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Why Denmark Is Done With COVID (for Now)
Why Denmark Is Done With COVID (For Now)
On Wednesday, Petersen and I talked about Denmark’s decision, how the country maintains the trust of the public during confusing times, why it’s smart to announce an expiration date for COVID restrictions, and why so many in Denmark are strongly pro-vaccine but also strongly
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You Don’t Want to be the Last to Buy In
Mapping the celebrity NFT complex
One reason the clip is so weird and funny is that it's not all that different from Hilton going on The Tonight Show and talking about her favorite penny stocks, while Fallon enthusiastically confirms that he's invested, too.
What’s the web3 version of, “if you’
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The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It’s More Dangerous Than Ever
The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It’s More Dangerous Than Ever
At first blush, that might sound like a good thing, which is why it will be hard for members of Congress to resist – who could ever vote against child safety? But make no mistake: this was a dangerous bill two years ago,
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Don’t Like Joe Rogan on Spotify? Then Pay More for Music.
Don’t like Joe Rogan on Spotify? Then pay more for music.
The price of Netflix’s mid-tier subscription plan went from $8 to $15.50 during the same time, and everything else has become more expensive too: Adjusted for inflation, $10 in 2002 is equivalent to about $15.50 today.
Also mentioned in
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Where’s the Fun?
Charlie Warzel: Lessons From the Retro-Future of the Internet
So far, my experience with Web3 is different. A lot of its projects seem like unnecessarily complex and theoretical financialized tools in search of broader utility; “play-to-earn” blockchain-based games such as Axie Infinity represent, for me, a dystopian vision of leisure, if
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What's Your Number?
From a Hacker News thread on Joe Rogan:
I don't really understand why anyone who claims to be a proponent of a free market economy has an issue with a private corporation deciding what type of content they want to broadcast.
Like any Hacker News thread, there is some good stuff here, but
What Would an Apple Point-of-Sale Look Like? How Far Would Apple Go?
Filipe Espósito on 9to5Mac:
Square, one of the most popular payment platforms, offers products that turn iPhone and iPad into POS (point-of-sale) terminals. The company has a great app that lets vendors use iOS devices to keep track of all their sales. Specifically speaking of the iPad, there are also very well built
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The Blessing and the Curse of Native Apps
Marco Arment in a Twitter thread:
Native apps can be FAR more creepy (always-on-in-background, cameras, mics, screen recording, etc.), especially on phones (constant location). We lucked out that Macs never really got that kind of “attention” from these asshole companies. But on iOS, they’re ALL native apps.
If I could chuckle
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Swift Desktop Wallpapers
I made these a few years ago, but I've updated them for modern resolutions, and that's
📖 Read some banned books! (Newsletter #101)
Hello and happy…Thursday? Listen, it's a busy week over here are Birchtree headquarters, and I got time to make this so it's going out early. I hope you'll forgive me 🙂
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* What better way to respond to banned books than to read them? Here's 14
Owning Nothing, Selling Nothing, Making a Quick Buck
Musicians are furious at website HitPiece, which listed their music as NFTs without permission
Musicians have taken to Twitter today to complain about a website that is ostensibly selling their music as NFTs without permission. HitPiece claims to sell one-of-one NFTs, meaning each one is singular and unique (as opposed to the endless
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Mac Power Users with Austin Evans (podcast notes)
Listen here.
It's really remarkable to me the number of geeks I know that started with some form of, “I just wanted to customize things.” Going back to the old Macs, to me, it was trying to make it do things. You know, customizing the original Mac, you’d go in and alter
On Contactless Payments Being Niche in the U.S.
I got a number of responses to my piece on Apple adding a "tap to pay" feature to the iPhone, suggesting that this was a niche thing that Apple shouldn't be doing, and even that it's too niche to even ship. All the context I'll add is
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Markets, Growth, and the Arts (The New Bazaare)
Listen to the episode here
Guest Tyler Cowen on the U.S. right’s opinion of popular culture today:
They would say that it is now at some new and totally unprecedented point, and that it was unstable, and that things are about to teeter over. Now it's interesting, I think in the
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⭐ It's Been a Hard Wordle Day (Newsletter #100)
Welcome to the 100th main issue of the newsletter! I don't really know how to celebrate, so let's just…uh…get onto the fun stuff!
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* Great list of Obsidian themes here.
* Tim Nahumck on Apple Watch move streaks, rest days, and more.
* Breaking news about "lo-fi- hip
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Tap to Pay Comes to the iPhone
Apple (AAPL) to Let IPhones Accept Credit Cards Without Extra Hardware - Bloomberg
It’s unclear whether the payment acceptance option will be branded as part of Apple Pay, though the team working on the feature has been working within Apple’s payments division since being brought over from Mobeewave, the people said. It’s also
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Why I Use Analytics on this Site
Michael Rockwell responding to a post about person site analytics:
It also doesn’t show a complete picture. Some number of people read this site entirely by RSS and are never counted in the stats. And then, of course, there’s all of the folks using ad blockers that prevent the stats script from even
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No, I Will Not
If you ever wonder why people like me are so fed up when talking to people about Covid.
It's March 2020, will you stay home for a bit to try and slow the spread of this mysterious new disease? "No, I will not."
Now you can go basically anywhere you want,
