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by galdosdi 10y ago
It's better than it used to be. We have 4 major browser vendors now, Apple (Safari and iOS), Microsoft, Google (Chrome and Android), and Mozilla, all of which have plenty of market share and none of which have most of it. There was a l
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Yeah, but giving them more /fine-grained/ control might make them more likely to spend when they otherwise might not
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> as long as I trade in about yr 4 or 5. If you mean you buy brand new or almost brand new and sell at year 4 or 5, then you're spending a lot more than you need to, which is buying you the extra "reliability." But that re
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Where there's development, there's support
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Great point -- ridesharing apps have genuinely contributed something important in areas that didn't use to have much taxi service. My point is limited specifically to big cities that already had decent service -- in those places, there
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I've used it tons of times. I grew up around here. You're right, you don't have much visibility into the ETA. I THOUGHT that was an advantage of Uber, but it's not -- I've sometimes called Uber and they blatantly li
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by galdosdi 10y ago
In the US electing police chiefs is rare (but can happen under the Commission style of city government). Prosecutors, however, are often elected, and you can imagine the incentive problems.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Baloney! If scale/cost was the only issue, we would not have a problem. You could replace most processed food in a typical naive modern diet with potatoes, beans, and/or eggs (which are extremely cheap) and increase the healthines
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by galdosdi 10y ago
This is why if you are a thrift store, the older-looking item is often a better buy than the newer-looking item of the same kind. The newer one is often further along is wear cycle than the older one.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
The parent was talking about premium reliability, not all kinds of premium. The issue is a premium that people can't notice for many years. Apple's phones are not premium in a reliability sense, so are not a good example. Selling
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Resale value definitely affects new car purchasing. For one, lease prices are partly determined by the expected resale value, and a lot of new car drivers get them by leasing them
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I honestly never had a problem with the UI of 1) Dial a 10 digit number 2) Someone says "Hello, XYZ car service" 3) You say "I need a car at the corner of Sample street and 123rd road" 4) They say "5 minutes" a
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Absolutely agree. Since Uber and friends, congestion has become worse in NYC. However, a simple toll would be fairer, as it would treat all cars equally, regardless of whether they are or are not taxis
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by galdosdi 10y ago
In NYC, that's exactly how it works, just pass a simple test and do some paperwork, and you can drive a cab. Medallions only restrict cabs that are permitted to take street hails in lower manhattan -- as long as you don't do that,
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It's a good thing netflix created original programming, because I would have long ago been gone from netflix if they didn't have /something/ nobody else had. Their nonoriginal selection has gone to total shit. Even hulu
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I don't get it. Don't they already have the signal available to them of "did the user watch all/most of this video, or did they abandon it early" ? That seems like it does most of what they want, and thumbs up/
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Don't explicitly go looking for open source projects to contribute to. That never worked for me at least. Instead, let them come to you. Just do whatever coding you'd otherwise do, for fun or pay, and focus on that. But, while doi
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by galdosdi 10y ago
For NYC, that's a myth. There are two programs: "rent control" - grandfathered in old program that affects a very, very small number of apartments, not enough to make any market price difference, except for the lucky few who
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> but he doesn't count how many of them do not move at all. The whole diagonal of his (sample) transition matrix are actually missing values, but he treats them as zeroes Great point. It's interesting to think about how exactly
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I tend to agree on the importance of better type systems for achieving safety. But Golang IMHO _is_ a step forward, albeit an unsatisfyingly weak one. It's displacing C and dynamic languages like Python, and it's at least safer th
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It depends on how much skin in the game you have as a reviewer. If you have to or will have to maintain the same codebase (sounds like in your case you do), then you have every moral right to reject the code and refuse to ship it. If you&#x
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by galdosdi 10y ago
It's funny how many replies you're getting from new yorkers pointing out that seinfeld/friends actually had much larger than average apartments. The fact that all those years later you still think of them as "small"
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by galdosdi 10y ago
I can't agree more strongly about the trouble assuming tone in text. I apologize for assuming
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by galdosdi 10y ago
If the bay area continues its absurd aversion to adding housing or transportation, some other cities are definitely going to eventually pick off all the jobs till the bay area looks like Detroit or 1970s New York. You can stay #1 just by al
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Devil's advocate -- maybe the poorly educated, poorly trained traffickers were overrepresented in the sample of traffickers border agents encountered, because, by definition, a successful trafficker is not caught or observed traffickin
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> If you took a lane away on every freeway the mayhem you'd create would be indescribably. Really? Because all those lanes that have been added over the years don't appear to have made a big difference. Also, the lane would be
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Your comment is vacuous if you don't expand on it; it goes without saying we want to try to minimize bias as much as possible. Science is part of a world of limited resources too, and investigators have to decide what experiments to tr
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by galdosdi 10y ago
NYC. Ask anyone who's recently tried both yellow cabs and uber a bunch of times. Yellow cabbies tend to be more experienced, and it shows in their driving. Xapata, you must really be a heck of a globetrotter to be able to so confidentl
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by galdosdi 10y ago
The HN comments on this are a lot more interesting than the article itself. Just a couple of platitudes we've all heard and repeated and lived by. "You can write more maintainable code if you think about making it easier to mainta
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by galdosdi 10y ago
That said (nitpick) English IS a prerequesite for gaining naturalized citizenship, in most cases. IIRC it's required except for old age, disability, probably some other such exceptions, but most people who get naturalized _are_ require

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