links, etc Minnesota Legislature approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers - Minnesota Reformer it’s interesting to see how things get finessed here given that the drivers aren’t actually employees. seems to bring things more in line with taxi cost structures and pricing. i don’t like lyft or uber. but i dislike taxi companies even more. imho, the appification of this service has definitely been a move in the right direction....
links, etc Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet | Communications of the ACM a tribute to worse is better engineering and studied underspecification. seriously though, a little bit of retrospective analysis on the beauty in the simplicity of the internet’s “design”. the underspecification and ability to work over any link type really was a master stroke.
links, etc “No matter how you cut it, you’ve got to own Cisco” (2000) - The Big Picture there’s so much to love, learn, laugh, and cry at, in this article (my attempt at a riff on the old cisco, “changing the way the world lives, learns, works and plays” tagline). i joined cisco in late 2000 and never saw those initial options issued to me upon signing up become worth anything....
links, etc Crypto Winter 2022 Cost Bitcoin ($BTC) Holders More Than Cash archive.is link at its most basic, crypto does resemble a cult. i supposed that at this point in the arc of capitalism it shouldn’t be surprising to me that we have a financialization cults. i don’t know if this has ever really been a thing before. i suspect the evangelical prosperity gospel comes reasonably close here. either way, this bit was particularly on point:...