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I have a friend who uses it to treat Chron's. Before, he was somewhat straight-edge, as I still am.

He learned that cannabis comes under two general categories; one mostly hits "the head", e.g. Makes you really high and behave silly. Another hits the body.

If I remember correctly, the former didn't really help with pain or comfort much; the latter is less popular with recreational users for obvious reasons. At any rate, there's a huge catalog of varieties out there; I would suggest going to forums frequented by other Chrons sufferers or cancer patients and get some specific recommendations.
"Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit, they blame everything in their life on somebody else."

The ungratefulness of this guy... saying this to one of your drivers, one of the people who is directly responsible for the success of your business.

Without him and the thousands like him, Travis would be nothing.
I don't understand why they cut prices. I've never used Uber because it's cheaper, I use it because it's better. If the drivers are able to make decent money, I feel even better about using it.

Ideally, I wish the price was high enough that drivers didn't ask for tips. However, if tipping becomes the norm, Uber should remove the friction of tipping by adding it into the app.
It's also common knowledge that arbitrarily changing a standard costs money. They have to educate hundreds of millions of users, re-jigger their databases and services, and forego a well known trademark feature of their product. Why bother? Everyone's memorized that it's 140 characters, and people have adapted pretty well to 140-character microblogging. Would 1,000 have been better? Possibly, possibly not. I think Twitter's fundamental problems run deeper than the SMS limitation; apart from some celebrity accounts with tens of millions of followers such as @RealDonaldTrump etc., they are starting to lose relevance compared to Facebook and other, more dynamic services.
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Oh sure, but the context is REST apis, not WebDAV :)

PATCH allows two users to update different fields on the same resource at the same time with no conflicts. Otherwise, they'd use PUT and the last update would win unless they use something (client-side) such as compare and set.
Temperature can be controlled using steering wheel controls. You do need to use the touchscreen to activate the defroster, though. I don't personally find it to be a problem, as the controls are right at the bottom (removing a dimension) and I never used the defroster often enough in other cars to be able to activate it without looking either.
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You are 40 years old and run a startup valued well into the billions. You are probably far beyond the growing up stage. This is who you are Travis.

For context, many people said Steve Jobs needed to grow up during his first stint at Apple (and no one ever accused him of running a company that has major issues with sexual harassment). Jobs was 29 when the Mac came out, and this was after the big success with the Apple II. By the time Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the 1990s and performed an amazing turnaround of Apple, he was in his early 40s.
Yeah, but how you can lose 97k? Did he crash it on the first day? If the black is not doing great I trade it for a Prius and lose 25k?
Infosys, Tata, etc in addition to being horrible bodyshops that treat their people like garbage are also some of the larger lobbying groups in the US. I know Infosys alone donated something like 3+ million dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
They are working on improving them though, specially with Dotty.

In any case they aren't as bad as C++ (at least until modules arrive).
I suspect WebAssembly is going to create a niche for very lightweight engines optimized for download footprint, too.

And as you say, UE and Unity seem to be optimized for artist-driven projects rather than coder-driven projects. Which, realistically, are always going to be the majority of commercial efforts, but coders often prefer code. I've written a (basic) 3D object modeller app, and I still can't work out how to use Blender.
At first I had it worked back to America's tinkering past. I don't make that association, so I find the tone really interesting, but I can see how it would be easy to get a sense of Wilbur and Orville Wright building their first aircraft and feeling the joy of moving in a manner you've never moved before.

But the vessel angle is interesting too.
It's a performance optimizations at the moment, since there is much less types. However I know this is an issue for the future and I have a solution prepared.
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Uber drivers aren't employees. Uber is a vendor for the driver. In fact, Uber's existence depends on that being the case.
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Nope. Fairly low utilization on most of the 8 cores. It's only halving the GPU resources if all of the GPU resources are being used. And that's kind of the point.. adding more GPU won't help for most VR because the games simply won't use it.
Absolutely. I've worked with dozens of remote teams in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, and every single one of them has produced absolute garbage work product, and the project management is very much CYA and do-as-little-as-possible. On paper it's nice to give them a list of things to be completed overnight, but in actuality it's never done.

Random web service times out once? Don't do any more work on anything, even stuff that doesn't use that service. Bill the full 8 hours though, of course.

Have a question about some tangentially related business process? Stop work until we get an answer, bill the full 8.

Oh, someone is actually checking our commits? The guy that wrote that is on vacation, sorry.

Oh, someone is actually checking our commits? Delete and recommit entire files, now it's impossible to see the volume of work complete.

At my current gig we picked up about 40 offshore developers and ended up dropping every one of them within the first year. We're still remote but US only at this point.
I'm honestly surprised by it. I had gotten the uninformed impression that it was being abandoned. I think the introduction of Duo or whatever it's called (the new chat platforms) threw me off.
Kalanick is 40 years old. Demographically, he must have been surrounded by "grown-ups" for more than half of that time, i. e. people who don't consider sexual harassment a fun hobby for his brand of overachievers. If he didn't get it before, I doubt he will now.

But, if he's seen the light, great. It's obviously tainted by being motivated solely by his effort to safe Uber. If he's sincere, his newfound believes would be best served by resigning, or switching to a role at Uber where he's no longer responsible for managing people.

Not that it matters – Uber isn't much more than a bro-themed ponzi scheme anyway. Their investors are subsidizing each ride on the order of 100% of the fare, there's no economies of scale to grow to, nor are there barriers to entry. Maybe consumers will continue to use the service. But investors, employees, and drivers won't. It's anybody's guess as to how long they can survive without fresh cash, but I bet this apology stems from Kalanick's ability to see the end of the runway.
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I have a MacBook Air 2011 with Lion and Safari 6. Today Google released Meet and I can't even know what's that about, their web page won't even show me a welcome page showcasing the features with some cool pics or something, instead I get a blank page saying I am not welcome.

Sadly that same experience has been happening lately in every major website I visit, like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Medium. Sometimes I go to the Develop menu and change my user agent to Safari 7 and now they let me in, WTF? Am I welcome or not?

Some people would say I should upgrade my OS, and even if I would like to do that, my laptop only has 2GB RAM so it would be almost impossible to even open notepad without making it crawl to a halt, while right now from start up to the web it takes less than five seconds. So no, that's not an option, much less buying a new computer.

I am not saying the world should stop progress to accommodate our needs, or that everybody should feel compassionate for poor, insane and plain dumb people like me, I just say it is hard to accept that a perfectly fine computer no longer has access to the modern internet.

We're being phased out, and that's definitely a sad feeling.
maybe we just don't get to hear about those problems.
I'm on the other end of things, but never got a satisfying answer to why should I earn a cent less than someone US based (remote, traveling nomad whatever) just because I push commits from a different ISP.
Android Messenger on android phones too lol
You don't have any Lyft drivers where you are?
I'm not so sure. I don't know about Uber's specific corporate structure and bylaws, but in many corporations, the Board of Directors has the power to fire CEOs for cause.

If that's the case there, Kalanick might have been on the other end of a very painful phone call with Uber's board. Yesterday's news might have been the last straw for them.

Even powerful heads of successful companies have even more powerful people to answer to.
Maybe from one of the subprime loans Uber was pushing, in partnership with banks that destroyed the economy during the 2008 financial crisis:

http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/6/3/11852940/uber-...
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I am a user of Lyft and (very rarely) Uber. As a passenger in these services, I had an expectation of privacy---I would not expect that the driver could record me. I've certainly had conversations on the phone that I would expect to be private.

Travis may have had the same expectation.

On the other hand, a CEO of a billion dollar company should have been coached about how to politely react to criticism.
Whoever wrote this doesn't seem to have much experience with the .NET ecosystem.

Referring to F Sharp as "#F"; saying Visual Studio is in the "growth" phase; no mention of IIS under web server or SQL Server under database or Xamarin under any of the relevant mobile sections.

Overall I like the visualizations though
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I bet a lot of Uber Black drivers are really hurting from the fare changes. If the amount of money you get paid as a driver drops below your car payment, and you're upside down on your car loan - seems likely, for a full-time Uber driver - then you're going to be in a pretty tight spot.

More generally, I suspect that a big part of Uber getting people to sign on to drive for them full time involved transferring the costs of fleet management to the drivers (at inflated rates, no less, since they have a higher cost of capital, have to pay retail prices for mechanics, etc), without the drivers fully understanding the financial ramifications of that arrangement.
Yeah, the driver was the one yelling and jabbing his finger at Kalanick. He obviously did not want to have a constructive dialogue, so Kalanick left. Seems reasonable enough to me.

I mean, blaming your purchase of an expensive car on Uber? Really? You're bankrupt because you put all your eggs in one basket buddy, not because Kalanick is an asshole.

That being said, Kalanick has acted like an asshole in the past, but this is not one of those times.
At the same time, Zig is basically only a thin layer on top of LLVM. Since it's a low-level language itself, it can get away with having close to no static flow analysis beyond this partial evaluation (and maybe types?)
The web is supposed to be an open platform, if you don't want to share your intellectual work, you don't have to publish on it.
It looks like I'm in the minority here, but I honestly don't see what's so bad with how Kalanick reacted. The guy was giving him a hard time and he reacted accordingly, I even think he held back alot more than he could have. Kalanick's right, 'Some people don’t like to take responsibility for their own s‑‑‑.' There's alot of truth there. If a company changes their policy, and it affects your income, it's not the company's responsibility to fix that for you. either you find a competing company that can make you more money, or you have to find another way to get your income. In either case, it's your problem to handle. It reminds me of Amazon's recent changes to their affiliate program. There will be people that will maneuver around the policy changes and pull through, then there will be people that will remain stagnant, lose money and blame everyone but themselves.

Kalanick should have doubled down. "Yeah, I was mean, but the guy was a d*ck." Then again, I'm just an armchair analyst. I don't have a multi-billion dollar company to handle.
Uber is not a taxi company. They do not compete with Taxis, but with car ownership.

EDIT: I knew if I won't make my point explicit it will be misread. I was referring to:

> Then, we'll see if they'll really survive as a taxi company.

They are building self-driving cars to create a logistic company. They have a limited interest in being a taxi company(in a classical sense), therefore they don't care much.
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The average american who maybe lost a factory job 10 years ago, or who's parents made a good living working for a Ford factory in the 60s.. is mad about manufacturing leaving the country. There are millions of people with low education unable to make a living wage. That is where the anger is.

When an India bodyshop comes in, and displaces 50 people making 100k a year.. and they have to go find a new job making 100k a year within a month, there is much less outrage. The general rust belt population in the US is not going to go to bat for lawyers getting paid less, or IT workers making 10 or 20k less. Their parents made 60k working at a Ford factory, and now they make 20k working for a carwash. They are the ones that are outraged.
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If you want to render at 2560x1440 inside of VR and not lose quality the VR resolution has to be bigger per eye than display resolution. You would need a VR headset that has 4k per eye rather than a better GPU.
alright, what about nocturnal animals with huge sensitive eyes ? or why not evolve searchlights or even lasers ?
> the Board of Directors has the power to fire CEOs for cause

The CEO serves at the Board's pleasure. The Board can fire them because there is too much egg in their Cobb salad.
As I've said elsewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if Uber's Board of Directors could still fire him.
Different goals are allowed to have different execution strategies.
Maybe, but with one caveat. I would want to have the advice from 2 or more people, and only if they couldn't see each other's responses. It's hard to know when programming advice is wrong if you're not familiar with a language or a framework, so there'd be no way to know if the advice was actually useful. If I could get 2 or 3 people's answers to the question and they were all the same that would increase my confidence that they're actually right, and that my $25 was well spent.

As a developer I would also be quite happy to sit with a chat app open answering questions for $5 each if I could choose what to answer and there weren't too many problems actually getting paid.
Some places I lived in the states, you couldn't rely on a taxi to get you to work on time. I specifically asked. You had to call when you needed it and they said you'd wait anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours.

Nothing like being nearly 2 hours early for work when the place isn't even unlocked yet.
There are a couple reasons why we included schemas in the spec:

- JSON doesn't have a robust set of data types, and specifically lacks a datetime/timestamp type. With a schema, Taps can, for example, denote fields in the JSON that contain datetimes represented as strings, and then targets can convert those to proper datetimes and handle them accordingly.

- Dealing with un-structured or flexibly-structured data is hard. Requiring a schema forces a Tap author to think about the structure of the data up front. By validating each data point against a schema, the Tap author should be able to more quickly identify nuances in the data set - like missing fields, nullable fields, mixed-type fields, etc - and either decide to clean them out of the data (if appropriate), or provide the right schema to inform downstream applications about them. Identifying and handling these problems requires an understanding of the source data set, so it is best done as close to the data source as possible.
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EVs do have a hood. Most of them use it to hold drivetrain and various other equipment just like a traditional car. Teslas have enough surplus volume to provide a cargo area under it.

Charging cables are more flexible than gasoline hoses, so they're easier to manage. They tend to be pretty long, so you don't usually have to park any particular way. If the charger is on the wrong side, you can easily plug in anyway.

An exception to this is Tesla Superchargers, where the cable is just barely long enough to reach the charge port when you park the way you're intended to. But since all Supercharger-capable vehicles have the charge port in the same location, it's not an issue.

Regarding the original comment's proposal to standardize this stuff, I can only imagine that California would mandate it on one side, New York would mandate it on the other side, and then we'd be even more doomed than we are already.
I had a conversion with a yellow cab driver in NYC who was an uber driver for 2015, said it bankrupt him. I asked him why, he said "because I'm an idiot" - I asked him to elaborate and he said he didn't know basic finance well, and hadn't taken into account what it would actually cost him to drive cab for uber for the year (guy was in his late 50s, immigrated from Egypt 25 years ago). The uber rep who signed him up told him he should expect to make X dollars, that ended up not being true and his costs for insurance, fule, etc etc ended up putting him behind on the year, couldn't afford his mortgage or his car payments so he just declared bankruptcy. A medallion owner I talked to yesterday who was driving his own yellow cab is declaring bankruptcy because uber made his medallion worthless and the bank no longer considers it an asset. All in all it's a fucking mess for drivers yellow cab or otherwise.
I think thats because China takes away a lot of manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing in India is yet to take off.
UCSF doesn't even have any sports teams...
> It's certainly in both the consumer's interest

I have to disagree. I dislike subscriptions for several reasons, especially in an area like video games where there is replay value. (I, at least, don't re-watch tv/movies the way I re-play video games.)

A) Subscriptions give me anxiety, a feeling that I have to maximize the value I'm getting from the fixed cost.
B) As a direct follow-on, it makes me feel rushed. My game play style is slow, I like adventure games. But if playing longer/slower costs more then I have pressure to hurry, rather than to enjoy.
C) For casual play, I can buy a game once and enjoy it in small bursts over a long window of time. With subscriptions, I have to pay $X/mo even if I only spend an hour in a given month consuming the subscription.
D) I have subscription overload. I still have cable, for a variety of reasons (including its attachment to the internet service I'd buy anyway), and Amazon Prime (mostly for the shipping). But I don't subscribe to anything else. If I did I'd feel like I need to subscribe to Netflix, and Hulu, and Spotify, and Google Music, and PS Now, and Xbox Game Pass, and .. and .. and ...
> I must fundamentally change and grow up ...

... if I am to keep my lucrative boob magnet.
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A few weeks ago I wrote the same application four times in four different JVM languages: Java, Groovy, Scala, and Kotlin, with a particular focus on the application using functional techniques and types as well as being reactive. I also included as goals complete test coverage with a preferred test framework from each language and complete build tooling, all within a single Gradle project.

The only significant sources of variance were the following:

a) Groovy's support for functional programming is starting to show its age. It worked with everything, though.

b) The Scala 2.12 compiler has at least one bug that appears to affect its interaction with Java 8 lambdas (in particular, in at least one case expr.method() and (expr).method() will not pass the compiler's typecheck, but { val x = expr; x.method() } does. (All three pass IntelliJ's typechecker for Scala.) Outside of this (aggravating) issue and slower build times, it did work.

c) Java works well with everything but ends up being quite verbose, especially in regards to a functional programming style (no surprise there).

d) Kotlin (1.0) works well with everything and is relatively succinct except for Mockito due to everything defaulting to 'final' - but it appears that Kotlin 1.1 fixes this with a compiler plugin.

Based on my experience with all four languages, I would definitely try adding Kotlin to projects. It seems to be surprisingly mature and stable given how much less time it has spent in development (relative to the other three languages.)
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I didn't mean it as an excuse, but as a way to explain and understand the problem. I'm not even considering whether he had "good intentions" or not. I have no way of judging that.

Understanding is the first step on fixing it and preventing it in the future. Pointing fingers at someone as if they're the root and the single cause of the problem might feel good, but it's too easy an explanation.

In your case of an asshole CEO and an ignorant CEO, I wouldn't prefer either. Both are just as bad. But the ignorant CEO just never learned empathy and might be able to become a better human; the purposely asshole CEO is irreparably broken.
But I bet their devs could whiteboard the heck out of a Fibonacci function!