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Uber's reputation system and screening and similar play the same role (together with normal vehicle inspections). Uber vehicles in Boston are in much better shape than cabs.

This is much more the case. The digital reputation system works better than all the taxi background checks. The routing works better. And it eliminates insane rules which effectively make taxis drive half the time without passengers (e.g. restricted pickup zones -- if a taxi takes me to the airport, they can't bring someone else back).

... Only one of the cases he listed, the developmentally-challenged kid, would result in a lawsuit if he didn't accommodate.

That's one where you throw money at the problem. You hire a custom operator to handle ADA-requests (and similar) and you pay the price difference for someone who does manage this. Legal compliance issues, you often turn into a mega-expensive non-engineering one-offs.

Or you get slapped with a DoJ investigation, and lose the business.

It depends on the culture, but I prefer cultures where everyone, including management, gives input, and the creator picks-and-chooses. Management, even upper management, giving input shouldn't necessitate a change.

Management has a big picture individuals often lack. That's an important part of the process. On the other hand, it shouldn't dominate the process.

I would guess two issues:

1. In many cases, there is a ~30ms floor on operations if a server is non-local. That's true of virtually all services on AWS -- whether SQS, SNS, SES, RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL), etc.

2. In many cases, rows are missing. A table has a million rows. Ten are deleted. It's not compacted. So it's not a simple size lookup. A lot of this depends on how the data is stored/indexed. That's something which is naively pretty slow, but easily optimized.

They're all ideologies, and some work better than others. We just don't recognize ours as such from the inside.

RMS's ideology seems to work better than the mainstream one.

Or to paraphrase you: "I don't know how to read. Ouch. Big words hurt my brain. I know! It's too complex for me, so I'll mock it."

This is a little bit different. The only reason proprietary software exists is the copyright clause in the Constitution, which grants the government a right to issue limited-time monopolies to creators of original works.

Revoking a government-granted monopoly is very libertarian. Revoking mutual consent is the opposite.

Kinda. They act more like a for-profit than like a non-profit.

This isn't the public. This is military-funded research at Rutgers. The military generally doesn't have a reason to fund things it has (although DARPA might just not know about classified technologies developed by different branches). But in most cases, the military funds things in academia, a fraction of which become militarized later.

Conformist lets you hit 6 figures easily. Going beyond, non-conformists have the advantage.

As a serious non-conformist, those were actually the hardest lessons to learn. I changed the clothing I wear (which doesn't matter much to me), how I communicate, and stopped alienating people over things which don't matter. That me non-conform on the things which do matter a lot more and a lot more successfully.

Sue for misrepresentation. Will you win? I don't know. But it will likely be cheaper to give you service than to defend against the law suit.

Why not 16k? Microsoft has never done too well with the forward looking bit. We were stuck at 1080p because software did not support more, and there was no demand for monitors and vice versa. Cell phones and Macs validated the market, and 5 years later, MS starts to catch up. 8k displays are now coming out, so Microsoft adds support without looking forward another few years.

The core problem is that practicing law without a license is illegal. That actually is a pretty low standard to accidentally break unless you read and re-read your posts to make sure every statement is non-specific enough. I am perfectly qualified to discuss law (I took several law classes in my life, several from a top-4 law school) but I don't do it, since a post like this takes an obscene amount of time relative to a normal post. The same is true of many qualified non-lawyers on the Internet, so most of the people who do comment are either sufficiently clueless about the law to not know they shouldn't, confident of anonymity, Ina different jurisdiction, or similar.

In this case, there are many issues (indeed, most of what idiot wrote is not correct), but to give one: op is taking money from people in different states, placing orders with delivery services there, etc. Contrast that with idiot's statement about no jurisdiction and frivolous lawsuits.

How much did they surcharge?

I hope their business model is to provide sane-cost concierge.

Bad idea: Giving legal advice without a license.

Worse idea: giving incorrect legal advice without a license.

Jurisdiction is complex. With the Internet, you do not need to have a physical location somewhere to do business there.

A toddler won't make 5% of the population sick when in an enclosed air system like a plane, some to the point of needing an adrenaline injection or they will die of anaphylactic shock, or a beta antagonist inhaler for an asthmatic attack (which can also be lethal, although less often than anaphylaxis since it can usually be managed with an inhaler). The rules are not there for pain in the butt. They are there to protect a lot of other people.

As someone with both allergies and a child with life-threatening allergies, I have noticed this trend and find it disturbing. There are stores I cannot go to anymore because of this sh*t. That's about 5% of the population and rising.

edX is not OpenCourseware. Very different courses. Same material taught, but OCW is just lecture captures of MIT classes. edX is full courses designed for a global audience.

I hate dealing with tipping, so I almost always go with uber.

From my seat in back, the difference is tipping. I hate tipping. Increase fares 15% if you want, but not dealing with tipping was one of the nice things about Uber.