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Saying that "reason" necessarily trumps natural instinct is naive. Your assumption is that your limited experience, knowledge, and cognitive ability are superior to the sum total of all human and animal experience and cognition throughout the aeons.

In group preference and mutual concern exists because it is stable and robust. Even if it doesn't give an optimal utilitarian outcome in the short term, it is capable of perpetuating itself. There is not a single society in history based on purely altruistic principles that has ever survived. Reciprocity is necessary.
> Are you serious?

No.

Are we already at the point where a suggestion to read nothing outside your own cultural bubble can be interpreted as a serious comment? If we are, this is seriously disturbing.
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> I don't think I can tell someone else they don't deserve to earn minimum wage.

On the wage issue are you talking about the specifics of how prop 22 defines the earnings floor for drivers [0]? It definitely sets a standard even. It pays some for expenses ($0.30/mile) and the 120% minimum wage while on a ride covers a bit of time spent driving between rides. I could see though how if you have high expenses and don't get many rides you will not earn the minimum wage.

0 - https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
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People sailed a related boat from Helsinki to Tallinn on solar power. The hydrodynamically efficient design made it possible.
Am I understanding this correctly? You mentioned the market cap because you're proposing that they leverage their market cap to pay for this by making share offerings available on some short enough cadence to ensure cash flow? Or to collateralize some loan with the current ownership?

That's not a conventional strategy but perhaps you can make a good argument for why it will work.
And also make the service much less useful. Or at least very different from what it is now.
They're not employees. What rights are missing? Do you have an issue with contractors in other industries? Why or why not?
Is there an S&P 5 index fund or ETF?
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> I mean - if no one else comes up with a business now that works well and people enjoy doesn't that prove Uber and Lyft are right in that the platform is valuable and unique?

To me, it proves that investors don't have the appetite to fund an underdog fight against the two large companies. There are ethical alternatives (at least half a dozen when I last checked a couple years ago), but they're slow-growing. The fact that the conversations seem to default to assuming there are no other alternatives already speaks volumes about consumer mentality.
I'm pretty sure the people you want to help would consider having a job a better treatment than being unemployed.

If California's jobs suck, move. Yes, it's hard but it beats the alternative of destroying more jobs through misguided regulations.
Agreed, the author of this list could do well to expand his horizons beyond the classics a bit.
> can use this extra and easily-fakeable "offense" in order to punish individuals that they don't like.

So they can fine them? There are already hundreds of offenses that can be used for that purpose and that can actually land you in jail.

> the negative social aspect of creating laws that have neighbors secretly reporting each-other for this?

Is that really happening? There is no special incentive for reporting people for not wearing masks.

> Or the potential for child-traffickers to gag + hide the gag with a mask while they're busy engaging in trafficking?

They could already do that, wearing masks was already legal.

> If you sit long enough you can come up with a potential abuse for any government law or idea. Just as is done with mass-surveillance.

False equivalence, the potential abuses from mass-surveillance are much more dangerous.
Although to be fair I'm sure the author wrote a program that generated that array :-)
I wonder why they use the 1000ft hard deck in simulations? Also be interesting to see how they manage terrain avoidance and avionics malfunctions. Would the drone be able to handle VFR without INS/GPS and gyros?
RIP your app on iOS if you remove it from the app store.

There is very little an iPhone user can do if their phone isn't rooted.
Then how did FB display a lot of info about me, and recommended me all my contact list as friend recommendations when I created an account after not having one for 10+ years?

It's OK to wish to defend your company, but please do not lie; nobody forced you to comment here.
No harm no foul, my friend! This is an issue worth being legitimately upset about :) There are plenty of people who argue against sterilization with frankly bullshit arguments when you weigh them against the suffering that malaria inflicts. Those people should be outright dismissed. However there are also good arguments for treading very, very carefully here. It's really tricky and we need more people caring, more people thinking about how we can navigate this.
I am not talking about GMO corn or any plants. I'm fine with eating "fancy corn". I'm speaking about GE in the animal kingdom. Genetic engineering has a massive and terrifying potential. Like nuclear weapons, genetic engineering is Pandora's Box, plain and simple. Let us hope humans are smart enough not to open it, this time.
No, I don't believe it is. The loan servicer for my mortgage is not liable to pay it on my behalf. If they accidentally transferred money to the bond holders for the loan, they would of course be able to retrieve it. I would be shocked if this is not reversed in court, unless there are some significant missing details from the story.
Do you consider wasting your time on HN immoral, because you could be helping people (or earning money to help them) instead?
Consoles are mostly sold at slightly above the cost of manufacture, maybe 5%, but that's nowhere near enough to recoup the costs of development, distribution, marketing and maintaining the attached online services. To make a profit on them as a standalone consumer product MS and Sony would to charge another 30% to 40%. The bill of manufacture for a PS 5 is estimated at $450, that's why I said they would probably have to charge $600. The console market is highly price sensitive and we've seen time and again a premium of just $100 can kill a product.
Yeah, I think you're mostly right. I suspect it's going to start with seaplanes (oddly) because they fly short hop routes that are ideal for electric aircraft. Then you'll start to see new routes made economic by electrification, such as; Marin County->Palo Alto, SurfAir routes (like linking up the dozen airports sprinkled around Los Angeles area), generally linking up small hops. At the beginning electric aircraft won't be competing with existing airline routes, they'll be expanding coverage and reducing prices for local area hops.
How is your work funded?

If you work in a cost center, any development methodology you use will look like waterfall.

If you work on a software product, you may be able to work in a more agile way.
When most of the people they're legislating don't agree with the law, then it's not so democratic. AB5 is not for the people.
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"all" ...

Is that your fad?

You sound entirely stupid for this type of a subject.

Edit: unsuitable might be the better word for stupid in this case, but I'll let both stand.
There is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.

Mostly, that's throwing money into a hole in the water, but...
False, you cannot street-hail all kinds of taxis - for example in New York it's only yellow cabs+green cabs, black car taxis you need to use an app or call.

Uber is a pretty standard black-car taxi service, with an app.
Isn't their business is based on "freelance"? if their taxi drivers go full time. the business operation will be a lot more with additional cost.
really good answer in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215303
I would like to hear about ONE thing Uber did during Travis's tenure that wasn't completely shady.
>I was curious about what drivers think. I guess they're not happy [1] but want to be independent contractors still [2].

If the employers don't want the change...

and the employees don't want the change...

and the customers don't want the change...

and the shareholders don't want the change...

and the residents of California don't want the change (exhibited by the threads yesterday with outcry over the decision to shut down)...

Why is the government of California trying to force the change? Is this a breach of the social contract?
"knew it was coming" is hindsight 20/20 thinking. They've been fighting it tooth and nail the whole time. If prop 22 passes (as it seems it will), then can we really say we "saw it coming"? And likewise, legislators knew about the Austin precedent, so they can't say they "didn't see it coming" either.
So you don't think the Yemen situation is worse than Crimea (which is a complicated issue in itself?). Or even SA financing the expansion of Wahhabism?

I think SA gets too little sanctions for what they do. Too little.

And by the way, I'm totally in favour of Russia sanctions. I'm not questioning any of that.
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Sure, status quo policy isn't gospel, and a minimum wage isn't necessarily the best solution to the problems it aims to solve.
There are a number of mods, but they all post anonymously as "moderator." There are also janitors who are not allowed to post officially at all. 4chan honestly has a lot of rules: 4chan.org/rules
Iranians were the first to publish about the synthesis:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rcm.7757

https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/do/10.1002/sepspec.1591c...

I am pretty sure that the Porton Down military research facility next to Salisbury is capable or producing it too - but that doesn't mean they produced the specific poison used to attack the Skipals.

The same for VX gas that was used to kill Kim Jong Un's brother in Malaysia. VX was indeed invented by the brits but I would seriously doubt that they killed Kim Jong-Nam.

Edit: this is just factual information. What kind of fscking loosers do downvote this? Go get a reality check.
While I agree with this in the abstract, government force is needed to prevent a vendetta system to rise in its absence.
Impossible using radio waves. Perhaps you could use a laser, but if you're transmitting via radio waves to a satellite, it's trivial to locate you.
This is a really interesting project. I had no idea HDMI capture cards were so cheap.
Yeah and what if they won't have a job at all because Uber/Lyft suddenly became too expensive for anyone to use?

If the costs increase dramatically, demand goes down and thus fewer drivers needed, as people look at alternatives like getting their own car, public transportation, bikes, etc.
"personal risk"

This is kind of the state of the country really. Ridesharing is an OK gig until you get into an accident, you're fine without health insurance until you get injured, you don't really need a union until you start getting treated unfairly, you can pay for college as long as you consistently have a good salary... we're being statistically gaslit with the idea that most people can scrape by without higher wages and better general protections.
It would never be more expensive. And price is not the main factor (it already gets expensive quickly), the service and user experience is why people pick Uber.
Symbian had a CLR port actually, and then there was PocketPC/Windows CE compact framework.
What a rotund dismissal of very serious problem. Some things do generalize well, you know? The relationship of poverty and alcohol consumption is universal, no matter the level of patriotic grandstanding you perform, it simply debilitates family units.
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To me the danger of this kind of one liners is that if you use it 2 times somewhere, someone, at some point, will do the lazy refactor of “let’s put it into a function”.

int clamp (int value, int min, int max)

And that one liner inside. And now you have a double evaluation bomb waiting to go out on your codebase.
I genuinely don't understand this position. I don't see how replacing a "bad" option with no option helps anyone, especially the people that were willing to take the "bad" option.
The employer has dramatically more power in the free market. Especially when backed by endless piles of VC money.

Remember that the free market didn't end child labor, create weekends, or the minimum wage.
py.test has a different way of finding tests. It loads Python files starting with "test_" or ending in "_test.py" then uses reflection, to find functions starting with "test_" or classes starting with "Test", or functions marked with the attribute "__test__" (which is applied by the @nose.tools.istest decorator). See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/d69abff2c7de8bc65b...

This mechanism of scanning the AST is a different approach and won't find the same set of tests. Scanning the AST can be useful and things like https://macropy3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ are awesome though!
Writing a custom configuration format seems like some prime quality yak shaving :-) Probably flatbuffers would be a good choice for the author needs.
Yes, I've just realized that, my apologies. I can't tell any more.
> The market is not fair.

What's your definition of "fair"?
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> I am not sure I follow. You mentioned somewhere else that Lubuntu was the one that gave you the least problems and that you are now using windows. Coincidentally, Lubuntu is the flavor that looks like the most with older versions of Windows.

> To me it looks like your assumption is that anything that does not look like Windows 2000/XP is "worse"

That's a very condescending conclusion to draw. I found LXDE less complicated and significantly snappier than alternatives that had their own Ubuntu derivative. I chose an Ubuntu derivative because Ubuntu has the widest range of supported software.

But hey, it all has to do with how it looks right? Thinking like that by the Linux Desktop community is why you guys still aren't taken seriously.

> What the big companies are doing are related to the infrastructure side of things and have nothing to do with the desktop

The desktop experience is not wholly separated from the infrastructure beneath it. The init system, the event subsystem, hardware management, network management, sound system, display server etc. are only abstracted in the leakiest of ways.

> Anyway, perhaps the issue is that you are conflating "Linux" with "Open Source Desktop" and expecting a central place to solve all solutions?

Unfortunately it pretty much is the only option that is even remotely viable. But mostly I focus on problems with Linux because it has by far the most evangelical community.
No such thing as fair in life. So why have some bureaucrat write laws to dictate fair based on their politics? The market isn’t political.

Having said that, Uber drivers exist because it does provide enough money to have people show up and provide a service. If it didn’t, no one would do the driving. Not to mention most drivers don’t want to be considered employees.
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It doesn't have to power the town, it only has to pull power when it's abundant and deliver power when it is not abundant. Using the resource more as a market balancer. There are many examples of this being profitable.
Because markets and private sector can never be wiser than politicians, especially CA politicians.
That's not what "valuable" means in this argument. Reddit is huge because Reddit's diverse and novel content is valuable to people, as in, it's valued by them, that is what that phrase means. Doesn't matter if _you_ think it is _actually good for them_ or if it "produces value" economically. Yeah, it hits dopamine buttons, so what.

Using the same sense of value, Reddit's _app_ is not valuable to people relative to reddit-on-mobile which is why so many people in this thread agree with the claim.
Tell them what? That they are required to operate in CA no matter the terms? Good luck with that.
That may be true when it comes fresh from the ATM, but otherwise is mostly false. People physically handling money would tell you that it indeed STINKS!
Does the Epic Store allow for games which are free downloads, but where you pay for content directly from the developers rather than through Epic Store purchases? Would that be allowed?

Perhaps game developers should ship their games on the Epic Store, and use Epic's resources for management, distribution, discovery, and so on, but handle all transactions themselves so that Epic doesn't get any money out of it. That sounds fair, right?
Maintaining a buffer is exactly why the Soviets annexed half of Europe after WWII, and spent the next half century brutally oppressing the populations therein. That's the whole point. But regardless, this is such a silly semantic quibble. Who cares why Russia wants to reassemble its empire? The international community is understandably alarmed by Russia's actions, and naturally care little about Putin's justifications.

> Crimea is also part of an ongoing proxy conflict between NATO and Russia, where NATO seeks to encircle the latter.

Fuck, this again? Go ahead and connect the dots for me. Explain what specific actions on the part of NATO, or the countries that have requested membership in NATO, were responsible for Russia suddenly invading a neighbor country that posed no threat to it, forcibly annexing a large part of it, and maintaining a ruinous and deadly guerilla conflict in much of the rest.
Except now you have a winding number and the two circles aren't equivalent everywhere.
I’m assuming you mean 60MW of heat, which would likely be worth recycling, especially if it’s not low grade heat. If you then are left with say 30MW of unrecoverable heat, than its only ~500x what the current largest space thermal system can handle (the one on the ISS).

It really depends on the mass budget they have for that speed for if anything new needs to be discovered.
> They're not employees.

Why does this keep getting repeated? They're not contractors. They have little-to-no control over who their "clients" are. They don't develop relationships for repeat service with those clients; don't set their rates (I'd gladly pay some drivers more than others); are forced to jump through hoops to maintain 4.X ratings or they're booted. The only thing they do have control over is when to start and stop working. That's just a much more flexible part-time job as far as I can tell.
> Gig economy workers have overwhelmingly spoken that they like this work, by continuing to sign up for it in massive numbers.

This reflects the fact that they like to eat.
Community has several restrictions for any business with more than 5 developers or more than a specific profit limit.
> Why not let the market decide?

Because we're not monsters.
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Because collections of people organized into corporations have greater bargaining power than individuals in negotiations.

Traditionally the answer to that is unions or professional group who can bargain on behalf of all their members, but it's hard to unionize fields with low barriers to entry (and harder when the workers are living paycheck to paycheck and thus can't strike easily), and impossible to unionize independent contractor drivers based on how the laws are written.
A ripple in a pool simply displaces the ball up and down vertically. The ball doesn't move along the wave
I know global warming is a pretty controversial topic on this site, but I expect the frequency and severity of "other issues" to increase in the future. Thus what you're saying is there will never be a right time.
I feel like there are scenarios where it's convenient to have a plain text string that is certain not to gum up parts of the system that would choke on punctuation or a leading digit (see for example this package-mapping yaml: https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/blob/master/rosdep/base.yam...). Of course, Fedora 19 is codenamed `schrödinger` including the unicode character, so that's been an interesting experiment in ensuring that all the systems which ingest and process the codenames can handle that.

Anyway, the obvious thing is that a codename is more fun and memorable than a number; it's something to hang marketing and such off of. Presumably this is why MacOS versions have always had public codenames since 2002. But I think the practical reasons are valid as well.
Excel has no clamp function but a neat alternative is

=MEDIAN(min, num, max)
This is an interesting piece from Chomsky on that matter: "Noam Chomsky - The Crimes of U.S. Presidents" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc.
>Debian Stable currently ships Python 3.7.

That's surprisingly new even. I remember Debian being very behind when it came to Python3.
> There is another option for Uber/Lyft - to let drivers set their prices and/or routes. Of course, that would make them less of a unicorn and more of a utility and that would crater their valuation.

That isn't enough, is it? Don't they still fail the "core business functionality" part of the test?
Who says driving for Uber/Lyft should be a full-time job, or statutorily viable as a full-time job? If you consider it only as a second or third job, then it makes a lot more sense that your second or third job is not going to pay as well or have the same benefits as your first job. Those aspects would be expected and reasonable. The low-risk, high-reward jobs fill your primary job slot, then you seek other options as needed. (After all, if it was any different, you might quit your first job and drive for rideshare instead)
I think this speaks to the fact that essential items supply/demand is skewed by purchase of cigarettes then? You can't really survive off of cigarettes, I'd imagine.
Nb: I was referencing Becket, not Comey lol
I think gp meant prepayment including all future interest, which would more than cover prepayment fees.

High-lvl: prepayment fees is roughly equal to interest owed minus alternative interest options the bank has (eg someone else’s mortgage). Disclaimer: Dutch perspective.
Where have you been the last 200 years?

The market is great at optimizing certain imbalances, but a large scale imbalance of power between actors is not one of those imbalances.
Can we get a list of the AB5 legislative backers?
It never fails to amuse me that any pressure or force that we intuitively feel is "pulled" by a vacuum, is only caused by air pressure on the other sides of an object.

When you see something hanging from a suction cup in your kitchen or bathroom, it's fun to imagine that the air around you is hammering the suction cup enough to keep it stuck there. With quite some force you'll notice, if you try to pull it straight out! But let some air in through a small gap, and it will help even things out.

A lack of air by itself does nothing. It's just about the net forces.
I don't know if it's just me, but I very much prefer easy to skim emails to more dense ones.

At one point I got weekly project updates from a team I was working with, and one guy wrote dense, short, emails where I would have to read every sentence carefully to get a hang on what was going on. Another guy would write longer, fluffier emails but with bullet points and paragraphs in the same order:

> Hi everyone!

> {fluff}

> {general status}

>

> - Bullet points of things done that week

> {comment about things done}

>

> - Bullet points of things to do next week

> {comment about potential problems etc}

>

> {fluff}

> {annoyingly long footer}

Just by parsing the number of bulletpoints, and the length of each bullet point (and the first word) I would get a surprisingly good grasp on how things were going, and what was hard/complicated (longer bullet point -> more complex), and very easy to read about exactly I wanted to know.