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The server doesn’t know whether you will follow through with a tip when they decide how well to serve you. The information asymmetry goes one way or the other.

Complain though whatever feedback mechanism the app gives you. Same thing you’d do if the food didn’t show up at all. On the other hand, what does the driver do if they go above an…

Although if drivers hear about this story and find out that some prepaid tips are doing nothing for them, their perceptions of the cash tip may change. I figure they have the abili…

In the US tipping is standard, not for over-the-top service. In general, higher pay for better quality goods and services is part of a negotiated sticker price. Tipping is the anam…

I wonder if you added a note stating that you planned to tip in cash, whether the drivers could see that and give you better service.

The issue as described here is that the service captures most of the value of the tip, so the drivers are wasting their effort when they rush to complete tipped orders.

This driver isn’t paid until after the delivery anyway, so that shouldn’t be a factor. When deciding to tip before or after the service is rendered, these are the considerations li…

I don’t think it’s fraud. Your money went to the driver, instead of DoorDash’s money. This is exactly how restaurant tipping works in much of the US. As usual, if you want the pers…

I don’t think so - the owner of this issue is the tech lead of Progressive Web Apps at Google according to his LinkedIn. He probably envisions a future where GMail can run as a web…

I’m not saying you can instantly change the way your brain works on a dime, but you can make it happen given time. Read a good book about the history of hip hop. Put Warren G’s Reg…

I’m not telling you to pretend to be nice, I’m telling you to actually be nice. You won’t have to hide those feelings of contempt because you won’t be feeling them. Before you star…

We’ve never met, but from what you’ve said in this thread, it sounds like you have a low opinion of the people around you. You’re good at finding flaws. That’s a valuable skill, bu…

A public market gives you access to millions of potential buyers, so you get the best price, with minimal fees. That’s liquidity. A private company could try to provide something l…

Sure, if you’re sad because you’re starving in a drainage ditch, or your best friend just died, that doesn’t mean you’re depressed. But if your basic needs as an organism are met, …

People are constantly constructing internal narratives to explain their actions. From the perspective of the narrator, with a life’s worth of context, those actions fit into the na…

People do good things and bad things. If in the presence of a combination of good things and bad things, you focus on the bad things and the bad things dominate your subjective exp…

I think this is legally required in the US, if you book directly with the airline. This is a solid reason to never book through the flight aggregators.

Well, if we’re talking about corrupt cops who will plant drugs, might they also lie about you consenting to the search? Maybe you’re better off doing whatever it takes to make them…

Just going to throw out there that I’ve never seen a dev database that was anything other than fake data, or internal dogfood data. Have worked at major public tech companies and l…

One could argue that the social value of insurance is to incentivize you to not take risks we know about, while protecting you from risks we don’t know about.

For those billions, Apple links to the Google search results page in Safari when you type a query in the iOS system search field. That page includes Google search ads. According to…

What do you mean by dwindling supply, we are talking about investors buying properties and renting them out. That doesn’t decrease supply in the rental market.

How does that cash end up in somebody’s rent check? Presumably the people selling to the oligarchs are not renters? If the cash was able to get to renters via some kind of trickle-…

See my response to child comment - this is a story about the landlords diversifying globally, not merging together.