A person with no GPS might get lost more often, but someone that has knowledge of the city and a GPS will be able to move around more efficiently and safely since he will not need to keep checking the map at every corner. And if want only to do one calculation right hiring a lot of extra high school dropouts will do no good.
You are still removing the freedom that someone has of not needing an insurance in their situation. A taxi driver needs insurance because the passenger can't depend on the driver for that, but a regular driver can decide if he thinks he can deal with the risk. Someone taking a ride with his friend should know his friend well enough to avail the risks himself.
I have been to places where driving blindly by GPS would lead to accidents or bad neighborhoods. Also, drivers that follow GPS blindly tend to be slower or to drive worse because their eyes are on the map most of the time instead of the road. I wouldn't discard city knowledge so quickly the same way I don't discard arithmetic. It's still good to know how calculations work because you might have mistyped that number and a basic knowledge would show that the result doesn't make sense.
This insurance system is broken if it needs the person at fault to have insurance.
And what I meant as other requirement are things like knowledge tests which I have seen that are required in countries like England or Germany. I don't see why those countries should dump that requirement just because Uber has appeared, and I don't see why regular drivers should have to follow with them in other to be in the same category.
I don't know how to convince the majority of the Americans of anything, but I think that maybe the discourse needs to be changed. I see anything that doesn't fit the Democratic/Republican mold being labeled as extremism, and I guess that doesn't help adoption.
Why do some people always act as if the only options are conservatism and communism? Neither seem to be working, so we can start thinking about alternatives.
Why not put in the law that taxi drivers should have enough insurance to cover themselves and their passengers and let regular drivers choose whatever insurance level they want? Why should a regular driver face the same requirements as a taxi driver? Let's not forget that in some other places those requirements could involve more, and your solution would be to place the same requirements to regular drivers.
Now you are mandating compulsory insurance for all drivers, which I'm sure some people disagree with. And you are still treating uber and taxi drivers the same and distinct from regular driver, except that this time it would be the insurance company that makes the distinction, and not the law.
What I wanted to say is that I think the analogy was problematic. It's not like Uber wants to be treated like whites. Whites and blacks are functionally equal, in a way that taxi drivers and regular drivers aren't. So it would be more accurate to say that Uber wants to seat on the driver's seat, even though it isn't a trained bus driver. One might argue that it could do the job as well, but some might find it that unrealistic.
So you are saying that in this situation Rosa Parks wanted to sit on the driver's seat? I think that would be a problem independently of her skin color.
Once when I was teaching Python, it amused me to notice a beginner try to write a function in a way that would be valid Haskell, but wasn't valid in Python. Your own post also seems to find Haskell more natural. I wish I could spend more time with Haskell, it seems very interesting.
So that we can download it for free, install wherever I want (not just approved hardware) and tinker with the pieces as much as I want. Why would I want to use OSX if it doesn't do any of that?
Personally, I would second this nomination, not because I see it as stupid, but I see it as amusing, and I like to think that the igNobel helps to find the funny side of science.
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A person with no GPS might get lost more often, but someone that has knowledge of the city and a GPS will be able to move around more efficiently and safely since he will not need to keep checking the map at every corner. And if want only to do one calculation right hiring a lot of extra high school dropouts will do no good.
You are still removing the freedom that someone has of not needing an insurance in their situation. A taxi driver needs insurance because the passenger can't depend on the driver for that, but a regular driver can decide if he thinks he can deal with the risk. Someone taking a ride with his friend should know his friend well enough to avail the risks himself.
I have been to places where driving blindly by GPS would lead to accidents or bad neighborhoods. Also, drivers that follow GPS blindly tend to be slower or to drive worse because their eyes are on the map most of the time instead of the road. I wouldn't discard city knowledge so quickly the same way I don't discard arithmetic. It's still good to know how calculations work because you might have mistyped that number and a basic knowledge would show that the result doesn't make sense.
This insurance system is broken if it needs the person at fault to have insurance. And what I meant as other requirement are things like knowledge tests which I have seen that are required in countries like England or Germany. I don't see why those countries should dump that requirement just because Uber has appeared, and I don't see why regular drivers should have to follow with them in other to be in the same category.
I don't know how to convince the majority of the Americans of anything, but I think that maybe the discourse needs to be changed. I see anything that doesn't fit the Democratic/Republican mold being labeled as extremism, and I guess that doesn't help adoption.
Why do some people always act as if the only options are conservatism and communism? Neither seem to be working, so we can start thinking about alternatives.
Why not put in the law that taxi drivers should have enough insurance to cover themselves and their passengers and let regular drivers choose whatever insurance level they want? Why should a regular driver face the same requirements as a taxi driver? Let's not forget that in some other places those requirements could involve more, and your solution would be to place the same requirements to regular drivers.
Now you are mandating compulsory insurance for all drivers, which I'm sure some people disagree with. And you are still treating uber and taxi drivers the same and distinct from regular driver, except that this time it would be the insurance company that makes the distinction, and not the law.
What I wanted to say is that I think the analogy was problematic. It's not like Uber wants to be treated like whites. Whites and blacks are functionally equal, in a way that taxi drivers and regular drivers aren't. So it would be more accurate to say that Uber wants to seat on the driver's seat, even though it isn't a trained bus driver. One might argue that it could do the job as well, but some might find it that unrealistic.
So you are saying that in this situation Rosa Parks wanted to sit on the driver's seat? I think that would be a problem independently of her skin color.
Do you drive a tinfoil car?
That's actually a good name for this idea.
Since you asked: http://www.informatimago.com/l... Is this what you where looking for?
Just turn left at Naboo.
Depends on how the language does comments. I think it wouldn't work on either Perl or Haskell.
Once when I was teaching Python, it amused me to notice a beginner try to write a function in a way that would be valid Haskell, but wasn't valid in Python. Your own post also seems to find Haskell more natural. I wish I could spend more time with Haskell, it seems very interesting.
Eclipse really ended the editor wars by uniting VIm and EMACS against the new guy.
Ok, so how do we get to be Canada?
Because instead I am playing it directly on console, as it was meant to be.
So that we can download it for free, install wherever I want (not just approved hardware) and tinker with the pieces as much as I want. Why would I want to use OSX if it doesn't do any of that?
I guess they must be a bunch of dicks.
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Personally, I would second this nomination, not because I see it as stupid, but I see it as amusing, and I like to think that the igNobel helps to find the funny side of science.
Why don't you share those details then?
For a moment I read that as Davos, so I would expect his right hand to be shorter and harder to type.
Try FallenLondon. It's not that novel idea.