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Uber's public launch was in 2011. It only offered limos, at rates competitive to traditional limo services. This would have been a sustainable (albeit much smaller) business.

Uber didn't start offering unsustainably cheap rides until mid 2013, when UberX was launched. Its self-driving research program was announced not long after in early 2015, so it's quite plausible that a long-term pivot to self-driving was indeed part of the UberX business strategy from the beginning.

Uber’s only path to levels of profitability commensurate with its VC valuation in 2013 that wouldn’t have involved self-driving cars would instead have required that the demand elasticity for taxi rides be so low that after getting people Ubering everywhere, Uber could successfully raise prices above the level of the taxi services it displaced without demand falling off a cliff.

Although Kalanick probably believed Uber was just that good, I doubt his investors did.
>We pay our teachers well in the US compared to our better-performing peers. And who doesn't respect teachers?

Have you been to the US? Because most people here don't respect teachers. And we pay teachers almost nothing.
Workers are slowly becoming serfs.
Just some friendly advice, that you might wanna watch where you're pointing that accusation of pedantry.
Tucker Carlson. He is pretty much the face of Fox News and conservative media in general right now.
There also seems to be some kind of bar at the bottom with the time, though they also have the time showing in their terminal.
I'd bet employee would have to pay back if fired.
There is a conversation going on at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33231563 from a different submission.
> over time the number of people using it dramatically decreased

Eh?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
He's also claimed that he has Asperger's, without any evidence.
> why hasnt someone tried to take power of attorney or something similar here?

There is, at least in principle (and certainly for people who can afford lawyers, as he certainly can) a very high bar for this. As there should be.
Vision and language are two of the pillars of human intelligence.

Perfecting these two things opens whole universes of potential.

Ask a robot to “do the dishes”. It has to know what that means, find the dishes, find the sink, the on/off mechanism for the water. These are all language and vision tasks.

The balance, navigation, picking/placing etc seems like a minor subroutine fed by vision metadata.
The vast majority of security investigations are done by the govt Office of Personnel Management and paid for by other government agencies with appropriated funds. What contractors may often pay for is hiring someone and then paying their salary while they wait for the clearance to go through (i.e., they pay for them to do something else while they wait for the clearance to do the job they were actually hired for). But that's more about their hiring pipeline than the cost of clearance.
And I think not, because in countries with much stronger employee protections it works out pretty well. The biggest 'downside' is a smaller concentration of power and wealth because the risk/reward calculation is different. But being bigger serves nobody except a few sub-1% shareholders/owners.

There also is no "we all lose" scenario because of the same reason companies have been able to exploit desperate (or extremely poor) people; companies can be discarded and traded in for more respectful ones in the same fashion. Sure, a bunch of megacorps will not function any longer without a disposable workforce, but that's not really bad for society, or at the very least 'less-bad' when compared with disposable employees.

The same "we have to give them tax breaks or they will move away" logic fails here; if you give a company that sort of leverage, you're essentially blackmailing yourself because they can use that leverage for anything they want. As long as there are locations to move to, that is. If there are no more locations, be it because they have used them all up, or because it's made useless by law, that leverage ceases to exist.

Downside-wise there is only one thing I can consistently come up with, and that is the benefit of having a high concentration of resources and purpose (or vision perhaps) to develop something completely new (like re-usable rocket boosters fit for human flight). While I don't think we should trade that for disposable humans, there should probably some sort of avenue where we can have that benefit without having the human-downside factor. I'm not sure how such a thing would be implemented or work out in detail, but not having it (and in turn also not have people get discarded with great ease) might still be a net positive in the grand scheme.

Rolling over going all "welp I guess this is just how it is" gets everyone nowhere, so before someone comes along and suggest that a better way is a waste of time and energy to look for: you're wrong. (not aimed at you, jmartrican ;-) )
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I'd suggest that anybody over 16 who uses Ayn Rand as an explanation (or model) for human behavior should spend a while exploring the humanities.
With python2 removed from Debian Linux Stable(+others), 3 of 5 projects are affected by this bug.
ah "sarcastic" in the literal - ancient Greeks had great words for so many things

My (un)favorite is "demagogue" they knew it even then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue#History_and_definiti...
Define large sums of money.

levels.fyi has the salaries for FAANGs, but also other places. Plenty of juicy salaries in non-FAANGs.

Sales -- esp. SaaS -- can make crazy money. Close a big deal and walk home with 100k, and possibly residuals if they keep re-upping.

Own any business, be it in tech, or whatever. I've personally known plumbers who own their own business and make over $300k a year and only go out in calls a couple of times a week -- their guys do the rest.

Also know several lawyers -- rough field, btw -- but they have won cases and earned fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars (probate issues, IIRC). Not the story for a lot of lawyers, most don't make anything amazing, but that's true for most fields: for every startup angel who makes it big there are plenty of engineers and founders who don't get shit; a lot of baseball players never make it out of the minors...
This is the root of my beef with the Beatitudes.

It's good to be hungry, because you will be well fed. It's bad to be well fed, because you will be hungry. Really? To me it seems like the Beatitudes make victimhood into virtue.
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Who is they?

I've never worked for a FAANG, but every place I've worked made it a discretionary thing. I would agree that if the other job was literally "I'd like to flip burgers on the weekend," then the Facebooks of the world should not be able to tell you no, and I guess I'd be surprised if they tried. Working with Burger King as a software developer to build a new social engagement app though, yes.

I also think if you're employed by Facebook as a software developer, and you need to work at Burger King to get extra money, then something else is wrong. Of course you should be able to do what you want with your time but... really?
You really don't know what you're going to get until you get your personal quote

Exactly. You get a quote, you read the attached policy, it says "No EVs can be parked on premises," you have a good chuckle and toss the quote in the trash.

I don't understand any of this "You have to buy the policy to see what is in it" reasoning.
1. Numeracy is just as valuable as literacy. Sure, matrix multiplication and integrals may not be useful day to day, but the article is talking about algebra.

2. I may be biased, but I believe math is distilled critical thinking. The difficulty is teaching math critical-thinking-first as opposed to test-first.
Oh wow, we need this in Europe as well! Particularly the UK. Is this happening tho? The article is from 2018.
I guess free speech is alive and well.
yes, I have done it, and I've implemented it two ways:

A temporary "marked for deletion" (I guess temporary soft_delete) field was used to mark rows for deletion (we had a user trash type deal) anything older than 30 days just got dump into a new table, and it recorded some simple metadata, but the data itself was dumped as JSONB. The important thing is we always recorded a way to figure out the customer / user without having to dig into the JSON blob, so if they ever actually left the platform we could still delete the data in full quite easily. This was key. It preserved the PK system we had in place for stuff like this.

In another, more naive implementation, we just dumped it out into JSON blobs with special "$metadata" fields describing data types, deletion time, and other associated metadata I can't quite recall. if I recall correctly those were then encrypted and stored elsewhere (I can't recall where exactly, but likely S3 or equivalent). I don't think this was a good idea, but its what was done.
The more general rule I follow is that there are only three cardinalities in software - 0, 1, and many. Default should be many. Any other limits you put is likely to be incorrect.
> Why do you claim that poor people have no education?

Poor countries almost universally have a much lower rate of education than richer countries. That's not just a coincidence, of course... when you have an educated population, you tend to get out of poverty pretty quickly unless you have something very stronly keeping you back (fundamentalist religion for example). See Singapore and South Korea which are highly advanced societies today, but not long ago were pretty poor.

I am talking about poor, really poor, people. The kind of people who cannot afford caring about education at all. All they have time for is chase food. You may not believe it, but people like that are the majority in much of the developing world.
Well the winning move in these cases is usually unionization - when a large number of employees are being exploited by an employer a union that allows collective bargaining can force the employer to act in a more sane manner.
I think that's at least equally the fault of the visitors center as anything about the instrument itself. The visitors center gave a very much working instrument a "historical monument pickled in time" feel.

I think there is a reasonable case to be made that the ultimate cause of the collapse was that not enough was spent on the visitors center, leaving guests with the impression that it wasn't a valuable instrument, leading to sustained absolutely minimal funding, leading to deferred maintenance (since they preferred to spend the money they got on actually operating!), leading to collapse.

So perhaps think of this in the future if you're about to criticize a scientific instrument for frivolous spending on visitor center upgrades.
I think it's entirely reasonable to ask about the benefit to the individual if there are individual costs
Paper money is tracked all the time. US bills have serial numbers. This has resulted in the arrest of bank robbers, ransomers, and hijackers in the past.
> Puerto Rican residents can vote on everything aside from federal elections.

So, a colony? Taxation without representation. We might not get taxed IRS federal planillas, but all the levies and duties plus the harmful Jones Act beg to differ with your characterization.

The US is choking our economy in its current status. Statehood or independence, a binding referendum is urgent at this point.

Oh, and don't you remember how the US Supreme Court declared us second-class citizens recently? [0]

[0]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/scotus-declares-u-...
This involves paying teachers paying more and treating them with respect? Nah, lets have endless conversations about how whether we should not learn math at all!

That issue is highly political though. Even when setting aside the issue of selling to voters a pay raise for teachers. Good math teachers are specialists with a math education. To attract them to teaching you’re going to have to pay them more than other teachers. How do you sell that, politically, to teachers’ unions?

There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance going on with non-specialist teachers teaching math. They’re teaching bad habits and passing on their own math anxiety to students but if you confront them about it they get very defensive and start talking about school funding and textbooks and materials and computers.

The truth is: that’s all bunk. Third world countries are better at teaching math. They don’t get distracted with computers and they don’t waste time and money redesigning the curriculum and printing new textbooks all the time. They teach math in the old, straightforward style and emphasize practice.
GP didn’t say decreasing the role that luck plays, they said decreasing the gap in outcomes luck causes.

More chances to be lucky can reduce a gap that today is mostly determined by the wealth you’re born into.
Relaying Yubikeys
Did you actually watch the video? The things are built in such a way that there is global state shared among components.
I tried out self hosting on my $5/mo VPS and found it much easier than expected. https://jeskin.net/blog/self-hosting-git-with-stagit/
Kanye's mental illness is well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West#Mental_health
Reminds me a bit of the dispute between McDonald's/Taylor and Kytch. An independent company Y stepping in to fix a particularly broken aspect of another company X's workflow (or literally a piece of hardware), company X responds badly, company X doesn't have the internal resources to do better, or company X is purposely not fixing things for some dumb and/or profit-motivated reason.

A possible solution: build your scraper as a Chrome extension and have legitimately logged-in users periodically hit that SCRAPE button.
Because the bear market isnt consisting of people exiting crypto for fiat, it consists of people selling their other crypto assets for stablecoins like Tether and waiting for opportunities. (There are over $120bn in stablecoins, about 50% of that is Tether, and this is a fairly stable figure as the bear market progressed.)

This is functionally similar to selling the stocks in your brokerage account but keeping the cash in your brokerage firm, with the addition of brokerage firm’s total cash being publicly reported in real time. It is unlikely that number goes down because people dont really withdraw from their brokerage accounts, they continue to add more cash and wait for opportunities.
I think this is one of the biggest problems with violating YAGNI. They're effectively dead code paths that are never truly being executed, and developers might assume they aren't full of bugs. But they oftentimes are.
> It takes extra work and introspection to change states,

If you can't achieve the activation energy needed to change, then staying stuck in that rut is the easiest thing you can do.
Probably not - they’re far worse where there aren’t humans for hundreds of miles.

Mosquitos in the tundra are insane [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150915-Ar...]
Except for the fact iMessage is well known for its RCEs as well: search for "iMessage RCE" you will find them.

Furthermore (this may not be the case anymore), iMessage is more privileged than other apps and so once exploited an attacker has a far greater reach.
By a long shot, no.

FAANG sets tempo for salaries for every other company. Other companies might not reach that level of craziness, but many do end up near a similar bar.
My impression is that mosquitoes seem to thrive best in degraded ecosystems where there aren't enough birds and fish and other small insects to snack on them and keep the population low. But even then, they're so small that I don't think they provide enough calories to larger animals. As far as I know the only insects for whom mosquitoes are actually a worthwhile food source are other mosquitoes (the non-annoying ones that drink nectar like to eat the kinds that suck blood). So there may be a consequence in terms of being able to pollinate certain plants. But it's also likely the niche would be filled by other insects, though maybe that wouldn't be any less desirable.
this gives enough time for the eggs to hibernate and hatch.

for the eggs to die, there must be a lukewarm summer, and a long winter.

beyond that, it's also about averages.
The "issue with an expectation that people follow through with signed agreements" comes about when there is a power asymmetry between the two parties signing a contract. The reason we have tenant rights, and bans on indentured servitude, and employee rights is because when there is a power imbalance between the two parties the less powerful can often find themselves pushed into extremely unfavorable circumstances, to the point that it has societal-level negative effects. So we ban certain kinds of one-sided contractual clauses. And then corporations include them anyway, because they calculate that there's a non-zero chance that individuals will abide them regardless of their legality.

The number of completely unenforceable non-compete clauses I've seen in California is astonishing. Likewise, I've seen blatantly illegal lease agreements. The common factor? One party has far more negotiating power than the other.
There's even a word for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art

Just learned about this at the Mori Art Museum, since your username is dudeinjapan.
Maybe it has to do with the culture at specific schools. As I mentioned in another comment, my instructors loved to include wire resistance in their problems, and always explicitly stated the zero-loss assumption when applicable.

We did have a healthy incubation program, where instructors helped companies with product development, so perhaps that is what brought the real-world experience.
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That's not how his life story went at all.

His father was a photojournalist for the main newspaper in Atlanta and his mother was a Fulbright scholar. He grew up in a solid middle class suburb and he attended a magnet school for gifted kids before getting a scholarship to the American Acaedmy of Art. He started producing music for artists directly out of high school and was producing for Roc-A-Fella within 3 years of starting out in the music scene.

It was at Roc-A-Fella that he decided to be a rapper, and it took him all of 2 years to produce The College Dropout.

He lived an incredibly charmed life before he ever started rapping.
It can plausibly also stop the suspect from killing more people. This is the tension--balancing the rights of the innocent against those of unambiguous, active mass murderers.
Teachers get a very superficial respect. They get lip service, but are not treated in accordance with the nominal respect they get.
Still a strawman because I didn't say sci fi replicators. You could make an automated system that travels, mines, and manufactures. Like a 3D printer that prints copies of itself. That's not unbelievable.
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so you're saying the blockchain is not made up of physical blocks?
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable.

It's very interesting that you don't see the straight line between "absolute" free speech and toxicity.

Absolute free speech IRL is moderated by physical and emotional stimuli and inhibitions against direct confrontation and bucking social norms. There are also legal repercussions, such as libel or defamation suits, for particularly harmful speech. The anonymity, and lack of accountability or feedback to one's words makes people far less inhibited online.
This particular example is definitely the fault of the salon (the training should have value), but as long as it is disclosed before the training begins, I don't see any issue, since people who know they won't finish the training are less likely to sign up, and of course it should be negotiable for well qualified applicants and exceptions should be made for things out of the trainee's control like family emergencies, etc.

I am pro worker's rights and proud to live in a state with a decent balance of protections, but I am surprised at the amount of people in this comments section who seem to think that there is nothing an employee can do to hurt a company - I have personally heard some of my more "mischievous" friends discuss these tactics, and have seen the cost of grifters who use them to take advantage of companies, from fraudulent (but hard to prove) worker's comp claims, training/benefit poaching, outright theft, etc.
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Because there is no money in protocols.
There are a lot of examples of this and the left has had some truly great advocates for free speech. In terms of time period, the Red Scare and Mccarthyism was a time when the left was being heavily censored by the right. The Civil Rights movements as well with MLK during the 1960s and then Frank Kameny in the 1970s trying to get rights for gays.

Other leftist advocates for free speech include Obama, Elenor Roosevelt, and Aryeh Neier are brilliant examples.
Not true
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/whatsapp-says-indian-gov...
> people worry about whether Putin could turn to tactical nukes if faced with a total defeat in Ukraine.

Just to set the record straight, the threat of usage of tactical nukes in case of defeat in Ukraine were not the words left Putin mouth and he also not even remotely implied that.

I guess the RU-EN translator, one individual, has caused that misunderstanding.

The translation/interpretation quality seem to be low, causing the destruction of civilizations.

For example Zelensky at the UN speech has suggested that NATO should have given "a preventive kick" to the Russia, early in the conflict. But it was mistakenly translated as if Zelensky has implied that NATO should have commenced a preemptive nuclear strike against Russia. Later he has formally clarified this at a BBC interview.
Probably because they're a large target and because it's more financially worthwhile. I imagine their bug bounty program pays out more, plus I know they've awarded $50,000 per research grant in the past.
OMG I've found my spirit animal.
Being able to stop bad at the expense of good is the perfection you're striving for.

There are two different priorities here we will simply never agree on. Both harm someone.
Yes but it's also a different symbol - a vertical line rather than the full circle (at least in my experience).
Maybe the Mayan prophecies had some weight. 2012 was supposed to be the end of times, but for me it was always about a new beginning. Politics has now become so fractured and polarized and there are countless warring factions evangelizing their ideology and claiming it's the 'one true way'. But it's worth being apolitical and not taking part in this fashion contest you see playing out all around us. In the end, it will all crumble catastrophically with the main culprit being climate change. We need something biblical to dismantle all the political zealots.
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> I refer to things like attaching counter opinions to opinions of people with high visibility for example

That's what fact-checking is. It's widely heckled.
From this perspective - my intuition is that the likelihood a Kanye West led Parler will be successful is substantially greater than that a rap career will be successful. In some sense West is moving on to more plausible investments as he gets older.

West has had success as an entertainer and as a businessman - I believe he has a successful shoe company. He's famous. If he thinks he can take on Parler, that seems like a crazy challenge but one he is well equipped to take on. I would certainly believe in myself - even if I thought it was low probability I'd feel certain that it was possible.