I believe Uber will charge you for the trip (but less than the cost of a normal ride), and give a chunk of the money to the driver (just as they do normally).
My takeaway is that deaths due to drug and alcohol poisoning, and liver disease which is often caused by alcohol abuse, has been rising dramatically over the past decade.
I'm not sure what "redeploy the entire site every time they wanted to change some text" means. When you use a continuous integration tool you don't ever have to manually touch the deploy process, it can happen immediately after you make your change (if you so wish). The marketing team makes a change, the change goes live on the site. The only difference between this and any other CMS are the technical advantages.
To me the logic is simple: It's more efficient to build the site when its content changes (very infrequently) rather than when its viewed (very frequently). Yes various forms of caching can allow you to scale the dynamic model quite far, but scaling gets so much simpler when you move into the static world.
In answer to your questions, the general idea is you have a static site, and a powerful API. The power of the JavaScript engine in modern browsers allows you to build your entire application to run in the browser, sending asynchronous requests to your API as is required. You're essentially just removing the Python/PHP/etc. middleware layer many sites have traditionally had.
> Why don't we say that gunmen attack Planned Parenthoods because of income inequality in the United States?
I do. I think the Planned Parenthood shooting is due to a combination of mental illness and lack of education. I don't think it really matters which crazy ideology you pick, you can use it to justify your actions. And if the crazy, uneducated, people weren't shooting up a Planned Parenthood, they would be shooting up a theater, or a school, or any number of other places. The solution is to educate kids and to treat the mentally ill.
Why does this tiny group of Muslims commit hate crimes, while the vast majority do not? Piketty thinks it's income inequality, what's your explanation?
Raising $100M at a $25B valuation means someone paid $100M for a .4% stake in AirBnB, which is both surprising and amazing to me. This does ignore whatever preference and specialized terms the stakeholders were given. And of course, the buyers aren't necessarily saying they think the company is worth $25B, they are saying they believe the market will value it at more than $25B at some point in the future.
People who utilize a structured society, not a roving band of city-dwelling mercenaries? There are many, many examples of bands of 'citizens' subverting the legal system by taking justice into their own hands. Often, they ended with lynchings. We have police and a government because the protection of the people is the job of professionals who (usually) respect the rule of law, not random able-bodied men hunting down (possibly innocent) people through city streets.
True meal replacements which are suitable for long-term use are not widely marketed to consumers. They tend to be available only through medical channels.
They probably work for charging as well in most cases. The issue with most of them is they could allow too much current to flow, more than a micro-usb cable is rated for. Some consumers might appreciate this though, trading an miniscule fire hazard for their device charging faster.
The simple answer is the browser as a platform stalled for ten years or so (the "Flash Era"). It's only very recently that real work was put into adding new capabilities like video playback (See the WHATWG conflict). Beyond that, I would add that the natural complexity of video encoding and the legalities which surround it complicate things. The video playback implementation bundled into the browsers is simpler than what you might find in something like VLC, making it a bit less capable of handling all the potential oddities a video can have. You have to actually encode your video in multiple formats, and even then be very careful, to get it to actually play in every browser at the moment. Hopefully these things will stabilize in the near future, but it's early days.
I really wish browsers could leverage this for caching across origins. If my copy of jQuery has the same SHA256 as another file the user has already downloaded, there's no need to load it again
I wonder what happens if you try to charge them for a ride which costs more than you have in your account. They require a $25 balance, but you can certainly go on much more expensive rides.
The post is shockingly editorial: "Regardless of the ultimate outcome, this trademark dispute is just another embarrassment for a firm that continues to look less like the “Harvard of venture capital” and more like an elaborate and mismanaged funnel for acqui-hires."
I'm not sure what that has to do with an attempt to get a trademark, but it certainly seems like the author has some strong, if unrelated, opinions.
Assuming that Didi didn't have the resources to expand into the US directly (and god knows Lyft isn't going into China any time soon), I think this is a great deal. It allows Didi to maintain a reasonable modicum of pressure on Uber and dip its toes into the US market without any significant resource outlay. It doesn't though help Lyft to compete with Uber any better than the somewhat lackluster job they've done of it in the past couple of years. Perhaps the money, and the advertising it allows, will help. There is still a significant proportion of people who have never used Uber or Lyft, what the companies do to capture them is going to be very interesting.
Barring any extreme creativity, they should fire those people. It doesn't excuse the incompetence which led to that position though. Working at HP is not a seasonal job.