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I know it'll be an unpopular opinion, but I really think Uber could be in for a big fall. Not because they haven't been successful, but because they've been too successful - they've opened the market up for themselves but also competitors.

Most Uber drivers I ride with have at least one other ride share app open, none of them have a loyalty to the company. In fact, many actively dislike it. And riders I talk to aren't loyal either - they'll happily flip between Lyft, Uber, and whatever else is available, depending on who is offering a discount code that week. I don't doubt that Uber has a better investment in the future (self driving cars and the like) but it remains to be seen if they'll make it that far - that future is still a ways off.

By itself that wouldn't be so drastic, but Uber has taken on a lot of funding and obstinately refused to go public. It could put pressure on other companies that are currently quite happily staying private, too.
Great straw person. Have you ever talked to a woman in real life?
I think you are over glorifying the academic world. From my experience it is pretty similar to the real world. Professors are writing grants and trying to get funding. Its kind of a rat race. Sometimes they get things they like sometimes they don't. It might be easier at a top 5 school to get funding for cool projects.

Also they treat international students like shit. One professor asked me to take a fewer hours so I could spend more hours doing research. However I was not a foreign student and didn't need his funding so I just stopped working with him.
Additionally, for an input device you use for 8 hours a day for the rest of your career the price is trivial. Nothing is worse for me than the mushy feel of rubber dome switches.
A year is awfully short to be chiming in with advice for long-term weight loss.
Is the "double click" the sound of the keycap hitting the keyboard, or is it coming from the switch itself?
When I did an internship at Oracle I got an apartment and a car, for six months, on top of a senior engineer's salary, which is the grade interns were paid on.

With most interns having no family to support or other commitments, everyone jokes that the people taking home the most money are the interns.
" should make regular Germans better off "

Please define a metric that we can use to establish this.
You are exactly right; this is really just an alternate Spotify interface :)

I think there's value in extracting a single feature out of a larger system and making a custom interface around it.

And yeah, the footer is a joke :)
Well, they literally can't be read without an authentication code from the bank, so pretty secure. Anyone can copy a whole magstripe, but the chip can't be read directly.
Ask the SKS folks why not?
removing the labels helps people who are learning to touch type.

Or they could just put a tea-towel over their hands.
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No, it only works for people who have looked at their keyboard in the last twenty years.
This article is just Hacker News click bait. Despite panning expensive keyboards the page is full of amazon affiliate links.
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How is it surprising that premium/hobbyist keyboards are expensive?

$200 for a keyboard that you use for hours everyday for 5-10 years is not unreasonable.
Well, I have never seen a healthcare system that works well for non-deadly issues like back pain and I have lived in Italy, Denmark and Germany. Also, at the end of the day somebody has to pay the bill, so either you pay with taxes or someone else has to pay yours with his taxes. Considering population is getting older, people that can pay your healthcare bills are going to be scarcer and scarcer. From a practical standpoint, what you want is unattainable. If we focus on the right stuff, instead, we can make sure that we are all better off, while right now public healthcare is a joke and people end up paying the same thing 2 times (first public healthcare insurance, second the private doctor).
If journalists keep writing articles about tech bubbles every few months, someone is bound to be correct. Looks like this "trend" started up again in 2013.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=tech%20bubble
Never said it wasn't, hah. I'm a huge fan of ancient civilizations. Was just making a note
TLDR: The delays are due to software problems and the plane wont be kinda ready until end of 2018.

Software Development is going to be a competitive advantage in warfare as well. From what I have heard, DoD has some really interesting practices on building software (code review each line with physical printouts, etc), which in combination with scope creep might be the cause of this slowness.
> "Addiction" is what we call behavior that falls outside the "normal range" on the bell curve.

I don't think the definition of addiction has to do with how many people are addicted. Seems uncontroversial to me that the majority of the population in the early part of the 20th century were addicted to tobacco smoking, for example.

Google brings up this definition of addiction: "physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance, and unable to stop taking it without incurring adverse effects." How widespread it is doesn't enter into it.
I guess it's the thousand Euro minimum? CTRs in the US are min $10,000, but that doesn't seem like an overwhelming hurdle when the transaction is already being recorded somewhere. Most people auto-generate this stuff anyway.
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You are more correct than you think. A reasonably (see:boring) contraction with no real 90's style drama is more likely what is happening.
It's a recruiting program. The point is that you have someone work for you the summer before their senior year and then if they like it, they join you full time after graduation.

It's way cheaper to pay someone $6k or whatever for a summer to recruit them and then pay them a new-hire salary than to recruit someone "who already has knowledge and experience" and pay them the appropriate salary.

It's also more scalable and repeatable because you have an internship program that provides potential hires in batches funneled through colleges, whereas the experienced people you are talking about generally need to be found, courted and recruited individually.
Yeah, I almost did this. What stopped me is that I assume most people using it do not have spotify accounts, and it seemed lame to link to (what would become) a signup page.

Agree that it needs _some_ kind of call-to-action though. There's nothing to do when you find an artist you like!
> 4. The conversations happen in secret.

Not commenting on any other aspects of TTIP, but they happen in secret for a reason.[0][1][2] Most trade negotiations are secret too, and if the whole process was public there would be too much bikeshedding and pressure on the negotiators.

EDIT: forgot to include a TL;DR summary of why they are secret. Fixed NPR link

0 - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/26/417851577/episo...

1 - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/08/random-t...

2 - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/08/random-t...
Pretty cool. i knew people at a startup called gigabeat (web 1.0 !) that did a affinity spiral. (they folded and even the domain name has gone to someone else). Back then it was a whole startup. Now its a side project :-)
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Isn't that a tough question? There's no way we'll ever answer it, especially on a web discussion board.

It's an important question though, mainly because it comes up every time people have a passionate, and perhaps legitimate, disagreement about what the law ought to be.

High school debates aside, I think almost everyone agrees that civil disobedience is sometimes completely justified. People also almost universally agree that breaking every law you don't like, simply because you don't think it should be the law, would not be justified.

So, where do regulations on short term rentals fit in?

My initial reaction is that this is an easy one. I don't think that regulations on converting a house to a hotel get anywhere close to the standard I'd expect for what wikipedia defines as a "active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. Civil disobedience is a symbolic or ritualistic violation of the law, rather than a rejection of the system as a whole"…

That said, I would give the nod to people who would seek to violate some types of zoning regulations. It is certainly possible for zoning regulations (school districts, voting districts, and so forth) to reach vile levels of class and race discrimination. A lot of people, for instance, might want to keep a boarding house for migratory workers out of their district - a ban on short term rentals could accomplish this.

In the case of airbnb, I would see that as a bit of manipulation, though - in general, what I'm seeing is housing that used to be occupied by long term residents, especially children who cost a lot of money and don't pay rent, getting evicted and turned into a fun crash pad for tourists who would like to spend a while in the wine country or the left bank of Paris. I personally think that short term rentals are a real threat to neighborhoods like the french quarter in New Orleans, large sections of San Francisco, and, sure, Berlin.

In short, while I leave the door slightly open for meaningful civil disobedience to excessively restrictive zoning laws that curtail short term rentals, I don't see many of the current measures as coming anywhere close to the standard for civil disobedience.

You'll never get an airtight argument as solid as a mathematical proof on this, though. It just isn't like that.
I don't think the prospective terrorists would be chugging away at their bottles of Exploditall (tm) liquid though. The fear is that the smarter terrorists (i.e. the ones that didn't start the day with a celebratory shot of Exploditall) will put their volatile dangerous liquid explosives in harmless looking bottles of Irn-Bru or Vimto or something.
If there's one thing you can fault Gavin for, it's maybe being too kind and trusting of others in a particularly hostile, dog-eat-dog tech space (Bitcoin).
Although this may work for some people, it definitely won't work for me, and many others. I constantly get "cravings" which, AFAICT, are indistinguishable from hunger. I have to consciously add up my calories to know if I've been eating too much. If I was to "listen to my body", I would overeat constantly.
My point was more that everyone pays the same fee to be screened by the TSA but by purchasing a more expensive ticket from the airlines you can avoid the long wait to be screened and therefore increase the wait time for most people. To be clear, purchasing a higher fare ticket does not mean you are paying the TSA for better service.
These work really well in my experience to make Cherry MX-compatible mechanical keyboards tolerable from a noise standpoint: http://www.amazon.com/Cherry-Rubber-Ring-Switch-Dampeners/dp...

There are two sounds with the typical Cherry MX blue keyswitch: the pleasant and satisfying "click" as the key activates and the annoying "clack" of it bottoming out.

The dampeners only affect the clack; not the click.

Of course, being considerate to one's coworkers is always #1. No substitute for that.

When I have coworkers sharing my office, I show them that I have a non-clicky keyboard right here in my desk drawer, and make them swear to let me know if the clicky keyboard ever becomes even slightly annoying. I show them where the other keyboard sits and tell them they can literally just swap it out themselves if they like. I like my (modified to be quieter) clicky keyboard but I like my coworkers 100x more. :)
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It doesn't seem at all absurd to me that an expert at any subject, speaking to someone else they believe is another honest expert, but who is actually an experienced con-artist / fraudster, can be fooled. Don't think of it as one cryptographer deceiving another via cryptography. Think of it more like a Penn & Teller trick (to use an example of some well-known experts in the art of deceit - not that I think for a moment they'd ever actually defraud someone) only with the computers and cryptography. The actual deception is likely so far outside the mark's expectations and normal thought processes that the possibility of it never even occurs to them.
I misread the comment I was replying to and thought "they" had an antecedent of "indentured servants."
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It sounds like you may be confusing work experience for internships.

Interns often produce the best work in a group because they have fresh ideas and have the time and space to focus hard on a single hard problem, while the normal members of staff have to make things happen day to day.
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The content is different? Especially with regards to the investor-state dispute settlement system, which currently does not apply to the EU.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlem... )
"why not just spend the money on someone who already has knowledge and experience and will produce?"

Those people already have jobs, and they're tired of clueless tech recruiters trying to contact them. To hire them, you need to wait for their company to go out of business, or for some kind of management debacle to happen inside of it, or you need to know them personally.

It doesn't really matter whether you're hypothetically willing to pay them $120k or $240k or $480k a year if they don't answer your emails because they're already quite happy where they are.
Honest question (as a Brit): why call out nationality when talking about the blockchain in your PS... Have you noticed the meaning vary outside the US?
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>Part of that time was spent on a careful cryptographic verification of messages signed with keys that only Satoshi should possess. But even before I witnessed the keys signed and then verified on a clean computer that could not have been tampered with, I was reasonably certain I was sitting next to the Father of Bitcoin.

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Probably a bit of confirmation bias there.
Thanks for that clarification! I honestly never considered that technical aspect of the scans, as I do not have Global Entry, and I didn't know that retina scans are technically infeasible to utilize for ID purposes. You've given me something further to research: are iris scans harder to defeat with false information (like specialized contacts) than fingerprint scans (with whatever the hell they can be falsified with). There goes my morning! :)
Well, he either is Satoshi, or a genius conman. I would love for him to be Satoshi, it would be a great story. It's also ridiculous that people think they would be able to derive the personality of someone from a paper he wrote.
£310k near Seven Sisters

That's not expensive relative to London income levels, given that property is typically financed over 25 years or so, basically over the most productive phase of one's working life, so it's paid off roughly when one retires. Most young people don't think long-term: they just look at the price and their current annual salary, and see a mismatch.

Maybe it's good this way, because unless you realise that a property is a serious long-term investment, and that the target is to save for retirement, they probably don't have the financial maturity to make such a large purchase and should stick to renting.

Note that property always reflects income-levels of the working population. That's because they are the ones that buy / rent property. Rent and property prices are strongly correlated, because it's fundamentally a risk/reward trade-off: when you buy you take on a fair amount of risk: heating may break down, the roof may leak, you might not find tenants in time, tenants may ruin the property, not pay rent etc etc (From bitter experience I can tell you that "may" really means "will"). Tenants don't carry this risk, hence need to compensate for this risk transfer. That's why renting appears to be more expensive.

Focussing on foreign billionaires who buy-to-leave-empty distorts how the property market works. The real question is: what percentage of their income is the average person willing to invest in property / rent. This is remarkably constant.
It forces you to actually touch type, you can't cheat when you have no labels.
This article says this is six years later.
People should be using Cherry Brown/Blacks, or at least have sound dampeners on their Blues in an office setting. If you don't, your neighbors probably curse you under their breath.
>Aren't we happier and wealthier since the WTO exists?

Not at all. The only time the WTO interacted with my native country it was to "gently" push for privitisation of state assets all of which have turned out to be disastrous deals for our country. Not even the economic liberals I know think highly of the WTO.
Yes, but that has nothing to do with diesel fuel vs. others, which was the point of the previous two comments.
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Those practices might be appropriate for a combat plane.
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