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Zero chance of that happening unfortunately. The current Supreme Court would consider restrictions on corporate media ownership a violation of the first amendment, much like restrictions against unlimited campaign donations and restrictions on discriminating against non-Christians.

I'm guessing it's more difficult to contract a respiratory illness if your lungs are already damaged, malfunctioning, and covered in tar.

Plus, smokers are not exactly the pinnacle of health. They would be less likely to voluntarily test for COVID and would be less concerned with coughing and wheezing, since those are more normal occurrences.

Smokers are also more likely to be in the same political mindset as people who would ignore or lie about positive test results, intentionally do a bad job of testing, etc.

I think it's because friendship-level connections are a lot easier to make when you are in uncomfortably close physical proximity with each other and/or when you need to rely on others and they need to rely on you.

In upper middle class society, more and more people live alone and have access to everything they need without needing to rely on neighbors.

Having 24/7 access to the Internet and communication tools gives the sensation that you have all the necessary tools at your disposal, but in reality those tools do nothing and you're just sitting at home by yourself, ignoring the people who are physically around you.

SPAC seems preferable for companies with an inexperienced board or who are trying to hide something from the public before listing their stock.

I imagine SpaceX will eventually go public via more traditional means and there's a good chance it's the first trillion dollar IPO IMHO.

Assume there are seven billion people on the planet. One of them knows the location of a specific hidden treasure. I know who it is and I ask you to guess who it is, but you have no possible way of knowing or even getting a hint about it.

You pick some random person. I then bring in another stranger and tell you that the person who knows where the hidden treasure is is either the random person you chose or the one I brought in.

At this point, there are only two possibilities:

1. You happened to randomly choose the right person on Earth and in my surprise, I had to pick some other random stranger to pretend they knew the secret.

2. You chose a total rando who has no idea what's going on and the person I brought in is in fact the one who knows where the treasure is

I recently discovered that on iOS, you can press on the scrollbar to get direct control of the scroll knob. That allows you to quickly jump to any part of the document without having to thumb scroll through it page by page.

Yes, but unfortunately the executable bit would be preserved if the file was delivered by way of a .tar.gz bundle. A reasonable user expectation would be to double-click on the .tar.gz to unravel it and then double click on the pdf to open it.

Probably more like people wouldn’t go out to a cross-town bar or restaurant if they couldn’t take a taxi or lyft/uber to get there. For example, if mass transit is prohibitive (two buses at 1 am) and they don’t want to drive drunk.

Easy access to quick transportation is a general economic benefit for everyone. That’s not support for uber or lyft specifically, but if people can easily get around town, they’re more likely to make extra trips to bars, restaurants, shows, etc. where they may have otherwise considered just staying home.

Our elementary school has no bus and the trip there is about two miles, mostly down a street with fast traffic and poor walkability. The drop off process is at least 30 minutes each morning on average in my experience, even longer if there are multiple kids and they don't go to the same school.

The school isn't built like a sports arena, so traffic flow around it is fine throughout the rest of the day, but morning dropoff in particular is very congested because the volume of traffic spikes for a single 15 minute period each day.

Coupled with general morning rush hour traffic, this ripples out to long left-turn waits (no turning arrow), congestion, angry drivers trying to cut down residential streets, parking problems, and so on. Then depending on how far away you had to park, you have to walk that distance with young kids.

Pick up time is easier, especially with after school programs, because the spike is diffused out over a wider range of time.

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On my car, when I start the car with my phone attached via Bluetooth, it random shuffles by default. However, if I start the car with my phone attached via USB cable, it plays all the songs alphabetically. The actions available on the iOS music app are also different... when attached via Bluetooth, there are "Play Next" and "Play Later" options, where as when attached via USB, these options do not appear.

As a software engineer, I think the differences stem from whether the "now playing" playlist is being managed by the phone or by the car multimedia system. As a car driver, it's extremely annoying and I'm disappointed at how poorly it behaves.

When you make a mistake on a typewriter with no delete key and no white-out handy, you could back up to the beginning of the error and type "XXXXX" over everything and start anew on the following word or line.

Someone likely carried this forward as an indicator of a mistake (ie. "hacky") and then it stuck from there.

No, with a packet capture and the private keys from both sides, you would still not be able to identify the master secret negotiated out of the dh key exchange.

However, both sides obviously know the master secret, so if you can extract it from one of the clients then you can use that in wireshark to decrypt the application data packets. In wirshark preferences, this is called the pre-master-secret log filename.

If you have vested options, then you can exercise one of them to officially become a shareholder at which point you will have access to a lot of additional information. As only an options holder, there's no legal requirement for them to share that with you.

However, I would be concerned at a fundamental level because, good or bad, they're not being honest with you about the most basic state of the company. You have to ask yourself if that's even the kind of place where you want to be working.

Actually, in the case of SNI, the hostname IS sent in plain text. It's sent with the initial ClientHello message so that the server can use it to select the proper server certificate for the session.

15 years experience (mostly java) here... I agree with senior developer. You're needlessly breaking the logic across multiple files to handle potential use cases that may never come up. It's not horrible, but if you have 100 of these controllers, now you need 100 service objects (or maybe 50 if you can group things). All to keep the extra three lines of code out of the controller.

Keep things in one place to start and then if the need for sharing or abstracting comes up I the future, refactor the code.

This approach should be reversed if you're shipping a library for use by third parties (abstract and isolate everything you can).