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That was the first thing I thought of! Big fan of transit. Seems very similar.

Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, these are just ads, not some kind of sexist job board where you put in your gender and out comes a list of eligible jobs. Just yesterday the internet was mad that people were seeing ads and it was bringing the downfall of democracy. Why are we mad they are now not seeing ads?

Given the number of features in a model as sophisticated as Facebook's must be means these researchers are almost certainly oversimplifying, and certainly the way these articles are written as if to teach readers there's an evil software engineer writing biased code. From my experience in ML it's almost certainly the opposite--most of the data scientists I've worked with are highly aware of the issues of bias in AI and actively work against it to a sophistication level never understood by journalists.

Paid ~$5k/m 2br rent in NYC. $225/m 10x10 storage unit to go mobile this year. So quite a bit less in many cases, especially folks living with less in urban environments, but yes, a whole house, vehicles, etc.. will be pricier to store.

Yeah I hear the terms 'liquidation preference' much more often than 'preference overhang'.

A lot of people use Emacs, but I remember as Cursive took off in the Clojure community. It's so wonderful being able to work on a large JVM app that includes Scala and Java in IntelliJ and have first class Clojure features. Cursive is phenomenal, and because it's (or was at the time) the only choice, I would gladly fork over 2x the cost out of my own pocket (though my company would let me expense). It was great too to go to Conj and major Clojure conferences and hear Colin announce new features and talk about the roadmap.

I have seen it before but thats a good reminder in this case!

English-native developers building apps for mainly Western languages can easily introduce encoding i18n bugs that are really unfair for other folks. The rise of emoji in everyday text has been great to force developers to deal with the upper end of the unicode spectrum and make fewer assumptions about inputs. Often in a data processing app I'll throw a few emoji in my unit tests.

That's a good point. There will be prioritization, and the costs could be so high as to rule out brand plays even if they could get the rules interpreted as loosely as possible. My idea might need to bake a bit longer. :)

Most people talk about 1) tourism and 2) research which makes sense, but I can see a lot of benefit for marketing and branding. Imagine promo videos of someone using your gadget in space. A private company could fly up a few models/actors, a few of the latest brands goods, and get shots looking back at earth or floating around.

Luxury goods like watches and pens have already capitalized on this (Fisher Space Pen, Omega Moonwatch). I could see other high margin luxury brands snagging a seat:

- Sneakers (Air Jordans -> Space Jordans?)

- Jewelry (Diamond industry could play up a diamonds/stars theme)

- Fashion (play up the weightless/effortless aspect)

Any brand could get in on it if someone figured out the economics of a testing service. Small brands and Kickstarter projects could pool resources and fly up a few hundred toys and say they were 'tested in space'.

There are some startups trying to fix these issues and price at flat fees to mixed effect (Trelora in Denver comes to mind as an example).

I think the true solution will come not by lawsuit but by mass scale market-making by companies like OpenDoor and Zillow. When you want to sell your home you can go to these companies and get a check within a few days, and when you want to buy a home these will have built software and systems to make purchasing a straightforward process. They'll provide liquidity and take a cut, but with a couple of companies in the market the 'spread' will probably be lower than buyer+seller broker fees.

They may not serve unique and luxury real estate in the near future, but for the 'typical' suburban home it seems like consumers could see a benefit.

There are some startups trying to fix these issues and price at flat fees to mixed effect (Trelora in Denver comes to mind as an example).

I think the true solution will come not by lawsuit but by mass scale market-making by companies like OpenDoor and Zillow. When you want to sell your home you can go to these companies and get a check within a few days, and when you want to buy a home these will have built software and systems to make purchasing a straightforward processes.

They may not serve unique and luxury real estate in the near future, but for the 'typical' suburban home it seems like consumers could see a benefit.

This looks great!

I like hosting small to medium events and even though it seems simple most platforms are not effective:

-Most of my friends either don't use or don't regularly check Facebook

-PaperlessPost simply didn't deliver 80% of my invitations for last holiday season and almost ruined the party. Will never use them again for anything.

-Others just don't seem attractive/affordable/easy.

Agreed. It tags the complexity with identifiers, which is of some use, but it doesn't change anything about the execution path which can still get wildly out of hand.