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- The cars are very safe, very conservative drivers

- The interiors are nice, well air conditioned and don't smell

- You don't have to talk to a person, which I don't always hate but have had some bad experiences. This just removes the roll of the dice from the equation entirely.

- They are currently at par or cheaper with Uber/Lyft prices and typically it's faster for the car to arrive

- You get to play your own music

> Why did you hate them at first?

I walk my dogs twice a day and the cars are constantly driving by with their array of sensors. Made me feel like I was being constantly filmed and recorded... which as I understand them to work I certainly was/am. Outside of that, I resented being involuntarily part of a science experiment that is objectively pretty dangerous all things considered. For example, I would never cross the street when one was coming down the road. I didn't trust them.

> What about the experience of using the service changed your opinion?

The UX is really incredible. The car handled driving very, very well. Much better/safer than most Uber/Lyft's I've been in. Made me realize how freeing this technology will be for those that don't have the ability to drive. If you don't have a car / don't have the ability to drive in Phoenix, you're going to have a bad time. Walkability here is typically very poor.

I live inside the original area in Phoenix where they did their training. I have to give kudos where it's due. I originally _hated_ their cars constantly driving around our neighborhood, but I was persuaded to try one a few weeks back. It completely changed my mind. They are now my favorite way to get around. I am a very happy, frequent customer and hope they keep adding coverage and more cars. This is absolutely the future I want to live in.

I've been using UniFi cameras for a couple of years now, writing to a local SSD (~ 40 days of storage), stored in a UDMPro.

The initial outlay is a bit more expensive but the setup is rock solid, provides tons of network analytics, has smart lights paired next to the cameras, and continues to work even when my ISP has issues. I've _voluntarily_ given footage to the police a couple of times but it feels much better when the entire system is within my control, sitting in my office.

This is great! Thank you for taking the time to create it.

Our whole team does .NET development using VSCode on M1 MacBooks. Our primary API is C# / .NET Core & front end clients are all in React / React Native. We love it.

No friction points that I can think of off the top of my head. Biggest upside is that it just works seamlessly. When switching between code bases, pulling PR’s for review, etc. it’s quite nice not worry about things like whether you have access to the iOS emulator.

I really enjoy my 3D printer but the number of real use cases is fairly low in terms of day-to-day utility. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me excited about the future of the hobby.

We're irrationally excited about this internally and we're super happy with how the Vercel team has continued to push Next.js forward. Thank you!

We're using a version of the persistent layout pattern Adam Wathan [blogged about](https://adamwathan.me/2019/10/17/persistent-layout-patterns-...) but having first-class support for this paradigm will be awesome.

Playing devil’s advocate for just a second, I really appreciate that my Homepod & Sonos are sealed. It allows for longer device longevity when placed in high humidity environments (bathrooms, tropical areas, etc.).

Definitely a trade-off game with all hardware devices & Apple (and others) are not blameless when it comes to engineering things to be purposefully difficult. However, I think we often underestimate the sheer number of environmental constraints an international hardware retailer with near universal demographic appeal has to account for in designs.

Agree on everything else. The article gets a thumbs down.

If internal procedures allow Meta employees to be paid (in cash or favors of any kind) to be internal champions for repeatedly resubmitting bans to the Integrity Team roulette appeals process, “proper” is the opposite of the word I would use to describe the practice.

What do you mean “fully backed”? The last time I checked on USDT (which was a while ago) I thought they admitted it was a fractional reserve, primarily denominated in undisclosed commercial paper. Additionally, they had not yet received an unqualified audit report from any of the big four. Has something changed in the last year or so?

Really a poor decision to come after Brian Krebs. The crossover between Ubiquiti customers and people that support Krebs, I would venture to guess, is quite high. What a way to incinerate a pile of goodwill.

I stopped using Notion as much when I discovered the magical solution that is Google Cloudsearch.

Any member of a Google Workspace team can navigate to cloudsearch.google.com and it will search across all personal + shared Drive documents, videos, slides, Gmail, etc. It has saved me countless hours trying to find documents.

Really interesting. I’ve been wanting to try Remix out for a bit after heavily investing in Next.

Side note: seems like there is some sort of issue when swiping back on iOS Safari. Periodically getting flashes of the incorrect content.

I had been told the Legacy G Suite “unlimited” storage would be grandfathered. That turned out to be not true :(

Finally.

The Atlantic wrote a really good deep dive piece into the differences recently. Highly recommend reading through it. There are a lot of unknowns about the long term consequences. Anecdotally, people close to me in the mental health industry are really distraught about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...

Thank you. Done.

I believe where you are interpreting it one way and the rest of us are interpreting it another is perhaps due to missing the quotation marks.

...deaths represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying, but “primarily working-age people 18...

Davidson, the CEO in question, directly said "huge, huge numbers" and "primarily working-age people 18..." in his address. However the author of the article, Margaret Menge, added the "that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying" piece.

Essentially Margaret, as explained in another comment, used a literary construction to tie the quotes together. The sentence is being used to convey that contrary to the popular narrative that the pandemic is only killing the elderly, here we have evidence that it's affecting other cohorts as well.

I think you’re misinterpreting his statement. He isn’t making a claim about elderly death rates. He’s saying the pandemic (both the disease and other effects) is affecting a younger, working cohort as well, based on their available data.

2020 and 2021 both saw a sharp rise in fentanyl seizures at the border.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fentanyl-seizur...

Fentanyl, P2P meth, and the world being turned upside down all at the same time was really a bad combo.

What claim do you believe is being made that utilizes this source in a biased way? It seems to me that in his remarks he was pretty clear about this data applying to the vertical of participants in employer plans, in a specific age group.

I don’t think it’s any secret that the last two years have been poor for people’s mental & physical health. It stands to reason that we’re going to be feeling the consequences of the pandemic & pandemic mitigation efforts for quite some time.

No affiliation with them whatsoever but I saw this on Twitter or HN a few weeks ago and have it bookmarked to trial: https://mockrocket.io/

There are many: https://www.techsolvency.com/story-so-far/cve-2021-44228-log...

Wow. Really bad news. Is there a way to automate looking at packages published pre September 2020 and compare the contents to publicly available repositories? It wouldn’t cover all possible malicious packages but it seems like it would be a start.

Change your login path to something like /custom-admin. Then create a page rule to captcha any attempt to access /wp-login. What traffic other than bots is going to go to the old login page? You can change the login link to go to the new page.

I used this once to debug live with coworkers. Now I use it 100% of the time for local builds. Super useful when doing front end work and you want hot reloading across multiple clients & you don’t want to lose things like Cloudflare Workers or Page Rule effects.

Cloudflare for Teams makes it even more powerful where you create a tunnel to a local build & then restrict traffic on the subdomain to a specific G Suite group in your org (ie QA or Developement).

I have an old Medium account with the partner program activated. It doesn't earn a ton but I'm averaging ~ $10 per 2,500 views. 50k => $1,000 seems steep, but maybe their category is worth more. In addition, you can earn more for new reader referrals.

>The comment painted it as only Republican states being hypocritical

I mean, that's the only possible party that _can_ be hypocritical since their platform is, as the OP described, centered around being "pro-business", "small government". The left does not pretend to champion those things. The fact that 7/10 of the total ban states are deep red and the other 3/10 are battleground or middle of the pack blue, seems unquestionably to constitute hypocrisy on the part of those Republican states.

For your original counter argument to be true "D bad" we would need to examine whether the premise that total ban === partial ban. This is false on its face. As I pointed out earlier, it's not an accurate observation, no matter how many comparisons are made to irrelevant things like BMW dealership numbers.

Ah yes, let's use the extreme outlier where the company is headquartered. Tesla has not built 17 dealerships in every state around the U.S. and certainly has not in every area the size of the Bay Area. While you likely live in the Bay Area, given your propensity to use it as a reference point, those numbers are abnormal when compared to other states:

AZ - 6

CO - 6

DE - 1

DC - 1

GA - 4

HA - 2

ID - 1

IN - 2

MA - 5

MI - 1

NV - 2

NC - 2

OR - 2

RI - 1

TN - 2

UT - 1

VA - 3

WY - 1

vs numbers in partial ban (store limit) states:

OH - 3

NJ - 4

MD - 4

NY - 5

PA - 5

Makes those partial ban states not look so terrible anymore, right? Certainly that's different from 0.

> My contention: C is just the current number. You don't know what C will be in the future. It is bad. You just don't know how bad it will be. In fact, as C grows it get closer and closer to being just as bad. .99999 repeated is mathematically the same number as 1. Look it up.

I don't know what C will be in the future, just as you don't know whether NY will increase the number of allowed Tesla locations. We aren't debating the future. We are debating the present.

It seems you are unable to have a discussion without utilizing inflammatory or condescending rhetoric in every reply so I'm going to move on. Have a good night.