Lactose intolerance is actually normal. It’s tolerance to lactose as an adult that is biologically unusual, and mostly unique to westerners. Because most of us continue eating dairy products after infancy, we continue being able to digest them. However other cultures don’t continue consuming dairy after infancy, and thus lose their ability to digest it effectively.
It’s a really tough argument to claim it as a disability. I don’t see this case going well for the plaintiffs.
They’re not wrong, tho.
Honestly, everything here is great advice for teaching anything to somebody. I’m about to be involved with my company’s training soon, and I’m saving this article to refer to when I start writing our materials.
I’m sure all of Keen’s user is furious with this news.
You’re identifying all the reasons why a team of volunteers haven’t been able to manage such a feat yet.
It’s relatively cheap to maintain the service.
“Maintaining” means more than just leasing out a few server farms. It also means hiring software engineers, customer/driver support staffs, HR, legal teams, designers, etc, all of which are required to keep the day-to-day going. Uber and Lyft aren’t small operations, by any means. They are monstrously huge projects that require a lot of bandwidth - both technical and human - in order to keep the lights on.
For what it’s worth, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and pretty much every gig app out there have all operated at a net loss from the very beginning. It’s not just expensive to maintain the service, it’s impossibly expensive.
You’re right even though you’re getting down voted.
Par for the course at LemmyWorld. Redditors brought their Redditor attitudes to LW and downvote anything they could possibly conceive as corpo sympathizing.
I was just reading something recently where either Dan or somebody from TWRP said that they actually tried to pitch Starlight Brigade as an animated series, but were never able to get it off the ground beyond just a music video.
Which is a real shame, because I love the design to Starlight Brigade. I would’ve loved to have seen what the fully-realized project could’ve looked like.
Yeah, apps that offer a live service across the globe 24/7 definitely run themselves. It’s just a silly little computer, after all. Totally.
I have to wonder how hard it would be to build some kind of open source platform to compete with these companies.
I’d have to imagine that the answer to that is “really damn hard”. Look at any Lemmy instance and see how hard it is just to create and maintain an open source “comment section for the internet” platform; now imagine managing thousands of financial transactions on that platform, processing background checks, establishing some sort of trust and security team, and people’s livelihoods depending on that all working reliably all the time.
There’s a reason why only VC-backed companies have managed to get off the ground in this space; it’s hella expensive for a bunch of volunteers to manage.
You alright? You need some water, maybe? Lemme call you an Uber home.
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They’ve since deleted it, but I pointed out that they posted a fake screenshot of an email claiming that Gmail was shutting down. They did reply to me, saying they “didn’t fact check before posting”, but it’s Gmail; if it was shutting down, that would have been the easiest thing in the world to verify. Zero attempt was made to verify what they posted. A cursory glance through their Mastodon account shows a lot of other provocative and misleading headlines.
You mean taxis?
Using only the power of a small star, we were able to crash Windows in record time.
That makes more sense. In which case, yeah this is just basic account security 101 stuff. Certain accounts in life you need to treat with extra security, and until we can wean society off of insecure SMS authentication services, your phone account is one of those that needs extra care put into it.
This says that they’re able to hijack the phone numbers by scanning a QR code to configure an eSIM. But doesn’t the carrier need to authenticate device swaps like that in the first place? If the carriers allow SIM swaps without anything more than a line of text, then that’s a major account security issue that I have to imagine has already been accounted for when this tech and the policies for it were developed. I feel like there’s some very important details missing to this.
Tuta posts blatant misinformation about their competition on their socials. They’re willing to lie to potential customers if it gets them money; I wouldn’t trust them with any of my data.
It’s alright, but hardly worth the price, IMO. It’s too expensive to eat on its own, and its flavor is too weak to really go with anything else.
What does that have to do with anything?