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Am I the only one who prefers a car to shared trains/rideshare/walking? Knowing I have a portable climate controlled space when the weather isn't to my liking? Knowing I can conveniently leave things fairly securely near where I happen to be (if not at home)? Knowing that no-one has recently barfed in my car, or have to wonder: ugh, what's that stain on the seat? Not having to run my life around a transit schedule (or deal with a full or very crowded bus/train) is great. The freedom cars give is absolutely wonderful relief from these things that you encounter in the city.

Personally, I don't get pro-urbanization: it's crowded, loud, smelly, and for all that wondrous enjoyment (and more), crazy expensive. I like not being able to see/hear my neighbors and for them not to see/hear me. I like that my views are very pretty. I like that the noises I hear are nature, and not man/machines. I like that I get to spend more of my money on things other than rent (other things are cheaper in the 'burbs too). And to someone else's point -- I live in a city, but looking around, you'd never know it.

But maybe I'm just weird.
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Uber is publicly traded, they can no longer do funding rounds as they always have. That is more likely a reason for layoffs than uber fearing investors fearing recession. If anything it's a signal that the company is publicly traded, not recession fears.
Most of the ones whose complaints get into the media have links. E.g. members of Labour Friends of Israel like Margaret Hodge who went on a junket to Israel specifically to apologize to Isaac Herzog (he who said "race mixing between Jews and non Jews is a 'tragedy'") about the UK Labour party's "anti semitism issues".

It's frankly quite disgusting the level of Islamophobia some of these people are endorsing simply because they consider it politically expedient to throw their support behind a foreign government.

It's not that anti semitism doesn't exist at all in the Labour party. It's just vanishingly rare and literally nobody - NEVER MIND a leader - has said anything close to as disgusting as what Isaac Herzog or Boris Johnson has said.
What is the effective difference between huge taxation and banning?
You are paying $100,000s for that choice. Your choice does not mean everyone else is overpaid.
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Uber's defense is that it is licensing lead generation software to drivers, and that it just takes a commission from each trip as payment for use of its software.

In many ways, I can see it. I think the issue lies in a lot of Uber's current policies around drivers e.g. very strict rules around cancellations. If Uber was just a lead generation provider then it shouldn't care or intervene if a driver decides they don't want a job, but depending on the scenario you can be punished if you don't want to take a job.

Part of me thinks Uber could get away with this if they just relaxed some of their current driver policies (e.g. more limited penalties for cancellations). The issue is whether doing so would drastically deteriorate the quality of the service for riders.
M2P2 was going to test out magnetic sails, but Wikipedia is telling me they generate less thrust per kilowatt hour than ion thrusters. Explains why I haven't heard anything further about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail
The current odds of a recession are the same as just before the big recession of 2008.

Also, concerningly, the real estate market is just as leveraged and bubbled as then as well.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2019/06/30/current...
tl;dr "Bill clearly aimed specifically at us doesn't apply to us."
uber has in the past successfully claimed that its customers are its drivers and its users are .. its users. They classify both as clients, and it seems to have worked so far.

> Your Uber driver can't subcontract the drive to another driver.

Even if their ToS does not allow it , it's not the law
> you have to admire the sheer brazenness in their admission that they will not adhere to the law

I mean, that has been Uber's MO since they started. AirBnB too, nothing new about this
"At some point your planet is massive enough that you can't get into orbit with chemical rockets (even, I think, by flying them up like Burt Rutan?)."

Nuclear rockets don't seem to be very hard. They're somewhat dangerous if they explode, but they aren't very hard. Fairly solid prototypes were built decades ago and there's little to suggest they couldn't have been made production-grade [1]. We'd have them now if we didn't find the risk/reward to be too highly slanted to the "risk". Other species and other ecosystems may come to different conclusions, e.g., an ecosystem already more exposed to radiation and evolved to deal with much higher levels of it may judge it much less "risk" for some radionuclides to be scattered across the landscape in case of failure.

What can be more of a problem is being in a place where you have no obvious access to technology at all. However smart our cetacean buddies may be, it is not clear even at this point in the 21st century what path to technology they could possibly have from their starting point. "The literature", a.k.a. "science fiction" has hypothesized breeding programs to develop various tools, but it's still not entirely clear how they'd get from "breeding useful jellyfish" to, well, anything like technology as we know it. It's possible we're just not solving this problem because we don't have to, maybe there's some easy path with the right development path, but it's still not clear what that would be.

[1]: One of my markers for "the space age is truly here" is when we lift a nuclear rocket into space, sans fuel, and fuel it with space-sourced radionuclides. Earth-bound citizens will still complain, because "NUCLEAR BAD!", but their complaints will be ignorable at that point.
Do you think the author is fake? Go read his comment history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=npmaile
All these indicators are guesses at best, but out of curiosity I checked the current Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers [1]:

Prior 12 months lowest unemployment rate: 3.6% (in April & May 2019).

Prior 3 months average (June/July/August 2019): 3.7%.

So according to this metric we are not in a recession.

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea03.htm
The bill is intended to protect people for whom driving is one of their primary sources of income. Not to be callous, but most people aren't particularly worried about how this affects those who drive for Uber on occasion when they're "a little bored and looking for something to do".
This is how they've always been. Uber's "customers" are the drivers. They are buying access to the platform, thats how they categorize driver bonuses and incentives to "marketing" expenses apparently
Not having to think about a stack all the time.
This is against Hacker News guidelines:

"Please don't make insinuations about astroturfing. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried, email us and we'll look at the data."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would love to see source data that Uber is referencing (I know it's not possible, as it's highly guarded secret) - I suspect they cherry pick it a lot.

"In the US, 92% of drivers drive less than 40 hours per week, and 45% of drivers drive less than 10 hours per week. [...] We will continue to defend the innovation that makes that kind of choice, flexibility, and independence a reality for over 200,000 drivers in California".

1. Does this distribution looks in California, not across whole US? Why talk about two different cases, unless you cherry pick?
2. How does this % look like, when we look at drivers that work for more than few months?
Yeah, I'm not surprised they intend to violate the law. I'm surprised that they're broadcasting their intention in advance.
Not supporting infinite scrolling, but it looks like more than half: https://www.statista.com/statistics/241462/global-mobile-pho...
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The problem is that "correlation" seems objective and mechanical, but the model itself carries the bias by choosing which overly simplistic factors are relevant.

Directing focus at "people who drink a lot of beer" means considering people who who drink a lot of beer at home as guilty by association, ultimately due to the subjective priorities of whomever pushed for that model.

Obviously in the expected value sense, charging on correlations is lucrative for the company (as is any justification for raising prices on a set of customers if your competitors do it too). But in the exact same way as saying certain zip codes are more likely to default on a loan, which we rightfully reject.
This policy report shows great success on all measures: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-was-exper...

Most articles pointing out the lobbying issues are somewhat biased, so I'm struggling to find something objective enough I want to share. It was no secret at the time though, so a little Googling will probably surface some resources to look at.
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>some places work great with infinite scrolling (twitter [...]

First time I've ever heard someone refer to infinite scrolling on Twitter as great. I can't tell you how many times I accidentally scrolled to the top of twitter because I accidentally tapped too high on my iPhone and it jumped to the top, losing my place, which was dozens of "pages" down. It's the reason I never use twitter for more than a couple of minutes.
Yeah, the term really got me when I first heard about Uber... my thoughts was it was more like a near-demand carpool service to pull together extra passengers for where you were going anyway (for a small fee). Reality it's more like a Taxi service with private vehicles.

Still wouldn't mind seeing another ride share app with carpooling as the focus.
It takes 111 light years from our reference point to travel that distance. If photons could perceive things, it would not take them 111 years by their perception.
If you use wi-fi without a VPN, you have the coffee shop and the coffee shop's ISP. And anyone listening there. Of course there is cleartext SNI even for SSL connections... but alas.
Certainly it's an annoying trait to claim that a statement you disagree with is disingenuous/insincere.
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1) I never argued bribery was amoral - that is your stance apparently, not mine.

2) I've literally bribed people with cigarettes(and dollars, and booze, and clothing). So your categorical statement is incorrect. I was mostly just going along with the analogy though.
Try this one: https://www.uber.com/gb/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/
It's ironic to see a comment like this in a thread on Snowden. It's remarkable how quick we are to forget about things such as PRISM [1]. PRISM is a government-corporate surveillance coop. Players include Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many others. Capabilities described in slides never intended for public access indicate unilateral access by the NSA to "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.

Especially in modern society government and corporate interests are increasingly interweaving. And I'm no more comforted by governments having access to dystopic levels of personal information than I am by corporations having that access. It just so happens that, in practice, there's no difference anyhow.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Genuine question: Why would classification as employee automatically mean an end to the flexible work times?

To my knowledge, there are numerous business areas where it's possible to negotiate flexible work hours, so wouldn't this be here possible as well?
Right, but my point is that this doesn't mean that the initial state contains very much information.

Maybe a different example makes this clearer. Suppose you use a quantum random number generator to choose letters from A to Z, and write out a full book this way. If you consider the entire (multiple) world, it's basically Borges' Library of Babel: it has non-zero amplitudes for every possible book. So one possible "thing that can happen" is that Shakespeare's Hamlet gets written.

But that doesn't mean that the initial state of the universe somehow encodes the text of Hamlet. The initial state of the universe doesn't have any information at all, in quantum fluctuations or otherwise. You only see Hamlet emerge if you restrict your attention to some particular branches of the world. It was "bound to happen" that Hamlet would get written, but only because every book would get written.
I'd bet the huge percentage of drivers that simultaneously do Lyft and Uber would not like being an employee of one or the other, as their employer would prevent that.
The post was written by their CLO. They are not trying to claim as such, they are succeeding. I am not a lawyer, but I don't think this legal interpretation of the company is a lie. It seems like the classification is constantly under scrutiny. A legal falsehood like you claim it is would've fallen apart by now.
How good a journalist he is is debatable. His ethics as a journalist may be debatable. His status as a (possibly bad, possibly unethical) journalist is much harder to debate: he set up a way to have information, which he then made public. Sounds like journalism to me.
Replacing a battery on a 5S wasn't a problem — literally a trip downstairs and paying €20, if my memory serves me well. Done within 15 minutes. It would be neat if I could do it on my own, but that was good enough for me. And it means I'm on year 6 on this phone, and the lifetime is limited by software upgrades — and not just the OS, but also drivers and firmware.
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>So... you will never use publicly funded (often emergency) healthcare?

When the overweight start getting hauled off to prison I'll find this argument compelling.
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Don’t forget the “exempt” vs “non-exempt” status for W-2 workers though.
i'm pretty sure the assertions means that the 111 years needed would only age the traveler by 15 years
On topic, and well outside of my ability to know how seriously to take it: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/09/more-on-low-long-....
You could use any of the BLS unemployment numbers in a metric line this to see if some of the others were better predictors historically (not sure why they didn’t document that).

If what you are saying is that we are in a historically unprecedented time you’ll note their metric predicted recessions that happened across a wide variety of historical regimes.
> One: Compiler development is driven by the C++ standards committee. And they all hate C and wish it would die already.

The latter statement is not true. But it is true that most of the evolution of C/C++ is driven by the C++ committee, with the C committee mostly adapting features from C++ and very little innovation in C being adapted for C++. (As one C++ committee member confided to me, the C committee does have a bit of a tendency to completely screw things up when the C++ committee liaisons leave the room). But there is still coordination and cooperation between the committees--for example, the recent proposals to replace the current EH model in C++ includes a coordinating proposal to modify the C ABI to provide access to a Result-esque exception model.

> Two: Being tied to C++ also means being tied to the same ABI as C++. And improvements to the C language probably would need some extensions to the ABI.

The C ABI desperately needs extensions anyways, especially because it is the de facto platform ABI and languages usually only support FFI features using the C ABI. The biggest missing features here are SIMD vector support and multiple return value support.
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Regarding three, I believe it's because C ultimately aims to be the most low-level, high-level abstraction of machine code.

Stray too far from that, and you're already in C++ territory.

Except for multi-core/-threading support, I can't really think of anything that has changed in the past 25 years to add to this, in my opinion, essentially near-perfect language.
It doesn't clearly state if those durations are during an active ride, also including time to pickup, or including time active waiting for a pickup task.

This subtlety could drastically change the data interpretation.
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> Uber could not outsource driving if it calls itself a transportation company

And that's why they're not a transportation company - they're a company that matches two sides of a marketplace connecting drivers with passengers.

Or at least that's one of the directions I'd expect their lawyers to look into.
This is true for things people have evolved to do, but a cell phone can do a lifetimes worth of arithmetic in less than a second using negligible energy relative 2000 calories per day for 70 years
I actually found it a little misleading in this case. I thought it was a way to stop sites infinitely scrolling.
People need cars for various reasons: trips to Home Depot to pick up home gardening gear, taking the kids and their friends to the movies, heading to the park to fly kites, traveling to the local university for graduate classes, travel for work that requires driving for hours to nearby cities. My family has done all of this, and none of it is convenient without a regular (gas or electric) car.

There may be some climates in the USA that allow year round commuting exposed to the elements, say San Diego, but in most of the country this isn’t practical. I’ve lived in places where it got to 13 degrees Fahrenheit below zero and in other places where it has been over 113 degrees above zero. Travel without the protection of a car for a couple of miles under these conditions is difficult.

For these reasons, people feel they need cars and once the sunken cost of such an investment is made it makes less sense to use public transportation or scooters. Someday, in the distant future, perhaps cities will have better, cleaner, safer, and more convenient public transportation and then the equation may change, but once you have a car in the garage already it’s often the easiest choice and having a Tesla might lessen the environmental impact.
haha. well i m hopeful that if we change the roads we can at least have autonomous train-cars or at least kiva robots with seats
I dont think the study can be used to draw the conclusions that the article is trying to draw. The study presents new objects which are derived from skeletons for people to learn and identify. IMO people learn differently in short term vs long term. Short term, we try to reduce the dimensionality of the input to things we can hold in working memory. In this study that would be the skeleton of the object. That doesnt mean that that pattern holds up for long term learning (which is mostly how we visually identify things, because we've seen them many times already). The main reason I bring this up is because it seems to be in direct contrast with studies which show the opposite (i.e. that humans do operate like machines in identifying objects). That study was done by comparing the brain regions which activated when the person was exposed to visual input and found a consistent location which was activated due to seeing a horizontal / vertical line.
Depends on where you are. Some places, it is the law. Or at least part of the terms of your ride hailing license.
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As gravity increases the tensile strength necessary for the elevator increases. We haven't even figured out how to mass produce materials that would suffice for an elevator on earth yet.
The thing is, I would rather you are more restricted or stop driving for Uber, and full-time drivers get decent terms, then you get to keep your (seemingly) unnecessary side money and full-time people, for whom it is the main job, have substandard conditions and rights.

Ideally there wouldn't be a tradeoff, but in practice it seems like there is one.
Criticizing the security services in the UK is an intrinsically left-wing act. Nobody on the right ever bothers to do it, and it won't get published - unless for over partisan reasons.
Ignorant and arrogant. What a dick you are, you pathetic, incel waste of oxygen.
> Maybe- but your trying to argue that progressive policies are pushing the jobs out of workers is basically Trump level psycho.

The policies increase the incentive to automate. Automation is unavoidable, but by raising the cost of human power, these policies speed up time to adoption (the time at which the cost to hire humans -- now higher -- meets the cost of automation -- still the same as before). Moreover, the policy requires governmental enforcement and thus money that could be better spent helping the workers themselves.

For example, a better use of money would be to take the money spent on enforcing this law and instead investing it into programs to train gig economy workers for the new careers that will be opened up via automation.

I'm not sure what 'Trump level psycho' means, but given the current administration's record on employment (very good), I'll take it as a compliment.
Why does it have to be just a recession with rebound a few years later? I’d argue many are thinking too positive following 2008 where everything will go back to normal and prices will rally to all time highs. The US economy almost blew up into a full blown depression in 2008. The Fed swooped in to save the day. Can the Fed do that again indefinitely with not only US but potential problems worldwide?

The global economy is reaching uncharted territory now with the amount of debt and negative interest rates.

Maybe a depression like 1930’s are a relic of the past once we decoupled from the gold standard. Central banks today have full power to devalue currency indefinitely in order to maintain the financial status quo.
If you are any kind of software professional in US (hell, even teacher, researcher or nurse) I assure you that whatever you are currently making looks equally absurdly large for majority of human population.
They were “mind control” but also torture and interrogation techniques. Some very disturbing and immoral experiments like dosing people unknowingly, torturing people with them, playing loops repeatedly etc.
Depends on rent. I know people who decide to “splurge” on rent getting a 1 or 2 bed for just themselves in a decent spot. I also know people with multiple roommates and about an hour commute. And of course how much you eat out, buy expensive stuff, etc is a factor.

For me I only spend about $3-3.5k/mo including rent, all bills, flights home and vacations, and other crap. So my savings rate is relatively high