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by jarek 13y ago
I can't wait for the marketing copy that will go out when Uber starts a jitney or a city bus line.
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by jarek 13y ago
> I've never seen the lag (much less "incredible") in any model I've known. Check out a Smart fortwo on car2go sometime and be amazed :)
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by jarek 13y ago
Driving a car with a cheap or slow automatic transmission is a bit of an art - after a while you start knowing when and how to floor the accelerator just to tell the car that you'll need it to shift up in a couple of seconds. It feels
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by jarek 13y ago
Oh, good thing SF doesn't have any upcoming natural disasters it is ill-prepared to deal with.
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by jarek 13y ago
And if you thought the "sudden unexpected acceleration" hysteria recently was bad, just wait for the first time someone dies in or because of a robocar
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by jarek 13y ago
What an utterly un-useful statement without any detail. Why was it a bad driving experience? What vehicles are ranked first and third?
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by jarek 13y ago
> It seems like people are doing a pretty good job adapting. Or something else is making it safer
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by jarek 13y ago
That is not a paradox at all. Bitcoin as a system is performing exactly as designed here (barring possible wibbly wobbly "malleability" bugs).
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by jarek 13y ago
Is this an HN comments-seeded Markov chain?
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by jarek 13y ago
> Maybe Bray isn't up on the latest from Vancouver or something. He bought in >15 years ago so he's not too concerned about real estate purchase prices. (Plus those "80% of income" metrics are not very useful anywa
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by jarek 13y ago
With Seattle vs Vancouver, you get what you pay for.
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by jarek 13y ago
USD prime is currently 3.25% so the highest you could expect risk-free* is maybe 3%
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by jarek 13y ago
You have no idea why I gave the example I did, do you?
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by jarek 13y ago
I was giving an example of a more difficult situation to dispute, with card present and the person's personal information available for PIN reset. Electronic charges with card not present are easy to dispute anytime. You have as many p
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by jarek 13y ago
Interesting; I've tried searching but all I'm finding are technological faults, not articles about consumers liable. Can you link or give names to search? Closest I've found is http://www.theguardian.com/money
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by jarek 13y ago
No. Because when this system is hacked, protections will be afforded to us. Can you even imagine the media storm in the EU or some other similarly consumer-friendly location if the evil American corporations don't compensate consumers
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by jarek 13y ago
Get back to us when there's a major practical breach of a chip-and-PIN system and consumers aren't compensated.
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Why Twitter needs a design reset(mondaynote.com)
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by jarek 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiate...
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by jarek 13y ago
The extinction will come when Github starts removing inactive free projects
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by jarek 13y ago
Next up: have browsers ignore hyperlinks, Youtube designers can come up with a beautiful way to represent and interpret intent to navigate to a different resource and delight users - and change and remove it if necessary
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by jarek 13y ago
I do enough front-end to understand why Youtube does what it does. I don't do enough to think that every site implementing its own way to reload parts of pages is a sane idea. The beautiful thing is that the progress bar in question co
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by jarek 13y ago
So the next funding crunch. Instead of making Snapchat but for dog yoga and building the next great JS framework of the month in the process, developers will have to go back to making boring things that keep working for more than 18 months.
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by jarek 13y ago
Nevermind things that are solved on other application platforms, we now have frameworks that solve things that are solved in the browser . Moving boldly beyond reimplementing page loads with custom Javascript, Youtube now reimplements page
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by jarek 13y ago
Or skip past inconvenient questions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684477
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by jarek 13y ago
Ladies and gentlemen: Western democracies in a nutshell
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by jarek 13y ago
> because they were too much trouble and came with 50 page instruction manuals in 5 different languages. Just wondering - is there a problem with different languages?
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by jarek 13y ago
Reader kept working until they turned it off.
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by jarek 13y ago
> But I've never quite seen the appeal of such a superficial attribute as "it's already on my cheap server." Are we not programmers? Most people who start out programming PHP aren't programmers. (I think that&#x2
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by jarek 13y ago
How about spelling trolls? It's "cue": "From the letter Q, abbreviation of Latin quando (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin." - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cue

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