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by pyoung 13y ago
Regarding you point on peak demand, I would expect that any 'autonomous taxi service' would use demand based pricing to mitigate the impact of peak hours. Essentially this means, that for a lot of people, the cheapest way to get
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by pyoung 13y ago
uhhh, essentially we already have this service. It's called Lyft, and it is wildly popular. The only difference, is that the owner has to drive the car.
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by pyoung 13y ago
You seem to be conveniently ignoring the 5 other apple sellers in you hypothetical town, all who will gladly undercut your business. Or the fact that everyone in town now has a basic income, so starting a competing apple selling business i
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by pyoung 13y ago
An alternative implementation, mentioned elsewhere in the thread, would be a negative income tax (NIT). This would work by establishing a 'baseline' wage, and if someone is below that baseline, they are subject to a negative tax
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by pyoung 13y ago
This is something that has been worrying me for some time. More and more, the IPO is being used as a method for cashing out, rather than as a source of funding. I am an advocate for low cost index funds, as historically, it is one of the
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by pyoung 13y ago
Ha, that's funny. Just ran into this issue a few days ago. Spent an hour or two trying to figure what was going on, thought I was going crazy. Finally caved and asked an experienced python programmer, and they immediately pointed ou
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by pyoung 13y ago
The point is that employers are classifying employees as contractors because they can get away with offering the same 'salary', but avoid paying payroll taxes and benefits. We can get pedantic about 'who is really paying wha
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by pyoung 13y ago
I am pretty sure contractors have to pay payroll taxes. It is one of the reasons that companies are increasingly classifying employees as contractors, the burden of the payroll tax falls on the contractor entirely (normally it is split 50&
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by pyoung 13y ago
It sounds like they were not aware of the wedding until late in the game. If you follow the arc of culpability throughout the post, Parker assumed that the Hotel was adequately permitted for such activities. When it turned out that they w
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by pyoung 13y ago
At some point, when you become famous enough (or infamous, in Parker's case), things like extravagant weddings are going to get attention from the media, whether you like it or not. I would not be entirely surprised if Zuckerberg took
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by pyoung 13y ago
I wouldn't dismiss the smart phone so easily. Yeah, a lot of people use them to play games and do other trivial tasks, but the popularity of the iphone pushed telecom companies to radically upgrade their infrastructure, and while we a
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by pyoung 13y ago
I couldn't agree more. Realistically, I don't think we will ever reach a political consensus in the US that would allow for a basic income bill to pass through congress. More likely is that technology will eventually make most m
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by pyoung 13y ago
Ugghhh, I signed up for this, my only complaint with coursera is there are way too many classes I want to take. Am already taking two classes that are about to wrap up and am probably spending 15-20 hrs/wk on them (lectures included).
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by pyoung 13y ago
I think he was referring to the beer drinking/rock throwing/etc... A few calls to the cops to report unruly behavior, and a letter or two to the homeowner may have been enough to get the homeowner to be more vigilant in controllin
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by pyoung 13y ago
I agree about your point on abstraction, but I also think there are different methods to deal with it, and that those methods often get overlooked. My experience with SAS and R suggests it is possible to somewhat re-create the typical excel
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by pyoung 13y ago
I have used VBA here and there, and try not to bag on it too much. There are some cases where using it can make sense, but in general, it seems to be a compromise. I get a little confused about the programmer/non-programmer dichotomy.
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by pyoung 13y ago
I don't think scripting languages, of themselves, are the real barrier, after all, excel formulas are not too far off from what one would use in a language like R. I think the barrier is the data import/manipulation phase. Scrip
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by pyoung 13y ago
Except it isn't that simple. Your definition of an outlier may be completely different from some one else's (95th percentile, median/regression method, or simple max/min, some of these are already possible in excel). T
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by pyoung 13y ago
I was under the same impression. I tried digging up some old news on the subject, to see where I got the impression from, but Google is only returning results from this latest news cycle. Wasn't there a number of news stories in the past a
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by pyoung 13y ago
Assuming your car has to be towed away (for whatever reason), financially, your best bet is to probably sell it to a junk yard. They will tow it for you, and throw you a couple hundred bucks.
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by pyoung 13y ago
Seems like Google and Amazon may not be interested in capturing the entire cloud market? I get the feeling that they offer these services to offset the cost of their data centers/operations.
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by pyoung 13y ago
You could use google groups (it's basically a mailing list). Pretty straight forward. We had one for our 'post-college' social circle. It was a good way to spread the word about happy hours and parties, without spamming everyone on facebo
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by pyoung 13y ago
I would assume that he is referring to the possibility of a confidence crash in tech companies that would affect public markets. Personally, I don't think Zynga is widely held enough for it to have much of an impact, and as you mentioned,
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by pyoung 13y ago
Well, considering he is now a published author, with a second book on the way, maybe there was some monetary value form that degree after all? Of course this isn't the case for the vast majority of liberal arts graduates.
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by pyoung 13y ago
I imagine that they would also have a connection to the grid, so that in the case that the solar capacity is insufficient to charge the cars, they could just switch over. Also, with net metering becoming more wide spread, they could sell ba
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by pyoung 13y ago
I'm pretty sure self-driving cars will make traffic better, because it has been shown that most traffic jams are caused by and exacerbated by poor driving habits.
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by pyoung 13y ago
Seems like you may be over thinking this. When I was in consulting, I didn't waste my time trying to track every 5-minute increment, the amount of effort and distraction that would cause would do more harm to the client (due to productivit
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by pyoung 13y ago
Series 3. Admittedly, there are a few applications that I use that won't run on ARM, but there are also plenty of alternatives that do. I would imagine that will change pretty soon though.
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by pyoung 13y ago
I think there is going to be a big departure in what developers want, and what consumers want. For the most part, over the last 10 years, those two groups were largely using the same computers and OS's, but that has already changed, and wi
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by pyoung 13y ago
Looks like the cells are randomly populated, so my first attempt, I only had three '7's. I had a ton of '9's so I used the 10-10-9-9-9-9.... strategy to safely get me to a higher score, and then did a little math from there to hit each mul

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