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Toronto now has open boarding (i.e. you can enter at any door) through all its streetcar lines and many bus lines. The new streetcars have totally separated the drivers from the passengers, so payment is more of an honour system + fare cops* proposition, compared to the old "show the pass/pay the driver" paradigm. Boarding speed and fare evasion have both increased.

*: "Revenue Protection Officers", a totally non-Orwellian job title.

Weaving network infrastructure with COVID-19 propagation... Bravo

It think it would be difficult if it isn't feminist, in particular, considering prominent biases in the software development community.

> They market themselves as environmentally friendly while representing a comedically small percent of global emissions reduction. And within the auto industry itself the increasing efficiency of ICE vehicles has reduced emissions by far more than Tesla and their electric car hype.

The emissions reductions attained by manufacturers have been done while fighting tooth and nail against them; also, it's good that they're reducing emissions, but you just eliminate them completely by driving a Tesla.

It's like you missed the entire volume of responses to this tweet...

The comparison to BDSM is incorrect. BDSM is about "abuse" that one enjoys due to established parameters. I don't think anyone at the receiving end of abuse within F/OSS enjoys the abuse and seeks it out. That's why the codes of conduct exist, to... bring F/OSS in line with the expected ethical standards of scenes such as BDSM, so to speak.

> I could see the argument that it was a morbid curiosity for him rather than out of pedophilic urges

Possession is illegal either way...

With a backdoor for governments... So meh!

That's amusing, except that the first failure was during a market rally...

Interest rates have been negative on deposits at the European Central Bank since 2014 ... The rate currently sits at -0.50%

I don't understand this... They're organic material? And not particularly fat?

> ironically it seems somewhat thanks to an Iraqi

Wow, what a story! Thanks for sharing.

Iraq had a decent human development index before Gulf Wars 1 & 2, and the intervening sanctions. (I don't want to downplay the brutality of Hussein's regime, guilty of some genocides, but.)

> when you’ve got 4 arms arms full of groceries

Damnit, speaking of unwanted features...

Do non-celebrities try to game this?

Maybe it could be combined with this technique so the aircraft body can be laser-etched for both colour and anti-icing: https://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3106

That's not "making a deposit" means, but I get your point. If that's what the OP meant, then I take issue with their wording. "Making a deposit" and "transferring money" are two different types of financial transactions.

Did Fraunhofer just repurpose MP3 codecs to aluminium surface patterns?

How does one "make a deposit in your name" if you did not have an account already?

I'm curious to hear about these innovative payments systems...

Some of us like the office...

Very interesting! https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/02/13...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS?most_...

Them: "You're still hiding something"

You: "This was everything!"

Them: "We don't believe you" -rubber hose-

You: "Stop it! I planned to blow up the world trade center!"

Them: "We knew you were a liar."

To themselves: "Wow, torture works."

Rinse, repeat.

My understanding is that people who torture you don't know what you don't know; so they don't know when to stop. As such, they'll keep torturing you way past the point where you've admitted to everything you know. This is why information obtained under torture is considered unreliable: eventually you'll just say anything to stop the torture; further admissions will support the use of torture as an information extraction tactic, and then lead to more torture.

> You can wait years for services

*in some rare cases

People have studied the problem you talk about. Their statistical tool to address it is the GINI coefficient:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

I think Parent suggests that acoustics matter more than just in spaces for explicit sound consumption.

> Though saturated in corporate narratives and televisual plots, we evidently still make up songs about heroes.

Love this.

Can we destroy bitcoin first??

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1234493080583143424?s=20

Bitcoin energy consumption hits a new all time high of nearly 9GW, comparable to Chile, a country with 18M people. Carbon footprint is ~37 Mt CO2 annually, about that of New Zealand. And yet it still does ~4 transactions per second...

The lost productivity from WFH will probably be less than the potential lost productivity from infected and dead employees...