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DickScaringtonon Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here

Chapel Hill, North Carolina - millions of fare-free bus trips since 2003.

Finally getting Durham, Raleigh and GoTriangle to consider the same.

DickScaringtonon Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here

Chapel Hill, North Carolina - millions of fare-free bus trips since 2003.

And we've finally started to see interest in adopting fare-free in Durham and Raleigh.

DickScaringtonon A new and improved Twitter API

The final straw for me was when twitter deprecated the years-old auth keys I had used without any issues because I wouldn't register my phone number.

If you look at twitter's checkered history, I don't see why anyone would put the effort into a new API without strict guarantees of future usability.

DickScaringtonon What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3

Apache Foundation version ftw:

https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/entry/what-s-new-in-apache

DickScaringtonon IRS to release new, more complex W-4 form this year

This is a privacy nightmare. I do not want to share my other sources of income, mortgage deductions and other key financials with my employer.

DickScaringtonon List of 600+ Startups Hiring Remote in 2018

Definitely would be more helpful if tech stack was searchable.

DickScaringtonon Redis will remain BSD licensed

RedisLabs needs to clearly mark which of the following versions of these modules are freely redistributable as part of a larger project or service.

  neural-redis BSD
  RediSearch AGPL
  rediSQL AGPL-3.0
  ReJSON AGPL
  Redis AGPL
  redis-cell MIT
  Redis-ML AGPL
  redis-timerseries AGPL
  cthulhu BSD
  rebloom AGPL
  redis-cuckoofilter MIT
  redis-roaring MIT
  redis-tdigest MIT
  Session MIT
  countminsketch AGPL
  topk AGPL
  ReDe MIT
  commentDis MIT

DickScaringtonon Thousands Say Kratom Cured Their Addiction, Government Says It’s Another Opioid

It bothers me that in all the hype about Kratom the fact it does produce dependence is obscured.

I know a few folks who have had a terrible time getting off of Kratom. Only one of which is totally free of it.

All of their cases were similar, going from a small brew a day the first week to doing 6-10g a day within weeks.

People I know who still take it regularly remind me of addicts to other substances - claiming they can quit at any time but since they aren't having a problem they don't choose to quit.

Yet they also constantly crave Kratom and freak out when they can't get it.

Of course there are a lot of legal addictives - like a whole range of mood altering drugs like Xanax, Prozac, etc. - which are far worse long term.

That still doesn't excuse the unrelenting hype that Kratom is safe and that it isn't addictive.

DickScaringtonon Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture

Glassdoor routinely removes negative reviews.

DickScaringtonon Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture

Glassdoor routinely removes negative comments on companies.