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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Do you read TFA? Because this info was in the first sentence.

In general the companies that provide those perks tend to pay top of market, not the smallest amount of money possible.

> you can't just steal away a successful business by throwing money at the problem and copying it. Look at zune, look at tidal, look at google+, look at bing, look at mixer.

Look at instagram stories?

Companies at even a hundredth of Lyft's scale aren't paying 2.9%+ to Stripe, they're on cost-plus pricing based on interchange fees.

This is super cool. I really enjoyed the demos, and the explanation of what distortion actually does to the waveform was very clear.

Of the companies you named, Foursquare's business model explicitly revolves around paying apps for user location data and selling it.

I doubt (and at least from my experience around SV, haven't seen) that FB/Google are paying apps to include their SDKs.

> Not bad for a 20 yo seeking independence, but humiliating for a 25 yo and a complete failure for a 30 yo.

I was truly taken aback by how out of touch this comment is. A 50% cut to a $9600 monthly salary is $4800, or $57,600 annually. This is above median US household income, and close to double median personal income. It's not "humiliating" or "a complete failure" by any stretch of the imagination.

S/he is referring to tenant farming and sharecropping, if you search those terms you can read more about it.

> I don't see how could that scale.

Similarly to UPS and FedEx, one would assume.

> Google has never been implicated in a plot to hack the U.S. presidential election.

Sure they have. The very same election as Facebook (and Twitter), in fact.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-russian-groups-did-use-...

Yes, similar to that and Presto’s `ARBITRARY`.

> while also running a campaign to weaponize towny NIMBYism against grad-students by accusing grads of taking housing that "rightfully" belongs to "real" Berkeley residents

What? Why would UC Berkeley want to do that, to make itself less appealing as a destination for graduate studies? There’s zero incentive, this is such a silly hypothetical.

If one is to run tests, it would much easier to use the actual nCoV diagnostic panel. The question was whether differential diagnosis for nCoV based on (early-stage) symptoms exists, which to my knowledge it doesn’t yet.

The bird shot is.

It’s pretty silly to claim that the (admittedly bad) privacy policies of Google, or even Chrome, as a whole means it “doesn’t make sense” for any team within Google to advance a pro-privacy or pro-WWW project.

This all-or-nothing mindset ends up harming privacy in practice.

This is not at all true. Uber only introduced upfront pricing at the end of 2017. Prior to that users were charged based on time and distance, the same way as taxis.

> Then you do the second API call to get the hometowns of the userIDs. The result contains the new place that you should not have been able to access

This is an issue with access control, not HTTP requests. The second HTTP request shouldn't return information you don't have access to.

Yes, they were.

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-an...

> If we were friends, you could use your custom FB client to look at my page though, which would be very user friendly.

Yes, this is what used to exist, and this is what Cambridge Analytica exploited. The level of access I'm talking about, and what people in this thread are advocating for, is allowing a third party app to see all info an authenticated user is authorized to see (including their friend's info).

> It would just mean that the data and interactions you as a user already have in Facebook's proprietary walled garden, would be API callable from 3rd parties.

This was precisely the level of access which caused the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

> I personally don't think the public market cares much about things like privacy and governance. If it were, Facebook would have neither investors nor users. Same goes for so many others.

This is a silly take. Data privacy is a completely separate issue from corporate governance, and by most analysts who cover it Facebook is considered a particularly well-governed company.

Most restaurants have an additional percent charge to provide healthcare or other benefits to their workers.

Instagram is also testing removing like counts. [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697943/instagram-hide-p...

> I recognize that some such tech is being utilized on the front end in this case, and that the problem is non trivial, but I see this as FB saying 'good enough' and not pushing as hard as they could to improve the tech to where it can be trusted to make the decision. I sense that they may be telling themselves they're doing social good by 'creating jobs'.

This seems like a weird take to me. Why would this be your conclusion rather than that the technology isn't good enough yet?

I don't know why you keep using the term "abuse". There's no statute in antitrust law preventing "abuse". There isn't even a statute defining "abuse".

Antitrust laws specifically address using monopoly power to restrain competition.

WKD tastes good because there's a ton of sugar in it. There's plenty of sugary alcopops in America already (Smirnoff Ice, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Four Loko, etc.).

White Claw is interesting because it's low-carb.

An interesting case of a company shooting itself in the foot via forced arbitration is Chipotle. They convinced a court to exclude employees who agreed to arbitration from a class action, so those employees each filed individually (helped by the class action lawyers), which has turned out to be vastly more expensive for Chipotle.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-chipo...

> This is just pretty standard text for any metal credit card

FWIW I have four different metal cards and have not received this warning with any of them. In the case of the Apple Card, I'd say it's due more to the fact that the card is white than that it's metal.

For some rides (especially Pool rides, in aggregate) Uber charges the passengers less than what they pay to the drivers.

Uber also pays driver incentives beyond fares (e.g. for completing a certain number of rides).