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by plankers 6y ago
It sounds like you're already pointing to one concrete outcome that would come from these "driver protection" laws: the proliferation of driver co-ops that are able to undercut Uber and Lyft. Assuming they aren't regulat
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by plankers 7y ago
Instead we get this: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12360294490421985...
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by plankers 7y ago
It's all the millenial kids that you didn't give a good start and who are getting those 63% of new jobs that pay below-average who are suffering.
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New Lab Results Show Smartphone RF Radiation Levels Exceed Federal Limit(apnews.com)
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by plankers 7y ago
Maybe if there were an entire recreational industry built around tossing burritos at road signs. But, uh, there's not.
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by plankers 7y ago
So is yours.
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by plankers 7y ago
State laws can absolutely override federal laws, at least in theory. It's called nullification [1]. There was a full-fledged constitutional crisis over it in 1832 when South Carolina issued an ordinance declaring the Jackson administra
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by plankers 7y ago
The dogs can't smell edibles, though ;) At least the gummy kinds, and specifically the dog that sniffed by bag at Denver International.
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by plankers 7y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
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by plankers 7y ago
I like the article but this nit bugs me: >Some residents can afford more expensive homes as a limited supply increases demand, but those that can’t are pushed away into more precarious living situations and longer commutes. Limited suppl
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by plankers 7y ago
Not to mention crop monoculture is terrible for the quality of the soil, forcing farmers to use (literally) tons of synthetic phosphorous, nitrogen, and potassium just to get acceptable yields. It results in lower quality crops than those t
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by plankers 7y ago
If they could in all cases then we wouldn't need courts.
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by plankers 7y ago
I'm struggling to envision how a tech disruption could work in this market. The essential problem seems to be an incentive system that's misaligned with investor incentives and overall economic health. How could a single company o
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by plankers 7y ago
Ummm, I think inflation has something to do with it.
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by plankers 7y ago
Is the consumer expectation that mobile games be free on the publishers if they're responding to market conditions created by those same consumer expectations? Seems to me like a chicken and egg problem where the entrenched nature of f
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by plankers 7y ago
I was about to say this won't help at all with the microtransaction problem detailed in the article, but then I read your link and found this more complete (although confusing) description of the exemption you name: >single transact
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by plankers 7y ago
This right here is why I don't understand people who complain about DDG's search results. If you simply make the commitment to not use Google, for whatever reason that may be, then using DDG becomes exactly the same process of rew
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by plankers 7y ago
I love that idea! But I have a hard time seeing a law like that being passed in the U.S., even in liberal California. Side thought, things like this help me understand why the Danes are so darn happy.
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by plankers 7y ago
>It is not live yet, giving governments the opportunity to kill this project before it actually gets off the ground and gives rise to cybercriminals that couldn’t capitalize on existing cryptocurrencies. Excuse me, I need a minute to sto
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by plankers 7y ago
Nobody's making waves when everybody is focused on their own struggle. Gamifying for a docile workforce.
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by plankers 7y ago
If you can think of a practical way to unionize workers on a 1-2 year contract with a high turnover rate, I'd love to hear it. The deck is stacked against employee organization. If I were conspiracy-minded, I might even say this was by
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by plankers 7y ago
The detection of the cones isn't the problem. The software properly identified that there were cones near the roadway, that's why it stopped. The really hard problem is programming decision-making logic that will properly ignore c
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by plankers 7y ago
Yeah, seems that the speaker wasn't considering the law of induced demand[1]. Dang humans: thirsty and miserable, always wanting more. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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by plankers 7y ago
>Where would you draw the line? At paying platforms to advertise your product. >How would producers expect for consumers to find their product? How about typing "insert product here" into a search engine? >Would consumers
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by plankers 7y ago
If you think the demise of tumblr is about anything other than FOSTA, we must be experiencing different parts of the internet.
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by plankers 7y ago
And if the criminal doesn't have a gun, crime averted. Pretty useful, I'd say.
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by plankers 7y ago
Did we read the same comment? Seems to me they just finished explaining all the ways it's similar to a ponzi scheme.
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by plankers 7y ago
So... you're saying that the entire market is currently churning out legal ponzi schemes? Or is it that the entire market is itself currently a ponzi scheme? Either way, I get the distinct impression that I've seen this movie befo
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by plankers 7y ago
Well it's not very useful without the bullets.
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by plankers 7y ago
People said bitcoin was a bubble. Can't wait to see the excuses and rationalizations when this one pops.

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