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by jonknee 9y ago
Obviously when you make a support request your record should be displayed for the customer service agent, but this is the other way around where they can seek out people. I don't think that's a valid use case and there's the
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by jonknee 9y ago
What circumstance would be needed to have a view where an employee can find riders by name and look at their whole history? If there is a complaint it should allow the customer service agent to see the ride and perhaps some history (ratings
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by jonknee 9y ago
Though technically the authentic experience is to be around phones as that's what is naturally happening. He just doesn't want that experience so is changing it.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Though there is a difference between intentionally blocking something and never having it at all. Airbags didn't exist for most of the time we've been driving cars, but it would be unsafe if you got a modern car and removed the ai
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Honestly, I have no idea why people still use it when Google Maps has an infinitely better interface and no ads. In some areas it has much better traffic routing. All it takes is getting alerted to one big jam ahead of time and you&#x2
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by jonknee 9y ago
It's down over 1% at the moment, but with it already so beaten down there's a limit to the impact of more bad news.
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by jonknee 9y ago
They're letting you turn it off exactly so you can shoot yourself in the foot and realize that Apple was actually doing you a solid.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> I’m surprised this story isn’t bigger news. It was on Wall Street, the stock has taken a beating since rumors of this leaked out.
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by jonknee 9y ago
And it will be amazing if there are actually 13,000 jobs. These things have a magical way of never materializing. The jobs turn out to be temp construction or count jobs created in the "economic impact" of having the company there
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by jonknee 9y ago
This article has a LIDAR (I believe) image showing the movement... Scary stuff, especially when you see the date stamps between images. It's like watching geology on fast forward: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne
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by jonknee 9y ago
Hence the "generosity" of the mining firm: > The company that runs the quarry has stopped operations and has voluntarily offered to put up evacuated residents in nearby hotels for five weeks at its own expense, though the cause
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by jonknee 9y ago
Sometimes nowhere, sometimes down the street. I do the same thing for restaurants, if there's a wait or my reservation isn't ready on time I'll go somewhere else. There's tons of competition out there, no need to waste m
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by jonknee 9y ago
Sure, but there's one line for 4-8 self checkouts which makes the line move faster even if everyone is a technophobe.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Happens all the time to me, I'd rather give my money to someone with more appropriate staffing than wait in line to buy something.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> If the customer notices a discrepancy, they give them the lower price. They win out in the long run since it depends on the customer to notice the discrepancy and point it out. That kind of fraud is what the corner bodega does, not wha
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by jonknee 9y ago
On the other hand I could see people enjoying having a competent and motivated boss.
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by jonknee 9y ago
It doesn't really even represent an expectation because nobody expects their financials to stay the same. Forward P/E fits that bill a little better.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Speak for yourself, I own some Amazon shares and I like their financial prospects... Bezos is playing the long game and I'm happy to be along for the ride.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> There is a lot of better choices with more return of investment. Except it has actually been one of the best choices to put your money for quite some time. Things can always change, but an average annualized return of 38% over the past
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by jonknee 9y ago
Not really, it indicates how long if nothing changes over the long term. Which never happens. Netflix is growing very rapidly which makes P/E all but meaningless for "how long" questions.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Netflix is the single largest bandwidth user in the world, they don't pay list prices.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Netflix has a lot of assets as well, though they are not physical like Amazon's. Original content can be sold again and again for decades.
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by jonknee 9y ago
They stage their content directly with ISPs which it makes it cheaper and faster for everyone. https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
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by jonknee 9y ago
> It's as if there is this new way of valuing companies that is not based on DCF. Growth. Netflix is after a giant global market and investors would rather growth and investing in new content than a dividend. Yes, the stock has been
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by jonknee 9y ago
> People always refer to Tether 'printing money out of thin air', but they never consider the prospect that investors are wiring money to exchanges, having Tether printed for their use, and then using that USDT to purchase cryp
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by jonknee 9y ago
Billion dollar scams don't happen every day, they're usually worth talking about.
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by jonknee 9y ago
This is a pretty good primer of what looks to be the most obvious scam in cryptocurrencies (of which there is plenty of competition!). It seems to be the glue holding the market together and has rapidly gained scale. When the scam crumbles
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by jonknee 9y ago
Now someone just needs to make a backpack designed to carry the Instant Pot.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> They could get by fine on a normal toll amount. $15 is indefensible. Who's to say $15 isn't a normal toll amount? As far as I know the bridge is quite busy which means it seems very defensible. They discount it for electronic
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by jonknee 9y ago
I think fuel taxes, market rate parking fees and road/congestion tolling would be more libertarian. If you live in a rural area the impact of your vehicle is much different than if you live in the middle of a dense city. Also, a $50,00

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