https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Macdonald

They use that to explain why you don't feel acceleration when you jump off a building or out of a plane.

They say you DO feel it when you are standing, because the earth is impeding you and pushing you away from the geodesic you naturally want to follow.

So it is counterintuitive. the standing still person is being accelerated/pushed. The freefall person is free.

John wheeler said "Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve". I think it explains the circular nature.

Mass curves spacetime, that changes how mass moves , mass moving to a new position changes the curvature, that changes how the mass will move next. The dimple in the mattress staying with the mass.

I have a "system" base that I put on the ribbon. it defaults to "recently created", but I have a bunch of different views for hunting down anomalies too.

I lost so much in money and notes when they decided the books I bought "to own" were now considered "licensed".

They changed the encryption on most of the newer ones so I couldn't even retrieve most.

They also took away USB transfer so I couldn't use the library system in the way I liked.

Now? I own a Kobo which will never touch the internet for the rest of its life and it only contains epubs. One day, Kobo/Rakuten will likely do the same.

They have no product that they can demo but they expect payment in full?

Are they white-labeling this or do they plan to design it if there is interest and ship it "eventually" ?

on round 3+ it feels like it solved the problem and doesn't need to evaluate anymore and it inadvertently uses more effort to create something less random

When I started, AWS was in its infancy and I was just some guy working on a special project.

Now that same account is bound into an AWS Organization.

AWS Changed. My company changed. the policies change out from under you.

Could we just add complex and varied captcha to the comment & posting forms?

His backup plan after the fact seems suspicious as well because he is making it much harder than it has to be.

Between that and a glance at the home page, it feels like someone doing AI vibe work who is not comfortable in the space they are working.

Who is the intended audience? Other vibe coders? I just think its weird that given his backup solution, he likely asked the AI to create it . whatever hot-wash he did for this event was invalidated.

The problem is they hold faces+IDs indefinitely and the ones I needed have breach issues along with indicators of top of the line 2005 era security practices.

So for me, its less about the KYC and more about their inability to KYC responsibly.