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Easy for you, yes. As someone who has helped others with tax preparation, plenty of people find it daunting. Many Americans struggle with both financial literacy and literal literacy.

Tax preparation should be automatic and handled by the government, full stop.

One of the major points I took away from Lessig’s Republic, Lost is that these campaign donations trackers are unable to factor in the credible threat of a donor funding an opponent.

The dollar amount may be relatively low, but the value to an incumbent politician is that wealthy stakeholders will not fund a challenger.

I definitely cannot do this, but the tool that gets me close is using backsearch to find old terminal commands. This might sound really basic, but I have worked with surprisingly tenured devs who jaw drop when I show them backsearch (yes, really).

I'm personally a fan of fzf. ctrl-r has saved me many google searches. If you're just getting into software development it's a lifesaver.

The harder part of this proposal might be finding a visionary who could lead the effort.

Some meeting advice that managers over the years have given to me:

- If you are leading a meeting, schedule (at least) as much time to prepare for the meeting as the duration of the meeting.

- Before each meeting, clearly articulate the POP: Purpose, Outcome, and Process.

- Designate a note taker and document all decisions / outcomes / tasks / follow-ups.

I think the answer to the trilemma is simply more people in the ecosystem. As products grow to become multi-billion dollar platforms, complexity becomes inevitable.

Some developer user stories may remain simple (e.g. making a charge, sending an SMS) but a lot of the value will be created by systems integrators / service partners who understand the platform's products deeply.

Having good self-service products and documentation for the impatient developer is a necessary (but not sufficient) step to create this integrator ecosystem. Much of the work is on the business side to convince integrator managers that there is a viable market opportunity on your platform. This comes with all sorts of other considerations, like certification, co-selling agreements, reseller pricing, etc.

For all of their faults in product, Salesforce, Microsoft, and AWS have achieved their dominance through successfully building the integrator ecosystem. Hoping Stripe's service partner program takes off in the same way as the platform grows.

It’s almost as if we should redistribute profits from the robots universally to provide some level of basic income.

Personally speaking, coming up from deep focus tends to put me in an anxious state and sometimes gives me minor panic attacks.

If anyone reading this is in the same boat, I’d like to pass along some simple advice that a friend gave me: get up and go for a quick vigorous run around the block. I’ve found this to be a very effective way to reset.

Seat utilization is a big factor here, but let's take the worst case for a car vs. the best case for a helicopter.

Assume that the helicopter can make 3 trips per hour (8 minutes flight time, plus 12 minutes turnover).

950 / 3 = 316 lbs of C02 per flight. It looks like the Bell 430 configuration they have has 6 passenger seats, so 52.7 lbs of C02 per passenger.

Even if the taxi has only one passenger and takes 1.5 hours to reach JFK in moderate traffic, that rider will only be generating 33 lbs of C02 (37% less C02 than a helicopter in a best-case scenario for the helicopter).

Buses do produce more CO2 than cars, but are generally 6-8 times more efficient on a passenger-mile basis.

It's substantial. Helicopters produce roughly 43 times more CO2 per hour than cars. From a 2016 NYT article:

> The Airbus AS350 series of helicopters, one of the most popular among tour operators, produces approximately 950 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per hour; the average car produces 22 pounds per hour.

> There are often eight helicopters motoring on the downtown heliport at any time. For those living and working nearby, that’s like 340 cars idling outside your window. Conservatively estimated, the 56,000 annual tourist flights have a carbon footprint greater than 6,000 metric tons.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/a-plague-o...

Could you link to a source? This is interesting to me but I'd like to know more about their method for arriving at those conclusions. I wasn't able to find the article/study you're referencing.

> Firefox imports your bookmarks, autofills, passwords and preferences from Chrome.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this. I went to File > Import from another browser... and got a dialog that only allowed me to select "Cookies, Browsing History, or Bookmarks". No mention of autofills or passwords.

Am I missing something here?

It's not about nerds and suits, it's about how frequently we are exposed to data collection. Credit reporting agencies collected a powerful set of data (personal finance information), but you wouldn't really notice it until you applied for a loan, mortgage, or credit card.

Contrast that to today's barrage of tracking and advertising. Firefox Focus tells me to date that it has blocked 65k trackers in the past ten months. I mention a specific tool I need for a project to my dad, he searches for it, and then I see advertisements.

The "nerds" didn't forget to wear suits and play golf, they expanded the data collection net and feedback loop for advertisements to an unprecedented scale.

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They gave us the aqueduct?

Reported donations also don't capture that lobbyists can threaten to contribute to an opposing campaign. A candidate receiving a $10k donation may also have received a $70k threat (in the form of a donation to an opponent) had they decided otherwise on an issue.

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I would be willing to put money on a Salesforce acquisition within the next two years.

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This seems like a very crude method of sabotage if committed by someone onboard. It seems as though someone with an intimate knowledge of the ISS or Russian capsules would have come up with a more subtle / effective way to sabotage if that was the intent. As an armchair speculator, I'd put my money on manufacturing defect that was patched on the ground and came apart in space.

On the other hand, the scuffs surrounding the hole suggest multiple attempts at puncturing. Not sure what to make of that. Will be interesting to see what reports find.

I'm not sure that a replacement F-14 is thinking big enough here. David Wise's post in War is Boring, "The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake — Building Tons of Supercarriers" (https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-navy-s-big-mistake-...) puts forth a strong argument as to why the U.S. Navy needs a paradigm shift from carrier groups to increased funding for drones and submarines. Carriers are an extremely costly asset that are also vulnerable to cruise missiles (and those missiles are getting much more advanced).

Just out of curiosity I read Section C "Plan for Safe Riding and Storage of Scooters" of the applications for Bird and Scoot. There really isn't a comparison. Scoot's is far more detailed and you can tell they have actual experience in operating responsibly at scale.

An example that stuck out to me: when asked where they plan on operating, Scoot had detailed block-by-block outlines of how they would expand and when. Bird literally just has a Google Maps screen capture of San Francisco.

For a start-up as well funded as they are, it really seems like Bird phoned it in on the application.

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I have a similar strategy and highly recommend Self Control App: https://github.com/SelfControlApp/selfcontrol/

Once I started blocking sites from myself I realized I was reflexively jumping over to distraction sites, particularly when I felt stuck or discouraged. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that willpower is the only way to get more focused. Use software to level the playing field.

Another thing that's helped: placing my phone on the other side of the room to charge at night. I also have a strict no using tech while in bed rule. Waking up and checking Instagram/Twitter/News on a phone is a terrible way to start the day.

While true, the most compelling use-case for serviceworkers is still on mobile. Serviceworkers solve the problem of intermittent connectivity. They can patch the gap when a user drops a connection for less than a few minutes (e.g. when a user is mobile).

Laptops and desktops still benefit, but less so because generally if you sit down to use one of those devices in an area of poor connectivity, you're going to run out of things you can do with your serviceworker's cached content pretty quickly. If you're developing a serviceworker, the improved experience will be most felt by mobile users.

It's not just a safari problem, last I checked Chrome on iOS also does not support service workers, so you're just helping Android users.

Apple has a vested interest in pushing users towards their walled garden for apps, while Google and Mozilla are trying to bring app-like experiences to the browser. There are hints of Safari supporting serviceworkers but I'm not holding my breath.

Highly recommend Alex Russel's talk on progressive web apps as background: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cfLDFVyHo

I happen to agree that offline-readiness (via service workers) is at the core of whether the open web will continue to be a relevant medium.

Or maybe a passive-agressive dig from their designer?

Unrelated question, but curious: why do your BART ads that say "I am a software engineer" have a fork bomb in faint text in the bottom-left corner?

I think it's worth actually reading the piece of legislation for the housing fee: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2017/06_June...

From what I've gathered, the additional fee is designed to incentivize developers to include at least 20% affordable housing units in new projects. If you're building less than 20% affordable housing, you pay a sliding-scale fee. That money goes to supporting staff in the city that monitor and enforce affordable housing regulations.

I can definitely see the opposing policy argument here: just remove incentives on developers and let the market figure it out. However, I don't think Item #53 is some kind of scheme to keep housing unaffordable on the part of home owners.

I wasn't able to find the de-zoning item in the agenda, if anyone knows which one it is I'd definitely give it a read. Full agenda here: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Clerk/City_Council/2017/06_June...