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Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by wu-ikkyu » Sun, Jul 09, 2017, 10:03 PM UTC

dwaltrip wrote: post #271

wu-ikkyu wrote: post #264

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>However, the ancap vision of no government and everything done by "voluntary" contract has no meaningful basis in reality at this point What about tribal societies?

I'm talking about larger groups of humans. Things are very different when you have only a few hundred humans or less. Dunbar's number[1] is an important factor here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Don't most people only have real social relationships with a few hundred people or less?

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by dwaltrip » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 2:47 AM UTC

wu-ikkyu wrote: post #281

dwaltrip wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm talking about larger groups of humans. Things are very different when you have only a few hundred humans or less. Dunbar's number[1] is an important factor here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Don't most people only have real social relationships with a few hundred people or less?

Of course, but I'm not sure what that has to do with governance structures of societies.

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by blhack » Wed, Jul 12, 2017, 2:47 AM UTC

jonny_eh wrote: post #77

blhack wrote: post #39

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Sure, but if this is "uber for garbage", then wouldn't the equivalent to existing services be yellow taxi?

1-800-GOT-JUNK is not similar to taxis. You can easily just order a pickup from their site: http://www.1800gotjunk.com/us_en How does this startup compete?

Well just looking at their site, it doesn't look like they tell you what the price is.