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by badusername 12y ago
And many others: http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/20/buzzfeeds-ben-smith-plays-... I'm not refuting any ethical questions that were being thrown around, but I would never trust Buzzfeed to do any honest an
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by badusername 12y ago
I think the point is that it could be pooled in a way to minimize dropoffs (by knowing the pickups and destinations beforehand).
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by badusername 12y ago
I've noticed that most of these walls have an endstate of penises. No matter how interesting or artful it was, there is always a human drive to defile and debase. Or we start out there because that's all we can do when faced with
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by badusername 12y ago
That's a great product - neat packaging of a technology that's mature enough for this use. That was a horribly awkward video as well.
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by badusername 12y ago
I'd say that, while this almost sounds like a reasonable argument to put forward, it isn't probably going to work that way. Case in point: Gett in NYC. They are running a $10 flat fare anywhere in Manhattan, and promising drivers
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by badusername 12y ago
Daily weighting is made up without any real insight into operations. Furthermore, whatsthefare says that it bases its own approximations on relatively sparse data from user's use of their systems, not realtime monitoring on a service t
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by badusername 12y ago
Nope, he does not. If he'd studied the blog post he's linked to, it is clear that surge rates can go a few multiples at busy periods, which would make an outsized contribution to total fares even at 10-15% occurrence. If you look
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Launching DeepLink Commerce with Uber(building.usebutton.com)
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by badusername 12y ago
This is great, and perfectly encapsulates all the irksome interactions and usability problems with scroll hijacking that has taken over the web in the last couple of years. I hope this article travels wide and forces a rethink of some of th
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by badusername 12y ago
Nice try, IBM.
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by badusername 12y ago
That seems like an illogical reasoning regarding Uber. Remember that uber only gets a small slice of whatever the "islanders" are getting. There wouldn't be any reason to deliberately make it harder for the people working unl
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by badusername 12y ago
I agree that it is harder to see, especially if you have a backlight. If you have a well-lit room, with light coming from the top in a non-reflective angle, the display is vastly better than the matte one. (Source: I have both Apple Thund
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by badusername 12y ago
NYC does seem to have one of the higher rates for uberX, but still a bit cheaper than taxi - http://blog.uber.com/nyc/uberX-price-cut
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by badusername 12y ago
This is an amazing resource. I just read a couple of them, it is gut-wrenching to read the founders' stories, but a reminder to everyone else to learn and not repeat them.
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by badusername 12y ago
I don't agree that 20% retention statistic is a good way to view it at all. There are tons of exceptions to that rule - Amazon, Kayak, Turbotax, or even TripAdvisor. I often view that as entering one's normal "workflow"
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by badusername 12y ago
You underestimate the amount of capital needed to even make a small dent in public transportation. I'm sure facebook's spend is not even a miniscule amount of what any public transportation project would take. It's quite amaz
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by badusername 12y ago
Credit card processing itself cost 2.7%, on average.
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by badusername 12y ago
It's interesting how the dynamics work these days, and how Amazon just doesn't seem to be getting it. People are perfectly happy to sign a 2-year contract on a well-designed fully-rounded functional phone, they do that by the ten
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by badusername 12y ago
More realistically, I think it was obvious to them that they couldn't make a watch in a singular style and expect wide adoption. Personal style is a very important factor in watch purchases.
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by badusername 12y ago
Exactly the opposite seems to be true. Uber had a presence in the keynote today with a way to ride without ever creating a login, which should enable lot more people to use the service. If you thought that the advantage Uber had was mostly
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by badusername 12y ago
The current valuation would mean that Yahoo, as a company, is valued at around 14-18 billion. Note that even though Yahoo's ownership is about $35B, a tax-rate of about 35% is taken into account, even though the eventual tax-rate might
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by badusername 12y ago
Overestimates seems to be a wrong label, having gone through several H1B visa and transfer applications myself. I would say that most lawyers simply fill in the actual amount.
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by badusername 12y ago
5000 cancelled rides over a year does not mess up a system that reportedly has a millions of trips per year.
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by badusername 12y ago
Where the hell is Facebook? Born on this earth to slow it down.
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by badusername 12y ago
You are locked in at the rate if you get in before Jan 2016. I don't see anything wrong with that. It's promotional marketing to catch up to other players.
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by badusername 12y ago
How is Amazon able to offer such low rates when the VISA/MasterCard/Amex processing charges are themselves higher than that?
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by badusername 12y ago
I suspect that there is a bit of smart PR from Lyft here as well. It seems like a sympathy-for-the-underdog card being played here. I've used both services quite heavily, and talked to tons of drivers. Drivers seem happy with both the
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by badusername 12y ago
Seems like you can split the fare with everyone that's riding. https://support.uber.com/hc/en-us/articles/201836586-Can-I-s...
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by badusername 12y ago
Seems like what you are describing is already possible by using single sign-on providers like onelogin and okta.
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by badusername 12y ago
Though I agree with you on the weather bit, there is already a history of yellow and red cards from the tournament already, which could have huge implications on the tournament ahead. (For eg, Luis Suarez getting booted is one.)

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