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> Not saying that Uber or any “gig economy” companies should continue to classify their workers as contractors, but if your business model does not generate a profit despite not providing benefits to your workers, one has to ask how viable that business model is.

Yes exactly.

> I wonder if these long term, risky investment opportunities are a sign that the exponential growth in the economy that we’ve become accustomed to is slowing down and becoming more S shaped.

We do have a demand and growth problem, but let's step back a bit.

- Gig companies growing and paying net sub minimum wage will make growth worse: we live in a consumer economy and less purchasing power for the people will sap the rest of the economy.

- carshare/taxis are inefficient in strictly material terms: cars take up too much space, one driver per person is ridiculous overhead. Bikeshare and buses and trains both immensely improve on both of those. Fundamentally Uber is the low productivity result of our terrible urban planning: a tax we now all pay.

Maybe there is some deep societal reason we cannot prop up aggregate demand, but I don't think so: let the helicopter money begin! But Uber is worse than no stimulus because it low productive and wage deflating. The only good thing is in it's subsidization phase a bunch of Saudi money was dispersed to regular people, but once that ends the legacy is further eroded labor norms.
Any hypothetical new tech "may" happen or "may never" happen. That isn't saying anything.
This is just such a weird fight. As someone who freelanced for long stretches of time, I think there are a lot of positives about freelance / gig work, and I also think that the majority of people who take these jobs understand the position they’re in and are happy with it. They chose to freelance and drive for Uber for reasons.

The legit concern is whether Uber or any other freelance company misleads its gig workers on their earnings, and to me the best solution to that is not to force reclassify them as employees or prohibit gig work, but to regulate transparency in compensation. For example, require freelance employers to include expense tracking and calculate workers earnings after expenses. That by itself would fix most of the problems for the percentage of gig workers who don’t realize they’re extracting depreciation from their car more so than getting paid by Uber.

The other issues of healthcare, etc., the US needs to solve at a societal level, not an employer level. I think humans have a right to health care. But I don’t think people have a right to a particular job, nor an entitlement for that employer to provide a particular mix of benefits.

This idea that we need to provide our social contract / safety net exclusively via employers is so strange to me, compared to simply owning that if we want these to be rights of our citizens then the government should be providing them as tax-paid services.
Certainly true.

But, as an example, the Impossible Burger notably has more fat and significantly more salt than its meat-based brethren. Sure, it may be purchased due to a perceived variety of other benefits (sustainability, animal rights, etc) totally unrelated to the healthiness of the product, but it's objectively not a healthier option.
I can imagine that there is some theorem that says Category theory is a universal modeling language in some sense. For example, it includes all of set theory, so it "includes" everything classical math can model.

But the real question is whether it is a _useful_ modeling language for everything. Engineers know everything has a tradeoff, and category theorists would do well to recognize the limitations of their tools or risk turning people (like me) away after years of study.
This is such a beautiful project!
Nano also has a pretty good tutorial within it. It's called "look at the bottom of the window".
All formal systems have their limitations as far as what is provable.

Example:, for any statement
A
unprovable in a particular formal system
F
, there are, trivially, other formal systems in which
A
is provable (take
A
as an axiom). On the other hand, there is the extremely powerful standard axiom system of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (denoted as ZF, or, with the axiom of choice, ZFC), which is more than sufficient for the derivation of all ordinary mathematics. Now there are, by Gödel’s first theorem, arithmetical truths that are not provable even in ZFC. Proving them would thus require a formal system that incorporates methods going beyond ZFC. There is thus a sense in which such truths are not provable using today’s “ordinary” mathematical methods and axioms, nor can they be proved in a way that mathematicians would today regard as unproblematic and conclusive.
People are idiots, you act like you care about children and want them to be safe, but freak out more over fiction then reality.. I was born in 1984 and was sexually abused like so many other kids, and it was by a parent.. what also gets me is you think only pedophiles sexually abuse children, the fact is they are less likely too.. you can look it up yourself, its well known in the phycology field.. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2017/11/11/pedophilia-a... .. Pedophilia and Child Sexual Abuse Are Two Different Things — Confusing Them is Harmful to Children.
And we all know tech companies & their investors don’t give money to politicians

/s
Newer work from the same author: Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05316
>There's something unexpected about this aspect of veganism, which is often embraced by those wanting to lead a healthier lifestyle, resulting in the development of more and more advanced food processing technologies designed to synthesize the experience of foods being excluded from the diet.

not particularly - would love to see where you get those numbers. many vegans make the choice because it's one of the few things an individual can do to make a (very small) impact on factory farming and a complete waste of resources. in my experience, very few but the uninformed do it for "health reasons" (save for having health problems processing meat or dairy).

"processed foods" isn't always a bad thing. overprocessing certainly is, but adding nutrients to food that would otherwise be left out of a diet is pretty important. there are plenty of vegans with malnutrition and plenty that just "eat vegan" which happens to be a steady diet of oreos.

> In my mind it's just a bit of a surprising outcome and makes me wonder how folks who consume these products square that circle in their minds.

That's because your argument is that "vegan means healthy and not processed"
In this 2018 paper[1] transmission from surfaces accounted for ~4% of flu infections. So it probably made very little impact.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121424/
It's basically abusing the single metric. You can put "Vegan" on your label if you follow very specific rules and anything outside of those rules is far game. The folks that consume these products have mostly that label and marketing to go by.

It's like orange juice advertised as "not from concentrate" which goes through a massive amount of processing just to satisfy that labeling even though it's unlikely any folks consuming the product really want that.
Seems like they just need to show a % of positive influenza tests to control for a reduction in performing those tests.
Also may impact your future immunity. Good to know what your clinical history is..
The article is deceptive from the very first sentence. Only the top bracket of the capital gains tax percentage is proposed to be raised, i.e. only applied to people with income over $1,000,000. But the article plays the old shell game of letting the reader assume that the rate is going to be raised for everyone, for every dollar of capital gains.
The flu (influenza) has been linked to solar radiation and electricity.

-- quote --

In 2001, Canadian astronomer Ken Tapping showed that the influenza pandemics over the previous three centuries correlated with peaks in solar magnetic activity, on an 11-
year cycle. It has also been found that some outbreaks of influenza spread over enormous areas in just a few days – a fact that is difficult to explain by contagion from one person to another. Also, numerous experiments seeking to prove direct contagion through close contact, droplets of mucus or other processes have proved fruitless.

From 1933 to the present day, virologists have been unable to present any experimental study proving that influenza spreads through normal contact between people.
All attempts to do so have met with failure.

-- end quote --

source: https://www.5gexposed.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/English...
Every COVID test I took included a separate influenza test. Not sure if that was the case everywhere though. But at least in my case flu would get labeled flu.
It will know every website you visit and also takes your money. It will be very easy to target you with ads. What a valuable idea for following people who chase speed over privacy.
>For some kinds of cheese, people actually find them indistinguishable from the classic dairy versions; for example, if you tried 5 kinds of Blue Cheese, you'd likely find differences between them, and might not even be able to identify which one was vegan.

Maybe for some people, in the same way that smokers drink Tim Hortons because they can't taste the difference. But plenty of us can tell the difference and for us, vegan cheeses taste horrendous.
The justification is that they are temporary/bridging foods while transitioning to a whole foods diet.

There is not much evidence of this working among vegan influencers (who fill their videos with meat and dairy mimicking meals) but that could be distorted by most product placements being such foods.
I don't. I use rust from debian repos. In Debian 11 (bullseye), a distro which has not even been released yet, it has Rust 1.48 from 2020-11-19. This already is out of date and was unable to compile the two 1.50 targeting applications I wanted to try out.

And don't go saying I should use rust-up. That's a symptom of the very problem I'm describing. What other compiler is only usable if you install from some website instead of your repos? I can't think of any.
If a large portion of the people who contracted COVID are removed from the set of people who could have potentially exposed me to the flu, doesn't that decrease the likelihood of me contracting the flu regardless of whether I contracted COVID?
I was in university when the Ontario Health Study began and they were giving out Amazon gift cards for participating so naturally a ton of students signed up. They send out questionnaires to participants every few months.

https://www.ontariohealthstudy.ca/
Христос Воскрес – Детские клипы Елены Молчановой
With all the extensions available, you can get pretty close to a full IDE
I'm genuinely interested what you mean by this. What kind of navigating functions do you miss from vim when in nano? I'm almost 99% sure that they already exist (and if not, are perfectly scriptable to make).
To some extent, it's an attempt to partake in the wider food culture while still following stricter ethical guidelines than those food cultures developed in.

Most of the vegans I know can nutrition themselves capably using non-imitation food, but still want to be able to have a pizza on occasion.

As much as some in the hackerverse like to pretend it doesn't, eating is both an emotional and an expressive experience for some people. Expecting everyone to be a rational actor in the food world is approximately as reasonable as expecting them to be rational actors in the dating world.
> Consider, for example, the 5.12 development cycle (a relatively small one), which added over 500,000 lines of code to the kernel over a period of ten weeks. The resources required to carefully review 500,000 lines of code would be immense, so many of those lines, unfortunately, received little more than a cursory looking-over before being merged.

I am more than a little astounded that new functionality is being added to the kernel THAT fast.
Sorry for the awful formatting. Odd things in the prelim 2020 data that surprised me:
All leading causes of death were statistically unchanged; COVID just shoehorned itself into the #3 spot below heart disease and cancer, above unintentional injuries.
I was expecting a huge drop in the "Influenza and pneumonia" category, but there was not.
I was also expecting a noticeable increase in the suicide category, but there was not.
Kinvolk is a Linux and Kubernetes company. It was founded in 2015 and is well respected in the community. I wholeheartedly congratulate my fellow Berliners for the deal and I am convinced Microsoft has certainly made an even better deal. On the other hand, I cannot help but feel a bit sad, that concentration trumps diversity in the Kubernetes ecosystem, again.
My first job out of college was doing embedded development and since then I've moved onto Mac and iOS development with a little bit of web frontend and backend work.

I have to say, the embedded stuff feels way more like you have control over the machine, I guess for obvious reasons. The tooling is specifically designed for your hardware, so what you need to do to achieve your goals is more obvious. I've found native app development similar to that. There's nothing quite like just focusing on a specific problem and plugging away at it and not having tools get in your way.

On the other hand, web development is kind of a chore in that there are so many tools, frameworks, and just different ways of doing things. For focused work, I think I prefer embedded development, but it's kind of limited in the type experiences you can gain for sure.
For me personally since I didn't throw this out there when I asked the question, I'm a VIM person, and I hate that every time I have to review code, look up code, leave a comment on code. I have to leave my editor. Most collaboration happens outside of my editor and it interrupts my flow a lot. I want to be able to deal asynchronously without it interrupting me while writing code with most of my development process from a single place.
Rule #10, my second favorite rule only to Rule #5.
> There's something unexpected about this aspect of veganism, which is often embraced by those wanting to lead a healthier lifestyle ...

I'm not sure what you base this statement on. There are many people whose initial motivations for going vegan were ethical, either to avoid funding animal abuse, environmental degradation, or both.

That was why I went vegan 23.5 years ago, and why I'm still vegan. I eat mock meat and non-dairy cheese because these taste like foods I liked before I went vegan. I didn't stop eating meat and cheese because I thought it tasted bad! I loved it, but I hate what went into its production. Now I can have the foods I like without the negative externalities. That's perfect!

That said, my palette has expanded hugely since I first went vegetarian, and I also enjoy all sorts of things I used to really dislike, including more whole foods type dishes, and even raw food.
> I guess what I'm saying is that it's a bit concerning just how fast people here are willing to jump to conclusions.

Well, the CDC/WHO have kind of conditioned them, no? The CDC, at least, is starting to realign their guidelines with the data.
If you're filing a patch with a pattern you think will get by the review process, why not look to see if that pattern already existed in the code? That would give you the same information and you're potentially uncovering zero days instead of creating them, assuming those issues haven't already been fixed.
Yea I don't really get the whole 'health food tech' industry. When I want to feel good or lose weight: Chicken breast, vegetables, water, nuts, rice. It's the same old story, people want to be healthy and diet without actually doing any of that or give up the idea that every meal is supposed to be a treat.
I have eaten some that will easily surpass anything you will find in an American convenience store. Sure they aren’t for aficionados but that pass for accompaniment on wraps etc.
It seems backward that the government, instead of fixing government policy and laws that disadvantage independent workers, wants to force independent workers to become employees so that the government doesn't have to fix anything. It is abdication of responsibility for social outcomes.

Many gig workers explicitly do not want to become employees, as there are many disadvantages to doing so. In these cases, the only people that benefit are the politicians that can go on ignoring the real problems.
Not in the UK. My cousin just had a bad dose of something. It's not covid (negative test, he's vaccinated and he had covid a few months ago) and it's not life-threatening so, quite reasonably, nobody cares what it is.
Early in the pandemic, absolutely. It was easier/quicker to test for the flu and rule out covid, than test for covid to rule out the flu.
I've just taken a snapshot of a non-trivial project of mine, from exactly 5 months ago: builds fine. Last snapshot with significant changes: 4 months ago, builds fine as well.
Agree. However a homemade “cashew cheese” (flavor from nutritional yeast, cayenne, and turmeric) can be yummier than cheese, if not totally realistic. Why the store brands can’t meet that quality I don’t know.
Still is. I expect Brazil to exceed the US death toll in about 100 days.
Not sure the location would be important to the matter, but clearly easier to apply on Mars where there are no roads yet (can be created safe for self-driving) and no other vehicules!
I really hope what every they end up doing here doesn't screw over all the people that really want to be part time contract workers like AB5 did.
> The answer is no, it’s not even close to ready. It might pass an initial taste test where you say, that’s not so bad, but then you pick up on all the things it’s missing.

I tried these and agree. My wife is vegetarian and I started to rarely eat meat but cheeses are still a staple in our house. However, vegetarian burgers are ready for prime time. They are my new thing, if you didn't tell I'm eating vegetarian burgers I would swear I'm eating meat.
That's really weird. So far Rust has been the most stable thing I have worked with. Working with Cargo was a pleasant experience knowing that I will compile any program and the compilation will go smoothly (vs. Python where I have multiple times figure out what went wrong).
Check out https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ it’s a few lines of code and a few cli commands to deploy a service. Made my terraform scripts unnecessary and dramatically simplified my setup. It’s cloud formation under the hood tough. But I like the direction.
The title implies POC biologically breath hazardous air. Engineered click bait. This research also preaches a false truth. White people are also POC. Why not focus on the inequity that causes this result set. Maybe the only way stop this kind of study is for everyone to identify white, then the focus be at the real issue of inequity. For a rather simplistic take, zipcode A has a medium income of 100K$ and few medical expenses. vs zipcode Z has 35k$ and higher medical expenses. The nonsensical concept of race has no relevance. The concern is now how do we improve residents/citizens in zipcode Z. Very important word there too, citizens.
That's quite a bit of stretch to say. There are thousands scenarios where medical system would collapse completely and people would either make it on their own or die. With secondary effect of everybody else with life-threatening condition dying too.

Would it be end of humankind? Nope, but I sure as hell don't want to be part of such selfish civilization just that cashflow is maintained
It might increase fares, although I'm wondering if that effect might be mitigated somewhat as drivers simply move hours worked whatever the cap is to some competing platform like Lyft.

My hope is that we'll eventually get to the point where we'll be able stand up a decentralized alternative that will allow us to cut out the Uber middleman.
They probably know how many flu cases end up in the hospital or urgent care, then extrapolate from that number. They have historical data and also geographic, and census data, so they can make pretty good statistical estimates.

It's kinda the same math that hardware stores use to figure out how many shovels to stock in a given store each week. Nothing is a mystery if you have data.
Virus exist everywhere and is the most common entity on earth. In a tablespoon of seawater there can be ten million of them. Most are not dangerous to man, about 600 is known. They are also very good to survive on their own without a host and can live in most hostile environments.
I’m also all in on the fake veggie meats but have not had a good cheese experience even in vegan restaurants. It’s always some strange bean sludge/mat.

Would love to be proven wrong!
It blows my mind that these platforms refuse to let workers set their own rates, choose their clients, choose how the work gets done, where the work gets done and how the work gets done. Those are the defining characteristics of what makes a worker a contractor or not.

Instead, platforms like Uber dictate rates, dictate how, where and when the work gets done, and penalize workers if they don't take the clients Uber wants them to take. Uber even dictates what cars they can and can't use.
It’s not that simple, many Taxi drivers are classified as employees. https://www.edd.ca.gov/pdf_pub_ctr/de231tc.pdf

Uber is very much treating drivers like employees in ways Taxi companies don’t. For example, all trips are through Uber as drivers don’t advertise their services. Dismissing people based on User feedback is another.

It’s clearly somewhat debatable where Uber falls on the line, but if you’re basing it on the Taxi industry Uber drivers are on the employee side of the spectrum.
>objectively not a healthier option.

I am not saying you are wrong, but there is a whole lot more to "healthiness" than amount of fat and salt.
Evidence for anisotropy of cosmic acceleration (dark energy might not exist)
I mean there were plenty of stories about how predatory the medallion system was too, before Uber. Drivers were essentially debt serfs.
Thing is most of the regulatory infrastructure you describe already exists in employment law. The broad societal proposals you describe would necessitate a radical reappraisal of contract law and a lot of other things. To use the popular 'ship of state' metaphor, it would be sort of like dramatically reconfiguring an aircraft carrier while it's at sea.
Am admittedly too inexperienced to properly weigh the pros and cons of various platforms, but I find the Rust support for certain embedded platforms to be compelling.

https://github.com/atsamd-rs/atsamd

I have at least managed to get some literal blinkenlights doing what I want on various Adafruit boards with very little effort.
Excellent accessible summary by Sabine Hossenfelder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqgKXQM8FpU

The paper is from 2019 but adding that annotation to the title made it too long and I decided that the TL;DR "dark energy might not exist" was more important.
This reminds me of how SF killed the electric scooter business. This is why we can't have nice things. America wants you to own a car, and drive it.
Family member had same experience. Classic flu symptoms. No breathing problems. Dr. Wrote down Covid symptoms in his notes which they did not have and had not complained of. They ordered a covid test, which was negative. I actually feel like they got WORSE care than they would have otherwise. The Dr. wasn't even interested in treating anything that wasn't covid, let alone diagnosing it.