WeWork is even taking it one level further. They still have close to thousands software engineers to build... Things though.

I really believe that books should be mostly free and people should//would pay based on usefulness. I will gladly donate 200$ for a book that helped me. I would also never have bought that same book if it was 10$ to start with.

I'm able to hold any book online so as soon as I hear about a book I place a hold on it. They have most books even new ones and if not I can request it for free through all libraries in North California.

I stop by the library once a week and pick up all the holds of that week (typically 3-4). I love to have the physical medium around.

I typically renew my loans 2 or 3 times and as such I keep the books close to 3 months. It allows me to fully read the ones I find interesting and just go over quickly the ones I don't care about.

Once a month I bring back all the books I got.

And all of this is completely free. I love my local libraries and cannot believe it took me that long to find out about this wonderful service.

From now on I go out of my way to never buy a single book again and avoid all DRM and other nonsensical digital medias like that.

Don't fool yourself, this whole thing has been carefully orchestrated to look like if it was an open community but it is very tightly controlled by Facebook and friends.

I will not touch this with a 100 foot pole.

But it's controlled by Facebook and friends and the influence they would get over any decision is absolutely huge

Unfortunately I feel like it might pick up and become a thing.

Is there even 911@police.com? or some type of service that can be reached like that? I'm sure this must have happened a lot in the past.

Seems the most reliable would be to ping a friend over internet so he can call the emergency services

It's a well known issue in big cities with narrow streets (NYC for example)

The exact same reason why people initially loved Facebook and spent so much time on it?

- They managed to disturb millions of worker to an attention-driven work culture in which everything needs to always be synchronous and immediate.

- They managed to change chat from a set of open protocols to a single closed app terribly written in JS.

- They managed to make a lot of people absolute convinced advocate of Slack so that a lot of hyped startups have now to use Slack de facto or risk mutiny and have people create Slack channels on behalf of the company without any oversight.

So yeah I don't blame them but I blame every company that falls for this. I'm convinced that we will see Slack retrospectively as something that destroyed productivity. I will agree that Slack can be useful when used correctly but I never saw a place that used it without it becoming that "attention driven" growing monster.

This is a lot of training and committed parents. I'm doing a lot of aid climbing myself and anyone could be good at aid climbing if enough training and commitment is put inside it.

And it is legal to have a 10 year old as a passenger in a car which is what happened in this case on the climb.

In this specific case I'm pretty sure that the two adults took the leads and the girl followed jumaring behind.

There is a huge lobby in society to convince you that owning a home is the way to go (banks, real estate agent, other homeowners and people repeating this nonsense all the time). Don't let this fool you and make the calculations before buying anything.

In the bay area for example it doesn't make ANY sense to buy right now (Price to rent ratio, google it) but still people are flocking on every shitty apartment on sale. That's because they want to feel that little ego boost when they say they are "homeowners".