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by twelve40 3y ago
well when they started, the whole concept of ridesharing was unproven. They didn't just set out to replace taxis, the idea was to offer a service initially so cheap that people who otherwise wouldn't even think about getting a car
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by twelve40 3y ago
speed would be my guess. Especially at night. Everything else from renting to even trains is slower and harder to coordinate.
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by twelve40 3y ago
but what are they supposed to do? there is no more evil tech-bro to blame even, they are now under public pressure to make money and if the current CEO fails to maximize the profits, he will get booted and replaced by the one who will.
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by twelve40 3y ago
who knows? they have a ton of data that we don't have, and can infinitely tweak the pricing and the take-home based on their needs at the moment
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by twelve40 3y ago
on the one hand, you're right, and what's worse that if we apply the IRS mileage reimbursement to the whole round trip, that alone is not worth it, plus like 50 bucks for gas. On the other hand, $250 cash in hand, now, without hav
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by twelve40 3y ago
this is one of those weird self-deprivation exercises that some "advanced" people like to engage in real men don't use debuggers real men don't use ide's can program on a piece of paper with both hands tied behind t
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by twelve40 3y ago
100% agree, i don't even see any difference with print statements, what was all this pontificating about? it's literally just a different way to do the same thing as print statements - find out if the program reached that step and
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by twelve40 3y ago
no, it seems pretty dumb, but they don't have to lie and exaggerate it either
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by twelve40 3y ago
so the op dude embellished what happened to score some righteous hatred points. I suspected as much.
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by twelve40 3y ago
one lifehack for me was to skip the claustrophobic packed elevator and to go on foot, at least on the way down. Ran into almost no people, much closer experience of the tower.
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by twelve40 3y ago
They have lost $31.5B since 2014 and turned a profit just now. Where did that money go? That one Beyonce party, or it still might have had something to do with their main thing, the rides?
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by twelve40 3y ago
you put this better than i ever could : )
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by twelve40 3y ago
Ok i get the skepticism but what i liked about their description is that it's not the overblown hysterical "AI superhuman programmer" pitch, but a more modest "junior" angle. If they keep looking for something that
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by twelve40 3y ago
Honestly, people who say it's great that humans depopulate because that will save the planet scare me more.
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by twelve40 3y ago
I suggest we instead start solving the problem by launching a crusade against ice cream stands. Those are _everywhere_!
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by twelve40 3y ago
mentioning "damaging the planet" twice referring to a handful of refrigerators is pretty farcical
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by twelve40 3y ago
says it right there: > gray market that surrounds cryptocurrency, especially in emerging economies, and sits far outside the authority of regulators, tax collectors and other government bodies why does their government need a parallel, c
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by twelve40 3y ago
> Reduce US car accidents by 50%" that should be solvable with AI as it stands today uh... how?? aside from obvious non-starters like reducing US car usage by 50% because that's not going to happen (not today anyway)
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by twelve40 3y ago
> "Uber subsidizes rides" isn't true and hasn't been for years given that they have full control and zero transparency over price of every trip, how can you be so certain?
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by twelve40 3y ago
> Here are the 9 insane AI websites that will save you hundreds of hours! you can start by googling the above, for example
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by twelve40 3y ago
i think it's very individual. I get a lot of caffeine when i need to work through a bunch of stuff (and probably developed tolerance, etc) but when there is a lull at work or a vacation, i feel 0 need for it, don't take it and fee
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by twelve40 3y ago
Maybe, but i think the argument in this thread seems to be that NRC creation basically killed the whole industry. Which is complicated, because you still want safety improvements over Fukushima, but not at the cost of basically halting any
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by twelve40 3y ago
> If ChatGPT kills Stack Overflow and Reddit/Twitter block API access, where will it gets its answers from? nowhere, they are cannibalizing their own source of data. They own Github so that's helpful, but still mostly just code
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by twelve40 3y ago
um... unclear? you can provide a new answer to the old question and have it bubble up via votes. Does not change other issues though.
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by twelve40 3y ago
> having conversations in Slack somehow becomes documentation because you can search for things It was probably oversold like that, but in my daily life, the old threads i find in slack people troubleshooting similar things from way back
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by twelve40 3y ago
I've seen some hype waves in my life, but it's probably the first one that truly unleashed the sleazy "influencer" types that regurgitate the same carousels they steal from each other. Even more intense than "crypto
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by twelve40 3y ago
> Of course, when confronted, they say it's not addictive and they dont have a problem. As we know this is the first sign of a very serious addiction. this has to be more nuanced, because according to this logic 100% of all humans h
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by twelve40 3y ago
it's calling attention to douchey pricing patterns. Given that a lot of people here doing their startups/projects and thinking about pricing, seems like worth mentioning.
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by twelve40 3y ago
You really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to call it a great success. I'd say it's actually a curious example of democracy failing miserably, and worth studying how to avoid that.
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by twelve40 3y ago
> "Our nation is on the cusp of whether it can maintain its societal functions" Because they are headed for societal collapse, perhaps? Unless you think their prime minister is lying.

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