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HOW the work is done is chosen by the driver. They are free to take a different route

The employer's business is connecting cars to riders with software. The driver's usual job is HR, and he uses the lyft service to make extra cash on his way home.

The last point is not something that determines a contractor. What you choose to do for money does not have to be a trade. It can be anything.

There are no working hours. You don't get paid by lyft for hours you 'work.' You get paid for engagements you pick -the rides. Getting paid per project, not for time you put in makes you a contractor for that gig.
All flight sims are very complex, it's sort of the nature of the beast. I think that's the fundamental difference between a simulator and a game. A simulator needs to model reality, a game can take big shortcuts to ease gameplay.
The OP was not comparing someone to a murderer. They were pointing out a phenomenon of denial whereby people refuse to believe that some person they know could ever be capable of some criminal doing. You should consider that you may have misunderstood.
It applies to torrenting in general, so I'd assume it also applies to WebTorrent
You do realize the first thing most admins did after installing Solaris workstations was to install the free BSD utils?
For what it's worth Musk believes that Starship will bring a >10x improvement for $/kg to LEO. Not throwing away your second stage will do magical things. At any rate a Martian colony would be mostly self-sustaining with trade being a relatively small fraction of gross domestic product (like with international trade right now). On planetary scales, moving trade from 0.01% Gross Martian Product to 0.1% would more than justify the development costs for such an engine.

I think we can safely say that we are very far from 1 Martian colonist, let alone 1e6. I think we would outperform expectations to set up a very small research station by the end of the century at great expense on the Martian surface. So there's clearly a lot of magical thinking going on here. If we allow for some amount of aspiration, there are a few ways to provide a return on long time scales (much more than 1 century, with capex far exceeding $175B just looking at the cost of staging the necessary propellant in LEO):

- Such a base will have a propellant depot in a much shallower gravity well than Earth and a far thinner atmosphere. This is a huge comparative advantage for launches into deep space.

- Necessity breeds ingenuity. A Mars colony would likely generate many advances useful to Earth that do not make sense to pursue terrestrially. Think hydroponics, insulation, radiation shielding, so on and so forth.

- There are plenty of completely desolate locations on the Martian surface - ideal locations for radio telescopes, neutrino observatories, and other hyper-sensitive experiments.

- ??? (We're trying to predict centuries ahead, after all!)
Have you considered the underlying actions were designed to solicit an emotional reaction via news channels, I.e. trump is trolling to own the libs, at the cost of watching the country burn (literally here in CA).
Robust social safety nets, combined with increased access to education so unskilled workers can retool to partake in the 21st century global service economy, financed by massive pigouvian taxes on our carbon consumption, and an appropriately progressive tax structure (the latest studies suggest the optimal tax rate according to the Laffer curve for billionaires is somewhere around 73%).
Russia seems fairly unique in it's disinformation campaigns trying to stir trouble pretty much everywhere around the world. I'm not quite sure what their problem is but it's not very endearing.
> The cost of care in the US is so high because of the layers and layers of regulations, tax code, and legal liabilities that compound to influence the market in ways that are Anti-Consumer and increase prices on the service

So is it your belief that other countries that have highly-regulated medical systems, complex tax codes and a high degree of legal liability also have health care as expensive as USA? Or do you think it's possible that there are other factors at play?
Most hazardous waste isn’t related to superfund-type sites.

Fast food places produce grease. Gas stations have lots of small to medium size spills. Agriculture produces toxic runoff. Etc.

Compliance can definitely suck, especially when it comes to small, non-obvious producers - like a mom and pop diner.

I don’t know if there are “mom and pop” satellite launchers.

I suspect satellite management is an easier industry to regulate.
Good point, thanks.

(Though I've just checked gcc's definition of std::clamp and it looks like

__glibcxx_assert(!(__hi < __lo));
return (__val < __lo) ? __lo : (__hi < __val) ? __hi : __val;

so order of arguments does matter there.)
> #4 Are they wrong about things you understand. If an entity talks about a topic I understand like networking or programming, and they get it wrong, especially if they get it wrong in a sensational way. Then I am not going to take their word on topics I do not understand.

See also, the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect", where you'd read a newspaper on a topic you're familiar with, see all the errors, but turn the page and trust their reporting on all the other topics.

The concept was popularized by author Michael Crichton, but I'm not sure about supporting evidence: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
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I generally try to avoid bringing my political opinions to Hacker News. I think a general attitude in this community is that this is a refuge from politics. I also try to keep my politics out of the work place. That said, we're living in a world where even wearing a mask is political! Now the post office is political! I almost can't check my politics at the door any more; I too.... feel like I'm about to explode. You're not alone, but hang in there! (the 'hang in there' part is just as much me talking to myself as it is to you ;-) )
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Open data + federated learning (somewhat ironically a Google invention) could help with this, but it has a long way to go, and a lot of opportunities for incumbents to fight back.
I don't know how SSRN selects. But this seems to be a NPR journalist publishing under the cover of social science.

Not that someone not affiliated with a university cannot write scientifically valid papers. On the contrary. But a journalist writing about journalists should in my mind at least warrant extra scrutiny.
Trump is responsible for the fires in California?

Edit: seriously people? He’s a monster but let’s accuse him of the things he’s actually done. To make stuff up is not helpful.
You are missing the fact that epic is not a payment provider. So if they dont pay apple the 30%, they will have to pay stripe or adyen or any other psp. Most of those ask 0.25$ + 2% per transaction. For a fortnite skin of 0,99 or even whole apps that cost 0,99 that 30% is lower than the costs of other psp’s. And apple provides a lot more than just payments for that 30%. They handle disputes and refunds etc. and the handle all the money exchanges with sales is other countries etc
I don't know, but at this point its not really "politics". We have a malicious actor in the whitehouse and his cronies ruining the country. There is nothing political about this, its just a fact. Whether a person chooses to believe (or cannot understand) this doesn't invalidate this fact. You don't have to subscribe to a particular political party to be upset with what is happening.
IANAL but this seems far from a slam dunk to successfully prosecute. The charge is that he tried to cover up something that they aren't charging as a crime while they were investigating an unrelated thing they also aren't charging as a crime. And the legal department recommended and approved the bug bounty and the CEO was fully informed.
Branching is the expensive part, not comparisons.
Not mutually exclusive. The news heavily optimizes for pageviews and one way of doing that is to optimize for anger. (Other than awe, which is hard to generate, anger has been shown in studies to be the most viral emotion.) However, they wouldn't have any raw materials for this if certain folks in government weren't routinely doing stuff worthy of anger.

Trump and the mainstream news media exist in this unhealthy symbiosis, where they create this toxic emotional environment for a whole country because both of them would fade away into nothingness if they didn't.
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The thought behind your comment seems to be "Trump is no different than other recent Presidents, just he's treated differently" without saying it in so many words. Is that indeed what you think?

Republicans have long complained about the media being mean to right-wing presidents (or, sometimes, remembering Clinton and Carter, to white presidents, where Obama is considered a PC outlier), but this sort of non-defense is a convenient dodge in terms of having to actually defend Trump's specific actions...

The irony here, too, is that it also ignores right-leaning media's long history of fear-based politicking.
Politics and reporting are scummy, biased games, but none of what is happening now is business as usual.

If the stories about what is currently happening in the Post Office were reported in a completely factual, completely neutral way, they would still be enraging.
I am not going to be debating what exact problems you had, but I must be extremely lucky if all those years I never had any kind of showstopper critical issue that made me think "Ok, I can't deal with this and I have to go back to a proprietary desktop".

It's been at least since 2012 that I had installed Linux and couldn't connect a printer or scanner. Meanwhile my wife's laptop on windows asked to reinstall drivers every time she wanted to print something. Webcams? No problem. Wi-fi? No problem as long as I didn't try to use a chipset that was either too obscure or too new and unsupported.

The one thing that I gave up on having on my laptop is low-latency audio to connect a guitar and use software audio effect processors. But the way I solved this was by using a separate old laptop with a custom kernel dedicated to be my "guitar effect box". I still didn't have to give up my freedoms and I did not have to give up any functionality/comfort.

> But hey, it all has to do with how it looks right?

I believe you when you say that LXDE was snappier than the other Ubuntu alternatives, but were the alternatives slower than whatever version of Windows you have now? That will be very hard to believe.

So forgive me for sounding condescending, but you went with probably the most obscure and least popular Ubuntu flavor - the one that has probably almost to no funding from Canonical and maybe a handful of developers interested on it. What were you expecting, exactly?

If Ubuntu was bad for you, maybe try Fedora? If you wanted a more knowledgeable community, maybe try Arch? Why instead of sticking with your preconceptions of how things should work, you ask what are the others doing that let them be productive on a FOSS Desktop? Why is it that upon hitting difficulties your reaction is to go back to the comfort zone of a proprietary and familiar system?

> only option that is even remotely viable

We must have very different thresholds for defining "remotely viable". From http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-05-22-my-new-FreeBSD-la... :

"Is FreeBSD ready for the desktop? Yes and no. Yes, in that I have a very nice FreeBSD laptop where everything works the way I want. But no, in that it took me two months worth of fiddling with this in my spare time to fix some of the "glitches" which arose; while there wasn't anything particularly challenging, I expect that most people would give up long before they fixed all of the issues I ran into.
On the other hand, can FreeBSD be ready for the desktop? Absolutely. I've fixed the issues I ran into — and once we have FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE with packages built for that release the process of bringing up a GUI will be much easier, as well. The biggest thing FreeBSD needs is to have developers acquiring laptops and carefully working their way through the issues which arise; the FreeBSD Foundation has already started doing this, and I hope in the months to come they — and other FreeBSD users — will publish reports telling us which laptops work and what configuration they need."
For example, if you are an executive in a public company and pay out some money to criminals and conceal the event from the public, that's a essentially fraud because you're doing it with someone else's (the public investors) money while lying to them. Company officers have all kinds of legal obligations to be truthful to the owners and not mislead them, and in the case of publicly traded companies, that applies to the general public.

Regarding the misprision of felony, the statute says "actual commission of a felony", so kids planning to burglarize a house does not count, but if you know that they have committed a felony (kids breaking&entering into a house is not necessarily a felony), then this statute would apply.
Why do you have to change and not them? Especially if you sat down with them and discussed it?
Yes I have. Then I consider the hysteria news agencies would be doing if Obama did this. And I feel the current coverage is laughably sedate.
The challenge is telling a story. Although it looks like you're the player, really you are the dungeon master. Or like improv.

You can undo at any time, or even cast an undo spell if you want it to happen as part of the story. It's up to you to decide whether you want to go along with the suggestion and see where it goes.
> During this time, two hackers contacted Sullivan by email and demanded a six-figure payment in exchange for silence. [...] The criminal complaint alleges that Sullivan took deliberate steps to conceal, deflect, and mislead the Federal Trade Commission about the breach.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-chief-security-o...

Doesn't seem like a bug bounty when you're being demanded to pay something, and when you're later asked about it you conceal, deflect and mislead about it.
Because good platforms that allow adult content are in very short supply, so they can charge a premium. To a certain extent, they MUST charge a premium because being in the adult industry makes everyone else charge YOU more also. None of the normal payment processors or advertisers will touch you, etc.
Yes.

A clear indication that the republican party is now rotten as could be is that its core now consists of mindless qanon idiots.

To see incel bullshit that was on 4chan 4 years ago become mainstream in a national party is depressing, to say the least.
I guess they are probably just starting and the claims on their website are too far-fetched. I might give it a try if they come up with integration for JetBrains IDEs.
Why 2005?
Violence is efficient though, otherwise why was Saddam Hussein deposed? If Country's cant settle their differences with politics, what else do you have left? At least our leaders show us what is acceptable behaviours in their books but it also demonstrates their hypocrisy when ordinary members of the public meter out their own violence, although I do acknowledge some violence is just plain mindless eg drug and alcohol fuelled.
Good to see OSM being actively used though.. I really love that project. And the maps, at least here locally, are of amazing quality. When I'm hiking, on Google and Apple maps I'm walking in a grey square. OSM has the tiniest mountain trails. Love it.

And mistakes do happen, hope this one would get corrected though :) And it's not the only one of its kind! Many are seen all around the world.
You're exactly right, which is why we've ended up with a reality TV president. He knows how to play this game, and the game is now very much in favor of ppl that know how to play it. This is the leader we get when enough mid-life trolls spread their pepe love.
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Ok, so then don't install other app stores on your phone.

Is that really so difficult for you? Why do you need to prevent me from installing other apps stores, when you can just not do that yourself.
That is not race. Ethnicity and race are distinct concepts.
I feel like op established that this type of thing does not usually affect them. Are you suggesting the LA Times has cracked the code to finally reach the psyche of op? Or can we take them on their word that the USPS situation rankles them. Seems silly to suggest that they don’t really care, “but for the media”.
A package mailed to me in early June from the UK to California that touched down in Chicago in mid June is totally awol today. I used to have a tracking number that told me that it was in Chicago but since I reported it missing that has now disappeared in online searches.

I am not a fan of either of the two parties and putting politics to one side it is unclear why there is the reduction in equipment and force at the USPS at a time when there is a huge increase in deliveries due to the SIP directives.
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It depends. (val, min, max) operates on a first argument, which is more logical as well. (min, max, val) allows range constants to be more visible if <val> is a lenghty expression. In more powerful languages like objective-c this has less sense, as you can always specify all arguments explicitly:

[FZUtilityManager clampIntegerValue:(NSInteger)x
toRangeWithLowerBound:(NSInteger)min
upperBound:(NSInteger)max
withError:(out NSError **)error];

Which returns NSIntegerMax and sets the error variable if the range appears to be empty. The chance that max is NSIntegerMax is low, but if your data allows that, you can always put an additional shortcut before clamping.

if (min > max) {
error = [NSError errorWithDescription:@"min > max occured"];
return NO; // or equivalent
} else {
x = ...
}
// use x
Yes, my web hosting is not jealous if I pay them 100$/year and I do sales of 1 million. If say my site generates too much traffic then I will have to upgrade the CPU,HDD etc. They make money when I am successful and use their resources. I can always change the web hosting and still reach my existing customers where with Apple I can't reach my existing customers if Apple kicks me out(see Epic)
> Packages piled up, blocking the aisles and the heavy sorting machinery. Boxes of steaks, fruit and other perishables rotted. Rats dashed across the floor. At one point, Scantlebury said, the “whole building was filled with gnats.”

Keeping in mind this is the result of a conscious decision made at a high level, at one of the times the postal services has been most crucial to the functioning of a nation in modern history...

Can you rephrase this in a way that doesn't make it aggravating to hear?
A bit off-topic, but frankly, I think trying to use the Windows source code would be a liability for everyone but something like WINE. Just building it would be a trick, last I heard a full build of Windows took an entire day. I'm guessing it wasn't your beefy Dell machine building it, either. I'll bet there are so many pieces and custom tools and forgotten necessary settings on build machines that building it would be a nightmare. And then there is the test suite. I wouldn't trust a custom build of Windows, who knows all the subtle settings here and there that are necessary to get the same result. I think Microsoft could put the Windows source on GitHub tomorrow and the only thing that would happen is that they'd get a lot of bug bounties and an increase in the number of people they could hire who could just step in and start working without having the six-month ramp up in understanding the relevant code base.
The culture of the Soviet and Russian intelligence agencies is to severely and publicly punish traitors.
The real trick would be if you could select the 5 stocks to include in the fund based on the largest future price appreciation rather than something simple such as the top 5 stocks with largest market cap.
What is the problem with being old? I see the main problem with SML as lack of libraries and community.
Oh yeah. My bad. I got my degree in math from Verizon. Getting paid $1000 per 100k views sounds ok.

On the paying side I'd hate to end up on the hook for a video that goes viral and gets a million views.

Keep in mind that Cloudflare is making a profit on that and Amazon, Google probably have lower costs than Cloudflare. Still, it has to be a huge money pit to host that stuff.
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Yes, there is a lot still missing. We don't know if everybody who gets the disease has immunity, and we have no idea how long such immunity would last. Until those things are figured out, giving out "immunity passports," as it were, to resume normal activities, is a mistake.
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You may be reaching(Watch yourself Love) for objective coherentism (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-coherence/)

Coherence arises out of Love.
So you're suggesting...the solution is to raise prices, and then transfer the added cost to drivers to give them benefits?

I actually know of a system by which you could do that on a grand scale...for every single worker in America. Not just rideshare drivers!

It's a concept commonly found in a far away continent most Americans have only dreamed of one day traveling to, called "Europe." How it works is simple. You raise prices throughout the entire economy via taxation, and then redistribute that money back to the less fortunate via a government provided healthcare program.

...And here's the best part, studies show it ends up lowering the price of healthcare for everybody. I wonder if something like that might be a better use of our time than trying to put Lyft out of business?
I like the idea but I don't really get why they accept "statistically insignificant" results. What I expect from a scientific paper is to prove (even emprically) something. For example, if a paper claims something like "we show that using method X instead of Y doesn't improve the results", it won't get published on most journals... except this one, which is awesome, but the paper still has to prove that claim.
True, but if you want to do microscopy on a moving subject for even a few seconds, a little treadmill will make a big difference!