In reality, even that isn't equal. A poor person who has moved out of the city because they can't afford housing inside of it losing their license would probably mean losing their job, as public transportation options may not even be available. A wealthy person could just hire an Uber everywhere and wouldn't even notice the cost.
While the punishment is equal, the impact it would have on different populations is unequal (which is the same issue with a fine of an absolute amount).
From my understanding, listening and reading activate the brain in different ways. Listening also takes a higher effort to turn information into memory. It seems that if you're practiced at information processing through listening (e.g. you've listened to a lot of audiobooks or are a practiced storyteller) then there's less of a difference.
Part of me thinks that reading leads to better comprehension and information recall because it's very easy to re-read a sentence versus rewinding audio. Anecdotally, I know I've been in a scenario where I was reading the end of a paragraph and realized I had stopped paying attention and was quickly able to go back and re-read it.
One of my favorite features of Audible is the ability to rewind in 30 second segments. Very often I'll be listening to an audiobook and realize that I stopped paying attention, hitting the rewind button a couple times makes it super easy to get back to where you last payed attention.
Afternoon hangout is Red Rock cafe, as many have mentioned. Evening hang out is Steins Beer Garden (usually on the outdoor patio - you'll find a lot of big groups there).
So, I would preface any advice with being clear on what your goals are and what you mean exactly by "learn Spanish." Do you mean get by conversationally? Are you looking for fluency certification? Do you want to attend a Spanish-speaking university or work in a Spanish-speaking office? Do you need to read and write Spanish, or just speak it? All of these things will have different needs, different vocabulary, and different methods.
My advice here is mainly for learning conversational Spanish.
Work one-on-one with a language tutor. For vocabulary practice, use a spaced-repetition system like Fluent Forever (I think Memrise has the same system).
But the biggest thing you can do to learn - speak the language. That's the most important part.
The solution to this is pretty simple - Facebook should work with the sites it uses as fact-checkers to have a new marking of "Satire". Just having values of "True" and "False" aren't good enough if you're trying to use those sites as tools against fake news.
Depends on the relationship of Snopes and Facebook.
If Snopes is being actively used by Facebook in some sort of joint venture for this purpose, yes, I agree there needs to be something (perhaps a new flag_item: true/false field for Facebook to actually act against).
If Facebook is just scraping Snopes and looking for the true or false distinction, well, the onus is on Facebook.
Tangentially, I wonder if this is why there was the hostile takeover thing going on with Snopes a while back (not sure if that has been resolved or not). Since "fake news" is all the rage, I bet Snopes has bumped up in usage either as a fact checker or as an API for things of this nature. So the takeover was probably done in the hopes that an acquisition from one of the networks came and they could cash out.
It's hard to believe that they didn't already have something like that in place. Perhaps they didn't, or perhaps it was a bug, or perhaps the human reviewer clicked the wrong button, after reviewing 324 similar notices that morning .. we will probably never know.
Wasn't me, but a friend of mine worked from Germany for a couple of years. He worked for a company in the US that had offices throughout the world (it was a shipping company). A bit of his work involved working with other teams, so he had a bit of insight into those teams. He noticed that there were openings for positions similar to his in the foreign offices and reached out to the managers. He had to prepare a CV for them, but he was able to transfer there relatively easily.
This is my concern as well. Most people using LinkedIn use it in a way that keeps it devoid of political flame wars, pictures of you throwing up after a night of drinking, check-ins at the movies you're going to, etc. But Facebook is just rife with personal life information. I don't even use Facebook all that much, but I can guarantee that I wouldn't want to apply for a job using my FB profile.
Same here. Defaulted to off. They could be running an experiment. Roll it out to X percent of people, default half on and see who turns it off, default half off and see who turns it on.
I've worked in SV for the last 3 years at one of the top 5 tech companies, and I haven't seen much drug use, personally. I would say that there's a significant percentage that have/had medical marijuana cards and would either smoke or partake in edibles, but marijuana use is the only drug I've seen first-hand. I haven't even heard of anyone doing other drugs here, though I'm sure it happens.
While the punishment is equal, the impact it would have on different populations is unequal (which is the same issue with a fine of an absolute amount).