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New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Your phone is an entire computer"

jonahhorowitz — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:46:50 +0000

FWIW, you can plug your iPhone into an external monitor to do a Keynote presentation. You need a USB-C (or Lightning) to HDMI dongle in most cases, but it works fine.

- https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote-iphone/present-on-a-...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

jonahhorowitz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:20:04 +0000

In California at least (I'm not sure about Florida law), you can go to court and state "the state hasn't proved that I was the driver," and if the photos are too blurry to show who the driver was, the state loses. You don't have to tell them who the driver was, just show that they don't have enough evidence that it was you. I believe this approach is more consistent with the constitution.[1]

[1]:https://caticketking.com/help-center/photo-red-light-help/ph...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia"

jonahhorowitz — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 03:24:57 +0000

There have been cases of benzene being detected in sunscreen. It's not an intentional ingredient, just one that is common in industrial manufacturing. I don't think that's what the parent was worried about though.

https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/beware-of-benzene-shining-a-li...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection"

jonahhorowitz — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:16:52 +0000

As long as they spend so much on marketing, it's hard to believe them when they say the only way they can recoup their R&D investments is to charge high prices.

- *For many large pharmaceutical companies ("Big Pharma"), marketing costs often exceed R&D spending.* In analyses of the top 10 drugmakers by revenue in 2020, 7 companies spent more on sales and marketing than on research and development. For example, Johnson & Johnson spent $22 billion on marketing compared to $12 billion on R&D; Bayer spent $18 billion on marketing vs. $8 billion on R&D[1][2].

- The combined marketing spend for these top 10 companies exceeded R&D by $36 billion (about 37%) in 2020[1][2].

[1] https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of... [2] https://www.csrxp.org/icymi-new-study-finds-big-pharma-spent...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "The Economist's global rip off"

jonahhorowitz — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:11:37 +0000

This post in current affairs[0] remains the best piece of writing about the Economist that I've ever read.

[0] - https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/05/how-the-economis...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 18 May 2025 20:59:17 +0000

Does RemNote use the algorithm described in the link or something else?

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's?"

jonahhorowitz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:59:07 +0000

I worked at the Gap and Banana Republic all through high school and college. This was well known amongst the sales staff. There's a small amount of variation between each pair of jeans because of how they're cut and how the material stretches during cutting. Also just different people on different sewing machines makes a difference. We always advised customers to try on a few pairs of the size they were looking for to get one that fit best.

Here's a quick shot of what the cutting machine looks like: https://youtu.be/oBt85Jgjvng?si=UAU0Jj4q_Vztmi5K&t=680

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:39:15 +0000

Yes! Night mode was great on long road trips. I've honestly thought of buying a gently used late-00s Saab instead of anything new.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "If your customers don't talk, NPS is a vanity metric"

jonahhorowitz — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 06:36:20 +0000

I occasionally answer a customer support survey, just because I know the person on the other end probably gets to keep their job or not based on some average score, but I am not wasting my time answering a NPS survey for some random app or company that I've used. It's just not worth my time and I get too many surveys to care.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:28:06 +0000

I don't think the country fell apart when Obama directed the justice department not to enforce weed laws. [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Memorandum

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:25:19 +0000

Of course anyone who wanted to, including the Chinese, could just buy that exact data from data brokers in the US. It's readily available.[0] Nobody really believes this was about data.

[0] - https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:21:43 +0000

He can direct the justice department not to enforce a law.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:17:17 +0000

Also:

- you can't watch at 2x on reels

- you can't pause a video while watching on reels

- you can't seek in a video either, you just have to watch the whole thing over

- reels interrupts your experience with awful ads every 2-3 swipes

- YT shorts probably has awful ads too, I haven't tried it

The time limit is probably going to be the biggest issue for YT and reels, but the ergonomics of both are so awful that I can't use them for more than a few minutes. I could scroll TikTok until the little video about scrolling too long came up (an hour I think).

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

jonahhorowitz — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:13:13 +0000

Are there? Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are awful in comparison to the TikTok experience. Red Note is funny, but not really a replacement. Nobody is going to go to Snap.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

jonahhorowitz — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:12:48 +0000

Honestly, my TV is connected to my AppleTV, and that is connected to the internet. I don't use any of the "smart" functionality of the TV. I don't even use the remote for anything.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "A camera that shoots 40k FPS decided the 100-meter sprint final"

jonahhorowitz — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:27:01 +0000

There is a special advertising board that only the camera can see.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

jonahhorowitz — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:37:03 +0000

When California re-regulated the wholesale energy markets after the Enron debacle.

Source: https://www.apep.uci.edu/PDF_Research_Summaries/Impact_Of_El...

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "The Fall of the House of Etsy"

jonahhorowitz — Sat, 25 May 2024 22:05:33 +0000

Etsy is just an alternative storefront for Aliexpress at this point. I rarely find something on there that I can't also find on Aliexpress. It's cheaper to drop ship it myself.

New comment by jonahhorowitz in "The Volvo VNL, a heavy truck purpose-designed for North American roads"

jonahhorowitz — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:24:50 +0000

> For one thing, they're not speed-limited, unlike heavy-duty trucks in Europe, which aren't allowed to go faster than 56 mph (90 km/h). "So we had to take that in consideration in the design," explained Stadler.

Seems like we could help things a lot by adding this regulation to trucks in America. Slower == better fuel efficiency and safer too!

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

jonahhorowitz — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:36:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/ordered-back-to-the-office-top-tech-talent-left-19454119.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40346682

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