malkuth23

I kind of love pichação style. It looked really ugly to me at first, but then grew on me as I saw more of it. It feels alien and cryptic and uncomfortable to me as a Westerner. I understand being sick of it if you live there, but as a tourist, it felt special. Local graffiti styles have become so homogenized in the U.S. At one point, script styles were much more local. NY and Philly especially. Eventually, everyone sort of saw and bit off everyone else and it was no longer possibly to tell where a writer was from from their work. São Paulo has a definitely style. Not just the tags, but Batman Alley and the huge public murals. It was the best city I have ever been to for street art.

In New Orleans (and surrounding areas), we have a large, dusty industry of salvaging old long leaf pine and either reusing it directly or re-milling larger pieces like beams into flooring etc. You can easily pick up old growth pine with tight grain here, but depending on where these kits sourced their wood, it is probably the wrong species. Might still be closer than anything you can find locally. If you ever make a trip to New Orleans, most salvage stores like The Bank, Riccas, Demo Diva etc will sell you a chunk of wood no problem.

I just audibly gasped after clicking.

If I were starting over, I would probably push for Google Chat. It was such a chore getting my workmates to switch to Slack from email, that I don't want to disturb the delicate balance. That said, Google Chat has less integrations and I don't trust Google to keep products around.

Besides the price, Google Meet is miles better than Slack video chat. I know most people just pay for Zoom, but for those of us that are stuck in Slack calls, Meet is a huge improvement.

I wonder if there is a tool to migrate all public messages from Slack to Google Chat?

The novelty of location based games never wore off for me, but the gameplay created by Niantic lost it's charm very quickly.

I hope Naiantic's failure will not doom location based gaming. I suffered through the meaningless grind of Pokemon GO for longer than I expected because I loved the human and exploring elements so much. Niantic stumbled on a brilliant idea and completely failed to make an engaging game. It is hard for me to exaggerate how good I think locations based games are and how bad Niantic is at making games.

There are so many possibilities in this space. I encourage any game maker interested to continue developing it. Maybe something that tells a story or solve a puzzle rather than just collect crap.

True. I work with media server playback stuff for live events etc. Back in the day, we only used mpeg2 constant bitrate codec because it allowed us to sync the playback across multiple systems. The first 4k videos we could play were just a slightly hacked version of mpeg2. The software I used adopted the extension .mxl and claimed they sort of invented a new thing, but truthfully, it was just an mpeg2 encoder/decoder that ignored that 4095 rule.

Now we use HAP family (DXT/S3 based) or NotchLC (which is a specialized codec for media servers that is fairly encumbered with patents).

Do you think it is because you rarely need to use the brake in a Tesla? My limited experiencing driving one was that simply removing your foot from the accelerator often provides sufficient braking power. Maybe you lose some muscle memory.

I know you are getting downvoted and a lot of gaff, but I do think you propose an interesting question. I am not sure what is illegal and what is not, but I am confident I support the strike.

So, let's say you are right. Would that make it illegal for all Uber drivers or strippers to strike? They are independent contractors, not employees. It also seems to me that these laws are created specifically to protect the consumer. Without damages, where is the crime? Even the example of the optometrists includes some theoretical damage to the consumer as the prices of their insurance could go up or the consumers had less access to eye care.

In the case of Etsy sellers though, I can not see how this could hurt consumers. Sellers are striking to lower the price of fees, which should help consumers and only hurt Etsy. I don't know the law, but I do feel like the law should be written in a way that these government agencies only act to prevent non-competitive activities that could hurt consumers.

It is not as good as it is on Android. I still have an iPhone, but this is the top thing that makes me consider switching back to Android. I will still probably buy another iPhone because of all the other good things about it. Still, I miss the Android keyboard choices.

That might be the only solution you can think of, but that does not make it the only possibility. What you are really saying is you don't think New Orleans is worth saving. New Orleans infrastructure consists of far more than just levees. Our pumping system is currently rated to remove 1 inch of rain the first hour and 1/2 inch each additional hour. We can remove this much rain with wooden screw pumps that still run on 25 cycle power. Upgrading or adding to the pumps in New Orleans to handle more water makes far more sense than giving up on what I believe is the most special city in America.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-orleans-wood-screw...

You say that nobody want to hear your hot take on abandoning New Orleans, a city with one of the most important ports in the country, yet I hear this proposed constantly (and upvoted) by people that have almost no specialized knowledge of infrastructure. It is armchair nihilism and imo not helpful at all. The army corps of engineers thinks differently. Agencies like the CPRA are working to restore land on the coast. There are ways to mitigate the damage, to reduce the risk and protect the city. Yes it is expensive. No it is not cheaper than losing our ports, our people, our culture.

https://gnoinc.org/news/ports-of-south-louisiana-new-orleans...

Soon enough, if we don't invest in NOLA, you will likely be right, but I doubt it will be because there was no other option. It will be because we as a country made a huge mistake and failed to act.

The truth is, a lot of America does not care about people or cities in the south. New Orleans gets a bit more attention because tourists had a good time on Bourbon once, but overall it is treated as an oddity and not an essential piece of the both the economic and cultural fabric of America. There are people down here that feel the same way about California with its earthquakes and wild fires and I make similar arguments when arguing with them. Speaking of which, NYC fared far worse against the remnants of a storm we took head on. Should we abandon it or improve it? Hell no we should not give up on NYC, nor SF with it's earthquakes, or LA with it's water shortages, or Baltimore with its crime, or Detroit with its collapse of industry and definitely not New Orleans.

Our pumps are so old many are still using wooden screws and run on 25 cycle power. Think how much water we could pull out if the system was upgraded? New Orleans is more prepared to survive than any other city with a few hundred miles of it, including mega cities like Houston.

That is not quite true. The CDC listed several reasons not to wear masks. They definitely mention a shortage of masks and retaining supply for medical personnel, but at the same time they also said they were unnecessary and unhelpful for anyone not working directly around symptomatic sick people. Also, most people do not differentiate the CDC from the Surgeon General. This is a quote from the LA Times quoting Jerome Adams:

“Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” he wrote in a tweet that was later deleted. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

This is a good article about the changing position on masks: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-27/timeline-cd...

Here are a few other sources I found with a quick google search:

https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2020-03/c...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/surgeon-general-wants-you-...

marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30

I worked there for half a day. Did the training and had just started my job when the manager told me they needed me tomorrow at a store 4 hours away at 6am. I left and never came back.

Robinhood has a free version and a paid version. Both account types are blocked from trading GME, NOK and other securities.

I am a landlord. My rent prices are based on competition, not how much money my tenants make.

They actually stopped using prisoners, but are still only paying $10.25 an hour and work one of the hardest jobs I can imagine. They are basically not allowed to use the lift on the truck because it slows them down, so they hand lift my cans every time in the 95 degree heat.

In Southeast Asia? Try New Orleans, Louisiana where sanitation workers have been striking to make $15 (they currently make $10.25 with no benefits) and jog along side the truck and empty the cans by hand.

Not to mention that many variations of UBI proposals specifically exempt the kind of purchases most lower income people make most often. You can easily exempt normal groceries, clothing under a certain value, rent or utilities under a set value and many other essential items. UBI can be easily shaped to target luxury purchases.

In my state of Louisiana, there is a homestead exemption where if the property is your primary residence, you are exempt from a good chunk of property taxes. It doesn't always make it zero and it doesn't stop taxes from rising at a somewhat reasonable rate (though some would disagree), but it keeps it from having the California problem of taxes being essentially fixed at the purchase price while still protecting owner occupants. There are lots of other variations on this that work just fine.

The layoffs and restructuring in 2015 was to get slimmer for a sale. Guy sold 90% of the company off right after for 1.5 billion. Cirque has been run by bean counters since even before the sale even went through.

Covid is destroying the entire entertainment industry. Huge entertainment companies, staging and rental industry, broadway theaters, touring etc are just getting hammered. In some ways, Cirque is more likely to come through than most since they have the cash flowing in from Quebec government.

Yeah. Mystere prints money, while the newer shows are often in debt for decades.

My understanding is there is actually some risk. If they do the paperwork wrong, or if the regulations change randomly (which they have a bunch of times already), the bank could theoretically be on the hook. Some of this reportedly happened in the last recession/bailout, so the banks are a bit gun shy.

I am not a banker, so this is all second hand information I have read on r/smallbusiness and other forums while trying to figure out my own stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I think they are getting paid a ton, probably too much, but it is not zero risk.

I think the elective treatment theory is a better point than my driving guess. If you have a disease and your options are to get surgery or take medicine, you are probably being pushed towards non-surgical options, even if that would have overall worse results on average. This might ultimately raise the mortality rate, but would temporarily depress it.

Anecdotally, I definitely find myself trying to be safer right now. I have avoided ladder work on my house and been super careful when using a knife. I just do not want to go to a hospital right now.

I think looking at the overall death statistics are super interesting though. If traffic deaths fall, that is in some ways a byproduct of Covid. If more cancer patients die, that is also a byproduct. All of this goes into factoring how much damage and protection both the disease and the quarantine orders have caused.

Less people driving?

Airbnb policy (and the law) forbids putting a camera in private spaces. If you are renting a room in a house that has shared public spaces, the host could put a camera in the kitchen for example, but it has to be disclosed (there is a place to do this on the description section of the website). This is comparable to a hotel having cameras in the lobby, elevator and hallway, but not in your hotel room.

That is not possible. They were lying to you. You can't see the other's review until you post your review or the review window expires. You can never change your review once posted (though you can comment on a review someone else left).

It is definitely not legal to setup hidden cameras anywhere that would be private inside your Airbnb.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/108/s1301/text

Also, Airbnb asks you if there are any cameras in any place on your property and it is a violation to have cameras even on your front porch without acknowledging them.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it is definitely not legal. It also happens in hotels on occasion and not always with the managements knowledge.

The first two weeks of people renting my Airbnb got an incredible deal. Airbnb encouraged me to discount what I found later to be way too low prices. I was also very careful to make sure everything was perfect for them since their reviews were so important. Yes there are risks with renting a new place, but there are also huge benefits.

As a side note, when I travel and I actually want to interact with my host, I will rent a room in an occupied house and I always pick a newly listed space. since the host is not sick of hosting yet, they are much more friendly. If you go to a place that has been operating for years, they will not want to show you around or hang out. New hosts are much more likely to be social.

The metaphor is somewhat flawed, but methadone is unfortunately often considered a life long way to manage an addiction.

Trying to find a diverse pool is fine. You can recruit at historically black colleges, you can offer benefits like family leave or daycare that might appeal statistically more to women. You can try to show that your organization is not racist and will be welcoming to people of color.

It is fine to try and attract a diverse group of applicants, but after they apply, the basis of hiring should be who is qualified.