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Yes, I'm just going to quote my previous comment from 7 years ago (about a similar startup) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707049 "This is a business I know well. Jukedeck …

It can turn a profit, but not the sort of profit the investors and top stake holders want i.e. Microsoft and Google type margins and profit.

Dropbox seems to be disabling some accounts in waves, if you are part of this wave you're in danger of losing your data forever. For a little context watch this video: https://www.…

A few days ago Dropbox disabled my account. After several emails inquiring about why my account was disabled I received this response: Dropbox’s Acceptable Use Policy prohibits, am…

Really? If we are being candid, many software developers helped crowned the Tyrant king. The majority of developers focused on building for iOS and treated Android as a second clas…

What can be mechanically detected is limited to how the data is collected. You missed this part: "Moreover capturing Black/Dark skin and features require more accurate light meteri…

When you sample from a smaller pool you will make uninformed statements like this. Black/Dark people of the world are not limited to Black people in Atlanta. Bet many people here d…

Yes, which is why I said willing & able . Able in this context means: you have the resources and circumstances to do so. Moreover, you will only resign once you have secured the jo…

Yes. This incident shows AWS engineers have significantly more leverage than their coworkers in warehouses. If you are an engineer who works for Amazon and you want to see real cha…

Yes, food was and is a major focus for Uber, it's part of their pitch for growth: they just don't do taxi/rideshare, they do deliveries one of the reasons they're valuation dwarfs …

There's significant demand, DoorDash, Instacart, and others are hiring drivers to meet demand.

UberEats was founded in August 2014, easy to Google.

This is a failure in leadership at UberEats. Uber has more than one revenue source and delivery is in high demand, UberEats is severely losing to DoorDash in food delivery, despite…

Another reason not mentioned: An increase in Crime in the City, here's just a few https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-is-proposing-r... https://www.ebar.com/news/crime//2…

Obviously you did not read or understand the article. The article mentioned specific issues that CR attributed to reliability problems in car brands, and Tesla addressed those issu…

That lease start fee has gone up about 3x, to about 6k, so obviously it was not enough. And at that rate people are better off getting a new car via a typical lease agreement.

Read the companion website, the authors cherry-picked their findings, good thing they link to another independent study: https://elifesciences.org/articles/48224 “Surprisingly, we …

Or this: It should come out your R&D budget because it is critical tech, and some marketing funds should be diverted to R&D.

Do you expect more automation in the workplace from Amazon or less? Cause the numbers only work if the jobs are created, however Amazon has about a decade as a cushion. A few years…

You have to acknowledge the point he is making, he said you don't have to get to $30 to find the right spot, moreover making it a franchise will definitely take away the lore of th…

Interesting enough, he did not have to make these concessions, Amazon wants to come to NY, regardless. "This will be New York or it will be DC - Prof. Galloway, Feb 2018 https://ww…