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Couldn't a "medallion cab" franchise that licenses tools (technology) to existing city cab drivers be created? So cabbies in Massachusetts can spend the tax money on their own uber via a franchise.

The franchise can be repeated all over for the "old industry" - In every big city.

So a user could choose their "Dominoes" app and they would be getting a legacy cab, not uber-lyft. And the customer would support existing men and women whose jobs are threatened. And like dominoes pizza, behind the scenes is a local owner (or local group of cabbies) that has to follow their own rules.

A cabbie could be hailed with 4 fingers and a thumb up or via two thumb touch. Have cake and eat it too.
Imagine you want to open a restaurant. You know that it will be successful - you've done your research, whatever, yadda yadda.
The government charges you a hefty initial tax to open your restaurant - it's a steep cost, but you expect that you'll be able to pay it off, because you know your place is going to do well. Seriously, you've paid attention to history - these kinds of things - the way you're doing it, anyway - always do well.
Time passes, and your restaurant does do really well. You get a few negative reviews, though - some people think the place smells funny, some customers don't like hearing you (the head chef) screaming at the cooks in the kitchen.
A couple years later, a competitor restaurant opens across the street. Similar price level, cuisine, prestige - all that. The only thing is, the government doesn't level the same tax against the competitor that you had to pay. In fact, that tax isn't being applied to them at all, because, even though you know and everyone else knows they're really basically a restaurant - despite that, because all the customers there order the food through an app, the place is legally classified as something else.
The competitor's head chef and owner has paid attention to what you did poorly - he makes sure his place smells good (he spends a lot of money on this), and he's careful to keep his speaking voice down while chastising his chefs. He starts to get good business, and as word spreads, you start to lose business.
Things aren't looking good for you. You're not really sure you're going to be able to stay open for long enough for that heavy tax you paid to be worth it.
I think the free version of Burp Suite will handle all of this for you.
What happened to the drivers of horse-drawn carriages when automobiles arrived?
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My point was around the DOS Int 21h, really. But I see what you mean about the file format.
Again, I feel you haven't read the spirit of this comment accurately.

The comment specifically talked about those people not wanting to do another form of work. It wasn't a generic "lets talk about mass automation induced redundancy" which appears to be what you're trying to discuss with me.

As you'll note, I'm pro basic income. I just don't think it's fair to say I'm not properly addressing the spirit, when in this case that means ignoring the specific language the commenter chose to use and just having the same generic conversation that's continuously being had all over the internet. I'm interested in debating this guy if he does actually think work is something people only do if it's intrinsically motivating and thus we should consider taxi drivers desire to spend their day driving around rather than doing math, I'm not interested in just having a standard /r/futurology back and forth.

I mean hell, I even hedged against this with my last paragraph.
I'm pretty sure the answer is to retrain and/or go into a different profession.
On GNU/Linux there's also the (badly designed) memfd_create() syscall which allows you to create an anonymous inode even if / is entirely read-only and you don't have mounting permission. While you could do it with a user+mount namespace and sending the fd over a UNIX socket, sometimes making a syscall is a better idea. :P
When was the last time you've read a book typeset in a sans serif font?

For clarification, I wasn't suggesting to use serifs for coding. It's not necessary there, because it's not the letters themselves that need to catch the eye, but code structure. All those square and curly braces, commas etc do just that. As does indentation, but using indentation for everything, the way Lisp tends to do, blurs too many distinctions.

S-exprs are great for machines, just as binary is - it's simple and consistent and lacks pointless redundancy. But humans aren't machines - redundancy is good for us sometimes.
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Not very. For example, at the company/startup I left recently, lunch would arrive at 12 and would sit out until the evening. So come 5 or 6 PM I would eat dinner from the lunch leftovers. Regularly consisted of different meats as well. I never had any issue, and have never had any issue with food (i.e. food poisoning). Not sure if I have a strong stomach or the general rules are overly protective.
> By this logic the industrial revolution shouldn't have happened (or at least it should have happened more slowly).

I was just going to mention the same thing. There was a good Freakonomics podcast episode* about this very subject.

Audio: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-safe-is-your-job-a-new-f...

Transcript: http://freakonomics.com/2015/01/29/how-safe-is-your-job-full...
Haven't we heard this same spiel for the last 150 years? The revolution is always one week away and this is a time-invariant statement.
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Math notation uses := for assignment and = for equality, no? So in that sense Algol and the Pascal family are more consistent with that, while C actually diverged.
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I would always recommend a MacBook. I used to always stick with various non-Macbook laptops (Sony, Samsung, Lenovo, etc). I switched to a MBP a few years ago and don't think I can go back. Have bought 5-6 different MacBooks since.
Transport for London's real time API makes lots of third party apps possible. Their own route planner website is good too.
> They will always need drivers just to stave off banditry

This is an argument I have never understood.

Do you really think the only thing preventing highway robbers is a driver? If anything, self-driving trucks would likely be able to respond more effectively as they can call police without fearing for their lives.
We can't keep going with this type of attitude; it's blatantly anti-change. The government's job is not to ensure that everyone has comfortable finances. The government's job is to provide a framework that makes it possible and a structure that removes nefarious actors. As long as that's occurring, the economy is self-governing, and we shouldn't be propping up legacy economic sectors just because we feel bad for the people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck in them.

The competitive virtue of capitalism is neutered by measures like this one and the affected sectors grow rancid, just as a gangrenous organ would.

We have to allow the economy to work. If we believe in our people, we believe that drivers will be able to find something new that fits into the contemporary economic conditions instead of being dependent on state subsidies and political benevolence for survival. That new thing may be a massively beneficial development, that we'll never get to see if we insist on paying them a stipend for continued participation in an obsolete function.
I never get the logic of how whole heartedly opensource projects embrace a completely closed source software. I get it that not everything can be open source but there are already good open source alternatives for hosting.
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Thank you for response. I am lookşng into mobile UI problems as you said.
In response to your main issue regarding socioeconomic mobility - why is this, in turn, a problem?

If you can demonstrate that reduced social mobility is an issue, and that this is increased by progressively greater income inequality (the latter of which I probably agree with on cursory inspection), then it seems income inequality is a net loss.

However, from a utilitarian perspective, I don't see a reason to care about social mobility if quality of life increases for everyone, not just the upper classes.

Keep in mind that I am working on two axioms:

1. Income inequality is a mathematical certainty in a functional society with more than n participants, where n is the maximum number of people who can be personally and honestly cooperative with each other, and

2. Income inequality refers to differences in an individual's absolute resources available for consumption, not their quality of life (exceptions granted for luxury consumption goods, not basic utilities that are available across all social classes).

As a very simplistic example that I'd enjoy having holes poked in, Apple has generated wondrous income inequality for many of its engineers and management. However, it has also leveraged economies of scale and competitive forces to manufacture a mass market product that is, statistically, enjoyed by even the poorest households in America and which affords its users with the most powerful innovation since the printing press in their pockets.

EDIT: This comment has had a rapid change in up and down votes. It's fine to disagree with me, but I don't think it's unreasonable to question whether or not a lack of social mobility is actually a bad thing, as a Socratic baseline.
And they'd fire you over that? Woa, horrid place.
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Why do you think Bernie is inherently anti-business?

A lot of things he proposed, like single payer health care, would actually be great for small businesses.
English has become the new lingua franca

It's funnier if you say "de facto lingua franca" :-)

But the strength of English is that you can freely mix in words from other languages and there is enough redundancy that your meaning will probably be understood anyway, and eventually the word will simply be absorbed - and that's where alot of the irregularity came from. There's no Academie Francaise equivalent to police it and no-one even wants one.
Citation needed. If you were right, you wouldn't have employed baristas etc. quitting their jobs to drive uber.

To make your claim without acknowledging well-established upside of not being employed by Uber is disingenuous at best. Many drivers I talk to enjoy not having fixed work hours and the general flexibility not usually offered when you become an employee. Your argument speaks for none of these Uber drivers.
What don't you like about the design of memfd_create?
you could also install linux on a mac ( macbook pro ), last time I looked at a mac it was possible.
which were never really true

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we are discussing Tokyo in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

OK, scope difference. 'The Japanese Urban Zoning System' != modern Tokyo.

Demonstrably untrue. During the late 19th century, and most of the 20th century, protests were a significant aspect of Japanese society -- more so than in many western countries.

I would argue that extreme temporary conditions (war, forced modernization/industrialization) are a skewed sample of a society's normal behavior.

If you were talking about...

The title is 'The Japanese Urban Zoning System': city street layouts are closer to this than architecture.

Within Kyoto, the urban architecture is not really Chinese, even if the street layout used to be.

I would argue that modern architecture in Kyoto is demonstrably descended from Tang Dynasty woodworking techniques, courtyard layouts and Chang'an-style high density urban layout. The street layout is still based on Chang'an.
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YAML including the entirety of JSON is not a positive argument in favor of YAML.
Regulatory risk is an investment risk which companies face all the time. I might spend billions on developing a nuclear power plant and then have the government outlaw nuclear power. That doesn't mean I'm entitled to a share of the profits from solar power plants, it just means I made an investment in a business which went badly.

Taxis were part of a cartel. Any time you buy into a cartel, you should absolutely consider the risks of the cartel being broken up.

That MA is passing this is a huge mark against them and really lowers my opinion of the state. They're basically being bribed to stop innovation.
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Isn't that just kicking the can down the road? Wouldn't the government be better served revising the plan to take new innovation into account than instituting a tax purely to slow down innovation?
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Ah, you're confusing Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Roark is an architect in Fountainhead. What you have in mind is Rearden Steel giving money to Associated Steel of Orren Boyle.

But I agree, the current situation is eerily similar.
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I think that's why we need something like universal basic income. Keeping dysfunctional companies our entire industries alive is holding everybody back and also unfair to people who are part of smaller industries that fall through the cracks.
Yeah, it's another one of the many things that the Windows kernel gets right but *nix programmers never care to give it credit for. `FILE_LINK_INFORMATION` in Windows has a `ReplaceIfExists` flag just for this purpose.
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Now these are an amazing set of essays. I was wondering why so many people are ineffective at work despite doing productive work.
Here's one "call to action" image that's getting passed around on Twitter: https://twitter.com/abowersock/status/762829538535419904/pho.... While it's filled with the usual scary language and colors, looking at the text of the agreement itself, the scary language and colors seem basically correct.

For instance, re: the first buillet, here's Article 18.82, 3 (b). If I'm reading it correctly, it is requiring all countries to adopt the US DMCA system of "ISPs must take down material upon rightsholder request, without a court order":

"... shall include a requirement for Internet Service Providers to expeditiously remove or disable access to material residing on their networks or systems upon obtaining actual knowledge of the copyright infringement or becoming aware of facts or circumstances from which the infringement is apparent, such as through receiving a notice of alleged infringement from the right holder or a person authorised to act on its behalf"

Verifying the rest of the bullet points is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Charles is pretty fantastic, I used it a little bit for debugging an Android app's server communication. The only thing that turned me off is that Charles isn't open source.

An open source alternative is James[1], which is pretty cool. Full disclosure though, I am a contributor :)

1: https://github.com/james-proxy/james
Ah, it's chromatin marks you need. Well I guess you could get a lot of retinal tissue from the rat model they use and try to find some.
Interesting that this finding is in an animal that doesn't depend as much on vision as we do. Might be worth determining if the result holds up in e.g. a macaque model.
There is no bottom. The less things cost the less difference there is between having money and not.
When Uber switches to a fleet of self-driving cars (with lower paid drivers, since they'll just sit and watch 98% of the time), this tax would be absolutely nothing short of taxing innovation to save an inefficient business model. Wow. I thought Capitalism was evil. Now I don't know what to think.
That's not how taxi medallions came into existence. Cities began to regulate taxis. They set prices, made safety regulations, made it so taxis couldn't refuse service.

In exchange taxis were licensed to ensure the prices the city set supported a fleet of taxis.

It's hilarious that Uber a billion dollar corporation portrays a bunch of Muslim or African immigrants as rich fat cats. Just lol
Yes, all of them.
You identify most of the difficulty of this scenario:

1. Taxis are a dying industry, but taxi drivers are not adapting.

2. As a result, taxi drivers are suffering. Their livelihoods, which have brought food to their families' tables for decades, are being taken from them by forces they could not anticipate or control.

Of course,

3. We care about these taxi drivers. Suffering is bad no matter what industry you work in. Suffering is worth avoiding.

Ultimately our answer has to be to say "your job doesn't really exist anymore, you need to find a new one". But it matters how much time we give taxi drivers. Clearly, asking them to adapt overnight would be too demanding, so there's a balance to be made between market efficiency and the realities of our apish learning rates.

In the long run, a lot of jobs are going the way of the taxi, and perhaps basic income is the long-term solution. But we can't implement basic income today. It's a massive solution to what is currently a minor, contained problem.

Every country's policies are a gigantic legacy codebase. Basic income would be re-writing a huge chunk of the code, where this tax is adding yet another minor hack to keep the thing running smoothly.
Browsed the website for a while, but couldn't find out why anyone would use Pkgsrc over any other package manager. If you know I'd love to hear!
Not to say, real doctors need to be taxed to support homeopaths, power plants taxed to support oil lamp manufacturers etc. etc.
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>high resolution monitor
are you a game dev? someone who works with graphics? someone who does photo/video related work? shouldn't be using linux anyways. piss-poor OS for that type of work unless you want to spend time debugging stuff instead of working

>no standard for anything
there is a standard, it's just not the standard you're "used" to. again, if you don't wanna spend time learning new paradigms-linux is not the way to go for you

>The rabid hate people who write software for a living have for closed source software makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong. Do these people just have super human capabilities to be able to keep up Linux dev machines and resist the temptation of working MS installs? Is Windows as bad as people claim and I'm just subject to Stockholm Syndrome?
probably, linux requires a "i'll fix it/patch it/install something additional if it doesn't work" mindset whereas MS and Apple sell a "it just works" mindset to you-which works until something breaks(eg windows 10 broke my wifi,had to do some drilling to figure out windows 10 was using some kind of wonky setting for it that my wifi chip didn't support)
Well I wasn't scared of being fired for that one mistake. But I didn't want to make it again, because after the second time you've just shown yourself to be an ass. Most places I've worked at are like "we allow you to make mistakes, but not the same mistake twice."
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> If you were right, you wouldn't have employed baristas etc. quitting their jobs to drive uber.

Right. No one ever took a job without knowing the full effects of said job.

Everyone is 100% aware of the situation of their employment and of the inherent consequences of that job.

Next up: obesity is just a media circus, nobody actually eats more than they need to survive.
Truck driver is the most common profession in most states. Self-driving trucks will make their jobs obsolete overnight. Imagine the immediate effect of all those people being without a job. What will happen to retail when those truckers buy less or stop buying? What will happen to wholesale shortly after? What will happen to all other industries? That truck drivers keep their jobs, or that they are gradually able to transition into new ones, is not just necessary not to feel bad about them, but to keep the whole economy running. Innovation is good. Unemploying a huge sector of our economy overnight because of innovation, I am not so sure.
Uber is, I don't know about Lyft. Does anyone here knows about Lyft's profitability?
There has been a few times I couldn't find more obscure packages on there. I still keep brew installed on my machine, where those packages are available. Wish there were more friendly (ruby-esque and fun like homebrew) tutorials on how to create packages.

I hope to use Nix for go and c programs the same way you use Boot/Lein, Maven, Bundle and Npm for their respective tasks - make a manifest local to a project directory. No more figuring out whatever that library is called in my package manager...
I use macports but I am not happy about having to install full blown XCode in order to install macports in order to install (insert trivial, minor package here).

Has this changed ?

I am basing this on my experience of both Snow Leopard and Mavericks ... and in those cases, I had to download and install XCode. Further, this is (I suppose) more a criticism of OSX and how it does not include basic tools ...
For the MBP I think there is no argument. The OP is asking about the MBA though, and then it gets trickier because Apple is still shipping it with that godawful 1440x900 screen. Computers like the XPS 13 have really leapfrogged Apple in that respect. There are still a lot of pluses in the MBA's column but having used high-DPI screens, I couldn't go back to that one. Don't forget that Dell ships the "Developer Edition" with reasonably robust driver support out of the box.
I didn't say they don't want to do another job. I said they don't want to go back to school. They either hated school or were bored sick of it. So they'll generally look for other jobs available at their skill level. That's why inequality grows. Disruptive tech creates jobs for educated ambitious people while displacing people who are less so. Yeah we as a society can tell them it's their problem, but there might be a lot of them, and they might be a force to be reckoned with politically. Will it escalate beyond Trump, Brexit, etc.? Who knows.

Telling people to get more school is something educated people often do, but it's sometimes a bit self-serving. It makes themselves feel like they're a winner and they deserve it when often their circumstances positioned them better to be able to get that education in the first place.
I'm saying that if Uber was trying to devalue Lyft, it's far too obvious a ploy. It won't work. They may as well have said Lyft is worthless-- it'd still be for obvious reasons, but at least that wouldn't have established such a high floor.

Any buyer reading this will assume that this means Uber thinks Lyft is actually worth upwards of $6-8B. As such, it is silly of Uber to have signaled this, unless they have a third-order effect they are hoping for (eg getting someone to overpay for Lyft). But I agree with you that that is unlikely to work... therefore, Uber is being silly here.
I commented on the different points of view of the younger and the older at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11729287#11739659 .
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I'm with you on that. This effectively ended any reason I still had left to develop on OSX.
So working for uber is just like obesity? Got it!

Ironically, OP is the one arguing as if he is 100% aware of job of driving an uber and his awareness leads him to argue that it is categorically bad.

More realistically, it is good for some, bad for some...like basically any other job.