bdrool

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by bdrool 9y ago
I'll just leave this here: http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/laura-washington-uber-so...
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by bdrool 9y ago
Uber did the world a favor by breaking the back of the taxi monopoly. But now they need to either clean up their act or go away.
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by bdrool 9y ago
https://www.iwf.org.uk/become-a-member/services-for-members/... https://www.iwf.org.uk/become-a-member/services-for-members/...
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by bdrool 9y ago
Here's the official letter: https://www.scribd.com/document/348851011/Uber-2017-05-15-Lt... It's weird in the digital age to say information needs to be "returned" (although they did also say &
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by bdrool 9y ago
The facts are very clear-cut and I provided sources. > the chances of the publicly known story being accurate are pretty slim That's empty speculation. If that's the only defense for his actions then there isn't any. It&#x
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by bdrool 9y ago
I don't find that very hard to believe considering it's sometimes possible to use something as simple as a mirror to trick the brain into correcting phantom limb pain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_box
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by bdrool 9y ago
Reminder that this is the same person who attempted to publicly shame[1] Jeremy Guillory out of fighting for his fair share during GM's acquisition of Cruise. This attempt failed, and Cruise ended up having to publicly acknowledge the
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by bdrool 9y ago
> It's been known for a long time that Trump and the FBI director didn't see eye to eye, and the former employs the latter. Still significant, just not surprising. The president firing the FBI director is huge news. The story
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by bdrool 9y ago
> The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, "Nick didn't care about the stupid politics shit, he'd just laugh at it." Jon Hanna said Nick "became a criminal as a matter of principle and as an act of civil disobedi
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by bdrool 9y ago
I realize that, but vigilantism is not always driven by a rational view of crime statistics. Fear can be a very powerful force. If people fear crime and feel they are being ignored and not protected by the state, they may take matters into
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by bdrool 9y ago
> that basically says "The ugly and frightening truth about vigilantism is that it works", without backing it up That's a quote from me, not from the HuffPo article. The article says "The crime rate in the dangerous s
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by bdrool 9y ago
I noticed you replied to me twice (once here and once in another subthread), saying you'd spent time looking and "wasted [your] life". You also seem to be going further down the road of ad-hominem, describing the author of th
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by bdrool 9y ago
I already gave one, just a few sentences above.
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by bdrool 9y ago
An earlier version of this article said something like "BART did not immediately report the incident" (can't recall exact wording). This statement or any equivalent appears to be removed. It looks like newsdiff.org doesn&#x27
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by bdrool 9y ago
It really makes me sad to read the part about counting pennies and having to stretch such tiny advances while writing the books, especially when she describes her frustration at how much a framed copy that was sent by the publisher must hav
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by bdrool 9y ago
That's all well and good, but it doesn't really matter if individual cases get squashed. The larger issue is that Google has moved away from the stance of "we just give you what you search for, it's up to you to verify i
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by bdrool 9y ago
But just think about the future when those RVs are all self-driving -- all those people will be nomads, roaming the land!
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by bdrool 9y ago
Carthago delenda est! [1] [1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-l...
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Apple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars: DMV(reuters.com)
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by bdrool 9y ago
Same reason why so many people hated Microsoft in the 90s.
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by bdrool 9y ago
> DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED What could possibly be in there?
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by bdrool 9y ago
That was my first thought as well. Another thing that came to mind is that way manual work / craftsmanship was looked down upon has its parallels in the present day, particularly in the US. It's often said that other parts of the
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by bdrool 9y ago
He proposes removing the rule about "quiet working conditions" and even says "There is no right or wrong answer for which is correct." On the contrary, there is a lot of scientific evidence that quiet enhances concentrat
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by bdrool 9y ago
GM, owners of cruise.ai, are investors in Lyft. It seems likely that relationship will be used to help both companies move towards an autonomous car future.
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by bdrool 9y ago
Oh, come on. I doubt it's all that sophisticated.
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by bdrool 9y ago
As I mentioned here[1], it's more about the user experience than security, sorry, I should have been more clear. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14028693
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by bdrool 9y ago
> There could easily be an additional connectivity check that is http-based (that was blocked by the captive portal) before proceeding onto a standard TLS handshake. Yes, I mentioned that in my comment. > As 'klodolph mentions, t
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by bdrool 9y ago
Something I just noticed about the iOS update process: it appears that when it tries to "verify" an update (which requires that you be online), it does not do so over a secure connection. I was on a captive network (the kind where
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by bdrool 9y ago
Oh my god: Lawyer: <complains about proceedings appearing in the news> Judge: "Okay. The public will read what you just said."
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by bdrool 9y ago
It happens when you play full-screen videos on a mac. The full screen mode displays in a more direct screen access manner (but only after any overlays, like video controls, have faded out). In this mode, f.lux's color profile changes c

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