https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1h0vhlq/...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210099 (2021, 50 comments)

Except the Vision Pro maps your home, visually and acoustically. I suppose it's acceptable if one already has a Roomba and an Alexa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKXOfQ6JmE

> I am an engineer, I live in Venice and I do work on this project. The gates might have a lot of drawbacks, but at least they are not visible. The lagoon of Venice is practically a natural reserve, especially in the vicinity of the sea inlets: the gate project in the Rotterdam style was rejected exactly for this reason (and the inlet in Lido is almost 2 km wide, compared to the 0,4 km of the dutch project). The gates themselves are huge, they can easily withstand a tide of +3 m and need very little modification to go above this threshold. The main concerns lie with the environmental impact of their activation: firstly because they consume a lot of energy, secondly because they impact on the vital interaction of the lagoon with the Adriatic: in the worst case scenario, it is expected that by the end of the century, flooding above the 110 cm threshold will occur for 180 days per year, thus this problem needs to be carefully handled. For the concerns about the navigation and trade, an offshore port (with an underwater train connection) is being studied, an idea which could also remove all the container and cruise ships which are still allowed to enter the very shallow water of the lagoon.

Same happened to me. And I even called an additional time and only dealt with them in Portuguese hoping I might get somewhere with that tactic. Nope. Called, emailed, tweeted, you name it. No luck.

Ryanair was pretty bad too. I spent a few weeks trying to book a short, direct flight between major cities and they kept cancelling the flights (3-4 in a row) and trying to give me credit. Their webchat helpline was quite poor, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncj3QAKvBBo

His son recently released Essay, a tool to help write better, in the sense mentioned above.

https://essay.app

Another thought: There could also be a differentiation between news article curation and research curation, though I understand they'd intersect at times. Often, looking at the research as it's published gives you good lead time on any news articles that will be published about said research, though it requires a lot of reading.

In the professional news curation I did, a "lead time" approach I used for the industry we dealt with was to locate and skim non-English news and publish summaries on what's happening worldwide, which put us ahead of the pack (ie, English-language news sites picking it up) by at least a few days, if not a week.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/uq5yjo/animal...

I've been a nomad for over a dozen years and usually find ways to rent medium-term, ex. 6-12 months (and in some cases, long-term). I do as you do, and integrate into society, speak the local language, etc. But even so, I am participating in taking local housing from locals because in some cases I know I'm paying an increased rate (vs local rate), or I'm using what otherwise would be used as an Airbnb for living.

I spent 5 yrs in Lisbon, while renting at local rates, as the city went from ungentrified to gentrified, so I considered it my home and loved the city. But I sat there and watched as it was ruined by tourism and the hoards of short-term visitors. That quality of life I loved so much was destroyed in front of my eyes. I even went back a few years later to try living there again and it was even worse than when I left. All I mean to say is that there is no winning as a nomad, either I'm greatly affected by short-term housing, tourism and gentrification or I'm helping it along.

But yeah, I do the same. All set to auto ignore, even though it means one or two necessary calls are missed (ex. my cc company wanted to inform me they were cancelling their partnership and thus closing all cards).

I hope this essay is better. In the least, the comments here are interesting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29038906

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Coincidentally, around the same time he went to Spotify, I started getting really annoyed at his butting in and his opinions on matters that his guests know a lot more about. I've caught a clip or two on YT in recent months and I skip over any parts where the camera is on Joe, so I can just hear the guest.

Change the name on the box to something else, but same message.

https://i.imgur.com/TAHgUPy.jpg