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I read it too. Made me think how ethical it is to continue using Facebook (and its other major product, Instagram).

This comment is wildly out of touch with how power works and change happens in this world

Good, I did too

Backlash was certainly loud, but Amazon could have made things work even without all of the subsidies they received. This is entirely me speculating, but I wonder if Amazon feared that NYC workers might eventually organize or be organized, given the political rhetoric and the framing of the backlash. Amazon has a legendary fear of unionization.

The distinction is that those types of areas in the US are generally unaffordable to many, and are probably far less safe due to increased car traffic.

You're dead too, buddy.

"Earn" is not an accurate term, even if you don't agree with political analyses that define profit/rents as unearned. The fact is, over 60% of the 400 richest Americans were born wealthy. https://inequality.org/research/selfmade-myth-hallucinating-...

> If you use drugs

> If you are gay/religious

Uh, neither of these can be inferred definitively from location data.

He says he wants a new narrative, but makes no suggestion of how we can curb inequality other than the standard Valley tech-bro "government is hella inefficient" statement.

I think OP was probably referring to the 'dead Main Streets' and 'neighborhood near the plant that closed is totally struggling' phenomenon. I've been around the same areas and see seriously struggling places. When I was growing up, the Main Street was a little better but still bad, but the new strip mall stores/outlets/Walmart out by the highway were doing great. Now, the stores around the Walmart aren't even alive.

Your premise forgets that the Muni and all other public transit is not funded directly by its citizenry or riders. It's funded thru a mix of fare income, city and state taxes, federal appropriations. This is obviously different from something that is "locally owned and operated" since it is owned, operated, and funded by an organ of the city and/or state government.

Meshnet type stuff is comparable (in terms of the economic system it might "ideally" thrive within) to leftist ones like anarchism. (Any connotations a reader might be applying, like black masks or throwing shit, are simply connotations - I'm not advocating for anything political, either - I'm referring mostly to the anarchist concept of "just building things you want without asking anyone"). But you are missing the point if you are asking "do you really want your internet run by the same people who run the Muni?" without acknowledging the fact that publicly-owned transit authorities in the US are 'extra-ordinary' structures within the free-market capitalism they inhabit, and are therefore limited by it. In other words, there's no reason one couldn't have a great Muni, but you're pretending Muni exists in a vacuum when it doesn't.

As both a Chicagoan and (obviously) an Illinois resident, this means my voter info has been exposed twice this year alone.

Amazon sent out warning emails for owners of misconfigured boxes about 60 days ago. Why didn't the firm in question take action? I am an engineer and literally had to do that same task at work at that time. Easy as 2 clicks.

> staunchly only in favor of one political party

This is empirically not true, especially if you look at the policies of and donations by Google, Twitter, and Facebook.

Google donates to both parties; Twitter obviously has a very laissez-faire to the Right's voices, including the POTUS, and its COO recently suggested that if Trump canceled briefings, he could take questions directly on Twitter. And the evidence and rumors continue to swirl about how multiple Republican Party candidates campaigns used Facebook's own incredibly specific ad targeting, which they did not revise until after the election. (cf. Cambridge Analytica, contracted by Cruz and then Trump to "manage" the election outcome.)

Believe the OP is suggesting it's on its way, not that the US is there quite yet. And the US certainly has our own questionable human rights issues.

I'm one of these. PivotalTracker is the only thing I don't hate.

Moneythink | Chicago, IL

At Moneythink, we're building tech products that help build the habits American youth will need to become more financially capable. To equip students for these decisions, Moneythink trains college volunteers to mentor youth using a mobile technology suite designed to support students as they build the financial skills they need to reach their full potential. We're a 7-year old nonprofit that has backing from both small donors, medium-sized venture firms that fund nonprofits, institutions like Chase, AMEX, and governments at the state and city level. We're currently hiring for two positions:

1. Senior Android Engineer (ONSITE)

We believe that mobile apps are the best way to form healthy financial behaviors, and we’re looking for a Senior Android Engineer to help us build several new products and to expand our core mobile product. We’re looking for someone who can lead Android projects in both the Android SDK and React Native (but we know it's brand new - we'll learn it together!). You should be comfortable working with both in-house and external teams (we currently work every day with CauseLabs, a well-regarded Denver-based software lab.) You'd be our second in-house engineer, but in addition to the other in-house engineer, you'll work with 3 remote developers; that dev headcount will be maintained for the next 2-3 quarters but we'll gradually become an entirely in-house engineering team. Including engineering, we intend have a 5+ person in-house product team by the end of the year.

For more: https://angel.co/moneythink/jobs/97443-senior-android-engine...

2. UI/UX Lead (REMOTE OK, ONSITE in Chicago or San Francisco)

Financial education is very hard to simply teach in a classroom, so we’re excited to bring on an experienced interaction and visual designer who can take our core app to the next level while also building new apps for our next user segments. We’re looking for a designer who has studied the discipline of user experience, has a robust visual design portfolio, and is excited to get in the field to understand the human context of our users. The ability to create mockups with clear requirements for engineering is important. The ability to do front end development in HTML/CSS/JS would be nice, but is not required.

For more: https://angel.co/moneythink/jobs/97463-ui-ux-lead

This is hardly a flaw in Rails - if the user's login session isn't ended before handing physical access to another person, that's not really the software's problem.

Maybe we could use something more readable? What about:

    if posts.comments??.likes??

or

    if posts..comments..likes

instead of

    if posts.?comments.?likes

That would mirror the usage of ?? as the nil-coalescing operator in Swift.

I actually thought they were the same company until right now, so this certainly makes sense.

That's about right.

There's no app because:

- Cars vary widely in how they hold value (for example: http://www.autotrader.com/research/article/car-news/209232/2...)

- Cars will always depreciate, houses will often _appreciate_

- Leasing is almost always the poorer choice, barring basically the one case where you know you will need a car for the lease term only (and will not be getting another car afterward)

This is amazing. Even more amazing that all of this was done in 1969.

How is this PDF entirely high-resolution and vector? Is it essentially a digital remake of the original document? Or was the original document written in some crazy precursor to PostScript?

Collaborative flirting! Love it

The monetization on this seems extremely likely to be selling drinking habit data to specific brands, since it can recognize brands and even varieties within brands.

It's not the first startup splash page to have the GGB on it. I don't even notice anymore.

As far as I know, the guys don't have a top-down structure, so they're unable to make calls like that individually - and besides, they're hustlers. They made CaH in-house, bootstrapped, and entirely by-hand. It's not narcissistic to want to do things yourself, but it is possible to erroneously think that "anyone can do it". I've sensed a bit of that from the founders, but honestly - it's motivational for me to hear that, and while I would hope not to be dismissive or inflated if I had similar success, I also certainly think we need more people saying, "Why the hell not just do it yourself? Why raise money? Build it tomorrow!"

Also, you were expecting something other than vulgarity from the founders of a game like that? They have a brand to uphold, after all. I don't think it's necessary to be rude, but that's precisely in line with their entire "brand voice".

I like this for the design, but for something that's even more practical for distance discovery, check out this Chicago times map: http://www.mapnificent.net/chicago/

I'd love it if you could convert times in days to months, or something like 'early september' if you don't want to seem to over-promise by giving a real date. I could divide by 30, but I'm lazy.

The Obama campaign in 2012 had a smartphone/tablet app that they used in the early days of the re-election campaign to register voters as part of their first canvassing passes. Being open-source software, any person or organization that wants to help increase voter turnout could modify it to suit their specific needs - maybe they rely on older voters, so they want to make a more high-contrast version, or they need to translate the app for their voting bloc.

You could also work to make an API out of the state data (it's a a ton of work to aggregate all that), or work to make the site an offline application so that voter registration forms can be created, saved, and later emailed, or even printed and snail mailed to voters. The biggest obstacle with voter registration in the US is that you have to physically mail a sheet of paper. I'd be willing to bet that few unregistered voters probably also have a printer, stamps, and an envelope all ready to go.

Now, one caveat to all this is of course that I'm not sure how much of it is completely kosher. There are lots of regulations on this stuff, obviously.

Yes, it's the dynamic matchers only.