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> If Uber was so great, people would be sticking around

I agree that Uber is not so great but I'm not sure about this logic. I can imagine other reasons for people not sticking around than them being duped, perhaps that many people just start Ubering when they're temporarily between other jobs, or students doing it during the summer.
HN users once again don’t understand what “antitrust” is. Amazon Music has almost no percentage of the streaming music market. Amazon has less than nothing of the podcast market. There are dozens of podcast players where you can just put the feed url in your player and subscribe directly to any podcast - including Apple Podcast.
Yes CCP has never broken promises <cough> Hong Kong </cough>
Don't let amazon drive your supply chain. Figure out what you need to operate for 120 days. Buy whenever you're below 90 days.
It is the way Emmett Till died
And pessimists don’t?
It's unfortunate that passive entertainment is all that we crave, people in general have become "lazy", they simply don't want to put the effort in doing anything "active" > sports, art, music.
And I disagree, you can pick a new sport, prior to the pandemic I worked out at the gym and played racquetball. Now I work out at home with kettle bells and resistance bands. Picked up mountain biking and tennis, which are "socially distanced" sports.
You can learn a musical instrument, cook, bake, paint, ride a motorcycle, kayak, take pictures, no one is stopping you.
> You'd be donating to the Mozilla foundation, not the Mozilla corporation, which develops Firefox.

Do you know of a good source of neutral information on Mozilla's Foundation/Corporation split? I've heard claims everywhere from "it's an accounting thing with no practical implications" to "Mozilla is now 100% for-profit and evil", and have no idea who's right.
OK, so what's the point you were trying to make with your initial statement? If you were just making the tautological statement that people act based on their points of view, a fact which if meant literally is both obvious and irrelevant, then what was the point of making that comment?

Rather, your comment strongly appeared to suggest that you were implying one would support Mozilla's statement if they supported diversity, and vice-versa. But if you were trying to imply that, it appears you missed the point of the parent's comment. And if you weren't trying to imply that, and weren't just stating a tautology, then it still isn't clear what point you are trying to make.
>In what universe is anyone proposing tearing down the buildings in NY, London, Tokyo, or Shanghai and replacing them with SFH?

Maybe not "torn down", there was definitely a period of time in the US where urban areas were being abandoned for the suburbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight#United_States
The mental gymnastics you are doing are extreme. STABBING someone in response to this is absolutely not ok. There is no consistent social norm reasoning that could make it so.

What you describe as mental gymnastics seems straightforward to me. As for what you perceive as escalation. The situation has already escalated:

Confined space, obvious aggressor doing OBVIOUSLY wrong thing to a vulnerable, complete stranger. There is no way to read their intent as friendly at that point. This is self defence.

Hence your other later reasonable sentence DOES apply.

in a position of self-defense, reaching for any countermeasures you can makes sense, stabbing with a random object included

About the only thing you said that was reasonable.

As for your lame "blood clotting" mental gymnastics, this is extra information not available at the time.
You can't make decisions on information you don't have or can't reasonably assume. If you assume your blood clotting disorder argument to be valid then in a split second of self-defence:

- I need to canvass the knowledge of the medical establishment to know every possible medical condition a person could have and...

- avoid triggering every such possibility.

Tell me again that your "blood clotting" argument makes sense.

And even assuming it played out this way, I would be unhappy a person died, but given the information at the time I wouldn't regret the decision/action one iota. Morally clean and happy to sleep like a baby.

Accidental bump? Not what this was. Another mental gymnastic flip on your part.

This was a simple moment of self defence with a measured (She didn't stab him in the face) - but not unwarranted - action.

Edit:text flow, no words deleted.
If people keep accepting it we must. If enough people complain loud enough they will change. Posts like this help move the needle.
I dunno, I saw lots of potatoes in Riga!! :)
They were actually not. And in the cases tax payer funding was involved it was not some sort of blank check.

SpaceX got to orbit and was financed privately. Only once SpaceX had proven that capability, they were selected by the government to deliver cargo to ISS. SpaceX had to submit a competitive bid and was selected because they were the cheapest. SpaceX has fully executed on this contract and it was by far cheaper then any other transport to ISS service, including Russian, European, Japanese and US competition (Orbital ATK).

During its whole live, government contracts were never more then half SpaceX contracts and SpaceX was and is a viable buissness without government contracts. The main financing for SpaceX has been privately raised money.

NASA was a helpful costumer to SpaceX and helped it grow faster but calling that 'taxpayer funded' is a waste overstatement.

Tesla equally was privately funded and operate like that for much of its early history. The DoE loan only started rolling in by 2010 and helped them fund Model S. This loan was fully payed back with interest. Again, the majority of funding threw-out Tesla history is privately raised, including Roadster, Model X, Model 3, Model Y programs.

Its important to not that GM, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler received far, far, far more resources in the 2008-2012 timeframe and most of that has unlike Tesla not been payed back. GM of course had to be saved totally by the government.

Calling Tesla 'taxpayers funded' is just complete nonsense.
Having been around quite a lot of conspiracy based stuffs, I have to disagree with the statement you make about the impact.

Conspiracy theories are a slippery slope. You might not believe something at first, but they are peppered with enough truth that you begin to accept them all because one part was right. "Question everything," as they often tell you. The problem is, facts and science usually comes from people in authority - the people you're told to question. So you begin blanket distrust all "authority". Which ends up being anyone telling your something with authority. Government, science, medicine, police, Greta...

I'll happily question - but the problem comes when your bias won't let you trust anyone or anything. In fact you deliberately take the opposite stance because "they lie" and they're probably "out to get" you. Then it really is dangerous - and you feel clever, because it's like knowing some secret knowledge the rest of the world doesn't - because the "sheeple" believe the spoon fed lies.
Read “Kindly Inquisitors” by Johnathan Rausch and then read it again. It should be required reading in schools which, ironically, would be against his entire argument.
Well, I don't know if I'd say that, especially recently... but the employees (current and former) do care about each other!
No, they were caught not complying with the law and were threaten with fines. At which point they decided to finally comply with the law by shutting down. BIG difference.
But how do you reconcile with things like this. Free speech is better, but how much blood is worth it.

Again, going with the current example. Indian subcontinent has had a tumultuous history mostly in the last millenium. It has been ravaged by conquests involving destruction of a lot of things that the pagan culture(now referred as a religion) held dear. Even though now the part of the subcontinent that is India now is majority that religion. There is resentment for/from every religion that came from outside. There are still unresolved things which can cause things to flare up easily.

We have seen this flare up in US, say LA riots. Imagine a culture which has had issues about their identity and injustices in the past for far longer. Imagine people allowed to build narratives that incite violence freely and spread them like wildfire. It can turn deadly fast and has in the past.
Monopoly it is, then.
git-dids.

2019: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/INTERN/Git+signing+with...

2020: https://wiki.hyperledger.org/display/INTERN/Git+Commit+Signi...
No, more like a PRT system, "people-mover", or Busway.
Isn't that only the case in certain metropolitan areas? It is a huge problem indeed, but the problem there is the medallion system having degraded to become a shady get-rich-quick investment scheme. This is unrelated to the way in which the drivers are operating.

They just lease their car and medallion from someone, paying that guy a fixed rate per day for that lease, but that does make them neither a contractor nor an employee of the guy who owns car and medallion.

If they also were to lease the clothes they wear while working from a tailor instead of buying them, that wouldn't make the drivers in any way into contractors or employees of that tailor.
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"All UPS systems require regular intervals of maintenance. The availability of a system configuration is dependent on its level of immunity to equipment failure, and the inherent ability to perform regular maintenance, and routine testing while maintaining the critical load. As the configuration goes higher on the scale of availability, the cost also increases." (APC White Paper 75)
You realize its OK to decline trips, and also to stop using a ridehailing service that mandates a policy like this?

>should be compensated by Uber if they want that feature.
Do you really think Uber has not gone through these thoughts millions of time in the past? I can personally tell you that these are things that are constantly discussed and evluated, with the primer driver of everything being the growth of the service.
The defining characteristic seems to be indulging in the mental projection of meaning onto the objects used for play.
It's honestly amazing how far this thing that started as ipython has become. From expanding into notebooks, to multiple languages, to huge collaborative web-hosted coding applications. I've been a huge fan of iPython from the very start and I'm always amazed by seeing this project grow.
Edited -- I'd forgotten they cited the essay in the article. :-)

I know what you're saying and for the most part, I agree. I don't want to give the impression that I'm disparaging what isn't immediately materially, visibly useful to me. I don't believe in "inutile beauty" from a philosophical perspective, but not in the sense that I want to do away with it...just that I don't believe it exists. I think everything has some effect.

So that's one thing I like about gardening -- I find (for me) there's a bigger cluster of positive effects around gardening than jogging. The produce makes my family and friends happy and there are little goals to keep me distracted from the exertion. I still get the cognitive effects of a hard aerobic workout, but there are other benefits too.

I'm curious, what would you consider an unproductive activity?
Also, you might want to use the shelf space for something else. And the apartment may have a high cost per square meter so it would cost thousands in storage space.
In response to some comments:

If someone breaks down your door and enters your house, I (and I think most others) see nothing wrong with you defending yourself.

Why is it different here? It doesn't matter if their intention is to rob you or not.
Whether you have a template or not, each mass layoff is going to be under specific circumstances, and is going to carry significant PR and HR consequences. It would be wise to take considerably longer than 5 minutes to consider and craft that message. I would agree that they could hammer out an initial draft for discussion with management in 5 minutes though.
My biggest problem is writing/presenting efficiently. Usually I spend several hours on a single paragraph or beamer slide. Today I spend all my time preparing my defense presentation (besides social media), but only made drafts for two slides.

And my advisor is also very busy. He says he will write the introduction for a paper and then finds no time to finish it
Unrelated but what is this website made with? Looks really great.
Instead of using the dry cycle, use hot water to wash and rince and open the door when its done... It dries most stuff for free (except plastic)
Just get Barkeepers Friend. It’s magic and made from natural ingredients. Seriously, if I have kids this will probably be the most important life lesson I teach them. I don’t even know how soap competes.
You missing an important point here, compliance with local laws. US companies CAN do business in China, only if they comply with Chinese laws. Whether these laws are just or unjust is beyond discussion of this thread, what matters is if you want to business in China, you have comply to it.

Imagine, if a Chinese company wants to operate in US but refuse to comply local regulations, what will happen to that company?

Fb, Google and others are banned from China because they refuse to cooperate. What about Tiktok?
So then where does the 200k - 400k come from? That salary would be outrageous for software devs over here in .nl, let alone for a non-profit.
Oh, yeah, just DDG'd it because I was curious whether Android had it now and all I could find were a bunch of "good news, now you can get live photos on your Android phone with a third party app!" hits. Cool that they have it now, too. AFAIK no stand-alone cameras have the feature, which is too bad.
If you use wireguard you can tell Prometheus to scrape your ip on the wireguard network
> I think Mill either ignored or did not anticipate just how dangerous a viral bad idea can be on a global scale.

I'll be as charitable as I can here, but the fact that you're even willing to call an idea "dangerous" tells me that you didn't quite understand Mill. Ideas, even though they might be "good" or "bad" -- do no harm. Ideas are meant to be thrown in the marketplace where the stifling of ideas hurts not the idea itself (or its inceptor), but rather everyone else. So an idea like "Bill Gates started COVID" might be a bad one, but Mill's argument is that I would be deprived if, say, Facebook or Twitter, would censor it.

Mill has no problems with ideas, but he does have a problem with harm (this is much more narrow). See, for example, how he differentiates between the two when he writes about the French Revolution[1].

[1] https://www.laits.utexas.edu/poltheory/jsmill/diss-disc/fren...
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Here is a link to the union, their collective bargaining agreement, and the specific subsection.

https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-un...

https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-un...

https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-un...

So, it is a specific clause with its own sub-section in the contract that the union made. From what I understand on how collective bargaining agreements work in the US, this means that all UC grad students, including non-members, are bound by the terms of the agreement as the union represents the entire UC grad student unit (except UCSF) and thus is the sole, exclusive, legal representative of all individuals in the unit regardless of whether they are union members or not. As far as I know, there is no legal way for any individual in the unit to be bound by a different agreement (except maybe if the union and employer allows it?) as it is illegal for organizations to make agreements with individuals in the unit without union approval.
You've linked Michael W. Crossley, the lead author is Michael S. Crossley. The google scholar profile for the latter matches the contact email in the paper and shows a history of related work.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X5W_3dYAAAAJ&hl=en...
You still have free agency. As an Uber driver, you can accept a ride, pick up the rider, get the destination, decide you don't want to go there, and then kick the rider out of your car.

Then, Uber can decide that they no longer want you to be a driver on their platform.
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I think this is part of it. Lots of things require social contact in parts of the process. If your hobby produces something useful, it might also require a way to distribute it in a marketplace: say bread, or cheese or beer, furniture, etc., etc. At some point your hobby can cause things to pile up in your residence and that's no good either.
I think conspiracy theories should be seen as a symptom of low quality education, and that makes it a big deal.
> Yes, there's bullshit about COVID and chemtrails and aliens all over the internet. Why do you care so much? You're so worried that people are going to make their own choices, live their own lives, make mistakes that impact others?

Umm, yes?

People are extremely vulnerable to misinformation distributed by platforms and people they trust, even if that misinformation will harm themselves or people near them.

Facebook-propagated lies about COVID-19 risks and fake treatments kill both the people who believe them and the people believers are exposed to.

Facebook was essential in embedding false information into the minds of informationally vulnerable people in order to create the dual democratic disasters of 2016: Trump and Brexit. Feeding seniors a constant misinformation diet of 'vote Brexit or your country will be overrun with Syrian terrorists' until they vote to destroy their children's economic future causes real harm.

Reporting on Facebook's failure to act in response to its platform being used to incite the Rohingya genocide[0] should also put to rest any thought that Facebook, as it is currently operated, is compatible with human rights.

Making people believe in UFOs and bigfoot is harmless; spreading propaganda that incites people to destroy their own democracy (pro-Trump), destroy their children's futures (pro-Brexit), or kill their neighbors (anti-Rohingya) is not. If Facebook won't do anything about their platform being used for these purposes, then Facebook should be shut down.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
> Free speech is a virtue worth striving for

Whether or not something is virtuous is irrelevant when trying to predict the likelihood of future regulation. Instead, ask yourself:

• How does free speech help grow the economy?

• How does free speech keep the population docile? (the most likely reason for restrictions, see other comments in this thread from "free speech absolutists")

• How does free speech help elites retain power?

If free speech doesn't enable or support those three objectives it will eventually be regulated into something that does, using whatever mechanism (government, education, propaganda, or private enterprise) that's best.

I think elites would prefer we talk within a prescribed (Overton) window, in ways that don't inflame passions, and on topics that increase our GDP, so I expect elites to aggressively pursue restrictions inline with those principles.

What non-elites want or think is virtuous is ultimately irrelevant when it comes to speech, as it is in every other area that has economic significance….

Update: For people who doubt me, consider current speech restrictions in Europe. That's our future once the demographics shift enough—only crusty Anglos have majority support for unregulated "free" speech in the US according to multiple Pew polls, so restrictions are coming. Nevertheless, we'll always be allowed to talk freely about any topic (e.g. science, technology) that's needed to grow the economy since open and free inquiry is the best way to proceed.
> despite being outside of China

Yeah that doesn't seem to be the case.
It uses a much smaller tunnel.
It is also fun to reply, "Why do you think?" I got this idea from someone who was (momentarily) tired of answering their kids, but I think it's good because a) it helps them reason things from principles b) you sometimes get really neat or at least amusing answers.
Easier to derive anecdotal 'haven't seen fireflies since' threads of which I've seen quite a few...
I love the Jupyter ecosystem but it's frustratingly messy sometimes. There's already "nbconvert" built in to Jupyter (lab), built on Pandoc. It's extremely under-documented but it's possible to extend it with templates to generate arbitrary outputs. I've done this to directly generate branded PDF reports via latex. Jupyter Book has a lot of overlap with this feature, but rather than building on nbconvert/pandoc, it starts from scratch with Sphinx.

Oh well! Keeps things interesting, I suppose!
If the new regulation targets the root of the problem - which is lack of economic opportunities - then yes. Regulation targeting patchwork solution, then it's the definition of virtual signaling.
Hmmm

> Try this on a computer!
This site is way more interactive on a bigger screen… so check it out next time you're on your desktop!
Sort of. You shouldn't combine style and non-style changes in on change set. But if your project has mixed styles from file to file you should assimilate the locals over time, just as the Romans did. A consistent style has value.
You're applying double standards here. If Expedia is not an airline, then Uber and Lyft aren't taxi companies. Uber and Lyft buy the services of independent drivers and resells them to customers. If the ultimate commercial relationship is between you and the hotel or airline when you book through Expedia, then it's just as fair to say that the ultimate commercial relationship is between the passenger and Uber/Lyft driver. Just like how Expedia's role is connect a customer with an airline and handle the payment transaction, Uber/Lyft's role is to connect a passenger with a driver and handle the payment transaction.

Crucially, your statement that the commercial relationship only exists through Uber is patently false. Drivers can, and do, driver for different ride sharing companies. A passenger could hire a driver through Uber on one day, and hire the same driver through Lyft on the next.
I have a car that's not very aerodynamic (Jeep Wrangler) and when I'm driving through rural areas the insect mess at dusk or dawn is bad enough that I have to run the windshield wipers. Conversely, I never have to worry about it around my house, which is in the middle of large urban area (SF Bay Area).

Now, consider that there has been massive human migration into urban areas over the last century, plus cars getting far more aerodynamic in the last 40 years, and I think you can make a case for observation bias. However, I think you can also say very firmly that urban areas = less insect populations, so as our urban footprint grows, it is likely costing us. I think suburban sprawl may be even worse, because of the habitat destruction your typical housing development causes without the benefits of density that a truly urban environment offers.

So honestly I think you could be right and wrong at the same time. It is definitely worth correcting for.
I think it's a very interesting article, despite the bias.

I hate to break it to you, but rich people in general and big tech in particular are left leaning.