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901.
Cities are ending fares on transit. Here’s why(cnn.com)
12 points by sowbug 3y ago|13 comments
902.
by sowbug 3y ago
I have lots of smart friends, but one in particular is leaps and bounds smarter than all of us. I've spent years observing why that is. Your first point resonates with my observation. My friend seems to operate with a strong mental sca
903.
by sowbug 3y ago
"... your reputation is tied to your real identity." Why do corporations get to conduct business, have credit scores, influence others' credit scores, and even make political contributions without anyone knowing the identity
904.
by sowbug 3y ago
I hear this a lot. I think it's a dangerous crutch. Learning is hard work, no matter how well the given style of teaching matches the preferred style of learning. It's easy to give up any pursuit when it gets to be hard. If you di
905.
by sowbug 3y ago
Remember this next time you're driving above the speed limit on the highway. Especially if you live in the US and are white.
906.
by sowbug 3y ago
They absolutely were/are private, even if they used a publicly owned medium to distribute their content. Other than an hour of public-service airtime on Sunday mornings, and lax FCC enforcement of a decency standard, those private TV
907.
by sowbug 3y ago
For the hundredth time, at least, I hereby ask The Web to standardize a meta tag that programmatically describes a site's acceptable password policy. The fake reason is to assist password generators. The real reason is to make it easie
908.
by sowbug 3y ago
You're totally right. I was in "believe it or not!" mode, which means picking the most dramatic factoids. :)
909.
by sowbug 3y ago
There are two reasons stated in the article, and I have some commentary on each. First is that if a service removes a show from its offerings, then it doesn't have to pay residuals to the various unions/guilds that own the show ri
910.
Why streaming services are dumping shows left and right(vox.com)
4 points by sowbug 3y ago|1 comments
911.
by sowbug 3y ago
Not answering your question, but a bit of interesting trivia for you. Large passenger airplanes routinely take off with too much fuel to land safely. If one took off, circled the airport once, and landed, then it might actually break apart
912.
by sowbug 3y ago
Narrow rulings are central to the process. It's the difference between a "holding" and "dictum." A court can express an opinion about something, but if that opinion wasn't essential to resolve the case before t
913.
by sowbug 3y ago
Your argument is more soapboxing than an effective refutation of the complaint. You agree inflation is happening. You agree that large-profit companies are profiting largely. Thus, you agree with the factual basis of the complaint. Let us k
914.
by sowbug 3y ago
I'd filter cases where the phone wasn't previously traveling fast enough for the holder to have been in a vehicle, and cases where the phone wasn't near a road. This would require AGPS rather than just the less power-hungry I
915.
by sowbug 3y ago
I think the point (at least the one I gathered from the article) is that turmeric is sometimes artificially colored to make it the right shade of yellow, and that lead is in the chemical often used for that coloring. Thus, evidence of artif
916.
by sowbug 3y ago
I've always loved Steely Dan's music, but I'm not enough of a musicologist to understand Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's legendary pickiness in the studio. Were they just idiosyncratic? Or did they have objectively high
917.
by sowbug 3y ago
I'd be interested in whether the power source is a SPOF.
918.
by sowbug 3y ago
Possibly related: I've noticed that when I'm in humid weather and I stick my phone into a damp pocket, it basically monkey-tests until I pull it back out again. Flashlight might be on, string of gibberish might be queued up on a t
919.
by sowbug 3y ago
If you follow the instructions for an aquatic ecosystem, please don't follow their advice to use goldfish. Goldfish need a big tank because they grow up to a foot long during their 10-15-year lifespan. It would be better to pick a so-c
920.
by sowbug 3y ago
This tired trope has jumped the shark with this comment. Not only is it off topic, but even if it did refer to an actual Google product, it's disingenuous because its only point was to be snarky.
921.
by sowbug 3y ago
It's scary when a company ships a security feature with a buggy "happy path," because it generally means the engineers who built it don't follow personal best security practices themselves. An example is whether a websit
922.
by sowbug 3y ago
What an odd take that a device constrained to an expensive, closed ecosystem would "revolutionize accessibility," especially when the article appears to base that lofty claim on the sole facts that the iPad had a larger touchscree
923.
by sowbug 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
924.
by sowbug 3y ago
In the US legal system, probably elsewhere as well, we have the concept of an "affirmative defense." That means "I committed the crime, but it's OK because of extra facts." That's different from denying one or
925.
by sowbug 3y ago
Fascinating! I wrote an old blog post about the very same fear: https://sowbug.com/posts/time-out-of-mind/
926.
by sowbug 3y ago
It's just business, unfortunately. You can engineer a solid contract, but then the side with the leverage will look at it and say no. And that side is probably not yours; otherwise, you probably wouldn't be selling your business.
927.
by sowbug 3y ago
Sorry, I'm just using the dictionary definition of "straightforward," which is "easy to do or understand." I'm also a lawyer, and no lawyer on Earth would call a Hollywood-accounting case straightforward. Perha
928.
by sowbug 3y ago
I think it's more subtle than that. If you're in a service industry, and you can't serve, your cash flow stops. But if you're selling a product, then the product can keep generating income as long as it's valuable.
929.
by sowbug 3y ago
Not that I have any data to back up this anecdote, but you don't see people in rehab for tryptamines. But you do for alcohol, coke, heroin, and meth.
930.
by sowbug 3y ago
When I was seven years old, my mom got ensnared by a door-to-door World Book encyclopedia sales pitch. That set, in turn, ensnared me. It was the closest thing in the 1970s to today's internet. I could look up almost any topic that cam

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