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by grandalf 10y ago
Instacart would benefit from keeping inventory data synced more accurately, but ultimately Instacart offers a solution in the form of the shopper making a reasonable decision. Instacart used to prompt the buyer to approve all substitutions,
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by grandalf 10y ago
> If there is as much money to be made as Instacart's valuation implies, then it's just a matter of time until the big chains, at least, start offering their own online shopping. That depends on what grocery stores are good at.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Personally, I'd be loath to spend a car's worth of money to trade "up" I completely agree. But they are put into a position where the car is completely illiquid as an asset and also offers no transportation value f
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by grandalf 10y ago
Not sure how often this happens, but if it is frequent, Tesla should simply offer to take the damaged vehicle as a trade-in toward a new model, and allow the owner to stop making payments until the new car is ready for delivery. Not a scala
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by grandalf 10y ago
While I am not fully on board with all of the negatives he mentions about Apple (and would add one of my own, XCode), Microsoft is doing a great job of becoming more relevant to developers who prefer n x tooling. Things like Homebrew have
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Carried to its logical conclusion, you wouldn't want to buy a used car from someone if they received it for free, regardless of how much they're charging vs. market rates. Great point. These objections to Instacart are not j
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by grandalf 10y ago
Yes. Not sure why people don't see this.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Turns out there is a margin, and it is at least 20%, if not much more. This is not true. In some stores Instacart offers the same as in-store prices, other it does not. The same is true of anything one buys on Amazon. Low-cost items
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by grandalf 10y ago
I like to give homework assignments too. It's amazing how many candidates will simply not do it, so it's a great filter.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Exactly. NYC cabs are not only extremely uncomfortable (the worst are the Ford Explorers with zero leg room. The advertisement video loop is also a major detractor. Typical NYC cab rides involve the driver exchanging heated language with ot
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Try taking a taxi in the bay area to understand a truly dysfunctional taxi system. Absolutely true. And it's worth noting that Gavin Newsom got his start in politics as SF Taxi Commissioner. It's hard to estimate the scale of
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by grandalf 10y ago
Uber should cost more than a regular taxi considering the service. When I travel to a city Uber is available. When I travel to a suburban location near a city, Uber is available. There are dozens of different small-time cab companies an
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by grandalf 10y ago
Here's why Uber will succeed: - Nobody who lives in a market that Uber serves will ever be willing to go back to the old way of calling a taxi dispatch line by phone, waiting on hold, and being told the cab will arrive in "five
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by grandalf 10y ago
I totally agree with this. One thing that should be noted is that in this case the government was acting in the corrupt interest of the incumbent taxi industry. Once the system has been corrupted, tactics like Grayball become the only w
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by grandalf 10y ago
What's the solution? Public repos with opt-in lists? Or just using private repos for everything?
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by grandalf 10y ago
Would someone please contact one of the leaders of Github for a comment? Too much speculation going on.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I just visited the long now foundation's SF office yesterday. Very cool stuff.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> They are shown out of a private establishment that can choose who it serves We can all imagine what Twitter would be like if created by a church group. Certain, virtuous tweets would be promoted, and tweets containing sinful thoughts
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by grandalf 10y ago
Well put. I don't use phrases like "proto-fascists" because I don't think the term really has meaning. > as a means of control by whoever's in power at the time. This is exactly right. When we allow liberties to
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by grandalf 10y ago
> It's applying a victim card on top of asshole behavior. Well, we're all in a sense victims of what our environment did to our tabula rasa to make us who we are (for better and worse). All humans have flaws (insecurity among t
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Twitter need not be an accessory to that. There is no great loss, either moral or financial, to the slow leakage of anime avatars and Twitter eggs. Many people would say that exact thing if Twitter decided to censor content that was ab
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by grandalf 10y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.6574.pdf
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by grandalf 10y ago
I always ask the drivers how they like Uber, whether they have considered Lyft (most use both), etc. The only group of highly disgruntled drivers are the ones who lived in the overpriced period of black cars that existed before Uber came in
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by grandalf 10y ago
Does it say it will be ad-free? If it is that would be worth $35 to me.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> "Better than absolute hell" is nothing to celebrate. Well I think that it's useful in the midst of stories like this to realize that yes, most people are nice, kind, etc. Perhaps most Uber employees are like that. It
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by grandalf 10y ago
Broadly censoring accounts based on a subset of the content those accounts have posted is like Uber deciding not to do pickups / dropoffs near mosques. Twitter has a profit incentive not just to censor content, but to make as much of t
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by grandalf 10y ago
> does not happen to straight white men There are many aspects of how society treats men and women differently that are abhorrent to me. One of the most abhorrent is how a girl who struggles in math is more likely to be encouraged to fo
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by grandalf 10y ago
> how is that any different? It's different because then users who don't like content to be censored can turn it off. I turn off Google Safesearch and have not regretted it in the least.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Exactly, I think another way of describing this is a bubble.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Twitter really needs to give people the anti-abuse tools they demand. I strongly agree with this. It's a far better solution than censorship.

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