> Like the notorious B vitamin pills that vegans pop like candy
Anecdotal like a lot of this but I take a single 2000mcg B12 pill once per week and have never been deficient in 19 years as a vegan. Once a week is pretty far from popping like candy.
This might not be exactly what you're looking for but maybe 10 or 15 years ago, Defective by Design (organized by Free Software Foundation) was putting together in person demonstrations outside of Apple stores to protest against the use of DRM in iTunes.
There are no foolproof security solutions, only varying degrees of who you trust with what. There are many VPN providers who claim to keep no logs on user activity. If their claims are true, that is a better option than Comcast or AT&T since the VPN provider with no logs has no data to sell or share.
Those VPN providers need to get their internet connection somewhere and if you terminate your VPN inside USA (which you'll have to - to get decent speeds and pings), you'll just move the point of data collection.
Sure but if you have a VPN from a provider with enough customers I and use TLS to connect to websites, associating the browsing activity to a particular customer is difficult even for their ISP. Some of it could be traced back by traffic analysis, but it's at least more obscured than if you are using TLS from your own connection without a VPN.
Has there been any response from Bay Area local governments? I would imagine it might not be their favorite idea that businesses are trying to incentivize employees to leave. If this sort of idea takes off, would local gov try to counter these incentives to leave in some way?
This is one of the richest areas in the US and the overwhelming sentiment is, "we need people to stop moving here". You can actually get votes here by making it harder for companies to hire, on the theory that traffic, pollution, etc. won't be that bad.
It's unlike any other place in the US. Truly one-of-a-kind.
For whatever reason, whenever I need to work out a problem on paper quickly, I find myself reaching for a post-it note or index card instead of my notebook. I'm not sure why I prefer the smaller format for scratch work.
I suspect there's an important psychological factor in the idea that the post its or cards are disposable while the paper in the notebook is bound in.
I had to work to learn to use my lab notebook for this kind of thing. In school I only recorded lab setup and results. Once I got a "real job" I realized (well it was sternly told to me) that even random calculations and stupid incomplete ideas could be very important to my employer at some point in the future if something related later came out. This included crossing things out in a way that was still legible.
When we'd sign each other's notebook pages nobody ever commented on the half-assed stuff in my notebook and I saw it in others' too.
> Once I got a "real job" I realized (well it was sternly told to me) that even random calculations and stupid incomplete ideas could be very important to my employer at some point in the future if something related later came out.
I got this lecture too, but (unfortunately?) all that really changed was that my post-it notes were stapled into my notebook.
I think you are as well but it does mean the person signing has to include a signature that spans both the post-it and the book's paper to show that the post-it wasn't put in later. Also it raises questions as to what is not getting recorded (which is absurd since of course you could simply use a notepad and hand copy in what you want, but this is human nature and suspicion, we're talking about).
I understand the US Secret Service has analyzed lab notebooks in some major disputes.
(To the best of my knowledge nobody has ever looked at my notebooks after I was done with them).
It does seem like the best solution, in a way. But the higher up people still seem to think it's incorrect and ugly. It's definitely ugly, but my handwriting is completely illegible anyway, so no fixing that.
Individuals who are told by the coin toss to make a change are much more likely to make a change and are happier six months later than those who were told by the coin to maintain the status quo.
I wonder if they removed the coin and just split people into groups that maintain status quo and groups that always make the change if the results would be similar. Perhaps the urge people have to consider the change in the first place is a good indicator that it is a change they actually do want to commit to.
The theory is that a cohort whose uncertainty over a decision is so close to 50/50 that a coin toss has a large statistical effect on whether they make the change or not[1] ought to be close to 50/50 on whether it has a desirable outcome in the event they change
(allowing for a degree of risk aversion, and making the fairly standard economic assumptions that humans primarily optimise for an analogue of [future] satisfaction, and their errors in predicting their future satisfaction are random rather than systematically skewed towards underestimating or overestimating their future outcome)
In practice, it's likely the choice of reported happiness over a six month followup period as the indicator of whether it worked is the major factor here; many negative aspects of a decision take much longer to take effect (get even more bored/frustrated with the new job, miss their ex despite the shortcomings in their relationship, realise that going back to school is costing a lot of money and not advancing them in any way)
It's possible that the larger fraction of people who are happy six months after making the change they agonised over is entirely cancelled out if you ask them after 24.
[1]the paper seems to suggest the coin had a statistically significant impact on the sample group's decision making even if their ex ante predictions of their probability of making the change were greater or less than 50%
In Chicago some licensed cab drivers use Uber to process their payments with the Uber Taxi service. You can call a cab with the app, pay the normal fare plus 20% gratuity and a small service fee. I don't use cabs often, but it's working out way better for me than when I used to call dispatch and maybe the cab would show up and maybe it wouldn't. It's also really nice to be able to just get in and get out without wasting time dealing with payments. The drivers that I've spoken to seem to like it as well as it gets them more fares.
It's also nice that they can't charge "surge" pricing on cabs, so if they're doing a 2x or 4x you can call a taxi through it for a normal-ish fare. That said, the cab option always seems to be very sparsely populated whenever there's an ongoing pricing "surge".
I haven't seen taxis done on uber anywhere other than Chicago though.
Well, surge pricing indicates increased demand and is a way to compensate on the market level. So the cars that don't have surge pricing will logically be hard to get then.
Anecdotal like a lot of this but I take a single 2000mcg B12 pill once per week and have never been deficient in 19 years as a vegan. Once a week is pretty far from popping like candy.
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