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TIL: The new minimum wage for delivery drivers in NYC is now $21.44/hr as of April
Does that change how you tip? Source: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2025/04/mayor-adams-full-minimum-pay-rate-app-based-restaurant-delivery-workers-now-in#:~:text=What%20you%20should%20know,$5.39%20per%20hour%20before%20tips.
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Nobody knows what they’re doing
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I’m fighting in the group chat. Today’s Ezra Klein with Ben Shapiro has my hackles up.
I’m glad it was these two having this conversation but damn Ben, not everything is Envy. The grievances are about injustice, not envy. Where’s the justice in inheriting a billion dollars? Thinking that teachers shouldn’t have to spend their underwhelming paychecks on school supplies for their classroom is not about envying the rich podcaster who…
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Dear Google,
I never want to open in the Google app. Everytime you put an intrusive unethical pop up that requires me to close it before I can do the thing I actually came to do – it makes me hate you more. Every. Time. Best, Jim
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I’ve been around for the launch of every major social media platform save Usenet and IRC.
As far back as 2006 I saw people doing some strange things for attention on these platforms. Things like collecting “friends” on Facebook like they were Pokémon just to see number go up. I’m an introvert, and like the exposure to ideas the socials give (eh, mostly) but hate drawing attention to myself. I now…
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Stanford Open Minds
My wife is wicked smaht. She has degrees from some of the best schools in the world, but my favorite alumni community is Stanford. I often join her at Stanford alumni events. Even though I didn’t attend Stanford myself, I’ve never felt like an outsider. The conversations flow easily, though I can tell the alumni…
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Announcement: Readmebio.com launch
Today I’m launching readmebio.com – a site and social network dedicated to professional READMEs. What’s a professional README? A professional README is your personal “owner’s manual” for collaboration—a short, living guide that explains how you like to work, not just what you’ve done. It captures your working style (e.g., upfront design vs. iterative), communication and…
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Guys! New perpetual motion just dropped!
AI generated art causes artists of the past to roll in their graves. Attach dynamo to said artists to power AI data centers which generate more AI art with the power!
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I think something nobody is talking about but is now possible:
For the first time in human history we can run real experiments on software engineering processes where we have the same project, implemented by the same team of agents, where only the process differs to see which software engineering techniques actually work 🤯
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“Entry-level jobs for workers between 22 and 25 years old have declined by 13 percent since the widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI), according to a Stanford University study.”
https://ground.news/article/ai-poses-greater-threat-to-entry-level-jobs-new-study-finds_8224d5?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=article-share
