maverick_iceman

A person will be more reliable than your phone regarding these basic information? Give me a break.

Was this in planet Earth or somewhere else? I've been to over 1000 movies and have never seen it happening with me or anyone else.

If you don't like Uber don't take Uber.

What incentive do taxi companies have under existing regulations to make the lives of passengers any better? They have been granted A monopoly by the government and passengers will have to take them however bad they are because no competition is allowed.

Drivers are adults. They can stop driving for Uber any moment that wish. Or do you think that adults don't know whats good for themselves and government needs to tell them what to do?

You know what sucks? Being black and not able to hail a cab.

Taxi service was bad everywhere if you were black.

This is why Europe will never be able to catch up to America when it comes to tech.

Would ~$500B in revenue count as the economy?

Making their anti-spam operations transparent may be self-defeating, spammers may then be able to game the system.

Yes, what GP said is true, at least since the 80s. Before that, too powerful monopolies were considered bad for society; that's why Standard Oil was broken up. However, understanding of US antitrust law underwent a shift in the 80s - now a monopoly has to actively hurt the end consumer for it to be prosecuted under the Sherman antitrust act.

It's fascinating to see how the NIMBYs couch their arguments in terms of environmentalism and morality, when they are motivated by nothing else than greed and shallow personal interest at the cost of everyone else.

Why isn't that trivially true of all languages? You can generate infinitely many valid strings of arbitrary length in any grammar. How's that special about Sanskrit?

Panini's work is considered to be the precursor of Backus-Naur form.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#Histo...

What would be the point?

Or maybe Facebook's "Add Friend" feature suggested GP to the girl.

Try inviting pro-Israel supporters and see what a stink BDS and the general leftist students make. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/students-are-shoutin...

I see this as an outgrowth of left-liberal student bodies clamping down on conservative speech on college campuses. If leftist students can block Ann Coulter from speaking then why can't Chinese students block the Dalai Lama? Every speech is guaranteed to offend someone and that's verboten in today's campuses. As a libertarian, I was always worried about this and it was a main reason why I opposed social justice warriors. Sadly, our fear has come to pass and censorship now reigns in universities. In the future, children's fairytales will be the only safe topic to discuss.

What's an example of "broad soft science"? Astrology? Telekinesis?

Why don't you run anonymous surveys so that employees can give feedback without fear of repercussions?

I always wondered about those bright colored regular shapes when I landed at SFO. Glad I finally know what they are.

Courts can't overthrow bad laws, they can only overthrow unconstitutional laws (or state laws that violate federal laws).

We understand gravity very well. General relativity is a beautiful and highly tested theory of gravity.

Scott Aaronson discussed Integrated Information Theory in 2014. His conclusion was that it is a failed research program. [1][2][3]

[1]http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799

[2]http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823

[3]http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1893

Why is it beyond the scope of science? No experiments have shown that consciousness can violate the laws of physics and steady progress has been made in explaining consciousness from neuroscience.

I think nicknames are somewhat more than a Bengali thing. :)

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7489605

Intuitively, it seems that Uber committed fraud; but is there a specific law that they violated? It's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious to know.