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by zorpner 12y ago
My assumption would be local ski bus operation? No idea if that's the actual justification though. Also, looks like I was wrong about the hot air balloons -- it's only back from the balloon landing, not to the balloon: http:&
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by zorpner 12y ago
Airport shuttle vans typically operate under a passenger stage corporation permit and charge a flat-rate fee per-person for transport. Charter-party carriers (which is what Uber/Lyft/etc currently operate as in CA) charge based o
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by zorpner 12y ago
Already happened at least once: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/corral-lyft/
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by zorpner 12y ago
Did... you even read the article? Yet that's all it shows: People suddenly feel that their phone is slowing down. It doesn't show that our iPhones actually became slower. And provides some possible reasons related to consumer p
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by zorpner 12y ago
The point of the article is that investment in Amazon is growing because Amazon has a business model built on stable infrastructure and expansion modeled as a large conglomerate of essentially separate business groups which distributes risk
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by zorpner 12y ago
"The market" prioritizes short-term gains, and stratifies the wealthy and the impoverished. Allowing the market to work on products that amplify that stratification is inherently unstable.
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by zorpner 12y ago
By boycotting Firefox, people were punishing pretty much everyone except Eich. This would seem not to be the case, based on the things that happened.
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Attending conferences with small children(terrytao.wordpress.com)
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by zorpner 12y ago
... if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me... ...you don’t have to submit to an illegal stop or search. You can refuse consent to sear
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by zorpner 12y ago
Geez man, the casual/background use of "rape" is almost the definition of rape culture. The use of rape rather than the use of a different negative social trend is the problem. I wish I understood your perspective on this
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by zorpner 12y ago
Of course it's a rape joke (and even if it weren't , it wouldn't matter, because it's so obviously what the author intended to mean by "rape joke"). The intended humor is derived from the speaker trivializing
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Scam Facebook’s Content Management System to boost your political signal(medium.com)
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by zorpner 12y ago
Police, some outfitted in riot gear, others in military fatigues, barricaded the streets. At least one of them draped a black bandana over his face; others covered their badges. Utterly shameful. To the people flagging this off the front
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by zorpner 12y ago
The Atlantic had a good (if somewhat understated) article on the phenomenon of militarizing police back in 2011 that's worth a re-read in the current context: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011&#
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by zorpner 12y ago
Presumably people flagging it, possibly the same sort of people who wrote Twitter's trending algorithm that's currently suppressing the #Ferguson hashtag from appearing in many people's interfaces (see here for more info: ht
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Uber throws sabotage accusations back at Lyft(cnet.com)
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by zorpner 12y ago
Upvoted you. It's unfortunate that it's so difficult to discuss this without bringing up the sex/race of the commentator, since it invariably invites a bunch of non sequiturs about reverse racism that talk right past the cri
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by zorpner 12y ago
Joel Johnson has responded (well, I think, though it's unfortunate that it had to come this far): https://twitter.com/joeljohnson/status/498874679973937153 Remains to be seen what specifically will be done.
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Block Together: Twitter block list sharing(blocktogether.org)
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Women are deceived more than men in distributive negotiations(sciencedirect.com)
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by zorpner 12y ago
Previously: https://blog.bolt.co/2014/07/28/dear-instagram And our discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096936
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Regulator Rules McDonald's Is a 'Joint Employer'(nytimes.com)
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The Day I Leave The Tech Industry(catehuston.com)
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by zorpner 12y ago
And it's currently on page 11 of HN, killed just as thoroughly as if you'd left it dead.
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by zorpner 12y ago
I think that HN appears to do the things Dash suggests, but actually fails at a number of levels. Since dang took over he's been much better than previous moderation about responding specifically to people, but it's still done in
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by zorpner 12y ago
He should have been allowed to remain CEO. It's old hat at this point and likely not worth rehashing, but the way I ended up looking at the problem that made the most sense to me was to look at it as a chain of events, and determine
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by zorpner 12y ago
I would disagree that those are two different problems -- "preventing [the site] from collapsing in on itself" and figuring out how to host relevant discussions are tied together more deeply than that. As an example, if heated di
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by zorpner 12y ago
Do people who routinely flag stories about diversity in tech have their flagging privileges revoked?
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by zorpner 12y ago
Companies who did this would be systemically outcompeted by companies who choose to look the other way when their salespeople overpromise. And you will find that in general, they are not saying "we have feature X as an available featu
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by zorpner 12y ago
I don't agree with this entire post, but here's a summary of the initial conversation: http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/07/15/when-twitter-fails-ma...

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