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by adjkant 7y ago
> I suspect that it might be different in the USA because I've always heard that things worked the other way around here: rich people live in wealthy suburbs and go everywhere by car while poor people stay stuck in the city centers.
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by adjkant 7y ago
Anecdotally 100% experiencing this almost what feels like daily.
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by adjkant 7y ago
As I said in other comments, you can look at those graphs and see they are relatively static across all generations. That said, what isn't pictured is the shift of the ideologies of the parties themselves, which both have gotten more p
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by adjkant 7y ago
I hear that claim a lot but if you look at the link I posted under the "A wide – and growing – generational divide in partisanship" heading, it doesn't appear to actually be the case. If that were true you'd likely see a
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by adjkant 7y ago
It's not hard to look at the age breakdown for each of the political parties and see this checks out. https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-af...
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by adjkant 7y ago
I write a good deal of python and I can't think of a line of code that I would use it for besides the while loop on a non-iterable data source, which is such a once in a blue moon case. As mentioned by others, the operator invites more
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by adjkant 7y ago
My guess is if you did that and pasted "password" you would get "passworq" and then your password would be wrong according to their "encryption" method.
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Are Puerto Ricans not Americans? They really aren't treated as such, particularly of late. I doubt many would be against it, though this is 100% an outside perspective and I agree with others that it should be self determination v
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by adjkant 7y ago
Intersection right?
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by adjkant 7y ago
I mean investors, schools, companies, and societies are all made up of people. It isn't only aimed at developers. That said, even with those factors, many employees in tech today 100% have ways they can influence the way companies inte
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by adjkant 7y ago
Interestingly enough they cite this article with another misleading title in the same way: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Iconic-Stores-in-SFs-M... Besides noting shoplifting, there is no other mention of c
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by adjkant 7y ago
In terms of cool tech, Apple/Google absolutely are a cut above Facebook now in my experience. Microsoft used to be below, now they rose as they embraced more open source and modern tech, I'd probably put Facebook/Microsoft&#x
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by adjkant 7y ago
And betting those profits come in the process. Huge difference.
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by adjkant 7y ago
This is early and really depends on details, but this is a super exciting move and direction for Github. I'm wary of Microsoft ownership as it becomes even more of the home for code than before, but if they keep it true to its roots it
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by adjkant 7y ago
There's two ways it goes: squeeze drivers or squeeze riders. The ironic part of their position is as it makes a market on both sides, squeezing either will result in a loss of riders/drivers to alternatives. This writing has been
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by adjkant 7y ago
There's more details in other subthreads but basically the voice control and speaker aspect. i may just end up spending some time trying to build on these to make an end to end solution myself (if I ever find the time that is).
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by adjkant 7y ago
Forgive my laziness, but how does this play with third parties and where is it on the NLP/hardware front? As much as I love the idea of going open source, the practicalities right now is using Google/Spotify/Weather/Netf
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by adjkant 7y ago
Thank you! It looks like a good start but certainly lacks some of the features and I'd of course expect a more user friendly version will eventually be introduced as it matures. Nice to see people are working on it!
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by adjkant 7y ago
Smart homes are indeed mostly build out of supporting laziness, but there are ways to avoid some of these problems. If you've already sold your soul and have a home device with speech control, it's actually pretty easy to go and g
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by adjkant 7y ago
If there's anything to be learned from Nest, I think it would be interesting to se a full open source stack for things like Nest as well as Google Home / Alexa. If the NLP is right, the actual functionality is not hard to replicat
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by adjkant 7y ago
Not if you don't start at zero, and no one knows where you started. Heck, add a multiplier for use in URL's even. It's not hard to come up with reversible obfuscation functions that would hide your number of users for 99.99%
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by adjkant 7y ago
An easy solution to that is simply not to start at zero/one and pick a random number somewhere around 5-6 digits. Can do that at the database level or programatically.
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by adjkant 7y ago
I believe I said exactly that above. I just don't think that either choice will result in a successful business. Uber and Lyft got popular because they made taxis artificially cheap as well as the convenience and efficiency. Take away
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by adjkant 7y ago
> It isn't a surprise at all and doesn't seem immoral. If their advertising was not saying the exact opposite it'd be fine. That is not what they either said or implied. The pay cut alone is not what makes it immoral. Flex
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by adjkant 7y ago
Read upthread, but lots of control appears to be lost - some estimated 90% of programatic control. Grab your pitchfork :)
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by adjkant 7y ago
But self driving is just around the corner!* [*] This will be true year after year (and Waymo will beat them to it even if it happens soon)
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by adjkant 7y ago
It was driven by Uber needing to become profitable and either having to raise ride prices (and lose customers) or lower driver cuts. If there was an abundance of drivers you'd see Ubers/Lyfts waiting around with no one in them con
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by adjkant 7y ago
When the company advertises much higher income for drivers and then slashes it you can only place so much blame on the driver for not understanding complex economics and politics that led to the issue. I think there's a very clear mora
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by adjkant 7y ago
Book here: https://smile.amazon.com/Close-Encounters-Communication-Laur... I didn't use it as much as lectures/notes which were very good but the reviews seem positive. I'd probably pirate it to test drive be
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by adjkant 7y ago
> I also think it's weird that everyone has to learn these (and other lesson) themselves in their 20s/30s/40s/whenever -- why is there not a compendium of reasonable/decent ways to approach interpersonal relation

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