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by hackuser 9y ago
I think of all the time, attention, political capital, and other resources Brexit and similar issues consume. Imagine what could be accomplished if it all was directed toward productive pursuits like economic, political, and social gains.
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> if you have a good case. Your confidence in the legal process' accuracy in sorting good cases from bad is greater than mine. Any case is risky, IMHO. > The Court system is overburdened I agree; it should be much better funded
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My baseless assumption always has been that it is for two reasons: * It's one of those situations where the free market fails. Because anyone with a car can give someone a ride, it creates a race to the bottom and nobody can make money
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by hackuser 9y ago
> it's trivially obvious that some people do not deserve to be treated with dignity I don't agree, and I know many people who also would disagree. Another point of view is that perhaps some people don't deserve dignity, bu
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by hackuser 9y ago
Those aren't the issues discussed in the article, other than in the broadest sense.
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by hackuser 9y ago
What happens if your small business sues Google? Right or wrong, you are betting the business on that case. If you lose, Google's legal costs will consume your entire business. That said, it's hard for your small business to sue G
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by hackuser 9y ago
How do other places control supply of taxis, or do they not do that at all?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> A lot of people prefer Uber just so they don't have to deal with tipping like in traditional cabs. Is their any data to back this up? Outside of Hacker News, I don't think I've ever heard someone complain about tipping.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The entire point is that tipping shouldn't make the difference between being able to pay your heating bill. According to who? Certainly many restaurant workers in the U.S. earn most of their income from tipping.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Medallions? The medallion owners make a long-term capital investment. The drivers lease the car per shift or per 24 hours, and have no such investment. (As I understand it.)
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by hackuser 9y ago
Pizza delivery employees generally don't take out loans to buy cars for the job, AFAIK.
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I make a habit of talking to taxi drivers about Uber. Consistently they say they drive taxis because there is no money in driving for Uber (which of course that tells us less than it seems, because they are self-selected to be people who pr
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by hackuser 9y ago
The author of the article in a prior HN discussion on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928322
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by hackuser 9y ago
If you look at the labor history in any country, I would guess that the "soullessness", if I understand your meaning, is inversely proportional to how advanced the economy is and how much political power the workers have. The adva
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The team had a quota of 420 dashboard frames per shift but seldom made more than 350 For me, one of the most thought-provoking expressions of the perspective of the factory worker came from the Studs Terkel book, Working , where he in
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by hackuser 9y ago
> the HN norm of "no politics allowed" That isn't a norm I'm aware of. There is plenty of politics every day on HN; there are some limits, but it's common.
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That sounds reasonable, but my point is that we all (or most of us, myself included) are ignorant and speculating, and so are the reporter, the article, and possibly everyone quoted in it. You wouldn't believe a story about the costs,
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by hackuser 9y ago
It might work out fine, but we need to hear from the people who would carry the actual the burden under this proposal, such as those in the construction industry that will have to lay the conduit under 'Dig once', and those who cu
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Fear of litigation may be key to security on the Internet of Things(insights.hpe.com)
59 points by hackuser 9y ago|21 comments
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> huge 3 GB file (3M 1K lines) I looked into text editors for handing very large files several years ago. For your perusal my results, hopefully not too outdated: [0] . SOME USEFUL SPECS to consider * Performs with %yourmemorycapacity% a
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by hackuser 10y ago
Very interesting applications of virtual reality (and AFAICT it could just as well be augmented reality in this case): The user catches a ball based on visualizations of the ball, its predicted trajectory, its predicted target, and differen
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How Do We Connect First-Time Internet Users to a Healthy Web?(blog.mozilla.org)
5 points by hackuser 10y ago|0 comments
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And for ease of reading, I'll reply to my own comment with other interesting issues: * "The fact remains that the government has not brought charges," [his attorney] Donoghue said in a telephone interview . It seems a warran
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by hackuser 10y ago
Some discussion overlooks that this is a special case: ... the appeals court, like the police, agreed that the presence of child porn on his drives was a "foregone conclusion." The Fifth Amendment, at its most basic level, protec
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by hackuser 10y ago
I don't see U.S. (or any) elected officials, including Congress and the White House, making better decisions. All have made atrocious decisions. The argument in the parent is well-worn, but it fails serious consideration if it ignores
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by hackuser 10y ago
> joining an advisory council is not the same as lending support That is your opinion, but it's not fact. I'm sure you are aware that many disagree (who have no greater claim to fact than you), including the people who bought
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by hackuser 10y ago
dang, I think HN guidelines are fundamental to a great Internet community and want to help support it. I'm not complaining and don't care about the treatment of this one comment, but I do care if the rules of HN have changed: Spec
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> They absolutely did vote for this Congress. Due to gerrymandering, they did not. In each of the last three House elections, the Dems' House seats have been ~2.5% beneath their national vote, and the GOP's House seats have bee
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by hackuser 10y ago
The point is, the Google search is done in the privacy of your own home.
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The Dept of Education budget also is proposed to be cut significantly, including deep cuts in financial aid to college students. NIH research also is proposed to suffer large cuts. And while I'm at it, the National Endowment for the Ar

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