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Asus zen phone had received great reviews. You can use it as stock Android or with Asus’ slight customizations. It’s on the smaller side but it’s a good price.

It was disappointing to go through the saga of thinking I found a semi reliable podcast regarding health and current research, to finding some weak episodes, and finally arriving at the conclusion that his methodology is sloppy at best. The Dr Lustig episode was especially egregious. He let that guy make some of the most outlandish claims that I’ve heard. He made up statements about how FDA nutrition labels are required which was easily dismissible by a quick look at the FDA website. That was more or less the final nail in the coffin for me.

The biggest indicator to the scientific weakness of his podcast is the rate of release. It is not possible to do weekly releases on the complex topics he covers AND maintain the level of scientific scrutiny required to vet the referenced research or guest.

We’re all assuming it’s a 4 digit code for the laughs. It could still be tough to crack if it’s 5+ digits.

Not sure if you meant music production. The movie channels I watch are video essays highlighting different techniques and why some things work better than other. For that CinemaStix and Thomas Flight are my favorites. If I want something a little more silly I’ll do Filmento. Corridor Crew is also solid as the only “react” channel that actually breaks down vfx, CGI, animation, and stunts. A lot of the time they also have industry guests providing insight.

For music production I like Venus Theory, In The Mix, and a little bit of You Suck At Producing.

Having subscribed to all of these channels the algorithm will also throw some gems from lesser known channels in my feed. Beyond that it’s not difficult keep my feed clean by using “don’t recommend channel” if I get something I dont like.

I have never seen any of the content you are talking about on YouTube. My “front page” is mostly movie essays, music production, some standup comedy, and tech reviews mainly from GamersNexus. I’ll agree the comments can be ass sometimes but that’s also dependent on the size of the channel and content of the video. Just out of curiosity do you have an account and subscribe to channels?

Tunefind.com is also a pretty good resource.

And the immediate concern is about what it can cost the economy. Not the social impacts regarding family, friends, and society as a whole but the economy.

Just out of curiosity, what android phone did you have before switching? I haven’t hadany issues with Android Auto the few times I’ve used it in a rental car. My car is too old for it but it’s going to be a variable in my next vehicle purchase which admittedly is very far away.

I’ll also add that spending habit data is very valuable in terms of advertisement. We are in the age of very targetted advertisement. Just a random example: *user14555* on our T-Mobile app eats at a restaurant for lunch every Thursday. Have the app pop-up with a coupon from one of our participating restaurants on Thursday morning.

Restaurant will pay or give exclusive coupons to T-Mobile in exchange for these benefits. T-Mobile then hopes to entice more users by listing their app and “exclusive coupons” as unique benefit to using them as a cellphone provider. All the major providers have more or less settled at similar prices for cellphone plans so they lean on these extras as marketing tools.

I dig through the paper and the study literally looked at two sectors and job types. So let’s just extrapolate that too all workers right 🙄

“Remote working appears to lower average productivity by around 10% to 20%. Emmanuel and Harrington (2023) use data from a Fortune 500 firm which had both in-person and remote call centers pre-pandemic. The firm shifted all workers to fully remote in April 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the always remote call-centers as the control group they find an 8% reduction in call volumes among employees who shifted from fully in-person to fully remote work. Gibbs, Mengel and Siemroth (2022) examine IT professionals in a large Indian technology company who shifted to fully remote work at the onset of the pandemic. Measured performance among these workers remained constant while remote but they worked longer hours, implying a drop in employee productivity of 8% to 19%. Atkin, Schoar, and Shinde (2023) run a randomized control trial of data-entry workers in India, randomizing between working fully in the office and fully at home. They find home-workers are 18% less productive.”

You only get paid for completing rides. Having the app open does nothing. How much you receive per ride varies greatly depending on location and time of day. Typically there is a base fee for the ride plus a per mile or per minute rate and some other potential fees. Uber then adds a 25% commission that they keep.

Minimum wage would come into play if a driver complete x hours of driving but the average hourly rate over those hours falls below the state’s minimum wage. In those situations it would be Uber’s responsibility to make up that difference. This is similar to to how restaurant servers in the US are paid. Most of the time their tips far exceed the minimum wage when averaged over their whole shift. In the occasional cases where tips are terrible or business is slow the restaurant is responsible for making up that difference to meet minimum wage requirements. These “tech” companies are stating they shouldn’t be responsible for that because they don’t have employees, just contractors who use their app.

Hope that makes sense.

Maybe governments was not the correct phrase. “investors with ties to authoritarian governments” would be more accurate. Qatar Holding, Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and Binance. A lot of funds also came from VC and typical investment firms and LLCs. A list from Reuters.

At this point there be no explanation other than he’s tanking it on purpose. Twitter was definitely the growing enemy of many authoritarian government. Considering where got funding for his “loan” it’s a relatively cheap way to bring down such service by oligarchy wealth standards.

I’ve had login problems as well. I just get permanent spinning wheel after clicking login. This is on Android btw.

Also: Aliens have visited earth.

The fact that age of consent was 13 in a developed nation is a good reminder that as far as we’ve come, human kind as while still has a long way to go.

Why post a 3 year old news article?

The person can barely be identified. So unlikely this directly shames or affects him. Furthermore, I think memes about things people can address (weight, clothing, etc) is fair game. If they cared or it bothered them they would change it. I’ve had jokes cracked about my weight and I laughed along with it because it didn’t bothered me enough not to laugh about it. Otherwise I would be changing it. Now things out of a person’s control (skin color, height, physical abnormalities, etc) should be off the table unless the individual explicitly states otherwise.

It’s amazing how many for profit business exploit the good will of people passionate enough to contribute towards the sharing of knowledge without compensation and still treat them with no respect.

This is part of the reason I struggle with contributing anything to review sites, Google maps, etc