For mental health and spirituality the Bhagvad Gita. Definitely not what I expected originally and had put it off for years/decades. After reading it, I felt a bit blissed out, what actually led me to read it was another book on taming our mind called The Yogasutras of Patanjali. I feel like it hasn’t been ‘discovered’ yet by the west but it had life changing consequences for me (for the better).
The canadian government is run by a bunch of clowns. Law and order is a secondary thought, we’ve filed for ltb evictions 3 months ago with no hearing date even scheduled. Our tenants have been living rent free for 8 months, we can’t do anything. Now a lawyer doing her job can’t do it because the government has failed to clean up organized crime.
And even if there was most people wouldn’t sue anything other than the default or biggest store. Apple store policies for developers is making a lot of devs really hate Apple.
Google is removing the concept of urls and domains. Apps do this but so does not showing part of the URL in the URL bar and not showing the URL as it is in the result pages without the breadcrumb type redesign. They also realized they make more money when they show a favicon of websites to obfuscate the fact that they have to legally label Ads as ads. The ads txt is directly proportional to the size of the fav icon in serps. Google is evil.
Let’s not forget how google reader and blogger were killed. The greater idea is to not remember anything and to go directly to google each time, making them the sole source of content.
No most apps aren’t ad supported mostly games are. The ad supported apps are not real business but side hustles or one time, one hit apps that die quickly.
The anti trust case can’t come soon enough. Apple is definitely taking advantage of its position, the fact that they also ‘help’ developers remove many reviews where users complain of price proves that costs are pushed to end users which is not good.they get them deleted so there is no evidence for anyone to say it’s a problem. Well played.
Notable ideas around 400CE:
Explanation of lunar eclipse and solar eclipse, rotation of Earth on its axis, reflection of light by moon, sinusoidal functions, solution of single variable quadratic equation, value of π correct to 4 decimal places, diameter of Earth, calculation of the length of sidereal year
Influenced