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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there was quite an effort launched to convince Zuckerburg that the Russians were using the platform to spread misinformation and propaganda. Zuckerberg basically laughed it off and did nothing.

Zuckerberg is one of the evilest fuckers in the world and facebook is cancer.
None of the actual (appealing) candy was shown in the ad nor was the most interesting part of his business (the personal need that drove him to created a delivery service) communicated. I was a subscriber to Candy Japan for a few months and I really felt it undersold his offering.

It should have been:

1) a personal story of him going to Japan

2) him going back the US... and missing the awesome Japanese candy you can't (easily) find in western countries

3) him starting a service to ship Candy (right from Japan!) to people every month for a (not-to-expensive) subscription!!!

That's a great story/ad. His ad was generic and soulless. And the honestly annoying childish voiceover really didn't help sell it the candy to me at all.
> lowered the barrier to entry for private transportation.

"private" transportation, with a driver who knows your information from his phone and can see your rating. Even when it is autonomous uber will know where you were and where you went.
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Uber and Lyft operate at a loss, even more so if you factor in how little drivers consider the wear and tear on their cars. Ride sharing would go down in favor of public transport if ride sharers paid the true cost.
The issue about them shutting down a public transit system into the burbs isn't because of racism but one of access. These people don't want easy access via bus to their neighborhoods, and for a very good reason.
We could still give everyone guaranteed basic income for example and solve the problem that way. Not everyone needs to work to ensure as a society that everyone has a warm roof over their head and decently healthy food. It's just a matter of will.
I believe there are some new regulations that have taken the appraiser out of the back pocket of the bank. I'm not sure if it has made any difference though.
Can confirm with intuitive certainty. For 2 days in Q4 of 2017 here in Bangalore, India, the ride sharing companies (Uber and Ola) were on a strike and those 2 days were the best in terms of traffic (or the lack of it) for us. I'm sure a small segment of the population decided to work-from-home, but since it was bang in the middle of the week, I'm sure most of them availed public transport like buses or used their two wheelers. Of course, some of them used their own cars, but even if they did, it did not reflect in the form of enhanced or even the usual amount of traffic. I've been thinking about this ever since and it feels bittersweet to read this. The validation is good, but the fact that it's actually true to some extent and not just in my head, is sad.
Been using selenium and webdriver with ruby for the past five years, there is pretty much nothing it cannot do. Performance is a big hit, though.
There will be more technology.
Thank you for answering.

I still don't see why either of those justify warning the user about the whole page. For the donation button, the browser could easily warn you with a big "insecure!" page when you click on the button. Regarding js exploits, I don't think https fixes that even for non-sketchy websites: I'm thinking of the js malware in ads and the recent cryptocurrency-mining ads on youtube.
>My desire is that we develop ways to make cities hospitable to carless families. That goal seems more remote now than it did in 2010.

Eh, from where I stand (in silicon valley) being carless is way more practical now than in 2010; I mean, I don't have a child, so I'm not a carless family, but I've gotten rid of my car and more than half of my 'ride sharing' trips are in the actual 'ride sharing' mode where they can pick up other people. I take fewer trips in general (I now use grocery delivery, etc..) and I'm having a hard time seeing how my use of ridesharing services instead of driving myself could increase traffic, unless ride shares spend more time driving empty than they spend driving two-up, which isn't my perception.

Ride sharing services do make public transit marginally more useful. I usually use the train to get to SF, but because they shut down so early, I usually come home on a rideshare. Before rideshare, I'd have to drive to SF both ways or get a hotel 'cause the train back would be closed by the time I wanted to come home.
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Yes, and when you answer them correctly you get the offer. It's only getting easier for autodidacts in this industry, with OCW, Stanford Online, Udacity, etc. The degree itself is a pretty terrible filter unless it comes from one of a very select few schools.

If you're not admitted to one of the best schools you're arguably better off going it alone these days.
OCR has come a _long_ way since 2005. I was an early adopter around 2000, and the results scared me away from OCR for thE better part of two decades. I recently revisted it with no special approach, just trying Adobe Acrobat Pro’s OCR module and was very pleasantly surprised with the progress that has been made.

Adobe (and I’m sure many others) now preserve the image but place text behind it in a hidden layer or else use a pseudo ML process to create a font from the scan and fit it to the text with high accuracy (and low binary sizes).

Might be worth revisiting.

Edit: just saw the full mailing list url (on phone, hard to see anything) and realized who I am replying to. Hi! I have missed your writings! I recommend “only a constant factor worse than optimal” all the time to people.
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Toll roads aren't a solution. That's what the taxes are for when you pay for gas.
Ticks are getting worse in my neck of the woods. If they keep getting worse, that would really suck.
As far as sea-level rises are concerned, the Arctic sea ice will probably be a net sea-level fall, except around the Equator. If all of the Greenland glaciers were to disappear, well then, we would see a sea-level rise, globally. But it would be distributed unevenly across the world. The higher levels would again be around the Equator with decreasing levels the further north or south of the Equator you go.

But to get even a 1/3 of the Greenland ice cover to melt requires an unimaginably large amount of energy to do so. I'd have more concerns about the devastation of that much energy on the atmosphere than I do about any trivial amount of ice melt and associated sea-level rise.

The planet is close to being a steady state system, that is the energy inflows from the day side is about equivalent to the energy outflows on the night side. This varies throughout the year due to various factors, including orbital position, solar energy output, climate factors like clouds, etc.

The required energy to get 1/3 of Greenland glacial melt is approximately about the amount of energy received by the Earth on a single day, without any of that energy being released on the night side. Due to the slow conductivity of water in both solid and liquid forms, the atmosphere would need to essentially hold all of that energy. Even over a hundred years, that would probably mean atmospheric temperatures that would probably kill most, if not all, life on the surface of the planet.

There has been one study (that I know of) that has looked at the retention of energy over a period of about 50 years and the conclusion was that only 2 to maybe 5% of the energy retained managed to get into ice-melt. So to get the required ice-melt energy needed, we would need, say, 20 to 25 days worth of solar input radiation to be fully retained within the atmosphere (no leakage back into space).

In addition, I somehow think that even a 5 or 10 degree Celsius temperature rise would lead quickly to a sharp fall in global temperatures and would the initiation of a global ice-age. Since the planet has an approximate coverage by oceans and sea ice of 70%, an average rise of 5 to 10 degrees would more than likely see a huge rise in cloud coverage and subsequent reflection of energy back out into space, followed by a subsequent rapid cooling of the globe.

Of course, these figures are dependent on common available information and could be wrong by some percentage. It's not hard to do your own calculations if you want to get some feel for what might be possible.
Yup. It is US-specific for now. As a regular Uber customer, I consistently observe higher fares on my Uber account / iPhone, for the exact pick-up and destination spots, at the exact time, as compared to a friend who has an Android and only recently started using Uber.

The difference in my quoted fare can be as high as 15%.
>If Mozilla had simply acquired LineageOS

Why would they need to acquire LineageOS when they can just fork it for free?

>worked on MicroG to reach feature parity with Play Services

That would have been a TOS violation and would have been instantly shut down by Google.

>their own app store

You can't really compete with the Play store and developers wouldn't bother with it.

>they would have had significant success at very little cost.

No they wouldn't have. It would have reached the same outcome as their Android based FireFox OS did and even faster due to the TOS violations your suggesting.
Startup has been so overused at this point that has totally lost all its appeal. Anybody with a T-shirt with a logo has a startup. I once heard my landlord call her renting two of her spare rooms of her house a startup.

The other buzzwords I'd add in is "engineer" and "lab", though I don't see them going away anytime soon. Everybody's a bloody engineer, and every company is a lab. Grotesque.
Whether the device will last 1 year, or last 3 years, doesn't change whether you should spend 30 minutes to save $50. The rich people who changed their answers were still illogical.
I currently live in Indiana but my family is mostly in CA.

Most of the dirt roads in Death Valley are nicer than most of the major roads in Indiana.

Yes weather is a major player...but the roads are terrible. They don't invest in the schools - aggressively. And farmers as a group are antigovernment to the point that it imperils the ability of the state government to function and attract talent.

I started applying for post graduate school jobs in the fall. I applied for one in IN and one in CA that have the same salary. Given the choice, I will pick CA.
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It's really REALLY hard to separate the real professionals from charlatans especially in the marketing world.
Can someone help me understand this part?

> Enlightenment advances were tied to empire building and the nascent Industrial Revolution, predicated not just on noble ideas and scientific curiosity, but also on slavery, genocide, exploitation and cultural triumphalism. Like the Renaissance, it ended in chaos and conflict, including the French revolutionary wars of 1792–99.

> Both eras show that science and evidence-based thinking do not necessarily triumph over irrationality and ideology

I can't tell if Ian is saying:

1) Science and evidence-based thinking are the direct cause of these eras "ending in chaos and conflict", and that "irrationality and ideology" could have been preferred, or

2) Science and evidence-based thinking were insufficient.

If it's 1, I doubt that's really true and would definitely need evidence.

If 2, then insufficient at what? Insufficient to act as a moral compass? Insufficient at convincing people to hold similar values in utilizing science and evidence-based thinking? Something else?
>If cities build appropriate multi modal transportation networks and restrict the amount of space allowed for vehicle traffic, people will walk, bike or take the train rather than drive

This is far from being an established fact. Ignoring the fact that cities can't simple be redesigned from the ground up to maximise the benefits of public transport, there's very conflicting evidence about whether increasing public transport decreases congestion.
We've already had plenty of dystopias: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Maoist China, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, North Korea today... As for a utopia? Nobody can agree on what that would look like. When somebody claims to have a plan for a utopia, my first question is: "for whom?"

How does any ideological utopia work without excluding anyone? I have yet to see a satisfactory answer. The paradox of tolerance would suggest that utopias are impossible, at least with human beings.
If I were going to spend 5 figures on an ad campaign I wouldn't write the ad myself, I'd hire a professional marketer. I think that's the biggest mistake: you only get a few seconds to capture someone's attention on YouTube.
> Sure, but isn't the REAL other selling point of AWS aside from an elastic virtual datacenter that it automates away sys admin tasks and ultimately people?

Yes. AWS shines when you have a small team with no competent DevOps people and a desire to build a single datacenter setup. However, at that scale...we are talking a small business / startup with less than 50 employees. If you are still doing that when you've grown past that point, you've got architectural problems.

Once you scale past that point, you still need a competent sysadmin to build a reproducible process...at which point even leasing hardware from any provider works. You cannot build a multi-DC setup that integrates redundant providers without a competent sysadmin.

Even if you stick with how AWS has you do things it will eat you alive if you do not optimize your workloads. I'm not sure how you would do that effectively without an experienced sysadmin acting as an analyst.
This is fairly obvious because it generates extras trips while drivers are en route to pick up someone and don't have a passenger. If everyone had their own car and infinite parking existed, these trips wouldn't exist. And those additional trips as to traffic.

These services have advantages, but reducing the number of cars on the road isn't one of them.
public transit operates at a loss, sfmta tickets accounted for 20% of the budget, and bart looks like about a third...
Because the state and the city have criminally underinvested in it and diverted MTA money to bail out upstate ski parks and build roads to nowhere. And forced the MTA to take up high interest rate bonds instead.
The question is - for $3,000 was it possible to make something much better? If so, is this information readily available / why was it missed?
>There is no institutional inertia or political organizing involved in walking, riding your bike, or taking the bus for your next trip.

you're right, Inertia isn't the right word. More like "institutional aggression against not using cars".

Go to town hall meetings in developing cities about installing bike lanes. Many people, even when presenting with well done studies that state the contrary, believe biking and bike lanes will take from their profits. Taking away a parking spot for a bike lane or funding public transportation just doesn't happen as much as it could in urban areas today.
>a concerning trend for tech professionals in the Valley who have become accustomed to being able to walk into any job they want and make a fortune doing it.

Bubbles pop and fools get hurt when they do. Water is wet.
> Bluetooth IMO is complete garbage for car audio.

Amen. I get a lot of stuttering and random disconnections that drive me insane. Also that's a terrific tip regarding the aux input. Definitely gonna check that out.
But it is, but not by race, sex, or age.

It's discriminatory purely as a function of money. The more money you have, the "more equal" you are and the more rights you can exert. It also means the less subject you are to criminal laws, as you can mount a powerful defense as opposed to someone who makes 20k/yr in the slums who is statistically likely to be black or hispanic.

But our society has spoken, that it's ok for poor people to get sent away and their lives destroyed as a primary function of money.
> The Android notifications are broken in favor of small things that do not allow you to read the message

Strange. When I switched from a Samsung S5 to a Pixel, the feature I missed the most was Samsung's notification badges. Since my work and personal messages came in on difference apps, I could prioritize with just a glance at my home screen. Now I have a long list of notifications to manage.

Other than that, I do love my Pixel. Google updates are the best.
because the poor (often rightly) believe the legal system will never help them in any way so showing up is a waste of time

This! Sadly, there are many government services that are intended to help the poor in these situations, unfortunately, there is a lack of awareness and/or education about what is exactly available, to whom that help is for, and how to go about receiving that help. For example, many courts have pro-bono attorneys available a few times a month to provide legal advice to those who can't afford to hire an attorney. Most often these services are available for free on a first-come-first-serve basis regardless of income level. They are intended not for criminal defense, but instead to help people navigate civil court issues (i.e. evictions, divorce, collections, etc...).

Yes, showing up can be hard for someone living day-to-day/paycheck-to-paycheck. No amount of education or resources is going to solve that problem. One alternative solution could be for courts to offer alternate hours for these cases.
> It's a joke because cache expiry reduces to naming the keys correctly if you do it right.

Huh? Neither part of that is true.
I don't think Orbitz _quoted_ higher prices; they just surfaced higher priced hotel rooms anyway.

I am not a fan of price discrimination, but this is not far from Amazon recommending people who have purchased official Lightning cables, more official Apple products, while recommending people who purchase amazon basics cables more amazon basics cables.
Again, developing infrastructure is distinct from influencing mode choices under existing infrastructure. "Driving is far and away your best option today" and "we should add a bike lane" are simultaneously true.
> It's fully fine with me if they stay right where they are.

You won't be laughing if they decide they like your city enough to import all their SV problems. Happened to Colorado. It might happen again.
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> I'm having a hard time seeing how my use of ridesharing services instead of driving myself could increase traffic

I don't think it does; your use is in line with the rideshare operators' claims as to why traffic should go down given their service: that it makes it easier for people to not own a car, and that consequently while some of their trips will be ride share, they might be shared, and others will be more likely to be transit.

I think what the studies are showing, though, is that not everyone's behavior is like yours. Some people (like me, for instance), didn't ever own a car, but now at least sometimes use Uber or Lyft because it's cheap and convenient when otherwise they/we would have used transit, because it used to be our only option. Apparently we're hurting more than you're helping?
It doesn't really matter, you're still obliged to stick to a charitable interpretation both by common decency and the rules (and concern for the health) of the forum. It's just namecalling and you shouldn't do it - doubly so when, in the next breath, advising others to moderate their rhetoric. I'm sure we've both read the same 581238 dang posts saying this exact thing.
I'm not following. "Cover their gas tank" ? You mean lock it in some way? Are Uber drivers siphoning gas from other parked cars?
I don't have an answer to your question, but I recently spent some time at the hospital taking care of my daughter, and my understanding is that a lot of it comes down to the fact that hospitals are able to provide good enough care to be comfortable discharging patients earlier.

It used to be more common to keep patients at the hospital just in case, but they now send patients home in many of those cases. In my (unprofessional) opinion, this is a good thing. Recovery is much easier in the comfort of our own home, without the stress of being woken up at all hours of the night for tests. We're also completely avoiding a huge risk -- hospital borne infections.
Homeless for nine months and about to be officially destitute tomorrow. At least I’ve had a vehicle to have shelter and live in a warm area.

Combo of Homelessness and poverty is a cycle that is quite difficult to get out of. I took on programming work from nice folks while still homeless, which absolutely backfired. Lack of a normal safe routine and attempting to work from public when under such stress can be an effort in futility. Thus couldn’t work and couldn’t get back on my feet. It’s a vicious cycle

The other consequences are deteriorated mental state from isolation, paranoia, and depressive symptoms all of which serve to make digging out of any hole seemingly impossible.

Constant never ending stress, concerns about basic survival, concerns about physical safety change your mentality. Idgaf attitude prevails, to the point where crime including violence seem less unjustified.

I could go on, and obviously this is just an anectode
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And CA doesn't even have nature to blame it's infrastructure problems on (earthquakes aside).
>Maybe we should teach this better in school, but you gotta show up to court

You are assuming awareness, proper service, etc. Not to mention assuming that someone can get off work to go. Faced with a choice between spending the day in court to challenge a $127 bill from five years ago or losing your current job for missing work what is the rational choice?
>Instead, they could have gotten all the Android apps and the popularity of Android essentially for free.

No they wouldn't have. They would not get Google Play Services and your MicroG "solution" is ridiculous from a commercial perspective and a violation from a TOS perspective that would be shut down by Google.

>It's even possible they could have overtaken Google and became the effective steward of the Android platform

I don't think you understand the army of developers it takes to maintain and enhance Android on an annual basis nor the millions of dollars it costs Google. To even suggest that they would have overtaken Google and become the steward of the Android platform is ridiculous.
"Hospitals are no longer seen as therapeutic." That's putting it mildly! I think we generally do a piss poor job of providing truly therapeutic environments as a service.
Do you not have your tech company paying your health insurance?

Outcome is significantly worse? Then why do world leaders and rich people from other countries visit the U.S. just for healthcare?

I don't hear people from Google/FB complaining about healthcare costs..
> This is far from being an established fact. Ignoring the fact that cities can't simple be redesigned from the ground up to maximise the benefits of public transport, there's very conflicting evidence about whether increasing public transport decreases congestion.

Ok, well I guess if you increase PT and no one catches is then sure. But if you make drivers pay the proper prices for using roads then that will encourage them to take the cheaper option.
Since you're being pedantic, I think we should call it what it is: Livery service.

Taxis, at least in my municipality, are the only vehicles legally permitted to pick passengers up off the street, aka only taxis can be hailed in person. Uber and Lyft cannot do this (where I live), and that is the differentiator.
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I think you've confused project management with management. The two are not the same thing.