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by taftster 6y ago
Fair of you to pick up on the oddity of that statement. I didn't put that out there very well. Agreed, a person with good rates doesn't want this. But that doesn't make a person with bad rates desire it either? Does this real
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by taftster 6y ago
You have the wrong insurance maybe? Geico recently refunded money to its customers because of the change in driving habits during Covid quarantine. That seems to indicate a company that at least balances their insurance needs based directly
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by taftster 6y ago
I'd argue that most people drive like an asshole at least some of the time, which is exactly the problem. From an insurer's point of view, they want to find ways to qualify you as an asshole and therefore extract more money from y
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by taftster 6y ago
Smartphones might know your driving habits, but is big tech selling your information to insurance companies? That would be a huge breach of privacy and most definitely would result in massive class action litigation against the tech compani
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by taftster 6y ago
Fair point about the bins and a "data driven approach" to premiums. But I think you overestimate how much "you could save" by giving away your driving habit privacy. Most auto-insurance trackers are currently offering d
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by taftster 6y ago
It might be a good deal for you. But I wouldn't take the "no brainer" argument here. Driving habits are highly personal and you most definitely should resist being profiled by your insurance company, even for the extra break
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by taftster 6y ago
There are several things wrong with your post. For one, Google/Apple selling your driving data to an insurance company is not likely happening today. This would be the same type of mistreatment of personal information as it would be se
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by taftster 6y ago
And here's the thing. These types of driving habit trackers (not necessarily new in the auto-insurance industry) are touted as a means to reduce the cost of insurance for good drivers. But what qualifies as a "good driver" i
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by taftster 6y ago
Do you Kanban? Because that's exactly how kanban works. The signal to purchase is the empty bag/box of detergent.
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by taftster 6y ago
Here's an example of a similar problem - that I created for a website I help a friend with. We had outbound referral links, basically to monitor the number of times that a visitor clicks out of the website. The URL pattern was somethin
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by taftster 6y ago
Yeah - and admittedly I don't know California law at all. So it could very well be the State of California looks at this differently than other states and possibly different than the IRS, which might be throwing me (and maybe others) o
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by taftster 6y ago
You are expecting that Uber/Lyft creates an "auction" environment in order for their drivers to be considered contractors? In my world view, an auction is not requirement for a driver to be considered independent. Drivers ca
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by taftster 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but I don't think "setting their own rates" has anything to do with it. Any driver would be able to set their own rates by going at it alone, completely independent from a ride share company. Th
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by taftster 6y ago
Just to challenge the easy part (or is this a challenge to peasy), can you please expand on "somehow"? What is your strategy here to ensure that only "real" people can get access to the private keys (and not real people
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by taftster 6y ago
Or possibly just turn iptables off, in the same cron.hourly.
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by taftster 6y ago
I mean, yes. That's how it works. It sounds like you're implying that this is a bad thing, a waste of tax dollars and government spending. I can assure you, there are plenty of other things that the US Gov has wasted money on, pro
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by taftster 6y ago
A bug report does not imply a user is angry or not. Software is shipped with known bugs which often go unfixed. And a lack of features can be just as critical of an impediment for a user. So neither bug nor feature can fully describe the ef
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by taftster 6y ago
Most if not all software is shipped with known defects. So clearly, the fact that a "bug" can be identified doesn't give any weight when describing when it needs to be fixed. A missing feature can be just as onerous to a user
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by taftster 6y ago
Great quote from TFA: > Once you start assigning priorities from a list, anything else than “Highest” is a passive-aggressive way of saying “No”. What can be gamed will be gamed. Once you start applying the equation "feature = goo
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by taftster 6y ago
You've made the same point as the author. The idea that a "ticket" or "work-item" has any sort of label (defect, feature, todo) or priority (high, low, now) doesn't add value. The label you give a work-item is
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by taftster 6y ago
These fields aren't required for a good ticket system to work. They might be useful in terms of post-mortems, generating changelogs, etc. But fundamentally, the "version" that a issue was resolved in is not a requirement of
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by taftster 6y ago
Um yeah. I mean, I appreciate your ideals. But back down here in the real world, part of that "project plan" is the part about taking a bite off the elephant. You've got to start somewhere. Defining and tracking the progress
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by taftster 6y ago
I don't know that I've ever seen a feature that wasn't some sort of "failed promise". The feature sometimes hits and sometimes misses, and is usually somewhere in between. This idea that a defect is a failure of a f
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by taftster 6y ago
Right, this is important to understand. The use of Tor isn't just about subverting government information gathering. But it's just as important in the fight against corporate collection, maybe even more so. I'm (personally) l
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by taftster 6y ago
YNAB can sometimes feel expensive. And while I could use an OSS solution like Gnucash or ledger, I don't have the time to deal with the tech support needed to be able to share my setup with my spouse. Likewise, we extremely value the m
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by taftster 6y ago
YNAB (web version) has a pretty excellent web-first experience. And I'm not sure that I want a total web experience if half of my battle is recording transactions at the time they occur, right in the store. This is super convenient, no
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by taftster 6y ago
Sent a reply to your gmail account.
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by taftster 6y ago
Right, this is generally the case. The higher the tip, the more likely a "dasher" will accept the order. When you get good, the dollar / mile ends up being the best discriminator for choosing orders. A $3 order (minimum base
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by taftster 6y ago
No they're not, at least from what I can tell. My daughter drives for them, and the base pay + tip amount is exactly what she is paid. They might have made some adjustments with base pay over the years, or they might be hiding what t
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by taftster 6y ago
I tried to give an answer here. Does this help? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23147150

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