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The author writes "One of the more subtle underlying issues with the rise of Uber is the company’s slow siphoning of the political will to fix existing—or build new—public transit infrastructure in major cities."

This seems quite logical, and is a common argument that's been tossed around for a while now, previously in reference to employer-funded transportation for employees (popularly, "the Google bus", though there are many). The only problem is that it's deliberately ignorant of the past. Since the author mentions SF Muni by name, we should recognize that Muni has been a total disaster since at least the 1970s. If there has ever been political will to improve it, it's been thwarted. The agency has never met any of its legally mandated service requirements, despite numerous (successful) ballot measures throwing money at the problem and setting policies giving it a high ("the highest", per Prop A) priority. So it's pretty difficult to pin the blame for that on something that's existed for only a few years.

It's no secret that I have no love for Uber, or that I consider it just another taxi service that should be regulated as such (which doesn't necessarily mean it should be regulated the way taxi providers are today). But claims that Muni's failure are Uber's fault are simply laughable. Muni was a worthless pile of garbage before Uber's founders were born, and it wasn't on an improving trajectory that Uber came along and trashed, either.

The other angle, which the author did not explore, is that private mass transit is very common and popular, as it once was in the US, in many of the world's poorer countries. It's ubiquitous in Asia and Latin America, and while it won't win any awards for speed or comfort, it is cheap, effective, and capable of operating profitably without direct subsidies. This seems at odds with the author's lament that those left to suffer the indignity of public transit in the US are those with no other choice. Clearly that is a product of a political system that champions public funding of mass transit, not some inevitable outcome.

There are many ways to make transit (public or private) better. I don't believe Uber is one of them, but nothing the SFMTA has done suggests that it's part of the solution, either. And it's been failing without Uber's help.
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What's your basis for that statement?
Are we only allowed to spew Capitalist propaganda and worship Adam Smith and Friedman here?
> if they cannot take care of their employees how well can they take care of their customers?

They take care of their customers very well. Their customers are their revenue stream, not their cost centers.
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So the choices are to receive healthcare for all, or for a tiny fraction of the population to have the chance to maybe work for a shitty company that clearly hates their employees?
That's the one thing a really don't like about Obamacare: it's doing away with "catastrophic insurance" which is really what insurance actually is.

But I suspect when given the choice between cheap insurance or an expensive payment plan, everyone would pick the former.
Knowing nothing about 3D printing, this was among the more awesome things I've read this week. Thanks so much for the detailed write-up, particularly focusing on the unknown-unknowns.
I am ok with a huge government to protect me from having to compete with workaholics.

Cry me a river about competing with people with a greater work ethic. I'm not OK with government doing anything that involves initiation of force to achieve political ends.
Being "out of touch" with "the white majority" (or anyone for that matter) is fine by me, if it means being able to have nuanced and rational opinions. (Unlike Trump's broad brush statements.) Furthermore, your argumentum ad populum doesn't make Trump's statement any more just or accurate.
Thirty years ago my small hometown had bus service to the closest big cities. Three private companies supplied round trips from one downtown to another several times a day.

Now there is only a shuttle, which costs twice as much, runs only three times daily, and doesn't go anywhere but the airport. If you are car-free in this town, whether by choice, poverty, or disability, you're going nowhere unless you have friends to drive you. So I was excited about what Uber or Lyft could do for the rural car-free...until I remembered how the private bus companies left us high and dry. What's to keep Uber from doing the same?
I think adventured was referring to the value created by Google search, in itself, being so good at what it does - and not to the actual contents of its results.
Lidl seems to have a terrible reputation in the UK and Italy (and possibly elsewhere), but in Germany they're just another discounter.

We do have some more upscale supermarkets, but there's generally little variance in quality among the discounters. Although Lidl does have by far the best store brand (J.D. Gross) chocolate.
Its likely a tarball masking as a shell script (or at 800MB it is the most massive shell script i have ever seen).
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The food in Lidl isn't junk quality, most of it is fine. They have some junk quality non-food stuff quite often but there's nothing wrong with the food in my experience.
The solution does involve storing a length, and this is called a Pascal string: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_%28computer_science%29#...

Many, many, many moons ago, C strings won out over Pascal strings. If the competition was somehow re-run from scratch today, with modern machines, it would be no contest: Pascal strings would win. But there was a time when every byte was precious. And not just "a bit precious", but very precious.
The only lesson Apple seems to have learned is that the App Store is great, and everything they're doing is working gangbusters.
Consider this, though, Amazon has a large need to fill vacancies and the media (even in Seattle) is happy to run stories about worker mistreatment.

I never worry about pointing out the evils of Amazon (despite them making me sign a contract meant to intimidate me into shutting up) because I know if they take me to court I'll have the opportunity to have my say publicly. And that's the last thing they want.

At Amazon, if you get your PIP and you refuse to sign it, I think they will fire you, and then you will be offered a check in order to sign an agreement not to sue them.

So, if you get the PIP it may be more profitable to just refuse to sign it and start looking for another job (with a bigger severance) than waste a couple months at Amazon while looking for another job.

BTW- the reason I got my PIP was that I had a job at AWS and an offer in hand and went to try and transfer.
You do it as many times as it takes to become muscle memory. That's a lot of times for some people.

I suspect many on this thread have forgotten what it was like the first time they did command line stuff. I teach this stuff in a classroom setting twice a yeaer.

This repetition is sorely needed.
I think it was on google groups somewhere but I can't find it offhand, but one of the early big contributors of prominent clojure libraries has since completely quit clojure specifically for that reason.

The only one I can think of, the complaint was the contribution/review process (I think it was Zach Tellman who contributed some work only to have Rich rewrite the entire thing out of the blue 6 months later). Unless you're thinking of a different case?
Of course not, but spewing tired Marxist rhetoric without offering an actual proposal isn't accomplishing much.
I think lobbying to make profit based on suffering, ie. inflating the price of medicine, denying coverage, etc needs to be illegal. People literally die because of the profit incentive for the insurance industry.
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So, about four posts before this one, you said:

> Many scripting languages in practice do reference counting GC that will reliably and deterministically clean up resources other than memory.

When challenged, you offered one. So, is this a Perl-only thing, or can you give other examples?
I'm an Emacs fanboy, and I'm already using 25. The fact is, if someone is just looking for a text editor and not a new hobby, I would recommend Atom. The editor that you have after using Emacs for 15 minutes is not very good. The editor you have after a year of dedicated use is amazing.
Probably because they didn't want to open source it?

There's still a lot of secret sauce in this general domain.
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Where have you seen a packed train after 11? I think I've seen one once and that was on Halloween (IIRC) at West 4th Street.
I read working at Amazon gave me a baby and cancer
In real life:

- a private company is accountable to its customers, otherwise it will die (assuming there is choice of service providers).

- government's customers (citizens) have NO choice - they are stuck with the same people, despite elections. So the government's "accountability" is for the birds.
You'd need to prove it though. The official position of Google is probably "it is a performance / restructuring thing and pregnancy is purely accidental coincidence". (Wink-wink). Of course the winks only happen in person they are not written down.

So now someone who has a baby on the way has to pay for a lawyer and fight an uphill and expensive case.
TJ Maxx operates in Germany under the name TK Maxx for some reason.
"standardization" straight out of the MS play book that is...
I can't comment on Lidl in Germany, but the quality of goods at Lidl in the UK is actually fairly high. You do generally wait in long lines though...
I agree with the spirit of your comment. As a counterpoint, the NYC subway began as a private enterprise. A big point missing from this comment thread is that we may be conflating "private business" with "private (personal-ish) vehicles," where personal vehicles obviously can never have the capacity of, eg. the NYC subway. Personal vehicles are just plain all around bad for moving large numbers of people. I'm not sure Uber with its motto "Everybody's private driver" is the right private enterprise to deliver privately operated mass transit that is healthy for our cities.
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Perhaps you downvoters would care to actually share your opinion? Do you disagree with my assertion that having a baby is a choice? If so, I'd like to hear your justification for that.

Or do you disagree that the ethical thing for companies to do, is to offer a generous maternity/paternity leave policy?
Any with any experience at the federal level. Any with education in policy. Any with real concern for the average citizen. You fill in the blanks.
AFAIK Aldi is expanding in the US. Also, Trader Joe's which is hugely popular with the younger crowd (at least here in Chicago) is owned by the same company.
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It still surprises me that a company like Walmart, with such massive advantages, cannot figure it out.
I can't imagine a system like that, because the American taxpayer is already unwilling to pay enough to barely support a passenger train system as it is, much less some sort of efficient totalitarian government train system. And digging subways? As if this totalitarian government will be able to get its contractors to do that on time, and fight off the complaints from the totalitarian EPA.
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Composting or incinerating toilets.
Hey guys I'm posting a follow-up article here and I submitted the link through HN: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/posture-power-how-to-correct...

This was the first article that led me to the Cleveland Clinic website. I hope you find it worthwhile.
>..if the pool actually has 25% or more of the hashing power it is a clear sign of no consensus.

Gavin clearly agrees.

However, I guess he doesn't think that a pool (or a miner like BitFury) that has between 10% and 25% of the hashing power should have the power of veto.
Everyone seems to be missing this bit - it is about those fundamentals first. The end goal is eliminating repetition. But it takes repetition to get to that point because that's how the human brain works.

I observe this with students who use IDEs in the beginning. Some "experienced" developer tells them they need to use an IDE because it "saves time."

Then the students tab-complete their way through code and don't really understand, or remember, what it is. The connections, the pathways to memory, aren't as great.

And not everyone learns this way. If your first program out of the gate was a program to do math for you, before previously learning anything about programming, then based on my experience you are an outlier, someone with a gift and natural affinity for this field.

Bottom line: if this was too repetitive for you, you weren't the target audience.
Ok, how about zero knowledge of policy or law, at the federal level? No experience with government. Clearly no grasp of important issue to the average citizen, as made clear by never mentioning anything but sound bytes and macho posturing?
Well yeah, that's why you use much smaller, cheaper, and quieter drones instead of helicopters.
Farebox recovery is somewhere in the 30% range, maybe a little less. That means somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4 of the cost of operating Muni is a direct subsidy from the taxpayers, or that in order to eliminate the subsidy, tickets would have to cost about $8 (without loss of ridership). Most of that cost is due to the extremely labor-friendly CBA that's in place, but equipment maintenance and the negative effects of past deferred maintenance are significant contributors as well. It's likely that NYC's MTA is similar.
I don't disagree. I only point out that people should not assume that this is the norm based on the single anecdote.
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If, as you imply, women game the system, then perhaps it is because they know the company will wring them out until dry and then kick them out the second they're a minor liability. I work in higher education, where staff and faculty are expected to have lives outside of work. People have kids, go on leave, then come back. We accommodate them, and they repay in loyalty.
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It's called propaganda.
Germans I've asked about this say "why do you need to perform a cheer to begin your work?" It's not just the directness, it's the attitude that you show up on time and work. No screwing around, no hand-holding needed.
Possibly, but it would seem like there would be ample opportunity to compete on a number of other dimensions that would resonate with most humans. What you describe sounds a little like Trader Joes (some relation to Aldi) except that there are tons of happy employees around.
> grumbles something about developers saying "Linux" when they mean "only supported on Ubuntu"

Because MS has basically cockblocked all attempts at getting something other than Windows preinstalled on store shelf hardware.
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HKTs aren't workarounds. They're fully supported. I suppose you have to use type lambdas to partially apply type constructors but that's not a big deal.

Implicits for typeclasses aren't really a workaround. Implicits parameters are an extremely powerful type-level programming tool. Typeclasses just require slightly more boilerplate than Haskell. And encoding recursion in the type system on things like HLists is rather straightforward and readable using implicits. In contrast, Ocaml and F# don't have the tools to express HLists or much of the type level stuff in Shapeless.
They switch because freemium gets them more money. Nothing more than a business decision. It sure doesn't mean gamers inherently prefer micro tx.
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Part of the problem with that is that nobody wants to pay for the full edition, which goes back to the classic problem with demos of freeloaders who just keep playing the demo.

The solution that Nintendo stumbled on is to limit the number of uses to a demo, after which the demo is no longer playable. Unfortunately, this would require absolute cooperation from the app store, be decried as a terrible practice by many, and be moot on rooted phones.
"If they could chop your labor-power from your flesh, from your family, from your community, and expropriate it as their own, the owners would."

That sounds like "My work gets done while I stay home with my family and community," and that would be awesome.

It's the dream that makes me get up and go write code every day!
That quote addresses a separate (but very real) question. Issues of diversity in hiring and promotion are really important, and clearly affect lots of companies. I agree that Amazon should release those numbers, and I would not be surprised if Amazon would come up lacking here. But to single Amazon out based on this anecdote is unfair.
> major opponents in North America and cities are constantly having to fight to be able to build necessary infrastructure. Bafflingly expansion and funding of transit seems to need to go to referendums, where projects are frequently defeated (a yes vote in a referendum is very tough to achieve).

Its not working, so what can the US Gov do RIGHT NOW to implement a better system than Hong Kong?
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As somebody who has dealt with ClearSky in another industry, I wouldn't touch anything they do with a 10 foot pole.
Thanks a lot.

I know that steam has some 32Bit dependencies even on a 64Bit OS. I thought it might have only been the steam client's dependency. Unless you're using a 32Bit OS, it seems that Steam, or maybe even Unity3D, enforces the use of those 32Bit libs.

I wonder why.

Edit: I seems that you removed the references to lib32 and i386.
I dunno, Scott Adams got HR pretty good when he created Catbert.
Well, in the ridesharing space, how much of a choice is there? Lyft is barely holding on in the face of the Uber juggernaut, despite an existing public perception of Uber as vaguely sinister and evil (at least after last year's scandals).
> I work for a big financial corp. Things aren't perfect, but we do everything in our power to support women on maternity leave, and that kind of behavior would get the manager fired.

That's great to hear. But one reason bad things happen is that people, especially management, believe in their company's good intentions and policies and don't realize that the reality is much different. The only way to know is to observe what actually occurs. (Of course, I'm speaking generally; I have no idea what happens at your company or what you know.)

A similar situation occurs with health insurance. People trust their insurance and assume it works until they get sick and learn the reality of it.
But not a particularly good example, as the labor problem was absolutely not solved by any of the bad publicity: https://rottenindenmark.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/we-are-not-...
You sir, just made my day.
> Yes, how dare a women who goes off to have children expect to be able to come back into the workplace in the same position she had when she left?

Cancer. We're talking about fucking cancer.

But otherwise you're spot on - I wish this asshole wouldn't be downvoted and would have used a real account.
Having a baby is a choice but society benefits financially more than the parents do. Children are going to make their employer, the government, hell 7-11 and Walmart, way more money then they will ever give to their parents.

We have laws that force parents to send their kids to die for society and none to reimburse them for the $250K they spent on the kid. I feel that helping out a family for a year should be a shared responsibility.
But incentives are not aligned so therefore in the long run GDP and life are both worse off.
It's not "you" who is very rich.
For those not in the know, this is from William Gibson's Neuromancer (http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp).
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Just wondering.. i never heard of this (I'm german) but i have seen a documentary about Japan, where employees (in this case salesmen) gathered in the morning, did some kind of sports and some motivational speech and things like that. Is that also something i'd find in the US? I must admit, i smiled at it and found it ridiculous. I'd think all the time "stop wasting time with this shit and get some work done"...
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I had to look at them preparing for my AWS interview, then I had to parrot the principles back at them through my own experience.

"What was your biggest failure?"

(Alright...let me try to pick one of the leadership principle to parrot back through my biggest failure while also having my self-esteem show down thinking about my failures).
This is happening now in many third-world countries where it's more profitable for Pepsi and Coca Cola to sell bottled water.
Well said. This is what makes Uber so good: this mechanism for keeping out the people who aren't responsible[1] enough to use the service fairly/follow the rules.

It's the same reason a web forum with firm moderation and anti-troll policies will have higher-quality discourse.
It would be far, far more useful for the current group of politicians to fix the conditions that cause the MTA to be the single least efficient entity on the planet when it comes to rail construction[1], than it would be for them to rustle up another 15 billion dollars for today's project de jure.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...
CEO is named Michael Borkowski. Sounds pretty jewish to me. Jews have systematically greater access to capital, something which the country supports and legitimizes.

Wait, what was I thinking - this racial dimension doesn't matter at all. Just an isolated case...

Black lives matter!
Read the article and tell me what you think.
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Hyperloglog is approximate. You also can't do set complement. Also can't get the ids. But other than that it's great!
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Build time scales pretty closely with the volume of material you're printing, but meshes often require less material to achieve the same mechanical properties. As far as post processing to improve mechanical properties goes: I'm not aware of anything like that, unfortunately. Titanium has a pretty high melting point and a very good strength/weight ratio, so I'm not sure what you could add to improve it.
They do, and they also hold up signs that state "Keep Government out of my Medicare." I didn't state US citizens as a whole are very bright.
> Don't forget $0.25 deposit for shopping cart

Here in Spain, almost all of the shopping carts from every chain works with deposit, the coins accepted are 50 cents, 1 euro, 2 euro

And almost no chain gives you free bags
That caught my attention as well. Why not send some to the east coast to de-ice in the winter?!
Yes.

I thought I wanted to take people through the thought process and the things I did to get there. Not sure if it worked, but it allowed me to get my thoughts down on paper.
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As an american I find this kind of thing "ridiculous" as well. I think a lot of folks share that sentiment. The question is why are we still doing it.

I also have to ask what they entail at walmart? Ya for no heath insurance, Ya for working but having to be on food stamps, Ya for not enough hours to support my family?
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for me, Unity is too expensive. I hope Unreal can do the same. there is an unofficial build instruction for unreal.
If only the US had distinct and different local government... like states?
Got the Home Depot example from an HBR article. [1] Just realized it was dated 1993. Home Depot has definitely changed a lot since then. Better examples might be Trader Joe's or Virgin Airlines.

[1] https://hbr.org/1993/01/customer-intimacy-and-other-value-di...