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by drb91 8y ago
There’s a huge amount of selection bias here when YC itself is located in SV.
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by drb91 8y ago
They abuse the patent system like many large tech companies. I was being facetious, admittedly.
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by drb91 8y ago
> They’re trying to destroy our business," Qualcomm lawyer Evan Chesler said at a hearing Friday in federal court in San Diego. If only they would succeed!
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by drb91 8y ago
I agree re: the sftp point; people often refer to it as ftp given the interface mimicry.
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by drb91 8y ago
In this case, choice may not be a benefit for coordination. If there’s one way to do it, there’s much less to communicate and debug.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, HTTP is still missing listings, and broadly HTTP seems a layer under where you would implement file semantics. But you aren’t wrong.
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by drb91 8y ago
Good point; I never used that directly. Why do you think that hasn’t supplanted FTP?
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by drb91 8y ago
There’s no standard for HTTP file uploads, with all the permissions that come along with it. Eg you can POST a file to a path, but the behavior is undefined, as is authorization, etc. S3 is probably the closest thing to replacing FTP, and I
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by drb91 8y ago
Valve and steam are large enough to provide incentive themselves if they so choose.
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by drb91 8y ago
I can’t say I’m bothered by a banner that gives me more control. Ads are the opposite: negative value.
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by drb91 8y ago
Ads are intrusive by design.
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by drb91 8y ago
Centrist and neoliberal, maybe.
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by drb91 8y ago
You could also use this argument to imply we should have allowed banks to fail in the mortgage crisis.
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by drb91 8y ago
> How exactly are you inferring this information? I ask them how long they’ve been in the area; I’m a friendly guy, and people are surprisingly forthright.
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by drb91 8y ago
Why would you assume scooters would reduce fatalities?
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by drb91 8y ago
> All of capitalism is based on companies competing for customers by providing better products. Not true at all. Lyft and uber are virtually identical; there is no consumer choice. Companies have an incentive only to provide a product th
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by drb91 8y ago
> And they care because if there are safety issues it will hit the bottom line eventually. Long after people die, I’m guessing.
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by drb91 8y ago
I wonder if this would count as fraud.
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by drb91 8y ago
This doesn’t imply that elections themselves should be run in a decentralized manner.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Bad ideas directly impact only ~2% of the country. How do you figure? It could easily be 100%.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, it’s actually quite easy: if you care about profit, your morals are necessarily compromised. You are right that non-profits have other incentives as well, but expecting a for profit organization to have morals is inherently going to d
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by drb91 8y ago
You can read his work and evaluate for yourself.
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by drb91 8y ago
I’m not sure why your single data point would affect mine.
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by drb91 8y ago
Users have no incentive to report. Reporting would not prevent this from happening again, even the next ride.
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by drb91 8y ago
Homeless? Sure, why not. Shitting in front of me? The world is ending.
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by drb91 8y ago
On the flip side of the DUI experience (which I believe); you can easily ruin a driver’s source of income by simply accusing them of drunk driving. Best case scenario they have a dashcam and can demonstrate their sobriety with evidence, but
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by drb91 8y ago
Why bother? If it happened once it will happen again. You might as well throw a tissue at the sky in an attempt to stop the rain. They just don’t have any reason to care who picks you up so long as they get your money.
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by drb91 8y ago
It’s not the rider’s problem.
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by drb91 8y ago
I don’t know what my personal actions have to do with what I’ve observed—smells like ad hominem.
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by drb91 8y ago
Me too! But there are dogs and homeless people all over; poop management issues are really not unique to SF. I am in Germany at the moment and my poop-dodging skills are still in high use.

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