Trick-or-treating is just socially acceptable panhandling.  Change my mind.

I fill a bowl with candy but also turn my porch light off, then I get to eat all the candy myself. Works out great.

Y’all Qaeda

They should only sell them to blues musicians.

no experience necessary

Fun fact/opinion: Jim Gaffifan edges out Gary Gulman for most surprising former D1 college football player that is a successful comedian.

That would be Sheetal Bahirat, a food waste researcher at Drexel University in Philadelphia, who was appalled by the amount of skin and seeds she left behind after she turned a case of avocados into guacamole. “I thought, ‘If I throw this away, I’m the biggest hypocrite,’”

The 2020 vintage - what remains of it, at least - will have some distinctive smoky notes...

The tech doesn’t matter here because the system, even if it was the absolute latest, is still a level 2 semi-autonomous system and that simply does not work well with how people actually work. Vigilance tasks like this are not compatible with the need for split-second decision making. This isn’t just me saying this;…

You’re not going to really watch a movie in a human-driven car because you’d crash almost immediately. You HAVE to focus on the task of driving, or you go nowhere. In a car with L2 semi-autonomy, you can get so much further without paying attention, until it needs you to, then you’re very boned.

The mistake you’re making is assuming that an average Tesla in this particular situation wouldn’t make the same mistake, but the reality is that EVERY Tesla in this particular situation would have made exactly this mistake. Unless maybe for some reason they missed a software update.

I’ve been to 4 different BWW in 3 different regions and it’s always been a 2 hour affair. Are they all that slow or am I on the National BWW “Slow Fry List”?

If you’re at-will, you’re an employee. Contractors have contracts.

through a middleman company that connected me with the third party clients

I dont think its a clear NO for all 3 of those.

All this common sense talk and supply/demand logic distorts the emotional plea.

I’ve been a contract engineer too, and if it’s the same arrangement as I (and the vast majority of contract engineers I’ve worked with) you are an employee of the contracting firm.  When we say “contractors” the way Uber wants to classify them we mean “self-employed” or “1099.”  

This. I can use my phone to call a cab, just because it’s now an app doesn’t magically makes it not a taxi.

ebay doesn’t dictate how much you sell your stuff for.  ebay does not kick you off or penalize you if you’re not selling enough stuff.

Uber and Lyft set requirements for what kind of cars they can drive, and they set the fares for the rides. They have a lot of control over the drivers.