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by kbos87 7y ago
Doesn’t this sort of amount to an admission that all the years of hunting in the Antarctic under the guise of research were in fact commercial whaling?
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by kbos87 8y ago
This is straight up shameful. People involved in these decisions should be personally shamed in their day to day, dropping their kids off at school, shopping at the grocery store, and picking up their mobile orders at Starbucks.
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by kbos87 8y ago
I was asked to provide an eyewitness identification for a crime I witnessed being committed and reported to the police. I had about a minute-long conversation with one of the perpetrators. When the detective came to my home with a black and
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by kbos87 8y ago
It’s also interesting that they would even give the context that they plan on using these cars as part of a self driving network. Any other company could and would only say that there is no option for buyout and leave it at that.
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by kbos87 8y ago
The thing that baffles me - why the hell has there never been any innovation in the form of making it easier to diagnose a problem and move through the necessary steps in a checklist beyond fumbling through a paper manual? In a situation wh
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by kbos87 8y ago
Mark Zuckerberg, you apparently don’t realize how far you’ve fallen. The best thing you could possibly do right now is to stay quiet and out of the way, not try to interject your opinions into politics or the future of tech. At the very lea
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by kbos87 8y ago
I remember talking to a driver back in the early days of Uber X (probably 2012-ish) who told me he was on track to make $80k driving for Uber that year. Wow have things changed.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Bingo. This is the end state of capitalism, a total lack of concern for brand on the part of the companies; a total lack of loyalty and trust on the part of the customer.
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by kbos87 8y ago
It feels useless when you know that after paying in $500 a month for decades your insurance could be cancelled for making a claim.
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by kbos87 8y ago
I’m really sorry that happened to your friend and to you. I think the best outcome of tech like this is that it makes what seems like maybe small and maybe seemingly mundane improvements that reduce the frequency that things like this happe
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by kbos87 8y ago
This brings to mind Home Depot's free "water tests" hanging at the entry to every store, emblazoned with the Home Depot logo. Free water test! Make sure what your family drinks and bathes in and cooks with is safe! they say.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Guessing they have a dozen vague reasons on the ready to cite without any further explanations required
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by kbos87 8y ago
OpenTable is misunderstanding where the balance of power lies here. I’m not their customer, I’m the restaurants’ customer, despite the fact that OpenTable has maybe found a way to reduce a little bit of the friction in the situation. This i
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by kbos87 8y ago
Interesting, I see it from exactly the opposite perspective. By paying up front I’m putting forth trust and an expectation that the restaurant will do right by me or make it right through a refund at the end if I’m dissatisfied. I can’t say
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by kbos87 8y ago
“Every right” might be true, but that doesn’t protect them from having made a despicable decision to do it. I agree the laws should be fixed, but there’s a level of decency absent from their decision.
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by kbos87 8y ago
I have a relative who recently passed away after a short battle with cancer. In the weeks and months following her surprising diagnosis, she didn’t want to know the details of her prognosis, which I’ve come to respect and understand. While
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by kbos87 8y ago
Let's take a look at some of the ingredients that led to this: 1) A pedestrian crossing the street likely expected an approaching driver to see them and slow down. Typical behavior on the part of the average pedestrian and the average
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by kbos87 8y ago
I’m not saying they know better. I’m saying that what Uber and Lyft are doing is extracting a margin at the cost of drivers and taxpayers without having built any real competitive moat. Cities could do the same thing, leverage their control
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by kbos87 8y ago
Buses yes, but the market has asserted that buses serve a pretty different use case vs. door to door car service.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Why draw an artificial line between cities and private markets? Innovation isn’t the exclusive domain of for profit companies. Part of the reason why we end up in these situations where public utilities are in such an embarrassing state is
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by kbos87 8y ago
I’m not saying they need to deliver a better service. I’m saying they should meet the current status quo, and use their regulatory power to make Uber and Lyft’s services inferior.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Fine, but the concept is out in the world now. The cities should be able to replicate the concept, compete and leverage their strengths the same way any for profit entity could.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Amen. Uber and Lyft are adding congestion to our roads and undermining public transportation, all while profiting off public infrastructure and a class of driver “partners” who incur all of the costs for a razor thin upside. Id like to see
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by kbos87 8y ago
I was on an Air Canada flight recently, and I swore it would be my last. Every step of the experience of buying a seat and checking in was tainted with growth hacking BS, and I felt nickel & dimed in ways other airlines are probably rus
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by kbos87 8y ago
The dynamic explained here isn’t some cliff we are collectively approaching as the article seems to say. Instead, it’s been a drag on people’s willingness to sign up for subscription services and likelihood to churn off of them all along.
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by kbos87 8y ago
This is dead on. The HN crowd that prefers to buy on their own based on objective measures and data they can find on a property is a tiny minority. Most people want and need human guidance in a complicated situation like buying a house.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Having just gone through a grueling year long search for a home, I absolutely see the value in having a realtor as a buyer, and I have to say I’d be happy to pay for one if I were on the sellers side. Yes, some of a realtors transactions ar
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by kbos87 8y ago
Having switched from Evernote about 6 months ago, here are some of the biggest positives and negatives to me - Biggest positive: The variety of formats & integrations. I use “toggles” and tables a ton. This was the main reason I switche
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by kbos87 8y ago
San Francisco has never appealed to me. When I’ve told people that in the past, they’ve looked at me like I have two heads. For anyone who doesn’t live or spend much time there, the romantic notion of SF is pretty great. It’s got a lot goin
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by kbos87 8y ago
This article is maddening on many levels. All they manage to prove is that dollar stores, like many other types of stores, go where they perceive their customers to be. They aren’t a causative factor behind poverty or racial segregation, th

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