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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Right on. I use Lyft and frequently leave tips when I feel the driver and my ride experience has been great. I also think the tipping experience is much more friendly to both the driver and the passenger (compared to say, a usual taxi ride)
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> Tech bosses decided they liked San Francisco, and the rich enclaves like Marin County. What sort of delusional rant is this? Marin county is now the hotbed of tech startups?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Could you elaborate why that combination is killer? Is the new billing setup more efficient cost wise? What is the new billing setup?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> but on having content that their subscribers want This is where we disagree. I don't even know what content Amazon or HBO or Hulu has at this point. Netflix has already made me a lifelong customer with their product and user-exp
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> equally astonished in 2017 > Prime Video, Hulu, HBO GO, YouTube Red, So Netflix has a six year lead and attendant network effects in it's favor. If you don't believe me, I created a facebook clone in PHP last weekend which
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
This answer is in the same category as "Actually, Google is an ads company". That is to say, it makes a plausible case but ultimately wrong. The original success of Netflix depended on being the first company with a fixed-price-no
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"bullying and harassment has shown a strong positive correlation with the frequency of such claims as those you describe" "which have no such attachment to one specific end of the political spectrum, the worst I've se
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
If Amit didn't reveal that he had forced out (whether he officially resigned or was fired is a distinction without a difference) of Google after an investigation of serious charges against him, then that's a good enough reason to
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
It's fairly easy to agree that this action is not enough to get Uber off the hook and can indeed be thought as a PR stunt. But why do you think Amit Singhal's race is a factor here?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> I see that HR doesn't want to fire people he's fond of If the the descriptions we've read so far about Uber HR's response to sexual harassment and discrimination claims as well as Travis's role in them are corr
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
At this point, after all the allegations of abuse and bad behavior at Uber, if the CEO is not fired, the community here must hold the Uber board complicit in these shenanigans. The situation here seems similar (or maybe worse) in magnitude
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"From various incidents that have come out it seems as if it's the Wild West where whatever the idiot harassing you decides, with little recourse if you disagree" you're right to a large extent. https://www.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Borders are under control of the legal system and policing them is a right that's granted to the Federal government by the constitution" Barely. Apparently the US constitution gets suspended at the border (and a 100 mile r
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Edit: this is for non US citizens. US citizens don't need to answer any questions at entry, but be prepared to be taken aside for screening" Also be prepared to answer questions about your religion... regardless of if you&
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
History has taught "tolerant liberals" to be vigilant of the fascists when they try to take advantage of machinery of a liberal democracy to further their intolerant agendas. We've decided not to fall for it one more time, no
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I'm of course not literally calling it "my" platform. I'm pointing out that the student body and faculty of the university (or the TV show host, or the convention organizer or what have you), they are the owners of the r
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
Exactly. They're not on campus (or a CPAC meeting, or a TV show or whatever) for "reasoned debate". They're there to raise their profile and signal to others like them that these ideas are now acceptable to air in respec
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Seeing someone like Milo get pummeled in a debate does incredible damage to his brand and his ideas." Internet trolls are not visiting universities to engage in vigorous intellectual debate in good faith. They're on campus
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"What is fundamentally incompatible in a tolerant society, is toleration of intolerance." This. My love of free speech and a free exchange of ideas is entirely compatible with my refusal to allow my platform to amplify messages
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"Bad ideas fall to reasoned debate" Clearly not. Haven't we learnt anything from the recent victory of bad, horrible hateful ideas on the platform of media manipulation and louder-than-thou debating techniques?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"By giving such speakers a forum, they're endorsing that such views are worthy of being heard or debated" Exactly. Free and open debate of controversial ideas, however heinous, say in a classroom setting is very different f
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"You automatically lose an argument if you refuse to engage with your detractor." You just described the battle cry of the eternal troll. Your freedom of speech does not equal me being forced to listen to you.
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"liberal values and ideals are seen as more intellectually correct" The irony here is of course is that those complaining about not being heard on campuses today are actually the most privileged members of western society who su
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
I agree with most of the article about academic environments being open to vigorous debate among opposing ideas. But I find this phrase: "diversity of thought" problematic. Not because I don't actually value diversity in phi
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Data shows traditional CDNs losing competitive edge in US mobile apps(seekingalpha.com)
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Data Shows Traditional CDNs Are Losing Competitive Edge in U.S. Mobile App Arena(seekingalpha.com)
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
@rickette posted this: "Just took a quick look at the crypto implementation. It uses AES-256 in CBC mode but..... without an authentication tag (HMAC)." Any response?
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
> The original goal of the POSIX standard was application source code portability. However, modern applications are no longer being written to standardized POSIX interfaces. This is a weird claim to make. The three OS's that they&#x
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"user: throw2bit" "created: 2 hours ago" "You are welcome - An Indian tax payer." I would have thought about dignifying this childish tantrum with a response if you at least had the decency and guts t
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by chetanahuja 10y ago
"The Masters in US is gamed too. Many of those students are the ones who could not clear the campus interviews of Infosys, Cognizant or Accenture when they were in the college for Bachelors. So they come to "study" MS in the

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