I know that it would be a bridge too far, but having worked at a business (movie theater) that had prices only ending in 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, or .00, I would love for the whole country to just have quarters and be done with it.
Though, since I rarely handle change at all — if I do use cash, I usually find the first place near my hand to donate whatever metal comes back to me - I suppose I’m not the target audience anyway.
If you're a fan of customization, BTT-GoldenChaos [0] has made the Touch Bar indispensable for me; I don't like using a laptop without a Touch Bar because of this app.
> If congress doesn't change something, then that means they have determined no change is necessary.
This not accurate. Congress failing to act due to deadlock does not indicate that either party agrees that no change ought to be made, only that congress couldn’t come to an agreement about how it should be made.
To say otherwise is akin to saying that, because you and your husband can’t agree on where to eat for dinner, you must not be hungry.
Both parties might believe that a law needs to be changed, but changed in opposite directions: one might want it repealed, the other strengthened.
> This not accurate. Congress failing to act due to deadlock does not indicate that either party agrees that no change ought to be made, only that congress couldn’t come to an agreement about how it should be made.
That is actually literally what it means. The way the Union is set up, there is a certain amount of consensus necessary to pass legislation over 50 States across 300+ million people.
If there is a deadlock, then it's the system telling you that the consensus isn't met. In a Federal system, this means that the next best place to (try to) pass the law is at the State level, where you may have less of a deadlock.
This is by far one of the pieces a lot of people seem to miss. The system was set up for gridlock in hopes that it will temper some of the more dangerous tendencies of powerful and ambitious men.
It does indicate a consensus is not met, and merely that; the GP claimed the this lack of specific consensus on action is actually a form of broad consensus on inaction, a leap in logic that is unfounded because it ignores the political game theory that is employed in obstructionism.
It also ignores the fundamental brokenness of the system through a sort of circular logic: things didn’t change since they didn’t need to be changed.
Queer people are typically not present in traditional histories. This raises the awareness that queer people existed then too, albeit in different circumstances.
>For $20,000/year we'll put you up in a spartanly furnished apartment and with a servicable car and you'll get your staple foods and toiletries delivered every other week.
This would be amazing, and I would subscribe. It sounds like Basic Income.
1. Founded Names Database - a social media website designed to collect user information as aggressively as possible, before selling all the information to classmates.com.[1] (got this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23709270)
2. Invested in Locately TWO YEARS after founding DDG.[2]
Locately, for those unfamiliar with the company, had built a proprietary data-mining engine which collected data from customers’ (opted-in) mobile phones in order to understand more about what sort of behaviors they were engaging in out in the real world. It could tell how a customer moved from one location to the next, what stores they passed along the way, how long they visited stores, what sort of lifestyle or shopper segment the user fell into, which competing stores a consumer would frequent, how a business compared to its rivals, and much more.
3. The DDG favicon issue since 2018. Was only promised to be fixed four days ago after it got to the front page of HN.[3]
I asked about the privacy practices of the company and 66% of your answer is about the founder and not the company. I specifically wanted information about DDG, not the founder. This kind of response makes me more suspicious of the outrage.
There are two really important caveats to this statement:
(1) Just because you pay for a service doesn’t mean the company isn’t also “double dipping” and collecting your data.
(2) There are plenty of free services — NextDNS, for example - for which you aren’t the product. And of course there’s FOSS, which are not services but come close.
I would love to work for Mozilla on this effort full time. I have experience in voice data collection / annotation / processing at 2 FAANG companies. Anyone have an in? Thinking of reaching out to the person on who wrote this post directly.
The people on those related projects seem like a great bunch of people to work with.
I don't have "an in" but it's probably worth having a look over the Common Voice and Deep Speech forums on Discourse to see who the main people are. They also hang out in their Matrix Chat groups, so might be able to get in touch that way. Links are below.
How long do you think it will be before we have personalized language/reading coaches talking to us during our morning commute to the downstairs office?
Though, since I rarely handle change at all — if I do use cash, I usually find the first place near my hand to donate whatever metal comes back to me - I suppose I’m not the target audience anyway.