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by aianus 10y ago
Uber doesn't have driver incentives nor any competition in Toronto and it's still less than half the price of a cab.
842.
by aianus 10y ago
How do you know your number while you're there before you get there and buy a local SIM?
843.
by aianus 10y ago
That sounds awful, how would I use my card when I'm traveling abroad if it's trying to send SMS's to my home SIM card?
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by aianus 10y ago
> Once a physical addiction is formed, heroin can be a cheaper or more accessible alternative to a prescription for say, Oxycontin. Something is wrong with the system for prescribing Oxycontin if black market heroin is ever cheaper or mo
845.
by aianus 10y ago
> What I wish I could have is a phone that I can copy an arbitrary python script to, then execute it. No "Android Studio" or "Xcode" monstrosity to create and load software. Just my text editor and a shell. You can al
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by aianus 10y ago
How is filling people up with soda going to make them buy more food? Honestly, I think free refills were invented because soda is cheaper than the fast food guy's time filling your cup. Therefore, they moved the soda fountains to the d
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by aianus 10y ago
What profits? If they're charging you the same whether you get three refills or zero, that sounds like a pretty shitty way to get people to spend more on soda. We have free refills in Canada and they're basically just abused by te
848.
by aianus 10y ago
Offloading risk and capital costs to ordinary members of the public that already owned underutilized assets. Love them or hate them, it was pretty genius.
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by aianus 10y ago
> They're expensive and overkill for people who want luxury Facebook/word processing machines They cost less than $2k. Amortized over 4+ years, they're extremely affordable for the middle class. People spend more on coffee
850.
by aianus 10y ago
I bet most men on this site are in the top 10% of incomes (it's only about $100k) so they're fine.
851.
by aianus 10y ago
I can fulfill the rest of my social needs besides sex through family and friends and the part of my brain that likes sex doesn't care much about personality or intelligence or compatibility.
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by aianus 10y ago
It's obviously a scam to call me in and bill the government $50-100 to read me my negative result in person. I don't understand how you can defend this practice.
853.
by aianus 10y ago
You can also interpret that as "women would rather date guys they think are ugly than be alone" (as the author does in the following sentences).
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by aianus 10y ago
What infrastructure? You don't need anything except cell phones and network coverage which urban India has in spades.
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by aianus 10y ago
It's only out of reach to poor people that have already had bank accounts and abused them by bouncing checks, etc. Or perhaps illegal immigrants who are unwilling or unable to show ID to open the account. Otherwise there are plenty of
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by aianus 10y ago
The data shows it's women who have unrealistic expectations of beauty. They rate 80% of men as uglier than average on dating sites [0] [0] https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dat...
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by aianus 10y ago
It was a standard STD test at the beginning of a new relationship and the results were negative so it was clearly a scam. This was in Ontario.
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by aianus 10y ago
We have single player in Canada and it's even worse. I have to book one appt to get referred for a blood test, another to take the blood, and then another appt to get the results! There's even a big sign at the doctors office that
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by aianus 10y ago
Berlin and Germany in general I think.
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by aianus 10y ago
Uber in Toronto does not allow you to use a car with taxi livery. Afaict it is Uber's rule, not the taxi company's.
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by aianus 10y ago
> It seems to me that if Uber is unable to pay its drivers a living wage, they don't actually have a sustainable business model. Why does everything need to pay a living wage? Uber driving is so easy that there must be a sizeable po
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by aianus 10y ago
I think he means "any given government" not "all governments". Like, if the government collapses in Venezuela, Bitcoin holders there will still have their purchasing power preserved.
863.
by aianus 10y ago
OnePlus 3T has an unlocked bootloader, you can flash any ROM you want.
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by aianus 10y ago
I don't think any countries have successfully automated most of their economies yet so it's apples and oranges.
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by aianus 10y ago
> Sorry, it will not work: I will chose free ride too. Maybe you would, but I think most people would rather have a job and be fabulously wealthy relative to those surviving on UBI alone. See: all the people who work 60h a week in SF mak
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by aianus 10y ago
Isn't it a lot cheaper to split rent with someone else who lives in the same bed as you? And to cook for two instead of one? The way I see it, the only way being single is cheaper is if you live with family for free.
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by aianus 10y ago
Why shouldn't students be allowed to use their phones during class? In college we all had laptops in front of us in every lecture and it didn't stop us from learning.
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by aianus 10y ago
Have you seen how bad and outdated the software is in even high end, expensive cars? I wouldn't hold my breath that any auto maker besides Tesla could compete with Uber.
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by aianus 10y ago
You can fit 4 people in a self driving car pretty easily. Most people currently drive by themselves because it's too difficult to arrange on-demand carpools on your way to/from work.
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by aianus 10y ago
Trading is done off-blockchain on exchanges.

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