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when i use google or amazon, im usually pretty happy with the service they provide.
when i have to stand at a walmart cashier for half an hour while the lady has to yell for the manager because she needs to issue a $1.20 refund, im not as happy.
when I have to go to the library of alexandria to find a piece of infomration that im looking for but then they tell me that it burned down 2000 odd years ago, im not as happy.
you are delusional. i want a ride. when i want a ride, i want a ride. what i dont want is to sit in a queue. uber provides that service by pricing people who are less well off out of taking a ride that they can give to me, while making more money off of me that they would make off of a queue.
they prioritize the customer that spends more money with them, over the one who would spend less money with them. our business objectives are aligned.
sure, a queue would be more fair. the idiot over there pressed the button first so he gets served first. because thats fair.
FAIR. FAIRER THAN FAIR.
go read some more marx.
and dont compare taxis to healthcare. different issues.
btw, i was talking about the german taxi market. which is scary as fuck. dont want any of my loved ones ride one of those taxis.
> But it isn't just "an option" it's the only option.
Its not the only option. There are taxis. Cant afford uber, get a fucking taxi. I dont care. Get into a queue. Huddle under the taxi stand while the rain pours down on you waiting for a taxi. Meanwhile I surge price home.
Youre only pissy because peasants get priced out of a service that is scarce. go read some more marx.
i agree that i misinterpreted the codes intention.
but it does not. taxi drivers are mega sketchy, to the point where id be very worried if my gf or future children had to deal with them.
beyond their sketchyness, they act entitled to a point that is just not respectable.
apparently, you think their pricing is regulated, which its not. whats regulated is their pay per time. to jack prices up, they take bullshit routes, which not only wastes my money but my time on top of that.
if surge pricing guarantees that i will get a ride (at a higher price) then im all about that. sure, it incites peasant rage when other people have to not compete for rides becuase theyre priced out of it. big deal.
uber and travis may be a shitstack, but theyre a shitstack thats vastly less shitstack-y than the taxi industry.
edit: this is actually about background checks? well then, how many uber drivers have rape-murdered passenger so far? how many taxi drivers did?
the price gouging bit is entirely retarded. surge pricing happens to control the demand. when i need a ride and cant get one because the comic con happens and a million teenage weebs need a ride, i like having the option of getting one guaranteed - at a higher rate.
if you want to sum over even numbers, just do:
sum([j*2 for j in range(0, end_range/2)])
and yes, brackets supercede pythons "whitespace is syntax". if you need linebreaks where, ordinarily, linebreaks are not allowed, just write brackets.
unless you get the law changed, companies absolutely have to put their financial gains first.
google cases of people selling as little as 5 items of "esprit" clothing.
if you resell brands and youre not an authorized vendor, youre not going to have a lot of fun for a while.
if you have the cash, go to switzerland and talk to the people instead of yammering on about how its not possible.
10% YoY on a 10M investment isn't something people talk about because its rather ordinary. but you wont get it at bank of america. commercial banks simply dont know how to produce those returns for their customers. or maybe they do but are more busy with sucking off their stakeholders. i honestly dont care.
And they just don't have any fucking reason to fuck over their clients.
Protection? If you are a billionaire and your banker fucks you over, I think they're more scared of you than you are of them.
I did not tell you to private bank with bank of america new york city. If you do that, kiss your money goodbye. They'll take all of it, funnel it into the next garbage scheme and yell "stakeholders".
thats a really simple problem with a known solution. its just not advertised at all. everyone above a couple mil gets 10-15% annually and just doesnt talk about it to average randos. because instead of listening they always start shouting matches about how its so unfair that normal people dont have access to this stuff and taxes and tax evasion and all the lowlife hate thats inevitably going to happen.
duh?
remember what happened last time nobody took them seriously? a generation of conspiracy nutters was born.
Why not try to claim they made the malaysian air flight disappear?
I'm not sure, but it doesnt seem to be on their agenda.
Terrorist code of conduct. "Thou shall not claim casualties you didn't cause."
they want to get caught. the casualties are a means to an end. if you just kill a bunch of people without anyone noticing it, nothings been gained in terms of effective terrorizing.
terrorists want to be freddy krueger, not the rollercoaster from final destination.
anyone remember thoughts being free?
"an eigenvalue of a certain elliptic equation" is probably an elliptic curve. I know very little about number theory.
There are many techniques involved. What I know about the Poincare Conjecture comes from a story a professor told during one of his classes.
or you have to abseil.
remember that millenium problem solved by perelman? its a problem in topology, but the proof is expressed in terms of elliptic curves which lives in the number theory space, and so far, we havent found a way to express it in terms of topology.
this is pissing topologists off a good bit. that a number theory guy solved their problem.
similar things could happen to the riemann conjecture. proven in unforeseen ways without revealing prime number stuffs. betting on how a particular conjecture is GOING TO be proven sounds far fetched at best.
but thats ok. mathematics is way too powerful to care about mainstream fame.
but the world itself isnt going to change. i mean the 5 pm news world.
heres the thing. we already kind of assume the riemann conjecture to be true. you can do a lot of things with it. its not PROVEN, and mathematicians will tell you that its not proven, but if it was such a big massive RSA attacks deal, hackers would just "assume" its proven and then calculate those primes. they would very quickly figure out whether the conjecture holds or not, in a practical sense.
i think what you misunderstand is that the riemann conjecture already exists. you can already use the result of the conjecture. the missing link is the proof. but you dont need the proof to apply the result. you can just apply it. maybe some mathematician comes along and disproves it. but the result is very accessible.
so the result cant be what would enable you to perform polynomial time attacks. it must be the proof. but since you dont know what the proof would look like (because it doesnt exist), it cant be in the proof. therefore, i kinda doubt what youre saying.
a conjecture is just a statement by a smart person that lacks the proof. from a mathematical point of view, its not a result. but for everyone else, including serious physicists, conjectures can be used as is to make progress. if the riemann conjecture allowed for primes to be calculated so fast that modern cryptography would suffer, then that would already be happening.
but thats just a tangent. my initial point was that the riemann conjecture isnt going to say anything about the world that a journalist will find interesting enough to construct something reportable out of.
heres the problem. mathematicians dont build expensive shit. theres no math lhc that cost the equivalent of feeding bangladesh for a century that econ minded folks could whine about.
theres no "mathematicians will create a black hole under geneva that will swallow us all".
if the riemann conjecture is proven, precisely nothing happens. its not even possible that something happens in the tangible world, because of some result in mathematics.
mathematics isnt irrelevant because it doesnt have cool names. its irrelevant because its impossible to make the news.
a biologist can accidentally create a virus that kills us all. obviously science fiction, but its at least potentially possible.
a chemist can invent some kind of explosive that isis could steal and make some building go boom.
physicists can totally make black holes appear and build warp drives and all this weird stuff that is more fiction than science, but spock talked about it and light sabers duh.
mathematics just powers all those things. there are no lasers without math, either, but they arent attributed to mathematics. they are physics stuff.
when the first fusion reactor finally runs profitably, mathematics will have contributed a lot of necessities. but its the billionaire douche who funded the thing who gets to talk about how the engineers built an impressive machine.
mathematics doesnt get any kind of fame outside the scientific world, because its invisible. but the scientists who use all the math stuff know that without mathematics, they'd be almost useless.
poor google cant please anyone.