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I occasionally get linkedin spam about theranos positions. Maybe I should interview out of curiosity. My tech said she a while back did and got interviewed by Holmes.
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SpaceX blew up Facebook's satellite and now Mark Zuckerberg is mad.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:SpaceX blew up Facebook's satellite and now Mark Zuckerberg is mad. Mark Zuckerberg sighed as he put on his occulus rift.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:SpaceX blew up Facebook's satellite and now Mark Zuckerberg is mad. It's an Israeli-designed and -built satellite, so there's a lot of coverage in that media. 4 years of work down the drain. 
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I was thinking about insurance on that satellite. Would be a fun problem for the company to work out appropriate risk and payment.
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Sep 2, 2016 04:20
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Aliquid posted:I was thinking about insurance on that satellite. Would be a fun problem for the company to work out appropriate risk and payment. Like somebody on the ynet story said, it's not just about the money, it's about the setback to communications in the areas which should have been covered.
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why is facebook launching satellites? is this to do with their bullshit with india?
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namaste faggots posted:why is facebook launching satellites? is this to do with their bullshit with india? Africa apparently.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It is cheap to produce an additional copy of an ebook, but it is also cheap to produce an additional copy of a printed book. Copy and paste is a bit more literal in the printed example.
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namaste faggots posted:why is facebook launching satellites? is this to do with their bullshit with india? It sounded like it.
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Wait, how the hell did they manage to blow up a satellite? Is their real future in orbital warfare? 
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Hodgepodge posted:Wait, how the hell did they manage to blow up a satellite? No, it was pretty easy, it's just Musk overhyping things as usual: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-apparently-blew-up-during-a-test-firing-thursday/
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Ooh, they were supposed to launch it. That makes much more sense.
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Sundae posted:Yeah, that whole ebook 'wear and tear' thing was atrocious, and it's part of why I don't exactly feel bad for the trad-pubs either. They'd do (and did) everything they could to be Amazon in the absence of Amazon. But gently caress Amazon anyway, because there are more than enough fucks to go around in that industry. sci-hub/libgen are disrupting the trad pubs (and doing it in a way that's useful to more people than three billionaires and ten startup """"CEOs"""")
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Hodgepodge posted:Wait, how the hell did they manage to blow up a satellite?
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cool and good posted:Pretty sure that was his exact point Until they took it public in 2005, Ford owned Hertz.
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Panfilo posted:http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30263318/dublin-uber-lyft-partner-public-transit I guess this makes sense for towns that don't have existing bus service, but one of the big benefits of buses is reducing traffic congestion. Moving a whole bunch of people off buses and into individual cars will raise hell on the roads.
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Panfilo posted:http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30263318/dublin-uber-lyft-partner-public-transit Apparantly the transport authorities were losing money like crazy on the two routes that are going to be replaced. Maybe this will be a better use of resources.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I guess this makes sense for towns that don't have existing bus service, but one of the big benefits of buses is reducing traffic congestion. Moving a whole bunch of people off buses and into individual cars will raise hell on the roads.
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mobby_6kl posted:Buses only make sense if they consistently have high occupancy rates. I know nothing about those particular routes, but we had a couple of them here that were packed (i.e. you had to stand smashed into the windshield the whole way) in the mornings but were frequently running empty off-peak. This is obviously much worse than 0 cars for economic, traffic, and environmental reasons. Nah, you're always going to get peak periods like that just because most people go to work/come back at about the same time. What you have to look at is if the hour in the morning & evening that you save on traffic is worth the other 12 hours or whatever that they're very low occupancy. And if consistently there's no one riding you can just not have drivers for that time period.
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blowfish posted:sci-hub/libgen are disrupting the trad pubs (and doing it in a way that's useful to more people than three billionaires and ten startup """"CEOs"""") sci-hub is a legit heroic effort which is doing something good for humanity, because the actual authors are only exploited by the parasite that calls itself academic publishing. libgen also enables book piracy where the authors depend on the book sales for income and is imo pretty bad. I mean if you want people to continue writing fiction/non-academic non-fiction you have to either enable them to make money off their efforts or provide unconditional basic income.
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mobby_6kl posted:Buses only make sense if they consistently have high occupancy rates. I know nothing about those particular routes, but we had a couple of them here that were packed (i.e. you had to stand smashed into the windshield the whole way) in the mornings but were frequently running empty off-peak. This is obviously much worse than 0 cars for economic, traffic, and environmental reasons. The article mentions that the No 3 route in West Dublin that was discontinued had about 5 passengers an hour.
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Grim Up North posted:sci-hub is a legit heroic effort which is doing something good for humanity, because the actual authors are only exploited by the parasite that calls itself academic publishing. libgen also enables book piracy where the authors depend on the book sales for income and is imo pretty bad. I mean if you want people to continue writing fiction/non-academic non-fiction you have to either enable them to make money off their efforts or provide unconditional basic income. Yeah. The whole point of copyright was to give an incentive to create; removing that also removes most people's willingness to create. It turns out that dedicating a lot of time that will give you no money is something most people don't want to do. Academic publishing, on the other hand, is a racket. Authors don't get paid, peer reviewers don't get paid, only the publisher. Now, I think there's a legit reason to pay publishers, since they do have the servers available, not to mention the efforts of curators like Westlaw, which often summarizes cases, links them together, provides analysis, etc. However, the current rates are simply excessive.
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Non Serviam posted:Yeah. The whole point of copyright was to give an incentive to create; removing that also removes most people's willingness to create. It turns out that dedicating a lot of time that will give you no money is something most people don't want to do. Authors not only don't get paid in academic publishing, they have to pay to get their work published (the rate was about $300 a page in my field.) Typically this money comes out of whatever grant the professor or lab supervisor got, but in the end it reinforces the idea that if you're not part of the ivory tower, it is really difficult to get any work published unless you are already rich.
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I disagree with pretty much all of this. sci-hub is no better, no more ethical, and no more legal, than any other IP piracy system or disruptor we discuss in this thread. It's also probably another Russian effort at making GBS threads up rivals, given its location, practices, primary targets, and the defensive rhetoric involved.Mystic_Shadow posted:Authors not only don't get paid in academic publishing, they have to pay to get their work published (the rate was about $300 a page in my field.) Typically this money comes out of whatever grant the professor or lab supervisor got, but in the end it reinforces the idea that if you're not part of the ivory tower, it is really difficult to get any work published unless you are already rich. Pay to publish is not a universal practice in academic publishing- it varies by publisher. It's also done by foss publications. Non Serviam posted:Yeah. The whole point of copyright was to give an incentive to create; removing that also removes most people's willingness to create. It turns out that dedicating a lot of time that will give you no money is something most people don't want to do. If you think the rates for academic publishers are excessive, which may well be true for some of the for-profit ones, the proper response probably isn't to steal everything from all of them. on buses: it turns out that public transportation infrastructure isn't necessarily supposed to be maximally efficient if it still serves a clientele that otherwise don't get to have jobs. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Discendo Vox posted:on buses: it turns out that public transportation infrastructure isn't necessarily supposed to be maximally efficient if it still serves a clientele that otherwise don't get to have jobs. Counterpoint: If those people can be served in a more efficient manner, isn't that a gain for society. edit: I mean... the article mentions that on the route that was closed, those five riders per hour cost their fare + a $15 state subsidy per ride. If comparable services can be provided for less money that is all to the good, right? wateroverfire fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Not when it's more efficient by because it's done by a third party that exists by flouting existing safety and employment regulations.
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computer parts posted:Nah, you're always going to get peak periods like that just because most people go to work/come back at about the same time. What you have to look at is if the hour in the morning & evening that you save on traffic is worth the other 12 hours or whatever that they're very low occupancy. Discendo Vox posted:Not when it's more efficient by because it's done by a third party that exists by flouting existing safety and employment regulations.
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Discendo Vox posted:Not when it's more efficient by because it's done by a third party that exists by flouting existing safety and employment regulations. Oh god can we not do this again. Send your comments to the appropriate transit authorities. I am sure they will be very grateful and impressed with your hot take about their partner.
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Has there ever been a Silicon Valley company whose lore includes missing payroll and stories about the crazy days where the employees worked for free? That seems like a myth even SV can't sell.
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Kobayashi posted:Has there ever been a Silicon Valley company whose lore includes missing payroll and stories about the crazy days where the employees worked for free? That seems like a myth even SV can't sell. It shouldn't happen once a company gets to this size and is bringing in H-1Bs, though.
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wateroverfire posted:Oh god can we not do this again. Yeah, sure. Feel free to leave. You were wrong the last time you championed regulatory evasion, and you're wrong this time too.
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Kobayashi posted:Has there ever been a Silicon Valley company whose lore includes missing payroll and stories about the crazy days where the employees worked for free? That seems like a myth even SV can't sell. I literally just read a medium story about this, including Photoshopped bank transfers to "prove" that payroll had been sent out. E: https://medium.com/startup-grind/i-got-scammed-by-a-silicon-valley-startup-574ced8acdff#.ggz997hc1
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Discendo Vox posted:Yeah, sure. Feel free to leave. You were wrong the last time you championed regulatory evasion, and you're wrong this time too. The actual regulatory authorities involved here seem to think Uber is fine to work with, so ??
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wateroverfire posted:The actual regulatory authorities involved here seem to think Uber is fine to work with, so ?? And they're wrong. You're not in a wheelchair, are you?
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Discendo Vox posted:I disagree with pretty much all of this. sci-hub is no better, no more ethical, and no more legal, than any other IP piracy system or disruptor we discuss in this thread. It's also probably another Russian effort at making GBS threads up rivals, given its location, practices, primary targets, and the defensive rhetoric involved. Eh, I recognize that they violate the same laws, but holy poo poo their business practices look like a next-level scam that I'm pretty sure only works because universities have a lot of money and are reliable, captive customers. They can't even claim to be doing a lot of the work a normal mass-market publisher does and they still have much better margins just for acting as a now-mostly-useless middle man that doesn't even pay for the expert work they get out of the actual value-add step in the process. Ethically, I'm just fine if no middle men make any money from the dissemination of scientific knowledge, so sticking it to them is just fine by me.
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Aliquid posted:And they're wrong. You're not in a wheelchair, are you? If only they were engaged in some sort of a pilot program that could be used to assess and address problems before implementation...
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wateroverfire posted:The actual regulatory authorities involved here seem to think Uber is fine to work with, so ?? Paratransit services usually cost about $16 a trip and you need to schedule pickup pretty far in advance. The people relying on these services are often on fixed incomes . They'll typically get discounted or free fare on buses assuming they can access the stops. Switching the routes over to uber means any disabled people get kind of screwed over. They don't benefit from a cheap Uber ride if the Uber vehicle isn't capable of loading their wheelchair or service animal. So they have to take paratransit at nearly 6x the price to go to the same place. And it's another step toward privatization of these services. It means less full time employment when uber poached services from bus drivers and allows county agencies to save money at the cost of full time employees and the disabled.
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That assumes Uber doesn't offer accessible vehicles, considering some cities already mandate they do so they probably will in these cases.
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