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by privateSFacct 7y ago
It's really not clear what happened here. Some misconceptions though I'm seeing. 1) Banks always pay ACH debit requests (that draw money from your account). No - you can sign up for ACH positive pay if you want. This generally giv
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
"By default, users have a unique tracking/advertising ID attached to their phone." Google has the same thing, and with apple if you care you can opt out. "When Limit Ad Tracking is enabled on iOS 10 or later, the Adverti
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
The law prohibits upfront pricing unless the drivers are employees of uber. The law requires you (the rider) to be the customer of the driver. So the pricing / payment between driver and rider need to be linked. If you are a customer o
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
1) Will the taxis always take you to your destination in Columbia? In the US at least, if they didn't want to go where you were going they wouldn't pick you up or would make you get out. That's not a problem with Uber. I&#x27
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Absolutely not - do you realize how safe flying in the US is? And you want to charge the people (flawed - yes) as murders? Absolutely revolting!
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
No question - for elderly uber has been a godsend. I don't think people realize the change. My area has uber assist as well which can be nice. yes - there is paratransit - but we are talking schedule 2 days in advance, long bumpy van r
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
The problem is almost everyone in the US uses credit cards etc -> so having the driver handle the money is not easy - it almost always will need to go through someone else (usually a merchant gateway, merchant processor etc.). Taxi'
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Yeah - I remember the claims about upfront pricing being bad / illegal etc. I think they did upfront pricing because users preferred it - I certainly did. But you can't do upfront pricing under CA law - the driver has to be able t
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
I'd be interested in more on this claim. - Was this mostly a power loss or a data loss? - If data loss, did this affect EBS (which has had a claimed annual failure rate of 0.2% - 0.5% or so if I remember) or S3 (much lower failure rate
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
There have been a number of threads suggesting places like Gandi over AWS because they are so much cheaper. I've always been skeptical about building key apps on these types of places but folks INSIST it's the right choice. 3TB at
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Bluetooth using Airpods pros seems to be about 140ms latency vs speakers at about 60 ms. So a difference of 80ms. Others have differences 184ms - so more than double the latency. Could bluetooth adopt whatever apple is doing?
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
And what apple is betting on is that people will prefer their totally sealed, light as possible, "throwaway" $200 product over the competitions user service, replaceable battery option. It is the same bet they have made repeatedly
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Phones are sold this way - and people like everything "packaged up" into a black box in many cases. My guess - the company that makes all the parts / wire runs / etc very visible has a harder time selling to mom and dad
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
All good ideas, but repairing surface mount / integrated / dust and vibration glued parts is not as easy EVEN IF they were open standards as a 40 year old tractor is to repair. I spent way to long repairing an old gas engine, it w
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Right - the term sheet is the "price sheet". The buyer still has to buy.
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
They really need to share more details of these term sheets that fell through so we can confirm they were either binding or signed. "Term sheets are non-binding, and even though they should signify a VC has conviction in investing in y
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Most medical billing is far LESS transparent than a $200/year annual fee. Seriously, if you break your leg call around and try to get quotes for cost for a diagnosis and standard set and cast. You literally in most cases WILL NOT be ab
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
I'm also very curious about their performance per watt / dollar for the standard ML datasets out there (facial recognition etc). We have a reasonable sense of both training time and runtime for these in the cloud (and it is fallin
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
an ipad goes a LONG way towards reducing problems. Get a Logitech external keyboard for it. I'm not just talking tech scammers. It's just harder to "mess up" the ipad for anyone.
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Sure - look into something like a depletion deduction using the percentage method rather than cost method. This creates a complexity nightmare - as you end up with basis changes for s corp pass-thru's etc that are not tied to anything
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
I hope you are joking! Olympus - Accounting fraud - overseas whistleblower was the one prosecuted! Lots of other cases - Japanese CEO's doing MUCH MUCH worse face zero prison time and/or prosecution. A lot of folks posturing here.
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Fantastic news! Now let's have the IRS start building out their free e-file program and IDEALLY put some pressure or at least summarize what parts of the tax code are the most complex so they can be simplified. A lot of the tax code co
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Didn't the SBA payments continue after Ghosn left? And folks said these types of payments generally got a lot of levels of approval? A reminder that he has been prohibited from telling his side of the story so far. A lot of his complai
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
I'm less confident that an airbnb "business" might not go off-site to slam customers. We already have regular businesses suing yelp users etc for bad reviews even if factual. I'm not a huge fan of the hunt people down ac
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Having run into nutty hosts (and before that landlords) would you as a guest feel good if one of those hosts started posting negative reviews about you offsite based on your stay at Airbnb? Ie, if their only outlet for a guest that "cr
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Airbnb has had problems with people finding out where hosts work, where they have other business etc and leaving offsite reviews for airbnb stays on those platforms. My question - would you rent out a room in your house for a night if someo
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
This also makes me laugh out loud. If Amazon gave two craps about some of this stuff it would be cut WAY back. For a few years at least every Apple branded product on amazon I bought was 100% fake - lazy fakes too. I ended up having to buy
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Can I ask briefly what kept you spending such a significant portion of your day working for such an employer? Is this is in the US or somewhere else where maybe there is a forced work period? In the US at least your employer generally canno
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
This - some of remember the MULTIPLE CONTROL PLANE takeovers at these third rate places. Seriously - root access on the control plane - that was then covered up. You really are going to build your business there? There is a reason AWS can c
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by privateSFacct 7y ago
Look again please. "Here's how the GDPR options of an European website looks like: https://imgur.com/a/ckOivi7 " False, the EU website has an ugly cookie bar with a button called "I accept" tha

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