jrowley

Parker Higgens made a really cool Twitter bot using this project, which creates a little clip of a random record playing:

https://twitter.com/78_sampler?s=21

I think the parent commenter would say that open ended nature of the task makes it not menial - so they procrastinate because it's very hard to get started. Its discrete, not a single ticket that's easier to focus on and get info flow state with.

My dad, a radiologist once had patient that was so large that they couldn't fit them on a conventional CT scanner. Luckily this was a university town, so they were able to access the vet's large animal scanner.

AWS also has Cognito which is closer to Auth0 I think?

This isn't a universal solution by any means, but for people you regularly interact with you, you could provide them transparent masks, that allow for better lip reading.

For example: https://www.walmart.com/ip/UMfun-4PCS-Smile-Communicator-Fac...

I use customer.io

Makes it very easy to iterate/experiment.

I was using CityStrides but now I'm using StreetFerret. I like the map a bit more and it shows more stats which is nice. Both have some room for improvement.

https://www.streetferret.com/

I’m running every street in my city.

First, I highly doubt any investors would be interested in yet another Uber/Lyft competitor with nothing to differentiate. They operate at billion dollar losses and just laid off a bunch of employees. It's just a race to who can drive prices lowest and establish a monopoly.

Second, you're right in part, I don't want to build another uber, but not because its hard work (I like hard work). It's just that ethically Uber is pushing our country in the wrong direction, furthering our dependence on private individual transit, while further burdening the worker and the environment.

And I’d argue the barrier to entry for taxi businesses should be higher. More cars on the road doesn’t help the environment, or speed up anyone’s commute. Allowing Uber to circumvent this is moving our state in the wrong direction. And uber’s experience while better in some ways, is only better at the cost of the environment, and workers rights.

If we don’t allow artificial scarcity/restrictions on number of cars on the road, maybe we should stop subsidizing fossil fuels too.

I cannot “make my own Uber”. I don’t have a bottomless pit of Saudi Oil money to throw into this unprofitable space.

The only people that have the money to compete have no desire to put workers first. They are just trying to establish a monopoly and drive existing, successful, more efficient and sustainable forms of transit out of business.

Also in those developed countries without minimum wage, they have national healthcare. So a poor comparison in my opinion.

Yeah, they can have no minimum wage because they have organized labor. But if you’re a 1099 for Uber and you attempt to organize a union, you’ll just get fired.

Without the ability to form a union, or wage protection, workers are going to be racing to the bottom.

We already have laws that restrict how Californians work (eg minimum wage, OSHA, EEOC). Do you think we should rollback those requirements as well, in the name of freedom?

It's unfortunate that isn't battery powered/more portable.

If you are fortunate enough to have privilege, you should exercise it to make the world a better place.

That might mean attempting to change a company from the inside, or that might mean leaving them and not supporting them. And then once you leave, you still have to look for places to exercise your privilege to make the world a better place.

If employees are feeling like their values are no longer in alignment with the company they can leave. ICE is hiring.

For measuring spread of disease like prostate cancer imaging can be really helpful, see: PSMA PET-CT. I could imagine a world where imaging is really cheap and agents were safer, in which case we might opt to use imaging instead of physical exams, as they would offer way earlier detection. But for now the additional radiation (not present in MR), cost, risk, time, etc makes it a no go for standard of care screening.

Some companies actively solicit feedback after interactions with customer support, about the interaction. Those surveys link back directly to the agent. More generally there's also NPS.

HIPAA also only applies to covered entities and their business associates, of which the university most likely is not, or at least not in their capacity as OPs employer.

If you have a thin budget and lots of part time employees or people just dipping their feet in the project/ trying things out, while you are bootstrapping, I could see it feeling expensive. But the cost is trivial compared to say US healthcare for a single employee for a month.

I imagine it'd be hard to bring preprint studies + twitter threads to head of your department and use that as the basis for institutional policy change? Although it could change individual physician's practice which I guess is where things start?

If you're already satisfied by your experience on the phone, and you don't have to relearn anything, that could be a pretty compelling reason to go with the SE.

I love that this was posted on 4/20

I recently got an unexpected netflix marketing email too.

My mom had similar symptoms last week and got tested for influenza a, influenza b, RSV and COVID 19. All came back negative.

I add this anecdote just to show there are plenty of bad bugs out there.

I’m glad to hear you and your family are doing better.

It's a Public Health Order supported by California state law.

> UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTIONS 101040, 101085, AND 120175, THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Also it's hard to understate how devastating this virus can be if it spreads quickly. e.g. for people > 80 years old the mortality rate is 15%

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-...

Give everyone a copy of why we sleep, and then have a chapter by chapter book club over a couple of weeks?

I applaud you for helping people with their sleep.

The small issue with the append trick is that is that it assumes the reader application will now respect the new format and not open insecure parts... which might not be fully implemented in all cases and is reader specific.

Fully sanitizing the PDF yields better guarantees of security at the cost of lost functionality.

I imagine it would be challenging to get the necessary samples to accurately calibrate the test/ensure efficacy?