Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Lyft vs. Uber: A Tale of Two S-1’s
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Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
If Katie was a man, there would still be a large question as whether to praise one person, except as the leader of the effort.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
At the same time, it's totally common for professors to ride on the efforts of research students under their direction, to the point of being ethically questionable.
You might as well credit the Linux operating system to only a single man, whose effort is certainly largely responsible, but for who also does not in any way represent the whole of effort.
It's the ship of Theseus all over again.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: I got a full-time programming job at 19
Why not both?
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Uber S-1
I concur.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Uber S-1
So...
Step one, raise funding to run a revolutionary company.
Step two, ditch original idea for being revolutionary once funding is obtained. Use interest bearing bonds and other investments.
Step three, profit.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: I'll pay you $15 to use my free software
Have you considered the security and memory footprint implications of using electron? I totally carry your base concern for making this, but electron would not generally my first choice for making most apps.
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-6765...
https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
Reporting things falsely as a terrorist action IS a terrorist action!!!!!!
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: SELinux Has a UI Problem
It would be nice if the article writer realized that SELinux was not responsible for the specific error that was being displayed. Additionally, anyone that does linux should know that a permission error is either file system perms or selinux 9 times out of 10.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: New paper quantifies how quickly Southern planters recovered from the civil war
As long as you remember which ethnic group(s) owned and shipped the majority of slaves, I'm totally cool with reparations. Reparations should of course be made from the coffers of the descendants of those individuals, where possible. Generational wealth is a very real problem in some countries.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Banned Drugs in the Meat Supply?
It would be nice to have independent reviews of vaccines from companies so that consumers could make informed decisions. Vaccines are generally good, but the accountability to keep them that way is not as strong as you'd think.
And yes, man made pollutants are still the disaster of this century. Just because we've removed lead from gasoline doesn't mean everything else is fixed.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
Opera is a Chinese owned company now, right? How safe are you in trusting a Chinese VPN? Maybe slightly better than a VPN operated by Facebook...maybe?
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: An epidemic of fake influencers and the death of meritocracy
I love how articles like this make all these problems seem brand new. As if scammers never existed before the internet. The internet must be so evil.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products
Do you honestly think that slave owners simply gave up after slavery became illegal in the US? No, they simply found new and ingenuitive ways of exploiting people. Winning a battle is seldom ever winning the war.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Hateful and Confused: Blocked by Twitter, Promoted by Facebook
"The US has an image problem"
If that's true, then you could probably state that Twitter has a problem 1000 times that size.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: The US says Chinese spies are targeting Boston for its tech secrets
"Mistakes" can also be just lack of sufficient evidence, or even evidence that is not collected properly. Mistakes do not always mean the party is innocent, just that we take them to be on a legal basis regardless of the truth.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill
The expectation I have is that these sky high prices will drive a boom not unlike the computer electronics boom of the 60's. When money of this amount is at stake, people are willing to do almost anything to get in on the action.
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill
Or a different planet!!!
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Google dissolves AI ethics board just one week after forming it
"Do no evil." Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha HA!
Not_a_pizza | 7 years ago | on: Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airport by border cops
Quick reminder: Without a true Bill of Rights, your rights, as much you might think they are secure, are virtual at best.
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With self driving cars much further away than previously thought, this is the real danger for a company like Uber, who is bleeding money through their standard taxi-like services, quarter after quarter.