Agreed. But perhaps that’s the problem? Instead of trying to go instantly mainstream via the consumer market, perhaps the tie-hold are niche professional / commercial markets? Or niche consumers markets provided by the business (e.g., museums)?

It’s not a tech issue, it’s a marketing issue (and lack of imagination).

Thanks for sharing.

Yes, costs can add up. But it’s also about investment / return. Saving $X if it’s less effective a/o costs you $Y, then it might not be the savings it appears to be.

It’s similar to DOGE. DOGE is about Efficiency. But it should have started with Effectiveness. Doing something (financially) efficient doesn’t mean it’s effective.

In short, list some alternatives a/o what you’re giving up by going free would be helpful. For example, Appwrite or Firebase as different (and free tier) backends. Each has their + and -.

Thank again. I will be checking these out.

So much true. I have been a developer in past so I understand my bias towards convectional frameworks. For me, the biggest dealbreaker for Replit was the scale cost.

I the technical debt that I was incurring per project. It is still my go-to option for prototyping and quick tests but this was just the regular stack I am using to ship stuffs.

Also, yes, there a a lot of alternatives (great ones) that I missed and understand that the list is not complete.

Would love to know what stacks you use so I can also try them out.

Information so important to your health and the collective health that… it’s paywalled.

I understand it’s a business, but would allowing free access to occasional articles hurt Wired? As it is, this is clickbait.

Our fear shouldn’t be the flu, it should be the infrastructure that determines personal and collective health decisions. In other news… “Super Obesity” will kill more, just for reference.

Wired, you can suck it.

> To conduct the research, Carter and her team asked farmers to send soil samples to their lab, and also visited some farms themselves

Obviously, a concern. But the scientific-ness of the effort would have been helped using random samples, that were collected by the scientists.

Is this not the basis of epigenetics? Don’t we already have human-based examples?

While I don’t recall the details there was an example of how starvation (of eventual parents) during WW II impacted the children. There is also, a similar example of how the effects of diet was passed along during The Great Depression.

Last I checked that without JavaScript details / summary has accessibility issues. That is, you need JS to add aria-open or similar.

It’s odd and frustrating that such an essential tag is not defined to be accessible, afaik.

That's not correct. There is no aria-open attribute and the summary implicitly has the correct ARIA state, aria-expanded, indicating that its details element is either expanded or collapsed.

There have been bugs in its implementation, particularly in Safari and differing between mobile and desktop Safari.

Perhaps you’re right. What I mentioned might have been an issue that has since fade due to browser and AT updates.

Thanks for correcting me.

Why would you need aria attributes if it's summary tag?

I presume it has to do with AT and how it typically interprets the tag. TBH IDK other than I’ve seen it come up in accessibility discussions / groups.

> Despite our emerging results, the Pfizer executives in charge of research and external alliances told us the company did not want to develop a new diabetes therapy that required injection,

Well, COVID certainly put an end to those fears (by consumers). Coincidentally, obesity was also said to increase COVID risk. Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it - no pun intended - any better.

Wait -your angle is that covid vaccination increased people‘s acceptance of injectable pharmaceutics and covid / its vaccine was made up (or blown out of proportion) so people would get more ozempic?

Flu shots were accepted as a routine thing long before 2020. I don't think the stigma existed in the way you're imagining.

Accepted? By who? You’ve misread the room

The key to understanding trust It’s earned. Full stop. If it’s not earned, it’s not trust.

My personal theory is that one of the (key?) reasons the USA doesn’t have affordable universal healthcare is that it keeps most people tethered to Big Inc.

If you remove the incentive from Big Inc’s healthcare benefits, work at such places is far less appealing.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and agree.

Also, it’s amazing how inefficient medium+ businesses are. I think we should see small businesses thriving due to the cost/weight of the bureaucracy they inflict on themselves, but we don’t.

I think healthcare costs/requirements and unfair access to capital keep the inefficient machine chugging along, cutting off routes for smart people to start businesses, innovate, and improve our economy.

This is one of the manifestations of Crony Capitalism. That is, manipulation (i.e., typically regulation) that puts its thumb on the scale and picks winners and losers.

Most people who complain about capitalism are actually complaining about Crony Capitalism. The fact that they don’t understand the difference\+* is what makes CC so “magical.”

** The NFL is not the Premier League, and vice versa. Both play football, yet no one would confuse the two. Capitalism and Crony Capitalism should have the same differentiation and clarity. The reason they do not is not accidental.

Capitalism evolves into Crony Capitalism just as Communism evolves into Dictatorship and Tyranny, Feudalism evolves into Serfdom, etc. I'm just surprised it lasted this long...

What’s spreading is mass surveillance.

Nearly every toll (in NJ or surrounding states) is done via EZ Pass a/o license plate readers.

It’s nearly impossible to travel without being tracked.

It's this. Data is effectively replacing dollars as fiat currency, due in large part to unbridled money printing.

The other factor for me is revenue. From tolls to speeding tickets, it’s all revenue streams. No need to increase formal taxes when you can add revenue via other means.

Why does it have to be one or the other? Why can’t the gov do surveillance, profit from it, and charge us for the privilege?