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It wasn't available when I ordered. I had a time constraint, so got the first one off the boat into North America (allegedly), so it has a T6. But all things being equal, I'd love a T8 in there.

Everyone differs here, but I think the X is actually pretty ugly at the front. The hood and grille just seem like a fussy child's face.

I still love the look of the S, and think it's aging pretty well, but I couldn't bring myself to get the X in part because of the exterior design. I ended up with a 2018 XC60.

Apparently when there are issues with a belt, they just cut it off and reattach the clip. So belts can vary fairly widely (see what I did there?) in terms of size, and sometimes you have a relatively medium-sized person who runs into a really short belt and needs an extender.

Assuming the presentations are equally high quality (in terms of communicating ideas) and the presenters are equally expert (in terms of the ideas themselves). That's certainly not always true.

But my sense is that the era of strong and plentiful tech meetups is a thing of the past as well. While there are obviously still many of them, big company employees seem to rely more on their employers to bring in top speakers. That doesn't help small company folks, but it removes a chunk of the audience that the meetups depend on to thrive. Even then, organizing community meetups can be a major job – getting venue/food/drink sponsors, herding presenters, etc. – and it's easy to lose steam.

Like Marco said – there's no single factor, but my sense is that both have been affected over the last decade or so.

Streaming video in the conventional case may be a solved problem, but HQ has the additional (and seemingly unique to me) challenge of needing the streams to be nearly perfectly in sync. It's less like a bunch of people streaming HBO and more like half a million folks viewing a live webinar or something.

I can imagine WebEx, a far more established and mature product, might cough a bit too.

Since having a kid myself, I've pretty much settled on the notion that it's an evolutionary trick: since you don't sleep much, you don't remember the hellish times during those early months (years?), so you're willing to have a second – or third, or fourth – kid down the road.

That's not what's typically been happening.

In most cases, at least when considering the higher-profile ones of the last few weeks, stories have been about multiple occurrences. The reporting typically identifies a pattern of behavior from multiple sources who were confirmed to have told friends, family, or colleagues at the time of the incident.

If a single, unverifiable account was thought to be sufficient, I'd be with you. But when you have multiple occurrences and patterns, you can argue that it's clear that the person is creating a toxic work environment and can be dealt with more swiftly than the legal process.

The roundabout on the Cambridge side of the BU bridge, which I unfortunately have to take home most evenings, is something I can't imagine a driverless car handling. Sometimes it's a single-lane roundabout, but at peak hours it can support as many as five cars wide, eventually merging into a single lane over the bridge, and the traffic pattern is different every day.

Driving on highways is easy, and solving that is still valuable, but it's going to be amazing to see these things work in situations like those.

That's sorta the point – in this case, I have no ability (as a consumer) to "go elsewhere." Aside from the two times I've placed freezes on my credit history, I have no relationship with Equifax, and have never consented in any way to what they collect and share about me.

This contrasts pretty heavily with, say, Facebook – where even though they collect and share plenty of information about me, I'm at least both consenting and continuing to feed them by using a service I presumably find worth the trade-off.

If you are the type of person who gets upset about this dynamic of Facebook, then Equifax should be completely next-level.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to compare directly to VAT, but many credit cards extend a product's existing warranty (90 days to two years, depending on the card), and some offer things like 90-day purchase protection (if the price changes or if merchant/manufacturer won't accept a return, the credit card will).

Purchase protection took care of a theft I had in my house last month. They just needed a receipt and a police report, and the purchase price was refunded a few days later.

Refund the placebo folks after the study?

In the Boston marathon, only the elite runners (a few dozen) are segmented by gender/sex, and elite women are the first to leave, followed by the elite men, followed by the top qualifying times of either gender.

From watching the race along the road yesterday, there were no elite men who caught the main pack of women (though a few straggling women did fall back into the elite male pack). Following that, while it was mostly a male non-elite pack at the beginning, there were a few women scattered throughout, and then it was fairly blended about 15 minutes later.

So while they stagger men and women to prevent interference in the race at the very highest levels (and a woman crosses the finish line first), women below that tier have a ton of opportunity to push themselves against men.

Edit: Also, they do track overall finishers, time-wise, regardless of gender. So a woman might see that she was the 4th finisher in her division (young women), and 16th overall.

Tough to tell what this is really saying from this side of the paywall, but it certainly doesn't fit the current narrative in the tech industry.

On the other hand, in looking for a new crossover SUV this year, I was surprised at how many of the pieces of autonomous driving the 2017 Ford Escape actually had in production. It's not as headline-grabbing as autopilot for sure, but perhaps it's a relevant approach.

I've been pretty bullish about Volvo's approach (and put the brakes on that SUV search to wait for the 2018 XC60), so it's a little disappointing to see them relatively far down that list, while VW/Audi, which I see as weaker in these areas, gets a better position.

Anecdata: the well-developed legal field is the prime reason why my corporate attorney always pushes his clients to incorporate in Delaware. He and his firm know what to expect throughout the process, and can offer much more reliable advice than when you incorporate elsewhere or in your home state (even California).

Delaware residents certainly have a favorable tax situation, with zero sales tax and very low property taxes, but that's mostly because they get tons of income from the franchise taxes applied to corporations registering there.

And if you're a first-time founder getting your first Delaware franchise tax bill, you're not going to consider the process favorable by any means.

Totally, and thanks. I was quick to write and submit my answer and was remembering some debate during the Clinton era.

But the noninterference provision was indeed targeted at market-oriented Republicans to get them on board. There were plenty who wanted to ensure that Medicare wasn't going to be eroding the businesses of established payers.

It was politics from a couple decades ago. Medicare historically didn't cover prescription drugs, until Part D was enacted during the Clinton administration.

A tactic to get Republicans to support the measure was to pledge that Medicare wouldn't interfere in the drug market by developing its own formulary – Medicare Part D plan providers would compete for members and negotiate with pharmaceutical companies themselves.

There has been a bunch of talk over the last decade about repealing that particular restriction, but it's never made it over the finish line.

I guess that points to a chance that a USB-C 5A cable at 20V or something could soon power something like this. If that cable were carrying the DP signal, that'd be rad.

Perhaps not the strongest possible, but I've heard the argument in the past that it violates the confrontation clause of the 6th amendment – that you are unable to face your accuser, since your accuser is simply a timed camera.

OTOH, since you can sue property (for example in asset forfeiture cases), that might not hold any water.

Of course, they also pay lots of taxes too, including sales tax, and presumably some of that, directly or indirectly, would offset the costs of this kind of program.

Perhaps not for most of the country by surface area, but far more than 5-15% of the population could be effectively served by better public transportation.

"Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard."

Yep.

Alternatively, great luck and timing for the Wirecutter team to sell to NYTimes before this happened.

For consumers, it's more likely heartbreaking, as we'll all likely have a tougher time getting high-quality review content like what The Wirecutter pushes out.

I don't have a ton of first-hand knowledge, but I know that being licensed to provide health insurance in NY specifically is no joke. Todd Park (former US CTO, AthenaHealth founder) once told me that he didn't pay much attention to Oscar early on until he found out they had gained an NY license, at which point he dove into it.

More broadly, many hospitals and hospital are getting involved in the ACO (accountable care org), which gets at some of these goals, but it's not 100% clear that an ACO model can be successful (financially or for patients), and it doesn't cut out all the relevant middle-men.

I lived in Washington before stops like U Street, Petworth, and others had been built, and the major roads in those neighborhoods were not responsible for the growth they've experienced since the station's openings.

But they intentionally don't cover the same ground frequently, which is a key part of the Tesla data. The same intersection in many different conditions is pretty important.

I'm assuming that once a Google Maps van has covered an area, it intentionally avoids that area until a significant time later.

I misread this as "the best microcopy" and thought it'd be a potentially-interesting UX piece.

Still, some amazing images here. Conceptually, it reminds me of the bacterial imagery used in the movie The Fountain for many of its deep space visual effects (to avoid the cost of CGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountain#Visual_effects

The body element already has an opacity attribute, defaulted to 1. This explicitly defines it, initially, and decreases it over time.

This is pretty cool. Slicing remains a relatively tough/lossy process, since I understand it's challenging to maintain the integrity of the tissue through the slicing and extraction process, especially for something as finicky as RNA, but the rest of this process dramatically increases the observability PDF these neuronal processes.

Maybe, but that seems to assume effectively no genetic material from the parents.

What if the design starts with the parents' DNA, but makes one change to prevent a disease? Seems like that parent wouldn't be adopting a genetic orphan, and would have the right to take the newborn home. What about two changes? 50? It's one of those "where do we draw the line?" issues.

I got two of these when our son was born a couple years back, and they were amazing. I posted a review and tons of photos:

https://www.care.com/c/stories/580/a-year-with-the-finnish-m...

Yes, we did use the box. Yes, we did use all the clothes, lotions, toys, etc. In fact, our son basically wore nothing except eurogarb for his first year.

There are some commercial versions of this available in the US, though they're relatively pricey. The fact that this is a public benefit in some places is truly awesome, and something I wish could be politically tenable here in the US.