Is this website biased towards any political ideology? A pop up had some political verbiage but I closed it before reading. Seems like a charged article.
I've been a writer and editor for more than a decade, though I'm pretty new to FEE. Our organization is reputable; we've been around since the 1940s after being launched by Henry Hazlitt and Leonard Read. (You can read about us on Wiki here: https://bit.ly/2tCS4tY.)
Like any publication, we have our views (economics, free markets, and liberty) but we have an immaculate rating from Newsguard. This particular used sound sources--the New York Times, a Columbia Unv. study, and Popular Mechanics. It was also shared by multiple high profile economists. I think if you read the piece carefully, you'll see there is both an economic and environmental concern regarding mandatory recycling. Recycling makes sense in some cases, but not in others. It's also expensive and environmentally harmful in some cases--which is why hundreds of US cities are giving up on it (per the NYT). Happy to discuss the topic.
Yes. They do not like needing to make things recyclable because it takes effort by corporations and the rich and powerful. The populace does not like the concept of waste and recycling was the panacea.
However, the political slant is that trashing these goods is more than enough. They definitely do not like the idea of "reduce or reuse". This would mean making durable goods, which costs more. Disposable goods make the most profit for the corporation while large amounts of trash must be handled by the public. Privatizing profits and socializing losses is the slant.
Since it's from a group with a known idealogical basis, it's not going to be an open minded discussion. But the next question is why wouldn't they like recycling? They seem to make a lot of manufactured chemical and plastic products, do they want you to not recycle because they sell you less new plastics?
It does seems like round 1 of us recycling in the 21st century is going to need big changes so we can get a scheme that will actually work for recycling.
I have no particular basis for saying this, but it feels like it was written as part of a larger attempt to discredit the environmental movement as a while.
There aren't any unbiased websites, with a possible exception for the purely algorithmic. It's like a fish accusing another fish of being more wet. "Unbiased" generally means "having less clearly defined bias".
I'm definitely making less money than before because of the time spent finding clients and unbillable time. But the stress levels are far lower because the only commitments I need to keep are my own and not my project manager's.
Well stated. My journey only last 6 months because of the constant anxiety that comes from not having a stable parking situation. You think it's going to give you freedom but it ends up being your prison
To me half a year is a long time, and for an experiment it certainly is. You should cross the word "only" from your mind, it's no competition. Freedom can also mean to have stable home, relationship, work.
Backup codes and then the protection is against illegal SMS porting which is a social engineering attack hard to otherwise defeat. Your phone is fulfilling a different function and yes it does collapse both factors onto one device but the primary risk wasn't loss of phone, it was weak password and no variant second factor and then porting attacks on SMS.
I didn't understand the point your are making. I'm referring to the overall attack surface area of apps like 1password (which I think also have browser extensions ?). TOTP is better than sms, but why put it in the same app as your password ?
You have to ask yourself what's the primary threat. Yes,the point in strong sense of a second factor is a fully independent test. But the actual threat it mostly protects against is credentials threats. Not loss of devices or compromise of a keystore. SMS as second factor is way way worse because of the porting problem. Otp inside 1password is a compromise but it protects against the primary threat.
If you crypt your disk and use a good passphrase or a long pin and passphrase on a phone you are not that badly exposed.
Why do we assume landlords are “well to do?” After paying the note, management, maintenance, taxes, etc., many properties net just a few hundred dollars per month, per unit, if that. Certainly there is capital appreciation, but there is also risk as well. Rental property ownership is a business like other businesses and subject to price pressures just like any other. We could argue that giving money to the poor simply makes well-to-do grocery store owners richer as well. Except grocery stores aren’t required to sell their products at discounts to poor people as a condition of doing business. Why do we expect housing owners to discount their product for a certain percentage of the population or else they aren’t allowed to operate? The difference is that there aren’t widespread restrictions on food production, so grocery stores are able to serve the market demand without having set-asides for specific groups. Want lower housing prices? Make it easier to supply houses. It really is that simple. The reason housing in Houston is affordable is because there is plenty of it and it’s relatively easy to build more. There isn’t a need for artificially “affordable” housing in Houston because the government there has a less hostile attitude towards building housing. In California, if you want to build something, you might get your plan denied if there is even a chance that some endangered worm is within a 50 mile radius or if some Palo Alto matron is afraid of “undesirables” living too close, or if there’s a chance someone’s view might be impeded. Building housing in the Bay Area is a total mess. I am not sure why Tokyo or Seoul style high-roses aren’t a thing in California — but that could be a solution if there was the political will to allow it.
Some of the choices seem poorly selected. For example, on the question about what term I would use for roads meeting in a circle, both "roundabout" and "rotary" were choices, but I was only allowed to select just one. I use both terms, but it depends on the exact road configuration, and to some degree, the context of who I am speaking to. Other questions had similar issues.
I tend to code-switch when speaking if I can. If I'm talking to a New Yorker I'll say "truck" and "apartment", but to a Londoner I'd be more likely to say "lorry" and "flat".
At least a solid third of the questions I wanted to check multiple boxes and a lot of it is context dependent or some terms are more specific than other terms but both work.
Rotary/roundabout
Yard sale/tag sale/garage sale
semi/semi truck/semi trailer/tractor trailer
sneakers/gym shoes
I suspect they didn't have a large enough sample size to allow multiple selections while still having the desired accuracy so they force you to pick something.
Size and number of lanes, for me. I think roundabouts are the multi-lane ones, rotaries are much smaller and slower usually. At least this is what I realized on moving from Massachusetts where rotaries were common, to New Jersey where there were many "roundabouts" which required lane changes and no reduction of speed.
That quiz is magnificent! I highly recommend it even if (like me) you are not American - the results will be meaningless, but the questions are themselves absolutely fascinating.
"You have a Northern accent. That could either be the Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland/Buffalo accent (easily recognizable) or the Western New England accent that news networks go for."
Chicago suburban for me. I'm actually southwest of the city, but the NY Times quiz heat map puts me in the Buffalo/Cleveland/Detroit/Chicago zone, quite rightly, but different than the city proper. Before a certain Saturday Night Live sketch, I never said "Da Bears," ever, so I don't have the South Side accent which that parodies.
Of course, even in that range there are differences. Most Chicagoans wouldn't know what a "weck" was if it jumped up and bit them (which would be a neat trick, since it's a roast beef sandwich served in the Buffalo area).
The NYT quiz has some judgement calls for me, though, since I use a variety of different terms sometimes (highways being a good example).
Same here, I'm from the Chicago burbs and was identified by both quizzes as such.
But the NYT one had some that I wanted to select multiple for. Such as "service road" & "frontage road". I selected "service road" but I know that in Chicago where I'm from the term "frontage road" is used but I don't think I personally would use it in a sentence since it isn't intuitive to me.
There were other examples where I wanted to select multiple.
Also never been to Buffalo and don't know what a "weck" is.
Not sure, it said I speak like I'm from somewhere further north, but I'm in Florida. I've probably picked up my accent from movies and the internet since it is my second language.
This was sort of accurate for me. I grew up in Denver, moved to the plains as a teenager, then to Seattle after high school. It showed me as Reno/Santa Rosa/Stockton.
There were a few questions were after reading the other answers, I realized that I would have said it differently 20 years ago, but I now say it like the locals.
Interesting. I also grew up in the Deep South, but people are always surprised to hear it, claim I "don't have an accent", etc. And yet, the quiz positively identified me as having a Southern accent.
I assume it's because this quiz is only asking about how we pronounce words, and doesn't measure any other speech metrics like tempo/cadence. I guess I don't have the drawl, but still pronounce words with a Southern accent. Maybe this is why it confuses me so much when my wife pronounces Don and Dawn the same, which was question #2 on the quiz. ("Wait, which person are you talking about?!")
Maybe you have the drawl but not the Southern pronunciation?
I don't expect a sensible result, I just imagined that I would get somewhere either close to the origin of the Americans I know personally, or close to the source of the media I consume (since those are my main connections with the English language), so I'm wondering why my pronunciation is closer to that area in particular instead.
To expand on the VPN benefits you already have in place... grab a vnc app for Android and VPN in then vnc to a machine from your phone. All of the sudden you are sitting at an Linux desktop on your phone. With DLNA casting you can literally now use your phone as a full blown computer casting to a monitor (assuming you have some sort of peripherals). That was always my holy grail.
