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I'll just leave this here: http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/laura-washington-uber-so...

Uber did the world a favor by breaking the back of the taxi monopoly. But now they need to either clean up their act or go away.

https://www.iwf.org.uk/become-a-member/services-for-members/... https://www.iwf.org.uk/become-a-member/services-for-members/...

Here's the official letter: https://www.scribd.com/document/348851011/Uber-2017-05-15-Lt... It's weird in the digital age to say information needs to be "returned" (although they d…

The facts are very clear-cut and I provided sources. > the chances of the publicly known story being accurate are pretty slim That's empty speculation. If that's the only defense f…

I don't find that very hard to believe considering it's sometimes possible to use something as simple as a mirror to trick the brain into correcting phantom limb pain: https://en.w…

Reminder that this is the same person who attempted to publicly shame[1] Jeremy Guillory out of fighting for his fair share during GM's acquisition of Cruise. This attempt failed, …

> It's been known for a long time that Trump and the FBI director didn't see eye to eye, and the former employs the latter. Still significant, just not surprising. The president fi…

> The mother of his godson Aidan remarked, "Nick didn't care about the stupid politics shit, he'd just laugh at it." Jon Hanna said Nick "became a criminal as a matter of principle…

I realize that, but vigilantism is not always driven by a rational view of crime statistics. Fear can be a very powerful force. If people fear crime and feel they are being ignored…

> that basically says "The ugly and frightening truth about vigilantism is that it works", without backing it up That's a quote from me, not from the HuffPo article. The article sa…

I noticed you replied to me twice (once here and once in another subthread), saying you'd spent time looking and "wasted [your] life". You also seem to be going further down the ro…

I already gave one, just a few sentences above.

An earlier version of this article said something like "BART did not immediately report the incident" (can't recall exact wording). This statement or any equivalent appears to be r…

It really makes me sad to read the part about counting pennies and having to stretch such tiny advances while writing the books, especially when she describes her frustration at ho…

That's all well and good, but it doesn't really matter if individual cases get squashed. The larger issue is that Google has moved away from the stance of "we just give you what yo…

But just think about the future when those RVs are all self-driving -- all those people will be nomads, roaming the land!

Carthago delenda est! [1] [1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-l...

Same reason why so many people hated Microsoft in the 90s.

> DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED What could possibly be in there?

That was my first thought as well. Another thing that came to mind is that way manual work / craftsmanship was looked down upon has its parallels in the present day, particularly i…

He proposes removing the rule about "quiet working conditions" and even says "There is no right or wrong answer for which is correct." On the contrary, there is a lot of scientific…

GM, owners of cruise.ai, are investors in Lyft. It seems likely that relationship will be used to help both companies move towards an autonomous car future.

Oh, come on. I doubt it's all that sophisticated.