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by kbos87 9y ago
Agree 100%. Making driving easier and more convenient isn’t going to solve our transit problems, it’s going to make them worse. Just look at what is happening with ridesharing services - people choosing them over public transit because they
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by kbos87 9y ago
At 32, this worries me. I’ve already begun to plan for my eventual exit from tech. When friends nudge their kids in the direction of building skills or a career in tech, I try to find ways to let them know how I look at our industry - a som
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by kbos87 9y ago
93 in the Boston area has had median movers in place for a long time. Back in 2009, they were 14 years old, and their value was being questioned at $1 million each to open and close an under-used HOV lane - http://archive.boston.
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by kbos87 9y ago
I agree with your first points about segmentation, personalization, and differentiation, but sales and marketing are fundamentally different disciplines. The ideal is an organization where there is trust, communication, and accountability b
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by kbos87 9y ago
This is really on WSJ? There are a million little tricks and tactics out there like this and this is no more interesting than the next one. It’s a one time thing, it’s pretty unsavory, and like many other shady growth tactics, the mileage o
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by kbos87 9y ago
Are you serious? That wealth belongs to them until they make a sound decision to part with it. If that means they’ve decided to purchase something and haven’t been deceived, great. If that means they pass it on to someone of their choosing
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by kbos87 9y ago
Would there be so many “temporarily embarrassed monopolists” if people had an easier time imagining a world in which they didn’t have to be the end all be all winner in order to build and be proud of something sustainable?
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by kbos87 9y ago
Your argument overlooks all of the negative externalities associated with a single large player that dominates all of these disparate industries. When smaller businesses can’t compete, there are hundreds of downstream effects. Businesses cl
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by kbos87 9y ago
Then your Amazon buying habits roughly match what mine once were - but that’s far from how a lot of people I live amongst use Amazon. I come home to my apartment every day to find Amazon vans prowling the neighborhood delivering groceries (
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by kbos87 9y ago
I don’t think that the world can quite fathom how dangerous Amazon actually is to virtually every industry. When it comes to purveyors of physical goods, Amazon has the power to reshape the fabric of our streets and neighborhoods in ways fe
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by kbos87 9y ago
It feels like growth tactic desperation levels have hit a new high. The interesting thing is that it isn't just limited to tiny startups trying to grab market share as this type of language once was - Facebook seems to have no hesitati
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by kbos87 9y ago
I wish there was a viable alternative. Moving to Android after years and years of purchasing apps and setting my digital life up around apple's ecosystem makes that a nonstarter. It's platform lock-in. And, I'm not about to s
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by kbos87 9y ago
A wireless future is a future I don't want to live in. Bluetooth earbuds blow, and they need to constantly be charged. Wires aren't a downside.
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by kbos87 9y ago
Last weekend I paid $50 - yes, $50 - for a third party adapter at an airport kiosk after realizing I had forgotten the cheap apple adapter and was staring down a 10 hour flight with incompatible headphones. It also allows charging while lis
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by kbos87 9y ago
If you spend any time listening to satellite radio, it's pretty clear that they do - I'd say 70%+ of the callers to talk shows on SiriusXM are truckers. (Though they could be over-represented amongst those likely to call in, it&#x
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by kbos87 9y ago
The right answer is to lie, cheat, steal, and hurt those who are one step ahead of you because they've figured out "the game".
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by kbos87 9y ago
This actually doesn't seem that far fetched. Ex-drivers who are angry and have plenty of time on their hands out at night picking the RFID tags out of stop signs. Another scenario is more of a slow and steady war. I'd expect that
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by kbos87 9y ago
The people who complain about heightened security never have a better proposal. This article is pure pandering with no balanced opinion of the fact that there could be credible motivations to ask for this.
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by kbos87 9y ago
I have a hunch that you've never worked at a growing mid-sized or large company that is clinging to its startup roots and is averse to any sort of process at all. Being unwilling to adopt a necessary amount of structure and process is
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by kbos87 9y ago
This is sound advice, but not new advice. A couple of things that jumped out at me - Yes, yes, 1,000x when it comes to the importance of simplicity. It's far too easy to unknowingly distract yourself and your users from what is importa
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by kbos87 9y ago
My family used to own a restaurant. We used to get occasional calls from people claiming to be sick. People would be dumb enough to call us screaming, with an indignant attitude, blaming something they ate at our establishment an hour ago.
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by kbos87 9y ago
I previously had a modest amount of stock in a handful of midsized and larger tech companies, but I'm in the process of selling it off. Something that was an eye opening experience for me was watching my own employer go public. All of
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by kbos87 9y ago
Agreed. The great irony of all this is that a more palatable group of people running the company are more likely to take it further and thus do more damage to society, building an even more enormous and dependent economy of drivers they alr
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by kbos87 9y ago
Yes. I don't have any sympathy; I felt deceived. Maybe some people don't care, but that isn't what I want to deal with on a vacation. If I had been booted out mid-stay by an astute security guard, it would have been a total n
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by kbos87 9y ago
This was the place - http://globalnews.ca/news/2080213/two-people-shot-in-toronto... "She called it a 'party unit' and said it seemed like there had been a party going on for three days straight.&qu
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by kbos87 9y ago
Looking purely at cash flow, it isn't profitable to buy and rent out an apartment in a lot of American cities at least.
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by kbos87 9y ago
I stayed in an Airbnb in Toronto last year. It was a beautiful new building in a trendy neighborhood. The unit was very clearly setup for continual airbnb rentals and wasn't anyone's primary residence. Only after booking was I giv
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by kbos87 9y ago
Quora is one of the biggest offenders of growth tactics at the cost of user experience. They make it so easy to create an account without intending to that I probably have 15 of them.
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I think that's a very fair point, but we should be able to decouple these two things and begin to address CO2 emissions outside the context of driverless cars.
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by kbos87 9y ago
I for one hope driverless cars take a hell of a lot longer than people like Elon Musk expect them to. First off, I enjoy driving. I identify with the brand of car I just bought. Yes, I have to deal with traffic and competing for parking in

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