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This makes sense, Hire was born out of Bebop (founded by Diane Greene, former VMware founder/CEO).

Google acquihired Bebop to get Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud (which is why this product was lumped under their cloud division), but she left Google earlier this year. No reason for Google to keep it running now.

It's happening because many Americans don't see the value in subsidizing electronics hobbyists.

It won't hurt robotics or drones companies, that's pure fearmongering. No business is having circuit boards shipped via ePacket.

Marc Andreessen's famous "Why Software Is Eating The World" article in the WSJ.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512...

Nothing I can find indicates that Narrator "supports" WeWork or has WeWork as a client, only that Narrator's founding team all used to work at WeWork [0].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/16/y-combinator-backed-narrat...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740626

The article explicitly says it was opt-in. How could that be "due to it being opt out"?

You’re wrong, it’s possible. [0]

[0] https://support.google.com/travel/answer/7515668?hl=en

And if it happens often enough you'll get banned from Amazon for being an unprofitable customer.

Yes, via the WhatsApp Business API explicitly mentioned in the article.

You missed it, right in the abstract :-)

> Methods

> Eleven adults with overweight practiced both early time‐restricted feeding (eTRF) (eating from 8 am to 2 pm) and a control schedule (eating from 8 am to 8 pm) for 4 days each.

It’s still a control, just not blinded to the participants (which, yes, can result in bias).

Amazon is absolutely not a monopsony for unskilled labor, or even for warehouse labor. UPS and FedEx each have roughly the same number of employees as Amazon. Walmart has more than double.

> Some prurient examples

Not sure these are "prurient". You may mean salient.

This is how every bank works.

If you can come up with a scientifically falsifiable theory on the effectiveness of government regulation, there’s a Nobel Prize waiting for you. It’s hard for a lot of reasons, including that it’s almost impossible to create a true test and control treatment.

Macroeconomic theory relies on a lot of spherical cows. In theory I don’t disagree with you, but in practice we don’t have the tools (yet) to do this type of economics in a scientific/falsifiable way.

Brave is a private, for-profit company that has raised $42 million in venture funding—out of curiosity why do you bother doing free work for them in your spare time?

Many people feel the solution to bad products is making better competing products rather than adding government regulation.

I don't see mention of it in the article but Leftbook (a subculture of left-leaning Facebook groups) is a major reason why leftists continue to use Facebook.

Joyent created Node.js

> USPS Priority Mail for $9.99

Priority Mail != Media Mail

> I know how the ridership is measured. I’m not sure what your point was.

Probably that it's inaccurate for you to say "the 4.5 million people who use the 28th Street stop" because that number is ridership, not people.

> I'd be slightly more confident (slightly) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated

I'd be much less confident, considering that they explicitly save and make public post's edit history.

> spying on teens

Worth noting that "the app was targeted to users ages 13 to 35 (5 percent of whom were teenagers)." [0]

Google had a similar app. I don't think that makes Facebook's app better, but it's interesting how the media reports on the Facebook app and not the Google one.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

> any resumes that don't have some sort of CS or programming on them

> I have a degree in physics and 20 years of programming

Depends, do you mention your 20 years of programming on your resume?

Why CDC and NIH instead of the EPA?

Sure, but this particular study came out of the lab of the Nobel-prize-winning scientist who literally discovered prions. I think it's at least worthy of discussion.

> Facebook is paying billions because they made a bad decision when choosing to grant access to data for research

For clarity, Facebook didn't "choose to grant access to data" specifically to Cambridge Analytica. It used to be the case that Facebook's API would let the client app see all the information a FB user could see once they authorized it, including information about their friends. That's what CA exploited.

> Facebook earned about $172 billion since 2013.

No, they didn't, it's around $56.3 billion [0].

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/net-in...

Facebook announced earnings today; other new information besides the fine contributed to the after-hours jump.