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I couldn't read the full article, but the Mobile Passport app has improved my traveling experience through passport control. On a recent trip from Europe to SFO, the regular line for US citizens was really long, the Global Entry kiosks were full, but there was no one in the Mobile Pass line. We went through passport control in under 3 minutes.

Time to disrupt the notion of 'delivery': Sign up to drop off a package or two and get access to the internal city streets for x hours. What could go wrong?

How will this change the discussions around net metering? Part of the offset of costs for solar were supposed to be the ability to sell excess back into the grid. And what happens when the grid no longer benefits from new electricity generation? If the new requirement is just for panels without storage it seems like a long-term transfer of risk and cost from energy companies to home owners.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-has-transformed-into-...

Has Google said one way or another whether Smart Compose will take into account your personal writing style? For it to be acknowledged as a really great feature in practice I assume that it should.

Came to say something similar. There was a discussion a couple of weeks back on Metafilter about using this technique to modify comments within Word files. Handy knowledge to have: https://ask.metafilter.com/320606/Removing-timestamps-from-c...

Yep. In places outside of the US, like Indonesia, Facebook IS "the internet": https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-id...

Which were the great UX ideas? I think I missed them... The fact that you had to move your head or phone just to see the time was bad. The 'peek' gesture which required moving your head to the side and looking sidelong at the phone to open a side navigation menu was equally lame.

And bikes. They're working with cities around the Bay Area to sponsor bike shares. I can see the biker/trip data also feeding into their data lake. If they can make meaning through all that data, it seems like a good long bet.

Reminds me when Gawker went down and Tom Scocca wrote: Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.

If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money.

http://gawker.com/gawker-was-murdered-by-gaslight-1785456581

Some pollution, sure, but not all. One of the top causes of pollution and global warming is from meat production.And it's cheaper for multi-national companies from China to import pork from the US rather than slaughter them at home: https://qz.com/433750/the-world-eats-cheap-bacon-at-the-expe...

"It begs questions about the quality of life the world’s richest nation will tolerate for its poorer citizens, questions that have been thrown into sharp relief by the recent entry into North Carolina of China’s—indeed the world’s—largest pork processor, WH Group. Drawn by the low cost of production there, WH Group finds it cheaper to raise pigs in North Carolina and export them to tables back home than to raise the animals in China. "

Yeah, and Impossible purposely sells these in the meat aisle because they want to complete against the meat burgers, not against veggie burgers.

If you have BBC iPlayer, "Carnage" is a recent mockumentary set in 2067 that explores a similar topic - the end of meat.

Even if everyone who eats meat ate it in the same way (as a luxury) it would do little to put a dent in the industry and environmental impacts. The beef industry is sourced by the dairy industry. Even ensuring that the luxury meat is only sourced from 'ethically raised' cows does not account for the myriad ways the dairy industry uses animal parts. Not just skin for leather, but bones for refining sugar, eggs as binders for many dry goods, etc. I think the only way to move forward is to completely break the cycles and remove animals from our food production processes. It would have direct impact on the environment, pollution, health (we are shielded from the amount of chemicals in our dairy/meat).

When the aliens come I don't think they'll be too surprised at seeing humans committing violence against each other through wars, but will marvel at the extremely inefficient way we use animals for food.

A surprising number of Americans think that cows just produce milk all the time and 'need' to be milked. As opposed to them being, well, mammals, who only lactate after pregnancy and are thus regularly inseminated in rape racks (industry term) to keep them lactating until they're no longer useful then killed.

A surprising number of Americans think baby cows get some of that milk from their moms. As opposed to baby males being killed soon after birth as veal and baby females raised on hormone cocktails to continue the cycle of forced labor and death of their mothers.