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by avz 12y ago
I think they work especially well when money is involved. If you make some money from time to time by subletting your property or sharing a ride you have even more incentive to maintain good reputation. This is how I imagine small early h
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These laws and regulations were clearly created before the onset of sharing economy. And then they were useful since they provided important safety guarantees to the customers. However, this problem has now been solved by technical means (p
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by avz 12y ago
People like Go because of all the things Go does well. Here is a few examples: * benefits of static typing at low cost to the programmer thanks to type inference and duck-typing, * intuitive and easy-to-use concurrency model based on channe
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I'd argue placing error handling in a spotlight is a feature, not a bug. Years of hiding error handling resulted in cultural biases that sanction focus on features without sufficient consideration for failure modes and unexpected condi
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This doesn't make sense. Mailbox only works with Gmail and iCloud Mail. Gmail supports OAuth2.0 [0] while iCloud does not [1,2]. On the other hand, Outlook supports OAuth2.0 [3] and is not supported by Mailbox. Thus, even if the choice
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by avz 12y ago
Do you have a source about the lunch? Yes, the traffic is encrypted now, see e.g. http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/gmail-traffic-between-googl...
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by avz 12y ago
You're missing the point. You don't need to build in support for Yahoo, Live, Outlook etc separately. We've got standards (like IMAP) which have been designed specifically to enable interoperability of software from different
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by avz 12y ago
I agree with your main point. However, this > one company with a direct link to the NSA is a blatant misrepresentation. If mafia (or whoever) wiretapped your fibers would you be fine with people describing you as "a person with a di
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by avz 12y ago
I disagree that suicide is illogical. There is nothing logical about a desire to continue existing. Logic simply has no bearing on such decisions. This is why irrational drives are essential. Down there at the bottom of whatever logical str
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A website may be complex enough and distributed enough to straddle multiple jurisdictions (this isn't an entirely new situation though since similar issues came up with radio spectrum regulations). The bottom line is this: your jurisdi
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Assuming courts you deal with don't overreach like the B.C. court just did, you can easily resolve this problem by complying with each law within each respective jurisdiction. This is made easier by the fact that your company is usuall
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Variety of laws ensures diversification which protects against and limits the fallout from legal mistakes. It also allows humanity to experiment and learn faster than a single monolithic legal system would permit.
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It's not only about free speech. Different cultural, social and economic conditions mean different countries live by different laws. I don't know the circumstances of the case, but it seems plausible that given an opportunity a Ge
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by avz 12y ago
I think the recent Oracle vs Google case is relevant here as it involves the question of whether APIs are copyrightable. The case is about a subset of Java APIs included in Android. Note that the Android implementation exposed by those APIs
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by avz 12y ago
> ...to educate all of its employees in a way that will add little marginal cost for either entity. Is it somehow evil to boost education cost-effectively?
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by avz 12y ago
It'd be great if we could first make everyone on this planet happy and then move on to the next one, but it's just not going to work that way. Long tail of human unhappiness will be very hard to eliminate. Your mix of problems is
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by avz 12y ago
> Maybe I don't care if my degree (philosophy) has questionable utility in the work force. Maybe I don't want to be "employable". This is a perfectly valid position and stands in no contradiction to the parent post. I
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by avz 12y ago
> There is value in degrees like philosophy and other "questionable" majors Yes, there is value in philosophy etc, but it is value for you . It is selfish. In a fair and free market society you need to give in order to recei
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by avz 12y ago
I hate when journalists lump all college graduates together. Going to college can be detrimental or highly advantageous to your future employment prospects compared to entering labor force immediately after high school. It depends on the su
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> What about a large family that needs a full car load of groceries - you're going to put that on a bus? And somehow carry it home? I come from a large family and we never bought more groceries than we could carry. How large does a
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by avz 12y ago
You've alluded to "things which are optimal for humanity" and "our current problems". Could you elaborate? What do you think is optimal for humanity? Which current problems are more significant than planetary-level
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They pay income taxes. The primary intent of medallions is not to raise funds for infrastructure. Their goal is to keep people out of the business. You can tell by the fact that they're regressive: they burden lower-income persons more
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by avz 12y ago
Every investment carries a risk. This is true about "learning the London streets", too. Especially in the era of ubiquitous GPS-enabled mobile phones. Assuming your conjectured startup somehow conferred the medical skills you woul
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by avz 12y ago
This is a misrepresentation. Taxi drivers are not protesting against the regulation. In fact, in most places taxi drivers and their unions are strong supporters of the said regulations and have worked for decades to get it in place. It&#x27
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It boils down to the simple question: Would you rather live in a world where the service, its quality, reliability, cost and professionalism is that of the current taxi services or the newcomers like Uber? I have personally been ripped off,
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Both are alternatives since this is not a dichotomy: a potential patient can opt-in before, opt-out before or they can leave the status unspecified until they arrive in the ER. Someone must make a decision for them and it will be either opt
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by avz 12y ago
This won't replace broadband, but for a different reason. The article suggests the satellites would operate from LEO orbit which generally means a few hundreds to 2,000km above the planet. This is less than 10ms even accounting for ion
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by avz 12y ago
I'm baffled. How does the need for public financing make a project "loose before the match even beings"? The project needs public financing because private investors wouldn't shoulder the risk. Most significant leaps of
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by avz 12y ago
It's not the first time I stumble upon a mention of a high barrier to entry into becoming a bank customer for poor people. In Africa, technology seems to be solving this problem with mobile money, see e.g. very successful M-Pesa[1]. Pe
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by avz 12y ago
> There's nothing to gain by sticking with Python 2 There is a lot more useful code and libraries out there for python 2.

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