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The biggest issue that I have with this is that the government regulations are meaningless these days due to lack of code enforcement.

Two great examples:
1.) Staying in Fremont, CA, needing a trip to the San Jose airport at 4:50 in the morning. I had a cab 'scheduled' but a few drivers didn't show up, and they didn't bother calling me to let me know that they were not going to show up. The dispatcher didn't speak english well and didn't understand the questions that I asked. If I had instant feedback that nobody was coming, I would have made alternate plans the minute that I knew nobody was going to pick me up.
2.) In Chicago for a business trip. I generally don't carry cash, but, needed a ride from point a to point b. Taxi driver's sticker said he took credit cards, but his machine was 'down.' A "standoff" of sorts occurred between me, the taxi driver, and Chicago PD; ultimately, after the police harassing him (and reminding him that a working credit card reader was required in the city), he reluctantly ran my credit card and let me out of his car.

It's unfair that the Taxi companies skirt these rules too -- Uber and Lyft just give their ecosystems a quicker way to get ride of bad actors and focus on customer service, where the Taxi companies are focused on keeping the medallion owners happy.
Considering that a majority of people who agree with each other are "moral" is highly problematic. Even if everyone in the system is morally equal, this system would automatically create and enhance differences between groups.

The author uses the example of climate-change deniers to express the opinion that minority groups have "withdrawn itself from the main conversation and retreated into a different discourse."

Is this true of other minority groups - feminists? Homosexuals? Minority ethnic groups? It seems highly awkward to claim the same thing.

A better system would be one which considers how to cater for individuals rather than declaring a populist majority to be a special, protected ingroup. There's enough of the latter already.
Did they consider facts about events added to Wikipedia before they actually happened? :) [1]

[1] http://xkcd.com/978/ - 'Citogenesis'
One of the ways of reducing complexity is not having to deal with this:

http://wtfjs.com

http://wtfhtmlcss.com
It's a nice theory, but in my experience taxi drivers are often clueless and/or cheating, and their cars are often run-down. Literally every single time I have used a taxi in the last couple of years it was at least one of these three problems.

The current regulation regime does not produce safety, fairness or improve quality, but it does stifle competition.
The problem is not the regulation or limiting the available licenses per se, it's rather the ability to transfer or sell them.

If the current license holder can't or won't use it for another year there's absolutely no reason he should be allowed to transfer his permit. The regulator should just keep a list of people interested in it and let the next one have his turn.
I don't think MicroBerto was saying pay a low rate just small fixed price blocks of work. If I was doing it I would probably slightly overpay to keep quality interested but not so high the appropriate rate for the main projects is offensively lower.
I've always interpreted the quote as meaning that good artists are able to recognize worthy work and imitate it, while great artists take that work and make it their own, improve upon and personalize it.

The Macintosh team "stole" the GUI from PARC, insomuch as they turned an academic experiment into a user-friendly, commercially viable product with its own refined sensibility and personality.

Samsung was a good enough artist to recognize that the iPhone was worth copying slavishly (albeit poorly), but they never turned their imitation into a distinct work unto itself.
JavaScript is the mainstream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

so the reasons all the same.
>Should all services be unregulated?

They should be regulated by the market. Consumers will buy what they want and suppliers will conform to demand or go out of business.
Happiness is the only intrinsic value for a human being, and thus a moral person is a person who pursues happiness effectively. (How to do that is another story.) However, Aaronson's proposed definition of a moral person is not the effective way to pursue happiness. Thus, it is immoral.

It's also immoral to call for all of us to sacrifice industrial output for future generations to solve the supposed climate change problem. There is no reason to presume that future generations are more important than the present generation (in fact, it is demonstrably the case that they are not). Thus, this position is profoundly immoral.

However, the implicit assumption that sacrifice is moral is common to most world religions and also altruism, which is probably where he imported it from. All of them are morally bankrupt. A scientist shold be able to be skeptical and see such logical flaws, even if he is not able to propose the correct solution.
Well it's one against one. I didn't own a car for the last 12 years. I've had an overall great experience with taxis over many hundreds of taxi rides. So we can compare our usage, but your anecdote is just that.
Good point, upvoted. I missed that link, but stand by my point for writers in general. A short inline explanation is always helpful, with or without a link to more.
A better model might be to baseline on NOAA predictions, then work with the variability of commercial predictions against that.
It's amazing how people who deny climate changes have no good answer to why ancient glaciers keep melting. But this melting allows for great archeology.
To each his own. I actually think its overly long, wordy, rambling, poorly conceived and short any novel or important ideas.
If you limit taxis, more people will drive their own cars. To make up some numbers, if you want to take 2000 cars off the road, you might have to eliminate 2500 or 3000 medallions.

Instead, traffic-limiting measures should target all vehicles using congestion tolls, gas taxes, vehicle taxes, or something more innovative.
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Regulation is one thing, but I think a buried innovation of on-call driver services is the disintermediation of reservations that removes the dispatcher's judgement that serves to decrease service in certain situations.
The rumors say [1] the "Baikal" processor is not a domestic design, but a quad-core 64-bit ARM-based piece, so it's swapping a US design for a British one...

I'm guessing they're building a FAB to manufacture it locally. Not that big of a news, actually.

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...and you get a $10 Amazon gift card. Nice.
Doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, etc as well?
If you give me your email I can be in touch and we can go from there.
That's a nice theory, but I think that's what got us into the regulation in the first place. People basically don't know the place, don't know the cabs drivers, and you can't really choose based on quality if you are stuck in an unknown city with same-looking cabs.

Now Uber is probably changing all that thanks to mobile internet, but that wasn't possible before.
Fully agree, this is a serious problem and this seems to be one of the few potential solutions with lots of energy going into it, so let's give it a shot. They did quite a bit of research and they've gone way further than just 'concepts' or artist impressions.
Thats the very reason why they use the word drone for everything tho. Thats how news, etc. sell.
You think walking through Euclid is done in high school drafting?
My name is Gil. Look at my comment history and apologize.
maybe they just felt like throwing that in there. its actually possible for pilots of real airplanes to confuse ground/sky during disorientation periods after taking some Gs regardless of the avionics warnings.

its not really possible for drone pilots unless they're flying drunk.

its kinda easy to throw in random little things in news articles since nothing is checked.
just look at any news item about something you know very well and you'll be upset how almost everything is wrong - why would news about anything else be accurate then?
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That just means that there is room for a company to develop and create better dispatch software for the taxi industry, not that all regulation should be decimated to make dispatching better.
Please tell us what sources you follow that provide you with (a) comparably lucid ideas and (b) not only that, but also in a shorter, clearer form.

I for one want to follow them too if they really exist.
I buy all my prescription drugs over the Internet without a valid Rx. Not all that interested in heading to the GP to get a script that says "This has been a recurring problem" for the price of an outrageous co-pay and possibly a hassle from my insurance company.
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id join an IRC channel on freenode..
It is completely explained on the site about the money.

1. Whatever is raised is matched by some well-off people who are willing to match.

2. They are raising $12m total

3. The money goes into selected campaigns where they have a good chance to turn the election and make the candidates support the reform agenda. They hire professionals who do this kind of thing.

4. None of the raised money is used for admin expenses.

5. If it works out, they continue into 2016 to turn more elections.

The question is, do people give a s*? Sadly, I'm pessimistic.. Drop $50 on this I'd say a pretty cheap lottery ticket considering how sick the system currently is..
You missed my point: if we are indeed moving towards a world of very heavily automated processes and hence an increased rich/average divide, owning capital will be a lot more profitable than it is today. So you probably wouldn't need an extraordinary income to invest enough to be in a very strong position. As I said, it's a hedge.

But of course, it's a hedge that has positive expected value even if this scenario does not pan out, so I really don't see the problem here. The stock market still beats all other savings options for long-term (>5 years) investments. No need to see the glass as half empty; we could all be running around gathering nuts and berries and trying not to get eaten by lions.
"always heard that ThinkGeek, the online retailer, was by far the most (only?) profitable part of the business for years on end"

As a former employee of [VA [Research[ Systems]|Linux|Software] SourceForge] I also heard this. Though I believe Slashdot was also a profit center for awhile.
Well taxi's are on the road a lot more than normal cars. There are separate rules for commercial vehicles for instance. Also, since most of the driver's are freelancers (and not Uber employees), I don't see how OSHA rules apply (although perhaps I'm wrong).
It was 2005, I had to execute an Oracle function from c#. The PL/SQL programmer that created the package/function told me that the function will return a single string.

The returned string had the info a customer concatenated, like this:

Pete McDonald 5519500303

The instructions - to extract the data - were:

The indexes from 0 to 9 will contain the name (please trim the trailing spaces)
The indexes from 10 to 19 will contain the last name (same, please trim)
20 to 21 will contain the age of the customer
the rest of the string contains the customer's birthday

EDIT: formatting
I don't use Uber, but is it generally cheaper than taxis?
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I have never encountered a C compiler which can reliably vectorize code not specifically written for its "auto"vectorizer, and it's sometimes easier to just write some asm than to persuade the compiler to vectorize a loop.
Needy babies are moral monsters according to many of these models..
Do folks who think that the world is only 6000 years old have anything for human-made artifacts 9000 years old?
That assertion that you can win more than half the time at "guess the higher number" sounded weird, but testable.

http://play.golang.org/p/E1L9spOjBk

Cool.
I think the definition of morality in the article is far too simplistic. In my (Christian) view, it's an important aspect of moral maturity to be able to be nice to immoral people without cooperating with their goals. Besides that dichotomy, the article already mentions that the model lacks critical information, specifically, the actors don't know whether the other actors they're [not ]cooperating with are "good" or "bad".

That said, I find this approach to defining morality fascinating. Maybe if the definitions are refined it will manage to tell us something we already know (not entirely sarcastic; that would be legitimately impressive for a mathematical construct regarding morality).
Please understand that I wrote this code around late 2005, early 2006.

Unfortunately the discussion thread where I talked about this initially (on the ZSNES forums) has been deleted, or is for some reason not showing up in Google search results.

The best info I could find is here: http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?p=82794#p82794

But you can see how hazy my memory is. There I said there seemed to be six differences, but was already unsure of the exact number.

I am unable to find any posts where I mentioned what the exact errors were, nor where I spoke with Maxim about them. But if you really want to find out, it should only take a few minutes to write a parser for hq2x.c, generate the tables using my rotation approach, and compare the two. If you do so, please post which rules are different so I can file the info away somewhere.

Although I will say it's not too terribly important. The difference is extremely minimal.
What people don't realize is neither Uber nor medallion owners care one bit for the people they are meant to serve. Arguments on all sides are driven by selfish parties that only want to set up a system to benefit them. At the end of the day Uber would like to be the only game in town and Uber investors would like nothing more than a well-oiled corporate machine that prints money. So all this talk of consumer choice and safety is a red herring. It's definitely good marketing but don't be fooled into thinking Uber is helping anyone but themselves when they push for deregulation.

So yes I'm with you on this one. I also find it a little funny that everyone brings up anecdotal evidence about shitty cab drivers and awesome Uber drivers as an argument for deregulation. Such micro activities are meaningless in the face of what happens at the macro-economic scale.
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I've seen the other way around just as much if not more so. People calling taxis and then not waiting for the one they called, with a driver just hanging around. My experience in Boston was quite good over many hundreds of taxis rides. As far as I saw, the rules were generally followed.
It's a solution for tons of boilerplate code which appears when trying to do patterns. Compare for example Reactive Extensions (which are pretty popular in Android community for management of concurrency) and just how much more verbose is Java 6 code with it's piles of anonymous classes vs. lambdas of Java 8 or Scala. Even though IntelliJ IDEA can hide that boilerplate pretty well, it's still tons of needles code you have to pollute your codebase when you're implementing those modern patterns.

In short, what I'm saying is, that at the current state of Android, implementing Java 8 features would bring simillar benefits than switching to a whole other language without having to rewrite whole runtime and most of the operating system.
> I don't use Uber, but is it generally cheaper than taxis?

no, generally more expensive, but the product is way better. My girlfriend gets sick with exhaust vapors when typical cheap taxi drivers lave their windows open and insist their AC is broken. Taxi shocks are usually shot, and the ride crashes around on city streets. Uber has nice, comfy, clean, big, air conditioned vehicles. Worth the extra money.
From my comments you can see that it is in my experience, and my school was not top-rated at all. It was wrong of me to assume everyone else had the same experience.
They are different issues, and the historical controversies (where I live) over dispatch policies and biases imply the taxi industry is in no hurry to eliminate their Louie De Palmas.

Urban taxi companies have many, many problems that have persisted for decades. There is no one solution that covers all of them.
My anecdote is just enough to show it's not a slam-dunk victory for regulated cab regime.

The question we should be debating is the relative quality of regulated Taxi vs. Uber-style free market. To make progress we would need to allow Uber to operate for some time, and then look at the accident/crime/satisfaction surveys. Speculating about what regulation can do for us in theory is fruitless, and denying the opportunity for alternatives to be tested out, which is what those cab-lobbies advocate, is dishonest.
One does not solely get their understanding of novelty or content/length relation from single newsfeed style sources. There are more than a few books and even more wikipedia entries that provide a wealth of understanding for a relative pittance in word count. Not to mention all the non-classical forms that do the same. The article was okay, but the standard you implicitly set forth is lacking in fairness to the commenter, to the original story, and truly to one-off forms of valuable information that don't provide a serialized source of continued information.

One of my personal favorites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspond...
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Usually more expensive, but that depends on when you ride -- prices go up during hours of peak demand, like Friday nights, and fall at other times. Some rough numbers here:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230425020...
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Former LEO here.

I wore it in mild weather (80F), and it wasn't a bother. Hot, but not uncomfortably so. Our portable offices where air conditioned, so this helped quite a lot.

Traffic related accidents are more dangerous overall than getting shot, IIRC. Small sample size: I was never shot at, but T-Boned twice while driving through a intersections. Both times, not under code, but normal traffic speed.

Nitwits.
rent stabilization seems to fit that bill.
In the private university I work for (in research) the University keeps all patent revenue, keeps a portion of all grants, and requires the lab to pay for space- I was really surprised to find out how much went towards that. There's also a lot of really annoying charges, like costing $180 to reactivate ethernet jacks that they deactivate when a device hasn't been plugged into a port for three months.
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Satan put them there to trick us.
I've never had this issue. Every dispatcher has spoken very clearly and my cab orders have arrived on or ahead of time every time. As for the credit card issue that is easy enough to fix. I always give them a cash tip and then ask them to put the actual travel charge on a credit card.
Occasionally "being nice" (cooperating when tit-for-tat suggests defection) dampens avalanche effects caused by defection-happy actors; it prevents the "an eye for an eye makes everyone blind" ending. In that sense, it has value.
Am I the only person that thinks government regulation is a reasonable thing for the taxi industry? Regulations on work hours, car safety, tougher environmental standards, driver training, requiring pickup if called, etc all seem reasonable.

I agree.

The medallion system is a disaster. In fact, it's systemized government corruption. Most of these medallion-owning assholes have never driven a taxi in their lives. They're just rent-seeking vampires.

The purpose of limiting the supply of drivers is to prevent a race to the bottom-- and I would generally support that, for a variety of reasons. But the effect of the medallion system is that drivers do no better under the system than without it, because they have to pay enormous leasing fees.

A fully unregulated system is a bad idea (it means you're screwed if you live in the outer boroughs, it will encourage unsafe conditions and driving) but the medallion system needs to be shut down.

I do think things like Uber and Airbnb are very cool and innovative

Uber is an evil company. It's not surge pricing alone that makes it evil. It's the complete lack of transparency around surge pricing, and the fact that (unlike Lyft) it increases its own take when surge is in effect. It's one thing for prices to go up when the supply of cars can't mean demand. It's an entirely different situation when the (a) pricing algorithm is opaque and (b) it's determined unilaterally by a company with every incentive to manipulate it.

I am glad to see the medallion parasites under threat, though. If I were mayor of any of these cities, my first move would be to scrap the medallion system, with no compensation to their owners.
No doubt this is fascinating, but the large white panel obscuring the right 1/3 of the screen does not close when I click the X icon, making the article/page unreadable.

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This is good stuff, bookmarked!
It's interesting how these quote with no clear attribution can take a life of their own. It's like the quote attributed to Burke that "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." You see that quote referenced everywhere, and it is a great quote, but it doesn't appear in any of Burke's writings.
They would say that our methods for dating are wrong.

(I don't believe the earth is 6k years old in case you're wondering.)
how wide of an area is used to test against the predictions? I notice he calls out local weathermen, well a thirty percent chance of rain given out by the TV guys for the metro Atlanta area is either dead accurate or dead wrong depending what part of metro Atlanta I am in.

It would be really cool to see weather forecasts done up like topography maps, with +/- symbols denoting changes in precip and the like
I've always thought that was Uber's endgame. Get in now and establish a brand with existing technology (taxi drivers) so that you're ready to capture the new market when it's ready (driverless cars).
As a Vietnamese, I really like this point of view and I would add traffic jam (currently very bad in Hanoi and HCMC) as a big drawback.
If you're going to argue against taxi licenses or anything else, please explain why you think the reasons why some people believe the good outweighs the bad are wrong, rather than just pointing out that there is bad.
Exactly. Imagine his anger if someone had written something amateurish about quantum computation or complexity without acknowledging any work done since the beginning of these fields. I seriously hope most of the article is in jest.

"Hey all, I have a new way of measuring how much resources computer programs take..."

If I remember correctly, he banned a professor from commenting on his blog over what seemed to be a routine academic debate.
There's a fairly detailed discussion of that, with numbers, here:

https://www.quora.com/Ride-Sharing/How-much-does-the-average...

Most of the numbers quoted seem to be in the general neighborhood of $20/hour, more if you do it as a part-time thing during peak hours.
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