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by jordanpg 12y ago
And how are we as a society, exactly? I didn't say anything about war criminals. That's a different thread. I said something about executives in boardrooms. I'm saying that these execs could give a damn about what they&#x2
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by jordanpg 12y ago
You are far more optimistic than me about the future of driverless cars. Given N driverless cars, some fraction p will eventually run over and kill small children. Stand back and watch the hysteria and the end of driverless cars. Also, be
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by jordanpg 12y ago
This article highlights for me how much the world could change if the overall knowledge level about PK crypto was raised -- if it became as intuitive for the non-technical user as, say, protecting physical keys.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
If Uber significantly affects demand, then we might see seismic shifts in the demographics of drivers. As for the existing drivers, my point is that the effects you're touting are temporary. Taxi companies that provide a lesser serv
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by jordanpg 12y ago
But neither network effects nor technology will change overall number of people who need rides (demand) and the fact that driving cars is unskilled labor. If Uber pays more, taxi drivers will make rational decisions and become Uber drivers.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Well, that's essentially what I meant. Who do you mean by "they"?
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The people sitting on the BoD of one giant company look just like the people sitting on another BoD. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if institutional investors or board members in Academi are the exact same people on the
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I don't follow your use of the pronoun `this`. Is monopoly in general a failure? Or is it AT&T in this particular instance? Are the problems of monopolies solved by regulation in general? Or is this particular AT&T situation
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I'm sure no one wants to hear this, but folks, this is what good capitalism looks like . While it's true that it's possible to run a company without being horrible, it's almost certainly far better for short-term pr
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Love this: "Well, now you are pushing your joke too far," said the classmate, "surely the population has nothing to do with the circumference of the circle." This still fascinates and resonates with me to this day and r
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Unless I'm missing something, the claim that becoming a taxi driver can become a well-salaried, middle-class job for a significant number of people is patent nonsense . There is a reason that taxis look the way they do and are driven
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This is sort of like walking into a building with several billion computers wired together with ethernet cables, token rings, and fiber, and asking "Why do we need all this cabling anymore? Let's just skip the middleman and repla
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Among some, there is a certain "machismo" associated being able to make do with the API reference and nothing else. I think this is a waste of time, personally. I noticed this especially among the Rails developers I've work
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by jordanpg 12y ago
One vote for good documentation. Not just a link to the Javadocs; preferably a "getting started" page that covers the most common use cases with plenty of plug and play examples (if such a thing is even possible in your case). A
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by jordanpg 12y ago
There is something interesting buried in this article: "Without the cognitive ability to connect your outburst to their scratching, cats see only chaotic aggression." Unfortunately, the author asserts it without evidence. How ca
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SCOTUS: scope of the states’ authority to tax the income of their residents(scotusblog.com)
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It's OK, this one's legit. It's on Wired.
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They really did refund my early termination fee with Verizon, and it only took about a month. I was expecting the worst (as is the norm in the world of rebates) and was pleasantly surprised. The slam dunk for me is the JUMP (Just Upgrade M
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by jordanpg 12y ago
You need to make it clear whether you are talking about the metaphor of a "shopping cart" or the more general concept of queue to hold purchases before payment.
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For day-to-day stuff, it's pretty tough to beat Android's Google account integration out of the box. I don't feel a pressing need to "leave Google's claws". This question would make more sense if there was a
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I don't pretend to know what will come next, only that the UX and beauty of anything I do on a phone or a browser is severely diminished by the presence of ads. I will go to great lengths to make them go away. For these reasons and mo
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Beyond STEM and startups – how to build an economy for real people(vox.com)
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And its corollary: what will devices look like in five years? How big will they be? And how will be people be carrying things that big?
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I like the idea of a gradual merger of the abstractions we now call browser and operating system. I think that I first read about this idea years ago when ASUS floated the idea of having a ChromeOS-like thing in firmware, but I can't
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For anyone who wants text instead of photo essays that reload the page: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/18/halden-most-h...
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Yeah. It's about as thin as it would sound if we substituted "computers" for "voicemails".
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tl;dr: "I guess I usually just assume that it's probably not that important if you didn't text me, and you didn't send me a message on Facebook" "So for them if a voice mail isn't practical — which most of
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by jordanpg 12y ago
Yes, well, we are stuck with capitalism.
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> dealing with staff Standing at a counter having an absurd conversation that we've all had dozens of times. Saying no to the insurance. Saying no to the GPS. Waiting in line. Paying. Having the contract explained, again.
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by jordanpg 12y ago
I smell someone trying to dream up the Uber of car rentals. It's a good comparison. The obnoxious thing about taxis has always been the uncertainty, the wait, the unpleasantness, and of course the stress of the thing. Turn it into a t

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