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That's an open research question (follows from its casual encompassing of all scientific statements), and more funding is needed to make progress on it.

So in other words rural India was saved from becoming the robot slaves of social media activists by those very same activists?

That's a clever optimization that is. They are providing you with the shortest route, thus improving your user experience, isn't it great?

I think it went well? For an article essentially about the data taking it was surprisingly vague on how the actual observation went...

I expected a project dedicated to combating light pollution, or possibly saying where the closes dark sky was. Got severely disappointed.

Look, the details of FBs operation are certainly not a concern for the consumers: the consumers have the right to get their privacy respected and there is no right FB can invoke to…

Instinct is indeed unfortunate, and I think it is misleading to the point of hilarity too! The notion that sizing a market (as others have mentioned: a Fermi problem) is the same k…

No, in the highlighted section he is explicitly saying you can't figure out how big the market is by reasoning and the best you can do is guess. In fact, it is a bit stronger than …

"Who would have been foolish enough to squander the money, lives and resources needed to travel to and explore the New World?" You can only argue that the exploration of the Americ…

The pie charts in this figure must be the most misleading I've ever seen; grey slices on colourful circles: https://d2v4zi8pl64nxt.cloudfront.net/the-definitive-guide-t...

This should probably have a (2007) in the title, its only two more years until it turns sixty!

Reading the supplementary material (since that isn't paywalled) I not that these are not IQ tests, but results from mathematics and reading comprehension tests. I also found this l…

That's a charge that applies equally well to the standard formulation and I made this comment just to say that it IS cool you can deeplink the Feynman lectures!

So the reason that they spy on foreign companies is that they hope they can catch bribery going on (if they had credibly evidence without the espionage they wouldn't need the espio…

Indeed they are competing with existing taxi services, but not as a taxi company, but rather as a "ride share", despite providing a taxis service, and branding themselves as such. …

"Instead, as citizens, we should look at the regulations we have and ask if they still serve to protect people as they once did, or if they now exist to protect political and busin…

Defending law violations only by arguing that they make "the economy" more efficient is not very convincing. Especially in this case since the real innovations that Uber brings in …

Seems like they have like the maker put up a new cover image, pretty sure that stupid cassette tape wasn't the official cover image a week ago.

That's a great comment! I am in awe of the cynicism and misanthropy it contains. Machiavelli himself would go "Dang, that's dark dude". - Man, Uber just perfected self driving cars…

The could equally well be forced to work certain hours before as well, by Uber deciding to just give fares to them during certain times.

Historically the exploitation of workers has lead to the workers organizing and protesting for better rights in various ways. Usually involving in the formation of unions and creat…

For one, the franchise contains multiple people so there is most definitely managerial work going on. I also imagine franchise owners possess some freedom in how they manage stocki…

But isn't ũbers thing is that they are not taxis? Supposedly this has great benefits for Uber and nebulous consequences for their drivers.

For that argument from privacy to work you need to provide reason for why flying is the only acceptable form of travel. Or why it is only acceptable to "get away" to locations to w…