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by bhups 8y ago
The current proposal is just as regressive, albeit in a way that introduces more inefficiency. A cap on Ubers/Lyfts + minimum pay will likely increase the price of Ubers/Lyfts. Rich people will be able to afford the new prices, bu
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by bhups 8y ago
I don't think that this is a technology problem - it's a polarization problem. No amount of technology traveling at the speed of light will solve the simple problem that you belong to an ideological sub-group that ferociously di
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by bhups 8y ago
> No, it absolutely does not. Can you explain what the law on the books currently is, and how the majority opinion "absolutely does not" respect it? > It completely makes up a reason why this should be considered any differe
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by bhups 8y ago
> Kicking the can to "elect someone else" is just as naive as claiming that this decision respects the law on the books. But...it does respect the law on the books. Your concern seems to be that the law is bad, and that the jud
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by bhups 8y ago
> We have a system that operates at the pace of 1776. That served us well for a long time, but since the post-war proliferation of mass media, it's hard to argue that it's adequate anymore. I'd argue the exact opposite. Th
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Improving urban GPS quality using 3D maps, probability, and math(theverge.com)
10 points by bhups 8y ago|0 comments
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by bhups 8y ago
Re: the helmet laws, they've been shown to do more harm than good[1]. Helmet laws suppress ridership, and riders tend to be safer when they're surrounded by more bicyclists. This is why cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen are act
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by bhups 9y ago
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/uber-were-moving-a...
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by bhups 9y ago
This is half true: European infrastructure construction is almost perfectly decentralized to the point that it's (for the most part) fully centralized at the level of each member state. The US half tries to fund and administer infrastr
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by bhups 9y ago
I have the iPhone 7. I've been using Bluetooth headphones since about 2014 (started with the JayBirds, but use the AirPods now). I use my headphones pretty much all day. Not once have I noticed the absence of the headphone jack, nor ha
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by bhups 9y ago
If they were to do that, what do you think would happen to the price of the finite/scarce housing supply?
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by bhups 9y ago
Possibly, I think "impartial" means reserving the judgement until the judgement is to be made at the end of the trial as opposed to in the middle of the trial, which could very well be wrong - IANAL.
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by bhups 9y ago
I'm neither a lawyer nor a judge, but I'm just wondering if this is a typical type of thing to assert during a judgement. It just jumped out as impartial to me.
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by bhups 9y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but the whole point of this case is to prove this. I would find a more impartial adjudicator to take more of a "the motives contradict with the allegations of theft" view. To outright say that the theft occur
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by bhups 9y ago
> “Then why did he steal this stuff? That’s the story the jury’s going to want to know about,” Judge William Alsup retorted. I find it alarming that the judge assumes a "guilty until proven innocent" position. Obviously outside
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Uber says it just had its best U.S. week ever despite ongoing problems(recode.net)
3 points by bhups 10y ago|0 comments
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by bhups 10y ago
Relative to that culture? Yes absolutely. Not being a "culture fit" can be a boon for the candidate if they are not compatible with a culture in which they would be miserable.
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by bhups 10y ago
"If we abolish all local and regional regulations, then there is an absolute reduction of regulations. " You seem to make the implicit assumption that federal regulations are somehow better than the same amount of state-level regu
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by bhups 10y ago
My hypothetical was for them to socialize it with a shared single-payer system. Think about it this way: all of the small states in New England decide to create a government run insurance (like Denmark) by pooling all of their taxpayers. An
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by bhups 10y ago
Were states to implement such systems at the state level, I fully expect the smaller states to consolidate and form alliances of their welfare systems so as to achieve economies of scale faster.
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by bhups 10y ago
"By what possible stretch of the imagination is the system working well in the EU? The EU has been on the brink of breaking apart since 2008, and Britain just voted to leave the EU this summer. The EU is even more federated than the US
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by bhups 10y ago
It's rather easy for a wealthy person in the EU to move to a low tax country as well! Switzerland has one of the lowest income taxes in the developed world, yet most of the wealthy people in Europe don't live there. Wealthy people
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by bhups 10y ago
Ethnic homogeneity isn't the only reason comparing the US to Denmark doesn't make much sense, it's also due to population. Denmark is a tiny country with a population of 5.7 million people. That's about the population of
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by bhups 10y ago
We already pay for the public infrastructure through taxation. If the degree of taxation isn't suitable given the degree of use, there could be a corporate tax rate (I wouldn't support that, but it isn't unheard of). This doe
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by bhups 10y ago
Conducting business (i.e. running an enterprise) is absolutely a right. Obviously if your business involves breaking the law, the business owners shall be reprimanded, but that's separate from OP's assertion that operating busines
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by bhups 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward comes to mind. It was a landmark case that effectively resulted in the rise of the American business corporation and the American free enterprise system. This
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by bhups 10y ago
Arguments on the basis of "they're a private organization; you have not right to tell them what to do" just don't hold a lot of water in these contexts. Forcing an organization to do something is a big deal because, un
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by bhups 10y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, those who agree or not, your point is constructive. Why should a government be able to coerce a private organization into providing data? How do you define data? At least in the US, I can
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by bhups 10y ago
Not only is Uber no longer burning $1B to be in China, they now own a 20% stake in what is now a monopoly in China to (ostensibly) make all of it back and then some.
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by bhups 10y ago
Facebook and Google are also everywhere except China.

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