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by fab13n 11y ago
Am I fair if I sum the business model as follows? Homejoy: * proposed a service best provided by employees, * planned to save money by using independent contractors, * but had no plan about addressing any of the consequences of using indepe
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by fab13n 11y ago
What's the relevant definition of "owned" here? As long as Apple can modify LLVM however it wants, and as long as it's sure no corporate actor can restrict access rights to it in the future, it effectively owns it, altou
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by fab13n 11y ago
If you're a serial widower without being the cause of your spouses' deaths, then you're monogamous indeed. Monogamy does exist, and you can live morally monogamous lives although having several partners over your life. But I
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by fab13n 11y ago
> infidelity which we had the decency to try and keep secret. Moreover, infidelity was about sex. It might also have cost a bit of money, going to mistresses and bastards, for wealthy male adulterers, but it didn't affect patrimonia
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by fab13n 11y ago
I meant it as an electrical engineering metaphor, where you can string devices in parallel, or in serial one after the other, but where with a few adaptations both can lead to the same practical result. Besides, my whole point is that this
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> maybe strict monogamy will soften as a norm. Polygamy is already the norm in the West, only it's serial polygamy instead of parallel one, i.e. you're supposed to dump your previous partner before picking the next one. But mos
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by fab13n 11y ago
Cars, and maybe off-grid houses, are way more exciting than a laptop which becomes obsolete almost as fast as its battery wears off anyway.
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by fab13n 11y ago
> I keep getting downvoted whenever I criticise Ashley Madison on the grounds of morality. Why is this? Because although most people agree with you, your statements are not considered as interesting. Presumably because they're consi
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by fab13n 11y ago
Reading this as a European, it's fun and telling that you focused on salary differences, whereas what mattered to me were the other quality-of-life elements (I assume you're living in the US). To sum up, what matters to me, in wha
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by fab13n 11y ago
The fixing strategy somehow reminds me how Digg has been "fixed", not long before the user base massively migrated to Reddit.
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A long, long time ago, that's how it tried to work. Long before they introduced subreddits, and before the signal/noise ratio made PG want to create HN. Getting better recommendations was even presented as the reason why you shoul
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Yes, as long as you know who used a vehicle, chances of getting it thrashed are easily manageable.
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The thing is, autonomous vehicles don't need to take the taxi niche frontally. Here's how it goes, if legislation is too slow: 1. families buy one autonomous car instead of several driven ones: when dad's arrived at work, the
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by fab13n 11y ago
License are free when delivered by the state ("préfecture"); but taxis effectively lobby against creating new ones, in order to preserve the value of existing ones and to prevent competition, so extremely few are ever distributed.
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The main problem is that taxi medallions cost a lot (€200-250K in Paris, up to €300K in some southern cities). Independent taxi drivers got indebted to buy them, and generally expected to resell them at a profit to finance their retirement.
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by fab13n 11y ago
As developers obsessed, sometimes unhealthily so, with optimization, this strikes us as an inadmissible waste. However, we need to remember that a lot of what we perceive as "legitimate" jobs are also bullshit jobs. Even if they&#
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It wouldn't be training anymore, so they'd lose their unemployment benefits. There should be a gentler ramp-up from unemployment benefits to sustainable business, but there isn't so as of today the practical answer to your qu
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by fab13n 11y ago
The paywall model is currently broken: * not culturally integrated the way we don't mind paying for smartphone apps; * not atomic enough (we want to pay cents for an article, not dollars for a website, nor tens of dollars for a long-te
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by fab13n 11y ago
That's often true within dynamically typed languages, but statically typed languages definitely don't feel Lispy. Moreover, messing with static type systems involves much more maths than hacking.
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by fab13n 11y ago
It seems rather easy and effective, for NSA-like agencies, to hide crude exploits in complex projects. An unintended effect of Snowden's whistle blowing is that it has become easier, because it has let them know that they don't ne
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> This French tech school has no teachers [...] Yet to succeed in that case you used the Harvard teacher information I don't think anyone imagines that human beings can educate themselves into pushing the state-of-the-art in technol
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by fab13n 12y ago
> nasty habit of judges being highly politicized I have quite a different perception, that judges do their job of not mixing law and politics pretty well, whereas politics try very hard and unashamedly to neutralize judges as counter-pow
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> Can someone help me understand the negative impact of this leak? The best way to deal with piracy is by offering a better experience to customers than to pirates. Here, that would be HD + not having to look for a torrent server that is
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by fab13n 12y ago
More and more people do that, but they don't get mindshare, mediatic exposure. The most common images conjured when one talks job are: * unskilled people piling on minimum-wage jobs to avoid bankrupcy; * start-uppers who clock insane h
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> Tesla Motors could be viewed as a stepping stone on the way to building a Gigafactory. This is an even better summary than the post's title!
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Bullshitness is not an all-or-nothing quality for jobs, that's part of why they're so hard to get rid of. You can find some justification to every job, but this justification can be dubious, or can not be worth the cost in human e
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by fab13n 12y ago
The insurance / responsibility question really shows how moronic bureaucracy has made us. To rephrase naysayers in a more first degree way: "sure there would be less accidents than when the vehicle is driven by a glorified ape, bu
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That's way more sensors than a human driver enjoys.
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If you have some commercial secrets which you want to keep from competitors who're on friendly terms with US politicians, you often feel uncomfortable having your data hosted under US jurisdiction. In sensitive domains such as aeronaut
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I would be interested by a more in-depth how-to too.

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