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In America, anything worth doing is worth overdoing. :)

(I live here too, I'm just poking fun at our culture)

No it's not. You can be behind on payments without filing for bankruptcy. You can have a debt sent to collections without filing for bankruptcy.

There are all sorts of cases where a person is not trustworthy with money that do not show up in the public record. That's why credit bureaus came to exist, and although their business practices and data security leave much to be desired, I understand why they exist in the first place.

Earlier this year there was a good EconTalk episode[1] with the CEO of the Burning Man Project. I've never been to the festival, but I'm fascinated by the economic and logistical challenges of keeping the thing going (in contrast to something like Woodstock, whose 30th anniversary event in 1999 was a train wreck).

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/marian-goodell-on-burning-man/

> Also, you sound like the kind of person that would spread the positivity to others around them

Well, I wasn't always, but I'm trying to be now! :)

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" -- Jim Rohn.

It's not literally true, but it's a great way of thinking about who you surround yourself with and the subtle ways they influence you.

I know I tend to pick up aspects of the people I spend a lot of time with. When we used to visit our family in Queens I'd come back talking like someone from Queens. When I had a boss who would badmouth the company a lot, I found myself also having a negative opinion of the company. Cynical friends made me cynical.

My boss now is a ray of sunshine. Just a delightful and decent human being, and I am a better person for being around him. I can only hope some of my positive characteristics rub off on others.

I'm a widower, and one of the ways that loss has changed me is that I am much more cognizant of, and grateful for, the other familial and platonic relationships in my life. I wouldn't be getting out of bed every day if not for my kids, family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. I am surrounded by love and support.

I certainly have bad days, but I would not be where I am without the relationships in my life, and I absolutely believe in the power of those positive people to have a positive impact on me.

CarMax is not the cheapest option, it never was. Their whole business model is to sell the car at a good-enough price, and to make the sale frictionless. And they've succeeded.

Today they are the market leader, but as the article suggests, if they start to use that leverage to sweeten their markup too much, other competitiors will come along and offer something better.

This is really just a news article about how a free market works.

My wife also passed away unexpectedly in her sleep in 2016.

My heart aches for Matt. I don't know him or his wife, but I know the feeling of being unmoored. In fact I've used that same word to describe it.

I agree that people never know how to act about the situation. It's weird now to think of all of the people I have met who only know me as a widower, who never knew me when my wife was alive.

I appreciated the outpouring of support I received in the immediate aftermath. It was overwhelming, but not unwelcome.

You can exist in many American cities without a car. However, America is a gigantic land mass and we are spread over areas of very different population density.

You may not need a car in NYC, but you need one if you live in the middle of Iowa.

I do not believe that is a solid argument at all.

A man in the 17th century would likely have to bury at least one of his children because of disease. The man himself might succumb early to painful illness or infection. If he needed to travel for business he would be away from his family for months. If he lived on a farm (as many did) his days would be filled with hard labor and his standard of living would be much lower.

To say nothing of men of color, or gay men, or women, or men who were not landed gentry.

For many, many people, the 17th century was not a good time.

I was hoping someone would mention being a pilot in this discussion.

If you learn to fly, you will learn to follow checklists. Many, many checklists.

A good instructor will tell you that while you do need to follow the checklists, it never hurts to do one last check. One final walk-around before getting in the cockpit, one last check of radios/transponder, one final scan across your engine instruments before takeoff, etc.

If you do these things enough times, you'll find the occasional instance where you forgot something obvious, or accidentally skipped a checklist item.

To OP, as you miss each edge case or QA thing you should have found, you add it to your checklist. Before you check in a new piece of functionality, run it through your checklist. Also, do one last walk-around of the code. How will the user interact with it, what are the API dependencies, etc.

You're not second-guessing yourself, but you always verify even your own work before calling it done. Over time, you'll learn to follow both the best practices, and your own intuition built from years of learning from your mistakes.

Except that you would know which account was the real Donald Trump, because Donald Trump would be on TV telling you so.

Extremely well-known figures have other ways to let you know which account is theirs. The harder set of people are the sort of low-to-medium famous. Or locally famous, not globally famous. The verified system has never worked well for that group anyway.

People understand the platform better, no need to lure famous people to the site, there are other ways to verify (e.g., link to twitter account on web page), many more people across the spectrum of "famous" so it's hard to button down who/what is famous enough for the checkmark, global audience means famous in one place != famous in another, no consistency in how verified actually works, verified accounts became Star-Bellied Sneetches, etc.

Eh, I understand why it made sense to denote official accounts of well-known people and organizations in Twitter's early days, and also why it doesn't make sense anymore.

The culture of the platform and the world it exists in have changed, why shouldn't policy change to reflect that?

Well considering you're doing it all by yourself, you are doing an awesome job! I look forward to each new interview. I like that you give the guests time to provide an in-depth answer without peppering them with too many questions.

When you're a famous podcaster you can do a Mapping the Journey episode about Mapping the Journey! :)

I've been subscribed to this podcast since his 2nd or 3rd episode. He's had some interesting guests.

I think the podcast is a one-man show. He could probably use some help with mixing/production (and a new intro theme), but for a one-man show it's pretty darn good.

Edit: I'm an idiot and just realized OP is the podcaster.

Gosh, I loved Eudora! I used it into the 2000s. Eventually was (forcibly) migrated to Outlook at work, and Gmail came along in 2004 to convert me off of desktop mail clients at home.

Seeing the picture of that box brought back memories (such as when software came in boxes!)

Smartphones have already killed off the casual camera market. I don't think Canon or Nikon would be willing to help Apple kill off the high-end camera market, too.

Innovis is usually an intermediary for financial institutions to check all three of your reports. If you've ever seen a hard check on your credit report from CBCINNOVIS, it's them. They're not one of the "big three", they're sort of a 0.5.

The other sites are practically being DDoS'd by people trying to freeze their credit. Glad I did mine before it became a fad. :)

There's no technical reason, but there are plenty of political ones. And since our government derives its power from the consent of the governed, if enough people don't want national IDs we won't have national IDs.

Something non-US folks don't always get about the US -- in a lot of ways, the US is more analogous to the EU than it is to any one country of Europe. That is to say, the US Government is the national entity, but quite a lot of power is still held in the states. There is a 200+ year wariness of federal power here.

One of the ways this manifests itself is that identity is established and maintained largely by the states. Your driver's license is basically your national ID here, even though there are 50 different kinds of driver's licenses.

In the 1930s we had Great Depression, New Deal, etc. and Social Security. Once Social Security Numbers became a thing, they became wildly popular as a stand-in for a national identifier. And now they're crucial, and they get stolen all the time, and we have nothing better to replace them with.

National IDs are a nonstarter politically in the US. One side thinks it is undue encroachment on local rights, and the other side thinks requiring ID disenfranchises the poor and undocumented. That's the tl;dr version of course -- reality is more nuanced.

Upstate NY to greater DC area.

I'm like the opposite of this. By my mid-to-late 20s I was disillusioned with my job and career choice. I also felt trapped in my situation because there weren't a lot of choices for developers where I used to live.

It took me a few years and one big (geographic) move, but I did manage to steer my career in a better direction. Through hard work and a big ol' dose of luck, I was in a job I enjoyed when I was 35. And I'm in an even better one now!

It is entirely possible Bing's market share is improving because Bing itself has improved.

I also remember LOAF - Linux on a Floppy

I'm not sure I even have any floppy disks laying around, much less a drive to put them in!

But they do have to do something. In fact, they're constantly doing a whole bunch of somethings to keep people in their ecosystem.

Apps. Messenger. Instagram.

They didn't get that network by just being first(ish). They got it by continuously being the best of the imperfect options, and they can lose it just as easily.

What do you have against mandatory access control?

Because that's not Apple's business model?

They did the licensing thing in the mid-90s. Mac clones were a thing.

To license macOS means to support infinite hardware variations, and to rely on OEMs not to suck. It is an impossible technical problem for a company whose whole ethos revolves around integration of h/w and s/w.

To be fair, in Jefferson's time newspapers were overt instruments of a political faction. You started a newspaper to spread your point of view.

We have at least a veneer of nonpartisan purpose to the major newspapers of today, although you can argue they still have a bias. Online news/blogs/etc. are more analogous to the newspapers of the early Republic.

Is every intriguing headline called clickbait now?

It's not like they said "9 great traps all Americans fall into. Number 3 will blow your mind!"

When Apple makes an iPad app to teach kids a programming language useful only in the Apple ecosystem, they're promoting STEM education.

When Microsoft leverages a massively popular game to promote STEM education, they're weaponizing.