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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm in Boston, and the drivers rarely ring after putting in an order request. This works fine for me, because the vast majority of the time there are no issues, and then if they get there and can't find me, they can call. I'l
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by smeyer 12y ago
If you're concerned about the likelihood of being the victim of a crime, you should care about rates per capita. If you care about happening to be geographically near to a crime when it happens, then you should care about incidents per
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by smeyer 12y ago
Do you really think Gmail's business email is collecting arbitrary one-time fees of 50 cents on minors' accounts? Is this really any more than a rounding error compared to advertising revenue, charging for extra space, and providi
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by smeyer 12y ago
While this is likely to work much of the time, it wouldn't take a particularly strange algorithm to break it. Consider an average rating that is just the arithmetic mean of your last 10 rides. Your rating going up would just mean your
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by smeyer 12y ago
What city are you in? Here in Boston, my experience has been that the uber drivers are more likely than the taxi drivers to know how to get where I'd like to go.
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by smeyer 12y ago
It shows up (with $99/month) after giving a name/email/phone number but before giving credit card info or completing sign-up.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>What for? I dunno, many places, the football team, padding the endowment, building new B-school buildings, hiring an army of mid-level administrators. Are there really schools where the B-school is a net cost center rather than profit c
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm sure you're a great guy and just coming across negatively in this one comment, but you sound less pleasant than the vast majority of McKinsey people I've ever met. It's a bit odd in a comment complaining about consul
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by smeyer 12y ago
The commenter is already assuming no maintenance costs. The $20/m^2 is the number you'd have to hit to be economically viable (with $0 maintenance) rather than putting the money in the market for a 6% return.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I live in the northeastern part of the US and it is extremely common for me to hear him referred to by just his last name. For all I know it's a regional thing, but it certainly isn't rare.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I believe this is the post you mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035319
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by smeyer 12y ago
Stripe, I believe. Edit: Here's an article when they hit a $1.75B valuation: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/with-an-eye-to-internationa...
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by smeyer 12y ago
Sorry, I'm still confused what you mean by "be prepared before it happened". Are you saying they should have pursued a different strategy/loophole around copyright law? That they should have realized they had no chance a
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Aereo is not violating anything but they should have been prepared for something like this. In what other sense could they have been prepared? They fully expected to end up in the courts, likely through the supreme court, and planned ap
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by smeyer 12y ago
When you say that "the average american student pays about half of that", are you counting student loans towards the half the student pays or the half they don't? I've seen loans treated both of these ways before. I wen