There’s demonstrated effectiveness in doing lockdown (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32495067/), although more recent data suggests a more moderate impact. But factually speaking we know that lockdowns contribute to a reduction in the rate of infection.
While we probably can’t fully discount the risk of bias in the algorithm it seems a lot more reasonable to assume this particular case is purely based on volatility of the fare. My wife (Asian) and I (White) often open Uber/Lyft at the same time to see what is the best fare and the results (she gets a better fair vs I do vs similar fare) appear essentially random or driven by whoever triggers the request first.
It’s possible that women in general are less price sensitive to cab fares because they are less likely than men to consider walking or public transit (due to a variety of factors from safety to comfort or placing more value on their time) so I could imagine this bias popping up in the pricing algorithm.
I remember a similar feeling when they opened physical bookstores, it feels like a weird change but as Amazon generates money like other retailers do, with fast inventory turns, it just makes sense to have as many channels as possible to offload said inventory, including physical channels.
Agreed, beyond the casualness it feels like a little hacked experiment right now. Better lighting, background and outfit would make a massive difference in overall vibe in my opinion. I like the idea though
Inflation is just when prices go up, for whatever reason. Increased supply of money can cause it (and does more often than not), but decreased supply can also do that as it moves the price equilibrium. Unfortunately we have a bit of both at the moment, money supply shot up and lots of supply chains slowed down.
Mildly related: On the non engineering side I see lots of hiring managers who came from a different industry than their current employer and yet are adamant that candidates have years in the industry on on the tool stack (Salesforce or Tableau for instance).
Most industries, let alone tools, don't take that long to learn, and business acumen isn't industry-specific.
In Lincoln Park as well, pretty much the only way to avoid HOAs are townhomes (which is the route we went, because of my prior condo experience)
The HOAs are so high they also make the economics of rental income very hard, so unless they provide amenities that have resale or rental pricing value you are just paying a monthly compliance fee. How they became so common boggles my mind.
I’ve kept my library on an external hard drive and recently abandonned Deezer and Spotify because of the same issues mentioned in this thread. Plex (on a VPS) has been a godsend, and hype machine for discovery is top notch, check it out if you want to find obscure but great music
Ah I see, thanks I had no idea (I assume most average users are in the same situation). I assume IpadOS is the same, and only MacOS allows a true non safari browser.
I use firefox on iOS, it’s even set as my default browser. Curious what you mean by “safari is the only browser that works in iOS”? For in browser video chat? Genuinely curious, what are the limitations?
It’s great to see more companies pricing this way, and I’d even be happy to pay a flat fee for each support ticket or to vote on future roadmap with my money.
Especially because every so often we as consumers get an email saying “we made some updates to the EULA / ToS, here’s the full 50 pages document without any markup as to what actually changed, you are now bound by these new terms that aren’t exactly the ones you initially agreed to”
Sounds like a different but equally valid to solve my ultimate problem, will definitely check it out. I tried to IFTTT my way to calendar syncing across accounts but it was a mess
As an employee (not of Figma I mean of VC backed companies in general) it's also frustrating because you join based on some vision and then you often end up hating the feature throttling for philosophical (empathy with users) or practical reasons (makes it harder to sell or market if that's your job)
Remember when products were getting better over time... now their value starts meh (MVP), becomes great (thanks to funding), and then reverts to meh (when finally focusing on unit economics)
Same story here, and when the physical symptoms get bad enough to induce fear (am I having a heart attack, is this constant pain in my stomach a bigger medical issue, etc.) you just also accept it because you can’t change it. “It’s probably not a heart attack, but if it is... oh well, worrying about it won’t help”
I’m part of it and despite Jason C having obviously a very good track record I find myself very unimpressed with deal flow quality. I’ve invested in 75 or so startups via AL and exactly 0 through the syndicate. I’m usually not into consumer stuff though so In fairness that’s a good part of why.
I think it means the female stationary object being impacted by a thrusting male object was an inferior design to the male stationary version being rapidly sheathed by a female apparatus in terms of consistency of the force of impact. But not sure it explains why.
FYI you’re also blocked by some lists on NextDNS, consequently I couldn’t view your site. I bet that’s a consequence of the google issue, best of luck solving this.
I’d probably choose to be an engineer. I am a business generalist and it’s an insanely hard market as companies prefer to go for hyper specialized talent rather than general acumen. Some days I wish I could just be a decent engineer and compatible with thousands of job postings versus dozens
Same, I got beat up on my bearish positions, but I see it as expensive insurance that I took in case my bullish exposure (job, home, 401k,etc) so I tell myself I am happy the metaphorical house didn’t burn down even though I bought a lot of insurance in case it would
I’m working on a tiny piece of the broken hiring process, Job Descriptions. Many of them (esp non technical role) are essentially illegible and absolute garbage.
Hopefully it reduces the wasted time upfront by improving the quality of matching between job postings and job seekers
Do you have any that could be started by a non engineer and bootstrapped? I’m working on 2 at the moment but their potential is more side-hustle-like than it is meaningful
Agreed, I use the snippet function of Alfred after I tried textblaze but now that I know of dynamic snippets I’m really curious to give it a second look.