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Hopefully I don't trigger Reddit's spam detector with 3rd top level comment. 

I ran for local office last year. One of Ezra's goals is obviously to influence policy makers. I'd like to know how many people on this subreddit are elected officials, work in government, NGOs that influence government policy. I'd also like to know if those people are trying to influence or make policy at the federal/state/local level.

Making a separate comment for a separate idea -- questions around whether, how much, and for what applications people use AI, what providers/models they prefer.

Would be interesting to see the diversity of media diet that people have. There are standardized questions which exist for this (e.g. what fraction of news comes from social media), what other social media people use. 

But it would also be interesting to know what other podcasts people listen to, what sources they read or watch, how politically polarized people's news/info diet is.

Also, I think it'd be interesting to see how many people create media for others. I do a local podcast for my small city and social media making. 

This will seem unrelated, but I promise it's not. 

Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka

Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-book-i-wish-every-policymaker-would-read/id1548604447?i=1000615839464

The term you're looking for, that we need someone who cares about the end product and how it's used, is called product management. It's very different from project management. 

https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-product-operating-model-how-government-should-deliver-digital-services/

Go to the IMAX in Loveland. 

Great seats, and an IMAX ticket in Loveland is the same cost as a regular ticket at Regal

This has never been enough of a problem for me that I'd be willing to pay a 5% convenience fee. Would have considered it otherwise.

This article successfully convinced me to vote against 137.

It's essentially a suggestion to spend some money on land management, but only if it's not inconvenient, and only if the single party that runs the state doesn't decide that something else is more important. 

Useless. And an inappropriate use of the ballot measure process to try and legislate.

Where did you find the scores? What do they mean?

Once the BRT starts running, it won't be too bad to take the BRT to 8th and Coffman from there.

I've spent too much time in the airport so I've gotten pretty good at minimizing my time, but I budget 45 minutes to drive to the economy lot and then 30 minutes to bus from the economy lot to the terminal. 

Notionally that means the direct bus from Longmont took an extra 15 minutes, but I also got to take a nap the whole way so I'm never driving to the airport again.

I had my wife drop me off because we only own one car, and it was an early bus and I was being lazy. 

I requested an access card from Commuting Solutions in the future so I can leave my bike there

I was wondering about whether it qualifies for passes. I can't think of a faster way to take transit to Lafayette from Longmont.

Yes it did

I am at the airport right now and took it. 

It's on time at the bus stop, and on time to the airport.

I took a nap and woke up at the terminal.

Roller bags etc get put under the bus by the driver. 

12/10 good public transit.

So who are you using that is offering better pricing than Nextlight?

I used it for the first time this weekend. I was making a video that required me to edit together multiple audio and video sources together, only some of which was time stamped and some of which I could tell from sequence of events might've been happening at the same time but couldn't be sure. 

I explained the scenario and asked the AI to do what it could to figure out which audio was happening at the same time. 

It did freakishly good. It found things which I never would've noticed, like being able to faintly hear the voice in audio track 5 in the background of track 1 but 10 minutes earlier etc.

I'm an American citizen. Fuck you. No one tricked my family into anything. We came here for a better life.

Fuck you.

I remember when this paper first came out while I was in grad school. 

It's one thing to trust a model because it makes good predictions. But to see a picture that so thoroughly validates so much physics. 

Science is fucking cool.

Also cover cropping

You can ignore the requirement to have attended a meeting of the tech review board.

Typical/acceptable storage containers and conditions (temperature, inert gas), shelf life. 

Known incompatible or risky mixtures (I do propellants, but I bet other people are interested in this) 

PPE permeability 

Some of the GHS pictograms are honestly useful

Maybe. But I also think part of the trend in kids devices is giving them special purpose tools so they aren't exposed to the many social problems with technology. 

I'm not great at product ideas. But there's a whole world of objects out there that are designed for kids needs that are not for adults. It seems likely to me that technology will be similar.

There are probably also use cases that children have which are simply orthogonal to adults. Their lives are different, they probably have different needs that don't make sense for adult devices.

I don't have a good idea for what that might be. But if I were wildly guessing...flash polling your friends to see who can come out and play right now? Facilitation of kids games? Checking to see who has their homework done? Simple communication that lets your parents know that you'll be home late but are otherwise complying with curfew?

I'm curious what the category of "devices that are explicitly designed for children" would consist of. I think Matt's observation that it's a small market is a temporary phenomenon. The tide is really shifting on giving kids full featured adult devices, and but also "lets give a kid an adult device but just disable the functions we don't want" results in bad design issues.

A friend of mine was just telling me about Tin Can which I think is a really exciting product category. Obviously part of it's intent is that it is NOT a mobile device. But I can also see good reasons for having some kind of mobile device product category for kids, like this bus pass situation.