Why tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself? I can serve food, I can drive a taxi, I can and do cut my own hair. I did, however, tip my urologist.
Not many fans of The Office I see :)
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nimz commented on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you skipthe.tips/... · Posted by u/randycupertino
Why tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself? I can serve food, I can drive a taxi, I can and do cut my own hair. I did, however, tip my urologist.
> I tested it with a sample event and I don't see any way to RSVP without logging into an Apple account. Maybe I'm missing something?
You are. I explicitly created a burner email and invited it to an event.
When I navigated from the invite email I was prompted to sign in which I declined. It then allowed me to join the event after I confirmed with an emailed code.
On joining the event I was able to set my name and send a note.
The way I tested it was to create Share link, then navigate to it in an incognito window on Desktop and try to RSVP. I am still unable RSVP without login. Perhaps it works without login if you explicitly invite a certain email.
You can generate a link to e-mail to anyone, which opens up a web page which you can RSVP from.
I tested it with a sample event and I don't see any way to RSVP without logging into an Apple account. Maybe I'm missing something?
nimz commented on Sending emails to my three-year-old blog.haschek.at/2024/leav... · Posted by u/geek_at
I did this for my son and my daughter for many years.
Unfortunately, I did it by making them gmail accounts. Google without warning closed both accounts when my daughter was 12 for being under-age. I lost everything. I tried to appeal to get them to unlock the accounts long enough for me to get the contents out, but talking to a human being at Google is famously impossible.
Whoa, I'm doing the exact same thing right now for my son, and using Gmail as well.
Blessings to you for this warning. I'm going to do something about changing the location of this mailbox asap.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/19/three-children...
This can lead to some very tragic outcomes!
In the late 80s/early 90s when I was kite-battling, it was common to use these glass coated strings. I haven't played in decades, but it does seem quite dangerous now that I think about it as an adult. I'm glad the practice is banned.
We live in a different age today in terms of safety awareness. I vividly remember playing with powerful fireworks during Diwali celebrations. We'd light them in our hands and hurl them skyward moments before they burst. Today the mere thought of this makes me shudder, and I can't even imagine my children playing this way.
In my youth, I participated in "kite fighting," a popular activity in my home country. During these battles, opponents maneuver their kites, attempting to cut each other's kite string through tricky aerial tactics. We used special kite strings coated in thin glass. The victor's prize was getting to keep their opponents kite. Around January, during the kite festival, there would be hundreds of kites in the air all dancing or playing with each other. A magnificent sight.
nimz commented on U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 themeasureofaplan.com/us-... · Posted by u/getToTheChopin
Of course a country’s stock market will perform well as that country ascends to become the world’s dominant superpower.
The question is whether the power and influence of the U.S. will grow similarly over the next 150 years as it has over the last 150.
To invest mechanically without thinking about what’s actually happening in the world is cargo cult behavior.
Your point is valid - we shouldn't take single-country risk in investing. Assuming you believe the world as a whole will get more productive and value creating, globally diversifying your stocks is the answer.
As an example that supports your point, the Japan stock market (Nikkei) peaked in 1989 and STILL has not returned to that high.
However, even if you were incredible unlucky and had bought in at the 1989 peak in Japan, if you had an internationally diversified portfolio, you would be OK. E.g. a 30/30/20/20 Jp Stocks/Intl Stocks/Jp Bonds/Intl Bonds portfolio purchased in 1989 at the Nikkei peak would have more than doubled by 2014 (see here: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=265807 and also https://www.afrugaldoctor.com/home/japans-lost-decades-30-ye...).
nimz commented on Show HN: Ello (YC W20) – AI-reading tutor for kids that works with real books · Posted by u/tomsayer
Congratulations on the launching to real users. I know how challenging that is and especially when your users are kids, I can imagine the pressure is much higher.
One piece of feedback on your use of the term AI. While adding the term "AI" to the description of /most/ products seems to increase their appeal, in products that are for children, to me, it reads like this product will be buggy at best and ends up decreasing the appeal. Words like researched, "smart", advanced, cutting-edge etc may be better suited. This is just one person's reaction, of course. I could be wrong--perhaps to non-engineers, reading "AI" on kids' products now has a more positive reaction.
nimz commented on Show HN: Ello (YC W20) – AI-reading tutor for kids that works with real books · Posted by u/tomsayer
I would subscribe but your website doesn't have a clear demo video of a child using the product to read. It looks very interesting and useful though!
A "real" demo video was exactly what I was looking for as well. Since the concept is so novel, seeing the product in action would increase my trust, and willingness to buy significantly. My skeptical side made me wonder if demos with real children had been left out on purpose so it doesn't make the product look bad - probably not what you were going for.