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"Just wear headphones" is the new "Just hit delete."

They all seem to have a pretty standard set of letters and diacritics.

Care to elaborate?

I'm curious... how many times have you moved because you felt your tax dollars weren't managed appropriately?

Showing the sensitive and non-sensitive variables as a greyed out bar graph "behind" the slider is a brilliant bit of data visualization.

Agreed. However, their (in)ability to do one without the other is not my problem.

Uber started a revolution; but there is no requirement that they survive it.

That was a great analysis, although I do have a small difference of opinion with you on point #7.

Uber's key innovation and disruptive influence is in the customer experience, and I look forward to them finding a way for them to focus on that without exploting technicalities in worker characterization.

That may be, but that doesn't mean it was useless to halt that abuse of the process.

That's true, but only in the most naïve sense.

A house starts falling apart as soon as it's put together... and it keeps falling it apart, and you have to keep putting it back together. The distribution of expenses is lumpier with a house than with a condo, but it's certanly an ongoing cash outflow.

The general problem with doing gigs "for exposure" is that it typically only gets you other gigs "for exposure".

So... why are you doing something you hate?

In addition (as mentioned above), FIFA sanctions don't mean all that much to the US, so the US has a lot less to lose by prosecuting this, both financially and in the court of public opinion.

The good news about PowerPoint is that it only takes five minutes for a previously untrained person to make a slide presentation.

The bad news is roughly the same.

In all seriousness, my theory is that the more you want to solo in EVE, the more it turns into Spaceships and Spreadsheets.

That is five percent of EVE.

The other 95% is spreadsheet manipulation and waiting for your kitchen timer to go off.

The problem with useful/useless is how often you have to re-run the function with people you see more than once.

Run it only once, and perma-store the info? Their state could change and you miss out on opportunities.

Run it each time and behave accordingly? That doesn't work, either. People know when they're being used.

Honestly, being kind all the time sounds like a lot less work.

Not a direct reply, but to put some scale around the numbers:

20,000,000,000,000 kWh = 20,000,000,000 MWh = 20,000,000 GWh / 8,760 hours/year ~= 2,283 GW average steady-state generation, globally.

A typical utility-scale nuclear reactor produces around 0.5 GW.

Employers shifting externalities onto employees is something that labor law has been created to mitigate for decades.

The fact that Uber has found a loophole (which is being closed quickly) does not make it "okay, because it's consensual".

Also, I have issues with semantically null statements that could have been written by a Markov Chainer that's seeded with text from the Mises Institute, but that's a more personal problem.

Assertion. Platitude, assertion. Rhetorical question.

While my eyebrows are raised past the top of my hairline right now, kudos to him for giving it a shot at a large scale.

Whatever the outcome, it's going to be a very interesting case study.

Your superior knowledge has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for supplying the data point.

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Your superior knowledge has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for supplying this data point.

That is a brilliant way of stating that observation. Thank you.

Along with what others have posted, it may mean that you've chosen a business model that only scales linearly.

I disagree. Feedback is usually necessary for anything to actually get better.

Negative feedback might be necessary for the commenter to feel better.

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Full text of bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1466...

VW TDI owner and Boston resident, here.

Typically, gas stations which sell Diesel fuel put in anti-gelling additives that vary with the time of year. In the 12 years I've owned my car, I've never had a problem with gelling fuel, even when it got down to -5° F.

That being said, I'd have to lean on the glow plugs for 20-30 seconds at those temperatures, in order to get the engine block warm enough to turn over.

I'm presuming that local constabularies and insurance companies adore adaptive cruise control.

A whole bunch of cars clocked at 12mph over the limit? That's a bonanza of low-mileage speeding tickets, which is good for police dept. revenue, and good for insurance company revenue, because it doesn't actually change the risk pool in exchange for a nice rate bump.

It appears that you're implying an obvious conclusion based on a very specific experience, but I don't follow the implication. Can you elaborate?