Driving is licensed and regulated by the government. Are you suggested internet licenses that required semi-regular tests and strict enforcement by governments?
I took this essay's main thrust to be around a lack of nuance in the discourse. His own behavior indicates he's pretty unwilling to have any nuance himself; pot calling the kettle black, etc.
There is a lot of ridiculous hyperbole and disingenuousness in this post so it's a little hard to take seriously.
As someone who has lived in New York for the past ten years, the entrance of Uber hasn't changed my life at all, other than some VCs subsidizing/coercing some lower income drivers into taking $10 off my fare when I go to the airport.
Public transportation, which you deride, usage utterly dwarfs taxis/ubers/etc (notice all of the large buildings _in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn_ where people work?). The MTA definitely has some issues, but calling it dysfunctional because it takes a little extra time to go from Astoria to Prospect Park is absurd.
I don't need to be reminded of the standard, clean, regulated experience I have every time I jump into a yellow or green cab. Boro taxis were introduced into the city _two years after_ Uber entered NYC. How can you possible hand wave them away with "too little too late"? And Uber has its fair share of drivers who have no idea where they're going (actually, definitely more, but I will say they're better about following GPS, which can be both good and bad).
They're taking about limited the number and providing a minimum wage, hardly life changing stuff.
>> We had several goals in mind. One was being wire-format compatible with an older internal product to allow developers to migrate applications easier. Another was to have a database that could be updated anywhere and stay in sync everywhere. The first goal could only be satisfied in-house. The second was either in its infancy for open source products, or available at high cost from commercial sources.
It's hard to take something like this seriously when it spends 3 (large) paragraphs scare mongering about the fact that fish "may" contain plastics, only to end with:
>> Even though current research shows we do not absorb most plastics, it’s possible that a small amount (about 1 percent) can still accumulate in our bodies over time.
That number might change: research on microplastics in our food is still in its infancy, and while some studies have documented the detrimental effects of plastics on fish and other aquatic animals, we still don’t know much about their long-term effects on humans.
So, all current scientific evidence points to this not being a problem. But it _might_ _maybe_ _someday_!
edit - I've also never heard of any food safety guidelines that specify different storage temperatures for different species of fish. The whole thing is pretty suspect.
>> It went so quickly from a semi-plausible portrayal to a fetishization of [black hat] hackers.
One can already see from the first episode of season 2 (which I suppose you haven't seen yet) that it's much more complex than that.
In season one we saw the culmination of that extreme "fight club" ideology. In season two we're going to see the results of those actions. And so far it isn't pretty.
Yeah, fair, but it would be a better user experience if they didn't even have the option. This directly contradicts Google's position. You're statement is basically:
Comment: User error
Closed: Won't Fix
You've completely missed the point of the comment.
Your parent was describing a system where an Administrator edits other users' data. If that Administrator is using Chrome while editing a user, then there is no way to disable autocomplete, and the browser may fill the user's form fields with the Administrator's information resulting in bad data.
On one hand you say that FP aficionados are unable to explain FP concepts to others, and on the other you succinctly do it later on in the same paragraph (first class functions, closures, partial application).
I think you're conflating Haskell with FP, which is definitely not the case. No one needs to understand category theory to write Clojure or Lisp.
No, users now have to go to a settings page to change their default applications. Ostensibly this is for user protection (so apps can't trick users into setting defaults they don't want)