charlesju

That makes a big assumption we can't remove the junk before the density is high enough

One trick I've been doing recently is I've reduced my cell phone internet plan to a monthly cap with rollover. And then I only turn on my cell internet when I really need it for something. This has changed my default behavior pattern outside to disconnect from the internet, and that has let me feel a lot more present in whatever I'm doing.

Wouldn't something like Ride Austin also face the same problems as Uber, which is to say, they need to hire every driver as an employee which they do not at this time

Also helps them rank higher on app store which is a discovery engine

I primary drive the latest version and its my favorite mac to date (and I have the pro + imac + ipads + iphones). I have found that if you have a little bit of patience for loading, everything works just fine and the form factor beats everything for real work on the go.

If they are really creating an ARM macbook, this will be a great product and this chassis is definitely the right one to start with.

One use of 5g would be better streaming upload speed, that can open up a lot of interesting use cases.

Another use case is streaming + AR, I can see that becoming crazy bandwidth intensive. I think there can be some cool games if we can get high mobile bandwidth and a cleaner AR (ie. Apple glasses) experience medium.

I also think if you're asking from the perspective of why would the 4a but $350 but 4a-5g be $500, then I'd guess that the 4a-5g is going to come with more than just 5g capabilities.

Another point. Especially with these content based services, it's all about the next piece of content you can provide.

For example, if Dave Chapelle signed an exclusive deal with Quibi, then all of a sudden those 92% that didn't want to come back will come back in droves.

Quibi isn't a lost cause, they set up the infrastructure and are just getting started on releasing content. Everything depends on if they can find their must-see-tv.

They're probably not closing, just bankruptcy to restructure their debt.

I think the thought process is that paper money is already controlled by world governments, so this isn't meant to be a replacement for paper money, but rather just an intermediary so the transfer of money can be done more easily and cheaper.

I think another point is that if you want a truly decentralized, no government involved, cryptocurrency, those still exist, go buy and use some bitcoin.

Another one! I love the weather here too. That's my favorite part, no need for A/C or worry about the snow. I love the fresh fruits and vegetables and going to the farmer's markets to find what's in season. We're so close to everything that you can want to do in life, that I cannot imagine a better place to grow up or live.

Empirical data shows those from upper middle class families tend to do better than those living near the poverty line. Seems pretty well documented at this point.

I think you're underestimating how much of the inequality has been baked in by Junior year of High School. 16 years of living a life where parents and teachers nurture the students for maximum growth is going to be easily reflected in any way you want to measure aptitude against someone that grew up in a rough environment.

From the article it seems like the UC are going to develop their own test, that will further divide those with resources that can study and prep for multiple tests and those that cannot.

The issues with the diversity in the UC system are rooted in a much deeper level of inequality in society that probably cannot be fixed with these band aids.

It's an island between SF and Oakland. Some people live there, probably in the few thousand I'd imagine. Very few businesses on the island.

Congratulations. We've recently decided to go with Paypal Pro for better rates on micropayments. Do you guys plan to have a similar program soon?

The reason why your solution is not good is because it pigeon holes the government into expectations. The government doesn't have a crystal ball as to how this all plays out, they need to have the flexibility to change how they want to respond to each situation without having to defend an ultimatum.

For example, even in your own example here are several situations you didn't account:

-- The availability of tests for the public at large

-- Whether we're doing temperature checks everywhere

-- Whether we're requiring people to download a contact tracing app

-- How much capacity we have in the hospital system even though cases are going down

-- If we can find a drug that helps shorten the time people spend in a hospital

-- If we find new information like masks don't help or they greatly help

-- We run out of swabs but cases are low

There are a lot of factors that has to go into how the government changes the rules and while it might make it easier for the public to be at ease when the rules are hard, it also makes it a lot harder to adjust the rules.

I think being upset at the government is your right, but I also think you should channel your energy into something more productive and thank that at least in California we acted a lot faster than other areas of the country.

I think Governor Cuomo said something very interesting the other day, to paraphrase, when he was asked whether he should've started stay at home earlier and if that would've saved lives. Of course it would have, but the interviewer is not taking into account compliance and public sentiment. Likewise, for you, I think you're viewing this problem from a very individualistic point of view to get strict rules on what happens when, but you're not accounting for the edge cases where the government needs a backdoor to change the rules with new information and to play it close to public sentiment.

This definitely isn't "private". It's just obfuscated.

1. Everyone should wear surgical masks

2. Temperature checks everywhere

3. Testing needs to be ubiquitous and fast

4. Backtrace every outbreak and quarantine everyone that was in contact

The Fitbit looks pretty close. I don't think it's perfect, but it's directionally correct.

I feel like for a lot of self improvement frameworks it's about direction not accuracy. Like for example, body fat % machines vary greatly, but surely being closer to the 10-20% range is better than 30-40% range regardless of the method you use. Probably the same can be said for sleep.

Waffle House is so good. I was on a road trip between New Orleans and Atlanta and stopped at a Waffle House in the middle of Alabama. Biggest surprise in terms of expectations and food quality. It's like the In-n-out of breakfast food.

I took tests in the 1600 era. I came from one of the best public high schools in California. I would say 80%+ of the high school had SAT prep, every single one of the people I talked to at school had SAT prep.

If you're not including self study, then maybe? But with prep and self study, everyone I knew was able to get at least a 100 point increase, I think I got a 300 point increase. Basically aced the math section through practice and study (missed 1 question).

Balance is a false paradigm, not all ideas are valid, ie. just because some people believe the earth are flat doesn't mean that in school we have to teach the earth is both flat and round. (a more 50/50 idea would be evolution or carbon dating)

I would also say Jack Dorsey has been pretty fair about the platform. I don't think the left feel like Twitter is exceptionally more open to them.

Words with Friends is not dead I think: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/words-with-friends-2-word-game...

This is what I do too, but I have it as a general list of things I want to get done like

[] Mon - task 1

[] Mon - task 2

[] Tue - task 3

[] Tue - task 4

This way I don't hard time lock the tasks and just do them until they're done

These posts are great and there is always great information in them. But to nitpick, it would be a lot easier to digest on face value if you lead with concurrency rather than raw total users as that's the true gauge of how your server infrastructure looks like.

It's open source. If you don't like the direction, fork it and do something new with the project.

I think there is a symbiotic relationship here. Google still needs to feed enough traffic into their main training sets so it can keep training. If these training sets were to fully die (or become stale) then the Google NLP would be equally useless. So Google has an inherent desire to prop up Quora, if anything.

Anecdotally, Quora has taken a top spot in SEO alongside Stackoverflow for a lot of my searches (and Reddit). I think that over time this will improve actually and I don't think this layoff is because they are doing poorly, rather the opposite, I predict they're doing well enough to go IPO soon and need to clean house.

I understand that perspective, but I hope you can see that unlike a religion, politics, especially in USA is through people. People need to push a specific candidate because they represent a vision for yourself and the people you love.

One key thought experiment I like to do is to project out a behavior pattern for all people and then asking whether that would be a positive or negative for yourself and society. If everyone were to campaign and push for the ideas they care about, I do believe that would result in a more informed and better society. Through the marketplace of ideas, we can fight through the differences and hopefully create better policy and have better leaders execute on our future.

I think for a lot of people, taking action to affect change for the community/society you live in is very natural. On a small scale that can be something like running for class president or joining your HOA. At a larger scale, politics is where change happens.

If you believe in a set of principles, it is sometimes worth your personal time, effort, and money to affect change. Hopefully you can see that from their perspective they are about their own future and this is the most effective way to impact that prospective future.

I'm curious why you think it's weird for a group of people to believe passionately about a candidate?

I completely understand where you're coming from, but perhaps you're looking at causation vs correlation. For example, there are many places in the world without a welfare state going through similar issues. The real question is whether that community would be better or exist at all without assistance.

I think it's probably more for security reasons -- ie. they can be passing a dot map of all the Navy personnel around the world and their traveling patterns to the Chinese government.