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They always threaten bad results for the workers when people try to unionize, often baselessly. If they could automate the jobs away they'd have done it anyway.

Why are you so sure this isn't the case?

The net neutrality debate is about the repeal of fedral rules rather than adding an additional law. Thus a state's right to set their own rules applies. There is no fedral law to make ISPs behave in a certain way, just the lack of one, so the states should be able to set their own rules in cases like this as long as they are not unconstitutional.

States' rights do not apply in the opposite case when a fedral rule is made and the states don't want to enforce it or have a law that contradicts it. Their laws can't undermine the fedral law.

Hope that's helpful for your understanding of why this is different to the normal "states' rights" argument which is invoked when a state wants to avoid fedral rules.

Sure, but the parking requiments mentioned above only really an issue in high density cities. I don't think requiring adequate parking is an issue in the lower density areas.

Hopefully this will encourage people to consider other options if parking becomes to difficult or expensive.

You don't need atonomous vehicles to make this work. A good public transit system within the city, decent bike lanes and some park and ride options for getting in from the outskirts could be enough to make up for the reduced parking options.

Can huge funds like this run into monopoly issues when they own a significant part of multiple large companies in a space?

Wild speculation. Any evidence?

I don't think there has been much stopping these companies selling the data up to this point. That's been the issue with Facebook and others, they have happily sold peoples data with little legal protection for the people whose data they sell. There is no crime in just selling the data within the US so your theory doesn't hold up.

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Just saying someone doesn't understand something because they disagree with your idea is not a constructive argument.

You pay in monthly based on income up to a maximum amount. If you say a speeding fine just counts towards my monthly contribution and is deducted from what I have to pay anyway why not speed?

That happens either way, the discussion is about having an effective fine to discourage people and crediting the person's social security account clearly doesn't do that.

Speed until you max out your social security benefit is a crazy incentive.

It means the fine could have less of a deterrant effect on anyone who can afford it as they can frame it as money they'll get back in the long run. Why not speed if your ticket counts towards your retirement.

Having a inbuilt social good for breaking the law might make people more willing to do so as they can justify their illegal action as a contribution to public good.

Could just run the software on an Android phone.

Would it be possible to build a bike like this but with multiple gears to get to speed from a standing start and not be towed? Is 100mph tow detatchmemt a required limit for the record?

This. My inbox is a to-do list for things I need to act on. Anything else gets snoozed until it needs to be done. Having non-email to-do items here too worked so well for me. Having to move back to a separate to-do list will be a pain. If they could just add this I'll happily return to Gmail.

If they'd just implement the reminders and grouping features in Gmail I'd be fine with this. I don't particularly care about how the UI looks. I use snoozed reminders so much and being able to unclutter my inbox with groups makes a huge difference. Doesn't seem like it would be hard to optionally include them in Gmail. Without them moving back to Gmail feels like a step backwards.

- All passengers near you are young children.

Some politicians have the goal of making these things run as ineffectively as possible. Underfunding initiatives and then claiming they don't work well is a tried and tested method for attacking government services.

Optical telescopes are in space to avoid the effect of the atmosphere. Radio telescopes aren't effected in the same way so I don't think there would be an advantage for them to be in orbit and it would cost a lot more.

It because the source of the money has cynically evaded tax for years and pays some of his workers less than they need to live such that they are supported by food stamps. The working conditions in Amazon factories are notoriously tough.

It's hard to take charitable giving seriously when someone has run their company in a cutthroat manner for years at the expence of some of the poorest workers.He could do better with his own businesses first.

I hope it works out and does some good but I hope this explains to you why people are cynical.

What's the difference?

How about pay your workers so they're not on food stamps and pay taxes so public schools are supported first.

This is not about protecting consumers, it's about protecting big agriculture from potential competition.

Can you be fined in Missouri for calling a limited internet connection "unlimited"?

If the actions in the article about misleading claims were taken more seriously in more areas of advertising I'd be less sceptical but, as with many things that are legislated, this is targeted protectionist lobying.

This is what I was thinking. If one person is able to break a system with a small mistake then processes are at least as much to blame as the person. Mistakes will always happen because programmers are fallible so a deployment process designed around infalliblity is destined to fail.

butt clenching

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Exactly this. The hype was all in the prototyping phase of the technology, going as far as you can get to make a demo and impress some investors. Progress looked like it was happening quickly because a controlled demo could be made with existing technology.

Now that it's time to build full production systems the hardest problems and edge cases need to be addressed, which could be ignored for demo systems, and the solutions aren't available without some new research developments.

Android is a platform that allows Google to target advertising and collects user data. The original intent was to make sure mobile users use Google products. They can and do make money from that.

> You're giving up 30% of your revenue.

Only if people would find and download your app somewhere else. This works for fortnite because they have the brand recognition and fanbase who will seek it out elsewhere. Even then it might be a barrier.

For smaller apps there's little chance they'd be making as much money or ever even be found if they weren't on the app store so the 30% maybe a fair price to pay vs nothing at all.

Seems like a trade-off where any app developer can self-publish yet there are still a lot of apps available on the play store.

> You've been using HN primarily for ideological battle.

Not really. It's an ongoing discussion sparked by the number of articles that appear on the front page that are deeply related to the economics of the tech industry. It interests me. If genuine comments responding to articles from a particular and consistent point of view are unwanted I can stop.

Everytime I log in something like this is at the top of the front page. Even now this is there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17804202

I understand your concerns and as it's not my platform fair enough. Will do better.

> If you'd review the rules

Will do

> please don't be uncivil in comments here

Fair and noted.

Even shared bus services can made into something desirable with the right marketing and investment. The large tech companies provide luxuary coach services with WiFi to their workers and the people riding them are seemingly very happy with the services.

Exactly. A lot of the issues with public transportation are because we underfund the systems and they end up seeming worse than they could be. The complaints that users have are not with the concept of trains or busses but with the failures, which can be minimized with adequate investment.