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Was I the only one wondering why all these English people are living in Iceland?

Well, they'll still need to sort out real memories from imagined or implanted.

Bend the rules? Are you for real?

Uber not only deliberately and flagrantly breaks the law, but it developed systems to prevent police and regulators from doing their jobs.

Uber is like someone who wants to rob banks until he gets rich, and then use the money to stay out of jail and transition into legitimate business.

I think solving there problem of easy distribution is faaaaaaar more important than the small overhead involed.

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This completely depends on what you want out of your web backend!

Do you need some sort of rest-like HTTP API? Highly suggest Haskell and the Servant framework! It's amazing.

This statement is laughably naive... crypto markets are quite literally a wild west free for all.

We're going to see crypto markets go through many of the same lessons that traditional markets did and slowly relearn why we have regulation and insurance.

Jealousy is a very real human emotion.

Uber doesn't only operate in that country. When you operate at the scale and international scope that uber does, economic warfare, espionage, and corrupt governments are a real thing.

I hate Uber but I don't think this is something to really fault them on.

One major concern about "turning bottom-tier jobs into more productive roles" is about the number of jobs. If 10,000 cashier jobs gets turned into 1,000 maintenance and guidance jobs, you've still put 90% of your workforce out of work.

While I don't think we should artificially protect such bottom-tier jobs, this transformation is still going to be very disruptive.

Especially if your full-time job contract specifically prohibits you from getting a second job or doing side jobs.

If the company is buying all of your working time then they had damn well better be paying you at least a living wage.

Northern and DLR are like right next to each other underground... the longest will be going from Waterloo & City or the Central line, across to the District line.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/...

The train slows down between Hyde Park Corner and Green Park as it passes through the now closed Down Street station.

The platforms of Down Street have been bricked up but otherwise the station is still there. You can tell you're passing through it when the train slows, and the wall changes to brick for several seconds. You can also see some kind of junction before the platforms. If you walk along Down St on the surface you can even see the old station facade still there.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5046265,-0.1477147,3a,75y,...

This guy has a very detailed map of the underground system including closed/defunct stations: http://carto.metro.free.fr/cartes/metro-tram-london/

For starters, there is no contract negotiation and they have no say in it. Everything is dictated by Uber as if they were the employer.

They're part-time employees with flexible/voluntary scheduling.

If they’re only profitable because they are exploiting their workforce essentially evading labour laws, then good, they should be upended.

Yeah, the real ask must be fewer issues, not zero. The cause for concern is that self driving cars increase the chances of systemic failure.

I was expecting a scientific solution to help wine taste better.

Have we never seen it before because it's inaccurate and irrelevant?

Is it really so confusing? I mean, if you understand + for integers and for strings and for lists, and you can understand why this is basically the same operation for all of them, congratulations! you know what a monoid is.

The eyes of the international community don't matter a whole lot here when it's the Russian police who will come knocking on the door with(out) a warrant.

You can't die if you were never alive to begin with

In London I see this charge all over the place even for only two people... usually it's 10-12%.

You seem to be confused... your words mean something other than what you think they mean.

You wrote that Google does not have the "whole IP". You are saying that there is something that Google doesn't have access to?

If Google has non-exclusive rights to all of HTC's IP, then they do have the whole IP. They just aren't the only company with the whole IP.

When I was interviewing for mid level jobs in Montreal most of the salaries were around 45-75k CAD. At 80k I was the second-highest paid dev in our office.

Certainly there are jobs paying more, but they are far from the norm.

Also look at the future of their product line and where you'll eventually be upgrading, if you buy in to Apple... I switched back to Android over this.

"for being _accused_ of being a terrorist"

I feel like this needs to be repeated over and over. In theory, encryption and smart contracts and bitcoin are mathematically sound and "you can't argue with the math!"

But the theory is written into real programs by humans, who make mistakes. The math is unassailable until, oops, it isn't, because someone forgot a bounds check!

But I already remap capslock to escape!

The only problem I have with zsh is it is sloooooow. Using prezto for a powerline with git repo status.

Trying to enter a huge repo like Emacs source.... it crawls to a halt.