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Then what the hell is incentive for drivers to come out and drive during peak hours?

Awesome job! Love seeing Supercollider on the front-page of Hacker News.

The discussion surrounding this made me think of a feature I'd love to have along these lines. I'd like to be able to blacklist people / certain people from uploading pictures that facebook detects my face in. Fb as a platform must already have this functionality, what with the auto face identification and privacy / review post settings.

I can imagine images of people that aren't "non-consensual intimate images" that they'd reasonably still like to be able to block being posted.

One use case I can imagine is doxxing prevention. Say there is a national news story involving some random person in some small town that exposes the persons face and name and rough location. Some group of enraged internet denizens start sharing the person's face and name all over the place as a means to spread their pitchfork & torches mob against them.

Seems like a reasonable feature to me. Recently a professor in my state made some remarks about white privilege and the doxxing of him was so violent and pervasive that he and his family had to leave the state for months, and he still gets threats and needs protection on campus.

So yr ideal example is kinda like public roads (fiber) and private trucking (bandwidth). I think that's a neat solution tbh. Especially if the bandwidth suppliers are properly taxed for use of the public fiber, tax revenue which then could be used to maintain and expand the fiber infrastructure.

I think a good place to start is principles.

Y'know, like if you're a nation who is always going on about democracy and freedom (who even starts wars that kills 100,000s of people for these ideals), maybe don't subjugate the majority and centralize socio-economic power into the hands of a tiny minority.

I definitely dont want to belittle the importance of this kind of activity. But I very much want to shift the dialog about such machinations on the part of foreign powers towards a conversation where we acknowledge or own systemic failures in democracy at home and our rampant interventionism abroad.

I really only see the outcome of this outrage over foreign interference in our democracy resulting in a spectrum of terrible to shameful. In the terrible case, we are hyping up defensive nationalism and disregarding our own actions and history, which may very well lead to all kinds of barbaric, jingoistic policies moving forward. In the shameful case, we are taking advantage of these stories on foreign manipulation as a means to ignore what is wrong with our society, passing the blame solely onto a non american third party.

In neither case are we reviewing our history as a nation. I fear we will ignore all the possible lessons we might learn from honestly reviewing the times where we have disenfranchised our own people, overthrew foreign governments for adhering to a different socio-economic ideology, or were so blinded by our own propaganda and fear that we were convinced of conveniently simple narratives about who was bad and who was good and who we had to kill and who had to do the killing.

I feel like there is a common aphorism about how you need to fail 10 times to have a decent chance to succeed once. It seems like we have an opportunity to review our history at this moment. We didn't do any such examination after the fall of the USSR in the 90s. Nope, we were vindicated and there was no longer a reason to pen-test neoliberal-capitalism as either an economic system or a larger ideology.

It took 2 inane wars, a massive recession, and the election of idiot-nationalist reality tv show star / shitty condo developer to provide us with an opportunity to introspect, and I'll be damned if I dont make the strongest appeal my young perspective can muster for us to do that introspection.

I wasn't really trying to make a specific criticism where one country would come out as the "lighter" or the "darker", more so that the fabricated outrage and incredulity on the part of the US regarding foreign intervention in our "democracy" is an absurd kafkaesque delusion regarding our history.

Ok.

I think it is generally improper, or not preferable, to use coercive or manipulative force to alter the autonomous decision making process of a population you yourself (or your cadre) have lite or no direct stake in, accountability to, or reliance on. When the US interferes in foreign politics in a duplicitous way, we betray most of the principles of democracy. When any government or corporation or religion does this, they stomp on the idea that people should be able to make decisions for themselves. And when you live in a world dominated by the influence of immaterial third-parties, you become deeply frustrated, and this is one of the reasons things are so volatile right now.

I dunno, all you did was link to a logical fallacy article on wikipedia, so like maybe you didnt ask for me to write a missive on this notion of mine, but if I am being honest, I am honestly so frustrated by the prevalence of people thinking that pointing out a logical fallacy (aka rhetorical technique) functions as anything other than tepid dismissal.

are people really missing the beat here? that makes me feel genuine sadness.

Yeah, and it sure is a good thing we always pick the "moderate rebels" to provide material aid to, and i am so grateful that those "moderate rebels" we give weapons to never morph into horrific radical insurgencies that end up subsequently haunting us for decades.

That brings the count for number of times the US has attempted to foment a revolution in Cuba to at least 2.

I'm so glad my government, the United States Government, has definitely never spread propaganda in foreign countries with the express interest of creating a more favorable political climate there for their interests.

This is pretty awesome. Youre gonna get a lot of attention, what with your resume being on the front page of hackernews...

the situation is certainly more polite these days, but is organized crime really not involved anymore?

And if a company (or set of companies) of a given industry is operating in a single industry city, they hold all the cards in that city. That is advantageous for these companies. It was in the past and it is now, even considering the push of big companies back into cities.

A lot of corporations moved out of cities and into small municipalities / smaller states in the second half of the 20th century. They were given the gold-star treatment with tax breaks, infrastructure projects to support their corporate campuses, etc. I know a town in New Jersey where Lokheed Martin employs probably more than half of the home owners in the town. Who do you think runs that town?

Yeah, and that is exactly why they are saying it.

The urban rail systems of 100 years ago were ripped out of the streets and replaced with bus-lines and consumer automobiles after considerable lobbying effort from auto-manufacturers. Public rail infrastructure has never really bounced back.

When the interstate highway system was designed and built, it bulldozed through dozens, if not hundreds, of lower income / minority neighborhoods. The public housing projects constructed as a replacement became problematic straight away. Guess which large companies at the forefront of the push for an interstate highway system?

Point is American cities have been shaped by these corporate forces for along time. In many of those cases, perhaps most, their influence and actions have hurt the community, disbanded or destroyed neighborhoods, made transportation more expensive and nightmarish (traffic), and benefited the bottom lines of 3rd party interest groups / corporations.

That is why we are skeptical of Google, or any other for profit large institution, influencing urban planning. Far better to set standards of urban design and have multiple smaller institutions, some for profit, some not for profit, some collectivized to represent of organized neighborhoods, all develop and participate in a dynamic urban planning system.

are you associated at all with Nest? also, this is really cool. good tutorial model for automated growing perhaps.

This is a big deal. Thank you.

I think this reality has to be frankly talked about. If liberal tax policies are so destructive to business and innovation, why are the most successful counties often times (as shown in this map) run by more liberal / progressive / dare I say socialistic governments? People often criticize this line of inquiry and call it divisive or inappropriate or callous, but I cannot see how it is unrelated nonetheless.

Tax breaks, gender discriminative bathroom laws, climate protection deregulation, and "appeals to traditional values" do not seem to be improving the lives of these people very much.

Can this be used in a react component's <style jsx>? That would seem to eliminate the "copy paste" problem the author of the OP mentions, as well as allow for great DRY practice. JSX + TypeStyle sounds like a really maintainable, reusable solution.

How is there not some kind of "crew is asleep detecting autopilot" on these ships? If not on the military vessel, then on the cargo transport? Seems like it would be easy enough if they have radar. Just detect when you're on a collision course and adjust 3 degrees to port / starboard if there isn't human input?

Maybe, but the blame for this situation can't only be placed on the young who see the system failures approaching. Maybe a system built to provide care to its creators is fatally flawed if it is largely dependent on the consent and participation of children and unborn people of the future?

At which point I would like to point out that this world can likely provide for everyone were the economic ideology focused on sustainability and maintaining (at least) baseline human resource needs instead of demanding permanent growth, potmarked by boom-bust crises every 10-20 years.

I think they might have been sarcastic there, but I wouldn't want to live in a neighborhood where white people were the supermajority. I grew up outside NYC and live in New Haven now and I get totally freaked out by rural areas where you don't see a black person for weeks. Just feels off.

"electromagnetic weapons capable of disrupting electronic equipment."

I would really like to learn more about this particular capability. Could you imagine the impact in an area of conflict 'turning off' all electronics would cause?

Can't wait till the require these for health insurance... Seriously, is there regulation protecting people from "pre-existing conditions" discovered by their genetic analysis?

I think posguy is making very fair points for a time a bit ahead of this story. If Uber were to take on even a "minor" city, all the problems they're bringing up would be prescient.

To solve a specific engineering problem though, it couldn't be hard for Uber to create a SMS Uber call system, right? Txt a number, give em an address, have a card reader in the car or take cash. If Uber wants to get into public service, they have to broaden their surface area of coverage. Because what posguy was saying is true - people rely heavily on even the crappiest public transit.

That's something the "non-powerful" need to take up with the "powerful" in my opinion. Oh, wait, the "powerful" want to cut back on public education as well? Damn.

I hear you on that. And as an American, let me say that I too am longing for some kind of sensible socially cognizant and participatory democracy.

Are these Innisfil Uber drivers going to get anywhere near the benefits that old-school bus drivers get? Such as healthcare, vacation time, pension plans... No, they probably won't. The convenience of Uber makes it easier to miss all the things it "disrupted".

Sure, growing up, cabs were not the BEST experience. But now I realize that they provided a living wage to a human being and provided them with dignity. Uber can be 2-5 dollars cheaper and 5-20 minutes faster, but I don't see how it can provide that.

lots of good things being said here, but being honest with everyone, I can imagine why he did it.