@ScottRFrost “At the turn of the twentieth century, 20% a month was a scandal,” Mayer writes. “Today, the average payday loan is twice as expensive as that.” .. "By 2008, writes Jonathan Zinman, an economist at Dartmouth, payday-loan stores outnumbered McDonald’s + Starbucks *combined*"

@ScottRFrost This rule is about *predatory* lending, so siding with that industry in this case is saying "yes, we like predatory lending, with no rules at all".

@lwansbrough That seems like a bug @jarrod_dixon

@lwansbrough Are you sure it is a comment on your own post and not someone else’s post? It has been a long time but I recall this being allowed for posts *you* created

@Carnage4Life if they are businesses operating on Instagram's platform, then Instagram should get a cut PLUS have oversight

@Carnage4Life nah, your roomie isn't a business. This guy is. Once they form a corporation or LLC, the rules change.

@Carnage4Life better to just flag accounts like that as "inauthentic", which is the truth. Show an inauthentic overlay.

TL;DR it's good enough that CODBlops 4: Blackout (which costs $60, whereas this costs $0) should be worried

also, it is trios, which I think has some strengths over duos/squads, and as mentioned in article, the call-out system is generally excellent (level 3 helmet here, marks on map for squad)

@Hanzo55 I would not say that is "widely enjoyed"

@morninggloria Jeans, denim in general. Sucks.

@JasonPunyon it's all about attachments. Just be super skeptical of ANY attachment. I guess it could be crazy links, too, but I'm *guessing* they'll go with attachments. Only the paranoid survive, Jason.

@eviltrout it becomes problematic to double anything for.. many years. https://t.co/180AnG2eoi

@eviltrout we've been doubling in revenue every year for the last 4 years.. is that "modest"? 🤔

subtext: coding isn't even in the top 5 most valuable skills you can have as a human. I'm not sure it cracks the top 10 to be honest.

@ID_AA_Carmack if you have enough cheese, anything is possible.. https://t.co/wul8qF4uq4

@migueldeicaza and fill it with malware 😍

@MehrdadA @patrickc @discourse I'm just a hardcore Micro$haft Windoze fanboy, really

@patrickc at @discourse I'll hire anyone anywhere in the world who has an impressive degree from ... the school of GitHub pull requests

@patrickc If the limitation is "efforts are concentrated geographically", pervasive internet school should be helping, too?

STAY IN SCHOOL KIDS

@textfiles strategy tax, presumably, from the owners of youtube, a site that wants to autoplay?

@ejstembler see https://t.co/QpiBf849bw … which covers this in extreme, exruciating detail with examples

@michaelbierut @nbcsnl @vanessabayer I dunno, this is my call for best Super Bowl ad of all time https://t.co/q8XhblHnGD

@smith2martin no, she is not

@JohnONolan it's monkey1 isn't it

@jonobacon @ChuckECheeses https://t.co/hNCIdjM7vJ

@jugmac00 it's all filesystem performance, everything else is fine

@Alan_Au hang in there and revisit the classics https://t.co/TFTJ7xflBu

@shanselman https://t.co/E3SijXujxU

@MikeDeRoy @kamalhm filesystem interface is its achilles heel

@kamalhm disk perf is quite bad due to the nature of the WSL but other than that it's quite good

also: if you work in an environment where your boss or leader hasn't *ever* said "welp, I was totally wrong about that" .. you're in trouble

I would go further than this: a psychologically safe environment is one in which people *can* frequently disagree.. strongly, even.

@blowdart https://t.co/JwkStQE2D5

@AMidKnight well it depends what the goals are

@kylealden @jpeckham I know right???

@jpeckham Kind of, it could mean anything at all?

@merci "After all, I had offered my help." I find that there are (many?) situations where personally trying to help makes things actively worse. Indirect help is usually better, e.g. find a store employee and point them at the person.

@jzy join @Hanzo55 's guild.. they have a DISCOURSE! So you know its gud

@textfiles 👍 https://t.co/0v1SveRaGC

@Hanzo55 you're god damn right I am

@ftrain I feel a sudden craving for pringles @anildash

@visakanv terrifyingly true

@rands wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee https://t.co/uzLpzWXUAR

@peterwarbo look inside yourself

@jonskeet time for TONY THE PONY to appear! 🐴

@picklepikkl @discourse poor Johani 😭

@stevesi @OmarShahine @blaktron @m3sweatt Steve for your sake I hope you never see the Azure dashboards https://t.co/5RrlESq7GT

@alexstamos @migueldeicaza @koush @AlecMuffett @festivusforthe @antumbral @zackwhittaker ask me again how Facebook completely screwed us over at Stack Overflow in ~2010. I was like "well, let me give them a chance, let's meet" and hoo boy did they ever show me who they really were in that deal. Never again.

@alexstamos @migueldeicaza @koush @AlecMuffett @festivusforthe @antumbral @zackwhittaker The difference is that Apple more or less successfully pretends to care about their customers. Facebook has always been in love with one thing: Facebook -- above everything else, at all costs, no matter the consequences.

@ach0w I find a sense of humor helps as well

@mgasparel @nvuono thanks, I just bought that book for Kindle, want to learn more!

there are two moon related stories in this movie -- the one you know, and the one you don't know -- and both happened

@bitforth I fire them

@ach0w I find it is more exciting when misfortune comes at random, with no warning whatsoever! Just like real life!

@ach0w Oh yes it is

oh yes, this guy andré øvredal also directed Troll Hunter (2010) which was grrreat cc @erlend_sh

this is quite good by the way, I recommend it

@jwz "Wow, you have 500 floppy disks? You are like a little baby! I've been burning promo floppy disks that nobody can figure out how to read for years..." 🤣

@JohnONolan 🤑

@chetfaliszek I love this song and every time I reference it people are like WTF

"How many of us are trapped in here, and how can we escape?" I really should have paid more attention to what I was writing in 2010, because I think I was sending a message to my future self.

@BlackKurtosis @Carnage4Life probably more favorable than the other direction, but name resets have to be disruptive to work history and nobody likes to be deadnamed

@Carnage4Life speaking for myself, the first thing I do with candidates is search for their name on the open web

@Carnage4Life doesn't a full name change also indirectly erase past work history records on the web?

@chadloder @Carnage4Life restricted mode covers everything that I've personally seen that is sketchy enough I wouldn't want my 10 year old to see

@chadloder @Carnage4Life youtube app on ipad, logged in as me. On his default browser on his PC, logged in as me, google set as default search engine.

@comcastcares thank you for following up -- got it handled, the online form eventually worked in a different browser (once, subsequent visits produced the same error), and I just got a callback from the online form and was able to cancel that way

@patsully They did call and I went with the "we're all moving to Europe" line to avoid the retention script

@patsully it is looking this way. I did turn off auto-pay for billing through the online portal though!

@asadotzler @bobbydigitales @samsaffron @firefox @discourse @googlechrome @MicrosoftEdge it is better today, but it also looks like Chrome regressed a bit https://t.co/XT5PmxGyoG

per https://t.co/mhuzfMQRW0 looks like the catch-up was in Jul-Aug 2018, so yeah, 6-8 months https://t.co/pRr2xP3Am7

@andyprice YES that is a VERY important caveat!!!!! I am referring only to job and work stuff here!

@chetfaliszek I'm liking it so far. To me it is clearly better than the one "bad" season of True Detective. I always forget which one that was, but metacritic will probably tell you.

@chetfaliszek it's mentioned a ton of times earlier on, he was a tracker who spent a lot of time in the deep jungle alone

Still hoping this ships one day, they are still working on it!

@Carnage4Life This is why YouTube is permanently locked in restricted mode at my house. I use it that way myself. It is annoying but necessary.

@Supermathie https://t.co/GuCyv0gIqa

@JohnONolan Not that hard, not lonely at all, and without the battle to drive me, not *entirely* sure I would still be alive at this point.

@shog9 Not really no

@dataandme @choldgraf @denaefordrobin it's also true that the larger a site gets, the more populous it becomes, "free speech / everyone may speak" norms cause erosion in experience for many https://t.co/MkQIh6GgiZ

@kemitchell I still think you're going to be in a world of hurt unless you go with API License. You can explain the other exceptions more easily than "interface boundary"

@kemitchell The tell is that you keep using the word API to describe it. That needs to be in the name.

@stevesi but it hurts so good

@dataandme @choldgraf @denaefordrobin in the yo-yo subreddit (and therefore by proxy any smaller subreddit) I can definitively state that downvoting is a huge negative. On large ones I doubt it matters quite as much

@Supermathie I beg to differ.. it isn't. Get bigger local SSDs. Prices are finally coming down!

@sarahjeong now I have to try this because you put that idea in my head. THANKS

@Supermathie you are failing to Keep It Simple... Silly

@Carnage4Life @paulg if I ever heard my son saying ANY of that stuff while playing Fortnite, there would be A Serious Reckoning™. One advantage of his mini-desk being right beside mine, I get to hear how it goes, directly.

@Carnage4Life @paulg it's all too easy to make LULZ about things that didn't affect you, but had a profound effect on other humans in recent history e.g. the holocaust. There's a reason we have a moral stigma on this kind of stuff. Ignorance is not an excuse.

and of course.. the ultra-portable version hack (with battery!) https://t.co/3tBunpFPF9

This is the 1990 DOS version, by the way https://t.co/5Kqw89VaKd

Good news! Everyone survived, though June had several broken limbs, Maisie broke an arm, and @betsyphd got a snake bite. https://t.co/1gu93Lviv6

@deanputney a website that shows how-to videos (bonus points if funny) and gives quizzes on how to be the most effective canvasser, with high scores, would be very great

@deanputney I'm skeptical as hell, and I've had extremely persuasive door to door salespeople visit me. Many times. This CAN be taught, and it CAN be a service.

@deanputney I am one million percent sure this can be trained and taught as a service. For money.

@deanputney the thing is, I got 3 small kids and we're both working parents. I can't quit my job and canvas in Wisconsin. So if money can't be made to do what we want.. I suggest we redouble our efforts to make money do what we need it to do.

@deanputney then build a service that trains people to do this, and charge a hefty fee, raise effectiveness from 30-40% to 60% or more

@deanputney so we spend money to pay people to canvas