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by cwhiz 6y ago
My wife and I were exclusively using Seamless until we read an article in Eater talking about how Grubhub/Seamless charge restaurants $6-7+ per phone call.[0] ..but then when we started trying to call or order directly through restaura
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by cwhiz 6y ago
No, it doesn’t. They can do the exact thing Apple is doing which is to accept or reject each app on an individual basis instead of blanket refusing every app that is even related to Covid. What they’re effectively doing is creating a monopo
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Yes, I can. They should do their job of vetting the apps. They have a disclaimer that it will take 7 days then they just reject it for being tangentially related to Covid even if it could have a positive impact.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
They will ban and flag your account if your app just mentions the word Covid. It is absolutely absurd. Only Google is allowed to make a Covid app.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I had a XPS13 a couple of years ago and the USB-C port was not Thunderbolt 3. The new 13” MBP has four TB3 ports which is a pretty big deal to me.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I am actually on record mocking this move by Google. Maybe the consensus on HN is what you say, but this site trends toward groupspeak and mass downvoting for opinions they don’t like. I wouldn’t necessarily take the top comments as the act
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by cwhiz 6y ago
YouTube is just a video advertising platform. Anyone can host a video virtually anywhere on the internet. You don’t have a right to use YouTube. If you want to upload some videos spreading some fake news propaganda there are quite literally
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I actually hate that feature and can’t figure out how to turn it off. It thinks getting me within 1-2 miles of my destination and hailing a car is better than being on a train for 20% longer but being much closer to where I actually want to
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by cwhiz 7y ago
>And Google Hangouts is this zombie product that used to do everything, but never as well as any of the competitors So Google has Hangouts that is able to compete broadly in the consumer and business market but it's not quite good e
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by cwhiz 7y ago
Also known as virtue signaling. I am sure it is helpful to all those laid off people to know there are readers on Hacker News talking about them.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
McConnell is a shrewd negotiator so I assume he is using the bankruptcy position to win concessions on rescuing the oil and energy industry. Otherwise there will be a handful of Republican states facing their own bankruptcies. Trump is jus
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by cwhiz 7y ago
That is an optimistic outlook and I hope you are right. But I bet you are wrong. The destruction of the energy industry will last into 2021 and that alone will drag the economy down. There are also 26 million people who have been out of w
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by cwhiz 7y ago
The S&P is a reflection of where traders are betting things will go. It is not a reflection of the economic reality at that moment in time. It's also down 10% YTD which is fairly substantial. More important than anything though i
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by cwhiz 7y ago
I trust Angela Merkel to not fuck it up.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
Yes. They are monitoring it and reacting appropriately. If it doesn’t work they will pull back and try again. But their actions are not being dictated by the situation in Italy or France. Likewise, Montana should not take action based on wh
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by cwhiz 7y ago
California started shelter in place on March 19. New York started on March 20.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
People aren’t flying. Your comment is meant for laughs but states and regions are in completely different situations. And please tell your joke to Europe, and Germany in particular.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
I don’t really care what HTML is supposed to be.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
Class components feel like a spaghetti mess to me whereas Hooks are obvious, straightforward, and clean. I understand that others feel differently but I personally cannot stand working with class components.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
NY, NJ, PA, CT, and MA have 53% of cases. It’s time to stop treating this like every state or region is in the same situation. Edit: Some people apparently need to be reminded that Europe is a place. Individual countries are reopening as th
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by cwhiz 7y ago
I can't read that article without an account but the quotes imply that only Apple was standing in the way of the centralized approach. Did Germany have a centralized contact tracing solution through Android? Is there more context that
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by cwhiz 7y ago
Source? I have heard much higher numbers, as high as 95%.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
The fact that they are ankle deep in many different industries doesn't help your antitrust argument. They aren't dominant in any single industry they are in.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
Amazon isn’t even as large as Microsoft. What an absurd statement.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
The only city in America that is even remotely capable of going car free is NYC. And really it’s just Manhattan because in the other boroughs the train service starts to get spotty. Bus service in NYC would suffice if they killed off most o
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by cwhiz 7y ago
People in the US seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding on what constitutes a monopoly. I have seen numerous people say that Apple is a monopoly despite having less than 20% market share. Amazon isn't anywhere near a monopoly. T
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by cwhiz 7y ago
There are legitimate reasons to lower a tip. Tips should come at the end after the service is rendered. If the shopper is aware of it ahead of time it’s more like a bribe than a tip.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
That is your definition of hire but it is not what the actual definition of the word is or implies. You can hire a babysitter, 1099 contractor, W2 employee, day laborer, and so on and so forth.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
The stock market is a government backed ponzi scheme. It only works if new investors keep buying and the government won’t let it fail.
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by cwhiz 7y ago
I don’t know what is going on but their “essential items” excuse is totally bogus. There are no essential items in stock! Go try to buy toilet paper, paper towels, hand soap, etc. I can’t buy ANY of that and haven’t been able to for at leas

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