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by ryankupyn 9y ago
For those who are paywalled out, the article refers to this paper done by a NYU professor and Uber's own economics team. http://john-joseph-horton.com/papers/uber_price.pdf
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
That's true - I think employees would be generally inclined to organize with specific pay/work conditions in mind (though many tech workers are highly skilled enough that they could more easily achieve those goals by going to anot
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
There might also be another effect in play - as the labor market tightens, I think Uber is looking into ways of boosting the supply of rides from the drivers it already has. This offer exploits loss aversion on the part of those drivers (on
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
The thing that surprises me is that, after paying these engineers seven figures, they're still sticking them in open plan offices (as far as I can tell from the photos). Though I do know some people who can work effectively in that env
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
While the theft of trade secrets central to developing self-driving cars obviously seems important, and this case might have a significant impact on the future market for autonomous vehicles, it's not clear to me where these damages nu
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
Very cool! Kudos to you guys for putting this together!
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
I expect that this trend of deputizing companies to police speech on their platforms will evolve in tension with rising antitrust scrutiny of the tech giants, because the rise of utterly dominant companies (a trend that the EU seems intent
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
What I really want to see is security being integrated into the development process as a conscious tradeoff teams have to make. When a new feature is proposed, it's rare to hear someone object on the grounds that it could potentially a
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
I think they're hoping for a "sweet spot" of legalization, where the product is legal to produce and sell, but regulations prevent outdoor farming (or mandate additional security in such a way that makes indoor farming an app
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by ryankupyn 9y ago
That's a great point, and I think that Instacart will have a much easier time developing those partnerships now that Amazon has implicitly validated grocery-delivery as a major market. I think the real risk is that Amazon enters the ma
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
I used to be all for the removal of highways, but now I worry that this trend will accentuate economic inequality and hurt poorer people who might want to move to the big wealthy cities where these highways are being removed. 50 years ago,
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
This is really cool, but I'd love to know how durable a printed house is over the long term. Right now though, I think that there's a profitable niche for this sort of portable and low-labor-intensity construction in the defence a
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
Do you know if the tax applies to homes vacant for any reason, or just homes that could be on the market but aren't? Otherwise I could imagine a particularly unwelcome situation where a market downturn or other shock leads to landlords
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
They could have made the world's first distributed remote file storage, parcelling out customer's files across 20 different servers. They just had to back up each file to multiple ftp sites and add new ones as their actual owners
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
Absolutely true in my experience. What employees want, even more than additional money, is a lower mental load dealing with the everyday necessities of life, which an employer is perfectly placed to provide, since employees spend 40+ hours
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what's going to happen. My employer just acquired a rival that does exactly that, so now my entire division is gradually shifting to build on their work and automate more and more. The biggest change inter
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
I've always wondered how effective this would be in different industries. In some businesses, leadership exists to make very easily quantifiable (and perhaps therefore more automatable decisions) - answering questions like "Should
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
And each of those shares has split into 12 today, so I think he's probably doing alright for himself.
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
Poor time-handling also have big consequences as well. In Nevada, for example, overtime calculations use a rolling 24-hour period, and as a result many workers are incorrectly paid each year because their employer's system doesn't
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
If you want to go deeper into this, BLS data has a fantastic metric for measuring the relative density of different occupations by metro area - the location quotient. http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_41860.htm A
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see if this leads to a debt crisis in the future, as Japan's population shrinks and the per-capita debt burden increases. It'd be very tricky to deal with as social spending for the elderly increases a
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
I expect that it's the long time horizon until Max-Hervé (or rather his estate) is actually paid off. Up until that point, barring any regulations which require the insurer to steadily accumulate reserves in response to the rising valu
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by ryankupyn 10y ago
If Spotify wanted to be really sneaky, some amount of downtime might be good for them financially. The bulk of their revenue comes from customers who subscribe on a per-month basis, while they pay out royalties on a per-song-played basis. T
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by ryankupyn 11y ago
The most concerning thing about this article is the implications if someone like Foos has access to the levers of modern technology. Imagine if, instead of owning a motel, he worked on Dropcam at Nest (I certainly hope they have the ability
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by ryankupyn 11y ago
I agree. For a lot of small companies/side projects I'm not at all annoyed by overuse of bootstrap. I think that it's better to put your energy into making a great and unique product than making a great and unique page to sel
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by ryankupyn 11y ago
This is interesting, but consider that income varies widely by location, and is generally higher in areas with a higher cost of living. Both restaurant servers and computer programmers make more in San Francisco than they would in Scranton.
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by ryankupyn 11y ago
It's only misleading in the sense that it would better to say "The poor are better off when we build more housing of any sort, even if they can't afford the units being built."
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by ryankupyn 11y ago
This is one of the most well-executed attempts to bring real-world art online I've ever seen. I've always hoped that the internet could expand access to art, but I've always felt that the experience of viewing art and comment
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Sofar Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
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