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by aianus 10y ago
GA is just an implementation of an open protocol (TOTP). You can't be locked in to GA.
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by aianus 10y ago
Even daily Uber use is cheaper than owning a car where I live (Toronto). Car insurance alone is $400 a month for a young single male.
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by aianus 10y ago
They can redirect the toll money to things that benefit the poor while allowing rich people to save their time which is objectively worth more.
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by aianus 10y ago
You'd do better hiring 3 people at CA$160k (starting salary in SF for a fresh Waterloo grad) than 7 people at CA$80k. Even if the 10X developer is a myth, the 2X is very real and you're turning them away.
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by aianus 10y ago
> if cities started mandating 15% of new apartments had to be rentals Why is it so desirable for your landlord to be a business instead of a private individual who bought a condo? What problem does this solve? > 40% have to be 3 bedro
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by aianus 10y ago
> It seems to me that the rate of return has a lot to do with when you enter/exit the market Most people "enter the market" continuously by depositing a percentage of their pay each month of their career and "exit the
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by aianus 10y ago
The cost of paying pilots is a rounding error compared to the plane, the fuel, the landing fees, and all of the other costs of a UPS cargo flight. It's not worth the regulatory hassle to get rid of them. In contrast, the cost of paying
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by aianus 10y ago
I don't see how they aren't "creating better laws for everyone to abide by". They're not a monopoly on ridesharing and because of their efforts converting the hearts and minds of consumers and politicians others can
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by aianus 10y ago
That's not at all what creditworthiness is. You can be rich and have bad credit as easily as being poor and having good credit.
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by aianus 10y ago
When's the last time we had a famine in the developed world?
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by aianus 10y ago
A Tesla battery weighs 1200 lbs vs ~500 lbs for an ICE.
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by aianus 10y ago
The single rider pays less but Uber will pay you the difference if no other passengers ever join. I drive for Uber part time.
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by aianus 10y ago
Why can't you work in a car? You're guaranteed to have a seat, for one, unlike public transport.
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by aianus 10y ago
Their expenses were over $900m, I don't know where you got $450m from.
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by aianus 10y ago
I don't understand 3) From the VC's point of view how is a 5% chance of a $200m exit different from a 1% chance of a $1b exit? (etc.)
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by aianus 10y ago
Why is Uber in that list? They provide a service to consumers in exchange for money, unlike the rest of your examples and Snapchat.
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by aianus 10y ago
No, they're too expensive. UberX is cheap enough to compete with car ownership.
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by aianus 10y ago
Lyft is US-only
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by aianus 10y ago
Why can't government outbid Google in salary? They can certainly afford it.
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by aianus 10y ago
> That's actually pretty crazy when you start to think about it. Sucks for the doctors (< 1% of the population) but for patients nobody is stopping you from going to the US/Mexico/Thailand and paying for care there.
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by aianus 10y ago
Only because wealth is positively correlated with education and impulse control. There's no reason to believe handing a poor, uneducated person with no impulse control a big wad of cash will have the same effect.
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by aianus 10y ago
They were all 'created' by one person without a team. They're now maintained and perhaps improved by teams but that's a different story.
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by aianus 10y ago
> What are some software projects you admire that were created by one person without teamwork? Bitcoin, Minecraft, Bittorrent, Spark, american fuzzy lop, Tarsnap, PGP, and many more.
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by aianus 10y ago
I don't see how Uber is special in this regard vs. traditional taxis. If you're willing to rob a taxi driver you can rob an Uber driver too and vice versa. At least Uber gives the police more to go on during their investigation (G
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by aianus 10y ago
I think it's more accurate to say it's men that feel social pressure to be more ambitious than they might be otherwise. It's certainly a lot easier for an unambitious low-income woman to find a husband than vice versa.
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by aianus 10y ago
They're free to offer me a discount (smaller than the interchange) to pay cash but they usually don't so it's their own fault.
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by aianus 10y ago
There are entire classes of accommodations that airbnb enables that were not previously available. There's no way to share a hotel room with a random and save $100 a night, for example. Or to stay at a hotel room in a pure residentiall
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by aianus 10y ago
They don't even let you into Iran without making you perjure yourself into pretending to be religious. "Atheist" or "none" is not an option on the form and is grounds for deportation or execution (if you're Ira
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by aianus 10y ago
> So, if you want to run a small business that brings in ~$2M a year, don't go try raise a huge VC round at a high valuation. That probably would not work out well for either party. I'm curious, how would that negatively impact
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by aianus 10y ago
It's roughly 2x more expensive on peak vs off peak in Ontario and it was enough that all my roommates would plan their dishwasher and laundry schedule around it.

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