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by viscanti 6y ago
> if you break your hands what exactly are you going to do with your legs? Buy a two person bike and be the pedal power for a bike courier?
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by viscanti 6y ago
Prop 22 allows for treating drivers differently based on how many hours per week they drive. Previously a gig economy company needed to decide how to classify their entire workforce (a single driver treated as an employee meant all need to
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For the lowest end models right? It's the same tradeoff to bring down prices for people buying the lowest end machines. Presumably they understand that people who need the higher end spec'd machines will wait to buy a new laptop u
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by viscanti 6y ago
Do most people with MacBook Airs have workloads that require more than 16GB or ram or do they generally value a lower price point? Cost, performance, light weight - pick two right? Apple seems to have picked a combination of lower cost and
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by viscanti 6y ago
I'm still ramping up on D3 and I'm trying to learn as much as I can. Do you find it helpful to supplement this Mighty Ducks movie along with a healthy diet and adequate sun exposure? Is it possible to jump straight to D3 or is it
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by viscanti 6y ago
> On the other hand, California also created a bill that targets two companies specifically; kind of its own special interest if you will. And it's not like California just decided to target those two companies for fun. Labor unions
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by viscanti 6y ago
I disagree. If the intent is to help the 20% of drivers who don't have another job (unclear if they're all full time or not but they seem to be the group that you're most concerned with), then it would be better to see regula
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by viscanti 6y ago
I'm not sure I've seen a formal definition of wage theft. Certainly I can start a poorly performing business in Seattle and lose money or could make less than minimum wage. It doesn't feel like anyone is stealing money from m
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by viscanti 6y ago
It's better for someone who needs money to get $0 than to get what they're willing to work for? They don't get a choice in what they find dehumanizing or what they're willing to do? 80% of the drivers have jobs elsewhere
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by viscanti 6y ago
But they are doing it. So things like flexibility must be important. If it was a small number of people we could expect that they might be making some kind of irrational decision. If it's thousands and thousands of people then it'
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by viscanti 6y ago
80% of Uber/Lyft drivers have other jobs. The vast majority of drivers will be worse off with a floor on earnings that makes many earning periods no longer viable. Those are people who have decided to trade their free time for money an
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by viscanti 6y ago
80%+ of Uber and Lyft drivers have other jobs and drive in their free time to make extra money. In those cases it seems like flexibility is much more important than a floor on earnings (which will prevent them from being able to drive durin
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by viscanti 6y ago
Sure. My point is that the data they collect isn't especially valuable given how much other data is easily accessible for a nation state. The value isn't zero but if the Chinese Government loses the data about what TikTok videos p
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by viscanti 6y ago
> the CCP having access to the data. The data isn't the most valuable part. Which videos someone likes to watch could be worth something, but given how much easily available information there is already online this isn't a part
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by viscanti 6y ago
> To give a relevant example, if microsoft banned all browsers from being installed on a windows PC, that did not go through their app store, then this would be clearly illegally anti-competitive. The FTC case against Microsoft was speci
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by viscanti 6y ago
No business is forced to deal with anyone else. So google and apple stores are playing by the same rules as every other store in the world. Companies can't win a lawsuit against Whole Foods for not allowing their products to be sold in
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by viscanti 6y ago
Doesn't it depend what the private universities do with the money? If it's spent on enabling people to attend who otherwise wouldn't be able to, that seems good (regardless of how large the endowment at that university is).
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by viscanti 6y ago
> All new skyscrapers will come only in high-growth places, not high-wealth places. IMHO that's because high-wealth places will settle down to generalized universal veto and stagnation. How would we reconcile that prediction with Bi
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by viscanti 6y ago
It's crazy to see the same politicians who push for universal healthcare also push for more coupling of employment to healthcare.
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by viscanti 6y ago
Top of the funnel discovery and verifying the app won't do malicious things is value. It's debatable if that's worth 30% of all in-app purchases (but then those also get the value of a trusted payment processor too). But it&#
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by viscanti 6y ago
How do they reconcile that with the fact that it's possible to side load apps on iOS? Apple might monopolize the Apple App Store Distribution Market, but is that relevant to the legal argument?
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by viscanti 6y ago
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been widely debunked. It feels right, so it keeps getting spread around as a fact. The world is ultra connected now. It's fine for people to be bilingual and continue to communicate and respect their loca
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by viscanti 6y ago
Sure. If valuations continue to go up forever, at some point they're over valued. The point was that those predictions have been silly in retrospect. DHH had a widely shared post where he said FB wasn't worth $33B+ and it could ne
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by viscanti 6y ago
Minimum wages were initially created as a way to price people of color out of the job market. They still disproportionally effect people of color. Creating a floor on earnings prevents a large section of the population from ever getting ANY
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by viscanti 6y ago
If the argument is that workers should be treated as employees because of the benefits given to employees (like health care), then you could apply that same argument here. The weird thing for me is to see politicians who advocate for univer
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by viscanti 6y ago
Fans pay themselves to consume content from the creator?
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by viscanti 6y ago
5 of the 41 gentrifying areas were in SF. The rest are all of East Bay or in South Bay. It's incredibly misleading to call that SF. SF had completed it's gentrification process much earlier.
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by viscanti 6y ago
The title comes from interviewing one of the authors of the paper. It's a term one of the authors of the paper used to explain this. Presumably the way they communicate with journalists (and the broader public) is different than how th
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by viscanti 6y ago
> I grew up homeschooled in NZ with a hilariously small amount of context for what the real world was like. In retrospect, it was totally ideal. You missed the next sentence which seems to contradict the argument you're making. Ther
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by viscanti 6y ago
SV did well because it was one of the first places that didn't enforce non-competes.

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