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> "The media is becoming more progressive"

This jumped out at me too. It's interesting that some of the reflection on the NYTimes internal changes, specifically, is credited to people coming from "tech companies".

> The insurrectionists, meanwhile, had often come from digital outlets or tech companies or advocacy groups and could imagine leaving the place at any time.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/inside-the-new-york-...

I love this app for podcasts, but their file upload has a 1gb file limit which is a bit limiting for some books.

I've been using plex for this. You can configure a music library to store playback position and organize like books with tags and then use either Prologue (ios) or Chronicle (android). Prologue is a lot more polished, but I get by with Chronicle ok.

Non-profit 501c3 is a sustainable model. Plenty of non-profits span decades.

I don't understand this comment. The DOJ bringing charges has to be step one towards that end. The same exact thing is happening with Boeing, we just didn't hear about it until after they negotiated a settlement. This happens all the time with plea deals. If they can't agree it goes to trial.

The DOJ certainly seems to think a law was broken. As I see it you charge the most obvious person and let them try to blame someone else. Eventually you either find people you can blame and if you can't go up a level until you reach the CEO.

If the CEO goes to prison, other CEOs will care more than this one, if some compliance officer does, the next one won't be as willing to bend to implied pressure from leadership.

I've dabbled in kickstarters over the years, but my main exposure to them is through the podcast "Your Kickstarter Sucks". It's quite entertaining.

http://yourkickstartersucks.com/

Grocery delivery has grown by a massive amount since AB 5 was passed.

I had a very similar experience in NW New Mexico. I expect to go off pavement for this sort of thing, but eventually we faded into what was very uneven dirt. Luckily we could tell someone had come that way in the last day because of an inch or so of fresh snow, so we made it through successfully to the destination where everything was well maintained. We went out the more common route south, but it wasn't that much better.

https://goo.gl/maps/EFik9xuw9o8j9SaM7

How does the listing status affect employees with lockups? If you can't sell for a month (or whatever), wouldn't you benefit from any increase in price immediately after listing? If the price when the lockup period ends is the same, why would an employee care?

(I don't know how it works, I'm actually asking)

For what it's worth, I don't think I had to do that for ubuntu on steam to get it to work back in April.

Palantir is a b2b product.

What makes you think "twitter activists" lead most of the anti-tech crusades? If it's based on your observations of them on twitter, that probably says more about where you're looking than where they are. I don't know where anti-tech activism is centered, but twitter wouldn't be my first guess.

For what its worth, I have mostly non-standard things and it thinks I'm not unique (18 bits)

Brave, piehole, ubuntu, custom desktop computer. I didn't even disable javascript.

Where did they expand the selection? I thought everything on youtube was already in google music. I found a lot of things I used to stream from google music missing from youtube, but I've since gotten off entirely, so I haven't followed any recent updates.

Does github actually have to honor every request that comes in? I thought the youtubes of the world did that because of the volume, but hypothetically, couldn't they do some due diligence and push back on requests they don't think are valid instead of just taking them down and requiring the repository owner to appeal. I'm sure it would be more expensive for them, but it's still a choice.

In a 10 second glance at closed PRs, it doesn't seem like they ever merge any from the public.

I made the switch to plex because of the end of google music. You can get a tidal subscription through plex which has worked ok. It still separates your libraries, but you can create combined playlists.

The google -> youtube music transition finally got me to self host too. I've been pretty happy with plex.

Getting my playlists out has actually been the only sticking point, so this has inspired me to see if there's a reasonable export option there too.

using "percent of taxes" is an arbitrary metric. Why not ask about percent of wealth? I assume because "taxfoundation.org" is in the business of lowering taxes, which is only one of many things to be optimized in the US government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Wealth_Inequality_-_v2...

Eyeballing this chart suggests that the top 10% have more than 69% of the wealth, so paying 69% of the taxes seems like a good deal for them.

Same here, it's something wider than just this tweet. I get the same on the timeline.

Link preview in slack works, however. Here's the tweet text:

"A friend of a friend at Google interviewed at Facebook right as the virus hit. Accepted new job in March. Didn’t quit old job. Apparently does both jobs at home in 55 hours/week. Neither company knows yet. Might have reversed the co’s, not sure. I have so many thoughts on this."

In the US, at least, your license plate can get scanned by cameras driving around and you show up on security cameras (with improving facial recognition).

What's a domain analogous to computers without tracking? I suppose all those are "by computers" at the end of the day, but I can't think of anything I do that isn't tracked somehow.

The positive spin on this is that it allows for more "consumer" choices. With 300 million people, it's easy to find a few individuals pushed into a worse situation. People consistently underrate how bad the status quo is.

In theory you can predict the total cost for things covered by insurance, but there are many layers of complex bureaucracy involved and the insurance company is actively trying to get you to fall through a crack and end up on the hook for a real bill. The insurance company also is practically the arbiter of whether or not you did it correctly.

The best example, is that you can go in for a surgery or something at a covered hospital for a covered procedure, but you can be surprised because some doctor assigned to you isn't in your network. Sometimes this happens after you're already under knocked out for the surgery, so you can't practically consult your complex policy at the time.

> based on over a century of data around the world: increasing density of housing has little effect on affordability

citation needed

In the version of TDD I've been exposed to, you only write the minimum number of tests to cover your next feature. It's still iterative.

I do more TDD on exploratory work than something fully formed because I can work in a narrow scope without having to grasp the whole project.

Worth noting the limitations listed at the bottom.

> The accuracy of antibody testing varies widely. Moreover, most antibody tests were done for people seeking them out, which means that those who got tested are a self-selecting group and not a random sample.

> It also appears that New Yorkers in some neighborhoods with lower infection rates were more likely to seek antibody testing.

> In some wealthy and largely white ZIP codes in Manhattan, some 30 percent of people may have gotten an antibody test. But in Corona, for instance, where the positive rate was highest, less than a quarter of people got tested.

What are the taxis doing with AB 5 then?

That's surely what they're doing. Of course, they probably chose a bad time for this. If those customers are social distancing, probably fewer of them will be inconvenienced than before. I share one car with two people, so used uber a lot pre-pandemic, but haven't needed one at all since March.

Should he go to jail? Idk. But stealing food from a grocery store isn't perfectly analogous to stealing IP. Bringing his knowledge to uber doesn't mean google can't use it. The same is true for digital piracy. Maybe it should be illegal, but it's not exactly the same as stealing an object.

My favorite is Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease. I had this as a child and it wasn't until filling out a medical form as an adult that I learned it was a name and not "leg calf perthes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legg%E2%80%93Calv%C3%A9%E2%80%...