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by manfredo 6y ago
Personally I think that it's just the limits of geometric understanding for some peole. Personally I hit that limit when I tried to understand quaternions. Some people hit that limit with calculus. I guess others hit that limit when th
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You're correct that batteries are much more suitable for cars, especially commuter vehicle and things like garbage trucks that have relatively limited routes and sit idle for much of the day. There's why were seeing electrificatio
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Even if the moon were a disk, the angle it makes relative to a normal vector coming out from ground demonstrates a spherical earth. You don't even need to factor in the moon, this can be done with the stars. In a flat earth, the same s
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Batteries are fundamentally unsuitable for aircraft. The energy density is easily an order of magnitude lower than thermochemical fuels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File%3... Further
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For motorcycles people often just use the trip odometer to estimate fuel used. Interestingly, this is similar to coulomb counting which is one of the more common methods of state of charge tracking. Technically coulomb counting would be mor
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State of charge tracking is tricky even for lithium ion batteries. I worked on it for a bit as part of a solar car competition. Usually it involves a mix of coulomb counting and voltage measurements. IIRC, a handful of laptops and consumer
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It's also tax deductible from the drivers earnings, so it's effectively cheaper.
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Expedia is a perfect example because they're doing in essence the same thing that Uber and Lyft are doing: reselling transportation services. When you book an Uber what you're doing is informing Uber that you want to go from point
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by manfredo 6y ago
So Uber requires it's drivers to have contract of carriage permits for no reason at all? No, you are entering a contract of carriage with Uber driver when you schedule a ride. Taxi services and medallions specifically allow drivers to
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No, the logic isn't circular at all. Uber drivers set their own hours, crucially, and are free to work at competitors. Someone can drive for Lyft 5 hours one week, and drive for Uber 5 or 15 hours the next. And Uber doesn't tell t
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And when you take an Uber, you enter a contract of carriage with the Uber driver. Uber drivers have to have contract of carriage permits for this reason.
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If Apple has actually started publishing its own music then indeed Apple would be a music publisher. But has Uber done the same? Can you charter a car actually driven by Uber employees? As far as I am aware, Uber exclusively builds a platfo
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What impact does this have on the classification of drivers? When Uber takes $10 from a passenger for a ride, and contracts out a driver to transport the passenger for $8 then Uber has a booking for $10 and an expense of $8 for contracting
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You're applying double standards here. If Expedia is not an airline, then Uber and Lyft aren't taxi companies. Uber and Lyft buy the services of independent drivers and resells them to customers. If the ultimate commercial relatio
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It's a music publishing company as much as DoorDash is a restaurant. You use DoorDash to get food, but DoorDash is not the person actually making the food. Likewise Apple sells music, but said music is actually recorded and published b
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Absolutely. This actually a type of relationship that many businesses have. Most hair salons don't actually employ any hairdresser. They employ the people that clean the shop, and run the register. But the hairdresser themselves are in
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No, the Apple analogy is entirely accurate. Apple is in the music business. But it's not in the business of making music, it's in the business of selling music. Apple is in the music business in the same vein that a record sho
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So now Craigslist needs to be regulated as an automobile dealer because it hooks up people selling cars to each other? Is Apple in the business of recording music because it runs iTunes? Does DoorDash need to have their offices inspected fo
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Plenty of people were driving for Uber and Lyft before the pandemic when unemployment was low and real wages were growing. The notion that people were predominantly driving for Uber and Lyft out of desperation does not hold up to scrutiny.
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No, it's not. Is Apple in the business of producing records because it runs iTunes? No, it's in the business of software (and hardware), and some of that software is used to sell music. Trying to claim that a software service to r
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1) Uber drivers are totally at liberty to set their own hours, and drive in location of their choice ( destination are chosen by Uber, but a worker is at liberty to drive in San Jose one day and San Francisco the next). 2) The drivers are o
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The question being posed isn't wrong, it's just incomplete: > "What worker doesn't want to have unemployment insurance at a time of Covid-19 crisis? What worker doesn't want to know that they'll get paid fo
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Why wouldn't they fit squarely into the category of contractors? They set their own hours and use their own equipment. The fact that the platform sets dynamic prices doesn't change this. Contracts to do work in times with more dem
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> Curious indeed that other nations were able to progress and modernise through trade and exchange without compromising their sovereignty Where, exactly, did this occur? I suppose one could point to the United States as an example but th
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This not a mainstream view today. Archaeological and anthropological research has overwhelmingly indicated that pre agricultural societies were incredibly violent, moreso than agricultural ones. Pre agricultural societies averaged between 1
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The fact that it's Uber's talking point doesn't make it any less true. If rideshare drivers are employees, then there's going to be fixed overhead costs of hiring employees and drivers will not be able to set their own h
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Offering to surrender conditionally . Specifically, on the condition that it keep Korea and Taiwan (and maybe Manchuria, too), and that it's military government remain largely unchanged. This is was not a surrender that was acceptable
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Japan had actually repeatedly offered conditional surrenders. Specifically, surrenders on the condition that it keep some of its colonies (Korea and Taiwan), that the Japanese military government remain intact, and that nobody be charged fo
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Remember, it took not one, but two atomic bombs dropped on cities for Japan to surrender. And even after that, there was an attempted coup to continue fighting the war: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_in
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Necessity and justification are two different concepts. Few believe it was necessary - the United States' overwhelming industrial capacity was bound to prevail over Japan. The state of the two countries warmaking capacity was totally l

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