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the guy is Erdogan's puppet and has to say things to undermine Saudi Arabia soooo im guessing since he is 'head of energy' he had to improvise a little using energy terms.

how? thru fracking? say bye to drinking water.

the local pizza shop does not belong to the richest guy in the world. the same richest guy who squeezes every drop of tax deductions and other inventives from the government to fun his business with my tax money.

unemployment numbers are distorted. they count all part time jobs and gig economy signups as employment. these arent jobs, you can afford a decent life with this kind 'employment'. people working as teachers, working as salesperson at an official car dealerships, working in retail cant afford to rent an apartment and are living from shared rooms.

I looked into plaid+stripe solution for our ACH payments need and after playing around with it a little I just didn't feel like I can put that in front of my clients and tell them 'Yeah put in your bank login and password on our website to make the payment, we promise it's secure'. Their solution didnt sell with me and I went for Stripe ACH where they make microdeposit and customer has to verify the amounts. Even PaySimple's eCheck solution sounds more reasonable to put in front of clients than to demand their bank login and password. IMHO

so there is starting to begin some panic but its not in full swing yet.

-having grown up (and going to first 6 grades of school) in a small village with very tight community. -going thru 5 years of boarding school with very strong alumni traditions (kind of sect actually) -6 years of going to college and living on campus of a large University -living in a foreign country with very tight immigrant community of 'my country people' for the past 8 years I can say that yes, unfortunately and surprisingly, friendships and relationships are born out of and maintained mostly thanks to proximity and necessity.

Google needs to hire Satya Nadella as the CEO.

its definitely the opposite of convenience. if i need the app i know where to find it. its especially annoying when the link keeps reappearing after i dismissed it once already.

I think people actually prefer using decent mobile web apps over native apps and app vendors are actually actively fighting it by putting annoying 'get the app' link overlaying content on mobile web. they are trying to push people as much as as they can to force them to download the damn native app. you don't see any app publisher putting a link to mobile web app over the content inside the native app prompting people to use mobile web app over native app. For most of the content websites I use I don't feel the need for the app (twitter, reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) but they are making the mobile web experience horrible by putting that content overlaying link on every damn page.

oh he fled Assad, that makes it okay for him to offer professional driver services in a country where he just arrived with 0 assessment of his driving skills. and in the meantime if he ends up causing an accident or two by putting everyone's life in danger its okay because, remember, he fled Assad.

Uber and Lyft definitely put more shitty drivers out on the road constantly cruising looking to pickup or drop off their riders in most not suitable places with 0 regards to traffic, especially in NYC and suburbs. Uber and Lyft pays so little that most of their drivers are definitely not qualified to drive professionally but are doing it because they can't get any other job. I forgot to mention that these drivers work for multiple ride-sharing companies (at least 2 but sometimes up to 4 in NYC) and have multiple smartphones docked to their dashboard constantly distracting them.

aren't ICOs like, dead?

as an occasional uber driver and sometimes passenger I have to say while it has its moments when Uber is most convenient and cheap option there is nothing super amazing about this company or their product. Drivers are unhappy about worsening pay (uber keeps bigger cuts), riders are unhappy about worsening qualify of cars/drivers while uber still has not reached profitability. I would not bet the house on ubers ipo. may as well go the Groupon route