Non-IT News Thread
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Cab companies could easily do the same thing - people could see the cab, look it up for reviews and choose not to take that one, etc. Granted - when you're walking out of a building and simply hailing a cab - taking that extra time to confirm something - huge pain, no one is likely to engage in.
I don't think that this is true. Cabs work through a different mechanism that fundamentally isn't very useful or safe. Lots of things can be improved, but not the fundamentals of them being tied to a municipality and not a universal service.
Cabs are based on the horse and buggy world. Ride hailing is based on modern technology. They vary for good reason.
If a city wanted to make cabs like Uber, they'd literally have to either just use Uber or become an Uber. Basically - they'd have to switch what they are which would prove the point.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
The convenience of ride hailing might be adding congestion by replacing foot and other non-car options.
I haven't read the link - but I wonder if this is true? NYC has been using cabs for decades, I doubt uber has affected it much - other than perhaps the lowering of prices enabling more people to use it than before?
Cabs are not convenient like Uber. Uber is easy, a cab is a pain. Uber is clean, a cab is gross. Uber is safe, cabs are dangerous.
There's no comparison. I can tell you, I'll walk an hour to avoid taking a cab. But an Uber is a no-brainer.
that's only because those companies allowed it to become so. Only through social media does uber have the solution to those things.
Not social media. I'm not even sure what you mean. But there is no social media interaction between me and Uber. Zero.
Uber has guaranteed pricing, agree-before pricing, guaranteed credit card acceptance, a uniform review process as a trusted company (a new city isn't trusted by me), GPS tracking, ride tracking, assigned rides, etc.
It's a very different service.
The social aspect I'm talking about is the ability to judge your ride and driver. You can't easily do that for a cab - I'm sure in larger markets there are sites where people put up reviews about cabs and their drivers, but really, how many people that?
As for the pre-agreed-upon-pricing, yep.. gotta love that! and the other things you mentioned.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
The convenience of ride hailing might be adding congestion by replacing foot and other non-car options.
I haven't read the link - but I wonder if this is true? NYC has been using cabs for decades, I doubt uber has affected it much - other than perhaps the lowering of prices enabling more people to use it than before?
Cabs are not convenient like Uber. Uber is easy, a cab is a pain. Uber is clean, a cab is gross. Uber is safe, cabs are dangerous.
There's no comparison. I can tell you, I'll walk an hour to avoid taking a cab. But an Uber is a no-brainer.
that's only because those companies allowed it to become so. Only through social media does uber have the solution to those things.
Not social media. I'm not even sure what you mean. But there is no social media interaction between me and Uber. Zero.
Uber has guaranteed pricing, agree-before pricing, guaranteed credit card acceptance, a uniform review process as a trusted company (a new city isn't trusted by me), GPS tracking, ride tracking, assigned rides, etc.
It's a very different service.
The social aspect I'm talking about is the ability to judge your ride and driver.
That part is fine and nice, but I don't use it nor care about it and I doubt many people do. Maybe they do, but that's not influencing the factors that I had mentioned as the deal breakers for cabs for me.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
As for the pre-agreed-upon-pricing, yep.. gotta love that! and the other things you mentioned.
That's huge, knowing that for a five minute ride I can't be hit for $100 and demanding cash when I wanted $2 and credit card is a huge deal.
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Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemic
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemic
That's huge. Like, I could be convinced to actually get a flu shot.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against all types of flu, including new pandemic
https://i.imgur.com/ePJTB9x.gif
That's actually pretty cool that they've found this.
Snake anti-venom is based off horse blood. -
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Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way.Kinda common sense there. How could a filter possibly change what colour receptors are in your eye? What were people thinking?
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
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Cigar-shaped interstellar object may have been an alien probe, Harvard paper claims
Oh Harvard.
Predictably, online media go nuts over ‘Oumuamua and Harvard scientists
Modern U.S. media truly is becoming the enemy of the people.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way.Kinda common sense there. How could a filter possibly change what colour receptors are in your eye? What were people thinking?
Actually these do work for some folks. My FIL has a pair and without them, he's totally color blind -- I'm talking shades of gray color blind. He got a pair a couple of years ago and he could make out colors with them. He mainly uses them now when working on vehicles or electronics. He never realized his kitchen was bright pink, lol. (That's another story though).
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
Users aren't really seeing new colors, just the same colors in a different way.Kinda common sense there. How could a filter possibly change what colour receptors are in your eye? What were people thinking?
Actually these do work for some folks. My FIL has a pair and without them, he's totally color blind -- I'm talking shades of gray color blind. He got a pair a couple of years ago and he could make out colors with them. He mainly uses them now when working on vehicles or electronics. He never realized his kitchen was bright pink, lol. (That's another story though).
They don't ACTUALLY work, they can't, that's the point. Colours aren't sensed that way. It's impossible for something like this to allow someone colour blind to see colours for which they do not have receptors. It can enhance colours, shift them, or filter out noise making people feel like maybe they see more colours - but it's cones in the eyes that allow you to see colour and if you don't have them, you simple don't have them. No shift or change in light coming into the eye can affect that.
If you think about it, someone who is colour blind cannot possibly tell you if they are seeing the colours or not, that people who use the glasses report a change is one thing, but reporting new colours is simply something that they cannot assess.
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Jeff Sessions has been made to resign. Buckle up.
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If a game was at 3 million sales in a week in Japan, are you excluding Japan sales numbers in announcing that the game now has 4 million worldwide sales?
Because if not, that means the game tanked outside of Japan.
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That definitely sounds like it did not sell well outside of Japan.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
That definitely sounds like it did not sell well outside of Japan.
This article seems to confirm that, but still calls it a hit?
https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2018/11/07/dragon-quest-11-sales-numbers-4-million/
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Sounds like it might be enough to keep them doing localizations. I guess that that is a win.
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@Reid-Cooper said in Non-IT News Thread:
Sounds like it might be enough to keep them doing localizations. I guess that that is a win.
/me needs to spend more time in DuoLingo
