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I Paid $250 to Drive for Lyft Last Year

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29 points·by plerpin·6 năm trước·6 comments

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plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
The thing that really bothers me about Weinstein's approach is that, while he and his wife are scientists, they're exceedingly quick to assert their hunches as scientific fact. They wear their scientist labels on their sleeves but their thinking is far more ideological. In a recent podcast about fluoridation in tap water, they were talking about how they avoid iodized salt, because iodine is a reactive chemical and you don't want to OD on it. Ludicrous. You'd sooner die from the sheer quantity of salt you'd have to ingest before the iodine even starts to become a problem.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
A black bar to commemorate the loss of a dear community member, with their death a warning of the real human cost of online toxicity and intolerance.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
At my university, the fratboys were far, far, FAR more disruptive than the LGBT groups. But we go with it; fratboy are an accepted pupal stage of American men it seems
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
Really neat! This ought to be a Hacker News "why don't they just...?" holy grail. Now applying homomorphic encryption to solve privacy woes might actually be possible!
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
Everything in a single process? Assuming that everything running on the computer is benevolent is a very "so 80s" notion.

Rust programmers use unsafe escape hatches all the time BTW.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
It's vertical integration. As long as we're wishing for fairness I wish Apple would share those tasty M1 processors with the rest of the non-Mac world.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
Their PR lets them have it both ways.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
Toyota makes a version of the Outback, it's called the Venza. People ignore it and buy the Highlander instead.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
It would be really interesting if someone could benchmark the performance before and after the transition.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
I think that working from the office 5 days a week is on the table if your home isn't set up for remote work.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
I'm still bitter about the shutdown of Windows Reader.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
>The main obstacle is the bandwidth cost

...hence the ads? How would competitors be immune to the need to pay the bills?
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
It's not for lack of trying. Microsoft would love to get a taste, but their online products don't stick.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
Huh? What does that even mean?
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
I wish there was a stickied post feature to head off these sorts of RSS measuring contests.

Multiprocess applications, and especially multiprocess applications with really big discardable caches, are extremely difficult to compare apples-to-apples.
plerpin
·5 năm trước·discuss
It does not. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency, so you have to pay capital gains on any appreciation that you realize.

Active traders of Bitcoin have to track the bases of their lots so that they can pay taxes on each sale.
plerpin
·6 năm trước·discuss
No mention of the acquisition by Justin Sun/TRON. Things got even weirder once crypto came into the picture.