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The Supreme Court seems to be on a tear overturning past landmark cases. It has turned into a complete kangaroo court, entirely willing to go through any legal contortions to arrive at the new political majority’s desired outcomes. This is going to be the future of the Supreme Court - overturn past decisions as soon as the political majority changes.

Huy Fong probably would not be in this predicament if they had not attempted to screw over their primary jalapeño grower.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sriracha-lawsui...

They are using ODoH in the private relay.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Over...

If anyone is wondering why the threaded implementation was slower

> pool = ThreadPool(40)

There would be a caching server inside SK Telecom's network if SK didn't demand payment from Netflix to provide SK the caching server.

"But SK Broadband demanded that Netflix pay network usage fees on top of installing those caches. The streaming service sued the telco, and that case is pending — Netflix told us that it would continue negotiations even as it made its case in court."

Alternatively, they would peer with SK Telecom but "SK was demanding large content providers money for peering with them."

https://www.medianama.com/2020/08/223-net-neutrality-south-k...

> No one's ever going to inject a live virus into themselves.

Ironically, that is exactly what people are doing when they get the J&J vaccine.

At this point, I think that's 20 million people proving you wrong.

I once had an interviewer wax poetic about fizzbuzz, the multitude of ways to solve it, and what he considered to be the most elegant of answers after I gave him a solution. I was sitting there thinking "I think you've missed the forest for the trees here buddy" but just smiled and nodded.

The whole situation is quite pathetic.

For one, Walgreens has shuttered a portion of their SF fleet due to increased theft and lack of enforcement. I would trust their inventory theft statistics much more than the police department’s, and so do they.

On the other hand, what evidence there that this effect is not more pronounced than it was in the past?

“Data from the San Francisco Police Department suggests these reports may be overblown.”

Reporting theft to the police department is a waste of time since police will not pursue or investigate the petty theft. After spending much time filing reports with police, people realize that they are wasting their time, and they stop filing reports. As a result, the official police stats in places like San Francisco are completely unreliable.

Thank you for that, it made my day. His publications page is well worth the scroll.

I’d much rather have someone steal my watch than my arm.

I thought the same thing when I was watching a friend do this work at 2 AM on a Friday night. Then I realized it doesn’t cost the investment bank a single penny to ask an analyst to spend his weekend doing cut and paste work, whereas automating the process would cost something.

Your parents’ situation is exactly what resulted in proposition 13 in California. It seems it’s now fashionable to bash prop 13, but people forget what the alternative is.

I was thinking of this passage when I took some mandatory online corporate “security training” a few weeks ago. They required scrolling through all of the text on each page and looking at it for a minimum amount of time (a few minutes) before you could click through to the next page.

The penalty for IBM: "the Commission now invites Respondent to join with it in an effort toward a just resolution of this matter" and

"If you decline to enter into conciliation discussions, or when the Commission’s representative is unable to secure an acceptable conciliation agreement, the Director shall so inform the parties,advising them of the court enforcement alternatives available to aggrieved persons and the Commission."

Basically, not even a slap on the wrist.

> especially now that everybody's jumping on the Agile bandwagon, including Windows. There needs to be a way to ensure new versions reach their users given everyone's just churning out barely working software these days.

The fact that everyone is on the agile bandwagon churning out barely working software is the main reason why people do not want new versions of software magically appearing on their computers.

Once you've got a version that actually works for you, allowing an update to come through is like playing russian roulette.

> Given how medicine works, the chances of actually seeing this in action are low.

This has already been happening in Lombardy according to an account I read about two weeks ago.

That would be ~1%

Consider putting a flagpole with brightly colored flag on the back of your trailer. I often see these on child trailers and sometimes recumbent bikes - it helps immensely with visibility by putting something in the sight line of drivers.

From the article

> Those numbers are almost certainly higher in reality: in court, Goodyear admitted it has received at least 98 injury and/or death claims over the tire.

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Had an almost identical experience when I bought a bunch of electronics.

In my case, they sent a warning saying I would not be able to contest any more purchases for some period of time and that my account was at risk of being suspended.

I try to avoid eBay as much as possible now. When their response to rampant fraud is "we're gonna suspend your account if you point it out again," it's time to move on. The only people left there seem to be scammers who know how to navigate the system.

AliExpress is usually cheaper for the China-direct items anyway, and those seem to comprise most of the listings on eBay nowadays.

The Apple monitors that these LGs are replacing had built-in Ethernet ports.

It's not just the buyers who are scammers - the amount of counterfeit and significantly-not-as-described stuff being sold is astounding. Ebay is large enough to do their own sample purchases, but clearly they just don't care. I stopped using Ebay after they sent me a message saying that I had contested too many transactions (all due to counterfeit goods) and could not contest again for some period of time.

I'm interested in what will happen when Ebay becomes a site for scammers sellers to transact with scammer buyers.

> C-level officers are usually paid in stock as well as cash, but the staff reporting directly to them are salaried employees.

A great point, but note that the writer considers C-level officers to be workers in this case. The headline might as well be Workers Pay Probably Keeping up with Inflation, Execs Doing Great, but that's not really news.

> After all, the pay for C.E.O.s and other highly paid people counts in those compensation numbers.

Most people consider workers to be rank-and-file employees, not executives. The writer goes on to discount the effect of executive pay on the numbers, but the methodology is far less than scientific, and doesn't really justify the headline.

The article makes it sound like the SF decided to set a goal of "100 percent renewable energy by 2020" without a clue of how to achieve that goal - but gee does it sound nice. Realizing that the city is not going to be able to fund such an endeavor, they mandate the cost of deploying solar panels be passed on to new development, completely disregarding the practicality of solar panels on city buildings. Forget spending the money on better insulation, windows, living roofs, wind power, heat pumps, grey water reclamation, etc. or just making more badly-needed housing - the city needs solar because the word gives people tingles and they have this arbitrary goal-without-a-plan.

A link to the actual legislation:

https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4399794&GUID=FE2...

It's amazing to me that instead of seeking out and prosecuting the handful of people causing problems near airports, the FCC wants to prevent everyone in the United States from running open source router firmware.

> At this point a pretty substantial portion of my email inbox is just "how was X? Rate X!" messages.

Those messages also attract low-quality reviews from the wrong kind of reviewer.

"Just got router in the mail today, looks good on my desk, 5 stars!"