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Supershuttle which offered shared vanpool rides to and from airports all across the US was shuttered partly because of competitions from Uber [1]. I personally find it a useful ser…

The CEO of Zoom is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is ethnically Chinese but by all means he is no longer legally a Chinese citizen. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan

A 4-credit course is $5000 and a 3-credit course is $3900 (don't ask me why the cost per credit for each are not the same). There is also a one-time $200 transcript service fee. Wi…

Exactly. I used to be a mathematician and while I am no longer one, I can completely empathize with wanting to work on math as much as possible. To me, it's exactly the same as why…

Are nuclear bombs good? In the end it largely depends on how they are used.

In that case one can just spam the same (or similar) post every second and your feed will likely be filled with that post. I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here but my po…

> unless they started to select and/or moderate that content, at which point they would lose the carrier status But since the homepage feed (or any medium really) displays contents…

Curious how Uber is planning to ensure the service 24 hours available? Anecdotally, it has been difficult recently getting rides before 6AM in the morning on a few occasions.

In case you feel sleep is a waste of time, it could actually be surprisingly productive to sleep. Once thing I noticed in grad school is that your sub-conscious is passively workin…

Tesla's Autopilot has purportedly caused crashes already: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49594260 Good news is there were no injuries in this incident. But there are also case…