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App based rideshare brokering would have happened one way or another. If it hadn't been Uber or Lyft it would have been someone else, or possibly many others. Nobody in particular deserves special credit for coming up with the idea. Although Uber was quite exceptional in their aggressive growth and willingness to challenge the law. I think without Uber and specifically Kalanik, it wouldn't have happened as fast.
Uber Completes Sale of $9.3B in Stock Led by SoftBank
The asbestos fibers have to get into your body in order to cause cancer so the physical form of the asbestos is very important.
> HQ2 in Philly (or anywhere else) would add to government coffers

Only necessarily true if you assume there are no government costs in attracting it; but, yes, it's probably at least a slight net gain in tax revenue because the incentives alone probably don't directly outweigh the revenue.

They might, however, when you add in the induced capital (for utility extensions, roads, etc.) and maintenance (for both the new and existing facilities induced by increased utilization from the HQ).

And if that's the case, there are either reduced expenditures relative to the level of need or increased taxes as a result of the incentives to Amazon, and those absolutely can drive away other businesses.
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It's pretty easy. If you're technically skilled and can speak English and/or French they pretty much rubber-stamp you.
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Another data point: back in 1999 or 2000, my environmental geology professor in college mentioned a large exposed asbestos rock in a nearby playground that he considered a hazard to the children. He said he brought it up a city council meeting but could not convince them to move it.
Sorry, I can't refind the study, presentation I attended.

The local university's sustainability advocate group examined the campus' waste stream. IIRC, ~50 of the weight of the waste in trash cans was from liquids. From coffee cups, water bottles, soda cans.

Preventing this liquid from being bagged would reduce costs, weight, labor, etc.

My sole silly notion was a) put trash cans near sewers b) place a cup grinder / crusher on top of each can c) there's some kind of clever spout that diverts fluid into the sewer drain d) cup somehow falls thru to the can / bag.

Not very practical.

But maybe if it was made fun, like a big crank to manually turn, people would do it for kicks.
If you're a permanent employer, you usually can't flat out refuse, true. But I still think we have a responsibility as professionals to tell people why their ideas are shit - politely.

management: "I want an app that does A to solve business problem B"

programmer: "If you want to solve B, you're better off with an app that does C. If you do A you'll run into problems X, Y, and Z. I can do A but i strongly advise against it"

Far too many programmers just go ahead and do the first idea and then it inevitably falls apart, because they're too scared to act like professionals and give their own professional recommendations.
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Excellent flow chart. It reminds me of the fun we had dragging a magnet around the desert outside of Las Vegas in search of meteorites and fragments. The coolest thing we found was probably (we didn't get a positive ID) part of a single action revolver's receiver.
I didn't downvote it, but you omit an import issue: Amazon coming will also increase expenses for the city -- police, fire protection, sewers, etc. Tax revenue exists to pay for these things. It is not unreasonable to worry about whether the net effect of giving big tax breaks and bringing in a company like Amazon will be negative.
Unless Amazon is going to be paying $0 in tax or will be given tax credits in excess of any tax it will pay, neither of which I gather is the case, then how would this fail to deliver a net increase in tax revenue for the city? The 1000s of employees are not getting any tax breaks either so that'd also have to factor into the calculation. I don't think cities are acting against their own self interest in these negotiations.
Yeah, I meant the Suffolk Downs location bid, not the casino project overall. (Unfortunately.)
I think sometimes there's a tendency to conflate overt racism, like someone verbally abusing you using racial epithets, with racism in general. Racism still exists everywhere in the United States, but having grown up in the south, and based on the experiences of my spouse, who also grew up in the south, I can say quite confidently that "rampant" is no hyperbole.

If you are visibly different, especially in a way that tends to be politicized, people will stare at you. They will treat you differently when you're a customer of their business. You will know that you can expect far less comfort from the police, and that you have to watch your back in case you happen to run into someone dangerous. This article helps to demonstrate experiences like ours:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/opinion/sunday/the-risks-...

You can feel unsafe without actually being attacked. And you can actually see people, in real time, choose to send you signals that you are unsafe. When someone is staring at you in a gas station, this is often their intention. You know that they know that you know that you are unwelcome.

Imagine any of these subtler experiences of racism or homophobia or transphobia, but applied over and over again, and the composite feeling of discomfort that arises. Again, trust isn't about the outlier cases. It's about how you feel, all the time. When we are traveling in the south, even as people born there, we can't completely relax until we're alone, in a hotel room or on an empty road.

We don't think about it all the time, but the anxiety is always there. And it's not just frightening, it's sad. It's depressing to be reminded that you don't have the same freedoms and privileges that other people have. It's suffocating.
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> Mobile payments I think will take off in the US, its just going to take a generation to catch on. I'm 33 and most of the 20 somethings are all using Venmo and other payment apps. Give it time.

Venmo is good for payments between people, but for everyday transactions the US needs to upgrade its infrastructure. It will, but it's far behind the rest of the world in allowing tap payment and the like.
> Carcinogenic isnt dangerous if it cant be breathed in

OP said their father keeps a bulk of asbestos in their house. For it to get to the house, it had to be picked up and transported. Once there, there is a risk it jostles around or is impacted by something, e.g. due to objects falling on it or it falling on objects. Collecting and keeping asbestos in any form appears ill advised under WHO and CDC guidance.
That depends on what is the mechanism that really causes the crash. If the crash on unexpected input is intentional, then all is good. If it is result of some random corruption of something, then you have problem.

Edit: spelling and grammar
Given how southern Florida is at risk of going under-water, this is a strange thing to see on the list.
Great article. Especially the bit about the creation of the GWB caricature.

People are so beholden to the idea that he was an idiot that almost no amount of evidence will change that.
> The author is essentially saying that criticism is a tool to hurt others.

Interesting opinion. Criticism takes effort, something I am not willing to waste on those I don't consider worthy of my time. If I want to hurt someone, I ignore them. They get no feedback from me, no information on how to improve themselves.
This tax holiday came at exactly the right time for Apple. At least the EU can't use the argument anymore that they're not paying tax anywhere.

Apple's argument that they merely defer, not avoid, tax will have a lot more merit now in court.

I'm relatively certain the EU won't win this one, but we'll see.
Lack of transparency from management.
For the small iOS events, think the changing/shrinking conference landscape needs to be considered alongside the changes in the iOS indie dev community the past 2-3 years.

Don't think iOS developers are abandoning the platform, but I do think many indie developers (or those who were considering becoming an iOS indie developer) did leave. It became a lot harder to make a living as a full-time iOS indie dev.

The indie devs brought a lot of the excitement and energy to these events and made for extremely interesting and fun conferences full of people from different design, engineering, and professional backgrounds.

(Context: developer evangelist-type here, once focused on iOS-related developer conferences and attended many of them in North America and Europe.)
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To add more information, I built something for a HackWeek at the company, that they now want to patent (with me as the named inventor). However, I have been considering quitting and doing a startup which would involve the thing they are trying to patent, in a small way. If I sign the papers, does this prevent me from using similar software techniques at my future startup?
If Amazon goes there, the flights will follow.
This article is a joke, all those methods of "protections" are a joke. What we called "script kiddys" and are now a major amount of so called developers are just underdeveloped lamers who just don't know that the fight is lost in advance. All the methods that you take are useless when you get into situation of scraper run by someone who is able to modify (oh and is able to code in c/c++) and recompile the client side. The world went into Idiocracy so much that methods are beeing invented by people who are so narrow minded that they see the development in a scope of a browser and have a false sense that they "can handle it". Only if the oponent is as narrow minded as they are. Only than. I can modify the source code of chromium, you will get back exactly what you expect from regular user, i am able to scrape fb and linkedin and the only thing they can do is to slow me down (to hide the fact that the code is doing surfing, not human). Stop wasting your time on protection, you are running your inneficient crappy code in insecure environment, the only "attacker" you are safe against is the one who is as clueless as you are.

The same moment when you send content to the client, it is game over. You have lost all control.

I am sorry for all non-gentle sentences here, but we had developers who were able to decompile asm code and patch it to avoid drms, while now sandboxed idiots are thinking, they are smart. The whole dev. environment became toxic =/ And people are just to stupid to understand how stupid they are =/
They previously had their "Windows XP Mode"[1], run via the Windows Virtual PC[2]. Obviously not a container and it's dead now but yeah...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=800...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC
>>> Crypto actually proves that money doesn't need to be backed by anything.

Well no, since it's not used as currency in any meaningful scale.
Way easier. Canada's points system is a shining beacon of transparency in comparison to the US.
When the API becomes common practice the xkcd is no longer relevant, yet it was correct (at time of writing). Unless educating on the difficulties of the past of course, then it would be relevant.
I could have done it in a weekend with Mechanical Turk.
I think there are different kinds of smartness. For example I am good at solving difficult technical problems. But I can only operate well in an honest and open environment and am prone to falling into traps built by politically savvy people. Being good at politics is also a smart thing but it requires different tools than you need for good engineering or science.
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What's the "wrong demographic"? Or..what is the right demographic?
Illicit transactions tend to work that way once it costs ~$50 to transact.
My opinion is that any client that is serious, is putting together a team, has a budget, and has real prospective customers is something I can get on board with. I personally don't have to like the idea or think that it's going to find a wider audience. Pretty much any billion dollar unicorn I would have looked at their elevator pitch and said "I don't like the idea and I don't think you are going to succeed".
The value of the 100+ they have already purchased will drop at least 20% if Airbus were to cease production. Hence this move to prop up their value
This seems to imply that most people in the US don't already have many neighbors within walking distance. I don't think that's the case at all, even in the sprawliest of suburbs. For most people, if you don't stop by your neighbor's house for a drink or a chat, or you don't have anyone nearby you can give your house keys to, it's because of lack of interest on one or both of your parts — not because you can't conveniently reach their door. Changing street layouts won't fix a problem that doesn't stem from street layouts.
I thought "religious freedom" laws made it so the employer could legally refuse to hire, say, homosexuals. That probably won't pose a risk to Amazon, the hiring company.

Are you thinking the second order effects would come into play, like spouses not being able to find work? Or am I wrong about the definition of rf laws?
Good pull request, merged to my local brain-repo :-)
Agreed. The river boat tours are very well done and unique. I lived there for years without doing one and have been twice since on return visits.
A more progressive Amazon would build public transit. The robber-baron companies used to wholesale reshape society to fit their vision. It's almost disappointing Amazon doesn't try.
Have they rolled out smart water meters to monitor consumption and bill per liter? I would think that would be very effective and a fair way to ration the remaining water

You could even have progressive rates

That would also prompt people to install water saving devices
It's more complicated than that. The recent Minneapolis mayoral race had housing policy as a major issue, and Minneapolis is nothing if not progressive.

Affordability and gentrification are interrelated, but so is quality. I live in a relatively low-density neighborhood of mostly 80-110 year old houses. Lately, we're getting new development in the form of cheap older rentals being torn down, and large-for-the-lots (typical lots are 1/10 acre) new houses being built. These new houses are considerably more expensive than neighborhood average. My above-average house is worth about $300, but a new house two blocks away just sold for $475k before construction was completed. So I have concerns. On the other hand, that new house replaced a run-down rental. A lot of these old houses simply have worn-out bones and will never be good again. Left on their own, they'll contribute to the neighborhood drifting "bad", with cheap rentals.

And developers? There's no money in building "affordable" housing. They'll build upscale if they can, because it's much more profitable.

What do I want? A better neighborhood, yes, but one where the people who already live here can continue to afford to live here.
You are comparing the wrong thing. When you are in a walkable area most of the things you want to get to are closer than the distance that you walk form your car to the store in the mall.

When there are 2 good restaurants on your block, and a small grocery store: you don't need to go to the mall anymore.
I mean as an universal way to make apps
Uber told to focus on US and Europe as $8.8bn SoftBank deal closes
My whole extended (Dutch and Swedish) family uses it, mostly due to a distaste of Facebook (so no Whatsapp or FB messenger). It has the advantage of seamlessly joining mobile and desktop versions (for normal conversations, this does not work for device-to-device 'secret' chats) and can be accessed through several free software implementations for the client (including a command line client for Linux). I'm still waiting for a self-hosted server but not holding my breath. Depending on the behaviour of Telegram, Inc. I'll eventually migrate to a self-hosted alternative or try my hand at a self-hosted server implementation.
Looks like great tool, never heard of sikuli before. Thanks for the tip!
Launch of the “Korea Computer Center”: An E-library of North Korean Software
I've seen small local coffee shops and small restaurants do fine in malls. Especially "mini malls" which have a lot more variety on that front.

Some of the parking lots by where I lived were used for flea markets on the weekends. Regardless, I think parking lots sprinkled with islands containing trees/greenery make the landscape look nicer than if that area were packed full of buildings.
How many Americans are "pissed off" that their American cars are made in Canada?

They don't even know where their stuff is made any more. Toyota makes cars in Kentucky, Texas, Indiana, Alabama, West Virgina and Mississippi, but they're an "import". Ford makes vehicles in Mexico and Canada but they're "domestic".
>My mom grew up in a small southern town in the '60s, and my impression is that many people there lived pretty close to work.

In the 1960s there was approximately half the population in the United States that exists now. The problem is that living close to work and extreme low density doesn't scale. For a majority of people to live close to work, something has to give, whether it be density or perhaps companies allowing telework.
The guy who started Lao is in jail for tax fraud which has really torpedoed the place. It’s not nearly as good as it used to be.

Granted, I think the Chinese food here by and large sucks.
It's also a problem with networks that bill by usage but spread both fixed and usage-variable costs across the expected usage, even if they don't have issues cutting off unused parts of the network; a sharp drop in usage underfunds the costs that aren't variable.
Driving isn't bad. Depending on the trip I prefer a car trip with traffic jams over a transit trip without. I really do love driving and cars, but just the stuff they show you in the commercials. The long cross-state family trip, the leisurely drive in the country, hauling a dishwasher, ...

But car culture in the aggregate has absolutely killed american cities. My city tore down its downtown to accommodate highways and parking lots. It's ghastly. Nobody wants to live in a place like that, nobody wants to visit a place like that. Traffic should be calmed in the city, so it's slow, predictable, quiet and safe. We'd get our towns back. Instead of building cities so they're convenient for cars, we should build them so they're convenient for pedestrians.

We can still use the car for all the other fun stuff.
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The book that really help me gain confidence in writing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style.

It is a small book that can be read in an afternoon - you can probably find pdfs online.
The problem is that government expenses go up with Amazon's arrival as well. If we assume the taxes paid by other businesses fairly represent their load, then Amazon will be a burden overall by avoiding those taxes. That growth from other businesses will be needing services as well, and the tax from that growth won't cover everybody.
The cars are dirty and smelly. The upholstery you sit on is gross. Once in a while you will find human feces in the cars. Most BART stations do not even have restrooms, water fountains etc, so I hope you don't have any human needs.

The trains do not run often during the day. If you miss one, have fun waiting 20-40 minutes for the next one. They stop at midnight.

It takes a long time to get to your destination, and the destinations available are not a very large subset of where you actually want to go. Most of the time you will have to chain together another form of public transport on one or both ends, and the transfer time between different forms of transport is often long and pads out the length of a commute tremendously.

The stations and trains are unsafe, and people get attacked on them with some regularity.

On top of all these things, BART is very expensive!

I don't know how you could think BART was good unless you had never used any other comparable transport system.
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While that's generally been true on a global level, the olympics have generally been profitable endeavors for American host cities. the 1984, '96 and '02 all turned a profit for host cities.[1] Further, if olympic upgrades are done responsibly the games can act as a subsidy for local improvements to mass transit, universities and other civic spaces even if the city doesn't turn a profit.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_the_Olympic_Games
The problem I'd see with putting a campus in Toronto would be that the transit infrastructure is bursting at the seams. Underfunded public transportation, expensive and underfunded regional transportation, and congestion along all major routes during the day. Along with the sky-rocketing cost of living there you'd filter out a lot of candidates or force people to commute over long distances on a choked network.

YYZ is a decent airport but it doesn't compare to ATL or ORD.

> - a strong existing tech workforce and universities

I'm not saying those of us who stayed North of the border aren't great but a large portion of our talent does head South for the opportunities. Funded technology companies in Canada are hard to come by. A good 80% of the jobs here are for digital agencies. Even Google and Microsoft keep most their technology jobs mostly South of the border despite all of the incentives they're courted with.

Immigration in Canada is a lot more friendly but I don't think that's going to out-weigh the benefits of the other cities listed. My money is on ATL or ORD.

update: 80% is just a rough guess
There really has been some prejudiced undertones in this thread that belittle the southeast.
I'm not very familiar with Clojure, but are the numerics done with unboxed numbers? In the end, what every language that wants to do scientific programming right is expose some sort of c-array like data structure that you can pass onto c/fortran code.
I think the article primarily addresses the tone-deaf way in which Google addresses the user, not so much the practice of gathering data and providing useful suggestions to the user "like magic", which does indeed have it's benefits.

There's an implied deal that the user will provide their data to Google so they may profit from it, and in return they will provide you with a service free-of-charge. The article, and some anecdotes here in the comments, indicate that Google can be a little needy and tone-deaf in prompting the user to provide them with even MORE data, at times. Instead of passively collecting data, they appear to actively prompt the user to feed their machine, which is very annoying and creepy in the author's opinion.
The problem with highly intelligent people is that they have a competition among themselves, and the most intelligent one coming out of those competitions is usually the one with the most measurable success (money) for the least amount of measurable input (work).

Meaning, there is a herd effect at work here, where renomee is nothing and looking down among the less intelligent ones is everything. Thus its a race away from productive intelligent endavours with lots of input (science) towards optimal endavours (hacking the system aka lawyer, investor). Meaning that blackhats among the intelligent always outcrowd the white hats in the long term deteriorating society as a whole.

Some streetsmarts might recognize the dynamic and engage it with disrupting countermeasures before the system itself is destroyed by a upper society where it is not feasible to be anything else then a well dressed game theory con-men.