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I volunteered through high school and some college, roughly 5 years, as a firefighter. It really changed me, I learned so much about responsibility and teamwork. It was and still is the only job I would do for free and put 100s of hours into for free.

I was really against getting updates about where I usually travel or other notifications that are constantly tracking me. But after a while I really like some of the tracking and notifications. Now I love when google reminds me to leave for a appointment and gives me directions, it really saves.

I do hate being tracked, but I have slowly started to like the connivence of it. Having all my information on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, and everything else privacy has really gone down. If my Nexus 5x can save me time, I will sacrifice some privacy.

I just bought the Nexus 5x and it had both Hangouts and Messenger downloaded. I use messenger but google needs to just focus on one strong app. It is annoying to have one app that has great features, but not all. Messenger is great, but Duo looks interesting too.

The "dashers" could also keep track of the wait times for each restaurant, and then work accordingly to the wait times. They could boost their delivery's, but it definitely would take several weeks to get the right amount of knowledge about each restaurant.

"Fam" stands for family or friend I think, well that's how it is used in Philadelphia.

>The line, “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly,” is not an excuse for poor efforts. It is perhaps an excuse for poor results. But our society is plagued by wanting good results with no efforts (or rather, with someone else’s efforts).

This relates to weight loss and the dependency on weight loss drugs. I see ads all the time for new weight loss supplements, or new workout machines, or fat burning belts. Stating that this will burn fat faster, with less effort. Society now thinks that in order to look fit you must take a fat burning pill, or some crazy concoction to actually loose weight. >We have left “the things worth doing” to others, on the poor excuse that others might be able to do them better. But in reality it just takes a healthy life style to be fit, so if loosing weight is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

That would be a great idea. I guess you would have to have a buffer to cover longer than usual appointment times. That type of app could be used for so much too. Parents dropping their kids off at the movies, it would give them the travel time for when they need to come back based of the length of the movie.

I wish I would have known about this before it shut down, but this is a great idea for Trains as well. Just Arrived.

>What I want is a delivery version. I'd pay $xx/month for access to tools and other household items I rarely need along with $x per delivery and pickup to not have to go get them.

This reminded me of a startup idea that I have, I think one of the biggest items that could be rented out would be generators. Right before a storm hits deliver the generator and once power is back up, pick them up.

From what I have experienced in college so far is that either a student has experienced something or not, and the students who have not experienced something are the ones to protest. Students who have not experienced racism or Genocide-from the article- only know it from what they learned in school, online, or some other medium. So when they think they hear something that is about those "things" they jump up and go crazy. The last part of the article is what I am mostly talking about.

I could also talk about the first part too, like the video of the girl yelling at Nicholas is so interesting. You want to stand up for something, yet you cannot have a conversation about it and just yell at the man?

Good point, with Walmart they will generate revenue no matter what, but to cut cost it makes sense to use it.

Yea that is true, I totally forgot about towns where Walmart is the only store.

Yea I realized that when I was thinking about it. Which is a financial smart reason, but in the end it limits them.

If I only have my phone which I have android pay on and I need to get something from a drug store, I would go to CVS but they don't accept NFC. So I will have to go to Walgreen's instead which is usually near a CVS. So I don't get why they don't offer NFC, because keeping 98% of the transaction amount is better than 0.

This is very interesting, and such a great idea. Doing a textual analysis of all the emails would be really interesting. So far I have looked through almost all of the emails and its amazing how they word everything.

It seems that they love using the word "Friend". They also love using the word, "Chip" when they as for donations. Also marco robio is going with asking the citizens for a "Favor" and to donate $7 or more.

Pretty interesting stuff.

I really don't understand what the companies involved with MCX are thinking. They build an app that is going in the opposite direction of where the market is heading and limit the amount of payments they accept.

I was in line at 7-11 at my university, where an girl was trying to use the currentc app. She was 2 people ahead of me, when I went up to pay she was still trying to pay with the app. At first her screen was to dim, and the scanner would not read the QR code. Eventually she was able to pay, but I was already long gone by that time. If you look on the google play store it has a rating of 1.1 starts.

This is straight from its website,"Merchant Customer Exchange is the only merchant-owned mobile commerce network built to streamline the customer shopping experience across all major retail verticals."

With an app that rates 1.1 stars and no improvement, I don't think it cares about the shopping experience, and people will see this eventually.

Here is a website that does the comparison between the 2, but you have to manually enter the surge percentage, http://www.whatsthefare.com/

I think someone mentioned it at least a year ago in a discussion about Uber vs. Lyft.

Here is the list of the Universities Koch was donated too: http://www.kochfamilyfoundations.org/pdfs/CKFUniversityProgr...

Koch is definitely having a impact on higher education, look at all the major universities he is involved in.

#2 The Fear. This is what I have struggled the most with. During all of my programming classes I worried that I was not cut out for it, because I am business student minoring in comp sci in the world of students who live for programming. But after a while I really learned that everyone in class always struggled with the same problems that I had, everyone was just to proud in a way to ask each other for help. Eventually everyone broke down and that was when the most fun happened in class, and with the programming. It was really cool struggling with other programmers.

By the end of all my programming classes my fear was not that bad, but I still fear doing any hack-a-thons or anything like that, because I shoot myself down.

I am working on getting over that fear, but its good to know I am not the only one.

I had a package delivered by LaserShip last week. The experience was fine for me, it was delivered around noon without damage. A women delivered the package and was driving what seemed to be her personal mini-van with a sticker on the side.

Currently go to school in the city, Temple University. I have both lived in the city on Spring Garden Street and lived in the suburbs of the city all my life. I live around the Main line area and like eatonphil said it is the nicest area of the suburbs.

First Ill talk about the main line, it is a great place to grow up/ or live if you are in your mid to late 20s. From Ardmore, Lower Merion, Bryn Mawr, Malvern, Paloi, Exton, and continuing on to King of Prussia have a lot of great places to live and a lot of companies. Espically in Malervn their is a large presence of companies. I take the regional rail train from the suburbs into the city for school and it is super easy and kind of relaxing.

In the city, certain areas of the city are blowing up right now and it really is a fun place to live. I lived around 12th and Spring Garden and apartments were being built in every empty lot and there are so many young people its a great place to be. There is so many great bars to go too and amazing restaurants throughout the city its awesome.

From Philly and I go to college in the city. Not really shocked that it happened with how bad the city is in certain areas. A block from Temple Uni a girl was hit in the head by a brick from a group of kids 7-13. If they didn't care about her, the robot did not stand a chance.

My generation, I am 23 as well, do not understand this at all, it is really sad.

I am working with a group for a project in our business ethics class and one of the topics that I wanted to cover was encryption and how to protect yourself and keep the government out. I know the chances of the FBI knocking on my door is slim to none, but I want to keep my self protected. Especially if I have an encounter with the police I know my rights with my technology and I do not want anyone in my information.

We ended up doing a different topic because one of the kids argued with me saying there's no reason to encrypt, the FBI wont come for you, and why wouldn't you just comply with their demands it makes you look guilty if you don't. He does not understand the fact that it is our personal right to protect ourselves, and that it does not matter if you are guilty or not you have rights to keep yourself protected.

I come from a police officer family and respect the police, but if a cop tells me to give him my phone or laptop they will never get into it.

I went on a rant, but it seems people do not understand security or personal privacy and they let others exploit this.

Go for the startup, you said it was something you always wanted to do and you have the opportunity to do it. So do it. Sometimes you only get one shot at a opportunity like that.

Also if you are a great programmer there are going to be other employment opportunities down the road for you.

I agree with both statements so much, I have seen this. I see it all the time in college, where kids fail a test or get a bad grade and just fall apart. I've had difficult time all throughout my education career, Ive had to bust my ass while others sail through everything, but this really has taught me a lot. If I fail I know its not the end of the world I just keep going and work even harder, but some people just crumble and give up. My roommate does this, he fails a class and instead of working harder at it he just drops the class because he was it to be easy.

OP, you have something a lot of people don't. Just Keep going.

Well I think it makes sense, there is tons of different situations that an electrician can face and if they don't have the experience, they could rig the wiring bad. I worked with my dad before, he has over 30+ years experience, he has showed and told me of jobs that were done by guys with only a couple years experience where they messed up the job bad.

I have the Lenovo X240 and it has been awesome. Super light weight and amazing battery life, I can use it almost 2 days at school without having to charge it.

>What if they were modified with a piece of hardware broadcasting its location to an API, and a correlating phone app using a push notification or voice alert to let the user know they are approaching.

You could use a beacon attached to a telephone pole, this is just some random idea, that will broadcast the location and push notifications. Or something in that nature, because I know retailers do this when you walk by a certain section and you have their app you will get a notification. So for public safety you could just have a app and if there is a crime that was reported, like a shooting, if you are within a certain block radius you get a notification.

This is something that I have thought about especially living in Philadelphia, constant crime is going on. I don't know what I am walking into or riding my bike into. It would be awesome to have updated information like this.

If you ever want to listen to a major cities police scanner listen to Philadelphia's. The 22nd district is a good one or any south Philly ones are always intense. The 22nd district is going through some bad crime currently, its the district that Temple University is located, 2 weeks ago they had the police officer who was killed, and just last night there was a armed car robbery for a students car. It's really crazy to listen to what goes on and what situations some cops go into.

As a college student I think the app is stupid. They will need a total change in the future, because at certain points all the app contains is posts that are just copied over from the top list, Reddit, or some other site. There is nothing interesting. Most of the people who use the app just want to be recognized as being funny or edgy, their up vote is what people have bragged to me about.

Yea she is, but she is pushing me. I can hate on her all I want but its better than a professor who would give me a bad grade.