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Great observation.

> The counter example to these companies are the ones that quickly raised capital to dump scooters on public streets before they could be shut down by cities.

I live in NYC, and I’m frequently in Westchester (the county immediately north of NYC, for those not familiar with New York). There’s been a large influx of Lime bikes in the past several months. My opinion on Lime - the bike/scooter company - has quickly evolved from idle curiosity, to weak dislike, to outright disdain. That evolution started happening when I saw Lime bikes being parked in arbitrary places that blocked pedestrian foot traffic, but I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was when someone parked a Lime bike directly in the spot I usually place my garbage.

Sometimes the hustle of skirting regulation seems to be a net positive. Company culture notwithstanding, I’m happy overall that Uber exists as a concept. I don’t have a savvy opinion about their future, but I enjoy Uber rides significantly more than yellow cabs. Likewise I’ve stayed in Airbnbs before and enjoyed the experience, though I wouldn’t say it’s changed my day to day life as much.

But other times it seems like companies are being actively negligent in their awareness of the legislations they’re flippantly ignoring and the consequences of doing so. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for a system being disrupted which depends on the artificial scarcity of taxi medallions. On the other hand I find it very frustrating when my sidewalk or park is “disrupted” by a random bright green bike that yells at you if you try to move it without paying.

I wish there were a way to easily categorize the behavior of companies - between those whose cavalier approach to disruption mostly impacts existing incumbents, and those whose approach is actually a pain to end users. Sometimes the laws are legitimately outdated or very inefficient, and disregarding them vastly improves the user experience. But other times - like with Lime - it feels as though companies are pointing to those examples so they can get away with a “product” that automatically opts you into a “new normal” just because a subset of people use it.
In Edinburgh there's a similar discussion, and the proposals I think have value:

1) Tourist tax on all hotel rooms, including AirBnB. Initially a fairly small amount. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/27/edinburgh-le...

2) For whole-unit owner-not-present lets, require planning permission for change of use. You wouldn't be allowed to run a woodworking business in your apartment that inflicted noise on your neighbours, so the same should apply to turning it into a hotel.

3) Keep upgrading the transport infrastructure. The newly rebuilt Border railway is a victim of its own instant success - someone should start the process of widening it to two tracks immediately so it'll be ready in 20 years. And so on.

(Before someone says "build houses", there is a lot of family home construction going on in the outskirts. It's the historic centre that's under consideration, and "demolish the existing 4-6 story historic dwellings and replace them with much taller residential buildings" is an absolute non-starter)
People buy them for sure, but I'm pretty sure that market research is not why they were invented. People were not carrying around Nexus 7s in their pockets, which are not much bigger than current phablets but predated the existence of them.
> It's also less likely you will damage a battery if you just have to undo a couple screws

Which is exactly how you change an iPhone battery. They're not glued, and even have pull tabs. I don't get where the myth about iPhone batteries being hard to replace comes from (probably conflating the situation with MacBooks).

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+X+Teardown/98975#s182...
> Another issue is, of course, from where else you would get accurate news if not from journalists and press agencies. I've never heard of any reasonable and viable alternative from critics of traditional news media. Cell phone videos by citizen reporters with hysterical voice over can hardly count as a good substitute. Neither are copy&paste news aggregators or bloggers.

This is true, but why does this mean we should assign trust to newspapers? I think the reality is that a reliable source of information is not possible due to the Principal-Agent problem [0]: any information-providing body is going to have incentives to distort the information provided. Misleading headlines or "clickbait" to draw in more readers are one such incentive, and the inherent difficulty of verifying one's facts is another. The notion that there has to be something we can trust is a foolish one, and we should be skeptical of everything we read.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
I see a lot of comments here suggesting that == is okay to use if you know what you're doing or if the types on both sides match or if this or if that. Writing idiomatic code is all about being expressive and being explicit. Even in the most common case, testing for null or undefined, it's absolutely not clear what is actually happening or what the intent is. I write a lot of JS, and I've never had any justifiable reason to use ==.
> Our two junior team members were enthusiastic

> The three "old guys" didn't get it

I think that's the main reason why they passed on Airbnb. The VCs themselves were too far away from the initial target market, and could neither relate with the "airbed and breakfast" user base, nor see how it could scale.
You have no idea what you are talking about. JS doesn't nearly cost as much as images, and most ad-related JS are minified. For many websites ad serving is the only profitable model. You won't make money off subscriptions unless you are one of the big players and don't have to worry about growing your user base.
Well, we don't all agree that the changes are tantamount to "damage", first of all.

For my part, having lived much of my adult life in New Paltz, AirBnb has greatly increased the availability of NYC housing for me, as I typically only live in NYC for 3-10 days at a time.

I can understand that, if your desire is to live there perpetually for years, you might have a different perception.

Perhaps living in a single place in perpetuity (especially near the center of a major metro/cosmopolitan hub) is just not as sustainable in an environment where smallish organizations like AirBnb (or the decentralized versions to come) can easily subvert statutory attempts to force a particular market outcome.

Also, in NYC in particular, the role of "rent control" is worth taking into account.
Ah.

In that case, it's going to fail the test of being just as good pretty hard. Being able to target flexibly and based on user actions (or location, or other salient data) is really valuable to advertisers, in a measured-in-units-of-currency sense, and thus to publishers. It means better results from more narrowly targeted ads, and it also means more valuable ads to publishers.

It's perhaps not impossible, but it strikes me as a difficult thing to convince advertisers and publishers alike to take on.
> There are hundreds, if not thousands, of little behaviors that a userspace program could hypothetically depend on. In many cases, it would be impossible to change things without breaking observed behavior.

https://xkcd.com/1172/
>Way more people benefited from Amazon. It's cheaper. It set a new standard in delivery times and customer support. Its existence improved life of millions of people by significant margin.

Have you counted the lives and communities it destroyed (e.g. closing local alternatives and smaller chains)? The environmental cost from such large scale delivery of every possible BS? The externalities (including accumulated power to single person who contracts for the military industrial complex and runs newspapers)?
one of the big things that news papers do is pick through various sources and figure out which are important and which aren't, if you go directly to the source and you aren't careful, you can get stovepiped[1].

More generally who the hell has time to go directly to the wire and read all the raw sources and figure out which are accurate, which are relevant, and which you should care about? Journalists, do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stovepiping#Stovepiping_pre_an...
The article talks about naming fads and naming fads appearing in waves.

Isn't that because many people name children to honor relatives/ancesstors of theirs. i.e. unless you are naming someone the second, third, fourth, I'd think its more likely for a name to skip a generation. So jennifer might not be popular now, but it might be again be popular with jennifer's grand children / great grand children.

heck, their data shows thats the case for Emma!
Not really something you can "just do", when you're living paycheck to paycheck and can barely even pay rent, even after moving to more affordable accommodation, while also keeping your ~15 year old car running, because it's your lifeline to even having a job in the first place.
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This happens to me. All. The. Damn. Time.

I get email for the journalist Ryan Mercer in Vermont, including Wired login credentials once. I used to get his assignments all the time, our email addresses have 1-character of difference but I haven't had email for him in months. I'd forward his to him when I was sure they were for him. All the following ones I'll either reply if it's from an individual saying they have the wrong person or just delete them if it's a system generated email.

I get email for a fashion designer in Canada.

I get email for another one in Canada that appears to be a semi-pro hockey player. I get invites to charity events for him and related stuff. I've also had many people in hockey gear follow me on IG and semi-regularly get tagged by some semi-pro and pro hockey players in Canada.

I get email for a guy in the UK, including his pay stubs and psychiatric treatment updates/return to work orders.

I get every hotel, casino, Airbnb, flight etc receipts for one that appears to live out west somewhere.

I get emails regularly for one in the south east for shooting competitions and clubs.
Centralization creates transmission losses and enables control over the resource by an entity you might not have input into.

My utility can’t do anything about the power I generate with the solar on my roof. Your local community has very little input over for profit generators (versus shareholders).
>Which is why very few use gnome these days

Where did you get that info from? GNOME is the default on Debian, Ubuntu (probably the most popular distro) and Fedora
So they basically have an armed militia stealing from civilians, with the protection of the government. How did we handle this last time?
Pay his workers better?
I do fast once in a week and I have seen good benefits. I have been doing this since 2014. This is what I do: Dont eat breakfast, lunch or anything till dinner. (Some people skip breakfast and dinner). Though I do drink lemon juice once in the day.

I obviously lost some weight, but more importantly it developed habit to ignore temptations. I find my self more relaxed overall.
It’s a solved problem actually, it’s just a lack of political will to enact the solutions. Besides, it’s not like pollution (i.e. waste) from fossil fuels does something other than pollute. Compared to that, vitrification and interment represents a solved problem.
I agree, and it's not just the appearance, the UX is generally sensible (and little things like keyboard shortcuts for snapping a window to half the screen are very useful). I just wish it weren't so damn buggy. I just had to reinstall because Windows Update got stuck on an install/uninstall update loop. Sigh
Companies pay enough to get the quality and quantity of employees that they need.

This is an assertion not presently supported by evidence. With any other resource they need, companies typically respect the law of supply and demand: when there's low supply or high demand (or both), they pay more to get the resource. But when -- and seemingly only when -- that resource is labor, paying a higher price is practically unthinkable. That's why we've seen decades now in the US with little or no (inflation-adjusted) wage growth, despite higher average productivity and periods of low unemployment (either of which ought, in a rational market, to produce higher wages).
How does it fit with intense anaerobic exercise? Is it safe to do? Can I expect dizziness?
>Amazon has "Amazon Lockers", which let me accept deliveries at a time convenient to me, with no human interaction.

So, just like a post office box?

Not to mention that the raise of companies like Amazon and the "on demand" mentality is the one that forces people to not have more regular hours "convenient to them".
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Google is a corporation responsible for thousands people job (so your analogy is irrelevant) that complies with the European Union laws. If Google does things under the hood, it will be noticed, and it will be exposed to a potential 4% fine of global revenue.

By the law, opt-out is the default.

They are proposing an industrialized solution for new and old businesses to transition to EU regulations more easily. Trust Google or not, but in the meantime, they are proposing new services to answer businesses and legals needs.
I'd just like to point out that there's a big difference between things that we currently can't explain using rational methods and things that rational methods will never be able to explain.
And who is going to build that illegal feature into Google's services? And how much are that person, and the other persons that know about it, going to be paid for them to not be a liability?

Maybe I'm naieve, but I feel building automated law breaking systems is not something corporations do. I have no doubt individuals within corporations break laws whenever they feel like they can get away with it, but leaving trails like checked-in source code, and operating services that other services depend on, that just sounds like too much of a liability to me..
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Just because someone pays more for insurance doesn't mean they're getting more health care.
The more computing resources we make available, the more wasteful we become: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I do, when I know the types match. Also, I always use == to test if something is either null or undefined; cases where the distinction matters are extremely rare, and this looks too silly: typeof foo === "undefined" || foo === null.
I've heard (although there's not really strong data to support this) that names run on something like a 100-year cycle, i. e. somewhat longer than an average lifespan. You don't want to give your kid an old person name, and you may not want to name them after a still-living relative but it's a good way to honor a dead relative.

For example, my daughter's middle name (born 2018) is my grandmother's first name (born 1923).
> please post some real life real working code where in your mind usage of === is absolutely needed and I try my best to explain how I would tackle that with ==.

I think you're expending your energy for the wrong reasons. There is no need to be "clever" when writing code. Being explicit is always better. Being explicit is how bugs are avoided, how new people can enter your codebase, and how you can maintain your codebase in the future. If you spend time thinking about how to justify usage of something in your code, it has no justification being used.
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Right. New York, London, Paris and Tokyo have all "peaked".
>You can't expect companies to fight for greater good and sacrifice their interests for the overall good.

You can if the society and law demands that. E.g. throw them a few huge fines for using bad labor practices (e.g. workers not allowed to go to the toilet when they need to, firing pregnant women, other kinds of discrimination) and let's see what happens.
Being tricked by false headlines and articles published as news when secretly advertisement doesn't lead me to opt in to more ads.
I think decentralized energy production is a great idea. I have six solar panels on the roof of my bus and they provide all the power I need. I realize that's not as effective in an urban environment, but I much prefer small batches to huge grids.

Small, resilient, independent, diverse sources of energy are more robust against environmental changes, state violence, and monopolies-at-a-distance.

Additionally, the direct costs of centralization in the form of transmission loss and voltage conversion are non-trivial.
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Hmm. There have been other small startups that have tried this, but nothing has really stuck. It seems pretty exclusive too. How can a webmaster of a small independent blog chose to participate?

I'm kinda weary of this entire model. I was really hoping Patreon would do more to disrupt the ad model than anything else and wrote about it a while back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-patreon-is-disrupting-you...

...and it's made an impact for sure, but even now Google seems to want to cut Patreon out of their services (you have to have a minimum number of subscribers to add a Patreon button to new videos).

Flattr was another concept in this space that didn't really pan out either.
Japanese is a lot less cumbersome to type on a numeric keypad than English. (The common input method was that every key had a consonant and the number of times you pressed the key was the vowel. Current touchscreen input methods are very similar, using the position for the consonant and a swipe direction (up/down/left/right/none) for the vowel. Wayyyy better than having 26+ touch targets on your tiny screen for English.)
> The salaries, following the supply/demand ratio, should be up. And they are not.

Supply and demand says that offers will go up. And they have. After all, if you are unemployed, employers see your value as being less than the amount you are willing to work for (which can be no lower than minimum wage). If they could hire you for $0, or a negative amount, they most certainly would. There is always some price point where it is worthwhile.

Those rising offers is what has allowed those previously unemployed to find jobs with agreeable compensation and join the employed where previously offers were not high enough to reach an agreement (by choice or due to the law).

> Since they're not, the law of supply/demand dictating 'prices' does not work for worker's compensation.

The law of supply and demand is being observed exactly as expected here.
If you take those things into account, I can imagine one single source of positive sums: ecological cost efficiency.

If we can produce as much or more wealth with less ecological footprint then we have positive sum.
I don't think that time shifting the gravity vector has a measurable effect on the orbit. Indeed, the vector is 1au*c late in real life, but we didn't know that for sure until the recent neutron star collision observation.
Internal immigration flows fairly closely correlate with external immigration flows. In other words, people are moving from areas of low immigration to areas of high immigration, not the other way around.
And you didn't even mention fuel recycling and MSR's... Recycling is already done and MSRs can burn anything.
I say follow your passion long enough to figure out what you really like, and what pays the bills. Then, figure out the best compromise between the two.
I am completely content ignoring all those emissions because they're a product of engine-technology (ICE) and not intrinsic to the process.

A nuclear-power plant feeding energy to a grid which powered electrified trains, cars and trucks would be zero emission.
'Open-source news' has the very same problem that open source in general does. It's relatively easy for standards to be adopted, co-opted by companies and people with agendas and then the open-source basis abandoned.

For example in your scenario how do you stop state actors from infiltrating and perpetuating stories or views that are positive to them? As you've no doubt seen recently, facts are surprisingly malleable with the right viewpoint and those citizen journalists can submit one-sided videos removing or altering context.

In an ideal news media world the role of a journalist should be to provide full context for why something matters while performing their own independent investigations. Meanwhile, the people reading said media should have the proper education and critical thinking skills trained to analyze multiple pieces of information to understand biases.
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Writing or modifying either program, the explicit Go one and the automagical Python one, requires reading and understanding exactly the same amount of etcd documentation: both programs are going to perform the same computations with the same parts of the JSON structure.

If etcd changes its file format or API, both programs break in the exact same way. Fixing the Go program requires adjusting boilerplate code that the Python program doesn't have, but it's unlikely to be difficult.

Comments and names in the Go example summarize etcd documentation and API for no good reason, creating significant ambiguity and an unnecessary maintenance burden. The only point of authority is etcd documentation, not client code.

The "uh" programmer in the example is a strawman and an idiot. Remotely professional real people read documentation instead of guessing or making assumptions; no significant skills are required.
> living in a single place in perpetuity

Christ. Hotdesking for houses. This is already the reality for a lot of precariously-housed or non-street-homeless people. It's especially bad for children and will cost them grades at school when moving frequently.
> My utility can’t do anything about the power I generate with the solar on my roof. Your local community has very little input over for profit generators (versus shareholders).

That's looks more like a problem than anything positive, electricity grid planning is at a country level, not a local one. And personally I don't believe on private electricity generation, it should be public without shareholders for that reason.

> Centralization creates transmission losses and enables control over the resource by an entity you might not have input into.

How exactly? Every industry is like this. Factories came bigger and bigger, farms got bigger, trucks got bigger, cities became more dense, that's just economy of scale. Renewables are not immune to that, it's far cheaper to create a solar grid than spreading them randomly.
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Yep. Feedly on the desktop and Newsify on iOS are a great combination.
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Basically, you would be taking your retirement in small chunks instead of at the end of your life.
Your potentially scratchable DVD is exactly a thing you spend your money on at Wal-Mart.

With Apple, you don't spend your money on anything physical. You explicitely spend it on a service provided for you that allows you to redownload the file whenever you want.

Any exceptions to that should be clear from the start, not buried in a small font somewhere in the ToS.
It's more likely to turn into a Venus. And it'd make nuclear power virtually free compared to fossil fuels.
The newer phones are easier to lift the screen out of, and replace the battery? Have you taken apart a 4 and a 6? A 6 is MUCH easier.