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It could come down to a large scale societal prisoners dilemna. It’s gonna get ugly
Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:36AM (#19916700)
What’s the result of the non pea-industry sponsored studies on fart production for peas vs other protein sources ?
Amazons own last mile has now consistently failed to deliver my sub $20 items several times in a row now. You can say the same for amazon.
Re:Bird One - $1299 on Friday May 10, 2019 @07:19PM (#19883180)
20 free rides maxed at $5 per ride. They raised prices recently to around 0.25$ a minute.

Terrible incentive. Why be so cheap? Should be incentivizing purchase of a $1200 scooter with way more free rides.

Re:Bird One Scooter – Pre-Order on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:57AM (#19860098)
Evidence their business model isn’t working out. Their scooters (along with all the other companies) have all but disappeared from my area, where they once littered the sidewalk.

Once you fall once or twice on these scooters, it’s hard to ride them again. Especially when it’s the scooter that’s broken, as is often the case. It’s a shrinking market base, consequently. They (Uber-Jump, Lime) should have given incentive by offering some kind of coupons after an accident, instead of declining all responsibility and sending you the terms you signed or ghosting their customers.

Ups, fedex, dhl for last mile in the USA is still 100x better than Amazon’s last mile (yes, that’s two orders of magnitude !!)
Cavalry’s here ?
Haha, except their last mile delivery which is really flaky because they use their own logistics and drivers
Ya ok, call me a cynic, but I doubt it amounts to anything more than a new column in their tables. It’s gonna all be there - there’s too much money on the line to permanently erase anything
Re:Memory Makers Plan to Cut NAND Flash Production on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:47AM (#19788390)
I would have preferred to see this happening to the dram cartel, who actually did fix prices.
Re:Can Uber ever make money? on Saturday April 27, 2019 @03:23PM (#19767162)
I think my comment explains that. Think about it a little more
Re:Can Uber ever make money? on Saturday April 27, 2019 @04:10AM (#19764462)
Not exactly. This theory applies steady state analysis to a transient problem. Those drivers need money now. And are willing to trade off miles for money, in some sense. They are able to leverage their time and mileage to get income, which they might not otherwise have. They may already have invested in buying the car so that is a sunk cost. In some sense they are just extracting the value of the car combined with their time and some minor profit which is their opportunity cost. The theory also fails to account for the extra utility they drive from earning the cash, which may offset any costs incurred by spiraling downwards mood from financial stress, unemployment, or even the regret of buying a car which they are having trouble paying off. Also they get to still use the car in the meantime, offsetting transportation costs and most importantly, saving them time and extending their ability to acquire other jobs or new opportunity such as education, driving to visit friends and family, etc.
Not really developing a distributed dB but using one. Inaccurate and misleading title
Re:Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:38AM (#19736577)
Pretty sure they just wanted to be first in history to release a folding phone. No way someone at the top didn’t know.
Bloomberg pulling the business insider hype articles ...
Re:Fairylog: A Racket language aiming to be like Verilog on Sunday April 21, 2019 @10:48PM (#19716027)
Yes it’s easy to say as a hobby. I’d love to get into nuclear physics as a hobby too. How about 40-50 hrs per week for the next 25 years? Haha doubt it
Re:Fairylog: A Racket language aiming to be like Verilog on Sunday April 21, 2019 @06:07AM (#19711411)
Uhh Nobody wants to do that stuff? Lol
Re:Intel Exiting 5G Modems on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:49PM (#19678687)
What is bufferbloat
Yes and no. Cs is huge. People have preferences for what they’d rather be working on. But it seems it’s a lower div class, whose projects tend to be more general. There’s a possible cases: your peers find the project boring because it is trivially easy but just busy work to them; they find it hard; they are interested in something else in cs.