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by traek 7y ago
For some rides (especially Pool rides, in aggregate) Uber charges the passengers less than what they pay to the drivers. Uber also pays driver incentives beyond fares (e.g. for completing a certain number of rides).
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by traek 7y ago
This makes sense, Hire was born out of Bebop (founded by Diane Greene, former VMware founder/CEO). Google acquihired Bebop to get Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud (which is why this product was lumped under their cloud division), b
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by traek 7y ago
It's happening because many Americans don't see the value in subsidizing electronics hobbyists. It won't hurt robotics or drones companies, that's pure fearmongering. No business is having circuit boards shipped via ePac
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by traek 7y ago
Marc Andreessen's famous "Why Software Is Eating The World" article in the WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512...
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by traek 7y ago
Nothing I can find indicates that Narrator "supports" WeWork or has WeWork as a client, only that Narrator's founding team all used to work at WeWork [0]. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/16/y
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by traek 7y ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20740626
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by traek 7y ago
The article explicitly says it was opt-in. How could that be "due to it being opt out"?
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by traek 7y ago
You’re wrong, it’s possible. [0] [0] https://support.google.com/travel/answer/7515668?hl=en
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by traek 7y ago
And if it happens often enough you'll get banned from Amazon for being an unprofitable customer.
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by traek 7y ago
Yes, via the WhatsApp Business API explicitly mentioned in the article.
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by traek 7y ago
You missed it, right in the abstract :-) > Methods > Eleven adults with overweight practiced both early time‐restricted feeding (eTRF) (eating from 8 am to 2 pm) and a control schedule (eating from 8 am to 8 pm) for 4 days each.
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by traek 7y ago
It’s still a control, just not blinded to the participants (which, yes, can result in bias).
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by traek 7y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/chime/
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by traek 7y ago
Amazon is absolutely not a monopsony for unskilled labor, or even for warehouse labor. UPS and FedEx each have roughly the same number of employees as Amazon. Walmart has more than double.
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by traek 7y ago
> Some prurient examples Not sure these are "prurient". You may mean salient.
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by traek 7y ago
This is how every bank works.
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by traek 7y ago
If you can come up with a scientifically falsifiable theory on the effectiveness of government regulation, there’s a Nobel Prize waiting for you. It’s hard for a lot of reasons, including that it’s almost impossible to create a true test an
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by traek 7y ago
Brave is a private, for-profit company that has raised $42 million in venture funding—out of curiosity why do you bother doing free work for them in your spare time?
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by traek 7y ago
Many people feel the solution to bad products is making better competing products rather than adding government regulation.
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by traek 7y ago
I don't see mention of it in the article but Leftbook (a subculture of left-leaning Facebook groups) is a major reason why leftists continue to use Facebook.
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by traek 7y ago
Joyent created Node.js
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by traek 7y ago
> USPS Priority Mail for $9.99 Priority Mail != Media Mail
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by traek 7y ago
> I know how the ridership is measured. I’m not sure what your point was. Probably that it's inaccurate for you to say "the 4.5 million people who use the 28th Street stop" because that number is ridership, not people.
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by traek 7y ago
> I'd be slightly more confident (slightly) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated I'd be much less confident, considering that they explicitly save and make public post's edit history.
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by traek 7y ago
> spying on teens Worth noting that "the app was targeted to users ages 13 to 35 (5 percent of whom were teenagers)." [0] Google had a similar app. I don't think that makes Facebook's app better, but it's interes
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by traek 7y ago
> any resumes that don't have some sort of CS or programming on them > I have a degree in physics and 20 years of programming Depends, do you mention your 20 years of programming on your resume?
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by traek 7y ago
Why CDC and NIH instead of the EPA?
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by traek 7y ago
Sure, but this particular study came out of the lab of the Nobel-prize-winning scientist who literally discovered prions. I think it's at least worthy of discussion.
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by traek 7y ago
> Facebook is paying billions because they made a bad decision when choosing to grant access to data for research For clarity, Facebook didn't "choose to grant access to data" specifically to Cambridge Analytica. It used t
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by traek 7y ago
> Facebook earned about $172 billion since 2013. No, they didn't, it's around $56.3 billion [0]. [0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/net-in...

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