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They are conspicuously not having any action enforced against them, despite having similar labor problems as Uber/Lyft.

Drivers have been able to set their own prices in California for some time now https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/

>After funding his account with $15,000 in credit card advances, he began spending more time on the app.

Isn't there some element of personal responsibility here? Is Robinhood responsible for the disastrous financial decisions of an individual?

>so chances are it's investors are probably the first to make an actual realized profit from food delivery ;)

Grubhub has been profitable for years now, pulling in $23m in income in 2018, see: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/grubhub-uber-eats-and-doorda...

Anecdotal, but Spotify's Discover Weekly feature has ridiculously good recommendations for me and I usually end up adding half of each week's playlist to my library. The recommended music is fantastic, obscure stuff I would never have known about otherwise. My experience with Spotify recommendations couldn't be more different to yours.

At risk of treading into dangerous territory, I've never actually seen any minorities uncomfortable about master being named as such, just non-minorities uncomfortable on their behalf.

Master dates back to 12th century latin and has numerous definitions, most of which have no connection to slavery.

This seems very much like modern slacktivism - a feel good action which doesn't benefit anybody, least of all the group it was intended to benefit.

Chrome has metric gathering, experimentation, account management, bookmark and data syncing and a bunch of other calls to Google's services whether you're using Google Search or not.

Some people would prefer their browser is not leaking so much information to Google, but perhaps appreciate the quality of the underlying Chromium application.

>Can this virus even be controlled?

Absolutely, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Czech Republic have all succeeded in nearly wiping out the virus entirely. It absolutely is possible and giving up on wiping the virus out is disappointing, because it's been demonstrated to be possible.

Subs like /r/OurPresident are still using this mechanism to this day to get election-influencing agitprop to the front page. It hasn't been nerfed. Meanwhile Reddit sits on their hands and sighs wondering if anything can be done about this, on the site they administrate.

They famously abused the stickying bug for years to get their content to the homepage. Reddit even changed the /r/all algorithm to specifically address gaming and exploitation by TD. The quarantine system was also introduced to isolate TD from the rest of the site, like a gangrenous limb. It's simply not the case that they were rule abiding.

It was allowed to flourish as a hate forum for years before being quarantined. Users brigaded other subreddits with little to no action from admins. Reddit management always did the least possible until they were forced by the media or user outcry.

It's incredibly cynical to now come out against internet bigotry after being one of the premier destinations hosting it for the past few years.

I would suggest amending the article, as it seems to imply positions are currently available outside the US and Canada, when this is not the case. This section in particular:

>We have increased the places we can hire remotely from. Today, Stripes are based in over 50 cities worldwide. We now have the capability to hire remote employees in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, UK, and the U.S.

$3000 for 1bd in NYC is pretty common, it can extend to >= $4000 for 5-10 minute walking distance to work. Tech salary can seem much less impressive servicing that kind of recurring cost.

Uber and Lyft are public, they haven't relied on VC cash for over a year.

They obviously don't mean it literally in terms of headcount, but more likely in terms of focus and determination.

Running a three-sided marketplace at city-scale is a complex software and operations problem. I'm not really surprised restaurants haven't figured it out as their expertise is in creating great food, rather than solving problems like these. It also doesn't make sense for them to focus their efforts here if you subscribe to the idea of comparative advantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

Enormous marketshare on the East Coast of the US both on the restaurant and customer side, due to operating there for 20yrs. GH also has 10-20% share in most cities, so this acquisition would put Eats comfortably ahead of their main competitor DD.

This is called 'hot desking' at companies near me, and is vaguely demeaning to employees insofar as it means they no longer even have dedicated space to call their own and are forced to be desk nomads at their own company. It's also presented as a positive offering flexibility, when it largely seems designed to cut floorspace costs for business which seems deceitful. Hopefully, COVID kills this idea entirely.

>The can-do, "what hard thing shall we tackle next" attitude is one that's frankly difficult to find elsewhere. They'd just throw themselves into a challenge without even stopping to think about what could go wrong; the sunshine of the state was like the sunshine in their minds.

Amazingly good insight. I originally started working for a Bay Area company exactly because companies elsewhere have a tendency to shrug their shoulders and give up without trying, when faced with difficult problems. It's maddening. Half the battle is thinking you can beat a problem - if you give up before trying, you've already lost.

I'm also not exactly smitten with the area, but the attitude is unbeatable and in part why SV will continue to lead the world.

>i think it's really going to take a wholesale reconfiguration of cities around much more density and mixed-use where shared industrial kitchens and warehouses can make the synergies work out, but of course that's decades in the making.

It's actually closer than it seems if this bet plays out: https://www.cloudkitchens.com/

"Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. of $2.9 billion, which includes $277 million in stock-based compensation expense and pre-tax impairment write-downs of $2.1 billion. Net loss attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. excluding the impairment write-downs, net of the tax benefit would have been $1.1 billion."

So a loss of $1.1bn is an improvement on $1.4 last quarter, not including write-downs associated with investments in Didi and Grab. This explains why the stock went up not down after earnings.

>https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/uber-plows-forward...

'Batched' orders are very common in the US. With some very popular restaurants on Grubhub, they'll batch 5-10 orders for a single apartment building, have the courier bicycle to the building and go door-to-door delivering them, sometimes multiple on the same floor.

This board regularly ‘censors’ people who break the rules. It’s the price of having a reasonably nice board to post on. There’s a difference between censorship and punishing bad behavior.

Deplatforming has proven highly effective at preventing bad actors from continuing to spread misinformation on Reddit and other social media sites [1]. I support free speech in principle, but internet platforms are such a powerful megaphone for spreading misinformation, the likes of which history has never seen, that platform owners may feel ethically obligated to act against those who would misuse their systems to cause global societal harm.

Some misinformation is just unambiguously harmful and so profoundly incorrect that no reasonable person could see stopping it as a slippery slope of free speech. For example, the misinformation being proliferated by Icke, that 5G spreads coronavirus and that people should destroy 5G towers. People actually went out and set 5G towers alight in response to Icke's posts [2]. It's quite reasonable that Youtube or any other social media platform would not want to be responsible for disseminating information to leads to real-life crimes.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/4/21207927/5g-towers-burning...

Rebellion for the sake of rebellion helps nobody. The virus is a test of capacity for social cooperation, and California is passing with flying colors so far.

Only with total cooperation can you reasonably contain the virus - some countries have succeeded at this already, and California is not far behind.

They said they're culling misinformation and they're doing it. I don't see what's terrifying about this. Maybe unsettling if you're aggressively pro-free speech, but 'terrifying' is very hyperbolic.

Food delivery is surging during the pandemic interestingly: https://www.axios.com/food-delivery-coronavirus-a55e0bf2-a75...

I mean, the market agreed it was legitimate and Lyft was promising much the same in 2021: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-22/lyft-fore...

Rides is bordering on profitability as of Nov last year: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/11/uber-lost-1-1-billion-l...

Were the virus not to occur, the company was planning to be legitimately profitable by end 2020: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-results/uber-sees-pr...

This is more a reflection of the poor reputation towards privacy of Google rather than a rational response to the joint contact tracing specification issued by Google/Apple. The specification was clearly engineered to be as privacy conscious as possible and it would be very difficult to extract PII from stored data, but it looks like the well of trust is unrecoverably poisoned.