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hey dang, ask yourself how much intellectual curiosity is there in this promo post?!
quite disingenuous on your side.
AdMob is O&O by Google. I would say mischief is doable on both platforms since it is up to the developer to implement either SDK within their apps. This is why it is important to monitor conversion rates and be selective as to which apps your ads appear on. You could select Google's apps only for example.
That's not exactly right.

As I understand it, you sort of get to choose your gender, but society has to accept your choice.

If I declare myself a woman but make no attempt to "live as a woman" as society sees it, I'll appear to be taking advantage of the system, and my choice will be rejected and there will be social consequences.

Conversely, if I do appear to be making an honest attempt to be a woman, and you don't accept it because of your conservative values, then you cannot reject my choice, because that's bigoted.

Yes, you can change your mind about your gender, but you really need to do it in a life-upending way that feels risky and permanent and committed, then you'll be celebrated. If you phone it in, people are going to be offended and you'll be rejected.
My child won't get measles because my children are vaccinated. But my children will get other diseases because most diseases can't be vaccinated against. And also because I'm not willing to sacrifice every part of my life to make sure that my children have the minimal possible risk of disease.

So my kids will, for example, go to school rather than be home-schooled or tutored.

My kids are allowed to travel on BART, despite their propensity for touching everything and putting their hands in their mouths. And, like, I'll try to teach them not to do that, but it's not like I'll smack their hands.

My kids will probably at some point travel abroad to places where there are disease risks that there aren't in the United States, and while if travel vaccinations are available we'll certainly take advantage of them, we won't refuse to travel to Africa because malaria exists.

Also, my children are allowed to travel by car -- even in the cars of say their friends' parents who I haven't extensively vetted for maximally safe driving habits.

And they're allowed to go into San Francisco and Oakland, cities that are statistically more violent than their home town of San Bruno.

You can't remove all risk from people's lives -- even your own children's -- and if you try to, you end up making bad decisions.

This is a microcosm of what happens when you try to make policy around zero tolerance policies. Look, I wish that everyone would vaccinate their kids. But it simply doesn't make sense to sacrifice every other priority in the world to try to chase down a very small number of people who object to doing that.

And aggressively countering the message isn't working -- which we would have expected if we had seen every other case of aggressive messaging, which broadly speaking is more about virtue signaling than convincing people. Anti-vaxxers today are much, much, much more rooted in their opinions than they were at the beginning.
Latest research shows ride sharing increasing traffic by 180%. Time is money, and even with driverless cars I don't think we'll ever get close to $5.

What we need is more mass transit. Perhaps one day tiny driverless cars that circulate near a mass transit stop can be used to overcome our density deficit. That way they'd stay off heavily traveled corridors, helping improve transit times rather than lengthening them.
> Kickstarter can fail. Our company is looking for funding to secure our financials, as we’ve heard in multiple All Hands communications.

Looks like this is also leaking that Kickstarter is raising...
Not a surprise, this is the same argument the oil industry has used for decades to oppose any kind of anti-oligopoly legislation. Basically they state that the US curbing the size of oil companies will adversely impact national interests in the Middle East and in other regions.
china is huge yet most people don't have cars. It's not the geographic size it's because its population is spread out thin due to post ww2 american dream urban planning where we built rings upon rings of suburbs surrounding urban cars because we did not think of any of the negative consequences of everyone having cars (among other things)
Most of the world gets by fairly well with much lower car ownership rates than the US (apart from San Merino which has more cars than people, the US has the highest car ownership per capita in the world). If you live in a country with very good public transportation, I think it's not hard at all to imagine a future in which individual car ownership basically goes to 0% at some point in that not too distant future.
Obviously, if you were allowing camping in a regulated fashion, you would want to require motorhomes designed for the purpose of camping. These usually have propane furnaces.

There would be quite a few considerations. I would pretty say that these hypothetically could be worked but in reality those who just didn't want this at all would object and the situation could never happen in modern reality.
Because there are counterparties. Duh. Quorum is a perfect case study for an actually useful blockchain use case.
A secular trend is roughly any trend that is not either a fad or cyclical.

Basically the claim is that opting out of car-ownership will be a sticky long-term movement, not just something that urban hipsters do for a few years to signal how green they are.

- Ice cream demand going up every summer is a cyclical trend.

- Bell bottoms were a fad.

- Smartphones replacing dumbphones is a secular trend.
I’m holding out for the Cowboy Bebop future. Sure the Moon might have exploded and everyone on Earth forced underground, but personal transport will be basically a cheap ship with military-grade weapons and ability to escape the atmosphere and the planet’s gravity under its own power.
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To a large degree that's because the cost is far higher to pay a human to do the driving.

In a world of self-driving cars, more of them can be stations geographically close to where they may be needed - without having to pay for a human driver.

So they will become both cheaper and easier/quicker to use than existing ride-share services. That will change the calculus for many many people - but not necessarily everyone, of course.
It's true that moderation comments are out-of-band for the site. But they're necessary, because the system can't right itself without them. If it helps at all, they're even more tedious to write than they are to read.

Edit: mlevental points out that you were referring to the article, not my comment. I think there's plenty of intellectual curiosity in what Jessica wrote, especially in the blog post explaining why she did it. In fact, I'd say it's obvious. That commenters don't always respond to curiosity with curiosity of their own is a separate issue.

Certainly it's also a promotional post in the sense of wanting to call attention to the program, but that sort of mix is common on HN, and it's where it is on the front page because users upvoted it.
I get how it may be misleading, and given that produced water should be in quotes to mark it as an industry term, it is still the only useful term for said water. Within the industry it is very well defined and easily understood. If you use another term like "obtained water" it would be up to interpretation by each individual including industry individuals. It's like contract law, they figured out a while ago that when dealing with technical issues, technical words should be used and taken to have their normal industry meaning, otherwise it breeds more confusion.
It absolutely could be the case that men and women have differences that transcend culture, pushing them toward certain careers and interests. Totally possible.

Regardless of whether or not that is true, I believe we should all have the opportunity to pursue whatever interests us. Equal Opportunity. This does not mean we should expect Equal Outcome. Those are two entirely different things.

Programs like "Women: Learn to Program This Summer" are Equal Outcome programs. They provide unfair advantages to a certain subset of society, with the explicit intent of "evening the score". That's a dangerous game to play.
Van Life is becoming super popular, not just for the homeless, but for a generation of people who want to live on a limited income and travel. Theres people building out buses/vans and living in california, working tech, banking their money to retire early. About 20 years ago, I was working at ATT and we had contractors living in their travel trailers parked in the work parking lot at our datacenters, so its not a new occurance.

The big thing I found interesting was the lawsuit angle that it discrimination for disabled homeless, that living in a tent is legal, but living in an RV is illegal. RV's and Tents are spreading all around major cities, its getting quite bad up here in Seattle, tourists are mentioning it all the time, its visibile from the highways.
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This seems to be the original. It even has a picture!
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-m...
How to Teach Online and Earn Money?
High frequency trading perhaps?
Great concept, I think some of these company benefits change depending on which location so you may want to add that in there
Confirmation bias? Other companies may solve you use case better with context-specific titles, e.g. “directly responsible individual on X.”
I emailed Richard, the author of this article, with the question: "What Robotics projects is Google helping the Chinese govt develop or leaking through a CCP cell?"

I am very curious, as I think the HN community would be.

I do not want to rehash the other arguments: if it is true Google would be hypocritical for assisting China or the lack of details what this General accused Google on possibly leaking through a CCP cell to do business in China.

Also, how true are the claims that companies need a CCP cell (accused by a US official of leaking IP to a foreign) that could lead to IP theft? Would allowing a political party to have access to your trade secrets compromise the obligation to keep the legal protections under US law?
If someone feels the need to tell you they are an unapologetic asshole, I think that's a small dog with a smaller bark.
Watchdog: FEMA wrongly released personal data of victims
What will the pricing be once it's out of beta? Looks like something I would find handy, depending on what the cost is looking like :-)
Good point, I think an important distinction is computer science versus software engineering.

I fear if it's the latter, schools will be churning out code monkeys
I used to do that until two rentals broke down, the second being quite scary and leaving me and my family stranded. Hertz and Sixt. Do you have a local rental place or something?

With my own car, I'm constantly keeping an eye for everything + regular maintenance.
I had twins join my toddler to give us a family of five recently. The logistics, prep, timing, etc is crazy now. We got a minivan. Not something I even thought about when we were just three, let alone newly married or single.
Day to day, I tend to do a bit of both. Most often, I attach a debugger when it’s code that someone else has written. I find that it’s an easy way for me to visualize the flow of data between function calls.
An Uber being $5 is generous. I commuted 20 minutes to work everyday, that would be $10 in my area. 20 minutes is a decently low commute time too. Imagine having to commute an hour!

Also, there's a shortage of Uber drivers as is, so the solution to no cars is... more cars?

Driverless cars are very far in the distance, so I don't see the "soon" happening in this title.

I mean, how stupid is it to think paying someone else to drive you around in their car, is cheaper than owning your own car.
Tell it to the tech employees in the game industry.
Bingo. I started using Messari/onchainfx and it’s a much better alternative.
Explanation: There's a large brigade on HN that hates Bitcoin with a burning passion. Your comment seemed to cast Bitcoin in something other than the worst possible light, and so it was downvoted.
South Florida sees a boom in ‘birth tourism’
I spent last summer algo trading crypto. This study doesn't surprise me at all. On one market, I consistently saw limit orders that would appear inside the spread and then get instantly filled.

If you do the math on how much you need to spend on exchange fees to get a coin to get coin to the top 100 in volume, it's only a few grand. That's assuming you don't own the exchange.
thats true, but not really the point im making.

you're right, any real competitor would at least be sending out dev kits if they were road ready.

i guess what im saying is that every day that continental delays is a day closer those companies get to having a product thats dev-kit ready, and thus a day closer to bleeding market share to them
> kings probably couldn't have afforded anything like a modern scale prison system

They might not have imprisoned as many people as the US, especially for petty things.

> The closest thing was more slavery than imprisonment,

> Those punishments are cruel and inhumane

The US has legalized slavery for prisoners.

> At the very least, rehabilitation doesn't work very well.

Rehabilitation is not the focus.

> Prison startup?

Gross. America has too much money made off prisons already.
You can see the curve of the Earth on the horizon with your eyes from the top of a tall mountain, the window of an airplane or somewhere flat like prairies. Of all the ridiculous conspiracies, this one baffles me the most. This one, you can literally just go look for yourself. You don't need science, you don't need math, you don't need to be intelligent, you just need to be not fucking blind.
Perhaps you're right - I'm no scientist and I'm not involved in research, I'm just an engineer working on building machine learning tools. Maybe I'm reaching too far. From where I sit, though, the concepts I hear people talking about when we discuss the design of machine learning systems, especially the sort of cutting edge research on concepts like attention and adversarial networks, sounds a whole hell of a lot like the ideas and techniques that come up when people try to sort out the conflicts and malfunctions that occur in the pattern-matching and story-telling mechanisms inside their own brains. Metaphors they may be, but they seem to work, and that tells me that we're on to something. I look forward to learning more about what's going on as this work proceeds.
Urbanite hipsters don't enjoy nature. They read about it on buzzfeed while drinking lattes.
OP is dead wrong on those costs. It's extremely cheap to own a car in America.
While I agree with you, there are a large section of people online who disagrees with your premise. 8chan and 4chan exists with minimal to no moderation.

Reddit has learned the importance of moderation, but only after many controversies (and those controversies have led to the exodus of "anti-moderation" advocates. As /r/CreepShots or /r/jailbait got banned from Reddit, those communities migrated to 8chan)

So while you're correct in that moderation is IMO key to preserving a good internet community... there are a HUGE number of people who would disagree with you. 8chan's very existence proves that some people don't want moderators.

In fact, it is very important to watch the crowds and recognize these "exodus" situations. A lot of internet philosophy can be understood if you follow these controversies. SomethingAwful's exodus, the GameFAQs LUEser exodus, 4chan exodus, KotakuInAction / Gamergate, and 8Chan. These major events split the internet community into differing philosophies, and cause entire groups of people to stop interacting with each other.
> Life is too short to critically refute every single crackpot theory out there.

In this case, rather than claiming you disagree (which should imply understanding), you can just say you don't know enough about the issue to comment on it.

The spirit of the above argument is that, if you're going to vehemently disagree or argue with someone, you should understand— not that you need to understand every issue, nor agree or disagree with every issue.
Ok, since it seems you don't want to use HN as intended, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Sure, it's in the future, but it's not the distant future. The company I work with does P2P within a given environment. It has a map of the hotel/hospital where it works and can basically deliver anywhere on that map (barring stairs, and a few other limitations). It has no fixed routes, and is demand-driven. Someone calls it, drops in whatever needs to be delivered, and tells it where to go. It arrives, maybe calls the recipient to let them know it's at the door, and hands the delivery over, after verifying recipient identity.

There are many companies doing this kind of thing in various environments. Doing it at the scale of a city, like calling an Uber/Lyft, is probably a few years out, at least. Maybe in major cities taking the place of bike couriers it'll come sooner, I dunno.

"Not to mention the legal implications of on-demand bots as drug mules or bomb delivery..."

UPS and FedEx and the USPS have that problem.
Presumably the answer is “because magic”
Fascinating slide deck. They work out a scoring system to identify exchanges with fake volume.

This has a number of consequences. For example, the exchange-traded volume starts to look more realistic given Bitcoin's aggregate value. Similarly, futures volume starts to look more comparable to exchange traded volume.

The main benefit, however, is to surmount the SEC's objection to previous ETF applications: bitcoin market manipulation. If they succeed, Bitwise stands to become the first Bitcoin ETF in the US.
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Nice reply. It isn’t necessarily a straightforward measurement as you hint in your post. My first absolutely naïve approach to this would be a ratio of the count of employees who work the majority of their time in office locations to count of employees in the company who work in those locations less than X% of the time, where X must be a number less than or equal to 50. I think it’s pretty universally understood that if you work onsite in a company office for >= 50% of your time you cannot be construed as a remote employee.

Just thinking now I can come up with several flaws to that approach but it might be a nice starting point for some iteration.
While I don't necessarily disagree with your first statement, your second statement seems to put things in the wrong light.

> It can be more than just saline polluted. Pretty much anything that can be in the earth and can mix with water.

Most water we drink is rain filtered through many different layers of earth. It's the cleanest source of freshwater we have. Minerals only mix to a very small percentage with the water during this process and this "pollution" is actually wanted to a certain degree, i.e. mineral water.
The basic answer is we don't know, hence why this is such a contentious issue. There are many known physical[1] and psychological[2] differences between the sexes[3]. Boys tend to play with inanimate objects while girls tend to play with dolls and role play. Women tend to be more social, while men are less so. Men with higher testosterone tend to be more aggressive overall[4]. Some think many of these differences are caused by society, while others think that it has to do with an entire chromosome being different, causing differences overall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology

[3] These differences are based on population distributions, and there are plenty of outliers within those distributions, eg. masculine women, feminine men. I am speaking of averages here.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Aggression_and_cr...
I wasn not presenting them as "doctors" as an authority, but the facts they present while being doctors.

Do you believe that who they are as a person is more or less important than the facts they present?
Could the link be changed to the original article? https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-m...
carrousels are so passé
Forget about the views for a second, even sq footage isn't lacking that much. Million dollar homes (that need to be demolished) with that sq footage cost probably millions in that area. So call it renting a small house with a $15 million view. Kinda. Oh, and you can move it.
> What does homogeneous have to do with prison rehabilitation?

It's all white people.

Sorry to be so glib, but I don't think I've ever seen "homogenous" used by someone who wasn't engaged in at least borderline racist dog whistling. The entire idea of it is based on the notion that people cannot successfully mix together, and therefore should not try.
One thing that interests me is how there is such a vastly divergent set of opinions and relationships with vehicles even in just the HN community. When autonomous vehicles were getting a lot of press a few years ago, there were utopian articles predicting the banning of manually driven vehicles by 2025. On the other hand there are a lot of people absolutely convinced that these things are snake oil.

I can see part of the gap being location. When I lived in Philadelphia 20 years ago, I had already “cut the cord” on cars, and simply lived on public transit. I suspect many/most city residents in dense major cities have lived car free for decades.

The current optimism for leaving cars behind may be confined to suburban residents of those same cities. The density and lifestyle in those areas may be suited to these predictions. But there are a lot of parts of the country that conditions like density preclude these things, or at least make them a less valuable proposition. I live in a city of 200k. I know there is Uber here, but I’ve never known any person I know to use it. Cars and insurance are cheap, parking is free, and everything is spread out. The Uber proposition makes much less sense here.

But I also imagine lifestyle can have a big impact on how convenient you see the idea of Uber or the autonomous vehicle subscription fleets that have been discussed in the past. A number of other posters have brought up these things that are more problematic in shared vehicles. But if you don’t repair your leaking roof yourself, you may not see the value in owning a vehicle where you can carry a few sheets of four by eight for home maintenance.

I wonder if there are other factors that influence what side of the divide you fall on. (If my comments seem like I favor the car-owners, I do, but I certainly see how non-car-owner ideal can work for some people, though not me.)
What? There is a huge amount of data demonstrating that the rate of earthquakes increases significantly anywhere that any fracking happens, and the rate of increase is proportional to the amount of fracking that occurs in the region.

What is the conspiracy theory here?