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by viola11 9y ago
That's an open research question (follows from its casual encompassing of all scientific statements), and more funding is needed to make progress on it.
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by viola11 9y ago
So in other words rural India was saved from becoming the robot slaves of social media activists by those very same activists?
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by viola11 9y ago
That's a clever optimization that is. They are providing you with the shortest route, thus improving your user experience, isn't it great?
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by viola11 9y ago
I think it went well? For an article essentially about the data taking it was surprisingly vague on how the actual observation went...
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by viola11 10y ago
I expected a project dedicated to combating light pollution, or possibly saying where the closes dark sky was. Got severely disappointed.
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by viola11 10y ago
Look, the details of FBs operation are certainly not a concern for the consumers: the consumers have the right to get their privacy respected and there is no right FB can invoke to counter it. The truth is that people do pay for messaging o
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by viola11 11y ago
Instinct is indeed unfortunate, and I think it is misleading to the point of hilarity too! The notion that sizing a market (as others have mentioned: a Fermi problem) is the same kind of knowledge as that which makes babies close their mout
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by viola11 11y ago
No, in the highlighted section he is explicitly saying you can't figure out how big the market is by reasoning and the best you can do is guess. In fact, it is a bit stronger than that: he states that the only knowledge that can be use
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by viola11 11y ago
"Who would have been foolish enough to squander the money, lives and resources needed to travel to and explore the New World?" You can only argue that the exploration of the Americas was a good affair if you ignore the cost of all
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by viola11 11y ago
The pie charts in this figure must be the most misleading I've ever seen; grey slices on colourful circles: https://d2v4zi8pl64nxt.cloudfront.net/the-definitive-guide-t...
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by viola11 11y ago
This should probably have a (2007) in the title, its only two more years until it turns sixty!
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by viola11 11y ago
Reading the supplementary material (since that isn't paywalled) I not that these are not IQ tests, but results from mathematics and reading comprehension tests. I also found this little thing that implies that the score distributions a
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by viola11 11y ago
That's a charge that applies equally well to the standard formulation and I made this comment just to say that it IS cool you can deeplink the Feynman lectures!
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by viola11 11y ago
So the reason that they spy on foreign companies is that they hope they can catch bribery going on (if they had credibly evidence without the espionage they wouldn't need the espionage in the first place, thus there must happen that th
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by viola11 11y ago
Indeed they are competing with existing taxi services, but not as a taxi company, but rather as a "ride share", despite providing a taxis service, and branding themselves as such. Given that they had the choice between acting and
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by viola11 11y ago
"Instead, as citizens, we should look at the regulations we have and ask if they still serve to protect people as they once did, or if they now exist to protect political and business interests." Those are grand words for defendin
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by viola11 11y ago
Defending law violations only by arguing that they make "the economy" more efficient is not very convincing. Especially in this case since the real innovations that Uber brings in terms of ride allocation are not incompatible with
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by viola11 11y ago
Seems like they have like the maker put up a new cover image, pretty sure that stupid cassette tape wasn't the official cover image a week ago.
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by viola11 11y ago
That's a great comment! I am in awe of the cynicism and misanthropy it contains. Machiavelli himself would go "Dang, that's dark dude". - Man, Uber just perfected self driving cars and closed my account with them, what a
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by viola11 11y ago
The could equally well be forced to work certain hours before as well, by Uber deciding to just give fares to them during certain times.
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by viola11 11y ago
Historically the exploitation of workers has lead to the workers organizing and protesting for better rights in various ways. Usually involving in the formation of unions and creation of legislation ensuring rights for the employees. Or rev
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by viola11 11y ago
For one, the franchise contains multiple people so there is most definitely managerial work going on. I also imagine franchise owners possess some freedom in how they manage stocking and of various supplies, and might be free to choose supp
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by viola11 11y ago
But isn't ũbers thing is that they are not taxis? Supposedly this has great benefits for Uber and nebulous consequences for their drivers.
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by viola11 11y ago
For that argument from privacy to work you need to provide reason for why flying is the only acceptable form of travel. Or why it is only acceptable to "get away" to locations to which flying is the only possible means of travel.