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For better or worse I think there are quote a few Uber employees that will support this move if it happens. The number of employees publicly speaking out for Travis is just the tip of the iceberg.

Case in point - a female friend just completed a round of interviews there and was shocked to find that multiple interviewers openly commented about how badly they wanted Travis back, and how the sexism scandal was overblown. All male employees I should point out.

IANAL but my understanding is that 1) it keeps your activities private when doing business as the LLC since no one has to disclose the owner of the LLC and 2) tax liabilities are not passed to the owner of the LLC, so if a business deal goes underwater the creditors can't pursue you personally.

I'm sure some details there aren't 100%. most people I know using them are privacy freaks so my experience is biased towards that end of it.

I grew up in Houston - until the last decade or so there has always been one cold as hell month during the year. I remember Februaries where the high temp during the entire month was in the 30s.

my point being that you have to condition your air pretty much year round if you live north of Galveston, unfortunately.

they even make note of Texas fairing pretty middle of the pack on a per capita basis. if they normalized for some sort of temperature metric I'm sure Texas is very average - weather in the state is brutal at both ends of the year.

you are twisting his words. there are sound arguments against capitalism and wealth creation but "resources are spent when you do things with them" isn't on the list.

as much as I love Elixir (and Erlang/BEAM) I get uncomfortable when people say "I heard it was a magic bullet for scalability and concurrency[...]. the language provides primitives that can, in certain circumstances, make it easier to scale horizontally, but there's no magic. and there are certainly tradeoffs (esp with regards to managing state) that can actually make your code harder to scale.

dig the post, just an observation. for anyone new to the language reading this please understand that Elixir isn't a super fast/concurrent Ruby replacement. but it is a hell of a lot of fun to program in.

this is the difference between basic and applied research - Musk is doing great work in the applied research space. taking proven models and bringing them to market, bringing down costs, etc.

anti-aging research is still in the basic phase - it might be decades before techniques can be applied with any sort of scale. in that sense you really do need huge institutions (or in this case, billionaires) to fund it all. retail investors like you (assuming) and I really can't get involved at the scale or timelines these sorts of ventures require.

at this scale their digital marketing is not your traditional performance marketing. traditional performance marketing would absolutely be worthless to a brand this big, but large ad buys ensure they stay top of mind for consumers in a (commodities) space where competition is more numerous than it is deep.

yeah that's why I said at that scale, for this suite of brands, all marketing is brand (i.e. brand awareness) marketing.

Bingo. No one rushes to the store to get Downy because of a Facebook ad, but they might start buying something else a few months later if another brand has been consistently hitting them with ads.

A couple of things going on at once - it's hard for old guard companies to compete in digital marketing because consumers are being trained to buy based on reviews, price, and delivery times more than brand. And when you're spending $100M/quarter over a dozen brands all digital marketing is going to be brand marketing.

It also raises a question about conversion being a lagging indicator here. It's possible after a few more months of lower spend they will start to see consumers pulling back.

this, pretty much. it's as declarative and surprise-free as you can get in CSS and it works super well when abstracted into components.

I know it isn't the easiest to read and it seems counterintuitive at first, but in practice you can easily encapsulate long chains of inline classes into helper classes thus giving most projects a sort of sane middle ground.

hopefully in a millennia mathemeticians will have finally convinced the world that the golden ratio really isn't special.

Those places are all just as, if not more, expensive than SF and come with their own challenges as well. The school systems in the peninsula are fantastic though, and for most families that trade-off alone is probably worth it.

>It feels great. It's called culture, and being aware of it, not a blind consumer of what tastes good (McDonalds tastes good too).

oh please, elitism isn't culture it's a perspective. you have a perspective about the things you like which is no more or less valid than anyone else's. no matter how enlightened you think you are when it comes to music I promise there is an entire subculture that finds your tastes closer to "blind consumption" than "true music fan". 100% relative.

>No, but human culture has, and always had, a way to prfioritize what's important and what's not besides mere consumption or influence (crap has also influenced a lot of imitators).

please, please describe for me this mechanism by which "human culture" has prioritized important art. I would love to hear what unassailable framework you think draws a line between "important" and "crap".

my (somewhat) unpopular take on this is that guitar heroes are made when new genres break into the mainstream. or at least it has been that way for the last 60 years or so.

Delta blues, British invasion, white blues, hair metal, punk, grunge - new sounds were making waves and getting popular on the radio so kids latched on to them (partially because their parents hated it). but we haven't had a new guitar-based genre break the pop charts in the last 15-20 years so kids are only hearing new takes on old styles, like Mayer. brilliant musician but not nearly as exciting as the stuff their parents hate - EDM.

how does it feel up on that high horse? there are no absolutes in music (as an art form) so you really can't say that Diplo is less important than Dylan until long after both are dead. even then, Diplo is influencing a ton of kids and will have impact that way for decades to come so where do you draw the line?

Dylan himself probably never thought he'd be as important a musician as his heroes - Elvis, Little Richard, etc. but now they are all in the same conversation.

music is fun. the expected almost never happens.

huge difference. people will order clothes without paying, get them super fast, and feel free to return before they've even been charged. Amazon really is doing everything they can to remove purchasing barriers.

last ditch effort from JCrew to make money, as they are really hurting right now. JCrew Factory is also their "clearance" brand.

> House cats also show none of the typical signs of animal domestication, such as infantilization of facial features, decreased tooth size, and docility.

this is probably false? your average house cat is obviously more docile than an actual wild cat. Devon Rex, Cornish Rex, and Siamese all have exaggerated infantile features (you could argue that all house cats have similar features compared to say, a bobcat). and their teeth are all much smaller across the board.

plus a host of other domesticated animals (chickens, horses) only meet one or two of the above criteria. so if the question is "are cats as domesticated as dogs?" the answer is definitely not. but the article seems to harp on a weird definition of the word "domesticated"

I ignore stuff our CEO posts all the time. there isn't a pretense that everything he shares is a big deal, and if it is something important he'll send in an email or mark it as such.

might just be our culture though, there's aren't really any "jockeying for position" situations.

totally! but the pure JS syntax is pretty rough (IMO) and I was simply comparing their "default" templating languages, since most people will probably start with them.

I love react and have always been super impressed with the ecosystem FB created - just wanted to give Vue credit for being an enjoyable framework.

for what it's worth I will say that writing components in Vue is enjoyable in the way that React was initially. the two are definitely more similar than either is to Angular, but I find Vue slightly more easy to get started with (no JSX overhead). JSX is far more powerful than simple HTML templates but I rarely find myself needing that power.

but there are also so, so many concepts about programming that you, when you were a little kid, had no hope of grasping. QC is in such early stages that it is more like talking about a circuit diagram, which is something that would befuddle most smart young people.

a Hadamard transform is very "mathy" and harder to understand than the majority of basic programming concepts, but why should QC need to be easy to understand? physics and math are very dense fields where great work is being done right now nevertheless.

> If you don't enjoy JS, it's because you haven't taken the time to learn what's great about it and have gotten hung up on the stupid things other people do with it or you're copying their mistakes.

oh come on now, it's perfectly ok for people to dislike a language for any number of reasons. I don't hate JS but I don't particularly enjoy it, and that could be said for a number of popular languages. it has nothing to do with "taking the time" to learn anything - some people just don't jive with JS and that's totally cool.

yeah I've read a few things about that, certainly seems reasonable. doesn't quite describe the situation where different countries have different allergy timelines though.

as someone who has been obsessed with clothing and its manufacture (especially denim) for more than a decade - Levis is far from that. they aren't the best quality for your dollar at full price, but they are by far the best quality at their price point.

you can spend a bit more ($~150) and get a pair of jeans that are way better than a pair of Levis at ~$60, but if all you want to spend is $60 you really won't find a better quality*. Uniqlo, however, comes very close.

[1] - There are some brands that do business via preorder that will provide better quality at a similar price (Gustin comes to mind). They are covering their risk up front though (which is very different than retail and even more different than custom) and even then those companies will often end up losing money on their cheaper pairs.

peanut allergies are really only common in the west. weirdly, there doesn't seem to be much of a correlation between parts of the world that eat peanuts regularly and those that don't wrt childhood peanut allergies - peanuts are super common in sub-saharan Africa but the allergy is exceedingly rare. and in Sweden, where they eat peanuts at roughly the same rate as the US/UK, their peanut allergies tend to show up after the second year of life while in the US it tends to show up by 9 months.

which isn't to say there isn't a chance of allergic reactions to the RTUs, but given that their typical consumer is in Africa/India it seems like much less of a concern.

but this wouldn't prove anything about UBI, as a previous person commented this isn' cash therefore isn't an income. I support the idea don't get me wrong. but basic income it is not (unless there is some sort of secondary liquidity market and that seems to be counter productive to your first point).

It's possible the role is fluid because he's being groomed to take the company over from Jack. I don't think anyone can argue that Jack is doing a good job as CEO but Biz would carry some of the same goodwill that put Jack in the role and might actually be better equipped to turn the company around.

Or he's just "putting the band" back together and next month they will launch their own version of Snapchat's filtered selfies. Who knows.