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yeah, order volume is flat but ad business is growing significantly, and it seems that their primary competitor (doordash) is growing at the expense of shipt and/or amazon, not instacart; and, a lot of the YoY flatness is explained away in the S-1 (up to you if you agree with their logic).

agreed that it seems unlikely they can grow their per order profit but you never know, I guess.

it’s a solid, profitable & growing business & owners don’t have to sell; the folks that have been waiting a decade for liquidity can

ah yes famously unprofitable instacart! and somehow instacart is a clone of a company founded a year afterwards?

truly HN is a vast repository of wise commenters!

trying to foist all the responsibility onto victims is central boomer tenant so i doubt you are going to make much progress with "making sense" and "being reasonable"

it's pretty obvious that it can't actually walk.

clearly you have a strong grasp of the article's content

why do you people always talk like cartoon villains

yeah man it's a real subtle joke. 142 users surely means scalability is the #1 priority.

I don’t have time to babysit intellectual toddlers. I just moved on to a different app

yeah except now when you do that (which I have), you get a list of boosted blue checks under every tweet that are just banal and dumb.

dang man you are so right. so smart. wow.

it's a website for an unopened and unadvertised restaurant. i am not sure what you expected.

> So you should ask yourself: why are all these people putting their pronouns on their twitter profiles (or whatever)? It's clearly not to prevent other people from being disrespectful, because they weren't being disrespectful.

You keep using a lot of words that basically boils down to "i really don't know what i'm talking about"

this is one of the more lovely replies i've seen on HN

curious what you think the "right policies" are; the vast majority of high crime areas are republican controlled, so it can't be that.

The whole point is to remove biases -- did you even read any of the source material?

Right now there is tremendous societal pressure and varying outcomes depending on _who_ you are (race/gender/other socioeconomic factors) and the entire point is to remove that from the equation to lead to better outcomes overall.

To do that, you need to be aware of those factors and control for them. That is very basic science.

You seem to be advocating putting ones head in the sand and saying that those factors don't matter and should be removed.

So you are mad at the imaginary goal that you made up. Got it.

The entire point is not to emphasize the advanced education topics -- which are actually offered pretty universally in California schools -- but to increase the number of students actually _taking_ those classes through the entire pipeline, and to embed those concepts in a more consistent, structured way.

I'm not sure why how you get "walk back the complexity of education" when it's obvious that the current system is broken.

Because social justice and gender ideology are universal, important concepts that apply in mathematics and science as well?

I fail to see how it is "clearly" indoctrination as it is taught critically (as is well evidenced in the link) unless you are some sort of "anti-SJW warrior" against any sort of modernization of our curriculum.

fresh being "categorically better" must be why they are dominating the grocery delivery industry.... oh wait.

sorry for your bad experience but your anecdote is not substantiated or relevant.

TERF is not a slur, lol. what?

utterly insane opinion to have. i cannot fathom the mind of someone who thinks this way.

great anecdote that definitely is proven by data!

would love a citation for the $17.50 number. every posting for wendy's in MT is $13/hour, which is obviously pathetic.

"thank you for agreeing with me" has to be one of the most-annoying neckbeard phrases in the english language.

yeah i'd love to see just one job posting that falls into this category. as far as i can tell you are just making stuff up.

i use heroku because someone else maintains infrastructure for me. i haven't had to touch apps for years (4+ years) except for security patches or other minor updates and everything just keeps trucking. we have a long way to go to build those systems.

just sent you a note, thank you!

that's correct, at least for us a domain encapsulates many response types and dozens of different APIs that wrap various datastores, business logic, etc.

we've actually taken the pattern of making the classes relatively stateless, and explicitly passing around typed state through these explicit apis. it's not really the same design pattern and imo conceptually different.