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by dave5104 6y ago
> GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEICO
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by dave5104 6y ago
I switched to my own router and modem last year with Comcast, and it was shockingly easy to get the old router returned and the fee removed on monthly bills going forward. I haven't seen it come back since. I was previously paying $7&#
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by dave5104 6y ago
Schwab Bank started using voice recognition "passwords" as well. Luckily, it requires you to log into their website after talking through voice password tutorial to activate the voice password--which I refused to do at the time. G
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by dave5104 6y ago
That's 30 employees per city, for those who didn't do the mental math. Seems way more reasonable considering for each given market, you'll need a number of support staff + supervisors, marketing people, staff to support drive
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by dave5104 7y ago
Yes, which is presumably what the X% service fee goes towards. Every order made on the platform assesses a fee ("Taxes and Fees" line item) to the consumer that goes to DoorDash (not your delivery driver), on top of charging the r
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by dave5104 7y ago
> The 30% that Doordash/Uber Eats charge pays the cost of delivery and customer service. It's not free to provide food delivery. Then what do the $X flat delivery + X% "to keep DoorDash running" fees pay for? It feels
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by dave5104 7y ago
You'd think it'd be easy, but GrubHub at one point was making sure that didn't happen: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/28/19154220/grubhub-seamless...
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by dave5104 7y ago
I once used DoorDash's "order for pickup" option, not wanting to pay the delivery fees for something that was close by. Got asked very strongly by the restaurant at pick up to not do that again and instead just give them a ca
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by dave5104 7y ago
I'm curious what would be motivating here, too. Of all times to dilly dally in a grocery store, now's not the time. I want to get in and get out to reduce exposure time--not spend time updating an app with what I see on a shelf.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Video conferencing is a dime a dozen. There are so many other services, that I fail to see why Zoom should be given any sort of pass. Facebook is probably one of the best ways to connect to and stay updated with your extended family during
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by dave5104 7y ago
Just because Zoom's product has value, doesn't mean that its product's problems should be ignored.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Seems like having a birthday (and therefore age) for everyone checking into a hotel could be valuable for business intelligence and other analytics.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Don't want to get too political here, but if you consolidated the response to COVID-19 to the federal government and didn't allow states and county public health officials to act, we'd probably be in much worse shape. I don&#
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by dave5104 7y ago
Or just be explicit and share. "Hi, I need to extend my stay from 3 nights to 2 weeks. I'm just returning from a high risk area of Italy and need to quarantine myself!"
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by dave5104 7y ago
Same day shipping not sounding so great now!
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by dave5104 7y ago
Maybe someone with a medical degree? Gates can certainly bring some unique skills to the table if he was invited, but it seems like we should have an actual doctor leading the charge.
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by dave5104 7y ago
They can also represent the enterprise software needs for those industries.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Seems like you can avoid the privacy issues by just telling the entire office to work from home in this exceptional case.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Or someone could just send the photo over to Clearview AI.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Tencent invested in reddit's series D financing round in 2019. Can't figure out what % they "own", but OP implying full ownership is not entirely correct. Edit: and looks like OP edited their comment to clarify.
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by dave5104 7y ago
"Owned" is a bit generous. But Tencent has a financial investment in reddit. > In February 2019, Chinese company Tencent invested $150 million into Reddit as part of its Series D. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by dave5104 7y ago
He was also pretty adamant about not doing it in his book that came out last fall. Would be an awkwardly quick about face.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Sure, I agree with the mindset of how Iger is probably wanting to be done. But a less alarming way about it would be announcing that Iger will be stepping down as CEO "at the end of the quarter." Not "immediately" and no
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by dave5104 7y ago
I've followed news related to the company pretty closely, and there were not any rumors, or even speculation, that Iger would step down from the CEO role before the end of his contract in December 2021--especially not over a year and a
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by dave5104 7y ago
Sadly, I'm not in his district, so I can't vote for him.
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by dave5104 7y ago
Seems the trouble is that, in addition to their award nominated material, Netflix also produces a lot of low quality content tailored to niche viewer personas. I wonder if they've ever considered whether or not that hurts their brand m
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by dave5104 7y ago
Not sure how books really solve that. If I was interested in following the recent impeachment, what books am I going to read? I'm sure there will be plenty available within the year, but that's a little late for anyone who wants t
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by dave5104 7y ago
At first I thought this was an Oklahoma tourism logo--which tend to be a little less "official" looking. But it doesn't seem like this is for the tourism board.
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by dave5104 7y ago
"Are you driving right now? We can reschedule to something more convenient for you? I don't want you to get pulled over."
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by dave5104 7y ago
> Southwest has to perform the weight and balance checking in a matter of minutes between all the passengers getting on board and pushback, because of the open seating. Why wouldn't this be an issue for other airlines as well? Unite

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