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by msabalau 9y ago
The Toronto skyline is filled with high rise apartments and cranes building more. The city has added over 200,000 condo units since 2000. And, regardless of the impact on housing prices, it is certainly within the role of civic government
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The Faceless Boss: A Look into the Uber Driver Workplace (NPR)(npr.org)
4 points by msabalau 9y ago|0 comments
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by msabalau 9y ago
Isn't it a bit early for April Fools?
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CEO Travis Kalanick has started meditating in Uber's lactation room(businessinsider.com)
3 points by msabalau 9y ago|1 comments
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by msabalau 9y ago
$100 in January 2005 had the purchasing power of $122.55 in 2015. Having $105 instead ain't great. Your "zero risk" investment tied up money for a decade, and you had less purchasing power at the end of it. Interest rates in
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by msabalau 9y ago
As I recall, the age of execution in the film was thirty, in the original novel it was 21.
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by msabalau 9y ago
Oh, if we had high interest rates and inflation, people with fixed incomes and savers would be feeling horrible too. The idea that there would be safe investments with decent returns is inherently ridiculous. The closest one can come is ol
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The Quick vs. the Strong(schneier.com)
3 points by msabalau 9y ago|0 comments
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by msabalau 9y ago
Jerry Brown first became governor at the age 36. Founding a company that sold for $40M and running the most significant incubator in the world seems about as impressive as a few years as Secretary of State and a little lawyering.
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by msabalau 9y ago
Amusing that this article is going out as Europe is being hammered by ransomware on unpatched Windows computers. If the US wanted to take out all EU computers, presumably they'd use an airburst nuke, and target all the electronics, not
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Palmer Luckey says he felt restrained at Facebook: 'I could not cosplay'(finance.yahoo.com)
5 points by msabalau 9y ago|0 comments
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Taser/Axon Separates Defense Lawyers from Body Camera Footage with License Agrmnts(techdirt.com)
3 points by msabalau 9y ago|0 comments
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by msabalau 9y ago
Agree--that's why I'm hoping for something 'next gen" for smartphones.
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by msabalau 9y ago
Hopeful about having more Daydream content, as well as content for other VR setups. (Though what I'd really like is a Tilt-Brush, even a "lite" version, on a next gen Pixel or PSVR,
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by msabalau 9y ago
It's pretty remarkable that "French law requires films to be kept off of streaming services for 36 months after their theatrical release". Does anyone know if more filmmakers are skipping theatrical release in France in favo
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Netflix’s first two films at Cannes could be its last(theverge.com)
3 points by msabalau 9y ago|2 comments
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by msabalau 9y ago
Perhaps the "baby cam" feature is a less grim way of indicating that caregivers can use this for surveillance of cognitively declining parents. "Telescreens, not just for the thought police anymore!"
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by msabalau 9y ago
So if we only look at Apple's successful products, we can agree that Apple's only makes "very carefully designed" things..
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by msabalau 9y ago
Hmmm, Google Home already turns Android TVs on and off on the fly. (or TVs with Chromecasts plugged into a modern HDMI-CEC slot). Or push info to the discovery tab of the Home app. I suppose there is some value in putting an ugly (IMO) 7
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by msabalau 9y ago
Given that the late, unlamented, Windows RT had Office, it's not entirely clear why this is a "killer feature".
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Microsoft’s killer feature for its Chromebook competitor is Office(techcrunch.com)
2 points by msabalau 9y ago|1 comments
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by msabalau 9y ago
Or, of course, users could avoid installing apps altogether. Which, apparently, is the approach that many people take: https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downlo... It seems likely tha
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Arduino’s New CEO, Federico Musto, May Have Fabricated His Academic Record(wired.com)
20 points by msabalau 10y ago|5 comments
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by msabalau 10y ago
"The state said 8,206 drivers out of 70,789 were rejected for infractions ranging from violent crimes and sexual offenses to suspended licenses."
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Thousands of Uber, Lyft drivers fail new background checks(bostonglobe.com)
4 points by msabalau 10y ago|1 comments
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Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear(backchannel.com)
1 points by msabalau 10y ago|0 comments
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by msabalau 10y ago
And you can listen offline on your mobile.
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by msabalau 10y ago
Even in the off chance that this is a path to reversing aging, there is no way of knowing what the impact would be. Looking at cumulative the trends over the past decades overall life expectancy increased while disabled life expectancy has
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by msabalau 10y ago
Is your theory that absent subsidies no one would prefer an Uber over a taxi? Because if not, presumably Uber could just raise prices and hunker down for 10 years. (Assuming they survive lawsuits and assorted revelations) Is their another
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by msabalau 10y ago
It's rather astonishing that Google avoids doing anything effective about the hate speech and death threats that infest YouTube, so they can focus their efforts on removing health information and wedding videos.

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