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Re:Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:32PM (#24394007)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - millions of fare-free bus trips since 2003.

Finally getting Durham, Raleigh and GoTriangle to consider the same.

Re:Free Transit for Riders Under 18? In Paris, It’s Here on Sunday September 06, 2020 @03:31PM (#24393998)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina - millions of fare-free bus trips since 2003.

And we've finally started to see interest in adopting fare-free in Durham and Raleigh.

Re:A new and improved Twitter API on Friday July 17, 2020 @08:42AM (#23869862)
The final straw for me was when twitter deprecated the years-old auth keys I had used without any issues because I wouldn't register my phone number.

If you look at twitter's checkered history, I don't see why anyone would put the effort into a new API without strict guarantees of future usability.

Re:What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.3 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:42PM (#20278078)
Re:IRS to release new, more complex W-4 form this year on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:17PM (#19618048)
This is a privacy nightmare. I do not want to share my other sources of income, mortgage deductions and other key financials with my employer.
Re:List of 600+ Startups Hiring Remote in 2018 on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:55PM (#18029181)
Definitely would be more helpful if tech stack was searchable.
Re:Redis will remain BSD licensed on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:23PM (#17824036)
RedisLabs needs to clearly mark which of the following versions of these modules are freely redistributable as part of a larger project or service.

  neural-redis BSD
  RediSearch AGPL
  rediSQL AGPL-3.0
  ReJSON AGPL
  Redis AGPL
  redis-cell MIT
  Redis-ML AGPL
  redis-timerseries AGPL
  cthulhu BSD
  rebloom AGPL
  redis-cuckoofilter MIT
  redis-roaring MIT
  redis-tdigest MIT
  Session MIT
  countminsketch AGPL
  topk AGPL
  ReDe MIT
  commentDis MIT
It bothers me that in all the hype about Kratom the fact it does produce dependence is obscured.

I know a few folks who have had a terrible time getting off of Kratom. Only one of which is totally free of it.

All of their cases were similar, going from a small brew a day the first week to doing 6-10g a day within weeks.

People I know who still take it regularly remind me of addicts to other substances - claiming they can quit at any time but since they aren't having a problem they don't choose to quit.

Yet they also constantly crave Kratom and freak out when they can't get it.

Of course there are a lot of legal addictives - like a whole range of mood altering drugs like Xanax, Prozac, etc. - which are far worse long term.

That still doesn't excuse the unrelenting hype that Kratom is safe and that it isn't addictive.

Re:Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:14PM (#16249767)
Glassdoor routinely removes negative reviews.
Re:Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture on Saturday January 27, 2018 @11:13PM (#16249763)
Glassdoor routinely removes negative comments on companies.