Surprised by the removal of ads, I’m sure it’s not a significant portion of the MBTAs revenue, but every dollar counts when you’re running a deficit, right?

Are you like building a mobile app or have 100k tests or is it just super slow?

Amazing change!

Kind of odd that the system might charge multiple cards if they’re within 7 inches of the reader. Seems like as soon as it registers 1 payment it should freeze for 3-5s before allowing another one.

This is crazy. With sports betting, I get that there’s some aspect of skills required. Sure, you could guess winners correctly but for most people that would end up just losing money in the real world.

The lottery is just mindless gambling for gambling’s sake.

Better or worse than storrowing?

It definitely made me feel for 911 operators that they had to say “please don’t make test calls to 911”

WW3 material for New Yorkers, right there

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I’ve thought about this a bit (but by no means extensively) and I feel like the stakes are different for tech companies because growth doesn’t require as much capital as a non-tech business.

For a SaaS tech company to scale from 10 users to 1000 users doesn’t mean a bunch more sales people and a new factory, it means having a great product and turning on new servers, likely only incurring a higher hosting bill from AWS (or similar).

In that sense, I feel like it’s easier for the sentiment to be “we’ll be better off with 1000 more users” over and over again until people start to want to optimize the business. Which means doing more traditional “shareholder value creation” that big companies do today.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see it happen, but i think tech just scales so differently and easier than other business types.

Awesome to see, I’ll have add both of them to my list!

Not in Boston, but I had a chance to visit Barr Hill in VT a bit ago and it was fantastic! The cocktails were super inventive, their gin is to die for, and the bartenders were extremely friendly. The food was pretty average, but then again they’re on the shortlist for their bar program, not their food.

Dine Out is always great! Good excuse to save some money trying out new places

We usually go to Boston Chops every dine out, the Steak Fries deal is fantastic

Finally! Great change and will definitely boost ridership

Their job is to report what is said exactly, not give their commentary on it (otherwise, you get fox news). Now, good journalists also provide the current news in context of past actions, but they should still let the reader decide if it will happen again.

Woah, you wanna let a whole day go by?! Every 6 hours I need an email status update. But, if you forget to send an email, I know you’re not doing good work. Then, at the end of the day I can ask you in person about the contents of your emails that I didn’t read.

The containers still run an OS, have proprietary application code on them, and have memory that probably contains other user’s data in it. Not saying it’s likely, but containers don’t really fix much in the way of gaining privileged access to steal information.

In that case, it’ll steal someone else’s secrets!

There’s no way the model has access to that information, though.

Google’s important product must have proper scoped secret management, not just environment variables or similar.

Totally fair, cars are more and more like smartphones these days…with all the good and bad that comes with it!

Not trying to tell you how to live your life, I totally understand the mentality, but for me it was a revolutionary jump in technology.

From having to drive in stop and go traffic to just letting the car do it has been magical for me. I can now do a 6+ hour drive and no longer be absolutely wrecked at the end. Not that I do it often, but it’s usually for a family thing or a vacation, so both things that I kinda want to be cognisant for.

That plus all the safety stuff like a backup camera, the beeping when getting close to stuff, etc. has made my driving life so much better

There are few things that have changed my life overnight, but a (much, much) newer car with updated tech was totally one of them.

Oof, how did it end up going?