I graduated with a degree in CS during the .com bust. Plenty of my fellow students were dropping out to go straight in to industry. By the time I graduated, almost everyone who hadn't finished their degree was working retail. Companies kept the people who had degrees.

Why would you hire someone when there is a decent chance that in 6 months half of the internet will be banging down your door demanding you fire them?

"AT&T Free Msg: Starting with your October 2019 bill, we are doubling the monthly data on your plan and increasing your monthly plan charge by $5. Go to att.com/msupdate for more info. You may choose to keep this plan, move to another available plan, or cancel service. We appreciate your business."

I don't know about everyone else, but AT&T made it pretty clear to me. They sent me a text saying that they were switching me to a more expensive plan with double the data, if I didn't like it then I could pick a different AT&T plan through their website or terminate my service. The biggest pain was they just wiped my rollover balance in preparation for the switch, so I lost 3/4 a gig of data I could have used in Oct.

I'm curious how this will go over. Nobody likes smelling everyone else's crap, but get pretty offended when they can't sling their own.

I had some bad heart health marker news at my last appointment, so I'm not going to risk deviating from a diet backed by weak studies to one that isn't backed by any research at all. But I'm entirely unsurprised with these suggestions considering the research I did on heart health to hear that any accepted remedies don't matter as much as doctors suggest. Our strongest remedies don't really seem to beat out genetics or pure luck.

I live in a pro-Trump area. It seems far fetched many would try to prop him up after a proper trial. However, complications would be: if Trump is disqualified from office between primaries and the general election, if Pence also gets impeached and the executive branch switches parties mid-term, if Pelosi ended up in office and she pushed gun confiscation. I'll add the impression I get from military retirees that I know, the sorts of active-duty people you need to effect resisted gun confiscation are the sort of people who will also most likely see it as an illegal order that they are bound by oath and regulation not to follow.

I guess I wasn't clear. Congress has been delegating their job to avoid accountability for a long time. If you want semi-permanent legal change you have to encourage your legislators to take back some of that authority/responsibility.

I'm confused. I thought the trailers were ads. How do you mix in ads with ads?

For anybody who cares about this issue, it is congress' job to set the law. This issue has been bouncing around by executive order because all our legislators are so scared of being primaried that they won't actually write laws. Expecting our executive branch to do the job of the whole government is insanely problematic, including having our policy change at the drop of a hat. If you actually want real change, then you've got to let your legislators know what you want, you've got to hold them accountable, and you've got to not get all pissy when they actually have to compromise something else to get what is important to you. Then it isn't the end of the world when your opponent wins the White House and you don't have to rely on a partisan stacking of the supreme court to continue important policies.

I wonder how they are gauging that. I've found no way to even express interest.

I heard a great take on hot button issues that I wish I could trace back to the original source. Essentially all hot button issues exist because they aren't one issue with two sides, but one issue with two facets different enough that both sides can be "morally" correct.

Presuming you have more than one internet provider. I can't do better than 3Mbps DSL. More than one stream or some sort of update download destroys streaming.

It looks to have multiple compartments. I'd imagine if it made multiple stops in a trip that you'd only have access to your order. Camera's are cheap and necessary for an autonomous vehicle, I'd imagine you wouldn't get away with it for very long.

I care but meaningful changes are institutional not individual. Microbeads and straws and fast food sauce containers need some industry group finding suitable replacements before we can just get rid of those things. I'm not going to put my lips on the rim of a glass handled by some McDonald's drive thru window clown. I'm gambling enough that the people handling the food actually washed their hands, much less the guy who is doing hand to hand transactions with hundreds of people prior to handling my cup. McDonald's can't hand me a steel straw with every purchase nor does my getting fast food put me in the use case for transporting and cleaning a reusable straw.