Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?

Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by com2kid on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:29PM (#36765559)

> > > The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes. Instead, people in Colombia, the home country of Chavez and his two co-founders, plot “waypoints” for the bots to follow, sending them instructions every five to 10 seconds on where to go

ooh ooh! When people say reporting can be racist, this is a perfect example! Including extra negative details that are not pertinent to the story at all.

Imagine if every story about a US company mentioned started with, "The new startup, which is based in the United States (home of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy)..."

SFChronicle could have instead opened with: "people in Colombia (a country with free childcare)" or "people in Colombia (a country that has worked to eliminate childhood hunger)", but, instead, blatant racism!

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by tarxvf on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:41PM (#36765695)

Felipe Chavez is the CEO and one of the founders of the company they're talking about. That's why they mention his two co-founders. All from Columbia.

From your examples I assume you thought they were talking about the Chavez from Venezuela? I don't know of any other Chavez that could get that kind of reaction. Anyway, unless I've missed something, that hair trigger might need some adjustment.

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by ziptechnologies on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:37PM (#36765647)

This is a silly comment and a perfect example of seeing only what you want to see. The founder’s name is “Chavez” - he’s not referencing Hugo Chavez here.

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by GloomyBoots on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:36PM (#36765634)

> ooh ooh! When people say reporting can be racist, this is a perfect example! Including extra negative details that are not pertinent to the story at all.

Hold your excitement. Chavez is the CEO.

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by htfu on Monday July 17, 2023 @07:38PM (#36765668)

Is this a joke? Are you thinking of Venezuela? What is going on

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by pests on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:01PM (#36765891)

I think you ran across the Chavez name and your brain stopped processing. Its evident in your replacement examples not even making sense in the original quote.

It seems you may be the one having issues with race.

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by jeffalyanak on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:02PM (#36765894)

> Imagine if every story about a US company mentioned started with, "The new startup, which is based in the United States (home of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy)..."

If Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy founded a company together then your headline would make sense, but I don't understand why this would compare to anything the author of this article wrote.

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by 1000bestlives on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:02AM (#36768001)

How does it feel to be an illiterate among the educated?

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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive... by subsistence234 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @06:01AM (#36770057)

quintessential social justice moment

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