking weeds doesn't sound scalable or sustainable to me.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

It was for the last 11 000 years. With variabilities, but based on demographic only it was pretty scalable and sustainable.

AlstZam commented on Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute deal with government smh.com.au/politics/feder... · Posted by u/wp381640

johnnyYen · 5 years ago

I think you are mis-understanding what the news organisations source of business is. It's NOT the consumers of news, and never was. It's the advertising companies who place ads on the news organisations properties - and now the news organisations customers (i.e. the ad companies) have found it more beneficial to advertise with Google and FB.

AlstZam · 5 years ago

> It's NOT the consumers of news, and never was.

You're right for the vast majority of news organization on internet but we can't say that it's "never was" (or "is" for the matter). I have at least 3 examples [0] in mind of news organizations for which advertising is not part of their business model (or a very insignificant part compared to "consumers of news" part). And I'm sure we can find similar example all around the globe. Of course such organization generally relies on subscription and/or donation. And of course for this to works "consumers of news" need to pay for it.

[0] Sorry all French : Le Canard enchainé (paper) ; Le Monde Diplo (paper and web) ; Mediapart (web)