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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
The server doesn’t know whether you will follow through with a tip when they decide how well to serve you. The information asymmetry goes one way or the other.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
Complain though whatever feedback mechanism the app gives you. Same thing you’d do if the food didn’t show up at all. On the other hand, what does the driver do if they go above and beyond to give you great service, but then you don’t tip?
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
Although if drivers hear about this story and find out that some prepaid tips are doing nothing for them, their perceptions of the cash tip may change. I figure they have the ability to give the customer zero stars if the promised tip isn’t
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
In the US tipping is standard, not for over-the-top service. In general, higher pay for better quality goods and services is part of a negotiated sticker price. Tipping is the anamoly here. In the DoorDash context, if the user were given
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I wonder if you added a note stating that you planned to tip in cash, whether the drivers could see that and give you better service.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
The issue as described here is that the service captures most of the value of the tip, so the drivers are wasting their effort when they rush to complete tipped orders.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
This driver isn’t paid until after the delivery anyway, so that shouldn’t be a factor. When deciding to tip before or after the service is rendered, these are the considerations likely to be weighed: Pros for asking for tips before delivery
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I don’t think it’s fraud. Your money went to the driver, instead of DoorDash’s money. This is exactly how restaurant tipping works in much of the US. As usual, if you want the person you are tipping to keep the money you are giving them in
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I don’t think so - the owner of this issue is the tech lead of Progressive Web Apps at Google according to his LinkedIn. He probably envisions a future where GMail can run as a web app on a mobile phone with zero lag. Combined with previous
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I’m not saying you can instantly change the way your brain works on a dime, but you can make it happen given time. Read a good book about the history of hip hop. Put Warren G’s Regulate album on in the background while doing something you
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I’m not telling you to pretend to be nice, I’m telling you to actually be nice. You won’t have to hide those feelings of contempt because you won’t be feeling them. Before you start the conversation, get your brain in a place where you li
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
We’ve never met, but from what you’ve said in this thread, it sounds like you have a low opinion of the people around you. You’re good at finding flaws. That’s a valuable skill, but when you direct that fault-finding toward other people, th
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
A public market gives you access to millions of potential buyers, so you get the best price, with minimal fees. That’s liquidity. A private company could try to provide something like that without using the public market, but it won’t be ne
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
Sure, if you’re sad because you’re starving in a drainage ditch, or your best friend just died, that doesn’t mean you’re depressed. But if your basic needs as an organism are met, you have great latitude to occupy your brain with thoughts t
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
People are constantly constructing internal narratives to explain their actions. From the perspective of the narrator, with a life’s worth of context, those actions fit into the narrative in a perfectly logical way. From the perspective of
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
People do good things and bad things. If in the presence of a combination of good things and bad things, you focus on the bad things and the bad things dominate your subjective experience of existence, you are probably suffering from depres
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I think this is legally required in the US, if you book directly with the airline. This is a solid reason to never book through the flight aggregators.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
Well, if we’re talking about corrupt cops who will plant drugs, might they also lie about you consenting to the search? Maybe you’re better off doing whatever it takes to make them like you, so they are less likely make you the person they
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
Just going to throw out there that I’ve never seen a dev database that was anything other than fake data, or internal dogfood data. Have worked at major public tech companies and late-stage startups.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
One could argue that the social value of insurance is to incentivize you to not take risks we know about, while protecting you from risks we don’t know about.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
For those billions, Apple links to the Google search results page in Safari when you type a query in the iOS system search field. That page includes Google search ads. According to the 2017 annual report, Google made $77 billion in revenue
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
What do you mean by dwindling supply, we are talking about investors buying properties and renting them out. That doesn’t decrease supply in the rental market.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
How does that cash end up in somebody’s rent check? Presumably the people selling to the oligarchs are not renters? If the cash was able to get to renters via some kind of trickle-down effect, we’d all be happy with the resulting economic p
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
See my response to child comment - this is a story about the landlords diversifying globally, not merging together.
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I’m really skeptical of this - my mental model is that when a city is initially settled and developed, large tracts of land are owned by people who end up becoming the local “old money” families who may truly have been monopolists. Over tim
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
Are you saying the old landlords were just being nice, changing less than they could, and the new oligarchs are suddenly charging market rate?
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
> Rents are essentially always proportional to real estate prices, otherwise there would be an arbitrage opportunity one way or the other. This is empirically false. There is an incredible range in the price-rent ratio across different
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
>more people can no longer afford to buy but still need somewhere to live, causing the rent market to become more competitive It seems like you are double counting here. If high prices result in units becoming investor-owned and rented o
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
I don’t understand how the behavior described in the post raises rents. Clearly demand from investors would raise sale prices, but why would renters pay more to rent in buildings owned by shady oligarchs? Seems like it would just push up t
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by sjjshzvuiajhz 8y ago
It’s cheaper to use a gas-powered water heater, right? I assume that’s because it’s also more efficient?

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