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by _delirium 13y ago
An interesting bit of evidence that resident concerns are a common motivation: in upscale buildings, which have the funds to pay for it, the crackdown on AirBnB is in even more full swing, through "free-market policing". Some cond
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by _delirium 13y ago
What NY is mainly worried about (and has the strongest public support for them worrying about) is AirBnB being used as a way of de facto running unlicensed hotels. People don't like discovering that the room down the hall from where
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by _delirium 13y ago
Particularly anything that people already see as collectible and carefully preserve; leads to a large supply of good-condition items. Pocket watches are one interesting example. The majority of nice old pieces from the late 19th century are
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The security burden shouldn't rest solely on the software user(newrepublic.com)
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by _delirium 13y ago
Anyone with the right knowledge and right equipment can do basically anything that's possible with that knowledge and equipment. Why be impressed by anything anyone does?
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by _delirium 13y ago
> the wealthy contribute such a disproportionate amount to the US treasury. Overall US taxes (from all sources) are approximately flat taxes, if considered relative to wealth, as you seem to be doing. The wealthy contribute roughly the s
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by _delirium 13y ago
True, but that's only what you'd expect a noob to do. I have never had an actual taxi driver make that mistake, because the airport , of all places, is somewhere a taxi driver can get to in their sleep.
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by _delirium 13y ago
To replicate that, though, Uber would also have to replicate some of the state apparatus around it, which they may or may not be able to do (or even want to do, ideologically). The London exam is effective in part because it's backed b
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by _delirium 13y ago
That's been the same for me in NYC, but the whole taxi setup in NYC feels very "high-security", with only a small window peering through a bullet-resistant barrier between the front and back seats. That makes it feel more lik
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by _delirium 13y ago
you can hear news of some low-level worker being arrested for accepting payments for illegal transactions This does happen, but it might be worth distinguishing two kinds of low-level bribery: 1) clerks can be bribed to look the other way
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by _delirium 13y ago
Uber claims [1] they have a " series of rigorous screening tests, including a background check, an in-person screening, a city knowledge exam, and other ongoing quality controls ". If true, that would seem to address your point ab
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by _delirium 13y ago
Huh, I've always thought of chatting as the default in taxis (though not limos). Drivers seem to usually engage in small-talk with me, at least in California and southern Europe. I'm so used to it that the first time I took a taxi
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by _delirium 13y ago
In markets where employers have a lot of leverage, some employers do more or less do that. They hire more employees than they really need, then put in stringent screening practices to cut the ones they don't want to keep. There are a l
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by _delirium 13y ago
I'm only aware of one case challenging it, and it was a pretty specific context (a 1982 case [1] in which tenured professors challenged their university's ban on taking a second full-time job, which was upheld). In general though
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by _delirium 13y ago
Should be in jessie (the current 'testing') too, as of July 22: http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fish.html
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by _delirium 13y ago
Debian sid ('unstable') isn't hugely behind, at least by my standards of software upgrading. Fish 2.0.0 ended up in there about 8 weeks after release, and I'd expect 2.1.0 should get there in less time (2.0.0 was a chang
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by _delirium 13y ago
Is that really why people start startups? I'd hypothesize that most interesting startups were started for more fundamental reasons than just to get much wealthier than other people. Many startup founders are passionate enough about wha
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by _delirium 13y ago
Some more, fairly randomly chosen: Peter Norvig (USC->Berkeley->Google), Chris Lattner (Illinois->Apple, LLVM), Daniel J. Bernstein (Illinois, qmail/djbdns), Donald Knuth (Stanford, LaTeX), Hadley Wickham (Rice, ggplot2), the
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by _delirium 13y ago
I read his/her comment as sarcastically implying that that wasn't the case. :)
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by _delirium 13y ago
> I mean this isn't /r/politics, is it? This isn't reason.com, is it? > The line that science would not happen absent government funding is so demonstrably false that to even make such a claim is tantamount to shou
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by _delirium 13y ago
That isn't the style used in K&R, though. When K&R introduces a for loop for the first time, in section 3.5, it does it like so, and sticks to this style throughout: for (i = 0; i < n; i++) ... This is the
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by _delirium 13y ago
Was this recently? The hassle/delay of crossing the border has really gone up in the past 10 years. Both the Mexican and Canadian borders, actually.
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by _delirium 13y ago
Yeah, rent control is bad for Googlers trying to move in to SF, especially on short notice. But it's good for locals who already live there, who are not standing in line for flats, because they already live in them. How you weigh ease
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by _delirium 13y ago
It looks like OCaml's C-- predates this C--, but has had an influence on it. From Xavier Leroy, one of the lead Ocaml developers [1]: I think I'm the one who coined the name "C--" to refer to a low-level, weakl
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by _delirium 13y ago
Predecrement is fairly unidiomatic in C, much less commonly used than in C++. Typically it's only really used if you're doing something tricky that actually depends on the semantics of predecrementing, usually in an array referenc
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by _delirium 13y ago
I'm not really a language implementor, more of a spectator of language implementations, so someone with more experience would give a better answer. My impression is that the GHC people, at least, still think that C-- is a nicer IR than
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by _delirium 13y ago
If you want to know why it exists despite LLVM-IR existing, one answer is that at the time C-- was launched, LLVM-IR didn't yet exist. As for how they compare, the answers to this question, on why Haskell didn't use LLVM (in 2009,
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by _delirium 13y ago
GCC did already exist when the C-- project was started, so that part didn't really change. The C-- team's hypothesis was that some kinds of languages (especially functional languages) would benefit from a cross-platform layer that
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by _delirium 13y ago
Under the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause [1], it's the other way around: treaties signed by the U.S. government take precedence over state constitutions. [1] This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall
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by _delirium 13y ago
I would read it more like the former, that "data we have collected" is similar to "information we have collected". Alternately, data is also often a synonym for "set of observations" or similar, a shorthand ter

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