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The problem is that to redistribute the pie, you need a strong state that is able to fairly tax the rich. Right now it is trivial for the rich to avoid taxation by shifting their liquid wealth from place to place, and putting states in a race to the bottom on taxes for their more productive assets. That's why in order to build a factory, localities fall over one another to offer the most tax credits, and the owner ends up with zero taxes for a decade.

Ironically, the cure to one of globalization's ills is a strong centralized world government. Good luck ever getting that taken seriously though.

Europe's experience during the crisis shows that economic integration (mobility of capital, labor, and goods) without political integration is a recipe for disaster. Guess what? That describes the current world economy very well.
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Not Genius, but kind of a cool but disgusting trick. And Karma is natures greatest boomerang.
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I think it helps to give constructive criticism.

Musk is adamant that lidar isn't necessary. Many disagree and are voicing their opinions on that.

I also think his view that strong ai is around the corner is detrimental to the industry. He is overhyping things and potentially creating an expectation whose investments reality won't support.

So, when I spend time pointing out he is not an expert in the ai space, it is to soften his outlandish predictions in the space, and help bring a more realistic perspective on who is talking and who knows what they're talking about.

I think Musk will contribute something to the self driving and AI space, just not in the way he claims.
Genuinely lmao at the narrative that the taxi unions all got together and conspired against greener rides
what kind of guides would you like to see? we could help, but It's not easy to write docs like why did :)

any other style that would work for you?
I don't agree with your larger point, but I realize I didn't know the specific definitions and context you were using. I would have written a different response had we pre-agreed upon terms.

So I agree with your statement here.
You're missing the point. The comparison isn't everyone taking a single car vs using Uber pool, the comparison is people using Uber (pool or not) vs using public transit.

Uber pool might lower the amount of greenhouse gases compared to everyone using individual Ubers, but that is a drop in the bucket compared to the increase from people using Uber instead of public transit
Yea I understand the "If you're in prison" side of this but I feel like asserting "Ban != Access" makes the general public (i.e not in prison) side of this MUCH fuzzier.
Arecibo! I remember them from my time around Park Slope. My personal go-to was Evelyn Car Service from Prospect Heights.

That said, even Manhattan has had phones for black cars. I've routinely called Dial 7, Carmel, and Skyline on different occasions on demand (primarily when it's raining, when it's really hard to get a yellow cab), and had no issues. I still do so when Uber surge pricing is ridiculous for my tastes.

In the LES where yellow cabs can be scarce, you had Allen Car Service and Delancey Car Service (who I'd call for airport runs).

The reliability of these car services was pretty good. They'd call you if they were delayed or were otherwise late. (Drastically different from San Francisco, where the taxis were pretty much a terrible crapshoot experience)

When Uber started to take off in NYC, some of the feedback I heard was "I get to look like a bigwig", when in reality, anyone can get a black car, and if you think it makes you look more important... it doesn't.

My point is, there's a lot of talk of "Uber was revolutionary" and "before Uber there was nothing!", when the sad truth is these folks never bothered to look?

I mean, anyone who's lived in NYC for some time can tell you the numbers for Carmel or Dial 7 in a heartbeat, and some may even be able to recite the jingles from their ads.

Uber was just yet another dispatch car service, but with an app.
Thats a great piece and right on the money.
This is really similar to the Shiny framework (http://shiny.rstudio.com/) for R that is dead simple for creating quick and easy data interactives.

Plotly is also an amazing plotting library. If you're using Shiny, you can can create plots in ggplot2, and effortlessly change over to semi-interactive javascript versions with mouseovers and whatnot simply by changing the render type and render output to shiny. No change to your ggplot invocations in most cases.

Where Plotly falls down in my opinion, is in how they communicate pricing. I dig through their website and see that many things are open source, but then I see pricing information that makes me wonder whether I should be using Plotly for fear of getting locked into something that has licensing fees.

IMHO, this is something that RStudio got right. They have a clear model and communication around what is in their community editions vs. what is in their paid professional versions vs. what you are paying for with their Shiny hosting services.
It could. TN doesn't have a notion of "words", so ETNs are free to parse each line as they see fit. In my experience, it's best to stick to the convention of words, separated by a single space, and for the first word to be "head". Also works great for the first word to be indicate the node type.
And when the hoi polloi start to catch on they just dangle some more red meat identity politics at them.

"No, it isn't us, it is all the other people who are taking your American Dream away!"

When you think about it, isn't it remarkable how well this works that a rich billionaire blowhard from New York City convinces the hoi polloi that he is one of them?
Probably too late as going back would likely reduce revenues. Handcrafted goods are expensive and slow and hard to police the sellers.

Its a shame, because it was such a good idea to have a marketplace for people to sell stuff without the pain of setting up an online website/shop. Though some independents are now are using the squarespace/shoppify....etc.
> If you can't give people a decent living first, they will revolt

Nobody is supposed to "give them" anything. They are supposed to be responsible adults, and as such they are supposed to earn their living themselves.

If for some reason they can not be satisfied with what they earn, and if they react by "revolting", that is with violence, then unfortunately the only sensible thing to do is to defend the rest of society against them. Poverty is not an excuse for crime, is it?
How does it work if not by screen scraping?
You have made very relevant arguments. I have same opinion about happening in my country (India) where middle class by media is defined as top 5-8% of population. Anyone lower survive on most basic food and housing. But with onslaught on low end tech jobs even the sector which mostly benefited from globalization is going to get crushed there. We are indeed heading toward turbulent times in most of the world.
This selective breeding has gone on for thousands of years. Cows used to be much, much larger, unintuitively, which made them more difficult to manage. It's disingenuous to attribute their current make-up almost entirely to recent standards of breeding - they are a domesticated species, meaning they effectively evolved alongside humans.
One of the underappreciated beneficiaries of cannabis legalization is going to be the food industry. Millions more people are going to be constantly getting the munchies and spending a lot more money on food.
Thanks!! Absolutely. That is something we're wanting to implement as soon as possible. It's awesome to have 1800 subscribers, unfortunately the economics of that is not so sustainable. We still haven't decided how we are going to roll out such an invasive change, but hope to do it so people understand and are happy to continue their support.
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> The required burden of proof can and should be much lower in the workplace.

Absolutely f-ing not. I'm not even sure what sort of mindset one needs to have to arrive at this conclusion.

Did you even consider the fact how damaging a false accusation can be to the other person?

No. Just no.
There's definitely better and worse models. The ones the builder put in my house are pretty iffy. But the Eljer I put in my finished basement has never clogged.
> you start with "you are free to engage in or abstain from [tips]" then say "you should tip." Which was is it? Completely optional or expected? You claim it's both.

I think this was clear, until you removed the context. I think you should tip, I expect to leave a tip. I expect service employees to get a tip. I would tend to avoid service establishments altogether, if I thought I could not afford to leave a tip.

But! I'm not going to report you to someone if I noticed you used a service and you don't tip! It will go into my mental calculus of who you are. Generosity begets generosity. You've explained your principled stance and I respect that belief that tipping depresses service wages overall.

I'm not sure I agree. I'm sure it's a fact, but I'm not sure it's a step forward to simply eschew tipping. I'm certainly not going to go as far as to say that it is your moral obligation to tip, or even to generally be charitable to people of "lower standing" (not only because I don't like the implication that people with certain job types must have a lower standing, but also because it is a principled stance that I understand on some level, and I can respect that.)

If your main issue is with tip jars and the fact that you find them distasteful though, then certainly I think it's going to be true that you would see fewer of them if the infrastructure is built to support tipping. I want a way to tip my driver, and I will be looking for the jar if the infrastructure is not in place to support it.

If it causes you some degree of anguish to disregard a physical tip jar, surely it will be easier to disregard a digital notification prompting you for feedback and/or tips. I would be off-put if I had to go through an awkward exchange asking whether the driver can accept a cash tip, whenever I feel like rewarding exceptional service. Because, to me, it just sounds like you don't want to look at the tip jar and you don't want to look at the tip button.
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Great, great point, thanks! I will be releasing the app later today, which gives a better demonstration of the value.
Theres plenty of rich old white guys. They only vote GOP. Racist is an uncouth word to use in their opinion. But a spade is a spade! They are 100% Racist. (Small R however)
I don't know what the poster above you intended, but criticisms of anarcho-capitalism are a dime a dozen and largely ignored. It inevitably collapses into a feudalistic society. Can you point to an example of a sustained anarcho-capitalist society that had to maintain borders?

Can't prove a negative, you know. You gotta prove positives.
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OK, I installed a latest version of Chrome and updated the NVidia driver to 382.53 but that didn't fix it.

I tried Microsoft Edge browser, same message.

Thoughts?
Are there good remote storage hosts?
But Amazon doesn't do this to their vendors.
'Remarks' is not the same as 'discrimination', just saying.
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You weren't trying to assess it, you were trying to assert it.
Yes, Tinkerpop is a Java API which is unfortunate. But the Tinkerpop set of technologies isn't Java specific. There are Python and Javascript version of Gremlin (the rough equivalent of SPARQL).

Gremlin is very widely supported across graph databases.

what you describe is probably a sign may that RDF isn't the right exposed data model for many use cases

Well. that's exactly what my claim is, so that's good!

not that SPARQL isn't the right language for querying RDF data.

Have you ever tried one of the alternatives? Try GraphQL on DGraph (Or Gizmo/Gremlin on Cayley) against a Freebase or DBPedia import. That's exactly the equivalent of SPARQL against RDF, and it's so much better.
and again jumping to conclusion seems the national sport wherever you live.
I'm super excited for this! Good dashboarding for python has been a huge gap in the ecosystem, and none of the existing options (bowtie/pyxley/spyre) really came close to the functionality of shiny.

The closest IME has been ipywidgets+jupyter and the jupyter dashboards server. Jupyter is really nice for developing, but deploying is another question. The dashboards server works but development on it has been stalled, and deploying it is a pain. Also, if dash can leverage the react ecosystem, that could make it pretty compelling compared to ipywidgets.
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Indeed, that's the interesting part! Wild guess: named entities and tf-idf?
Yes, it does... it doesn't matter where your hands are.. it just needs a slight amount of weight/resistance on the wheel.
Everyone seems overlook one sentence:

> they can't run applications for the retailer

Wal-mart doesn't really want it's data on Amazon servers. Amazon is pretty aggressive about mining any available data on competitors.
Ah, I was in Austin last year, but ended up renting a car for autonomy. I vaguely remember seeing signs for RideAustin - is that the only app?
> being a developer and security conscious, I inspect URLs before I click on them. The longer they are, the more frustrated I get examining them.

it doens't really matter if a url is long or short, right? as long as the domain looks good then there's no reason to check every character in the url? not sure why it's more secure to have a shorter url if the domain is safe

*not a security expert
That depends on how much do you need to use a car. If you dont need it that frequently, renting is cheaper.
Those parts of the C++ standard library are header-only and will be instantiated with concrete types at compile-time.
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didn't noticed that the submitted link is to the docs :P
I've believed this for a long time, but try re-educating two generations of IT people who think firewall equals security.

It's hard enough to get them to adopt IPv6 since most think NAT is essential for security. "But my address is world reachable!" Face palm...
Actually such a calculation is possible (of consumer surplus), though perhaps some would argue against one or another part of the methodology.

See: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/uber-economists-dream/ or http://www.nber.org/papers/w22627.

> So we found that in 2015, if you extrapolate to the whole U.S., we found that the overall consumer surplus added up to almost $7 billion. So people spent about $4 billion on Ubers, but they actually would have been willing to spend about $11 billion. So for every dollar people spent on Uber, they got about $1.50 worth of extra joy that they would have been willing to pay on average above and beyond what they did pay. And to put it in a context just how big this consumer surplus is, the total amount of money that went to what Uber calls the driver partners, the people who are driving the cars, was something like $2.5 billion. So the consumers got more than twice the benefit of all the money that went to the drivers. And Uber itself only got to keep about $1 billion.

Of course, none of this makes Uber immune to criticism for the way they operate as a company. And there are sufficiently many alternatives that, even without Uber, society is likely to continue reaping benefits from ride-sharing as a technology.
Google maps for a time suggested you swim across the Atlantic ocean if you requested walking directions from NYC to Europe, this is clearly ridiculous and a good example. While usually providing useful information you still have to think and use some common sense. Another good example is that google might be providing what it thinks is correct information but might be out of date, for example there are people who pay attention to the nav and drive across bridges that have been washed out because they didn't pay attention to the physical signs. Trusting google is not a replacement for common sense and logical thinking.
> Will they keep up their diversity initiatives, or do they consider that more of a luxury?

if they need to cut cost, they should start firing males, if anything, right?
I tip the same even if they don't keep my water glass full. I don't believe such a minor "annoyance" as asking for more water (which its not an annoyance) requires a dock in pay. Also, in California they are required by law to wait until you ask for water due to the drought!

>You are getting into someone's car and they are taking your pittance, minus their service broker's fee, to bring you where you need to go. That is a business transaction, and it's in the class of transactions that I would expect to involve a tip.

My transaction is between Uber and I and should not be between Uber's employees and I. Do you tip your bus driver? Do you tip the train conductor?

Do you also tip your mechanic if they get your car fixed before schedule? How about the pulmonologist when you get blood drawn? Or is it only if they don't leave a bruise? How about the person who stocked the shelves so the thing you want to buy is in stock? What if an employee goes in the stockroom for you? Do you pull out a $5? What about the person who makes your sandwich at a deli, I mean, making custom sandwiches are labor intensive.

>That's just how I was raised

Sure but...

You can (and should) acknowledge that it is completely arbitrary and cultural. If I go to the bar and order a soda I tip. If I go to McDs and order a soda I don't. That's silly. The thing that really kills me is, I've been to a few wineries. When I pay there's never a line to put my tip on the credit card receipt, so I don't tip. I guess you don't tip in wineries even though they provide you basically the same service as a restaurant or bar and you tip there. The best part though is I also go to breweries and breweries always have a tip line on the receipt! Serving beer where you make it = tip, serving wine where you make it = no tip. MADNESS!

>I tend to assume the service was also poor, and they earned exactly the tip they got!

99.9% of the time poor service is not personally the customer service employee's fault.

I actually really enjoyed my job in fast food. The pay sucked but the work was fine, my coworkers were pleasant, and the restaurant was very well run. The customers were pleasant too because we provided good service. We provided good service because the management gave us the tools to provide good service and expected us to provide good service.
My hypothesis is that PSD2 will not be the golden opportunity everyone hopes. Banks are an oligopoly and unfettered open access to their customers via open APIs is potentially a disaster for them. They have little to gain and everything to lose. When you consider this and then expect incumbent banks to act in their self-interest it follows that they will act to subvert the impact of PSD2, e.g. by fragmentation, lobbying for onerous requirements in order to consume them, etc. All of this is already happening, which is why I think there is an opportunity for Teller by truly aligning with developers and users.
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Well, the native Slack app is just an Electron wrapper around their web app, as far as I can tell. The performance feels roughly the same for both web and desktop.

The main reason I kept the desktop app, is so that I don't need to "download" the app every time my browser's cached copy is invalidated or expires. But being able to start the app with a couple keystrokes from my OS's quick launch menu is also nice.
Your terms:

"We are not liable for any loss or damage that may result from your use of our services. This includes any direct, indirect, or consequential losses; any loss or damage caused by tort, including negligence, breach of contract or otherwise."

You don't get taken seriously in the financial space with terms like that. You need to accept responsibility for errors and carry errors and omissions insurance.

Compare Bank of America Bill Pay service terms:

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We are committed to keeping your financial information safe and making sure you can bank with us securely, which is why you are not liable for fraudulent transfers or bill pay transactions made via online or mobile when they are reported promptly.[1]

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Someone close to me related the story of when they almost put one of their products in Wal-Mart's stores in Canada about 2 decades ago. One big showstopper was that they were asking for the quality to be reduced so that the price could be lower. The vendor I know refused, saying that their product lasts a long time and they are proud of it and they wouldn't sign unless that stipulation was removed. A few months later the head of Wal-Mart Canada visited the vendor and asked when they were going to close the deal and he was shocked when the vendor said they wouldn't sign unless that provision was changed! He wasn't used to hearing no from potential vendors! The deal never happened and to this day the vendor is really glad they didn't go down that road.
I often complain about the inequality and the privileged treatment of the 1%, all while being part of that 1% myself.

My political viewpoints do not align with my own short term interests, but I believe they do align with the long term interests of society and the interests of my children.
Sorry, I cannot see this as expressing any sort of disagreement. I perhaps can learn how to play piano. If we are talking about some pieces for 6 y.o. kids. Can I learn how to play any Rachmaninov prelude or concerto? No, for me personally, this is not going to happen even if I had an infinite lifetime.
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And sorry for double post... What do you think would be a fair price? Would love to hear HN's point of view.
Haha love it! Was delivering that low shot (sorry!^1) as well paying homage to a great one.

^1 That's a "Sorry, I'm not sorry (:P)". I hate tabs. I rarely go a month without a tab bug popping up somewhere unexpected. We would be better off without them, imo. (Richer too, if you believe everything on HN).
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I wonder if this will change the Amazon/Ebay arbitrage markets?