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by w4 12y ago
> making one of the most densely populated areas a big hole in the map. Which, legally, it is.
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by w4 12y ago
> case law isn't precisely explicit Huh? Of course it is - the case I'm referencing (Crowninshield v. Blaisdell) is explicitly regarding the classification of short term rentals. The courts found them to be residential, not com
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by w4 12y ago
>I'd say if you want to list your home on airbnb and turn it into a commercial property, you probably should have to accept that the govt will enforce proper safety, environmental, and structural regulations like it would for a hote
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by w4 12y ago
> What really pisses me off is the attitude of app developers to only support the newest version of iOS. I'd upgraded from iOS 6 to 7 simply because I needed HipChat and FourSquare for professional reasons, and both companies had co
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by w4 12y ago
>It irks me when people, sometimes even scientists, try to map ridiculous evolutionary causality schemes over what is really just correlation. I also don't understand how the corollary (night time chronotypes will be tired in the mo
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by w4 12y ago
Well, sure, but the mere fact that any real estate is available for such a pittance is incredible as compared to prices in traditional tech hubs (San Fran, Boston, NYC, etc).
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by w4 12y ago
Every young person thinks science will solve mortality before they grow old; thus far, every young person has been wrong. (I'm 27 and pulling for science as well, but let's not delude ourselves either here.)
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by w4 12y ago
I'd learn Objective-C if you have any intention of trying to be employed doing iOS. There's going to be a ton of legacy code, and any apps developed from 2008-2014 will have large Objective-C codebases, guaranteed. Swift is desi
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by w4 12y ago
Not really; the Constitution establishes the Federal government as responsible for national defense. Assuming you can construe the NSA as necessary for national defense then the NSA is constitutional (though not necessarily its activities).
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by w4 12y ago
You can't apply engineer logic here, which seems like what you're trying to do. It's a sales and customer service business. By spending extra time with you his short term dollars per minute needle might be less than it could
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by w4 12y ago
You need an attorney for these sorts of questions, not a real estate insider. These are IP and contract concerns, not real estate concerns.
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by w4 12y ago
> He always kept saying 'the more I sell, the more commission' - the concept of 'time value' was completely foreign to him. Maybe he was just playing dumb, I don't know. He probably wasn't. That having been
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by w4 12y ago
> I...decided against that because a buyer's agent is legally required to represent your best interests as the buyer whereas the seller is representing the other party This actually depends on if your state's regulations permit
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by w4 12y ago
Agreed -- I grabbed Castro thinking it was gorgeous, but using it was super unwieldy. I went back to Downcast after about a day because it's much more useable, despite being far less easy on the eyes.
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by w4 12y ago
Not my downvote, so no data on that, but I suspect someone considered the distinction pedantic. Sure, it's not technically a tab bar, but it's functionally (from a user's point of view) the same thing.
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by w4 12y ago
I've never seen the tab bar put in the navigation bar before, and I really dig it. I'm actually in the process of designing an education app that plays audio, and have been debating how to avoid a hamburger/basement menu or g
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by w4 12y ago
True, but that assumes a degree of technical fluency, which American courts have repeatedly failed to demonstrate.
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by w4 12y ago
Sure, just like the Goldman Sachs analyst does generate liquidity. Ok, ok, cheap shot. But come on, here: the average product created by a Silicon Valley startup barely reaches the threshold you've set (usefulness), never mind the mo
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by w4 12y ago
Well, I mean, I do see the argument that it's a more efficient outcome. Imagine for a moment that surge pricing were kept the same. The only difference is that, now, Uber takes no cut whatsoever. This would result in greater profits fo
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by w4 12y ago
No worries on the inadvertent downvote. I do, however, have to take issue with the characterization of a taxi as an essential. :) Seriously, though, even in a rainstorm a taxi is a non-essential. It's nice, and I'd certainly prefe
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by w4 12y ago
Or, a customer service flaw that disincentives use of Uber's service due to the unreliability of their contractors could be addressed by Uber, as a cost to those unreliable contractors, as I suggested. What part of my post (or any othe
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by w4 12y ago
Why would a rational actor take a reduced profit in the face of increased demand for their product?
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by w4 12y ago
Yeah, that's completely horseshit. At a minimum the rate ought to stay locked in for you by virtue of the agreement to take your fare, and the difference should come from the offending driver's next fare as a disincentive.
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by w4 12y ago
Right, but that's a fundamental feature of capitalism. If equality of access to a non-essential luxury between those of disparate means concerns you, don't worry about the symptom, worry about the underlying system. On the other h
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by w4 12y ago
Modeless is actually in agreement with you, as I understand it. The distinction they're making is a bit of a fine one, but they're basically saying Uber ought to allocate all of the increase from the surge pricing to drivers rathe
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by w4 12y ago
> Quants aside, the concepts that are used (take, for example, "mezzanine capital") are mostly buzzwords used to give a professional air to really very simple processes/ideas. This is incredibly accurate. Aside from the gu
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by w4 12y ago
This pretty much nails the obnoxiousness of parallax scrolling sites. It looks super cool from an aesthetic viewpoint, and these transitions are gorgeous, but as a user I just really fucking hate it. Parallax is the modern web's gaudy
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by w4 12y ago
Fair enough -- and I don't disagree in the slightest about value for the money (my Sennheisers are a tank, sound great, and they were only about $100).
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by w4 12y ago
I hate to be that guy, but have you ever actually listened to a pair of Beats? It seems like most people are agressively derisive of them without having actually tried on a pair. Hell, even I used to be that guy. I use a pair of Sennheise
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by w4 12y ago
I wouldn't assume anything about the contracts either way until the details of the deal are announced. EDIT: Actually, I might lean toward thinking the contracts are transferrable, given Beats built its streaming service by purchasin

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