whyaduck

The spirit of GoDaddy's founder soldiers on in it's current policies and behaviors. Disappointing but unsurprising.

My anecdote: I work for a F100 company that's in the midst of a (long) transition to Office 365. In a mid-level engineering staff meeting 2 days ago where we spent 20 minutes discussing the advantages of Teams over Skype for Business, and what could be done to accelerate our transition. All driven by WFH - Office 365 applications don't require a VPN connection in our org, while Outlook/Skype does.

Quoting from the article:

'Regarding the policy of suppressing videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor users, Gartner stated that the rules “represented an early blunt attempt at preventing bullying, but are no longer in place, and were already out of use when The Intercept obtained them.”'

And taller?

So cars are using OCR on speed limit signs?

Next step: sql injection.

https://hackaday.com/2014/04/04/sql-injection-fools-speed-tr...

Coming soon - a service to screen prospective software developer hires via fMRI.

I accidentally called one back a few days ago and incoming robocalls have gone through the roof. I have no proof that that's why, but I won't rule it out.

On a more positive note, Hiya has been working really well identifying spam/robocalls, so I don't actually pick them up.

Meanwhile in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/reader-center/insider-cle...

Maybe they're not bothering to replace burned out bulbs? Neither's a good look, though.

No layoffs according to CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/boeing-will-suspend-737-max-...

Literally the only curve I see on it is on the fascia.

Even routes increase from south to north (e.g. I-10 runs through Arizona, I-90 runs through Washington).

Bigotry.

13:1 better survivability with CAPS deployed:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144

What's "a little extra risk"? A 5% chance you'll die? 1%? 0.1%? Compared to what? Those are actually very large risks when the cost is your life. When the survival rate of using CAPS is an order of magnitude (or more) safer? Use the chute. Not to mention how bad a decision it would be to dead stick if there are passengers on board.

Photography runs the gamut from straight from the camera to heavily manipulated. Straight out of the camera shots are pretty popular these days:

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Cameras/b?ie=UTF8&node=291227

It's worse than that. The actual award to the class is a 10% off coupon. So, to get compensation, a class member would need to send Zappos money.

Not that I know of.

Waymo is still Waymo whether they're running rides on their own behalf, or under the Lyft name. Someone who's ridden Waymo in an early adopter program may make their decision on whether to ride Waymo under Lyft based on that experience.

Get it?

All I can say is NDAs are a hell of a thing.

Lyft has been dispatching Waymo self-driving vans (with safety drivers) in Chandler AZ for a while now. I've opted out of Waymo for my occasional rides with Lyft, so I can't say how frequently they show up. But I can say there are lots of the vans running in the service area.

The motivation for the OP's argument is that "tax has already been paid" on certain income. It's an arbitrary "rule" put forward by advocates for the wealthy. There's no reason capital gains can't be taxed as income other than: people who make lots of money on capital gains don't want it to be (e.g. the entire hedge fund/private equity industry, along with the budding American aristocracy).

Note: I'm not saying changing the tax rate on capital gains wouldn't have an impact on investment patterns. It would.

I saw someone write a check at a supermarket just a couple of weeks ago. I think it's the first time I've seen a checkbook in the wild in 5 or 10 years.

Eh - I work for a big SV company in a group that provides key software and hardware. If we have a schedule risk that can be mitigated by paying a 3rd party engineer a reasonable sum we could probably get it approved in a week. It would require at least exploring alternatives and quantifying the risk, but it's really not hard to get (reasonable amounts of prudently spent) money when your project is in the profit pipeline. I doubt it would have to go as high as a VP for approval.

I've done intermittent fasting (on a low carb diet) without any other significant lifestyle changes and after a week or two hunger pangs essentially disappear during 24 hour fasts. I suspect it's just habit that makes it tolerable; your body/brain eventually become accustomed to the new rhythm of your mealtimes.

It's cheaper than a bank vault and more secure than a home safe. I can't think of any other reason to buy them, though.

High powered semi-automatic long and hand guns with high capacity magazines loaded with hollow-point or armor piercing rounds have not been common in the US for several hundred years.

I understand what you're saying, but in specific instances, this isn't about a "feeling". I won't generalize to all travel booking sites, but I will say that my former favorite booking site, Hotels.com, has clearly made a decision to embrace mendacity wherever they think it will benefit them.

The most glaring example is their complicity in hiding "resort fees" for some properties by moving notice from the room selection page (which is misleading to start with) to the summary page under an opaque "mandatory fees" line item.

Regarding car dealers, consider "doc fees" and "destination charges". It's not about feeling we're being taken advantage of - it's about an obvious attempt to mislead.

Item by item:

1. This article doesn't say that Twitter (the company) has a liberal bias. It says that Twitter users lean left.

2. The article says absolutely nothing about this, and you haven't provided any evidence. This is pure conjecture.

3. Twitter users aren't forced to follow anyone in particular. There are plenty of timelines filled with conversations that look and sound like right wing "echo chambers", centrist "echo chambers", etc.

Apologies to the poor folks reviewing audio, but the only room my Echo is allowed in is the bathroom.

If they were unionized it would be much easier to understand what they're getting themselves into.

Union contracts are typically public, unambiguous and well enforced; certainly better than relying on "company policy" to judge what work conditions will be like.