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by bertil 6y ago
I'm not questioning that some restaurants do it. I’m not sure how it can be cheaper for a single-address restaurant to do it, compared to a pooled service. If half of your workforce is just driving back, that can’t be efficient.
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by bertil 6y ago
Deliveroo offers a subscription service but you still order on demand — the subscription just lowers your fee. Competitors have suggested options with regular deliveries to pool them. Few offer hot food, many it’s fresh but cold (Frichti in
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by bertil 6y ago
You can think of those fees as a substitute for the front-of-house: waiters, laundry, dishes and real-estate. A restaurant typically hires twice more waiters than cooks, as equivalent (minimal) wages. Real-estate is often a third of the ove
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by bertil 6y ago
At the right scale, it is, but the pairing opportunities become significant when a given service represents a significant portion of how people eat. (To give you an idea: at that point, the lobbying against the platform isn’t coming from re
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by bertil 6y ago
Short answer: most customers would find the actual cost of that delivery prohibitive. It’s not impossible but that’s would rapidly be a niche market. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295143
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by bertil 6y ago
Yes, I’d split them in two types in the markets where Deliveroo operates: * existing restaurants (or food trucks) that were identified as promising by the Deliveroo; there’s a program to help them grow and the most common step is to lend th
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by bertil 6y ago
> Is running your own delivery system actually cheaper? For two reasons: really not. Deliveroo barely promisses to make a profit and that’s with a lot of things for them. 1. It’s surprisingly complicated to run that kind of service. They
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by bertil 6y ago
> * asking customers for more than £2 is a crime against humanity and will tank your retention faster than spilling broth and bringing cold pizza; This was not my riffing around a hot-and-cold theme. This was the actual comparison that I
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by bertil 6y ago
Not Uber but Deliveroo — and it was long enough that I can talk freely. Mind you: that was a while ago. The vast majority of people underestimate the cost of delivery, more specifically two things: the duration of delivery or rather how man
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by bertil 6y ago
> Whatever Facebook says (or thinks) about the backfire effect, this phenomenon has not, in fact, been “shown” or demonstrated in any thorough way. I’m positive that the company has conducted internal AB-test to check for those and has a
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by bertil 7y ago
What it more confusing to me is whether those jobs are supported by automation, and whether Amazon was able to scale up their internal robot production.
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by bertil 7y ago
I’d be surprised if the risk wasn’t seriously mitigated by hiding that option in an obscure enough menu, or a command-line tool.
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by bertil 7y ago
You are saying that what’s left after tax optimisation is small. Not that the potential revenue if corporate benefits were taxed effectively is small. Do you have an estimate of the revenue that is declared in low-tax jurisdiction?
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by bertil 7y ago
> there's no possible way that corporate tax avoidance would make a significant difference Citation needed.
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by bertil 7y ago
There are a lot of commercial solution that are geared towards reporting, from old-school Oracle, TeraData even SAS (would not recommend that one). Some options that came our recently when “Big Data” was a sentence people said: Hive, RedShi
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by bertil 7y ago
I’d say hosting data that you don’t need to run your live ergodic (non-ML) software service, but that you’d need for other services: informing the business, flagging operational issues, training ML models. Some of those can be done with bac
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by bertil 7y ago
I’m assuming anyone who has to make that decision already knows this but, while PostgreSQL is great to host a production database, it isn’t a great choice for an analytic database at scale, or to train or store your machine learning featu
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by bertil 7y ago
I would have loved Sam to make that argument explicitly: it’s not his style to talk about government money as if it grows on trees. I suspect he wouldn’t have looked at the overall distribution but where to assign marginal tax revenues.
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by bertil 7y ago
Some would see a contradiction between that impulse and how companies from Y-Combinator might use a tax-reduction scheme. Some could even see a connection between tax lawyers introduced by Y-Combinator to founders and that practice. I’m no
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by bertil 7y ago
> did the author of the original paper go on Tucker Carlson and say that it's 100% effective He did so, in French but he absolutely offered to go on the French talk shows, with a clear snide to Cauhet, the French equivalent of Tucke
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by bertil 7y ago
I'd love to have your reaction to this: https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/12414295448478638...
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by bertil 7y ago
I have not but she has: https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/12414295448478638...
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by bertil 7y ago
I don’t know what he wanted, but he walked into creating this aware, awake and knowing: https://twitter.com/BostonJoan/status/1240626380020289539
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by bertil 7y ago
He’s not asking for reviews, or using the usual precautionary tone: he’s claiming that his solution work, explicitly seeking limelight. I’m afraid of two things: 1. Without professionals pandemic specialist to deliver the message, people wh
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by bertil 7y ago
That page doesn’t really look like most reasonable media ‘About Us’ page: no by-line, no photos, link to PO boxes or AWS (!), unclear editorial line. I’m happy there is a (generic) name for the editor but the rest wouldn’t really count as a
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by bertil 7y ago
His tone is controversial: he’s happy to say things that will make some people unhappy. You are quoting a highly respected peer-review journal. Those were set-up to avoid appeals to individual authority and replace them with (anonymous) pee
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by bertil 7y ago
I believe that viral load ("charge virale") is the number of virus in your system, so mainly viruses that are coming out of your own cells. Masks prevent contamination before it starts but if one is measuring load, I’d say it’s to
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by bertil 7y ago
I would be skeptical of _Le Monde_ too indeed. My point was that particular site had all the flavours of the fake news site that had mushroomed in the last year, with non-sensical translations and controversial content. Before anyone raids
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by bertil 7y ago
He seems to assume it but doesn’t really detail. I’m not sure there’s a scale for measure symptoms in details.
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by bertil 7y ago
The focus on the viral load has helped, that’s for sure but as doctor and a researcher, I wouldn‘t throw most of the initial effort under the bus, or explain that quarantine doesn‘t work by quoting a pre-Pasteur example.

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