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Keep in mind Uber operates in almost a thousand cities worldwide. Of course certain places will earn Uber more than others, but it’s not a huge hit to their revenue.

The real threat, as I see it, is other states enacting similar laws that will have a domino effect.

Hopefully the probability of you finding the exit is high!

Yes

> If you are encountering performance that is not what you expected, please consider our products designed for intensive workloads.

It seems very strange to argue that customers should just know beforehand what they need, while also at the same time acknowledging the hiding (or at the very least, omission) of the information customers need in order to make that decision.

This is crazy to ponder given it’s only been a couple weeks. I feel terrible about so many smaller businesses teetering close to insolvency.

The novel coronavirus is the virus, Covid19 is the disease it causes. Similar to HIV being the virus and AIDS being the disease it can cause.

If you touch a smoker, you don’t get lung cancer and risk death.

The hype for this is part media sensationalism, part risk of it spreading everywhere.

This is a feature, not a bug. Facebook accepts the inverse casing of your password as valid in case you accidentally have caps lock on while typing it.

Same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridesharing_company

Shame. I used this a lot. Perhaps they're not willing to lose money with the hopes of one day being profitable, like ride sharing companies.

With the layoffs, the quarterly earnings, and now this, it sounds like Uber’s having a bit of a tough time. Sentiment about the viability of Uber long term is quite negative.

Can anybody at Uber talk about what the morale and culture is like right now? I’ve received a job offer and I’m struggling to reconcile what I’m observing externally with what I’m hearing from the small set of people I’ve spoken to.

So? Hawking’s death got a post here too.

I think Spotify handles this pretty well.

You have a central service that license holders contribute content to. The central service negotiates prices with the license holders and charges a fee to cover its aggregate expenses.

Although music is a different product than video content, I'd really like to see a model like this going forward.

Right now to watch the shows I want, I often have to: (1) Download and keep (multiple) apps installed / updated (2) Have several bills each month for each service (3) Wait a period of X days before the content is available post-airing (4) Watch ads before and during the content

I don't have any of these issues using a service like Spotify.

As long as the single price of Spotify-but-for-video is less than the sum of all the services I want, I won't feel like I'm paying for things I don't need.

Honestly people loved to pay $50+/month for cable before. If I could do that, except able to watch whatever I want, not have to suffer through ads, or be fixed to some viewing schedule, it would be pretty compelling.

That sounds fairly alarmist. I'm sure there's a (small) subset of users who'd be willing to pay for services like those if there weren't any creepy advertising tricks happening in the background. Would the business model change? Certainly. But shut down? Probably not.

Google/Facebook are big and motivated enough that they could probably figure out how to make money.

"It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along."

-Satya Nadella

This isn't specific to coding. A properly motivated learner in any subject will vastly outperform an apathetic one.

The optimistic interpretation is that it was meant as "should have died <were it not for the advancements>"

That would in turn make the area less attractive to live in, and some of the wealthy people who want to have groceries would consider living elsewhere.

It's not black and white like that but in general this is how markets are supposed to work (in theory).

Came here to say that. I was going to recommend it be called a prime threesome though.

There is basically nothing helpful or constructive in your comment here. You seem to be pretty upset about this, do you have some sort of vendetta against Blue Apron?

Wouldn’t a company’s taxes/costs go up with each new hire whether there’s a head tax or not though? Social security for example is half paid for by employers.

> Macaroni and Cheese is referred to in Canada Kraft Dinner

Perhaps a little patriotic of me but it’s shocking you talk about Canadian Kraft Dinner without calling it KD.

I know people who have quit full time jobs to write algo trading software for themselves to use -- the market pays them but I wouldn't call it a customer.

That the purpose of it is to advertise economic resources is not true. My wife has an iPhone because it's the most competent tool she can use to get the job done. Having used several Android phones prior to this, I don't blame her. Relatively speaking there are fewer security issues, compatibility quirks, and reliability issues with iPhones which makes them worth the price to her.

After the 2 year mark our Android phones are literally in the junk drawer, and her iPhone 6s is still functioning as fast as the day it was purchased.

They advertise it as such.

From their privacy policy:

"Incoming messages are scanned for the purpose of spam detection unless you disable spam protection for your account... To make message searching fast, we build an index of your messages (this is a table, just like you would find at the back of a reference book, in which you can look up a word to quickly find the emails in which it appears).

No information from any of these activities is used for any other purpose, or to compile any kind of profile on our users."

https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html

> "Once we finish signing the paperwork, everyone else is worthless." It is true.

I think that's a fairly myopic, though unsurprising, point of view from the sales perspective. There's tons of work that goes into making a viable product that gets the paperwork to be signed. Programmers, teams, etc. are just as (ir)replaceable as sales staff; when you have the right combination, everything works well. Handshakes and signatures are the final step of making a deal, not the defining ones. From a bare financial point of view, once the paper's signed, you can change your company all you want, but unless the product/service continues to be well-made and add value to the customer, the money's not going to keep flowing. Engineering talent is not exactly fungible.

Open this network stream with VLC:

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1603kjbnadc...

Some bits in here make me seriously question the author's judegment.

"Many more motorists and pedestrians die in traffic collisions per year than do bicyclists. We don’t see them wearing helmets."

Doesn't this support the opposite argument of what the author is claiming? Further, I would expect as much anyway simply because so many fewer people bike than motorcycle or drive a car.

"If not wanting to wear a helmet deters someone from riding a bike, that sucks, because biking is healthy and awesome."

This is a silly argument. It could just as easily be said, "If wearing a helmet deters someone from riding a bike, that sucks, because wearing a helmet protects your head."

"I don’t want to hide my head behind a helmet, I want drivers to pass me on the street and see that I am a person, a human, just like them."

Nobody said that wearing a helmet was supposed to make a person more attractive. Would the author universally agree to "I don't wear protective gear $x because I want people to see that I'm a human being?" Probably not.

Ultimately, I don't think anybody can argue that having a protective shell around your head is somehow less safe or equally safe to having nothing there at all.

We should also consider that a lot of popular interpreted languages -- Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript -- are implemented in 'boring' C/C++.

Abstraction is a beautiful thing, but we should not forget our roots!