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by aianus 7y ago
I have had an Uber driver account for years and have never had an incentive (besides things like surge pricing which are paid by riders) That may depend on the market, but the unit economics in my market (Toronto) are undoubtedly positive.
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by aianus 7y ago
Uber has positive unit economics. Uber gets ~20% of what you spend on a ride and their per-unit expenses are basically moving a few bits around and having someone in a Filipino call center present to provide customer support.
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by aianus 7y ago
> How good will your deep fake have to be in order to fool a deep fake detection AI? The best generator and the best detector are actually part of the same model! If you create a better detector, you are making the generator better at th
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by aianus 7y ago
1.4% of people globally end up dying by suicide.
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by aianus 7y ago
Apparently we’ve decided it’s ok to assess my risk based on my penis or lack thereof. Oh and my wife or lack thereof too. What a joke.
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by aianus 7y ago
You've never met an entrepreneur with a solo lifestyle business?
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by aianus 7y ago
The software. I want to turn my car on over the internet from my phone and heat it up 15 min before I leave the office two blocks away. Then I want to put it in autopilot for the mind-numbing straightforward freeway traffic on my commute.
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by aianus 7y ago
What's wrong with taking an 8 year loan for an asset that you will possess and use every day of those 8 years? As long as the interest rate is good (less than 4%, say) it sounds like a prudent decision that frees up cash flow.
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by aianus 7y ago
The real people who grow my food are the engineers at Monsanto and John Deere and chemical fertilizer companies and they make plenty of money. The farmer ultimately adds very little value compared to the above, sorry to say.
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by aianus 7y ago
You are not billed by the "load balancer", you are billed by the "forwarding rule" which makes it very obvious that the infrastructure is shared and that you will have additional costs with every K8S ingress.
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by aianus 7y ago
All of the load balancers on GCP are shared. Maybe you meant to say you get a new, fresh IP address which is true but also not very expensive. "Cloud Load Balancing is a fully distributed, software-defined, managed service for all your
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by aianus 7y ago
This would be fine if we had basic income but since your survival is tied to employment, employers should not be allowed to discriminate based on political opinion any more than they can discriminate against pregnant women or seniors.
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by aianus 7y ago
Does anyone know why the big cloud vendors don’t seem to have any offerings that can beat a regular consumer machine in single thread performance? Surely there must be a market for it?
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by aianus 7y ago
Maybe it’s different in India but can you not sell the car and use the proceeds to pay off the lien to the bank and keep the difference? Or are you saying they’re underwater on the loans? If so, what can the bank do about it besides reposse
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by aianus 7y ago
2010 565 room (5 ppl in one apt but in separate rooms) 800 car all in (I drove a bmw, wasteful luxury) 600 food (ate out all the time, wasteful luxury) 50 utilities (gas and internet were included in rent) 100 entertainment (not much time)
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by aianus 7y ago
That’s nuts, I lived a luxurious life in college on less than that. It’s certainly enough money for a room and food and a car and savings left over in nearly every US municipality.
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by aianus 7y ago
They could take EBT and a credit/debit card at the same time and put only the eligible products on the EBT.
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by aianus 7y ago
Depends on your definition of well paid. Living on $50/h remotely in Vietnam is much more luxurious than $120/h butt-in-seat in San Francisco although it’s a lot less money in absolute terms.
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by aianus 7y ago
Meal boxes, for one. My first shipment at https://makegoodfood.ca was free with a coupon.
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by aianus 7y ago
Pragmatically every vote is useless. The chances that the election outcome will come down to your single vote are infinitesimal. Every individual vote is a protest vote lost in the noise. So anyone reading this should feel perfectly free to
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by aianus 7y ago
Why made in USA? Why not made in India or Vietnam?
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by aianus 7y ago
I mean the government raises its tax revenue almost exclusively by leasing land and taxing real estate transactions instead of taxing income like we do in the West.
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by aianus 7y ago
My point is you don't need income tax at all to maintain a developed society as demonstrated in HK, Washington State, etc.
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by aianus 7y ago
And if your small business (of at least 2 years) is acquired, you get to keep the first $800k entirely tax-free [0]. Wage labour is truly for suckers in Canada. [0] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services&
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by aianus 7y ago
HK raises practically all of its revenue from land and (until China started screwing it up) it was one of the richest, most developed places on Earth.
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by aianus 7y ago
The real wealth that car companies created went to consumers in form of consumer surplus. The automobile used to be a toy for millionaires, now even (American) minimum-wage workers can travel daily in comfortable, individual, climate-contro
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by aianus 7y ago
Netflix already limit the number of simultaneous devices playing and you can already pay more for more devices.
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by aianus 7y ago
> He doesn't want to be fulfilled by prime, he manages his own shipping pipeline just a good as Amazon's. As a consumer if I see a prime logo and it's not Fulfilled by Amazon I would feel scammed. Amazon Logistics is the o
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by aianus 7y ago
> has no branches and does everything by post I'm really curious how this works. They don't take a picture of you in person for your driver's license? Even the first one? What about the driving tests? Eyesight tests? What
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by aianus 7y ago
You may be right about elementary school teachers, I'm thinking more about high school STEM teachers specifically. Although the grade school teachers in my city seem to struggle even with fractions [0]. Only one of my high school math

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