Masayoshi Son’s business acumen is only matched by Elon Musk.

The article more or less covers it. Asian countries without a credit card culture mostly transitioned to QR because it was easy with minimal equipment changes required. Those with widespread credit cards accept tap and QR (e.g. Taiwan widely accepts QR payments, Google pay, Apple pay, credit cards, and transit cards).

Since the western world has been on credit cards for decades that is the solution that is accepted there with QR payments being almost exclusively in businesses that have a customer base from Asian countries. Even then the US is odd compared to other countries since they never really adopted chip and pin.

My secret tip is to brown one side of the tortilla, remove it from the pan and then use that side as the inside of the quesadilla to put your cheese and toppings on. Not only does it make the tortilla more crunchy, but the heat helps to melt the cheese.

Back to you Ken!

Best of both worlds is to sear in a high smoke point oil like avocado or canola and then butter baste at the end until the butter is nicely browned. Add some whole aromatics on the steak (garlic, rosemary, thyme etc.) during the butter baste for some nice flavour too.

Ghee is also an option.

They actually have the dual USB-A and USB-C key product that is inexplicably missing from the main security key vendors! While I’m not going to replace my perfectly good keys, I was so pissed off when I bought mine and the obvious product was missing from Yubico’s offerings.

My unpopular cooking opinion is that a rice cooker is not nearly as critical as many people make it out to be. Making it on the stovetop (or in the oven) results in perfectly acceptable rice especially if you are on a budget and could use that money for other equpment. I eat a fair amount of rice and my rice cooker was the last of the small appliances I bought.

That means that over and above whatever debts they have, they think the market values the data their users have given them is worth that much. That said, if Google is only paying then $60M/year for access to that data, they are going to need a lot of customers like that to reach $6.4B valuation.

For corporations it is, “Never attribute to malice what can be explained by greed.”

Buying olive oil is tough, the industry is rife with oils that don’t contain what they say they are. Look for where it was Made in (not Imported from) and check for a bottling date to make sure you aren’t getting old oil.

See if you have an olive oil store in your area, these places buy in bulk and then bottle it for you so you should have the chance to taste the options. A specialty food store would also be an option, they are at least likely to know their product and can guide you to a choice that fits your preference.

316L absolutely can corrode. Add a bit of acid in the water and it will start showing rust soon enough. Typically you can find chemical compatibility charts for various metal grades to see what does and doesn’t work with a metal.

All the glass ones I’ve seen suck. Their pour spots are horrible and they don’t have frequently used measurement gradations. The best ones I’ve used are the Oxo ones but they are unfortunately plastic.

Even though results have gotten worse, every time I've tried another search engine the results have been even worse than Google.

On one hand we are already at a point where most people don’t need any more computing power than their phone has. At the same time, for the people that game or need the most performance you are limited by how much size you need for the cooling solution and i don’t see that changing significantly anytime soon.

You just have to go for it and figure it out. I just used it for planning a vacation and found it quite useful and nicer than other options I have used before.

Just an English transliteration of part of their Chinese name “hǎi kāng wēi shì”

Yes, It is typically pronounced “hike-vision” though.

As a fairly early Reddit user I’ve seen a lot of change as the website got bigger. I would agree that growth is not necessarily good, there is a minimum size of community to keep content fresh and a maximum size before it loses the personal connection. Right now a lot of the larger Lemmy communities are getting active enough, but Lemmy is lacking the users to support the niche communities. Maybe it is best if Reddit keeps those and the two websites end up with a happy balance for all the types of communities.

The two cells tested in that video are different. The Ladda 2450 mAh is equivalent to the black wrapped Eneloop Pro, but the video only tests the standard white Eneloops which have less capacity but a better cycle life rating. This is honestly one of the most disappointing videos I’ve seen from Project Farm, he didn’t test most of what makes a cell better/worse.

Whether or not they are identical cells, from what I’ve read there is only one factory in Japan that makes NiMH cells, so the Eneloops and the Ladda come from the same factory and are therefore likely to be very similar.

VCs fucked up the tech industry when capital was cheap by investing in companies that showed potential for massive growth without caring for the viability of the business. Now capital is expensive and these same companies are now trying desperately to make a profit to become a sustainable business because the VCs aren’t blindly giving them money anymore. This is exposing a lot of company’s leadership teams incompetence.