As someone who has lived in New York for the past ten years, the entrance of Uber hasn't changed my life at all, other than some VCs subsidizing/coercing some lower income drivers into taking $10 off my fare when I go to the airport.

Public transportation, which you deride, usage utterly dwarfs taxis/ubers/etc (notice all of the large buildings _in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn_ where people work?). The MTA definitely has some issues, but calling it dysfunctional because it takes a little extra time to go from Astoria to Prospect Park is absurd.

I don't need to be reminded of the standard, clean, regulated experience I have every time I jump into a yellow or green cab. Boro taxis were introduced into the city _two years after_ Uber entered NYC. How can you possible hand wave them away with "too little too late"? And Uber has its fair share of drivers who have no idea where they're going (actually, definitely more, but I will say they're better about following GPS, which can be both good and bad).

They're taking about limited the number and providing a minimum wage, hardly life changing stuff.

>> We had several goals in mind. One was being wire-format compatible with an older internal product to allow developers to migrate applications easier. Another was to have a database that could be updated anywhere and stay in sync everywhere. The first goal could only be satisfied in-house. The second was either in its infancy for open source products, or available at high cost from commercial sources.

>> Even though current research shows we do not absorb most plastics, it’s possible that a small amount (about 1 percent) can still accumulate in our bodies over time. That number might change: research on microplastics in our food is still in its infancy, and while some studies have documented the detrimental effects of plastics on fish and other aquatic animals, we still don’t know much about their long-term effects on humans.

So, all current scientific evidence points to this not being a problem. But it _might_ _maybe_ _someday_!

edit - I've also never heard of any food safety guidelines that specify different storage temperatures for different species of fish. The whole thing is pretty suspect.

There is 0% chance that I'm going to switch no matter how good your recommendation algorithm is if I can't also keep up with my current feeds.

One can already see from the first episode of season 2 (which I suppose you haven't seen yet) that it's much more complex than that.

In season one we saw the culmination of that extreme "fight club" ideology. In season two we're going to see the results of those actions. And so far it isn't pretty.

Your parent was describing a system where an Administrator edits other users' data. If that Administrator is using Chrome while editing a user, then there is no way to disable autocomplete, and the browser may fill the user's form fields with the Administrator's information resulting in bad data.

I think you're conflating Haskell with FP, which is definitely not the case. No one needs to understand category theory to write Clojure or Lisp.

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