"Social Justice Warriors have had it in for Uber for a while. The standard tactic is to find a few things wrong and flood the news cycle with hate and loathing for the target, which they are doing now with Uber. I've seen the secondary attacks mass on Twitter and Facebook from liberal friends."
See what happens when you give the SJWs mod points?
My sentiment also. In particular, the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission operates its own police force to prevent entrepreneurs from competing with medallion cabs. It has been known to arrest people who drop off their spouses at JFK or LaGuardia, accusing them of operating a taxi service. Victims have to hire expensive legal help to prove their innocence.
I hope Uber mashes these bastards straight into the ground.
Most liquids shrink when they freeze, though all Earthly life depends on water being the exception. Could we perfuse organ tissue with one of those blood substitute liquids before freezing, if we can choose one that does not expand when frozen? As a bonus, could we add the thawing nanoparticles to the fluid before perfusing the organ?
Have each camera continuously record the latest X hours of activity, like a flight recorder. After an incident occurs, management would retrieve and replace every camera that could have caught the action. This policy would ensure that major events get recorded while automatically editing out all the hours of nothing happening.
More testing before rolling out upgrades would be nice. I've had one "unable to complete" for a few weeks now. Reboots the system, discovers the install doesn't fit the hardware, rolls back. Whole process takes about 30 minutes.
This feature was introduced in Windows XP, and has been so popular that sometimes when you reboot a PC, you see a string of ten updates trudge away through their completion percentages, fail to install, and automatically get backed out. This gives you time for a nice lunch before having to get back to work on your still un-updated Windows box.
But if you love English weather (because just like home!) and still would like to have an easy access to Asian and Australian markets and attractions, what would be a better place? NZ should be able to lure at least few British and Anglo-maniacs with this offer.
NZ is a lot like England culturally, but larger (the size of Colorado), much less populated (4 million vs 65 million), and with better weather and more spectacular scenery. It abounds in species that are too ludicrous even for Australia (the three-eyed lizard, the parrot that collects windshield wipers, the earthworm that glows in the dark, the giant crickets) but while in Australia everything is poisonous, in NZ nothing is poisonous.
"No we have no evidence Musk is a rapist. Yes I know he's got a penis, that is not evidence."
In California, possession of a penis without a valid marriage license is prima facie evidence of being a harasser. Given a marriage license, conviction requires in addition the sworn testimony of a SJW.
"By that definition many of the cities in which Uber is currently deployed are "monopoly cities". It doesn't mean they can't operate, it means that they're vulnerable to fines, their drivers are sometimes ticketed, and they might even get court orders against them. But they often still find ways to operate."
Yes, this is Uber's current business model. The problem is that, although it builds the brand over large areas, it also causes most of the company's resources to be dissipated fighting lawsuits and paying fines, rather than paying the drivers.
"The risk with that strategy is every city you ignore is going to start its own Uber clones, clones that are going to get favourable treatment from local regulators and be the favourites of local consumers."
Monopoly cities are by definition cities in which it's illegal to compete with taxi companies that have been granted status. Therefore no local startups, but if a major company like Uber can become well-liked by both customers and drivers elsewhere, voters in monopoly cities will demand change.
Not so much. In fact, it is a bullshit lie. It is not providing cooling, as is claimed. It is preventing heat transfer. There is no cooling involved and this is bullshit.
How did you get a thermodynamics lab to fit under that bridge?
If I were running Uber, I would have had it concentrate on an assortment of US cities that are friendly to open-market taxi service, rather than blowing its budget fighting City Hall in every monopoly city in the world. By being profitable and having the capital to treat its drivers well in the short term while getting ready for self-driving cars in the long term, it would eventually expand into monopoly cities because the customers would demand it.
One hour of instruction is definitely going to be effective in teaching a programming language. Why in the world have I spent my entire life perfecting my art.
You're totally missing the point of this I program. One hour of code tells students how a computer does what it does, and meanwhile will tell the lucky few whether they would have any interest in going in for a lifetime of code.
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Artisanal cobalt is like artisanal coffee, only different.
"Social Justice Warriors have had it in for Uber for a while. The standard tactic is to find a few things wrong and flood the news cycle with hate and loathing for the target, which they are doing now with Uber. I've seen the secondary attacks mass on Twitter and Facebook from liberal friends."
See what happens when you give the SJWs mod points?
Uber just went up a couple notches in my book!
My sentiment also. In particular, the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission operates its own police force to prevent entrepreneurs from competing with medallion cabs. It has been known to arrest people who drop off their spouses at JFK or LaGuardia, accusing them of operating a taxi service. Victims have to hire expensive legal help to prove their innocence.
I hope Uber mashes these bastards straight into the ground.
Which was more important to the slashdot editors here? That she was a woman or that she was old?
No, it was because this was the first iPhone app written in Fortran.
Does this mean that the underground organ trafficking black market will collapse very soon?
No, it means that packinghouses in China will cash in by freezing prisoners' organs so they can be stored and then flown anywhere for transplant.
Most liquids shrink when they freeze, though all Earthly life depends on water being the exception. Could we perfuse organ tissue with one of those blood substitute liquids before freezing, if we can choose one that does not expand when frozen? As a bonus, could we add the thawing nanoparticles to the fluid before perfusing the organ?
Have each camera continuously record the latest X hours of activity, like a flight recorder. After an incident occurs, management would retrieve and replace every camera that could have caught the action. This policy would ensure that major events get recorded while automatically editing out all the hours of nothing happening.
The term is British for trash can.
The Eastern District of Texas court needs some swamp draining.
This one gets overruled by real courts almost as often as the Ninth Circuit. They should be made to send their kangaroos back to Australia.
More testing before rolling out upgrades would be nice. I've had one "unable to complete" for a few weeks now. Reboots the system, discovers the install doesn't fit the hardware, rolls back. Whole process takes about 30 minutes.
This feature was introduced in Windows XP, and has been so popular that sometimes when you reboot a PC, you see a string of ten updates trudge away through their completion percentages, fail to install, and automatically get backed out. This gives you time for a nice lunch before having to get back to work on your still un-updated Windows box.
But if you love English weather (because just like home!) and still would like to have an easy access to Asian and Australian markets and attractions, what would be a better place? NZ should be able to lure at least few British and Anglo-maniacs with this offer.
NZ is a lot like England culturally, but larger (the size of Colorado), much less populated (4 million vs 65 million), and with better weather and more spectacular scenery. It abounds in species that are too ludicrous even for Australia (the three-eyed lizard, the parrot that collects windshield wipers, the earthworm that glows in the dark, the giant crickets) but while in Australia everything is poisonous, in NZ nothing is poisonous.
So unless you're at least somewhat famous in the tech community, no dice.
And just as in Silicon Valley, there's an age limit. In NZ though, it's 55 rather than 39.
In 2009, most of us still had working CRTs. Now we have replaced old sets with, typically, one bigscreen that we splurged on.
Original submission: Brianna Wu Is a Harsh Mistress.
You stripped this brilliant title and wrote in your blurb that spans two lines!
This is exactly what happened, but give him credit for not warping the blurb into a plug for renewable energy.
Hold your tongue pleb, lest I remove it!
(whips pleb)
"Release the hounds anyway! It pleases me to see them at work."
"No we have no evidence Musk is a rapist. Yes I know he's got a penis, that is not evidence."
In California, possession of a penis without a valid marriage license is prima facie evidence of being a harasser. Given a marriage license, conviction requires in addition the sworn testimony of a SJW.
I wonder which two paragons of obscene wealth paid for this vanity project.
Obviously neither of them will be an AC troll.
"By that definition many of the cities in which Uber is currently deployed are "monopoly cities". It doesn't mean they can't operate, it means that they're vulnerable to fines, their drivers are sometimes ticketed, and they might even get court orders against them. But they often still find ways to operate."
Yes, this is Uber's current business model. The problem is that, although it builds the brand over large areas, it also causes most of the company's resources to be dissipated fighting lawsuits and paying fines, rather than paying the drivers.
"The risk with that strategy is every city you ignore is going to start its own Uber clones, clones that are going to get favourable treatment from local regulators and be the favourites of local consumers."
Monopoly cities are by definition cities in which it's illegal to compete with taxi companies that have been granted status. Therefore no local startups, but if a major company like Uber can become well-liked by both customers and drivers elsewhere, voters in monopoly cities will demand change.
Not so much. In fact, it is a bullshit lie. It is not providing cooling, as is claimed. It is preventing heat transfer. There is no cooling involved and this is bullshit.
How did you get a thermodynamics lab to fit under that bridge?
If I were running Uber, I would have had it concentrate on an assortment of US cities that are friendly to open-market taxi service, rather than blowing its budget fighting City Hall in every monopoly city in the world. By being profitable and having the capital to treat its drivers well in the short term while getting ready for self-driving cars in the long term, it would eventually expand into monopoly cities because the customers would demand it.
One hour of instruction is definitely going to be effective in teaching a programming language. Why in the world have I spent my entire life perfecting my art.
You're totally missing the point of this I program. One hour of code tells students how a computer does what it does, and meanwhile will tell the lucky few whether they would have any interest in going in for a lifetime of code.
And will Manchester fans start smashing up beehives now, rather than airline flights?
My first HDD was an IBM 1311, two MB at 14" diameter.
"And account for the higher drug prices coming to the rest of the world..."
No, drug prices in the US will fall to the open-market prices in the rest of the world.