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I'm glad someone else brought this up. I've been on mobile and walking from site to site all morning and haven't had a chance.

Thank you.
Sorry for the snark but this observation is obvious. 'Look at all these poor/fed-up/frustrated/mis-trained' people that are left out by globalization and capitalism' Or 'look at rising inequality' blah blah.

What is the solution ?
Think about this the next time you're putting up with bad behavior at work. Susan Fowler ultimately lost her job and went through painful criticisms for speaking out, but she did kick off a lot of change at the company.

Think about this the next time you're tolerating bad behavior on the part of your employees. A number of people lost their jobs in the resulting firestorm but that fire reached right up to the top.

Think about this the next time you're considering investing in a company where the leadership team plays fast and loose with law. Disruption is important, but principles are just as important. If the leadership team gets their advantage by not following the rules that others do, watch for them to not follow the rules that they should as well.
Seems like a sinking ship for anyone there involved in software especially since they like to blame their tech and poor search for a lot of their problems.
I understand some people prefer Paypal because Paypal can assist with disputes, i.e. if something doesn't show up. At least that's why some of my friends prefer to use it.

However Amazon has always resolved problems to my satisfaction. I don't imagine it would be necessary in this situation.
This is a great talk. I especially like his comment here [0] about obfuscated infix operators since he opens his talk with "hopefully this talk will get you over the confusion about what `.>>.` and company mean" and then 20 minutes later he just has the line `let ( .>>. ) = andThen`. That was easy.

https://youtu.be/RDalzi7mhdY?t=1898
> I actually live there and there are no Yellow Cabs in the outer boroughs.

I am writing this from Brooklyn, where I have lived for about 20 years.

> Before Uber there was no hailable service.

There still isn't. Street hails are only from medallion cabs, plus the green outer borough cabs which came just a little bit before Uber showed up and are still around.

There wasn't street hailing before and there isn't now. This isn't complicated. You used to use a phone to get car services before and you still do now. The laws and the dynamics of that aspect really didn't change much.

The innovation is that now your phone has a computer in it and GPS so you press a button and use an app instead of talking into the thing to a dispatcher guy in an office. It's a technological change that happened.

> I don't take these services much in the outer boroughs

As mentioned, I live in the outer boroughs, Brooklyn specifically. You should come check it out sometime, there are about three million of us here. We got along pretty well before Uber, we just called Arecibo. They were fine, and still are, I use them to get to the airport now since the drivers are way better.

Pricing is honestly pretty similar now to what it was five years ago, with very short trips being a little cheaper on Uber/Lyft than they were in the old system. Plus all the promos and so on.

It's way better now to just press a button on the phone, and have your payment info stored, and all that. No question about that. But those are technical innovations.

Your argument is that their innovation had to do with changing the dynamics of supply and demand in a restricted market. But that didn't really happen, and to the extent it did it was because smartphones made it possible. Steve Jobs probably has more to do with the declining price of medallions than Travis Kalanick.

> Uber pool reduces greenhouse gases because multiple unrelated parties can ride in the same taxi instead of using two different vehicles. Elementary.

Unless they were previously taking the subway, of course. The world isn't quite so facile.
again? this was on HN just recently, but now it is "mindful" - said it then, and will say it again, it looks like email, and find that the hassle of yet another communications tool not worth it in this case (basically email with a default "reply-to-all" permanently jammed in place).
What? Are you saying it be better for them to sell that personal data like every other tech company?
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What if you flipped it around a little? You aren't so much lending him money and teaching him to code as it is hiring him to help you with a side project.

If you judiciously assign him tasks to work on, help him get started but encourage him to use solid Google/Stack Overflow skills to solve his own problems, you may end up truly helping him.

The alternative, which scares me a little, is that he will start working on tutorials, get bored, start to doubt himself and then completely disappear from your life because he failed and can't pay you back.
Perhaps, but there's no denying the GPU updates in this refresh are substantial relative to the old ones, in no small part due to how outdated the GPUs in the previous generation were. Heck just being able to purchase a 21.5 inch model with a discrete GPU is a giant leap forward!
What Travis Kalanick could have learned from the woman running China’s Uber
Haha, I hope if it was satire I could write better satire than this. I'm definitely inspired by Taleb and Wolfram, as the style shows. I enjoy their styles, although sometimes I wish they were more concise. ANKoS would be amazing as a 50 page book.
Was in England last week. Many cabs still don't take CC. I used one cab, for the experience and then went back to Uber. Cabs just aren't that great, and the experience is not reliable, predictable, or easy.
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Why are you trying to create a false dichotomy?
> Most Africans, for example, would kill to be in Europe / USA.

I hope you meant this figuratively, because it is fair to say that it is a completely ridiculous statement otherwise.
"By Version 5, things should settle down."
Looking for work? :)

https://jobs.lever.co/hellosign/39ea6c41-8ff8-4c93-b0fd-4a62...
I lost interest in Etsy when I saw a bunch of manufactured crap I could by anywhere else. There was a turning point where Etsy became more of this than original, personally crafted items.
you don't.
He also fired a low shot across the bow at us tab-indenters. Unfortunately for him, I :set sw=8, and am therefore out of range.
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In my experience (limited) yes, this is how the term is used.

"Combinator" != "combiner". A combinator is a thing which is combined with other combinators. When you combine two combinators, you end up with yet another combinator which can be combined with other combinators. Very composable, in the functional spirit of things.
Is there evidence that Uber is has negative gross margins in developed Western cities? (Not a rhetorical question - I'm open-minded and very curious.)

From their 2015 financials, it looks like revenues have been consistently higher than cost of sales.

Source: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...
> The question is, should WE (as a society) have predicted this? Did reasonable application of our knowledge permit us to know this? I don't know the answer to that question.

Not everyone is an expert in all fields. This is the domain of economists, sociologists and political scientists. Certainly many of them did predict this, there's a ton of data to support their theories and predictions.

The problem is that if you're one of the people who are comfortable with the status quo, you're not going to be paying attention to these things, much like a labourer in the south likely doesn't care about the stock market or happenings in the venture capital markets in the Bay Area.

The truth is that it's the media and political class who let us all down, by ignoring the experts and working class.
Sorry to hear about your family's situation, but hopefully he's able to get back to work soon.

Tecla is great you should give it a try. Depending on his comfort and ability a head tracking mouse from Orin is pricey but works really well with a laptop/desktop setup. Dragon Naturally speaking is useful too.

Also he should make an appointment with a local assistive technology practitioner soon to get a run down of all the options, both low and high tech. You can find these ATP folks at most all rehab hospitals.

Good luck
Sure there are sentences that include supervision up front and supervision that is given after sentencing as an alternative to completing the full sentence. But from the parents post that isn't in addition to "has served their said time", its part of the said time.

Are you suggesting that you got supervised release after completing your full sentence as outlined after your conviction?
"Globalism produces beautiful iPads."

That should read something more like "Our implementation of globalism, heavily curated to favor elite special interests, produces beautiful iPads."

There's nothing inherent to globalism that requires it produce beautiful iPads.

Beautiful iPads are more the result of purposefully crafted laws and policies, at the behest of special interests, for the purpose of growing their pile of coconuts faster than the rest of us can.
Good news is that outside of countries like USA and UK, there is a lot of improvement. Global average income is rising, more people are going to schools, and people are being connected to the internet. I wouldn't be surprised if there will be a huge rise in the amount of African software developers. They could compete with USA software companies in the global internet industry.
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Can you say something from the service perspective?

Why shouldn't a service flag you as malicious and refuse users with email from your domain?

What do you do to prevent mass account creation on the service?

Thanks!
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But because of stupid laws protecting Yellow Cab monopoly, it is against the law to street hail them, having to call instead. Also, not a reliable single brand, also they don't take credit cards, unlike Yellow Cabs.
IANAL but my understanding is that employer can terminate you for no reason (as in not giving a reason). But if an employer fires you for cause and that cause is unfounded they can be sued for wrongful termination.
I think the point is, who cares? Globalization is trying to reach an equilibrium where our first world workers and those third world workers will earn the same wage. That's a terrifying proposition to anyone in the bottom three quarters of the US economy.
I agree that EU has too many bureaucrats inviting new ways to regulate things. Sadly it seems that it's the only way countries inside EU are going to have more uniform (and sane) laws.

Without really no knowledge of the Google ruling in my opinion it seems that it's a flick to show Google that there is a line that it can't cross. Maybe Google in all of its superiority has become too arrogant, who knows.

And free markets work only if they are fairly regulated. If there was no penalty from abusing your monopoly you think companies wouldn't do it? I think even Google wouldn't be all the goody-goody with its business practices if we'd let its actions go unchecked. Granted Google seems better than most.
They keep saying it’s not email, but it looks a lot like email with preconfigured filters. What am I missing? What’s so mindful about this?
Hm... I guess I would have a lot more respect for this author's claim about the predictability of the rise of populism if she(?) has predicted it.

Perhaps she did, but this paper is dated this month.

Not to mention, prediction by itself isn't worth much. Seeing it coming isn't too useful if you can't do something to change course. And being able to change course isn't useful if you can't find a better alternative to change course to.

Globalization didn't arise out of policy decisions. It was a natural consequence of improvements in information technology and transportation technology (exponential in the case of IT). China isn't some distant land. It's our next door neighbor and has a view straight into our living room. Policy can guide or mitigate globalization, but it can't stop it. You would have to roll back the changes in information and transportation to roll globalization back and that might be worse than the cure.

IMO, we should be focusing on policy that will prevent the benefits of globalization accruing only to people at the top, and not on stopping globalization.
Thanks for the mention of Mathcad! I hadn't seen that before.

It appears the file extension is "MCDX". Do you have any MCDX files? Would love to look at the source of those to see the structure of the encoding.
As a rubyist, I found Elixir was a great entrypoint - from there you can learn OTP behaviors like GenServer, and slowly start to learn Erlang syntax from using stuff like its data structures or ETS.

Haven't found anything as great as why's guide yet though. Maybe it's just waiting to be written by someone :)
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Reducing globalization reduces the size of the pie. The issue seems to be that we are distributing the pie too unevenly. Maybe we can fix that without shrinking the pie? It's true to many the economy feels like a zero sum have and that's how we get protectionism and xenophobia. Can we make everyone feel like they were benefiting from the pie growing without destroying the pie?
I know Karpathy wasn't involved in the "end-to-end" research paper Nvidia published - but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't involved somehow, and if anyone could push the CNN tech in that paper further it just might be Karpathy.
What would it be a typo of?
While it seems ideal, I don't like the idea of consumer goods being regulated outside of groceries and other necessities.

My Raptor romance novel should not be 'regulated'.
Asian Americans have a higher per capita income than whites. Does that mean Asians are no longer discriminated against?
I thought credit cards provide the same protections that Paypal does. Any time I run into trouble I can call my credit card company, reverse the charge and move on with life.

They are no questions asked easy and my credit card company cannot hold my money for 6 months for arbitrary reasons without providing proof. I see no benefit to Amazon using Paypal and only a less than good customer experience.
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Deploying code doesn't take a lambda function down. It just spins up the next instance with it.

You do have a cold start issue as mentioned above but if that isn't an issue, then you shouldn't see any down time.

We run a beta / prod system to do testing and then for blue / green, we deploy a second function and switch the API Gateway over when we are good to go. Pretty straight forward
Is this what happened to gcj, lack of maintainers? I always thought it was a shame support for it lapsed, a to native java compiler would be awefully nice to have.
> That would only explain emergency procedure costs.

No. It also includes maintenance medicine.

If I stop taking my asthma medicine, my quality of life would rapidly deteriorate and I would sooner or later have to be admitted to A&E for an asthma attack. So my life depends on those medicines. The same for people with Depression, Chronic Pain, Severe Vitamin Deficiencies, etc.

> How about laws that prevent companies from selling insurance across state lines?

That seems extremely logical given how much variation in local law exists in North America.

> but they have the negative effect of stifling innovation that could bring down costs and make people safer in the long run

could. Given the sheer amount of bad science in medicine at the moment (e.g. refusing to publish negative studies), it is not likely. Medicine is difficult, and where we have rushed drugs through we have an extremely poor track record (Such as, a type of SRIs being prescribed, that later was discovered to raise the incidence of suicide among adolescents. In this specific instance this was known before it went on market, but the papers were not published).
Does this mean if one were to make less, overtime has to be paid, even if the work is voluntary? Thinking of employees at early stage startups
I don't want to get into a back and forth with you on this topic so I will politely decline your request.

I just wanted to say that it seems to me like you are speaking about broad generalizations and that is not the same thing as speaking about real people or individuals. Also, that your generalized idea of men is based on the premise that that general man is a wealthy and powerful person, but this is not the case for most men.
> you're just a selfish dick.

This is a lot of aggression, and it makes me think that you are just as closed to alternative viewpoints as those with whom you are discussing this topic. I think you should completely re-evaluate your approach to debating this in the future.
You should be clearer on these definitions your using if you'd like to keep the description constructive. I certainly didn't recognize then context you were using.
I thought that the content is coming from AWS too. I think they could move away from AWS relatively easily if Amazon acted up.
Only if you find an exploitable setuid program.
Not sure what you're trying to say.

Wikipedia: 1950's "Skills and capital brought by refugees of Mainland China, especially from Shanghai, along with a vast pool of cheap labour helped revive the economy."

1950s: "The People's Republic of China was established in 1949 under a reorganised Communist Party. As many as 100,000 people fled to Hong Kong each month under the new regime, many of whom were rich farmers and capitalists who brought with them management experience, though even more were criminals who established the influential triad society in Hong Kong."

1960's: "The surge of refugees continued to come in from China."

In the 1980's, when return to China became a possibility, "the warnings of the 1997 handover raised emigration statistics to historic highs. Many left Hong Kong for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and anywhere else in the world without any communist influence."

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_in_Hong_Kong#Population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_in_Hong_Kong#Population
Are you really comparing car service in the outer boroughs to Uber? I mean I guess I agree with the TLC comparison but experience to the consumer is absolutely different.
Which laws and policies? Assuming that's what you mean, it basically starts, in America, with the Constitution, which originally only allowed white male landowners a vote.

Humans got together in a room and decided, based upon their knowledge and experience and opinions, who should be allowed to vote and who shouldn't. The Senate is basically doing that right now with healthcare; deciding in private who should have a say in what healthcare looks like. There's no subterfuge to any of it. It's all right there in our faces.

Read the letters and writings of the Founder Fathers. James Madison in particular made it clear he felt that the new government should protect the rich from the poor.

It leads directly into what we're seeing today. The poor shouldn't have healthcare or a living wage if the rich have to pay for it.

Humans with certain ideas placed in their minds go into a room and craft policy with those ideas in mind.
Yeah, great point about the inductive reasoning. I haven't thought about that aspect too much, although I guess I would call this line of reasoning inductive:

"this globalization sure is impacting people's livelihoods, and causing major economic shifts. Maybe we should slow down."

"it will definitely raise GDP. Rising GDP has always led to rising standard of living. We'll be fine."
Agreed.

The only things that could have been predicted are that globalization would have repercussions and that the losers in globalization would have interest in disrupting the winners. The same could be said of the next 20 years.
Thanks for a great tool! The API Gateway console is inscrutable, so I'm glad Zappa just takes care of all that for you.
Everyone already knows what the upsides are, that's why people supported the growth of Uber in the first place when it was just a San Francisco startup. Nobody has ever argued in good faith that the firm wasn't solving a problem, of course they were.

But focusing only on the benefits and avoiding discussion of the costs or new problems that something creates is sales talk; internalizing sales talk leads to cognitive bias.
It's a fair question. In China most people were peasant farmers with no opportunities. Now if we had fair trade between the countries, that might be better...
I find this interesting.

There is a huge market for "discounted" lego on eBay and the bulk of these are probably "stolen" (from Walmart to boot). If you don't believe me just google stolen lego and read up.

I think this is going to lead to some interesting pricing conditions in the market, ones that don't work well for retail locations like Walmart.
Good point, perhaps the poster shiuld only pay oit the loan in installments, based on conpletion of modules, or similar.
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> I don't agree with Trump on much but I do agree that relying upon the market to fix all ills hasn't worked. We need to flex the economic muscle we have and tie trade to political reforms or find a way to bypass the powers that be and pull up the people directly. Otherwise, we are stuck in a race to the bottom.

Yes, you have to have some common standards which undercut a race to the bottom, otherwise countries will compete by undermining each others protection and welfare systems.

But you're implying that Trump believes this? Trump has always struck me as a 'cut regulation at all costs' candidate. And the real deal which must make this work will have to be international - perhaps to build these common standards into the trade deals. But Trump again stands directly opposed to that, he wants a 'my country first, beggar thy neighbour' solution, which cannot be sustained.
Uber pool takes two or more unrelated passengers and puts them in the same vehicle. This is clearly less greenhouse gas generated than if all passengers take independent cars. Therefore, Uber pool reduces greenhouse gasses.

By your argument, because Uber/Lyft provides better customer service overall compared with Taxi service which is why they are commanding such a large market share, that is a bad thing because people are taking more cars over mass transit as a result.
Uber entered both markets. I live in Manhattan(UWS) and treat taxis or Ubers as interchangable. When you can pull up an app on your phone and have a car in 2 minutes, that is effectively similar to a street hail. Heck, because I work near Chelsea market(big tourist destination), using Uber gets me a car 5-10 mins quicker than trying to hail a cab and constantly getting sniped by people who appear upstream.