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by EpicEng 7y ago
Once you take money you have investors. Investors want a return on their money... so now you're a VC backed company.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Problem of definitions. Personally I don't want any chit chat, so what makes a ride a five for you lowers it for me. At the end of the day I just give service people top marks unless they did something terribly wrong.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Well yeah, that completely changes things. The comment I responded doesn't exactly make that clear though does it? >It is "right" to provide an honest rating. What you seem to be saying is that it is the rider's duty
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Well I hope giving that 3 makes you feel really good about yourself when the guy did his job and you're just hurting him for it. You know how they are judged and you do it anyway out of some misguided notion of what the rating system _
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I don't disagree with the stupidity around the rating system, but honestly... what would a driver have to do in that world to get a five star rating? Serve you drinks and rub your feet? It's a car ride, not a movie. A perfect ride
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by EpicEng 7y ago
It's not a question of whether or not they can be shut down, it's whether or not they _should_. I'm in the US and am generally of the mind that the power of government should be limited as much as is reasonable in order to pr
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Even if we assume that your premise is correct, under what authority do we shut them down and how do we ensure this new power won't be abused in the future?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
"Google" encompasses many different projects and teams. What does Gmail loading time have to do with what the GP said?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>Yeah, you don't torrent hollywood shit, that's well known. Yet that's the content which is always in the top downloads section. Well, that and porn. Lots of porn.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>In the EU a company has to first prove the chemical doesn't cause you harm before they saturate you with it. That's not possible. What the EU does is allow things which have been used by other people for some time once they fe
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by EpicEng 7y ago
But for the fact that it's not true, yes, it absolutely shows exactly that.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
That is absolutely false. Literally in every way.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Sure, in a contrived example where the return type is not obvious, you perhaps shouldn't use var. What about real world examples where the type is more often than not obvious?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
If by "duck typing" you mean dynamic, then I don't know what you're complaining about. It has a very niche set of use cases where it is needed. If people are abusing it then it's on them. There is no good or even al
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by EpicEng 7y ago
...I think Facebook has won
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by EpicEng 7y ago
And if FB went away tomorrow the companies would find another way. It's not like they weren't successful before FB came around. FB is only "critical" for as long as it exists in it's current form... which makes it n
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by EpicEng 7y ago
That money was already paid back, not sure what you're talking about.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I doubt the GP is unaware of food regulations. Like pretty much everything else in life, what matters is degree and nuance. The government saying that e.g. milk must meet a minimum level of XYZ is not the same as the government telling us t
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Uber can only compete on price, they have nothing novel that can't be replicated. Hard to imagine how they could control the supply in a meaningful way.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
I don't agree with you, but let's assume I do. What next? All of those business fail and... Low skill workers now make zero instead of something >= minimum wage. How is that better?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
So you don't think IP should exist at all? And that's not what "monopoly" means.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
There will be no ads on the mobile site, only the app.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
There are much better ways to teach that.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Yet those things are crucial to the fundamental operation of the vehicle. We're talking about logs no user cares about here. It's just sloppy and a silly failure mode.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Ok, so no problem here then? Owning a share of the supply doesn't in and of itself make Disney a monopoly. How is competition being stifled here?
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Almost no one does.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
It also becomes difficult to reason about what code will actually run when a message goes out. Top level handlers are ok, but they can spawn messages which spawn messages which... lead to me running out of mental capacity.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
Ok that's fair; I completely ignored the ~$36,000 deduction I'd be getting.
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by EpicEng 7y ago
>add extra money from increased taxes (make it flat 50-60%) Good luck passing a bill that raises my effective tax rate from 17% to 55%. Obviously if you take a whole lot more money from everyone else there will be more to hand out to oth
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by EpicEng 7y ago
At a loss without any notion of how to make it profitable in the near future? No, I don't.

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