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The card reader on the ATM is frightening (but I always hide my PIN with my hand, but even then, it can be guessed by muscle movements). But Apple Pay is another positive to not having to put your card in the door. If the door doesn't support Apple Pay, then I try my AAA card, which works a lot of the time. If I have to use my bank card, I really try to hide my PIN when I eventually get to the ATM.

I know not everyone has a credit card, but as someone once said to me, never enter your PIN into anything other than a bank ATM, i.e., an ATM physically attached to a bank lobby.

I was at a gas pump the other day with a never-before-seen-by-me card reader that I tried to physically remove (as I always tug on them to make sure they are not fake). After that I noticed, "Apple Pay Coming Soon". That is the first pump I have seen with such a notice, and I am very much encouraged to see that, hopefully someday soon, I won't even have to insert my card into one of these machines!

> Don’t talk to me about burnout without addressing universal healthcare and worker’s rights. I just don’t want to hear it (or read it, or listen to it, or buy it, or watch it).

That is the real issue: people can't give up their jobs because there is absolutely no way they can afford the health care. The healthcare system in the US is completely broken. This absolutely must be addressed, which is a major point in her post.

LOL, Freudian, perhaps... Thanks for catching that! Given how much time I spent at school in Ames vs. Iowa City, I can't believe I made that mistake!

Articles like this remind me of this house, which was built in Iowa City, IA by a Physics professor (he was my professor for several classes). At the time this house was being built, ISU had an "active solar" research facility, i.e., using all kinds of mechanical means to turn solar energy into heat for homes. Once this house was built, ISU shut down the "active solar" research because, as this house showed, passive solar was just so, so much cheaper and efficient: https://lhodges.public.iastate.edu/house.htm

Go to UCLA in the morning and take Election Walk, and you will find 10+ different student groups reselling KKs, five days a week!

Still my all-time favorite web framework. To date, I still find so many other frameworks lacking the vision that brought about WO.

I think Twitter should add a “save” feature so that those who want to actually save a reference to a tweet don’t actually have to “like” it. I wonder how much this would change the “heart” counts for world leaders...

I wonder how the IMF would classify the amount of money the USA spends on military protection of the shipping lanes (to protect oil shipments) around the Middle East...

I find that, almost all the time, in all of the places I have worked, I feel worse when a higher-up tries to make myself or the group feel less stressed. They have always, almost universally, tried to make it sound like it is not bad. Or they say, "Take time off, and do not respond to emails." And if you do that, the rest of the team gets crushed, and then you have an insane amount of work when you get back, which pretty much wipes out the time off (in 2 days or less).

They continue to use the term "rideshare", which just boggles my mind. So, I guess "share" in this case means that Uber is "sharing" a "cut" of the proceeds with the driver. Maybe they should call it, "fareshare" (but then that would be a play on words that turns out to be an oxymoron).

Honestly, would the, "three important points" have even been a remote consideration of Uber, Lyft, etc., if this legislation was was not even proposed (let alone passed) in the first place?

This sounds a lot like someone apologizing and saying they are deeply sorry, only after they are caught doing something wrong.

FedEx works on a franchise model. The franchisee may indeed need to classify its drivers as employees.

“Some of the companies are not done fighting the bill. Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have pledged to spend $90 million to support a ballot initiative that would essentially exempt them from the legislation.”

And how may people who drive for these companies are not citizens and cannot vote?

Then that makes them too much (or exactly like) a taxi outfit, which would not go down too well.

And why is baby formula so expensive? And why has the US stigmatized breast feeding so much? Maybe the two are related...

Here are some infant mortality numbers from your link:

1947: Finland: 6.5% US: 4.3%

2013 (when the article was written): Finland: 0.3% US: 0.7%

How can the tiny country of Finland be so much better at this than the US? It's because of what they talk about in the article, i.e., a government actually caring for its citizens (read, "welfare state").

A sprinter is wasted after 100m. A marathon runner is wasted after 26.2 miles. Then there are the ultra marathoners. I believe the analogy holds.

Step 6 seems to be misspelled: ‘Select “Creative archive”.’

They can keep the $125 (although, I wish I could direct it to a charity). I don't want to submit all of this information to an entity who's data security is probably worse (hard to believe) than Equifax!

This generator is one of the top-of-the-line small generators out today: https://www.energyonthehook.com/Eclectic-Energy-D400-Wind-Ge...

It is very pleasant to listen to (I know, because the huge yacht next to my little boat has one).

As Steve Jobs would have said, "Boom!" Perfect example!

Unrelated to this "new" thing, but what is it with corporate blogs: They almost never have a direct link back to the product website! Why is there not a link to https://www.dropbox.com at the top of the page?!

Same story that is also trending on the HN homepage right now... My comment from that story which is from (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/daveyalba/the-us-govern...):

Quote from the article: “There should never have been the ability to download a database like this off of government servers.”

Sorry that I don't have a ton of links to support this claim, but "believe me" (as our Commander-in-chief would say) that the US Government would cease to function if it were not for subcontractors (read, private companies) performing tasks on behalf of the government. Personally, I don't agree with this way of our government doing business, but that is the way it is.

When I was in college, I worked for an archeology lab, and our lab was the subcontractor, of the subcontractor, of the contractor that had contracted to provide a service to the USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers). And every way along the way, money was skimmed off of the top. It's just "the American way" of doing business.

People lament regulation all the time. I have a feeling the executives of Ingersoll Rand love it every time a new regulation is put into place.

Follow the money.

Quote from the article:

“There should never have been the ability to download a database like this off of government servers.”

Sorry that I don't have a ton of links to support this claim, but "believe me" (as our Commander-in-chief would say) that the US Government would cease to function if it were not for subcontractors (read, private companies) performing tasks on behalf of the government. Personally, I don't agree with this way of our government doing business, but that is the way it is.

When I was in college, I worked for an archeology lab, and our lab was the subcontractor, of the subcontractor, of the contractor that had contracted to provide a service to the USACE (US Army Corps of Engineers). And every way along the way, money was skimmed off of the top. It's just "the American way" of doing business.

People lament regulation all the time. I have a feeling the executives of Ingersoll Rand love it every time a new regulation is put into place.

Follow the money.

"hired car" // been in use for decades

"ride for hire"

"car for hire"

"fee for service"

Not to mention that, as a contractor, they have to pay SS and Medicare payroll taxes, which total an additional 7.65%. So, that $20/hour, given the overall expenses, is probably not even equivalent to the new NYC minimum wage of $15/hour.

Can we please stop referring to these services as "sharing"? Lyft actually started as a company that coordinated the sharing of rides, i.e., no money was involved. But the "sharing" pretense has long since past for all of these companies.

The whole point of surge pricing is to get more drivers on the street. If they decrease it that quickly, then there is zero incentive for a driver to leave their house and get in their car and get out on the street, because by the time they do that, the prices are back down.

Some people actually do not want to be at home (I once had a taxi driver who drove us from Manhattan to Brooklyn, then waited for us to go home, hours later, all the while texting his family that he had to keep working).

Also, leaving the car turned off and waiting in a lucrative parking lot saves gas, wear and tear on the car, and drastically decreases the opportunities to get into an accident. All in all, it is not a bad plan. Taxi drivers have done this for years (which is, ironically, probably one of reasons Uber got started in the first place -- in SF it was almost impossible to get a cab, because so many cabbies just wanted to get airport fares).