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> exempt all drivers from getting basic benefits like health insurance

That wasn't my understanding of it. This[1] says:

> Companies that employ drivers through apps — among them, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash and Instacart — would instead keep workers classified as contractors and be able to offer narrower benefits, including pay at least 120% of minimum wage, health care subsidies and accident insurance.

> Benefits under Prop. 22 would be tied to drivers’ “engaged time” completing passenger routes, excluding any wait time on apps between rides.

So if I understand right, current status quo is that companies aren't obligated to pay squat, "yes" on prop 22 commits to certain pay guarantees (which I assume means some increase in price to cover for those costs), and "no" on prop 22 means companies have to use employee model (which they argue means large increases in prices, as well as reduction of coverage due to needing to follow taxi density logistics)

I tend to think about Uber in a similar way as McDonalds (i.e. lots of competition, but strong worldwide presence and strong brand), and I suspect that it will be more or less fine regardless of the outcome because of its strengths.

Personally, I've had enough bad experiences with taxis that I can see the appeal for these companies wanting to maintain high driver volume. I guess what remains to be seen is whether "yes" would provide someone working 40 hours a week to get the same level of compensation as an employee would, while still allowing casual drivers to pocket extra money in between part time jobs or whatever.

The 120% of minimum wage + the possibility to earn linearly more given more hours certainly seems like a better outcome than an employee that makes exactly minimum wage for a maximum of exactly 40 hours, and hopefully other benefits are equally sensible, rather than a loophole for undercutting drivers. It would be great to get more clarity on how the rest of benefits numbers work out.

[1] https://calmatters.org/election-2020-guide/proposition-22-gi...
It's impossible to cover "all the things" in one podcast. However, I'm happy to answer specific questions if you have a specific interest.
Migrating from PHP’s mssql module to PDO
Isn't Part-Time employee also an option?

Not the parent, but personally, I don't think employers should be the providers of healthcare, but we live in a country where that is currently the case. We should have the Universal Healthcare debate/option, but that's not the issue at hand.

Perhaps instead of trying to make 22 law, Uber/Lyft should put their weight/support behind a Universal Healthcare initiative.
The text I quoted is directly from the ballot measure. If you click my link then click on "Text of Proposed Law (PDF)" in the sidebar, you will find:

> 7454. Healthcare Subsidy. (a) Consistent with the average contributions required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a network company shall provide a quarterly health care subsidy to qualifying app-based drivers as set forth in this section. An app-based driver that averages the following amounts of engaged time per week on a network company’s platform during a calendar quarter shall receive the following subsidies from that network company:

> (1) For an average of 25 hours or more per week of engaged time in the calendar quarter, a payment greater than or equal to 100 percent of the average ACA contribution for the applicable average monthly Covered California premium for each month in the quarter.

> (2) For an average of at least 15 but less than 25 hours per week of engaged time in the calendar quarter, a payment greater than or equal to 50 percent of the average ACA contribution for the applicable average monthly Covered California premium for each month in the quarter.
Is that still true when those accounts are literally just backend-side caches of your shipping+billing address and credit card details?

I had to create an "account" to order a pizza. That account does nothing other than to make ordering pizzas slightly faster. I would be literally not inconvenienced at all if I had to input all that information for each order (because AutoFill.) I would also be literally not inconvenienced in the slightest if I lost access to that account and had to create another one.

To me, that's the type of "account" for which "Sign In With Apple" is a perfect solution. The type of account where it's only the provider insisting on having an account in the first place, and you would be get on just fine without one if they'd let you.

(Or, for an even more annoying example: web forums that you have to "create an account" for to read certain posts, or download attachments on those posts. Thanks for making me
take five minutes to verify my email just so I can click a link on a page!)
Women in Stem Summit: 10/22 Tracy Young (PlanGrid) & Maya Ajamera (Science News)
Traffic can take the commute home anywhere from about 30 minutes to over 2 hours on a regular basis. So yeah, generally we try and time cooking such that we're not eating cold food that's sat on the table for hours.

The _small_ park nearby is over 60 acres of fairly dense woods with signs posted at all the entrances warning of bears and other wildlife. The one a bit further down is over 1500 acres of similarly dense forest and trails. So yeah, we both appreciate knowing if we get mauled by wildlife or, more realistically, twist an ankle or something that there's someone that can come find us when we call or if we can't. A realistic timeframe is "roughly however long you said you planned on being gone", barring no further updates.

I really appreciate the implications that come with calling this "control". This is a bidirectional exchange of information that we both find convenient and reassuring given that neither of us really know anyone in this city and appreciate having a lifeline to someone we can trust.

Not that I should need to defend my relationship in the first place, but it was her idea to set up and, since it'll be your next issue, her idea to move somewhere where we don't know anyone. Especially now that we have a kid I would much rather be back where we had friends and strong family support.
I use it daily and like using it but it will never leave my mind that it’s just shiny IRC.
Now our new Governor is left cleaning up the embarrassing mess while simultaneously being blamed for its failure by the very people who made the whole thing happen.

Get ready for this same thing to happen on a national scale if Biden wins on November 3!
Using a centralized IRC service like IRCCloud is an option, but not one I would opt for personally. There are also other options, ZNC and The Lounge both come to mind. You can self-host these or find an instance hosted by somebody else.
There is a difference between making it harder to amend the result of direct democracy and making it nearly impossible. Many propositions are difficult to amend and require something as high as 67% of the legislature to change. That is at least achievable with broad support. However requiring 87.5% is in no way normal and some are calling it unprecedented[1]. It is high enough to make any changes practically impossible without another proposition.

The reason this is a perversion of democracy is because it is fundamentally a handful of companies banding together to buy their own law. They are only able to do it because of the huge amount of money they have. This is literally the most expensive ballot measure ever. They are straight lying to the public about who support it and hoping they can convince enough people to vote yes. It is a perfect combination of abusing the US's lax laws on corporate political speech and California's lax laws on propositions.

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-07/uber-lyft...
Sounds like a bad idea to me, at least for most people. The reality is that if you want to be able to get a good job in an area you are interested in, you will need to be able to work with others, and get up on time, and work at a task you might not be as excited about. And you need to have a basic understanding of math, language, writing reports, etc. Most kids aren't going to learn any of that if they are free to sleep in and browse the web and learn whatever they want. Sure some kids might be motivated enough to learn that on their own, but based on what I have seen from my parents grade 5 class, most of them will just spend all day on Fortnight.

And maybe for some people it's OK to never learn those things, and be stuck working at lower skill jobs. That's legitimately an option, there are probably many people who are happy with a simpler life. But for me, I'm glad I went to a proper school and learned everything that I did there, and didn't have the opportunity to have a great career taken from me because I didn't go to a traditional school.

I find the reason for the family in the article to be pretty poor

Fear of school shootings and concern over “the racial bias in schools, the school-to-prison pipeline,” as well as many schools’ stunted curriculum in Black history, drove the McQueens to begin their experiment with at-home learning in 2015

Fear of school shootings is obviously a bad reason to avoid school given how many people die in car crashes each year, statistically the risk is negligible. And if you want more black history curriculum it's not hard to supliment it at home. I think you are much more likely to go to prison if you are uneducated. Racial bias concerns is a legitimate reason to avoid traditional schools though.
> Your goal should be to get so good at steelmanning all types of arguments that you can pass the so-called Ideological Turing Test. To pass this test, you should be able to argue so persuasively and passionately for the other side that your text alone would pass for an argument proposed by someone who opposes your position.

The essay could have focused on just this one technique. The worst arguments I've witnessed and been part of lacked any attempt by either side to Steelman the opposing side's position.

To take it to the next level, try actively arguing for the side you think has the weaker points. It can be a lot of fun, not to mention educational.
The observation is that (1) people are willing to excuse environmental racism as long as they don't feel personally responsible for it, and (2) the environment of business is optimized for ensuring that individual employees do not feel guilty for their small roles in larger wrongs.

It's hard to blame someone who's just trying to get by for taking a job, and I'm not especially interested in levying blame. What I'm more interested in is ensuring that people feel able to lodge their complaints about injustices.
Kids learn through play and curiosity. I learned vast amounts after school from video games, and I read before going to sleep.

Personally I could have used more socialization, but there is plenty of time after school to learn.
Saying "Android face recognition" is like saying "car security". Just because Ford and Jeep are easy to break into doesn't mean it's easy to break into BMW's and Audi's just because they happen to also be cars.
You and me must live in alternate universes, as my experience is the opposite. I have used Macs for 22 years or so and cannot really remember ever having much problems with printers. Usually drivers are already installed and it is plug and play.

With Windows you often had to fiddle with installing drivers. Don’t know the current situation as I use Windows as little as possible. Every time I have to use Windows I think my blood pressure goes up a few nothces.
We also have the prior art of: cash.
It plays random videos, one after the other. There might be a (not the most legible) status bar at the bottom, saying something like "Video looks stuck! Try clicking to start!"

About the videos:

> Videos should be unusual in nature and seem as though they could be from an alternate dimension, with varying degrees of uniqueness, strangeness, and otherworldly qualities therein.

I think it's randomly drawing from that subreddit, results can be interesting or not so interesting.
>They tested seven commercial Unix systems as well as GNU. By subjecting them to a random input stream, they could “crash (with core dump) or hang (infinite loop) over 40% (in the worst case) of the basic utility programs…”

As an end user, the least thing I care about is how the program behaves under some synthetic circumstances that I will very likely never encounter.

The thing I care the most is how much effort (physical time and also distraction) does it take to solve my typical workday problems with certain software. And, based on my experience, GNU tools very rarely excel at this metric.

I even have a fairly good assumption on why this is the case. Making software that works intuitively for most of your end users is a painstaking process. You need to research your market, document and prioritize use cases, run tests, update documentation, listen to feedback, quantify and prioritize it, provide support to your users. Then a thing or two changes about the "typical" workflow, or another OS version comes out, or some library you have been using gets broken, and you're out of tens of hours to fix it. And after you're done, the end user will install an update and think "nah, nothing changed, why did I bother updating?". You've freed your end users from mind-numbing grind by grinding it yourself for them.

You're not gonna be doing that unless that software is bringing in enough money to justify the hassle. There are numerous much more pleasant things to do in one's free time.

What free software is good at is proof-of-concept solutions. Someone looked at a tough problem and spent some evenings making an elegant solution. Or got some cool idea that might work and demonstrated that it does under one set of circumstances. Or implemented a cool algorithm from a research paper. It is a mentally rewarding thing and many people would do it for fun. But in most of the cases it's not enough to make a great end-user product.
This actually reminds me of an idea I had for my own website [1] when I redesigned it, but I wasn't going for a quine and rather made use of copy/paste with a simpler format.

I implemented a copy/paste feature using dummy elements that are only visible when being selected, so that when someone wants to copy text from my website, it will be copied as markdown notation (which was the originating article format before being statically rendered into the HTML code).

Technically, this would work with HTML+CSS only, but I decided to go with JS generating these nodes automatically to keep my sanity alive - because there were some quirks along the way with getting paragraphs to be copied correctly across the major Web Browsers. [2] and [3]

[1] https://cookie.engineer

[2] https://cookie.engineer/design/copypaste.css

[3] https://cookie.engineer/design/copypaste.js
I'm not sure I follow. The company can lower wages or raise prices to comply with the law. But then other companies, that also comply with the law, will eat their marketshare? How?

Where are all these competitors that offer full-time with benefits driver positions at Uber prices? Why aren't they sucking up the entire pool of available drivers right now? Why do we need a law to force Uber / Lyft to provide benefits if other companies already do it?
Same with me. Strange how people can have such radically different experience.
If being exploited in that way was more expensive, it might happen less often.
Because if someone asks me whether I'm picking up anything on the radio telescope and I say "yeah, the cosmic microwave background", then I'm a complete and utter idiot (or a pretty funny guy).

The interesting thing about a company is its path to making money, not that its objective is making money. Everyone knows it's for making money.
This is pretty close to the mark. As far as I can tell, after the Bell System got broken up in 1982, the government turned a lot of their IP into IEEE/FIPS/ISO/ANSI standards (e.g. X3J11, POSIX.1) and then made compliance mandatory. So businesses sprung up to provide compliant solutions, not for love of the technology but to cash in on the gravy train. Great example is the Windows POSIX subsystem where you can really tell that the intent of the folks who built it was basically just to check off a box.
> If you drive full time you deserve full time benefits. That means more than a 50% payment of ACA

You might have misread the parent comment, as it said full time drivers must get at least 100% payment of ACA.
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Define “society”. And define “offensive”, in particular to whom is it offensive and how offended are they. And who makes these definitions and why should we trust them to do it properly, e.g. scientifically? Without these definitions and clarifications, your statement lacks persuasive power.

And PC can backfire. Making a point of not using a PC-speak word, when the PC word is clumsy or silly, makes the not-PC-speak word a very effective cultural code word to those who want to reinforce the very things the PC police are trying to change.

And arguing over words has almost zero possibility of any positive impact. There have been a few exceptions (say, for example, the N-word [no, no, don’t say the N-word]).
It shows the subjectivity and flexibility one has when choosing a mission and framing though. The mission could be "serve the best lunch lunch we can to good 'old souther white people" or more insidiously, to "... to real Americans." People have a amazing ability to self-rationalize and are going to do what they want to do.

Setting boundaries on an organization's objectives is certainly a worthwhile thing to do, because coordination is hard and any alignment helps, but it is just going to reflect to consensus of the leadership regardless.
The Importance of Questions in Organizations
I don't think it's actually specified by POSIX, it only mentions arithmetic expansion with $(()) and there is no mention of (()) for arithmetic operations in the grammar: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/utilities/xc...

The example given for arithmetic expansion also uses x=$(($x-1)): https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/utilities/xc...
I don't follow. Can you explain why choosing to not work for or dine at a racist lunch counter, instead of work there and then complain to management about their racism, is ignoring the problem?

People should be political about which missions they support. What I think is wrong is accepting a position at a company knowing what their mission is, and then using one's position at the company to push for a different mission while castigating others in the company for not doing the same. If media reports are correct, this is what happened at Coinbase, as a handful of employees refused to work unless their CEO made a political statement about the issue of alleged systemic racial injustice against black Americans.

As for lodging their complaints about injustice - that's vague. Injustice in the workplace? Nothing in the protocol discourages that. Or injustice in the wider world? The complaints should be lodged with the relevant parties, outside of the workplace.
It's not recent at all. That's how I first used Discord back in 2015.
But then you have to type your wifi info into a tiny little screen with buttons and deal with memory unqble to handle giant PDFs.
Which is how we get into the pattern of having the same issues on the ballot every election and constantly amending them with direct voting. Many propositions wishing to avoid this issue require some small super majority in the legislature. That is the standard practice for giving "the legislature more flexibility". Requiring 87.5% is new and it is so high to be completely impractical avenue for change. Claiming it is about flexibility is the type of dishonesty we need to remove from politics.
If IRC had an objectively better user experience, objective usage numbers would show that. It has a better user experience /for you/ because it caters to the things that /you/ care about.

I'm not sure what pretending your preferences are objective standards is supposed to add to the conversation.
Yes, it does. That's a reason that a lot of people in farm country don't consider farming to be a viable career.
Is there a way to swap between two channels/DMs in the same server? Similar to how alt+tab or ctrl+tab would work in Windows?
yay more neomarxism

i'm strong... but im oppressed... i can do it on my own... but help me because i am automatically a victim
You can see the email that Apple generates:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210426
So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise?

What does the protocol do to hold orgs accountable?
Given the fact that we can build a computer in the game of life, this breaks down to a simpler question: can we have intelligence in a computer? If so, it can also occur in the game of life.
>At some point Monero could be dropped by exchanges due to regulatory pressures or even perceived exposure

Could be argued that it hasn't yet been picked up by exchanges for this reason.

Also, looking at the more corporate friendly Zcash which was dropped by Coinbase UK [0]. Likely from pressure from their banking partner ClearBank.

These coins won't last without a mechanism to covert to fiat.

[0] - https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-uk-dropping-support-for-cr...
Gee, thanks for explaining what government contracting is.

I wasn't aware. /s

Contractors are also protected under existing whistleblower laws. There are clearly codified protocols for reporting and handling instances of governmental abuse. Any contractor that is dealing with sensitive information is working with either a Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret clearance. These projects and clearances are something you are specifically hired for, or voluntarily agree to participate in.

https://www.cncsoig.gov/contractor-whistleblower-protection-...

Again, stop obfuscating.

You're grasping at straws.
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Would you say same thing for using encrypted communication app like Telegram, PGP?
We don’t have to worry about increasing food production or calories. If anything we need to grow less so we can get a handle on food wastage.

We have to grow good soil and eliminate manual and low paying jobs in Ag. Protect water sheds. Environment and labour...that should be the priority.

And we need to stop making food a speculative game.
Based on a recent trip to Vegas, machines that accept cash are now rare.
And you can of course put the whole chessboard in a string ...

blackwhite=$(tput rev; echo -n " "; tput sgr0; echo -n " ")
whiteblack=$(tput sgr0; echo -n " "; tput rev; echo -n " ")
row_odd=$(for col in {1..4}; do echo -n "$whiteblack"; done; echo)
row_even=$(for col in {1..4}; do echo -n "$blackwhite"; done; echo)
chessboard=$(for i in {1..4}; do echo "$row_odd"; echo "$row_even"; done;tput sgr0)
As the last 20 years of AI research has ignored semantics I can't see it helping in a significant way.

I suspect it will be a while after driving requires zero rigor (or even participation) before computers could program themselves.

Frankly, given how hard it is to explain to another human how to do something why should we expect smart computers to be easier to manage? Unless...we use a highly structured manner of issuing instructions...i.e. a programming language!
I don’t think this is a very important issue to most people. It gets harder to deny truths that are physically close and more tightly tied into personal networks. I don’t think enough people are affected by this scandal to have many change their vote because of it.