I don't think anyone who's ever visited the site could be confused about whether it's an official Ikea site or not.
At a glance, the site looks a lot like an official "Ikea" site - complete with blue and yellow theme, rotating images of Ikea products, etc. The Ikea cartoon figure guy who illustrates their instruction manual is plastered everywhere...
That said, it seems the compromise they reached was fair.
Keep using IkeaHackers.net (domain) if you don't do it for benefit (e.g. remove the ads).
Going to the airport as a taxi driver is like participating in a lottery with a positive expected value. The average $10 ticket (your wait time) returns way more than $10. [We know this because taxi drivers PAY to be able to wait in the lines there, and they choose to do it.] But sometimes, your ticket is still a loser short-haul, or a trip to a location where there's 0 chance of a return fare. If you, as a taxi driver, didn't have to take short hauls, your EV increases if you just tell the short haul to pound sand and you go get back in line -- especially since there's a good chance at hitting the jackpot, getting a long drive to a resort, with tons of bags from a guy who knows how to tip.
Letting drivers cherry-pick fares and ignore short-hauls from any place with a taxi line and then setting a floor on taxi prices or assessing airport/resort fees probably works in a place like Phoenix or Dallas or even LA, but it doesn't work in cities where taxis are a major part of the transportation business.
Taxi companies have fought hard to get the flag drop and first mile rates they already have. Good luck getting them to raise them further to implement your fix to the system.
o you can't. You still have to output valid blocks or every node will reject it.
Great. Who's "everyone?"
51% of the clients approve it, some small percentage of clients who're aware of the 51% attack try (pointlessly) to reject it, and the rest of the clients standardize of the one that the 51% push.
For non-identical items, it can get ever weirder. For example:
Be a bidder on 10 poker tables seized from an underground casino.
Winner bids $230 and gets first pick. He's then allowed to take any more he wants at $230. Then the second highest bidder can have one at $220 if he still wants one, and so on, until they're all gone.
Without laws forcing them to do short hauls, they simply won't do them. Uber drivers won't be any different in this regard.
I don't think you know how Uber works. If no drivers are willing to take a particular fare, then the price goes up until an Uber driver is willing to take the fare.
Furthermore, why is it fair to expect a really cheap short haul ride when a driver is required to wait in line at an airport for an hour as in your example?
Why shouldn't prices be more reflective of their true cost in resources like gasoline and people's time and energy?
If all these taxis only want to do long haul trips, then it simply means the long haul trips are overpriced and the short haul trips are underpriced. Uber solves this problem much better than government regulations forcing taxis to take fares they don't want.
Fair is a matter of perspective.
Taxis already have a 1st mile and meter drop rate, which exist already to "punish" short hauls. But taxi drivers, and Uber drivers are greed-driven.
The question is why taxi drivers are forced to take short hauls. It's a service to the city, and the hotels and airports and convention centers. In the most simple example: If short-hauls in Vegas go up in price, or drivers refuse to take them, then Vegas becomes a less popular attraction, so the city forces regulation on its taxi companies so that visitors know that taxis in Vegas are a reliable always-on-demand service.
Letting the market "correct itself" so that short hauls are more expensive, the tragedy of the commons happens and suddenly there are fewer and fewer long hauls, since there are fewer and fewer short-hauls, as more people rent cars or avoid Vegas entirely opting for Atlantic City, Foxwoods, or Macau.
An unregulated free market doesn't always solve everything.
In cities with a high concentration of taxis serving airports and hotels, short hauls are DEATH for taxi drivers. They get a $5 fare, and then they have to get back in line at the airport for an hour. Get more than a couple of short hauls in a row, and you could even lose money working. [Some taxi drivers rent their cab and rent dispatch service for the day and need to meet a floor of business before they make ANY money.] Without laws forcing them to do short hauls, they simply won't do them. Uber drivers won't be any different in this regard.
The only hope is that flexible pricing models allow for these sort of hauls, but in the end, the customer ends up paying more -- since nobody wants to drive from the airport for $5.
Hollywood uses phone tracking when it's convenient to the plot, and discards it when it's not. The biggest procedural crime drama on TV (NCIS) had phones being instantly trackable as recently as this season, with people specifically removing their batteries for exactly that reason. That same show ignores that ability when it makes the storyline more interesting without it.
No secret conspiracy to show it one way or the other.
Facebook Purity - now "F.B. Purity" or "Fluff Busting Purity" is the answer for me.
Socially speaking, my friends and family are holding the Facebook gun to my head. If I want to show up on game night and not be the odd man out, I need to respond to event invites. If I want to invite my friends to things, I need to invite them there. It's *the* calendar management app for them.
A while ago, people stopped sharing actual photos on Facebook, and started sharing and endless stream of eGreetings and "my politics are better than yours" pictures. I wanted to actually see photos of my relatives and their kids....but the signal/noise ratio was too much.
FB Purity solved my problem.
I don't see shared photos. I don't see ads. I don't see trending topics. I see posts chronologically. I get to hit "enter" without posting.
Only 1.1M watched the premiere, so despite it being "pretty good," I wouldn't get too attached to it. [Turn (their revolutionary war spy show) got about twice that many...]
For geeks, there's some fairly cool retro-tech, but it's all only loosely based on parallel events, so it lacks some of the interest a more historically grounded show might have.
We haven't even dug into our planet passed 12 kilometers! We've barely explored the bottom of the ocean! Who cares about cubic parsecs of sucking void?
The problem with Netflix (and others) is that movies are rarely available forever in the pool.
It's sure convenient, but old content is constantly shoved out for new content - and being a curmudgeon myself, I like having those old movies available to me.
I love the convenience that Netflix (and its ilk) provide. For ephemeral things, I just download or stream them, enjoy them, and move on.
...but I want to "own" my favorites, even if that ownership is just bits in a drive and a box in storage in the closet under the stairs.
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I don't think anyone who's ever visited the site could be confused about whether it's an official Ikea site or not.
At a glance, the site looks a lot like an official "Ikea" site - complete with blue and yellow theme, rotating images of Ikea products, etc. The Ikea cartoon figure guy who illustrates their instruction manual is plastered everywhere...
That said, it seems the compromise they reached was fair.
Keep using IkeaHackers.net (domain) if you don't do it for benefit (e.g. remove the ads).
Going to the airport as a taxi driver is like participating in a lottery with a positive expected value. The average $10 ticket (your wait time) returns way more than $10. [We know this because taxi drivers PAY to be able to wait in the lines there, and they choose to do it.] But sometimes, your ticket is still a loser short-haul, or a trip to a location where there's 0 chance of a return fare. If you, as a taxi driver, didn't have to take short hauls, your EV increases if you just tell the short haul to pound sand and you go get back in line -- especially since there's a good chance at hitting the jackpot, getting a long drive to a resort, with tons of bags from a guy who knows how to tip.
Letting drivers cherry-pick fares and ignore short-hauls from any place with a taxi line and then setting a floor on taxi prices or assessing airport/resort fees probably works in a place like Phoenix or Dallas or even LA, but it doesn't work in cities where taxis are a major part of the transportation business.
Taxi companies have fought hard to get the flag drop and first mile rates they already have. Good luck getting them to raise them further to implement your fix to the system.
o you can't. You still have to output valid blocks or every node will reject it.
Great. Who's "everyone?"
51% of the clients approve it, some small percentage of clients who're aware of the 51% attack try (pointlessly) to reject it, and the rest of the clients standardize of the one that the 51% push.
He answered your questions about why they don't just keep every unit they make and plug it in.
It's currently profitable, but risky.
They prefer the steady (safe) income of selling rigs over the potentially higher (but risky) income of mining BTC.
Even in a profitable gold rush, not everyone wants to find a stream and start panning.
Illegal?
In what country? Internetia?
Correct.
If you have BTC, and you lose your wallet and/or keys to your wallet, those bitcoins are (effectively) destroyed.
For non-identical items, it can get ever weirder. For example:
Be a bidder on 10 poker tables seized from an underground casino.
Winner bids $230 and gets first pick. He's then allowed to take any more he wants at $230. Then the second highest bidder can have one at $220 if he still wants one, and so on, until they're all gone.
Home plate is base after third in baseball.
Players run from third to home when they score.
As such, those are all home runs.
Also, you're an idiot.
Only brown people :(
Without laws forcing them to do short hauls, they simply won't do them. Uber drivers won't be any different in this regard.
I don't think you know how Uber works. If no drivers are willing to take a particular fare, then the price goes up until an Uber driver is willing to take the fare.
Furthermore, why is it fair to expect a really cheap short haul ride when a driver is required to wait in line at an airport for an hour as in your example?
Why shouldn't prices be more reflective of their true cost in resources like gasoline and people's time and energy?
If all these taxis only want to do long haul trips, then it simply means the long haul trips are overpriced and the short haul trips are underpriced. Uber solves this problem much better than government regulations forcing taxis to take fares they don't want.
Fair is a matter of perspective.
Taxis already have a 1st mile and meter drop rate, which exist already to "punish" short hauls. But taxi drivers, and Uber drivers are greed-driven.
The question is why taxi drivers are forced to take short hauls. It's a service to the city, and the hotels and airports and convention centers. In the most simple example: If short-hauls in Vegas go up in price, or drivers refuse to take them, then Vegas becomes a less popular attraction, so the city forces regulation on its taxi companies so that visitors know that taxis in Vegas are a reliable always-on-demand service.
Letting the market "correct itself" so that short hauls are more expensive, the tragedy of the commons happens and suddenly there are fewer and fewer long hauls, since there are fewer and fewer short-hauls, as more people rent cars or avoid Vegas entirely opting for Atlantic City, Foxwoods, or Macau.
An unregulated free market doesn't always solve everything.
That sounds kinda fun...
Concur.
I'd go to a fixed price mystery dinner if the fixed price were attractive enough.
In cities with a high concentration of taxis serving airports and hotels, short hauls are DEATH for taxi drivers. They get a $5 fare, and then they have to get back in line at the airport for an hour. Get more than a couple of short hauls in a row, and you could even lose money working. [Some taxi drivers rent their cab and rent dispatch service for the day and need to meet a floor of business before they make ANY money.] Without laws forcing them to do short hauls, they simply won't do them. Uber drivers won't be any different in this regard.
The only hope is that flexible pricing models allow for these sort of hauls, but in the end, the customer ends up paying more -- since nobody wants to drive from the airport for $5.
Hotel and Airport taxis must do short hauls. Uber drivers can cherry pick and skip short hauls.
Yeah, uh, just a little...
Starbucks should give up on coffee and focus on it's core strength - having a bunch of hipsters sit around and write their screenplays.
My games will know when I'm angry the good old fashioned way -- by finding themselves smashed and/or thrown out a window.
Hollywood uses phone tracking when it's convenient to the plot, and discards it when it's not. The biggest procedural crime drama on TV (NCIS) had phones being instantly trackable as recently as this season, with people specifically removing their batteries for exactly that reason. That same show ignores that ability when it makes the storyline more interesting without it.
No secret conspiracy to show it one way or the other.
Take off your tinfoil hat and go out side, dolt.
Facebook Purity - now "F.B. Purity" or "Fluff Busting Purity" is the answer for me.
Socially speaking, my friends and family are holding the Facebook gun to my head. If I want to show up on game night and not be the odd man out, I need to respond to event invites. If I want to invite my friends to things, I need to invite them there. It's *the* calendar management app for them.
A while ago, people stopped sharing actual photos on Facebook, and started sharing and endless stream of eGreetings and "my politics are better than yours" pictures. I wanted to actually see photos of my relatives and their kids. ...but the signal/noise ratio was too much.
FB Purity solved my problem.
I don't see shared photos.
I don't see ads.
I don't see trending topics.
I see posts chronologically.
I get to hit "enter" without posting.
FB is back to tolerable.
Only 1.1M watched the premiere, so despite it being "pretty good," I wouldn't get too attached to it. [Turn (their revolutionary war spy show) got about twice that many...]
For geeks, there's some fairly cool retro-tech, but it's all only loosely based on parallel events, so it lacks some of the interest a more historically grounded show might have.
We haven't even dug into our planet passed 12 kilometers! We've barely explored the bottom of the ocean! Who cares about cubic parsecs of sucking void?
Nothing prevents us from exploring them all...
We're not even orbiting a 1st generation star, for FSM's sake.
Stars had lived their entire lives before ours even formed.
The problem with Netflix (and others) is that movies are rarely available forever in the pool.
It's sure convenient, but old content is constantly shoved out for new content - and being a curmudgeon myself, I like having those old movies available to me.
I love the convenience that Netflix (and its ilk) provide. For ephemeral things, I just download or stream them, enjoy them, and move on.
SNAP! You and your Unnecessary Capitals sure showed him.
Your currency is very heavy.
Neat, but we have been watching the sun's output for decades.