The implication from the LinkedIn post (to my eyes at least) is that they believe they have a case for canceling X Corp's claim to the Twitter trademarks. And then the landing page at twitter.new certainly implies that they plan to start their own social network/app called Twitter.
Brown CS (back in 2004) gave you a choice: you could either take a 2-class intro sequence that started with Scheme and eventually OCaml before moving into OOP with Java, or you could start with Java from the get-go and make cool/flashy projects like Tetris by the end. Both course sequences were supposed to bring you to roughly the same place by the end.
I took the Scheme path and feel great about having a deep theoretical foundation in CS, but I know plenty of folks who started with the fun/shiny stuff and became amazing software engineers. So all in all I'm really glad they gave us a choice.
I will admit that there were people in my classes who didn't really understand what they were getting themselves into and possibly would have benefited from starting with Python or Java and getting more inspired about building cool projects. It really was a YMMV ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you believe it, offer up all your money to cover the cost of all 911 services and life saving tools. Then, the companies can provide them free of charge since you ate the cost.
Most will probably hold back some or all of that money. They'll make it someone else's problem. If not, they'll limit how much they eat the cost of saving others' lives. Their justification will be to put the money into their own needs or pursuing more of something. Which is what the companies do when they don't eat the cost.
If it's right for most people to charge to cover their costs (or ignore other people's problems entirely), then it shouod be right for the companies, too. If they must be selfless at a huge loss, then so must any who demand they do thay.
To individuals, a life seems priceless. But to anyone facing resource constraints, tradeoffs are inevitable. Welcome to the quagmire where moral philosophy meets bean counting.
This should be such an infrequent occurrence that the cost should be negligible. Surely their $10/month plan has enough margin that this can be covered?
There is likely a cost to the infrastructure necessary to enable calling 911 that scales with the number of users not the number of 911 calls. Where I'm at, there is a 75 cent per month fee added to phone plans to cover the costs of access to 911. If most people are on the free plan, the margin from the few paying customers won't cover it.
Every cellphone without a valid service plan is still required to be able to call 911 in most places of the world, including the US, and carriers eat the costs. It should be obvious why.
Frankly it's weird they're making a clone of a classic touch tone corded phone and somehow get around this. Especially for a kids product when we teach kids to call 911 in an emergency.
Donate the cash? To a business? … So, you mean, paying someone else's profit margin, while they hold lives hostage? Immanuel Kant says you don't negotiate with terrorists.
Looks like it's a silly and self-aware play on the word "builder" (New England regional dialect):
> Since I’m relatively new to the world of containers and images, I was excited to learn about the Buildah tool. Especially since I’m a native New Englander and it’s a clever play on how we say Builder in these parts. [0]
The article gets into this where real Americans do job interviews and if they get a job they can keep 30% of the salary and have to pass off the remaining 70%:
> In the IT worker scheme, once someone involved gets an interview, North Koreans use remote-desktop tools to help coach people through the Q&A with a recruiter.
> Aidan Raney, founder of Farnsworth Intelligence, posed as an American willing to help North Koreans to investigate the issue for a client who almost hired a fake engineer. During the course of two video calls with three or four people who all said their names were “Ben,” Raney learned the details. “The Bens” would handle all the upfront work for him—creating a fake LinkedIn profile to verify his new identity for U.S. recruiters, formulating a bio, and sending it out to dozens of job postings with a new Gmail address they set up.
> The Bens even modified Raney’s headshot to a black-and-white photo so it wouldn’t resemble his usual picture, Raney told Fortune. If Raney got a job, he would show up for meetings, like a morning stand-up or scrum, and go about his day while a North Korean engineer handled the workload. Raney would be allowed to keep 30% of the salary but had to transfer 70% to the Bens using crypto, Paypal, or Payoneer.
> “What they were trying to do was use my identity to bypass background checks, and so they wanted this fake persona they created to be extremely close to the real-life version,” said Raney.
> The Bens got Raney an interview, and while it was ongoing, they used a remote-desktop application to set up a notepad on Raney’s screen so they could write out responses to the questions from the interviewer, Raney explained. And it worked: Raney got a verbal offer for a job with a private government contractor that paid $80,000 a year.
> He then had to immediately turn around and tell the company he couldn’t accept the offer and apologize for claiming their time.
I don't believe it's an actual counterpoint to legalization, since it seems solvable with better regulation. I suppose it could be solved with private labs and a more demanding public, however outright lying by private labs muddies the water -- who do you believe?
Cannabis is also in a unique situation given that is in legal gray area due to federal prohibition in the US (and many other countries).
I'm curious if pesticide contamination is as prevalent in markets where cannabis is decriminalized or legalized at the country level.
Sure. Just look at Colorado, where they have to destroy stuff over and over again, after mandatory testing before it's allowed to be marketed. Sometimes even after that.
*cides aren't the only thing to worry about. There are things to make it heavier, like lead dust, to make it feel more tacky(best case just sugar), to make it smell better, and whatnot else. None of which are good to inhale.
Vapes aren't that much better, containing different groups of chemicals you wouldn't want to inhale directly, or not in the concentrations used in vaping.
I don't know exactly, because I don't smoke/vape that much, and my experiences with what is offered in shops is mostly limited to some small resort town in Colorado, sometimes San Jose, CA, Austin, TX(no 'shopping' there), Hamburg, Germany,(no shopping there either, just strange vapes with 10-OH-HHC(P)), Rotterdam, NL, and finally Georgia, the country at the Black Sea, no shopping there, either, and couldn't read it anyways because of their most weird alphabet, but it has been good, no regrets so far.
So my 'knowledge' about that stuff is a patchwork of what I've read in the media, concerning the region/changing legislature/over time, and personal experience, be it by consuming it itself, or just smelling it from afar and thinking for myself 'I'd never touch that crap with a ten foot pole!'
I can say that I feel safest with Colorados model, which basically amounts to that all the stuff has to be tested before it is allowed to be sold legally, be it in shops, or online. Not halfassed shit like in the Netherlands, where it is only decriminalized, and the 'Coffeeshops' pay taxes for 'not drunken coffee', while the supply chain is still VERBOTEN and shrugged off, or the recent German model, which is shitty in similar ways, and doesn't even allow 'Coffee-shops'. Georgia, the country? They also messed the supply-chain and shop-thing up, or decided not to bother at all. Just consuming and maybe up to hand full of plants for personal use is legal, and that's it.
Which means anywhere not following Colorados mandatory testing model has a black market, and thus the potential 'quality problems' which they bring with them.
This is really cool! Well done. Like others, I'd love to specify generic things like distance to a "grocery store" or "gym" as part of my initial criteria. I see that I can add a long list of possible places that meet a search, so maybe I just want the UI to hide the details from me and add all those possible places for me.
I personally found the additional criteria being added to the top to be counter intuitive and I inadvertently deleted locations thinking it was the newest criterion, but it was actually my earlier ones. I think I've been trained to look/scroll to the bottom for the added element (e.g. like when adding additional Google Maps locations)
I would also love an option to mix transportation modes. For example, public transportation and biking.
I'll save you a search: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
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