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I wonder if the company is asking these teens, during the registration as contractors, if they have permission from their parents to charge all those scooters at home. I can imagine several parents getting angry for excessive increments in the electricity bills every month without having a clue about their children's "business". Of course, many of them will probably find the scooters in the garage in a regular morning walk around the house, but then…

- Do they [the parents] get a percentage of that money to pay for the bills?

- Is it even legal for these independent contractors to use home electricity to charge a 3rd-party business asset?

- Are damages to the house, in case of a fire, covered by their contracts?

- If the scooters are out of battery, how do these companies know where they are?

- Can these teenagers hold the scooters "hostage"?

- Can they charge extra money for dropping the scooters to places with some people can find it more convenient? Say, if I want to find one of them right in front of my house every morning, I would pay one of these teenagers some extra money for the arrangement.

- Are these houses in risk of over-charging their electricity net?

I have so many questions about all this, it seems so weird to me.
People are providing a useful service and getting paid, the madness, the madness!
Any source on that “they plan on removing end-to-end encryption” other than uneducated speculation?
Doesn't seem at all out of control. Seems like an awesome idea and the process needs to be refined to dissuade bad behavior. Considering the company was founded about a year ago is probably a lot of room for improvements and innovation (and angering your contractors in the process).
> “Charging scooters for Bird is like Pokémon Go, but when you get paid for finding Pokémon”

A modern version of Rip Van Winkle would only have to be asleep for 2 months to be just as clueless and out-of-touch as the original Van Winkle was when he took a 20-year nap.
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Privacy: ability to opt out of all data collection.

Microsoft privacy: inability to opt out of all data collection unless you pay for enterprise edition.

This makes a mockery of any policy.
My wife and I did that, sandwiching our little guy between us, but we put a down comforter over ourselves so his fat little arms would go flumpf in the down as he verified our presence. That allowed us to replace ourselves with big pillows after he fell asleep. He would whack those comforter-covered pillows flumpf, flumpf to make sure we were still there, and we'd be downstairs watching a movie!
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The article says that electricity cost for charging scooters is practically nothing. If we believe it or assume that electricity cost is trivial compared to the payment, then I don't see any parent that'll say no to their nearly-adult children making money on the side by such an activity.

At worst they'll ask for compensation.
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I had a herniated disc last fall. It took a good 2 months to get to a point where I could walk and sit properly again. It still hurts my tailbone to sit for more than a few minutes. I can sit for longer if I use an ergonomic chair. My chair's seat is shaped to take pressure off my tailbone. I can further reduce that pressure by tilting the chair back so the pressure shifts to my back. It's tough when I have to be in places that aren't at home or work. Even if I'm tired and just want to rest, I can't do so for very long. Sitting on pretty much anything incurs mild to moderate pain and I always have to explain it to people. It's been almost a year and it seems to just stay this way without improving any further. Doctors are surprisingly inept when it comes to back problems.
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You vastly underestimate most people's desire to stay in the same place. Most Americans don't relocate after they have children. Imagine yourself being retired, and learning that you have to move away from your friends and family due to a change in market conditions.

Even places that are economically barren see people just go onto Social Security disability (perhaps a form of UBI) instead of moving to regions with jobs.
All they did was color it red. I found it hilarious, artfully done, and a nice change from all the usual photos of her.
Each scooter has about a 300 Watt Hour battery, call it 60% charging efficiency (likely way more efficient than that) and you’re only talking about five cents of electricity per scooter.
If you want the low-end Model 3 today, buy a Bolt. Done.
I'm from the south in the US, specifically the Appalachia (`app-uh-lai-chuh` for us) region. The culture I grew up in and Japan aren't so dissimilar. That's partly why I live in Japan.

Aside from people being on time and getting food to you -- "things" (for lack of better term) move slow here. Some examples:

- It took me three weeks to get a debit card from one of the national banks here. They have a web login and send me an email every time I swipe my card; however, there's no way to check my balance online.

- At restaurants / coffee shops you'll stand in line for an exceptional amount of time. In NYC, if a line gets "out of hand" baristas / servers shorten the amount of attention they give to each customer. It's expected when you get to the counter, you know what you want. Not in Japan (or at least all the places I've visited). Many times people will get to the counter, after standing in line, and debate with their friends what to purchase. It's always great that you know the person behind the counter is giving you their full attention, but it's frustrating when you're behind 2 - 3 people who are taking their time with their purchase. It's especially ironic in a culture that is fixated on not inconveniencing others.

- Swiping a credit card is weirdly complicated. In most places in the USA / the rest of the world -- it's a 'swipe and go' sort of deal. In Japan many systems are geared more toward physical money and transit cards (Passmo / Suica). In many cases, using your bank card requires closing the transaction on the register, printing a receipt, keying this in on another machine, waiting, and signing (in some cases). The efficiency that transactions happen with in the USA is definitely something I took for granted.

- In terms of it being traditional here, I liken current Japanese culture to the US in the 1930s - 40s. A majority of people who work in Tokyo will be in suits (sometimes known as 'salary men' depending on their position), and the gestures of bowing and greeting are much like America's pre-WWII culture of tipping hats / more formal language. I've always been fascinated with more humble, traditional culture(s). I think it attributes to better humans.

Though it seems like I'm giving Japan a hard time in some ways -- it's just "different," but I wanted to highlight some of the ways that (as a foreigner) your predispositions affect your expectations of a culture. I largely attribute my own to media coverage of Japan in the U.S.

Tangent to all of this. One of my favorite things that was unexpected, but obvious once I knew about it was the Japanese concept of "monozukuri"[1]. Many things are so well crafted here, because of a cultural emphasis on producing things with quality. I also think this is a part of why things move slow here. Americans are so focused on immediacy that there's a line of books exploiting that, Sam's "Learn X in 24HRs." I respect Japan for not being the "face paced" culture SF / NYC have turned into. Tokyo feels so tame in comparison, and (for me at least) that's a good thing.

1 - http://www.japanintercultural.com/en/news/default.aspx?newsi...
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How do you know that the <title> tag contains the "original" headline? It seems to be more tailored for SEO, i.e. to attract the people who wonder (and then Google), "Who charges the electric scooters?"
Did you get to the part about violent confrontations between would-be chargers trying to claim the same scooter?
Even more crazy, the Japanese Geocities is part of the Japanese Yahoo.

Sometimes it really feels like they have a parallel web going on over there!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#GeoCities_Jap...
I'm not arguing checks should be free. I'm arguing sending money should be free. It's been free in the USA longer than my entire life. It's not free in Japan, in fact it's very expensive. Sorry if that wasn't clear. I only brought up checks because they were an example of one way to send money for free and they've been around a long time. That other countries have other ways is great. So has the USA. Japan still has no ways to do it so as I pointed out at the top there's an opportunity.
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Do tenants with kids actually try to get very long term contacts? Are owners willing to deliver? (They lose move in rights!)
I'm surprise they haven't tried old school kick powered scooters with an additional electronic GPS unit:

http://goped.com/know-ped/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtn5kg3ZH3M

Or something like this: Micro PedalFlowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfIzZo6ouDo

It would reduce the speed concerns too.
I want to hear more about Bird's business model. How can it be worthwhile for them to give hundreds of dollars out to have the scooters charged? What do people pay for using the scooters?

As per the article, it also seems incentives are not quite thought out yet, so people can grab the $20 "hard-to-find" fee reasonably easily. It sounds like you can have a friend stash them until the fee goes up, then go and collect it. If this happens to every bike, that's maybe $20 per week? $1k a year per scooter? And I would guess a scooter itself costs a few hundred, as well?

Can you rent out a scooter for a sensible amount? My guess would be that the scooters are not at 100% capacity, otherwise it would be hard to find one. Kinda like the Boris Bikes in London. There's also infrastructure costs involved with maintaining the fleet, making sure they're where rides are likely to originate, marketing, and so on.
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I made a similar experience with Google, just on a way smaller scale.
I still use their service on a very small scale, but I would newer use them for a larger scale. While their services are mostly very convenient to use, some of their rules are ridiculous and even if you make a small mistake, they will ban you for lifetime.
One example I have is when we built a little website for a school project. It was an obvious fake site about smart homes by a company that was basically developing the terminator. I included a Google ad on the site just to make it look more realistic. When it showed ads for robotics (which I'm very interested in) I clicked on it and so did my classmates. We suddenly had about three Euros in ad-revenue, when I got banned by AdWords (or AdSense, I always confuse one with the other). I wrote an email apologizing and explaining everything and thought they would just reset the account to zero, but nope. I now have a lifetime ban from any Google Ads service. I even asked again several years later when I've had a bigger site that I wanted to put some ads on, but apparently my actions where so incredibly evil, that I will never be able to use those services ever again (if I don't create a new Gmail account that is). That doesn't keep them from sending me vouchers and ads to use those services, of course. Well, good thing there are a lot of alternatives which I am happily using without any incident and I learned my lesson soon enough.
What I don’t get about evolution is why humans haven’t evolved in the last 5000 years probably 10,000 years
I would argue the GDPR would make anything else Facebook could do illegal. It might also make this illegal, though.
That said, those economies have some weird aspects to them. Both are small states. Both have much lower proportions of their population in poverty than larger states. Both are centers of global commerce.

In general I agree with you that markets allocate resources far better than the most earnest central authorities. That said, market failures often happen without regulation from governments.
Out of control? Does not seem like it.
One of the things she mentions in the interview with Tim Cook, at the bottom of the article, is that many old people have trouble swiping on their phone, so she wanted the game to be playable through only tapping the phone.
> Riders can locate and unlock scooters using the company’s smartphone app, and after paying the $1 unlocking fee are charged 15 cents per minute during use.
Naming things is hard. To drop the person's name from the model you'd ideally have a replacement that is both concise and expressive; a concise name allows us to effectively talk about the model itself, which is also important. Often, where such a phrase exists it's already used as an alternative:

* Occam's Razor: Law of Parsimony

* Pareto Principle: 80/20 Rule

* Hanlon's Razor: arguably an extension of the Principle of Charity

I do agree that moving away from the people names would be a benefit if (and maybe only if) we can find a similarly concise replacement.
If he believes the the Cambrian explosion is due to God then he believes in the fact of the event, but has a different causal agent (vs don't know)
Man, the gig economy is getting pretty surreal.

Wait until the food delivery guys get on electric longboards. YT from Snow Crash might be a relatable character for my kids...
> Agreed. There's no reason why Microsoft - a software and hardware maker - couldn't be more like (or even supercede) Apple in this regard - i.e. treat the user as the customer not the product.

Besides Apple's sky-high margins and complete control over the iPhone ecosystem, with a vice-like grip on app developers, no reason whatsoever.

If Microsoft made $400 per Windows PC that was sold, and 30 cents on every dollar of windows software ever sold (And had a competitor called Froogle with a steady 70% market share, whose business was based on user monetization), they'd probably be less interested in monetizing their users. I'm not entirely sure that's a world you'd want to live in, though.
Never thought about that. Do they really do different titles for different entry points?

The webarchive supports that this has always been the title.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.theatlantic.com/te...
I mean, the standard model says they are fundamental, although there are theories that they may be "made up" of other things like in string theory, although those theories have (imo) struggled to compare to experiment or demand experiments that are infeasible today. Regarding "continuous and discrete", quantum mechanically, electrons aren't definitein space, you might be referring to that. In plasma physics we sit above the quantum limit (neglecting p and x variance or more correctly, the variances' product well exceed \hbar), so we treat them discretely, so in a sense, as all classical physics is, it's an approximation too.

My point is that even in classical physics, I usually don't care about fluctuations on small scales which will be noisy, so on top of the classical approximation I make another approximation where I replace a noisy function with a smoother function that well approximates the noisy one. Smoothing out the noise is an important tool for theoretical understanding (as OP's student pointed out here), but it's important to remember it's just an approximation.

EDIT: re the other replier. Another example is I treat ions as "fundamental" too, as we don't reach energies and conditions where their constituent nuclei matter, only ionization.
The video of the guy piling six birds on one and riding away is pricelesssssss!
Agreed. You can see my other comment, but I think it takes some time to wrap your head around and reconciling the differences.
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Well, it's not a paradox as described. Just bad naming on our part, to prematurely call the first particles we discovered "elementary" without first waiting to see if they have more fundamental particles below them.
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It can certainly be the case that landmark Supreme Court decisions can dramatically alter the playbooks of prosecutors. For example, SCOTUS has in recent years tightened then widened the definition of insider trading. Gov. McDonnell got his corruption conviction thrown out.

I’m not quite sure what you mean by “odds of winning...depends heavily on the folks judging the cases.” It’s been my experience in jury selection, both as a potential juror and as a party to litigation, that the lawyers on both sides are going to move to strike any jurors who are “extreme” in any characteristic. Very rich or very poor, very young or very old, etc. It can certainly be the case that appellate court judges have a strong pro or anti corporate bias, but ultimately appellate courts overturn on the basis of constitutional or procedural issues. They can’t overturn the original findings of a jury just because they disgaree.

Re: the influence of money, both in terms of lawyers and campaign contributions: if the federal government actually decides to throw its full weight behind a case, there is a limit to how much a corporation can spend on legal defense. And, even if the defense is represented by the best lawyers, a compelling criminal case can overcome that. Keep in mind that Enron, Tyco, Worldcom, and Andersen were represented by the white shoe-iest of criminal defense firms. At several points, each prosecution encountered significant difficulties, but the government prevailed in the end.

On political money, there is also a limit to its influence. As someone who worked for the Obama campaign in 2012, I was acutely aware that we were being outspent by hundreds of millions of dollars on the other side. A huge majority of Obama’s 2008 Wall Street backers defected to Romney after the passage of Dodd-Frank. However, various political scientists have found that if both sides are adequately funded in a race, the marginal effectiveness of an additional dollar dramatically decreases. Running an ad 500 times a week vs your opponent being able to do it 1500 times makes no measurable impact. It’s true that in local races, money can have a huge distortionary impact. However, for the kinds of races that affect who gets appointed to lead the DOJ, namely the presidential race, I think this is somewhat overblown.

All this is to say that while I suspect that we would both strongly support significant restrictions on the influence of money in our campaign system, it would be wrong to say that our campaign finance system and the ascendancy of conservative judges eliminates the ability to prosecute white collar crime. With sufficient public anger, and dedicated and courageous prosecutors, there can be successful cases brought against wrongdoers that add some measure of equity to the system.
Any decent CMS allows for these to be configured differently for each page because they serve different audiences. Your title tag, open graph title tag, Google metadata title and actual <h1> all serve very different purposes. For Facebook you might want something clickbaity, while for Google a clearer title will usually do better.

For most content this sort of optimization would be a bit much, but for a piece like this it could definitely work.
Wait until they get unionized
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/10/how-to-understand-the-fina...

Anecdotally, working/charged/available scooters are hard to find in downtown San Francisco.
Right now, i am picturing the heap of something traditionally garbled out by Adobe "webdesign software".

Then I remember all the fun and the "good times" I had in my life building shops with Magento.

I'm kinda scared of whatever Adobe is up to here...
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Other theories: The sun calmed down enough so that large large organisms be near the light without being zapped with radiation, the algeal mat that covered the ocean got eaten by animals and this opened the possibility of ecosystems, the earth unfroze, the chemistry of the oceans changed.

Anyone heard others?
I've been in it for 20 years now.

My advice:

- when an acute period kicks in, take painkillers and try to keep as active as you can. No lying in the bed all day long, that will make things worse

- don't sit too much. Buy yourself a standing desk. I've been working 9 to 17 at a standing desk for 3 years. No acute periods since then!!!

- swim and walk a lot

- don't lift heavy things at all. Let others do that for you

- keep calm
I so want memory seats. My wife is about 8 inches shorter than me...
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Title is erroneous, it seems. The sheep is hidden in Geneva font. From the article:

"The 18 point version of Geneva includes all the characters you’d expect, and then, at position $D9, it has an adorable little sheep, shown at left. Other sizes of Geneva have different little icons in that location (a rabbit, a hieroglyph, a Mac icon). If you go down to the 9 point size, the sheep comes back again but is super tiny!"

There are other easter egg doodles hidden in other locations that aren't accessible through typing on the keyboard.

Enjoyable read, Susan Kare's Chicago font is rightly iconic.
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China's social credit system had blocked more than 11M flights & 4M train trips
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What Facebook did is quite a bit like police coercion to make you confess to perpetrating a crime.
There headline may be a slang reference, "out of control" = "awesome" or "dope".
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Not sure what content-management system The Atlantic uses, but WordPress (or at least its popular SEO plugins) allow you to specify different values for <title> and article <h1> headlines. A lot of news orgs are now savvy enough to use varied titles for different formats. For example, this week's New Yorker print issue has a story titled, "Behind the Wall", which works in print because your eyeball can scan the article's entire presentation and see the headline in context with a photo and subhed "As the U.S. abandons diplomacy, an Ambassador resigns in protests".

In the online version, the story's title is "The Diplomat Who Quit the Trump Administration", and the subhed (which is also the <meta> description) contains proper nouns: "For John Feeley, the Ambassador to Panama, moral failings at home seemed to compound tactical failings abroad"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/28/the-diplomat-w...
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This is why you didn't found a scooter startup.
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What did you expect? Borrowing a foreign currency means you can only use it to buy foreign products from a macroscopic perspective. Exchanging currency just moves it around because someone else still has the chinese currency and will use it to buy chinese products.

The bigger question is if they will have an export surplus to china which is neccessary to repay the loans. This is how china paid back it's loans.