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The paper refers to CO2 as "carbonic acid gas". At this time, did they know that CO2 was also produced by burning fossil fuels? Or by respirating living things?

I wouldn't be surprised if the internal codename for the project was Oasis

Yes, they already do this

Uber's main (only?) advantage here is their ability to take advantage of a shared labor pool. By increasing the demand for driving + food delivery, it makes the Uber labor pool big…

Agreed. At the very least, when you pull up directions, every road that you have to turn on should have the street name should be visible (at least without too much zooming).

60k per year doing internships? I thought a typical tech internship paid $5-8k/month, which means at most $25k over the summer. (Maybe my number is for undergrads, and grad student…

It's not just the presence of alternatives to driving---they also directly discourage driving with narrow roads and slow speed limits.

The author's last name gives some credibility that they might be good with strings.

Yes, I think that's a good analogy. Tech is treated like a cool toy in the news, rather than as a corporate sector that has real consequences on everyone's lives. Tech should be co…

I think you missed the point regarding whiplash. He's saying journalists should have been more skeptical about these companies all along, and should have dashed in some skepticism …

How does one email Jeff Bezos?

Is there any chance this will lead to being able to listen to old TAL episodes via RSS? It's kinda strange that TAL is buying a podcast player company but they don't want us to lis…

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Richard Stallman's essays on Facebook. That's the first place I saw this idea expressed. (He calls users of Facebook "useds".)

Spacemacs has excellent context menus. It was suprising how discoverable everything is!

LMAO, I think you're right. It's pushing commits like this every 30 mins

This is an extremely niche post, lol

Regardless of stream fusion, it will always be one pass in Haskell because of laziness.

Dropbox Paper is great but the Android app sucks

Is this implying that people use Google Images to find webpages? I thought the only point of Google Images was to find images to use in PowerPoints and school projects.

It's back up

Does anyone know why hckrnews is down? Will it be down permanently?

Obligatory comment about how the Dow is a useless number.

Open Law Library ( http://www.openlawlib.org/ ) seems to be trying to do something like what you're suggesting.

"transit hubs" may have been the wrong term to use... I think he's proposing these new rules anywhere within 1/4-1/2 mile of any transit stop with 15 min frequency or better. So it…