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Looks like that was only within the Amazon Game Studios org. I've never heard of any policy like that within AWS or the retail side of things.

That's not an Amazon policy. We have to take a 1 hour or so training course to participate in amazon-owned things on github and that's pretty much it. Basically zero rules around participating in our free time afaik.

This might not be a longterm strategy, because they aren't doing it for their latest major release (Encanto). It's currently in cinemas only.

yes it's 100% technically possible, the main issue is it would be significantly more expensive.

Seems like in general early-risers would prefer standard time, and people waking up around 7am or later would probably prefer daylight savings time year-round.

My guess is that most people in the USA are _not_ early risers at this point and would prefer daylight savings time year-round, but would be interested to see data on this.

Well that was a pretty succinct substantiation of the article.

What gives you the impression that countries besides the US are not becoming more polarized? My experience in Europe and South America make me think it's getting worse everywhere.

It does seem a bit odd to me too, but FWIW this is actually fairly common for biotech and pharma startups and has been for a long time.

And although they haven't sold any consumer cars yet my understanding is they're currently delivering vans to Amazon as we speak.

> Providing supply will suffer the wrath of BANANA/CAVE/NIMBY anywhere you dream of living

TBH I would have said the same thing 5-10 years ago, but I think this notion is outdated now.

I live in a famously NIMBY city (Seattle) and things have changed a lot in the last 5 years. I would guess that single-family zoning will be gone within 5 years.

Although I don't buy it, some people even argue that SFH zoning is already gone in Seattle due to ADU/DADU reforms.

I've lived in the US and UK and generally agree with you. But one thing that got me is that it seems fairly easy to defraud the system in the UK with everyone so freely giving out their bank account numbers.

What actually protects the bank account numbers in the UK/EU? Why do people seem totally unconcerned with giving out this information there?

> There is absolutely no reason that a kid should have to wait in a queue to borrow an e-book because the 3 "copies" they have are already in use.

There definitely is a reason, it keeps the cost fixed for the library. Libraries have a fixed budget, they can't pay per-use because they don't receive income per-use.

Does cereal count as "ultra-processed"? Things like Cheerios don't seem much more processed than bread from what I can tell. Also honey-roasted peanuts?

My understanding of ultra-processed would be things more like candy, cheetos, pringles, oreos, soda, etc.

okay, so you're arguing internal to farming. But then it's obviously being planted in huge numbers in modern times because it's a high-yield crop economically. Why else would farmers be planting it? Are you arguing that farmers are currently doing something that's against their economic best interests?

In a strictly capitalist sense yes, but then by that argument we should just completely cut off all California farmers since they seem to make less money per water used when compared to California cities (I'm just stating your argument, which I would argue is "dumb" and overly simplistic way of looking at the world).

You're missing the point that we are talking about regulating water usage external to the industry (in which people should and do care about water usage as it relates to sustainability of California as a whole), and water usage internal to the industry (in which an individual farmer cares about yields, efficiency, and economic value of crops).

Internal to farming the entire reason we have so many almonds in CA is exactly because it's a high-efficiency and high-value crop.

https://slate.com/business/2015/04/almonds-in-california-the...

"In a real sense, the almond industry is the future of California agriculture—high value, high efficiency, but still high consuming. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as it makes most sense to use a scarce resource for the highest value application possible."

If you care about limiting agricultural water usage, the first target to go after is dairy and animal ag, not almonds.

Almonds are on the high side compared to other plants but their water usage per calorie is much less than animal ag.

Also consider that almonds flourish in the mediterranean type of climate that California has, whereas dairy and beef (and their feed crops) can be raised almost anywhere.

perhaps they can dry their tears with hundred-dollar bills /s

Exactly. I used to work for a time in a bicycle repair shop, drilling out and re-tapping a broken or stripped hole or thread was a common fix, I would hardly consider it a "hack".

I guess, but that's just your personal anecdote largely based on your grandparents genetics and the fact that they probably weren't exceedingly overweight.

My (100% American) grandpa also lived to 100...he also never exercised and even smoked for 20 years or so. He ate whatever he wanted but didn't over-eat candy and snacks, which I think is the main issue lots of people have.

I'm not sure you're talking about exactly the same thing this article is talking about.

Social safety nets provide basic access to essentials and (mostly) equalize access to things like healthcare, but don't really do anything to help someone go from "poor" to "middle-class", or any other trip up the social ladder.

That person needs to do something to increase their earning potential beyond what their parents had.

This is what happens when you treat IT as a cost center. Would love to see how many times the IT team urged higher-ups to prioritize and fund computer system modernization and upgrades.

I use airthings wave. Seems to be fairly accurate as far as I can tell. Whenever I open the windows the CO2 level drops down fairly close to the atmospheric CO2.

Are you sure about that? If I boil water in my kitchen on my gas stove the CO2 and VOC levels in our living area nearly triple within 15 minutes of using the stove without burning any food.

If I use the electric kettle there's obviously zero change in air quality.

That's not necessarily the case. When you buy a house you can't suddenly just have a mortgage payment equivalent to someone who bought 10-20 years ago. And someone who just recently bought a house cannot charge higher rent than someone who bought 10-20 years ago.

In other words, rent is dictated by the market, not some "cost plus profit" calculation on a per-landlord basis as you're describing.

If you're renting from someone who just recently bought the house, they are very likely taking a short-term loss for long-term gain.

Isn't this generally always the case?

I've always understood that when you buy you should expect to be paying more than a renter for maybe 5-10 years. At least in the US mortgage payments are almost always fixed whereas rents are almost never fixed or controlled.

Rent just rises forever in most cities and usually mortgage payments of people who have owned for 10 years look like amazing bargains.

I don't use google products much anymore, but the transition takes a long time, especially getting off of gmail.

I'm also not sure it would even be possible to transition if you don't have access to your google account anymore. You would just be literally completely shut out of many of your online accounts.

And for watching online videos there really isn't any viable alternative to youtube.

It's not, the go support in vscode is one of the best free IDE experiences I've ever used.

I've definitely seen a pattern among the companies and businesses complaining about this. They treat their employees terribly.

I haven't heard any of these complaints from two of America's largest retailers that are known for providing full-time work with relatively good Healthcare and time off benefits (amazon and costco).

one big caveat here is there is much less scrutiny put on hiring interns from internship to full-time, and Amazon hires a LOT of interns every year.

but what are the alternatives to SAT/ACT? In my mind they're even worse:

1. number of AP/IB classes student took (mostly dependent on how rich the school and how attentive and educated their parents are)

2. participation in extra-curriculars (again, participation in things Model United Nations are highly highly correlated with wealth)

3. volunteer experience or other outside of school experience (again highly correlated with wealth, students working pizza delivery at 16 don't have time for volunteering)

I'm not saying the SAT/ACT is perfect, but at least everyone can easily get free or very cheap study materials and practice exams online and from libraries.

If we're splitting hairs, BBC didn't produce it either.