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Sounds like a great opportunity to start another payment service. PornHub already has a strong dev team, from what I understand, and it would probably be relatively easy for them.

This implies higher requirements for protein and essential fatty acids. The body does not produce them, it must be brought in via animal proteins.

This is not true. Proteins and fatty acids are found in many common vegetables and it's not difficult to get a healthy balance of the above. Harvard's school of public health, recommends, "Get your protein from plants when possible" [1], and it's not hard to find many other sources suggesting the same.

1. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

Jeez, are entry-level devs really making 180k at Google?

I suspect it's more that the very confident have their messages amplified on social media. Most people I encounter in person are not like that.

I have no idea how to regulate it though, but I think we need to do something.

Why should it be treated any differently than other media?

What we need is a return of the Fairness Doctrine in the US (and something similar to the EU) and application of the policy to social media advertising and news outlets. It won't stop foreign psy-ops, but it will stop a lot of the internal-originating lies and deception.

IANAL, but it is generally illegal to volunteer for a for-profit organization federally. See the Fair Labor Standards Act and Dept of Labor site [1].

The most relevant recent test I can find resulted in a settlement, when AOL paid people who contributed articles without payment[2]. There's been some conflicting decisions in other related cases and many are still in progress.

1.https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp 2. https://archives.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/aol_settled_with_...

As a former service worker, I'd argue that cutting employee hours was exactly the goal.

Typically, in a restaurant in Philly or places with similarly lower-than-minimum service wages (which still has the $2.75 or whatever minimum for service workers), you'll be scheduled excessively for hours when the restaurant definitely isn't going to have any business. For example, coming in at 330/4 to start prep for the dinner shift.

When labor costs basically nothing, there's no reason not to overschedule them.

This reduced the amount of time I could spend outside of work learning to program (for example... since it's what I did hah) or others could spend improving their skills for basically no money. It's a huge detriment to the employees. You'd stand around cleaning for some nitpicky manager making 0/hour effectively, doing untipped cleaning and prep work. Your paychecks will be $0 if you get even a modest amount of tips for the night (it's all taxed).

Now restaurants will be more particular about how they schedule employees, and the untipped work actually costs money to have done (if a janitor would have to be paid minimum+ to do it, why should a server do it for $2.75/hr)?

If by this day, 40 years from now, Zuck hasn't at least launched an exploratory committee for a presidential run, I would be extremely surprised. If this were reddit, I'd promise to do something like eat an insect or a shoe or something.

Wouldn't you want to know if you were indirectly lining the RNC coffers?

This title is misleading. They are not attacking Syria, they are attacking separatist groups backed by the US in coordination with Syria's military.

I do not question their economic activity. Whether that's been for the good of anyone but China and the world's billionaires... I'm not so sure.

Either way it wasn't done for the benefit of the world. China started manufacturing because they wanted to gain economic power and arrive in the 21st century.

I don't think that's true. It's saying that you're going to make as many changes as you reasonably can in your life. Perfect is the enemy of good. (And only a sith deals in absolutes!)

Which of those signifies benevolence?

What foreign infrastructure projects? Surely not the ones where they lend money to foreigners but then China owns them? That's just investment, it's not benevolent.

The same for providing loans.

Neither of these are benevolent - they are financial tools to gain traction and influence on the world stage, as well as to make money. I don't think we can attribute any positive intent (towards the rest of the world) to these behaviors.

I find it interesting that there isn't a Boycott / Divest / Sanctions movement for China, despite the human rights abuses they've always committed, in addition to more recently holding people in concentration camps. Surely their offenses are far more egregious than Israel's? Where's the movement for Hong Kong, for the Uighur? Does anyone know of such an effort?

You're considering China to be a new benevolent economic actor?

Can you explain what behavior you consider "benevolent"?

This sounds like it's great for web developers like myself. We'll have jobs for years to come!

And it will force companies to really think about their functionality and ensure that it's easy for common use.

AWS isn't mentioned in the article at all... not sure why you're mentioning it. It's considered to have a similar valuation to Google Cloud though.

According to this, however, AWS seems like it should be valued considerably higher (and this is in line with my industry experience - AWS is used everywhere, Google Cloud is not): https://kinsta.com/blog/google-cloud-vs-aws/

Government solves problems with money. The US government spends little on healthcare, which causes citizens to spend more.

Perhaps I should clarify that the only way we are going to solve he healthcare issue in the US is by the government spending money on it.

This is equivalent of asking for a ban of wax stamp seals in the age before the internet.

It's like when the Republicans said in the 90s that you don't solve problems by throwing money at them.

But that's exactly how many problems are solved.

pattern of behaviour over years

Let's say I found 10 times over two decades where you did something inappropriate (I think the average person would be a saint if this was the number of times they erred in two decades) and put them all into a single article. Would that mean you have a "pattern of behavior"? It would certainly present as one. Or merely that you are human and occasionally say or do dumb, inappropriate things? It seems at this case that all of the "pattern of behavior" was speech in this case, and not particularly egregious in any instance.

This is far from an Amazon-specific problem. Glassdoor allows you to pay to remove bad reviews. So does Yelp. I bet G and others do too.

Of course, even easier than paying to remove bad ones is paying to add fake good reviews. Another issue is apps and such annoying you until you submit a review. Leave a bad one? Then they annoy you with more follow up, so you're pressured to leave a good review so they stop bothering you.

Uber works because of the rider-driver matching, not the routing. Everyone has google maps.

I think it's interesting that out of 120+ comments on opioids, nobody mentions the elephant in the room:

Some studies find NSAIDs are as effective in the treatment of pain [1]. You can find several other studies with a quick search, though most of the ones I've found were short-term.

An additional issue is that opioids are not a treatment for the causes of pain. Pain is generally a symptom, not the underlying pathology. Physical therapy and other reliefs (nonsurgical) can treat the causes of pain and eliminate the need for any pain treatments.

And as for an anecdote - my stepfather went from large doses of opioids after back surgery and severe pain (for an issue they wouldn't recommend surgery for anymore, but would instead recommend physical therapy) for years, to a reasonable level of prescribed marijuana consumption.

Just some things to think about, since most of voices in the room seem to be pro-opioid.

1. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26739...

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Light rail in Philly would be the green lines heading into west Philly

No, those are trolleys. Explicitly not light rail. You can't compare a trolley seriously to the trains we're calling "light rail" in LA and other cities.

'The basic concepts of light rail were put forward by H. Dean Quinby in 1962 in an article in Traffic Quarterly called "Major Urban Corridor Facilities: A New Concept". Quinby distinguished this new concept in rail transportation from historic streetcar or tram systems as:

having the capacity to carry more passengers appearing like a train, with more than one car connected together'

Note that first and second qualifier for light rail, which a one-car trolley with capacity identical to a bus absolutely does not fit. Light rail has a specific meaning, and it's different from trolley/tram by design. If SEPTA or others are calling the trolleys light rail, they are misusing the term.

Additionally, as a counterexample to the issues in the article - the trolleys are taken more by the working poor than the more affluent in Philly.

it's only benefit is bragging rights since it can never be faster than ordinary traffic

This is 100% false. I take Philly's Market-Frankford line many days, it's absolutely faster and easier than driving. But I guess maybe you aren't counting elevated / buried rail.

Even still, give the trains priority and they will beat traffic.

Did you miss the part where the individual you responded to said "Regulations aren’t set in stone forever, either, and a functional legislative body can always modify and update them as their effects become more well known."?

There is over regulation in some areas, but lets be real: it's already extremely difficult to break into existing sectors, just as a result of industrialization, brand recognition, etc. The idea of the scrappy upstart is overwhelmingly a fantasy. This regulation won't prevent any businesses worth forming from getting underway, in my opinion.

- Consumers can opt out of their data being sold, and businesses can’t retaliate by changing the price or level of service.

- Businesses can, however, offer “financial incentives” for being allowed to collect data.

This just means your service always costs money, but you can refund the full amount for allowing you to collect data.

is Stripe 50% better than Adyen?

I don't think "better" matters in current valuations. Nor does comparison to competitors really matter too much to the valuation - what matters are the revenue streams and potential for future earnings. So the number of current clients, and prospective clients, seems more relevant.

How easy will it be for Lyft to develop its own payment technology?

Depends what you mean here. Any of these large companies are going to have their own merchant accounts (or should) processing payments for them. Stripe needs to either 1) take out the bottom of the market, which is what I thought they are competitors were doing and/or 2) come in cheaper and/or more convenient than maintaining your own payment services and such, which I think they do in some cases.