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by googlemike 8y ago
Read this as Intuit, the tax software company, scratched my head till I clicked the article. Good laugh!
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by googlemike 8y ago
They (Uber and Lyft) radically reduce drunk driving in every city they enter. They also radically simplify access to transportation for people of color, women, etc.
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by googlemike 8y ago
Uber is kicking their teeth in. I would be very surprised if Lyft is still around in 5 years.
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by googlemike 8y ago
Really odd comment sentiments here. I fail to see how this is a good thing as opposed to alarming.
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by googlemike 8y ago
Or just have a monorepo :)
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by googlemike 8y ago
This seems far less like a revenue stream and far more of a way to get people to use Google Maps less. I am sure they have data showing that very many Uber trips in most major American cities starts with a comparison against local public tr
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by googlemike 8y ago
What do you mean "Municipal ticketing racket"? Did you read the article?
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by googlemike 8y ago
As long as Russia is a paltry market with a tiny sphere of economic influence, China will always face the US.
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by googlemike 8y ago
But logic is composed of a particular set of axioms and rules - so is not any thing composed of a set of such things itself constrained by the very nature of its parts?
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by googlemike 8y ago
+1 It is odd to think of someone "using" or "misusing" Godel - if the points are salient and clear, how is it misuse? (At least, in this case, where GEB is a philosophical text, not a scientific one.)
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by googlemike 8y ago
What makes you think that?
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by googlemike 8y ago
Your comment shows a clear lack of contextual insight into general software security. Alice (A) and Bob (B) are ubiquitous in discussions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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by googlemike 8y ago
The best engineers I have ever worked with have been American.
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by googlemike 8y ago
I am not convinced you understand this problem space well. The very notion of defining two such states is extremely elusive.
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by googlemike 8y ago
Does it? from wikipedia: > The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, ex
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by googlemike 8y ago
This comment feels like a markov chain wrote it. Do you really find parallels between this anecdote and reality? What if we presented an anecdote of the opposite to you, would you change your worldview entirely? If not, why should anyone wh
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by googlemike 8y ago
For those saying this IPO is happening now due to market slowdown, Uber's CEO has been speaking of a 2019 IPO for a while[1]. I am not an investment banker, to me this seems far more pre-planned than a last minute rush before a heavy c
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by googlemike 8y ago
Ahh yes! China, that benign and progressive of states. Nevermind destroying all freedom of speech, oppressing minorities, actively engaging in destroying (mostly by actively diluting) non han nationalities within china. What are you talking
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by googlemike 8y ago
> but consider that you'll likely get more quality visitors with ads and engagement with fbook, snap and others. Was there not a recent scandal of Facebook metrics being inflated, and erring positively in their favor? top of mind ex
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by googlemike 8y ago
Sure, but something about the echo of the sound of salesmen makes the whole thing a measurable deal worse. At least, enough for me to be put off by it - if only a tad. If the sole aim was to educate and inform, leaving the sales pitch off
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by googlemike 8y ago
> No replica of PageRank exists. Period. > But there are a few similar metrics around, one of which is Ahrefs’ URL Rating (UR). There you have it folks, the article in a nutshell. While somewhat interesting and still vaguely informing
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Uber ATG Safety Report(uber.app.box.com)
1 points by googlemike 8y ago|0 comments
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by googlemike 8y ago
I found your comment by clicking on another comment of his, in another thread. He is absolutely "live blogging". He seems to have little to no actual real world experience, conflates technological notions easily, and often comment
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by googlemike 8y ago
GPS is a system for determining your position in the world, usually in latitude and longitude. Navigation is pathfinding in the real world + directions. GPS is useful (But far from the only) system for determining where you are. Navigation
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by googlemike 8y ago
Please do not conflate GPS with navigation. There is a massive set of problems you can solve with high fidelity GPS Data (Uber knows it is a driver in a car, verifies it with another GPS entity (rider app reports GPS also), etc). There is n
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by googlemike 8y ago
I do not really see why this means that "small investors are getting shut out of the most lucrative deals". One could phrase it as "small investors are not being exposed to the biggest risk". Mutual funds and managed inv
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Waymo’s Big Ambitions Slowed by Tech Trouble(theinformation.com)
3 points by googlemike 8y ago|0 comments
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by googlemike 8y ago
What is this? Do you actually think you are tougher than nature? The sun? Can someone sane explain this comment to me?
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by googlemike 8y ago
"The Self-Driving Database Management System" Lol.
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by googlemike 8y ago
How can building design be older than humankind?

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