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He launched a “Night for Women” and asked the city’s men to
stay home in the evening and care for the children;
700,000 women went out on the first of three nights that
Mockus dedicated to them.
Another Mockus inspiration was to ask people to call his
office if they found a kind and honest taxi driver; 150
people called and the mayor organized a meeting with all
those good taxi drivers, who advised him about how to
improve the behavior of mean taxi drivers.
Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who
didn’t follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across
the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every
move. Mimes also poked fun at reckless drivers.
It really strikes me how the "academic" in question, Antanas Mockus, was able to inject some whimsy and levity into the dour field of politics / civil service. Other politicians are so obsessed with how they come across that they sand off anything resembling humor.Dragging this submission out and using it as a pretext to discuss the divorce just seems perverse.
The source NYT article has some more details, but not enough to answer these questions:
One of Mr. Guzmán’s Colombian suppliers, Jorge Cifuentes,
who introduced the kingpin to the I.T. expert, testified
last month that Mr. Rodriguez had promised to arrange
secure communications for what amounted to the entire
cartel’s leadership. His system operated on VoiP, or voice
over internet protocol, Mr. Marston said on Tuesday, and
was accessible only to those within the network. According
to Mr. Cifuentes, Mr. Guzmán was able to sign in through
Wi-Fi even from his hide-outs in the Sierra Madre
mountains.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/nyregion/el-chapo-trial.h...http://czechoutchannel.blogspot.com/2007/05/wenceslas-square...
I remember getting American-style buns and the rolls that you're referring to. I prefer the American-style buns because when you take a bite from the roll version, the excess sauce drips out the other side, whereas you can maneuver an American-style bun such that it doesn't drip.
Ian Watson, who was one of the writers who worked on AI, also wrote a bemused article about his experience working with Stanley:
> We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.
I also would prefer if the comment text were rendered in actual text instead of screenshots, as the low resolution is really obvious. Hope true text makes it into the next one of these.
Exposing iPhone to environments having high concentrations of industrial chemicals, including near evaporating liquified gasses such as helium, may damage or impair iPhone functionality.
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/arch...
Sites that support dark mode should (and will almost always) have a toggle for it. It'd be better if this setting helped _inform_ the default initial state rather than _forcing_ a choice on you. To me, that's a lot easier done with a Javascript API than CSS.
I think Helm comes with some obvious trade-offs, but the product looks nice and I think (judging from other HN comments) there's a market for it. I don't know if it's a large market for this to be a success, but it seems interesting at least, and at first blush the product looks well-made.
I don't think this product is exactly for me as my main email, but it could be interesting as a side email service, or one for really sensitive emails. Depending on the price point, I'd consider purchasing. If the price point is too high or the maintenance costs are too large, then I won't. What's the big deal? That trade-off not working for you or me doesn't mean the product shouldn't exist.
Having said that, Apple should definitely be more aggressive about blocking spam numbers. My perception is that it does absolutely nothing about them. Does Android do a better job here?
HOWEVER.
Because it's just an app with videos, it's really up to you to learn proper form and execute it each time. Additionally, the app doesn't know your limitations, so take your pain seriously.
I hurt my knees squatting a couple years ago, and recently hurt my lower back deadlifting. It sucks, and I'm crossing my fingers that there's no permanent damage.
If I were to go back in time, I'd force myself to book yearly or twice-yearly sessions with a physical trainer who can check you on your form, particularly when I first got started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR7ejkmf8Y4
The unique feature of cinema is the cut. While the web has "page transitions", they're used a lot less frequently, if at all. But maybe someone works on a project that involves a lot of page transitions and can steal something from George Miller.
* Decide to run for office
* Raise an enormous amount of money, somehow without indebting yourself to private interests
* Convince a large amount of people to vote you into office
* Bring to bear an enormous amount of political capital to convince other people to enact these changes
That involves no small amount of luck and personal charisma. I probably have none of these things, so that leaves me out.
There are other methods that are potentially easier (the one that comes to mind is effectively paying off an incumbent politician), but I'd roughly guess that there's only a 40-60% chance to get the outcome you want. Even easier actions, like calling your representatives, I'd peg at 2-5% expected value. Voting is <0.1%.
Are these really our only options? Am I thinking about this problem wrong? Is this just the great struggle of human governance we've been trying to solve for millenia?
What an odd article.