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by bthrn 6y ago
Keep in mind Uber operates in almost a thousand cities worldwide. Of course certain places will earn Uber more than others, but it’s not a huge hit to their revenue. The real threat, as I see it, is other states enacting similar laws that w
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by bthrn 6y ago
Hopefully the probability of you finding the exit is high!
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by bthrn 6y ago
Yes
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by bthrn 6y ago
> If you are encountering performance that is not what you expected, please consider our products designed for intensive workloads. It seems very strange to argue that customers should just know beforehand what they need, while also at t
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by bthrn 7y ago
This is crazy to ponder given it’s only been a couple weeks. I feel terrible about so many smaller businesses teetering close to insolvency.
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by bthrn 7y ago
The novel coronavirus is the virus, Covid19 is the disease it causes. Similar to HIV being the virus and AIDS being the disease it can cause.
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by bthrn 7y ago
If you touch a smoker, you don’t get lung cancer and risk death. The hype for this is part media sensationalism, part risk of it spreading everywhere.
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by bthrn 7y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. Facebook accepts the inverse casing of your password as valid in case you accidentally have caps lock on while typing it.
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by bthrn 7y ago
Same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridesharing_company
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by bthrn 7y ago
Shame. I used this a lot. Perhaps they're not willing to lose money with the hopes of one day being profitable, like ride sharing companies.
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by bthrn 7y ago
With the layoffs, the quarterly earnings, and now this, it sounds like Uber’s having a bit of a tough time. Sentiment about the viability of Uber long term is quite negative. Can anybody at Uber talk about what the morale and culture is lik
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by bthrn 7y ago
So? Hawking’s death got a post here too.
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by bthrn 7y ago
I think Spotify handles this pretty well. You have a central service that license holders contribute content to. The central service negotiates prices with the license holders and charges a fee to cover its aggregate expenses. Although musi
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by bthrn 7y ago
That sounds fairly alarmist. I'm sure there's a (small) subset of users who'd be willing to pay for services like those if there weren't any creepy advertising tricks happening in the background. Would the business model
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by bthrn 7y ago
"It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along." -Satya Nadella
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by bthrn 7y ago
This isn't specific to coding. A properly motivated learner in any subject will vastly outperform an apathetic one.
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by bthrn 7y ago
The optimistic interpretation is that it was meant as "should have died <were it not for the advancements>"
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by bthrn 8y ago
That would in turn make the area less attractive to live in, and some of the wealthy people who want to have groceries would consider living elsewhere. It's not black and white like that but in general this is how markets are supposed
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by bthrn 8y ago
Came here to say that. I was going to recommend it be called a prime threesome though.
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by bthrn 8y ago
There is basically nothing helpful or constructive in your comment here. You seem to be pretty upset about this, do you have some sort of vendetta against Blue Apron?
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by bthrn 8y ago
Wouldn’t a company’s taxes/costs go up with each new hire whether there’s a head tax or not though? Social security for example is half paid for by employers.
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by bthrn 8y ago
> Macaroni and Cheese is referred to in Canada Kraft Dinner Perhaps a little patriotic of me but it’s shocking you talk about Canadian Kraft Dinner without calling it KD.
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by bthrn 9y ago
I know people who have quit full time jobs to write algo trading software for themselves to use -- the market pays them but I wouldn't call it a customer.
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by bthrn 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by bthrn 9y ago
That the purpose of it is to advertise economic resources is not true. My wife has an iPhone because it's the most competent tool she can use to get the job done. Having used several Android phones prior to this, I don't blame her
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by bthrn 9y ago
They advertise it as such. From their privacy policy: "Incoming messages are scanned for the purpose of spam detection unless you disable spam protection for your account... To make message searching fast, we build an index of your mes
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by bthrn 9y ago
> "Once we finish signing the paperwork, everyone else is worthless." It is true. I think that's a fairly myopic, though unsurprising, point of view from the sales perspective. There's tons of work that goes into maki
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by bthrn 11y ago
Open this network stream with VLC: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1603kjbnadc...
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by bthrn 11y ago
Some bits in here make me seriously question the author's judegment. "Many more motorists and pedestrians die in traffic collisions per year than do bicyclists. We don’t see them wearing helmets." Doesn't this support th
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by bthrn 11y ago
We should also consider that a lot of popular interpreted languages -- Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript -- are implemented in 'boring' C/C++. Abstraction is a beautiful thing, but we should not forget our roots!

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