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Interesting conversations happening in the comment sections on that site.

Whenever I see systems like this I am left wondering what people do on mobile? Are you never in the need to write a note or create a task when you're away from the computer?

Interestingly in Dubai International Airport, they have these smart gates that recognize you and re-issue your re-entry eVisa using facial recognition. You walk up, they scan your face and show your name.

No passport gets scanned.

Anecdotal, but I just yesterday took a combination of Amtrak and BART to fly out of SFO.

This one way trip, I nearly stepped in human feces transferring from the Richmond Amtrak Station to BART. Then while enroute to SFO, which took no less than 1.5 hours, encountered two people opening smoking crack on the BART, one of them went across the train ripping the seats on the BART.

Small encounters like this might have something to do with it.

> attend offline events! Be adventerous Meeting in-person is harder but increases the intimacy and richness of communication. Combine an offline meetup with a walk through a park or a museum for maximum serendipity.

Clearly you missed this part of post.

Seems like YouTube is not alone in radicalizing people.

The question is what isn’t radicalizing people.

NYT and the old media is fighting YT and the new media for the rights to be the best radicalization tool.

Everyone is fighting for people’s attention. NYT and the old media is losing.

I had these in Uzbekistan, they sell them everywhere, and people suck on them like it’s chewing gum. They were not to my taste, very bitter and very salty.

Is this bait?

I noticed this as well.

> This is a good way to escape reality, but not much more. I've done this plenty of times, but the world doesn't stop moving because you're ignoring what's going on.

Unless you’re in a position to actually create change, I don’t see how following every single update to an unfolding news story helps you. I am not talking about being completely ignorant. There is a saying, important news will always find you.

You could try avoiding news, and letting the news find you. Just following that simple methodology will greatly change the perspective you have on the world, and your short term life.

By removing all jobs that don’t pay a livable wage you essentially remove all jobs that low-skilled workers are working.

I don’t see how that would help the poor. Fighting poverty is done by giving the impoverished more opportunities, not less.

Simply put, regulating all jobs to pay a livable wage won’t make those jobs suddenly do so. It will instead make those jobs disappear, as the employer no longer making any money.

They were prepared to do it. It was set to go into effect and was going to it if wasn’t for the emergency stay order.

Why stop at Uber drivers? Why don’t the California regulators just regulate away all jobs that don’t pay a livable wage? Why don’t the California regulators just raise the minimum wage to $90k a year?

Like I mentioned in the post above, regulations don’t exist in a vacuum, just because you say something should be a certain way doesn’t mean it will be. There are costs, and Uber and Lyft have determined that it’s not economically feasible for them keep operating in California under those regulations.

If we’re ok with California regulators dictating what jobs should exist regardless of what the market can support, then this is the result.

I’ve never been poor. But I wasn’t exactly middle class. My parents were immigrants.

Poverty is terrible, and I agree it should be dealt with. But how has this law helped? Uber and Lyft are more than willing to leave all of California rather than stay and deal with the regulation. They’ve made that clear. It’s more economical for them for halt business in California rather than adhere to the regulations. That’s a rather poor incentive set for on behalf of the California regulators. Regulations don’t exist in a vacuum.