Ever receive a flash flood warning, severe weather alert (lightning, tornado), or amber alert on your phone? It'd be the same notification. I'm sure there's others too, those are just the ones I've received before.
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I would assume the last 10% is going to be just as hard as the first 90%, just like most engineering projects.
I was surprised to find out, 5-10 years. I was expecting longer.
The free trial requires a credit card, I don't want to give you my credit card without an assurance that you have food I want to pay for, or that you'll be able to deliver to me.
And by better I mean, less divisive, and less mindless scrolling of memes/low effort content.
Thinking about it from the business's perspective, it probably ultimately also lowers their user engagement metrics. Users get a higher quality experience using the site, but also spend less time on the site. It sorta reminds me of the freemium/grinding experience in games today. It makes for a worse game experience, but a better company bottom line.
Speaking of paranoia, I think their poor communication led to plenty of paranoia two years ago, and it seems like there's plenty of paranoia now again.
I think being more truthful and communicative would lead to less paranoia, not more.
I wish they would just come out and be honest about the situation. It was frustrating two years ago and they're frustratingly silent now too.
The point is that these types of stereotypes have been, and are still being used today, to discriminate against gay people. Casually suggesting it's true and using it to explain subsequent actions of gay people, with no data or evidence to back it up, is just going to give more fuel to the sterotyping and discriminating that's going on.
Where's the data? Is it just gay people who have lots of sex that are more likely to hold a degree? Does this hold true for straight people? Do I need to have sex 3 times per week to get a college degree or can get by with just one per week?
You're just making assumptions about gay people sexual habits.
Casually throwing out an anecdotal guess that gay people are more college educated because of all the sex they're having is frankly shocking to read.
If you're not intentionally discriminating, at the very least you're stereotyping the amount of sexual activity of people based on their sexual orientation and your anecdotal experiences.
I for one would love to see more permitting used in the white mountains.
Airlines release tickets for a flight in batches of 10, which is why you never see a "only x seats left" message where x is greater than 10. Once all 10 are sold, the next bucket of 10 are released at a new price depending on the demand of the previous 10. (I'm sure there's more to it than this, been a little while since I worked in the industry but that's the gist of it).
There's already existing regulations around purchasing flights (in the US). For instance on a flight results page after searching, you have to show the full price with fees, you can't just show the ticket price. I feel like it can't be that hard to regulate the "x seats left" messages too.
Like, don't check email after work hours? Or, don't be personal friends with coworkers? Or don't discuss personal plans during work small talk?
There's a lot of different ways to "separate personal and work lives", and there's a lot of different interpretations between how blurry that line can be before you have a separation or don't have separation.
Also, I don't think it's fear that prevents Americans from moving across the world. I think it's more related to, they don't want to leave their family, friends, and life they've been building for the last 20-60 years.
The people that give a shit are making 10x as much by not working for a public middle school.
Fire the current lot if you want, but they'll just be replaced by the next set of people who aren't skilled enough to make market rate.
Is NPR obligated to mention all failed attempts to acquire new collars? It seems unlikely they excluded this information because of Naomi's gender or race.
It's great that Naomi donated successfully before and has tried to again, but as you noted she's received plenty of positive media from her donations already.
[1] - "I just could not get anyone to visit her and do final fitting and troubleshooting on the collars I had manufactured for her." - https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/145289590785527398...
There could be all sorts of reasons NPR didn't mention Naomi. How did Martha get the collars before Naomi's donation? How many years of collar donations/purchases is NPR obligated to mention in their article? Is there anyone else outraged they didn't get mentioned for providing collars years ago?
By the time you get to George Harrisons All Things Must Pass there's just way too much going on so that you can't listen to all the different pieces of the song at once. Like literally there's too much sound trying to grab your attention in the song that you can't listen to everything that's happening, and like you said it's just exhausting trying to.
It just devolved in to compressing sounds toward the loud side of the spectrum, and we lost all this nuance that pop music used to have.
"Overall, we rate the Wall Street Journal Right-Center biased due to low biased news reporting combined with a strong right biased editorial stance."
Edit: Surprising amount of downvotes here, didn't realize this was so controversial, the Wikipedia page talks extensively about the wsj's stances (with citations):
"The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. The Journal disputes that it poses a major threat to human existence and can be prevented through public policy and has published articles disputing that global warming is occurring at all. The Journal is regarded as a forum for climate change deniers"
Looks like India and parts of Canada/Alaska experienced slightly cooler temps, as well as a decent area over water.
For 2019, large parts of interior Canada and the US, as well as parts of Oceania.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/global/mapping/2019
One of the other noticeable things about those maps is Siberia. Affected quite a bit by warmer temps in both years.
It's a good exercise in patience for me while we go through the steps of describing the differences between searching for things on your computer vs searching for things on the internet, what google is, etc.
They've been using the internet since I was a kid in the 90's.
I'm sure most of us have examples of this in our lives, being the de-facto "computer person" in the family. It is what it is at this point. For whatever reason, if you didn't grow up with computers, it's incredibly difficult to understand them as an adult. Which still applies to huge swaths of the worlds population.
In industries where software bugs do have large consequences, well they tend to be heavily regulated industries already: finance, aerospace, government systems, automated cars, elevators, medical devices.