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by galdosdi 10y ago
Do you have anything substantive to contribute on the topic or just ad hominem? Being a Harvard expert professor does not relieve one of the duty to write clearly so the intended audience can understand precisely what you mean Much of what
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Europeans who have never been to the US and only know it by its stereotypes, I guess.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Well, if the reps I'm talking about had such fancy degrees, they sure didn't show it.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Thanks for explaining, I didn't even think of shared resources since I've never lived in such a place (and find the idea odd -- wouldn't it be safer, providing more choice, NOT to get all your services from one provider?) Sho
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> the 3 companies provide a luxury campus for employees that are actually attractive. Sort of. They still use open-plan offices (at least, to some degree; I can't know whether all 3 use them for all teams in all locations). All the
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by galdosdi 10y ago
What are you talking about? Almost all business is conducted from storefronts. Oh wait, that's in my area, NYC. Maybe you should specify what area you're talking about too, this is a very regionally varying thing
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Technically, yeah. But, unfortunately, in the USA, race and socieconomic status have been intertwined in a complex way, for centuries
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Are you talking about using sheetrock instead of plaster, or something else?
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Why the heck would that make you angry? What's it to ya?
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by galdosdi 10y ago
That's not the most useful lesson I'd take from that. (That's not a very useful lesson, because I guess if you're not already a Feynman level genius, too bad) The more useful lesson, useful for anyone, is that sometimes
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Sort of. Once the patent expires, the R&D machine will try hard to create new drugs that are just slightly different or potentially "better" in some vague small way for some small number of people, and then the sales/mark
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by galdosdi 10y ago
FWIW the anecdotal experience of people I know in the health field in the US is that pharma sales reps know nothing about medicine, are hired for their sales / "relationship building" ability, and can't answer any questi
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Yes, but you and the grandparent commenter seem to treat it as black and white -- either they are sane, or ALL logic has gone out the window. Many (most?) actual mentally ill are not like that (spoken from first and secondhand experience) -
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Here in the USA, what we do is much dumber than that.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Interesting! But for every bit of light that goes through, that's light not being used by the panel. Do these transparent cells do any better in terms of effeciency than just using a more effecient, nontransparent, smaller cell combine
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It was lucky you lived somewhere where you even had an opportunity to see the butchering process and thus make your own informed choices about it. In the USA, it is not difficult to go your whole life eating meat and never seeing where it c
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by galdosdi 10y ago
If you work with data, you should learn basic SQL. It's a lot more useful and safe than a tangle of Excel functions. The relational model was a real breakthrough. It really does describe, generically, any data structure you may have. F
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by galdosdi 10y ago
You're speaking past each other. You're talking about "blame" in a moralistic sense, but the other posters just mean simple causation -- "would this fault have occurred if a safer language was used?" The former
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Yeah, wasn't shocked, just curious. I do think it's gotten better since then.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
In order to do that, they'd have to increase the price for rides to less attractive (to drivers) destinations. A trip that ends somewhere unlikely to have another customer available (like an outlying residential area in the evening) is
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by galdosdi 10y ago
That's egregious. How long ago was that? Was it a legitimate cab? Until very recently, NYC's TLC required drivers to pass tests to prove geographical knowledge and basic English.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Two kinds of cities -- cities that already had good cab service before ridesharing took off (like yours, and mine) and cities that didn't (and ruralish areas, which, at least in the US, essentially had no taxi service at all). That&#x2
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by galdosdi 10y ago
WOW, are you serious? After all these huge amounts of venture capital, Uber still uses bird's distance rather than (easily obtainable) estimated travel time in all areas? What a joke.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> I bet the contracts they have for corporate accounts make it clear (or else companies would be mad at them already) so it's not my problem, but it's weird nonetheless. I wouldn't be so sure. They may just not have notice
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Fascinating. I just read your PDF in full. My impression/suspicion is that the decision author DOES fundamentally understand texting, ride sharing, and your complaint, but carefully feigned the right misunderstandings (eg insisting tha
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by galdosdi 10y ago
BALONEY. You'd have insurance companies putting up the bonds for the drivers in exchange for a very reasonable and minor fee. I had to put up a several thousand dollar bond when I became a notary public many years ago in another state
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I'd be shocked if you went to NYPD with this and they _didn't_ respond by just redirecting you to the T&LC.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It sounds like the regulations could be enforced better, but it does not sound _that_ ineffective. Lyft was fined $1000.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Wow that's egregious. One thing I'm curious about -- what leverage does the driver have when trying to strongarm you into cancelling? Why do you end up giving in? > I eventually gave in and canceled the request.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
What? Of course they improve security. They reduce the risk the user has accidentally navigated to a squatted typo-domain registered by an attacker (or the correct domain, but the registration somehow accidentally expired and was reregister

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