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One time when I took an Uber, the driver told me how Uber was defrauding him. He had his friend order an Uber, and he made sure to pick him up, and they compared the prices. The prices, unsurprisingly, were much higher for the passenger than for the driver.

The difficulty of course is proving this to be true. And then the question is how much does Uber lose from a settlement? Probably less than they earned from price manipulation.

But at this point it seems people might actually think negatively of Uber as a whole, but how long that will stick is hard to say.
glad to know that there are so many terms for the phenomenon.
Why is dropping Unity lumped with dropping MIR?

Unity is great and I love it, I don't want to lose it.
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Info I would find useful in deciding to proceed with Atlas:

1. What are the ongoing costs for a company which, worse case scenario, makes little or no money?

2. What are the costs to close such a company, fulfilling the likely tax and regulatory requirements?

I do understand that Stripe is not a law firm or an accounting firm, and I have read through the publicly available documentation. Even so, I find myself uneasy about the possible downsides of getting tangled up with the US system.

Obviously, if everything goes well nothing will be a real problem: the money coming in can cover all sorts of ridiculous fees, tax demands and ridiculous bank charges. I am sure, however, that many potential owners are, like me, more focused upon the possibility that they might find themselves in a financial and paperwork blizzard that will drag on for years.

I am grateful that Atlas makes it easy to jump in, but how difficult will it be to jump out if necessary?

Related: I get that making the entire Atlas Forum members-only adds to the perceived value of membership, but it is frustrating for potential applicants who are hungry to hear about the experiences of others. Having just one open section would almost certainly encourage more people to go ahead and sign up.
Research and development, manufacturing, training, it ended up being fantastically expensive. Remember, this was a highly capable analog computer that had to operate in a difficult environment and even included a self-destruct feature.

http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/the-norden-bombs...

> ...the cost of the entire program came to more than $1 billion.
No, you're right; France more than anyone was responsible for the awfulness of the Versailles Treaty. But if the US hadn't gotten involved, the war would've ended indecisively, and the French could never have demanded and gotten such terms. (The Austrian Empire would probably also have been kept intact, and Italy would have had little chance of stealing the South Tirol.)

A negotiated peace in the west would probably have also repealed the horrible peace in the east. The Germans defeated Russia completely enough that they could get whatever it occurred to them to demand; the resulting treaty was almost as hard on the defeated as Versailles, even though Germany wasn't actively out to destroy Russia, and it certainly didn't help the Whites in the civil war.
The whole point of "network effect" strategy is to render this analysis untrue.
that wasn't the question.
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Just install F-droid using the apk from the official site, add the repo [1], refresh the package list if this was not done automatically by F-droid, and install GmsCore along with GsfProxy in F-droid.

[1]: You can use the QR code here to avoid typing the URL into F-droid: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...
No this doesn't happen. Some people may think that Uber charges the rider a different rate than the driver receives but it isn't the case.

A driver I had was sure this happened and asked me that on a fairly expensive trip (I think it was around $80).

I told him this didn't happen and I gave him my personal phone number and the amount of fare I was charged. I told him to check his daily numbers and if he didn't see this charge then to call me immediately. He never did.
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That's funny. Most of the named individuals have gotten fat off the hog from their charlatanry. They say one thing but then live a life concomitant with belief they're better people due to their success. They're a waste of space even once dead and buried. But of course anything they want believers to just look away from and not actually explore, is labeled heresy, or sacrilege, or apostasy.

A good sign they don't care is they just shrug. The sign they want something for themselves is to label it proscribed for man.

And considering the deals the Catholic church made to gain money, power, and have its political adversaries, ordinary citizens, murdered: It's objectively a more depraved and immoral organization than all of the American ones combined. An organization that looks evil incarnate in the eye, and when ostensibly should be able to, among any organization, recognize and object to it and defend humanity against it, actually made a pact with evil instead.

There might be no more wretched single organization than the Catholic Church because of the hope it was supposed to stand for, and the immense and consistent betrayal of that trust throughout its history. So the idea the Catholic church stands opposed to prosperity theology is like shit icing on a shit cake. It's ridiculous. It's not even believable. And it wouldn't be funny if someone tried to sell you such a thing.
The most likely successor to Capitalism is not Socialism but Anarchism. The transition looks like this:

Decentralized infrastructure for commerce allows individuals to compete with corporations on a level playing field. In other words, Uber for Everything on Ethereum. You will know this has happened whenit is just as easy for a college student to hire a semiconductor design team as it is for Tim Cook, so long as the college student has their business model in order.

Another way to think about this is "AIs take away the finance jobs".

That will (largely) negate the competitive advantage of capital, people will realize there are plenty of resources to go around, stop working so many hours, and eventually stop thinking about money during daily transactions like feeding each other, fixing things, fabricating personal items, etc.

This will, with respect to resource allocation, represent a successful transition from "Capitalism" to "Anarchism" * , although money will still be used for certain activities involving superpersonal (more than what a person needs) amounts of resources (yachts, blockbuster films, musid festivals, etc). And some locales will stay under a propertarian regime. Regulatory capture is too slow to tip the balance of power back to Capital, although it will cause some hiccups along the way.

* Besides the dissolution of property, Anarchism also suggests changes to social expectations around state-sponsored violence, but that's is a whole other discussion. I am not aware of a satisfying story for how that goes down.
"The current public version of Spanner does not support client-side interactive transactions either."

Did not know that...why?
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You can't forget the difference in scale. Lyft is only in USA, while Uber is a global company. For them to enter Europe/Asia now, would mean tremendous investment.
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I don't think the germans sue for peace without the US involved. The Russian army had been destroyed. They could devote nearly all their resources to the Western front. They probably can't win, but they also can't lose, so you either get years of stalemate or both sides grudgingly agree to peace.
Exactly what he said.
http://www.legion.ca/honour-remember/remembrance-day-ceremon...

> Every year on November 11, millions gather to collectively stand in honour of all who have fallen in the service of their country.

http://www.statutoryholidays.com/2017.php

> Remembrance Day | November 11, Saturday | National except MB, ON, QC, NS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day

> Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

---

Armistice day is November the 11th (1919) and can be commemorated every year. Remembrance day is every November the 11th. Remembrance Sunday is the second Sunday of every November.

When someone observes Remembrance day, on the 11th or the second Sunday, they are Remembering those who have `fallen in the service of their nation`.

Veterans Day is a day that honours those that have served in the US military. Also on November the 11th.

They all share a common history (ie. Armistice day) however they are all subtley different days.

Most Commonwealth nations have Remembrance Day observances, slightly fewer have Remembrance Sunday observances.

Most central European nations observe a similar day in meaning (remembering the dead) but on different dates.
My bad. Misunderstood partially about the post/article.
It depends on your philosophy on what defines creativity, and whether all creativity is derivative of observing others.
23andMe uses genotyping. IANAMB, but I think that means they run a series of assays each of which "examines" a small PART of the genome to look for something very specific.

As part of their process, however, they could extract the DNA and keep a sample frozen for later assays or even full genome sequencing but I don't know if they do that.

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904600...
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Why would that matter? Human understanding of sentiment would also go down if you removed vital information such as punctuation.
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Falls apart in practice all the time. From advertising to children, to loss-leaders, to student debt, etc.; individuals have found many ways to influence others via the markets.

The idea that every transaction is strictly rational and voluntary is a fantasy.
If Uber wanted to protect themselves, they'd authorize for the slower route and settle for the actual route (up to authorization).

It sounds like Uber is using two estimates (or possibly an estimate and a actual; unclear from article) and simply pocketing the difference to increase their margins.

It's an incredibly deceptive practice if Uber is billing you for a route it doesn't intend to send you on. As a customer, I feel it's outright fraudulent -- they're simply lying about their intentions to charge me a higher rate for their service without disclosing they're billing at a higher rate.

I wouldn't tolerate that from any contracting service -- charge more hourly, or bill by the deliverable, but don't lie to me about how you intend to do the work. I don't care, but I do care you're lying to me.
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There was the Jacob Appelbaum drama not so long ago, which was quite ugly and really seemed to drag out.
Have you already done a 23andMe analysis? If so, you can check out https://promethease.com/. It's exactly what you're looking for as they have constant updates that make it worth your while to rescan every year or so.
Why not more memory? Esp. with the 1080Ti at 11GB and half the price, it would've made sense to push this to at least 16GB or even 24GB to distinguish it.
Except for pubs, which are helpful broadcasters of both private and public stuff, but it makes sense to host them on an infrastructure that can ingest 70 GB a day and have a couple days of retention
Now they sell people only "ancestry" report for half the (now doubled) price. They probably don't get it, but I expect everyone on a "full" plan does. They already have the DNA info.
Upon self-examination, I file such stories in one of two buckets: "aww, no way; convince me" and "yeah, I'd believe that". Apple is taking your Apple Pay transactions and buying Ferraris with the rounding errors? Yeaaaah, you're going to need some easily-verified facts for that one. Uber is running a child porn ring in their basement to make ends meet? I'm a bit skeptical, but I'll most take that at face value given everything else.
It wouldn't be very sophisticated if that's all it took to discover fraud.
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It's somewhere on my TODO list :) I make a "f*ck you Krzysztof" app for every new phone OS I get: there's one for J2ME, Android, now gotta learn myself some QML... Krzysztof is not very amused.
It is a matter of implementation.

It was native on the Alto, as the primitives were implemented in microcode, which could be a FPGA nowadays.

Also Squeak and Pharo are implemented in Smalltalk.
much free software is done on spare time, so people are most often personally involved in their "babies". Creating an institution allows one to take some step back, but so may the motivation... I wonder things are really this way...
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How do you explain free banking then? Banks issued their own notes (fiat debt instruments) to gold depositors. This was not a good system in the end, which is how central banking and the national note as the only legal currency arose. But it lasted anywhere between 20-100 years in most countries. I too think the state has a role in defending its currency but saying they invented debt money does not square up with history.
I want to see an action movie where Picard just negotiates for half-off lobster deals. Need some memorable characters like Q appearing and maybe Tasha gets reincarnated for a hot second.
Teacher salaries in 2013 (there's more data there than that, but whatever)[0]. Census data for the same year [1]. And lastly, per capita spending on students[2].

Perks teachers enjoy are variant as you mention, but tend to be solid. My GF is a teacher, her perks are: Contracted for 38 hours / week, 15 sick days a year that roll-over (I think there's some limit), something like 3 weeks of vacation during the school year, summer vacation, pension program, good health insurance, very difficult to be fired from the job.

Also, when looking at teacher salary vs median, realize that they are working a lot less of the year than other people. I did the math between my GF and I and once you account for all her time off, she makes slightly less than I do.

[0]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_211.60.a...
[1]: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
[2]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
The existence of trade is a strong indication that preference and choice was still available -- for why bother exchanging things otherwise.

I suggest reading the R. A. Radford paper that I linked in another answer, it's really fascinating.
Would be interesting to know if revenues and profits match that valuation at the same 10x coefficient.
Accusing me of not reading your comment is kind of offensive, and the implication (that I'm only disagreeing because I'm not reading your arguments) is also offensive.

Given that POSIX does not define a way to select between fair and unfair locks, having any way to do that is by definition not a standard. Your argument against Apple having a way to get unfair locks is just as much an argument against Linux/Windows having a way of getting fair locks (assuming they even have that! I sure hope they do). And in any case, you don't need to #ifdef all your code everywhere to use os_unfair_lock, you just need to #ifdef a single line where you call pthread_mutexattr_setpolicy_np().

> I get that no-one would ever want to change an implemented default behavior in their OS, but that doesn't make the situation any better.

I recognize that having different behaviors on different OSes is suboptimal. The problem is you continue to imply that macOS's behavior is wrong, with the only justification being that Linux and Windows both behave differently. And I do not accept that argument. I'm also not convinced that this is really a big problem anyway. Fairness in locks is probably a little more important on Apple platforms than other platforms because of the QoS system. If you have an unfair lock that both the main thread and a "utility" thread use all the time, the utility thread will probably get starved since the main thread has a much higher QoS. So it's good that Apple platforms default to fair locks, because thread starvation is pretty bad. Personally, I think Linux and Windows platforms should default to fair locks too, with unfair-but-fast being opt-in, but that's an argument I've already made.

> but you might consider not ignoring valid arguments

Once again you are being offensive.

> Aggressively misinterpreting statements can be, though.

And even more offensive.

Seriously, if this is how you're going to argue, I don't see much point in continuing. You're providing fairly weak arguments in favor of all platforms should be the same, without recognizing that the platforms may have reasons for behaving differently, and constantly trying to imply that Apple platforms should be the ones to change while providing literally no reason whatsoever why that change should happen instead of Linux/Windows changing. This is not a compelling argument. And you keep insulting me at the same time, and I genuinely don't understand why you think that's going to change my mind.
One of the beautiful aspects of Uber over say, taking a taxi, is that you only pay the one price no matter what. You don't have to worry over the route. You don't have to do anything other than get in a car and know you will get where you want to for the price you agreed to.

Also, if there is a fare left over, why should it go to the driver? Uber isn't existing to just get rides for drivers and forward all proceeds to them. They are a giant company that needs to be making money off of every ride. A lot more money than they are making now if they are ever going to be cashflow positive.
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Leaving it consumers to worry about fraud is not how you create a functioning market economy. The real equilibrium in places where fraud isn't punished is you rely on the market as little as you can and everyone is poorer as a result. Fraud is illegal for good reasons.
Well I guess that's settled, then.
That logic also seems to be true in most major corporations...
In terms of #3, if you're yielding until the next requestAnimationFrame, the browser is telling you when you have the opportunity to do more work. Is there something that isn't covered by that?

> they're already fast enough that most of the time is spent in rendering, not in javascript DOM manipulation

That hasn't been my experience, but it's been awhile since I've benchmarked any of the frameworks in common use. Change tracking, diffing, and then the dom calls have all been the bulk of the work in large updates. Assuming you're doing those in a dom fragment I'm not sure how "rendering time" (I'm taking that to mean compositing and painting?) could be the bottleneck in that scenario.
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I've hit this before, but honestly do not think it's a big deal. Sure the installer could default to a larger boot, but it's manually configurable during install. And cleaning it up once in a while is just good sys admin practice.

sudo bash -c "apt auto-remove --purge; apt update; apt upgrade" is what I usually run.

Prefer they focus engineering cycles on actual engineering problems.
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What do you dislike about the current state of programming?
The project has transitioned to a non-commercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) until sustainable funding has been acquired. The code is still open source, but apparently asking to be compensated for work that improves the security of the entire Android ecosystem is too much for FOSS fanatics.
> Marx's economics are the basis for almost all functioning social democracies

What? That is absurd. Maybe it could be claimed that other people who were partially inspired by Marx made modern states, but that's about all.

> Hilariously, Hayek predicted that they would devolve into serfdom, which is what is actually happening in the country that hemmed closer to his ideology.

Clearly you have not actually read or understood Hayek. This often gets repeated but everybody that knows anything about Hayek understands that this is false.

> The tech industry

I'm not gone address this because its so clearly false. There is a huge industry with 100000s of firms all over the world. Also I work in a small tech company who sells to other firms of very different sizes.

> The failure of socialism to develop in more advanced economies is the result of a violent, rightist empire that toppled any governments that moved democratically too far in this direction. Take Chile, for example...

True to some extent, but also a convenient excuse. Chile for example was never Socialist, they had a Socialist president for a while, but that's all. All the places that went for into that direction destroyed themselves as well, the hole Soviet Block, Venezuela and more.

Marx btw never really defined how these systems should work. Other people did that based on what they thought Marx was saying.

> Marxist economics have been intentionally discredited by US institutions to serve their political ends.

False again. Marxist economics was already discredit wildly in Europe before US had many economists or institutions interested in economics.

> But there are plenty of modern Marxists economists in European and Asian institutions.

Again simply false. You can look at any indicators of economist opinions and you will see a huge majority of opposition everywhere in the world.

> The bought and paid for economists in their cozy corporate think tanks are not the totality of economic thought.

Again, Marx was already discredited before there really were think tanks. Eugen Böhm von Bawerk was not payed by JPMorgen, and neither were most other economist at the time.
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The telco companies cannot be more pathetic. AT&T still charges and still counts one RCS message as one MMS/SMS, on top of the standard data rate. Why is something like this, which relies completely on data, is still a technically limited resource? I guess if they could count emails, they would count emails sent and received too. The whole reason why we have this clusterfuck of competing yet non-standard and non-interop messaging solutions is because of their greed.
I didn't intend it to be at the expense of the OP. If anything it was meant to be at the expense of Google. Although I wasn't trying to be malicious about it.
No one cares... outside of tech circles. Even then, I bet a ton of people will still use it, why? Convenience, price and "what does that have to do with me?" mentality. If I am being honest, I will still use Uber... especially in Colombia and other places where it totally obliterates cabs.
Yes, this. If it's free, you're the product. Same reason I pay for Fastmail.
This is awesome, thanks! My apologies I must have missed it somewhere.