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Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by anonytrary »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #351
anonytrary wrote: post #255

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I suggested elsewhere in the thread, it'd be neat if they included a fourth class in the model: hub owners, in addition to the existing classes of supplier (Bird), riders (customers) and the chargers. The hub owners would register their places (private residence, business, campus, city area, etc.) as bird hubs, and people would only be allowed to ride birds between hubs. This would solve the "trash/get-off-my-lawn" p…

You know bike shares with docks is a super common existing model, and dockless bike share is specifically built as an improvement to that?

I would imagine it would be a lot easier for civilians to host scooter waypoints at their residence. Bike docks seem like more effort, I can't seem them being a popular option for homes. At scale, the idea is that half of the houses in a neighborhood would host hubs for scooters. At high hub densities, the distinction between docked and dockless becomes negligible, however the hub solution has the added benefit of people not leaving vehicles at random locations.

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by torgian »

SamReidHughes wrote: post #113
cortesoft wrote: post #68

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I think the big issue that most people have with them is the large externality of having scooters littered around the sidewalk. In a lot of places in West Los Angeles, you are having to step around them constantly if you walk down the street. People literally just drop them in the middle of the sidewalk, because there is no incentive for them to not do that. This means that everyone who doesn't use the service has to…

What about all the cars littered on the sides of the street? Don't you have to walk around those too?

You must have lived in China. Cars always on the sidewalk

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by kristianc »

0xADEADBEE wrote: post #295
aantix wrote: post #284

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Isn't it exhausting to live like that? Will convenience ever win out for you? This is a serious question.

It's a great question! It's honestly not too bad, although every now and again I flirt with throwing in the towel on account of the fact I'm sure I'm not really making a difference to the data collection at large. I browse with Firefox, an ad-blocker CookieAutoDelete and NoScript also, which sounds horrific, but actually works well (although I'm under no illusions that combined with routing my traffic through a VPS a…

> I browse with Firefox, an ad-blocker CookieAutoDelete and NoScript also, which sounds horrific, but actually works well

I’m interested by this as every time I have tried to browse with NoScript it has indeed been completely horrific.

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by F_r_k »

stingrae wrote: post #349
kough wrote: post #297

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Is it ok to steal from the rich (nation-state and ultra-wealthy investors) to help the poor (me)? If I could steal a million dollars out of YC's checkbook I would do it in a heartbeat, wouldn't you?

I am pretty surprised to see comments like this on HN. Advocating theft and robbery is not ok.

Yet, reading another point of view that you don't necessarily agree on is good

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by hueving »

spookthesunset wrote: post #319
aantix wrote: post #284

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Isn't it exhausting to live like that? Will convenience ever win out for you? This is a serious question.

> Isn't it exhausting to live like that? I always wonder why these kind of folks even bother to visit sites like this at all? Isn't this a tech focused site? Why are you here if you hate advancements in technology so much? It reminds me of all the bitter old curmudgeons on Slashdot back in the day. Every post about advancements in HDD storage or more memory had at least a few highly voted comments droning on about th…

Advancements in user tracking are not the same thing as general technology advancements. Apps that suck up location data deserve all of the flak they get.

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by hueving »

BurningFrog wrote: post #289
0xADEADBEE wrote: post #263

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I must be in a bit of a minority but my main objection to these would be the installation of an app to use them - I am perhaps too privacy-conscious and admit I haven't attempted the signup process but even with a throwaway email address, I'm not comfortable installing it on a device I take with me when I leave the house; I even Uber via the web interface and would probably stop using the service if they hamstrung th…

Uber stores the route of your trip anyway. So all info you withhold from them is the few meters walk from where you ordered to where you got picked up.

You also withhold from them all of the extra shit it collects in the background when you're done with your ride.

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by F_r_k »

r1nkgrl wrote: post #161
pfisch wrote: post #90

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"don't directly use fossil fuels" Looks like Maryland uses a significant amount of coal to power their grid, so is this even a good thing?

Why is this post downvoted? They asked a relevant question which generated discussion.

Because their question is old, was refuted a thousand times, and was used by pro ICE vehicles to spread misinformation

Re: Lime and Bird are growing rapidly

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Post by Kiro »

spookthesunset wrote: post #319
aantix wrote: post #284

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Isn't it exhausting to live like that? Will convenience ever win out for you? This is a serious question.

> Isn't it exhausting to live like that? I always wonder why these kind of folks even bother to visit sites like this at all? Isn't this a tech focused site? Why are you here if you hate advancements in technology so much? It reminds me of all the bitter old curmudgeons on Slashdot back in the day. Every post about advancements in HDD storage or more memory had at least a few highly voted comments droning on about th…

HN has already been overrun by primitivists.
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