Kudos for mentioning Lost in Translation. One if my favorite movies. Whenever I try to explain to people what it’s about, I get blank looks why that would be entertaining.

Käse

Nationalists. Just of another nation.

English and Russians don’t even have jobs! /s

I started working out twice a week and running in the weekends when I was 40 and after a couple of years felt better than I did in my twenties.

The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.

Same with ‘suits’, I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.

This happens until you start wondering if you’re just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.

What if everyone would transfer their PayPal credit to a regular bank account on the same day? Would that bring Paypal value down?

Crazy idea here: would it be possible to have a model where everyone’s phone is a mini personal instance, syncing with others when the user opens the app? When a phone is offline that phones content would be unavailable too, but that is part of the truly decentralised model.

I agree it feels off, but it’s better than what we have now. Users could allow certain companies’ ads they feel comfortable viewing.

The additional benefit for companies would be that they would have a direct finger on the pulse of the market. If they make a decision and they see a lot of users abandon their ads, it was probably a bad decision.

The obvious downside is that people that can use the money will be under the influence of big corporations more.

Truly fair would be to have corporations pay.the users to allow them to show them advertisements.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History

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One thing not mentioned is that if you ever want to “de-Google”, you will have to go to all websites and services where you logged in using your Google account, and (try and) change the authentication method. Avoid it if possible.

I assume you have heard of An idiot abroad?

It’s a comedy, I think a lot of the misery is acted, but fun nonetheless.

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And that’s how I met your mother

He looks more intelligent than most project managers.

Probably because they’re from the U.S. where SMS is still used extensively for messaging.

Regarding location for the purpose of determining what language to render the app or website in: the article skips over the fact that users can configure their preferred and fallback languages in the browser. It’s perfectly possible to access that in JavaScript and render the app or website accordingly. You don’t need location information for that. In fact, it totally ignores the fact that some people live (or are visiting) in a region but don’t necessarily speak the language. I find it super annoying when google presents me with suggestions or ads for local businesses when I’m on vacation.