Uncle Bill and the Slot Machine

My introduction to gambling came on a family visit to my Uncle Bill. I was about 7 years old. It was Saturday, I had just received my $1.00 allowance (worth about $8.00 today adjusted for inflation).

Uncle Bill, who always had lots of fun stuff, broke out a mini slot-machine. He proceeded to demonstrate how it worked, then invited me to put in a dime (10% of my allowance). As I recall, I more or less took his suggestion at face value. Unsurprisingly, I lost my dime.

As I recall, I was reluctant to throw good money after bad, but he encouraged me to try again, probably to "win it back". Needless to say, I wound up feeding all 10 dimes into the mini-bandit, and finished in tears.

Kindly Uncle Bill proceeded to open the slot machine and return my allowance to me (or probably my allowance plus extra), while cautioning me that "Uncle Bill will do that, but nobody else will". 

Fast-forward to adulthood, I have never had an interest in gambling. I'm guessing I would have gotten there no matter what, but I did always remember that lesson.

Podcast Feature Idea - Bookmarks with Searchable Notes

It would be mildly useful to be able to add a bookmark to a podcast, and then enter a note. Of course notes need to be searchable.

Location Sharing Refinements

I have a couple of ideas for features that could make location-sharing more acceptable for widespread use. 

The simplest idea is for the person who has been granted location-sharing privileges to be presented with an advisory, when they seek to check a contact's location, that the contact will be notified, if they proceed. If the checker agrees, the location will be duly revealed, and the checkee will be notified (according to the checkee's preferences, which could include no active notification at all, just a log in the app).

A layer on top of this would be for the checkee to be asked to grant permission for location to be revealed. A further refinement to that would be an optional default time where, if the checkee does not respond to the request, permission is granted automatically.