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I know it's illustrative but telling your job that you have cancer (if you don't) is an awful, awful idea.

This is so fascinating! I love your footage, it’s really beautiful. What were your biggest takeaways? What route did you take?

You sure they didn’t push the notifications because it’s the biggest stock news today?

Is this a joke? It's unclear to me, a person without much understanding of the law. Aren't debtors prisons illegal?

I can understand the argument that individual consumer changes are not enough to stem the tide of climate change. But I’m not sure that means individual choices have zero real impact.

I think the voting analogy is good, but I take a different lesson from it. Not that voting is pointless. Individual actions matter a great deal in their cumulative effect.

It’s weird to me that in this instance the software can withstand an “attacker” having the device. I see this adage when reading about social engineering, That once the person has the device, they can take control of it. Ofc that doesn’t mean they can read all the data but yeah this is something I’ve seen a few times.

Hehe as a guy who thinks of himself as lucky to have been born an American, this was hilarious

Chicago seems like the perfect city aside from the bone-chilling midwest winters.

I also have YT Premium. Those in video promos are so easy to skip. Most creators put them in the same spot every video, some even at the end.

These are mostly regular people trying to earn a living making high quality content. I’m not seeing how you can begrudge them the few seconds of skippable ad copy.

This is a Japanese publication. How did Americans get dragged in? I’ve heard Americans complain about a lot of things, but never the labor shortage in Japan.

Not only is he opposed to paying a license fee, he will contribute to the development of an entirely new, almost certainly worse, tool.

Even setting aside the importance of principles, every spoon OP doesn't use is a spoon that doesn't end up in a landfill.

I've always assumed a bean counter somewhere crunched the numbers and when you adjust for people who don't leave because of the stress of interviewing + friction of switching + uncertainty of new manager, it works out better for them to not do this.

What's wrong with them?

Flock Freight’s algorithms help companies move products more efficiently, combining small shipments into a shared truckload (like a carpool for freight).

This sounds cool to me. Certainly more than all the ad tech and blockchain companies out there. A job here could mean revolutionizing logistics with AI, slashing greenhouse gas emissions, this stuff is core to our economy and modern life.

It's not like this crackdown is about the CCP's concern for protecting user data and preventing monopolies. It's just a turf war over the data and in a larger sense over control of the direction of the country.

Same reason Jack Ma went (extremely) conspicuously missing last fall.

CCP wants the economic growth and international prestige that a burgeoning tech sector provides, but does not want anything resembling the system we have where facebook can tell the White House to take a hike. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/technology/facebook-vacci...

Most articles have facts that don’t require (very much) interpretation.

Provide the name of a city mentioned in this article.

I think you're overstating this based on the internet. Sure, there are aggressively intolerant folks and maybe too many for this to work.

But the vast majority of folks aren’t going to get into a flame war over diner while staring into someone’s face. They might say crude things but they’ll probably also learn something.

I think the only thing that makes this idea really questionable is the proliferation of firearms in American culture

Fascinating blog post. Satellite internet seems just as valuable to FB as Amzn I wonder why they’d spin it off when they have so many other projects that are less useful

Amazon has higher retail sales than Walmart?

Ironic since the biggest threat to effective antibiotics is industrial agriculture practices.

This is pretty chilling to consider. Also notable that many right wingers in colder climates think (or at least claim to believe) that climate change might be a net positive for them.

https://twitter.com/xongkuro/status/1412778979342356482?s=21

China has invested tons of money into East Africa and the dam can potentially give the economy of the region a huge boost. Why would they want the dam destroyed or tacitly support such an act?

You don’t think it’s a little unfair to damn a country where roughly half of people don’t have electricity for not using the very best source? The average American uses 186 times more power than an average Ethiopian.

It doesn’t make sense to ask them to try to wrestle with that kind of poverty and also shoulder the same burden as countries using hundreds of times more energy.

Yes but that seems irrelevant to who should get to use it. That’s not how the wealthier Northern African states have treated other scarce resources like electricity or food during droughts.

Now that one of the poor upstream states wants to use the water passing through their backyard to tackle these issues, the most important issue is who needs a given resource more?

North Korean defectors are really fascinating. I just can't wrap my head around her claim that what I perceive as a kind of over the top righteousness on the campus of elite American universities is comparable to--let alone worse than--North Korea.

Her father was literally sentenced to a labor camp. How can that possibly compare to anything you'd run into at Columbia. Yeah, it's annoying that people wouldn't cut her a break with the pronoun stuff as she was learning english. But again, that's worse than North Korea?

Wait so does this mean a “private repo” is meaningless and GitHub can share any code in any repo with anyone?

I don't feel like this answers the question. Saudis have outsized influence on the US because they have a large building as their embassy?

Why would the US or Israeli militaries be powerless to say "you can't use your training to help train up cartels and if we find out about it, that's your ass"?

I don't see a lot of overlap here and don't understand how they're spurious.

Yeah the polygraph one seem anachronistic, but if people still use them I appreciate the state trying to make sure the practitioners aren't more snake oil-y than the field at large.

I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade. Idk if there's some arcane No Child Left Behind provision about kids who have been stuck for 3 years, but in general a 50% is a no go.

And it's not like you can get 50s all year and get a few 80s and average it out. It takes a lot of really sustained effort to come back from that. Most kids won't. But at least it's mathematically possible for more of the year.