nickzarzycki

"$600 CAD/month for a bedroom in a house that's close to frequent transit and in a low-crime area isn't hard to find if you don't have your heart set on living right in downtown Vancouver."

(Has not looked for an apartment in Vancouver in the last 10 years)

the deletions and insertions in track are just as visually simple as on paper

This really is an aesthetic claim you're making, and it goes against what many in publishing feel, which is that substantial edits through track changes are clearly more taxing, less comfortable, less intuitive and uglier than paper.

You're also confusing collaboration problems with editorial workflow problems. The author is writing from a copy editor's standpoint, which involves producing clean, professional quality copy through a vertical, step-by-step editorial process.

The existing (annoying) tools she mentioned seem to be simply Word and printing things out on paper.

Let me ask you then: do you think that all scarce emergency supplies should be allocated using price (perhaps via auction) during a disaster?

Under certain circumstances, often involving human suffering or vulnerability, demand based pricing becomes price gouging. Uber's actions here look like price gouging. It's all very simple.

Everyone defending Uber here seems to be either deploying the 'where do we draw the line' fallacy, or claiming that there's no such thing as price gouging.

If you want to defend Uber, you need to show me why what they did isn't price gouging. Or you need to show me that price gouging doesn't exist.

Ads masquerading as news get more attention? What an enormous surprise!

So, really, an opportunity is a tested idea. I completely agree.

It's hard to come up with an idea without at least some intuitive sense of what kind of need/desire its fulfilling. I think people deceive themselves here because they have a naturally inflated sense of how great their ideas are.

To use your phrasing: people think their idea is great enough to require very little testing to become an opportunity - their intuitive sense of how great their idea is is enough to begin immediately calling it an opportunity.

>I am delighted

You certainly don't sound like it.

I know some of these words!

I'm surprised by how long I managed to keep reading/enjoying this despite having almost no knowledge on the subject.