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by hopler 8y ago
Not if you have access to public transit but need "last mile" support.
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by hopler 8y ago
Lyft charges $2/ride plus some wiggle around discounts and surge pricing.
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by hopler 8y ago
That's dumping and the source of funding is irrelevant.
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by hopler 8y ago
I don't see how being a "fat slob" is relevant to the discussion in any way. It's just toxic for no reason, and it doesn't belong here.
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by hopler 8y ago
Tax on worldwide profits, credit foreign taxes paid. You know, the same rules as for mortal non corporate persons. Sales/Use/VAT tax for payments to wholly owned subsidiaries.
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by hopler 8y ago
Contemporary anti Vietnam-War art was set up as Korean war or older. It's un-PC to directly criticize a current war, so artists apply a thin veil of barely plausible deniability to get past censorship.
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by hopler 8y ago
The soviets are just craftsmen, people skilled at doing the mechanical work of a camera. They are precursors to the modern soap opera or shock website or GoFundMe scam. It's easy to elicit a strong emotional response by playing on the
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by hopler 8y ago
If they made both genetic and environmental/cultural arguments for the same effect, they had no idea why and were making up just so stories
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by hopler 8y ago
Chickens don't have natural selection. They are bed for fatness.
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by hopler 8y ago
The road should not have been designed like that, allowing high speed traffic at a pedestrian crossing. Cars are a dangerous incursion on human environments, akin to letting lions wander freely in town. The whole automotit ecosystem is mora
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by hopler 8y ago
That's nonsense. The car had a human backup driver and human pedestrians, all not under the autonomous cars control. An automatic emergency brake doesn't prevent a computer or human driver from braking when it wants to. If the aut
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by hopler 8y ago
Does that analysis to apply to the area immediately adjacent to the freeway, before particles disperse over a wider area? Even when trucks are absent, traffic smells bad.
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by hopler 8y ago
In defense of Coase, the "flaw" is part of the theorem and discussion in the original paper, and Coase himself wrote extensively about the problem of using his conclusion while ignoring his assumptions. https://en.m.wik
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by hopler 8y ago
Login wall
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by hopler 8y ago
Congratulations, you are brilliant and earned that elite job.
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by hopler 8y ago
The Devil already has enough advocates. Please stop spamming HN with bad-faith noise.
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by hopler 8y ago
Gender gap isn't a problem to solve. It may be a symptom of many things, such as harrassment, discouragement, discrimination, or environmental biases that make women less comfortable than men. Gender gap is smoke, go find fires the nee
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by hopler 8y ago
Facebook could charge different prices in different geoip zones, like IP licensing does.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's because vul-ner-a-bil-i-ty is being chopped in the middle of a syllable "ner", "Vulner" is more pleasant than "vuln"
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by hopler 8y ago
Or you can watch documentaries to learn about foreign cultures. But anyone can do that. The true marks of a refined and worldly character are taking expensive trips to foreign resorts that only better people can afford.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's not an age thing. Wealth people in fancy hotels are more of a disruption, as the tourism economy displaces the local culture.
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by hopler 8y ago
Living somewhere different is wholely different character from racing from photo op to photo op and never leaving the mulinational corporate bubble of popular destination amenities.
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by hopler 8y ago
Locals should be attacking the landowners sucking money out of the economy, not the visitors pumping money into it.
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by hopler 8y ago
Almost every product gets cheaper over time.
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by hopler 8y ago
You can't fix things when all the politically important decisions are made in the C suite. Even the Chief Security Officer quit and said Facebook is hopeless.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's one thing to work on the roads and sewers, and psychology distance yourself from the military drone program. It's another when the core business model and the CEO's own stated goals are hostile to humanity.
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by hopler 8y ago
One of HN design principles is that usability is irrelevant because people come here for the community and minimizing software development effort is a point of pride. People use the code identuse there is no way to create a blockquote
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by hopler 8y ago
If they care so much, why do they play games they hate made by companies they hate? Why equate hardcore with caring? Do hardcore heroin users care the most about their dope and dealers?
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by hopler 8y ago
EA's existential problems are crappy games and customer-hostile business practices, not some secret sauce at risk of being leaked.
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by hopler 8y ago
Broken leg isn't government paid time off, you can work with a broken leg.

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