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I think the sharing economy works well, but I also agree with the article. I just don’t think AirBNB, Uber and the others are the sharing economy. They are platform economies where the platform wins and it’s workers are at a race for the bottom on minimal pay and no rights.

We have a Danish app for taking people with you when you travel between towns. This is an aspect where public transportation unfortunately sucks after decades of conservatives in government, but it’s also an area where there is no taxa service or Uber styles thing because it’s too expensive.

But sharing the gas price with strangers when you’re going anyway absolutely works.

There is a platform for it, but their primary source of income comes from their leasing services. I’d say that is an example of the sharing economy, because it’s actually people sharing and not just some no-workers-rights shithole.
It takes a third party to orchestrate busy sections of our current non-flying vehicles too!
That has some major downsides. No caching, so any shared images need to be re-downloaded on every page. And the size of base64 if about 40% larger in my experience.

Request count is really not a big deal with HTTP/2 multiplexing.
Apparently they were quite good, given the amount of posts how great it is to live in a text terminal. /s
So if you lie on top of a ducted fan like that, how is it not going to impede airflow?

Also what happens if you have a loose thing on your person that gets sucked into the fan.

The image looks nice and Sci fi, but that design isn't practical.
Why isn't it a flying three-wheeler?
Is AZ a significant outlier in this regard? Is AZ different enough from say, California, that Uber was incentivized to test in AZ as a way to mitigate liability exposure in the event of fatal crash?

I was always curious why they were testing there as opposed to somewhere closer to HQ.
great article, thank you
Ignoring the terrible taste of your argument for the sake of keeping it civil...

Do you really think that everyone should simply bend to the externalities that you generate?

You really think that you could drop toxic waste on a river that goes through your property and no one can complain when the river dies because you are more important that the victims of your externalities?

Because it is a terrible argument that does not seem to have any basis on how the real world operates.
Our tech could not be more different to the MJP. Theirs was a gasoline engine powering a pair of ducted fans. Too many single points of failure and never able to keep the engine cool, not possible to fly much faster than 60mph. Ours is 1/3rd the size, will fly at 4x the speed. We’ve flown our jetpacks all over the world. We already have a development agreement with the US Navy. They are perfect for overt (perhaps not covert) military ops - insertion and extraction and getting medics into position. Why risk a Blackhawk and crew??!!

Why not for governments and EMS. If we can get EMS medics to heart attack and stroke victims just 1 min quicker the number of lives saved is 100,000 - 200,000/yr just in USA. Isn’t that worth taking a shot at?

I don’t understand the point about flying high enough. We can fly at over 15,000ft
I am very sympathetic to your ordeal. But I would also like you to consider a few counter points.

Consider this very hypothetical scenario. For a particular diagnosis, an experimental treatment improved outcomes compared to a control group by 40%. That may seem promising, but if the control group success rate is 10/100 and the treatment group success rate is 14/100, that means the NHS would need to treat 100 people to get 4 additional positive outcomes. If the treatment is really expensive or if it has severe side effects, then quite frankly, cost benefit needs to be considered. And another thing to consider, is its possible that your treatment was a false positive. It might seem crazy to you based on your experience, but the population is very large, and there will always be those 'exceptional' cases. That is just how it works.

Also, the OP qualified his remark with the words 'deviation without justification'. It sounds like in your case the OB had plenty of justification because she was aware of studies with more comparable demographics that had better success. So really, it sounds like you just got lucky in that one of your specialists happened to have the right background. If you had had a different OB, then you would have been no better off in the US system.

And finally, a personal anecdote. I suffered a fairly nasty shoulder injury playing a contact sport. The injury (completely tore my AC joint) is quite common for the sport. My HMO (Kaiser) did not recommend surgery because it only has moderate success, and even if successful, it only marginally improves quality of life compared to no treatment. Somewhat coincidentally, 3 other teammates had the exact same injury that year. One was on Kaiser, and also did not get the surgery. The other two were on PPOs and both got the surgery (I largely suspect due to the financial incentives of PPOs, they tend to over-treat). In terms of recovery, I was mostly back to full function in about 6 weeks, whereas the surgery involved a 3-6 month recovery process. And after 4+ years, I have some minor stiffness every now and then but nothing too bothersome. So basically, every time you (or your company) pay your sky high insurance premiums, just realize that some portion of that money is going to pay for mostly unnecessary shoulder surgeries for recreational athletes.
I think that twitter story is an example of the financially precarious position many workers are in. It only supports the idea that our economy is fundamentally unfair to working people. How is it acceptable that a mother of three going to nursing school has to support herself and her family through contributions from friends and family, multiple part time jobs, and driving for Uber? Going to school and raising a family is a full time commitment in itself.
Well we could mandate that self-driving cars be programmed to the same standard. I mean it means that self-driving cars will simply never exist, but we could mandate it!
You can't but I did a PhD (Physics) and pretty much every PhD researcher with me was on antidepressants for some time. It was so common that nobody bothered to hide and people would trade information on which antidepressants would work best while keeping their work life unaffected. In other shit, almost every married candidate I knew went through a divorce (except for a Mormon guy).
How are the updates?
Well, that's what basic economic theory would predict, so I'd argue you'd need to have a pretty robust and demonstrated reason to conclude that it wouldn't. You've first got the general increasing in the supply of labour, but then you've got a secondary effect considering the lowering of barriers to people who consider car ownership a sunk cost and not connected directly and solely to using the vehicle for income-production introducing a very low marginal rate for some of that supply...
Generally agree with the prevalence of short-termism in tech, and not to be pedantic, but a couple corrections:

"Quarterly profit, for example, can be optimized by selling all your factory equipment at the end of the quarter."
Not if you're accounting correctly. Your cash might increase but profit is designed to avoid these sorts of things. Selling equipment is typically exchanging one asset (the equipment) for another (cash), and so if you firesale your equipment, you'd probably record a loss (since you'd probably sell it below it's actual value).

"Modern major-generals at successful shops like google want to have data underneath every button."
Actually, of all the big tech companies, Google is probably the least obsessed with short-term metrics. They're not immune to short-term focus on metrics, but they still have a "focus on the user and all else will follow" attitude to product development, and when they do use metrics, they often try to figure out the long-term impact[1]. Compare that to a company like FB which has been much more obsessed with short-term metrics like engagement (though that has been changing recently, out of necessity).

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Some say Airbnb is diluting their brand.
What does it stand for today?
It used to be about the sharing economy, belong anywhere and so on.
What is it now?
Yeah, let me know when less than 25 developers crank out a working mobile Linux distro that will continue to be supported in 5 years. Looking at all the failed projects in the past and all the managements complexities like software support, modern touch integration this is virtually impossible. They'll likely have a brief stint releasing some Debian ARM based mobile OS with a limited selection of software. You'll get some GTK Calendar, Calculator, etc. The basic crap that imitates Android phones from 2011. And it will be supported by up to 5 or so devices, hopefully without some impractical rooting method.

Linux barely exists as a desktop operating system as is. The only difference nowadays is smartphones don't have that freedom of customization desktops provide. Smartphones are consumer centric devices, you can't even swap batteries anymore. Leading OEMs have no interest in supporting an obscure operating system, they know the majority of users want Android.

When Purism releases this as an OOTB product, it will without a doubt run on some no named Chinese Phone that holds the mediocre power of any low end Android Device. Only it will be $600, rather than $180
Neither did dogs. Suffice to say Wolves don't become Chihuahuas in 40k years without some very artificial selection.

Pretty remarkable how short a period can create some monstrously different creatures, even if they are still technically sexually compatible - not that I think a wolfhuahua would be a good idea!
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>"The system is not designed to alert the operator," the report notes.
Researchers play around a lot with stuff in the labs. You are not linking individual people with these results and you will certainly not see this published anywhere.
Math is a language, it doesn't make something scientific (or not scientific). The issue of math and science are unrelated. The problem with macroeconomics is not the tools they use, it is that it does not have predictive power. We cannot meaningfully (better than martingale or historical MA) predict GDP/inflation/SP500 return etc. A lot of macro assumptions are obviously wrong (people do not optimize marginal utility, people have transitive preferences, nobody can meaningfully compute externalities of basically anything, etc)..
We’re at historically low levels of unemployment. There’s work out there if you want it. Sure, based on your skills and experience, you may not find a job which supports the lifestyle you want or the rent where you want to live, but then you reset your expectations and move to a place with a lower COL.
I'm not aware of anyone since Charles Sanders Peirce actually making a serious scientific effort to investigate this problem. His work is well worth the read for anyone who wants to see what semiotic looks like when one of the greatest logicians (I'm talking Frege tier) to live turned his mind to it.
Creative Ideas to Manage Work-Life Balance as a Startup Owner
YC: it's bullshit that you manually pushed this post back to the top of the site after it started dropping down the front page (due to having way more comments than points).

It's fine if you're going to treat posts about YC companies as ads that are immune from voting and other site mechanics, but then you need to label them as ads.
College only provides TIME if you're part of a privileged class of people who:

- Had parents who instilled strong academic achievement at an early age.

- are between the ages of 18 and 22 with no family to take care of, no serious medical conditions, and really no major financial obligations.

- are interested enough and have the mental aptitude to study a major that can justify sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

- are sound enough to make it through a sometimes very rough and volatile period of young adulthood and stay focused enough to actually learn the material.

College is a privilege, historically that's what college was, only recently did college become a ticket to the middle class in the minds of most people. I really think that attitude needs to change. In all honesty, I make more than enough money now to go back and finish my degree and I'd probably get a lot more out of college a second time around - because I'd be there to learn, not to try to get the biggest paycheck. The incentives for college these days are all wrong. We need more young people spending their earlier years learning how to actually provide concrete value for the market, once they earn the money, then they can go and get that foundational and expansive education - most of which will certainly better you as a person but you'll never actually use in any concrete way in your day to day life.
> After 12 years of general education, how do you justify more?

You cheat yourself by treating it as an overpriced trade school but delude yourself into thinking its something more grand. The average college graduate in the US has a 9th grade reading level at best and many cannot follow simple instructions.

You can start with the hiring process by differentiating between skills and education. I would hope the people that are hired to a given job are competent in their skills but instead people are often hired according to the candidates available in the marketplace. When in doubt you can at least discriminate against some of the unqualified candidates by education level.
It's exciting to see y'all working on this. I'm all for the Buck Rogers-style innovation.

I'm curious, how high have you actually flown it? Up to 15,000 ft? That sounds absolutely terrifying.
I was expecting something that would focus on the rules that so many sites impose. Length is easy, but many have silly rules where certain characters are not allowed.

Then there is the side of making a password that is easy to type on a phone. Ideally, I want a hard password that doesn't require me to change input mode on my phone too many times.

Well, ideally, I'd rather I could just use my security token everywhere... But that is a separate problem.
Did your motorcycle have all kinds of advanced gyros, inertial sensors, radar/lidar sensors, and control loops?

Seems like your comment is a bit like someone in the 1900s pointing at an early car and saying, "I fell off a horse once and nearly broke my neck. You won't survive an accident in that contraption." He wouldn't have been entirely wrong, but he wouldn't have been right, either. His comment would have added nothing useful to the discourse.
Not sure where the incubator you visited was, but I'd say mainstream view in Silicon Valley is that most teams need a technical cofounder (unless the startup just isn't technical at all). If anything, it's sometimes the other extreme: people will claim that technical cofounders don't need business cofounders.

That said, since it is so difficult to find technical cofounders, some teams end up outsourcing technical work out of necessity (not because they don't want to share equity).
It's already people at UCSF anyways so that's less complicated already.
I think the truth is somewhere in between because of the relationship of economics and politics.

There are absolutely academic economists who are doing a reasonable job trying to find the objective truth underlying human behaviour in economic life, understanding market forces, understanding relevant institutions, and so on.

However, the majority of what actually makes it into the public discourse is simply politically motivated reasoning, often in the form of hacks writing for think tanks that are paid for by special interests.

It's amazing to me that, at least when I was at university, the computer science curriculum had more content concerning ethics and our responsibility towards society than the economics curriculum.

No other field of knowledge is as poisoned by politics as economics, by far. That's why even though economics can be a decent science, a healthy amount of scepticism towards anything you read by (even supposedly academic) economists in the public discourse should be the default attitude.
Every industry has externalities, both positive and negative. Your comment is basically vacuous.
I'm curious how these numbers compare to 2017 and earlier years.
GitHub is testing Donations feature for repos
>but for someone who is a practicing developer it's really a pretty low cost.

Hah! I don't know about you but when I first started app development I didn't even have a credit card, let alone $99 on it to spend. Thankfully I could install my apps on android for free.
It's not that simple and I think that should be abundantly clear. People buying up properties and renting them on Airbnb has wider impact than only to the people that choose to actively participate or don't. And it affects not only the units in that specific building, but the community and property surrounding it.

More cars on the road, encouraged by the incentives of Uber/Lyft, affect pollution, road congestion, and public health.
He is explaining it further down! For instance, he cannot set a breakpoint and follow execution flow (because suddenly the flow resumes in another microservice)

It seems from your comment that you assume one can always work with only one service, and not need to consider the whole system of services acting together. That is naive.
My machine was $1500 in 2014, I'm fortunate enough to pay $60 for gigabit, and I tend to stick to one or two games, maybe spend $100 a year on new titles. Only a money pit if you want it to be.
no i just moved onto using other calculators instead of sticking to the slow windows one. maybe you should look beyond the windows standards for actually good software. a splash screen for a calculator is utterly insane
Maybe we shouldnt run safety critical code of which we dont know what it does. Hard realtimesystems exist for a reason. Sure it would also be nice if we could drive nuclear power plants at home via a smartphone app, so the most qualified expert could help in an emergency, but its simply not a sane idea.

This cop out of "Software gonna have bugs" as a way to evade all liability doesnt hold in any other profession. I dont see why we get special treatment here.
You usually have to cut your nails and buy a uniform, but yes - I found this headline confusing too. "Yellow belt" is pretty standard, but not universally so. BJJ goes straight to blue, but after much longer than Karate/Judo takes to get to yellow. The most prolific borrower of martial arts terminology in tech, the "six sigma" folks, call their second level "yellow belt" too.
Supposing that they succeed, become more affordable, and most people commute to work with them - would pollution and air quality levels be better or worse?
> When you ask friends to drop you at airport that is sharing.

And your friend didn't need a professional insurance for his car for that. The difference is scale. Giving a lift from time to time to friends is very different from doing it full time while pretending you are not a taxi.
If those providing services through platforms such as Uber or airbnb didn't benefitted from them then they'd be doing something else instead.

Furthermore, of detractors actually cared about "the workers" then they'd be worried about how they have no better options instead of attacking the best options they have.

And no, banning Uber or airbnb does not make the workers' lives any better. It just an option off the table, and to some it's the best option they have.
MMX is from P5.

P6 supports MMX and later revisions SSE 1.

The next one after P6 is NetBurst, it introduced SSE2 and later revisions SSE3.
Of all the different projects to outsource for, something block chain related, specifically crypto coin related would be the very last.
> The driver being criminally liable is a more powerful incentive.

Too powerful. The driver should not be punished for correctly using a legally purchased vehicle. We don't apply that kind of standard anywhere else, and for good reason.

Plus, people would refuse to buy self-driving cars even if they were on average safer than human-driven cars because

1. Everyone thinks they're an above average driver
2. Illusion of control

So your proposal would cost lives in the future when self-driving cars actually are safer.
Well sure, a known-malicious app will be detected by Windows Defender, provided it has updates making it aware of the app. But a known-malicious signed app will also fail the code signature verification, in addition to the virus scan, if its certificate has been revoked.
The problem is that the pools which recruiters tend to connect with are almost completely disjoint from the academic pools. The recruiting is almost completely driven by word of mouth. The other problem is outside of CS (and to some extent Wall Street) hiring companies often think they can get fresh PhDs for cheap. I've been offered salaries that were a x% bump on my pathetic postdoc pay. I have a PhD and would have loved to jump into industry but could only make it happen once I started networking within industry folks. Once I had an industry position I was suddenly swamped with recruiters asking if I was looking for a change.
I saw the presentation, lack of experience with mobile development naturally doesn't produce high-quality results.

I remember there were some statements how things work, related to issues they faced, which were plain wrong.
That's interesting.

I'm not sure the cause and effect they show in the graphs and stats are directly relatable though, at least not entirely. There are other issues to be considered.

By 2014 the cost of living in Seattle was already driving people to look elsewhere to start a business and live and work, and we see a very similar downturn in both Seattle and the State beginning in 2017.
Doing favours for friends is very tax efficient. You basically pay no tax when you give or receive a favour. And let's face it, even though sometimes you might pay a friend to babysit or whatever it is cash in hand and no tax.

But the sharing economy requires you to pay from your after tax salary to someone else, who then pays tax on that before they get their pay. On top of that the rent seeker (uber, etc.) has to take their slice. So it's a low paid marginal business once you are being paid.
Your examples are sharing, but not "the sharing economy", because there isn't a third party managing the economic aspect.
Virtually everything you do impacts people around you. So can you be more specific?
Hey first things first I respect what you're doing. A 1% chance of success is worth it here. That being said... You are literally exactly this with your comment...

> When Glenn spoke to a group of potential investors (which I was somehow a part of) back in 2011 you'd think that they were on the cusp of having a finished product and a stack of orders from the US DOD, a variety of commercial organisations, and dozens of rich people who want a personal aircraft.
There are two CEOs I admire and respect. Two people I have ever met who are both beyond wickedly smart, and, absolutely wonderful kind truly caring humans. Sam Shank and Jeff Lawson. Sam the CEO of hotel tonight is an incredibly brilliant intellectual, and also a genuinely wonderful person. I'm so happy they both did so well. Great job.
My apologies for potentially hijacking this, but... this is exactly why the term "software engineer" bothers me. Yes, the software you write isn't likely to cause a shopping mall to collapse on a crowd of people, but there can be huge financial and societal responsibility here, and yet, almost every software license in existence completely disclaims that. Engineering comes with a tremendous amount of ethical and legal responsibility.
I loved my Lumias, still use one of them as my secondary phone.

And also like UWP a lot, although its implementation was rather clusmy with the whole DevDiv vs WinDev issues.
right after the year of the Linux desktop, eh?