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by johnloeber 12y ago
Funny and makes a point, but it seemed that toward the middle of the piece there was also a (not-too-subtle) mocking of hipsters, which I thought was both (a) pointlessly out of place in this piece and (b) actually counter-productive, becau
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Regarding mistaken authorship: whoops, sorry. That was inattentive on my part.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
What I meant by "last mile transportation" was the transportation of physical goods, like packages, mail, delivery food, etc. Drivers could probably fit a couple of these "errands" in at no loss, while increasing the eff
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Interesting. I've never taken amphetamines, but I'm not surprised to find that this is the case.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
It's not easy to correctly value Uber, because it's not so easy to value the taxi industry, either. By some metrics, the global taxi industry is worth no more than $25B.[0] This seems spurious, and Nate Silver, using a different m
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by johnloeber 12y ago
I used to have a pretty irregular sleep pattern, and one thing I definitely noticed was the feeling of euphoria that comes with sleep-deprivation. If I stayed up deep into the night, I would feel great : energetic and ready to get things d
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by johnloeber 12y ago
30 years?! Erlang was published internally by Ericsson in 1986, so you were (or know someone) on the original development team or among the first users?
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by johnloeber 12y ago
>Is this much better than just having a really good smartphone with voice recognition that's connected to speakers in the house? It doesn't look like it. Maybe it has a better microphone? In any case, this seems like a function
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Huh, interesting. What I like most about this is that Microsoft has been putting out a major piece of news (Microsoft Band, Independence Day, now this, etc.) every few days. I feel as if we're now beginning to really see product-level
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Indeed! Thankfully, someone has compiled this data and made it easily searchable: http://www.salar.ly/
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by johnloeber 12y ago
I got a 504 earlier. The server must be running at capacity. It's still up for me.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
This can't be stressed enough.
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Neat! I like how it appears to have an 'infinite' capacity for expansion in any direction, though I don't know if that's a good or a bad design choice. (Could a constraint be creatively beneficial in this case?) This als
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Not free: okay, sure. But the barriers aren't that high. Let's take a look at the capital expenses: setting up some re-targeted advertisements isn't very expensive at all, and giving away a thousand rides at an average ride-c
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by johnloeber 12y ago
I'm also disappointed by the cynicism and superficial judgement ("bad web design!") that this piece is receiving. This might be a serious innovation, easing the lives of a (large!) marginalized group. Blindness is a serious d
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by johnloeber 12y ago
> First you have to line up enough drivers to make it worthwhile, and then get enough app downloads by consumers to make it worthwhile for drivers. You're assuming that drivers/consumers will be exclusively using your service.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Those are very valid points, and they certainly apply at the moment. However, I think that this ceases to be an issue when meta-rideshare services begin to emerge, which I think is (technologically) inevitable. What I think we will see is t
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by johnloeber 12y ago
I don't think this is true. I think that the ridesharing market will become split between many interchangeable ride-sharing services. Three main reasons: (1) the barriers to entry for this market are actually very low, (2) it's ha
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by johnloeber 12y ago
This article was simply superb. So much emotional, human depth. How interesting: I think Paul Ford was scraping at some real, deep aspects of what it means to be human... in a piece that is at least superficially about computers.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
> I think that this a damning criticism of contemporary society when it produces people unable to cope with freedom in its literal meaning. Nicely Put.
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Uber Will Not Achieve a Monopoly [pdf](johnloeber.com)
7 points by johnloeber 12y ago|2 comments
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Analyzing Wikipedia's Television Episode Summaries for Sociological Conclusions(johnloeber.com)
1 points by johnloeber 12y ago|0 comments
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Reading that design booklet was marvellous. I loved tracking the evolution of the idea. However, I feel as if there's some risk taken in delivering an entire booklet that slowly tracks the germination of an idea. This risk seems to con
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by johnloeber 12y ago
This is a very good point. The "free" storage comes at the cost of being strongly disincentivized from ever cancelling your Prime Subscription.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Oh, this is great news. Dropbox is a great product (no offense, OneDrive), and it'll make the entire Office Workflow a great deal cleaner and easier. I'm also glad to see integration across cloud services. I think this will improv
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by johnloeber 12y ago
Pretty cool. When I saw the headline, I expected a boat hull filled with some sort of lubricant and another hull inside, containing the "actual boat," such that the "actual boat" would always be level. In terms of form,
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by johnloeber 12y ago
The tags at the bottom read "personal history" and "personal essays", and there's no explicit indication that this is a piece of fiction. This might actually be (based on?) a real story.
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by johnloeber 12y ago
That was a really interesting read, but on the creepy/terrifying side of things. One line especially stood out to me: > When we announced my wife’s pregnancy, Grandma freaked out about how there’d be another mouth to feed and we cou