Uber is out to protect Uber. Right now they don't have a fleet of driverless cars. They're trying to keep the barriers to entry as a human driver as low as possible. Once they have driverless Uber cars everywhere, they won't much care about the people they recruited to drive manually.
Thanks for the perspective and some thoughtful consideration of important local issues. This is the sort of thing/. as a whole doesn't have enough information about to make a determination. The only determination that really matters is the local binding one, which hopefully works out well in practice for local residents.
Austin is a city. I say let Austin do what's right for Austin. They have a system to elect their council and a system to refer disagreements to the voters. That system is at work here.
In theory, anyone can drive a cab. To get a license in Houston, you must have a valid Texas driver’s license, pass a written test to show you know twenty popular addresses, take a simple physical exam, and be free of warrants within the city. But practically speaking, you also need a medallion, the permit that allows the operation of one vehicle, and that is harder to come by. The city charges a $400 nonrefundable fee when you apply for one or more medallions. Applications are accepted only in even-numbered years, and not every application is approved, because the streets can handle only so much taxi traffic. Medallions can be resold or leased after a short waiting period, and they bring as much as $10,000 apiece on the gray market from independent drivers who have given up hope of obtaining one from the city
I'm not familiar with the exact regulations for a taxi driver in Austin, but I'd bet Uber and Lyft are complaining about their drivers only having to do part of what's required for a taxi driver there.
Let Austin worry about it. It's Austin's regulation for Austin's people. Now that it's going to a referendum the truest form of democracy you're likely to see on such a scale will take care of it in a locally agreeable way.
People live a long time these days, and a work of fiction or of history doesn't become suddenly irrelevant like a technical book on a narrow topic. Maybe we should have 25-year copyright with optional 10-year extensions which must be actively filed up to a maximum of 75 years?
gorilla.bas goes as far back as MS-DOS 5, and there was also nibbles.bas which was a worm/snakerace/Tron lightbike type of game. They were fun and educational.
There have been isolated incidents of the MAC-10, TEC-9, the Skorpion, and the Kalishnikov being used in LA by gangs. Those I'm not sure end up with four or more shot and they're gang-related rather than the "targeted facility" mass shootings people keep worrying about. It's definitely the exception, I think even before the NFA.
There's still a great advantage for the human security analyst. The human may not be as fast or as infallible. One may not be as infallible as the AI when things are going smoothly. However, the human will still need to make sure the AI is making sense. Someone needs to make sure the traffic being flagged is consistent with actual traffic. The AI can itself be subverted via code. The AI can have a subtle bug that makes it stop making sense in some obscure edge case that isn't covered well in testing. The human cannot be so easily fooled or subverted. It's going to be a team effort. It's just that it'll be the AI and a handful of humans doing what a much bigger team of humans used to do.
Actually, rereading drinkypoo's post I think he's specifically talking about the BHP following the 1911 closely in charts about bullet impact and momentum at the target. It still has nothing to do with the years in which the cartridges were first released.
There's a difference between a "mass shooting" and a "mass killing spree".
Not fully automatic, but the high cyclic rate Gatling was used to subjugate the indigenous peoples. It was also used in a civil war against both regulars and militia on both sides. It was used to intimidate anti-draft protestors in New York.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a mass shooting by FBI standards and featured shotguns and at least one Thompson machine gun. That was gang-on-gang violence, which is what much handgun violence is today. The Thompson was a well-known weapon and well-known to be popular with crime syndicates in New York and Chicago. I can't think of a specific other incident in which 4 or more people were killed with one.
Clyde Barrow used a BAR and killed a number of people. He and Bonnie Parker and their associates were certainly killers on a spree, but I'm not sure they ever killed four people at one time. They also were firing during gang robberies and getaways, not at targeted pockets of civilians looking to make a statement or raise their body count.
And unionists... and the Pinkertons hired to beat and kill the unionists... and bootleggers... and mafia members buying from the bootleggers... and... Prohibitions and other forms of oppression are why we have a Second Amendment in the first place.
The Browning HiPower is a pistol that uses 9mm ammunition. It is not the round. The Colt Model 1911 is a pistol that uses.45 ACP ammunition and is not the round. The 1911 was a longtime military sidearm for US forces and was replaced not with the HiPower, though, but by another 9mm known as the Beretta M9 which is basically a military version of their 92FS. That barely beat the Sig P226.
You can buy AR-platform rifles not only in.300 Blackout but also readily in.308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO. There's an upper/lower kit from some company meant for the back woods which swaps out parts from.22 LR to.50 Beowulf. Armalite also carries a.338 Lapua AR-30 so that's a popular large--game hunting (and sniper) round.
Sounds like a bunch of bull to me. Moo, bull, moo.;-)
Actually, I know a quite a few people who for a fact have the same issue. That's one of the biggest reasons for the success of email providers independent of ISPs, schools, and employers early on I think. The account portability is a big deal.
To bring this somewhat closer to topic, it takes a lot of energy to update all those sites when your non-portable email address changes. It's more calorie-efficient to have something like a Gmail or Yahoo mail account.
If you're going to complain about misunderstandings among laypeople, let's start with the proper name for the unit used pretty much everywhere: you're talking about kilocalories when you talk to a layperson in the US about the "calorie".
Second, even if in a typical case we could perfectly balance energy intake to activities, it's been shown that many bodies are atypical. We are not feeding spherical cows of uniform density in a vacuum. These are people with more or less muscle mass, different things going on in their endocrine systems, different overall body mass, different drug intakes, different vitamin and protein levels and sources, and different genetics.
The real-world test for a dietary plan is whether it helps you maintain your health and desired weight. There is enough research to recommend some alternatives as definitely better than others, but there's been no definitive perfect diet. Ultimately the perfect diet is one that allows you to be both healthy and satisfied, and that it can't do on its own. The dietary plan can contribute, but it also takes other lifestyle factors.
I don't care much for Microsoft myself. I remember the software bundling. Before that I remember forcing whitebox sellers to license Windows or DOS for every system sold even if that system shipped with 4.4BSD, SCO Unix, or OS/2. The honest, factual truth of the situation though is that Google has had anticompetitive practices trouble in the courts much more recently than has Microsoft.
Good luck on your next trip through Little Rock or El Paso. Those aren't exactly the smallest rural villages, and yet they are nowhere near Tesla's current Supercharger network.
I never said we're not getting closer. We're just really, really not there yet.
An at-home charger is fine if you have a suitable way to use it and you're only doing a daily commute.
Many people live in things called apartments and aren't allowed to just run an extension cord out the window. Adding charging stations to parking lots is an infrastructure cost.
Many people don't live such a lifestyle that they want to wait eight hours before driving the car again every time it is driven. Besides getting back and forth to work, they want to go out. They want to shop for the groceries. They want to take their kids to the park. You're going to need rapid chargers that run on 440v or higher, and those aren't in every home.
You're also going to want fast-charging stations similar to the filling stations we have for gasoline (petrol), diesel, etc. People taking a weekend trip or a driving vacation want hundreds of miles of range and a five or ten minute refill. Some sort of supercapacitor rather than battery in the car could work. A battery swap could work. Fuel-cell electric cars with a liquid (methanol?) reagent could work. Maybe aluminum-air batteries with 1000 mile (total) range we keep hearing about, so you fill the tank with water every so often and a long trip takes one or two swaps?
In any case, current battery technology is not a candidate to replace the gas-and-go petrol automobile under all driving conditions. As a second car, a commuter-only car, for people with a place to charge it overnight, there's a place for them. Until apartments, hotels, and some sort of rapid-charge roadside stations have places to top them off, they are not going to be a full replacement.
Electric trains don't need storage. There's already infrastructure and right-of-ways for the tracks. Just put in transmission capacity and have the train pull from it. This is not the case with cars. Either charging stations, fuel cell refilling stations, or some new infrastructure like those is needed for electric cars. You can't expect to add an along-the-road charging loop on every automotive road.
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Uber is out to protect Uber. Right now they don't have a fleet of driverless cars. They're trying to keep the barriers to entry as a human driver as low as possible. Once they have driverless Uber cars everywhere, they won't much care about the people they recruited to drive manually.
In Houston it's a fee per service. It's not tied to operator revenue nor should it be. Thanks for some perspective on the local angle.
Thanks for the perspective and some thoughtful consideration of important local issues. This is the sort of thing /. as a whole doesn't have enough information about to make a determination. The only determination that really matters is the local binding one, which hopefully works out well in practice for local residents.
Austin is a city. I say let Austin do what's right for Austin. They have a system to elect their council and a system to refer disagreements to the voters. That system is at work here.
I live a few hours from Austin. My (much larger) city has certain regulations on who's allowed to drive, too. It's a minor inconvenience to start driving and again every two years. It involves a background check including fingerprinting, a five-panel drug screening, a warrant check, and a vehicle inspection (including having a fire extinguisher within arm's reach of the driver). It's much, much less restrictive than being licensed to be a Houston taxi driver. From the link:
I'm not familiar with the exact regulations for a taxi driver in Austin, but I'd bet Uber and Lyft are complaining about their drivers only having to do part of what's required for a taxi driver there.
Let Austin worry about it. It's Austin's regulation for Austin's people. Now that it's going to a referendum the truest form of democracy you're likely to see on such a scale will take care of it in a locally agreeable way.
In the NFL the coaches can call for a video review of the spot but not the measurement. Of course the measurement is based off a previous spot...
Actually baseball bats are more commonly used in assaults than rifles.
Most firearms homicides are with pistols of some sort, not rifles or shotguns.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/c...
Further, most firearms deaths are suicides.:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
Further, homicides are a poor indicator of how many crimes are committed with different weapons:
http://blogs.theadvocate.com/b...
People live a long time these days, and a work of fiction or of history doesn't become suddenly irrelevant like a technical book on a narrow topic. Maybe we should have 25-year copyright with optional 10-year extensions which must be actively filed up to a maximum of 75 years?
gorilla.bas goes as far back as MS-DOS 5, and there was also nibbles.bas which was a worm/snakerace/Tron lightbike type of game. They were fun and educational.
There have been isolated incidents of the MAC-10, TEC-9, the Skorpion, and the Kalishnikov being used in LA by gangs. Those I'm not sure end up with four or more shot and they're gang-related rather than the "targeted facility" mass shootings people keep worrying about. It's definitely the exception, I think even before the NFA.
There's still a great advantage for the human security analyst. The human may not be as fast or as infallible. One may not be as infallible as the AI when things are going smoothly. However, the human will still need to make sure the AI is making sense. Someone needs to make sure the traffic being flagged is consistent with actual traffic. The AI can itself be subverted via code. The AI can have a subtle bug that makes it stop making sense in some obscure edge case that isn't covered well in testing. The human cannot be so easily fooled or subverted. It's going to be a team effort. It's just that it'll be the AI and a handful of humans doing what a much bigger team of humans used to do.
Actually, rereading drinkypoo's post I think he's specifically talking about the BHP following the 1911 closely in charts about bullet impact and momentum at the target. It still has nothing to do with the years in which the cartridges were first released.
There's a difference between a "mass shooting" and a "mass killing spree".
Not fully automatic, but the high cyclic rate Gatling was used to subjugate the indigenous peoples. It was also used in a civil war against both regulars and militia on both sides. It was used to intimidate anti-draft protestors in New York.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a mass shooting by FBI standards and featured shotguns and at least one Thompson machine gun. That was gang-on-gang violence, which is what much handgun violence is today. The Thompson was a well-known weapon and well-known to be popular with crime syndicates in New York and Chicago. I can't think of a specific other incident in which 4 or more people were killed with one.
Clyde Barrow used a BAR and killed a number of people. He and Bonnie Parker and their associates were certainly killers on a spree, but I'm not sure they ever killed four people at one time. They also were firing during gang robberies and getaways, not at targeted pockets of civilians looking to make a statement or raise their body count.
Of the 25 deadliest mass murders in the 20th century, only 52 percent involved guns at all. http://www.slate.com/articles/...
And unionists... and the Pinkertons hired to beat and kill the unionists... and bootleggers... and mafia members buying from the bootleggers... and ... Prohibitions and other forms of oppression are why we have a Second Amendment in the first place.
The Browning HiPower is a pistol that uses 9mm ammunition. It is not the round. The Colt Model 1911 is a pistol that uses .45 ACP ammunition and is not the round. The 1911 was a longtime military sidearm for US forces and was replaced not with the HiPower, though, but by another 9mm known as the Beretta M9 which is basically a military version of their 92FS. That barely beat the Sig P226.
You can buy AR-platform rifles not only in .300 Blackout but also readily in .308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO. There's an upper/lower kit from some company meant for the back woods which swaps out parts from .22 LR to .50 Beowulf. Armalite also carries a .338 Lapua AR-30 so that's a popular large--game hunting (and sniper) round.
Sounds like a bunch of bull to me. Moo, bull, moo. ;-)
Actually, I know a quite a few people who for a fact have the same issue. That's one of the biggest reasons for the success of email providers independent of ISPs, schools, and employers early on I think. The account portability is a big deal.
To bring this somewhat closer to topic, it takes a lot of energy to update all those sites when your non-portable email address changes. It's more calorie-efficient to have something like a Gmail or Yahoo mail account.
I didn't use the word "underweight", but just because they are a minority doesn't mean you get to discount them. Check your fat privilege. ;-)
If you're going to complain about misunderstandings among laypeople, let's start with the proper name for the unit used pretty much everywhere: you're talking about kilocalories when you talk to a layperson in the US about the "calorie".
Second, even if in a typical case we could perfectly balance energy intake to activities, it's been shown that many bodies are atypical. We are not feeding spherical cows of uniform density in a vacuum. These are people with more or less muscle mass, different things going on in their endocrine systems, different overall body mass, different drug intakes, different vitamin and protein levels and sources, and different genetics.
The real-world test for a dietary plan is whether it helps you maintain your health and desired weight. There is enough research to recommend some alternatives as definitely better than others, but there's been no definitive perfect diet. Ultimately the perfect diet is one that allows you to be both healthy and satisfied, and that it can't do on its own. The dietary plan can contribute, but it also takes other lifestyle factors.
Careful. You're going to end up having to explain accuracy and precision and their differences if you keep making sense like that.
I don't care much for Microsoft myself. I remember the software bundling. Before that I remember forcing whitebox sellers to license Windows or DOS for every system sold even if that system shipped with 4.4BSD, SCO Unix, or OS/2. The honest, factual truth of the situation though is that Google has had anticompetitive practices trouble in the courts much more recently than has Microsoft.
Good luck on your next trip through Little Rock or El Paso. Those aren't exactly the smallest rural villages, and yet they are nowhere near Tesla's current Supercharger network.
I never said we're not getting closer. We're just really, really not there yet.
An at-home charger is fine if you have a suitable way to use it and you're only doing a daily commute.
Many people live in things called apartments and aren't allowed to just run an extension cord out the window. Adding charging stations to parking lots is an infrastructure cost.
Many people don't live such a lifestyle that they want to wait eight hours before driving the car again every time it is driven. Besides getting back and forth to work, they want to go out. They want to shop for the groceries. They want to take their kids to the park. You're going to need rapid chargers that run on 440v or higher, and those aren't in every home.
You're also going to want fast-charging stations similar to the filling stations we have for gasoline (petrol), diesel, etc. People taking a weekend trip or a driving vacation want hundreds of miles of range and a five or ten minute refill. Some sort of supercapacitor rather than battery in the car could work. A battery swap could work. Fuel-cell electric cars with a liquid (methanol?) reagent could work. Maybe aluminum-air batteries with 1000 mile (total) range we keep hearing about, so you fill the tank with water every so often and a long trip takes one or two swaps?
In any case, current battery technology is not a candidate to replace the gas-and-go petrol automobile under all driving conditions. As a second car, a commuter-only car, for people with a place to charge it overnight, there's a place for them. Until apartments, hotels, and some sort of rapid-charge roadside stations have places to top them off, they are not going to be a full replacement.
There's about twice as much gasoline settling out of crude at the early stages of refinement, but diesel requires much less further refining.
Electric trains don't need storage. There's already infrastructure and right-of-ways for the tracks. Just put in transmission capacity and have the train pull from it. This is not the case with cars. Either charging stations, fuel cell refilling stations, or some new infrastructure like those is needed for electric cars. You can't expect to add an along-the-road charging loop on every automotive road.