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I wish people could live my life before cable and the internet.

We are so so much better off now than the 3 networks is all you get days.

Somebody in N.Y. decided what important to me, not me.

When i wanted a sports score or tomorrows weather I had to listen to 30 minutes of news.

As I get older I want to consume Far Less news.... And I can now pick and chose. A much better place than the 1960s or 70s

I bet this person's letter carrier and/or the post office where she resides will know or have a very high and good guess at who she is

Exactly. Friend wanted spending $ to europe. Became uber driver. Within one week had extra spending $.

Nobody wants to let Google win again.

I do. Google greatly enhanced my life, esp. Driving and directions.

I was an adult BI and speak from experience

Tell him to go.

College and dorm living is where, in our family, we meet and fall in love with our spouse. The marriages that worked passed this on for 4 generations. This is an unspoken teaching to all that grow up in all of our roofs.

For me, my kids, my siblings and our parents and (probably both gp) the best thing that happened in college was meeting our spouses.

I'm the guy people want to ne friends with. Im very friendly. I don't want friends. Most end the same way: we connect, share & remember things, then i turn cold and act less interested. Then we become good acquaintances. This pattern existed way back in high schoolHi

Having friends is not on my list of success Or even a positive achievement. Being friendly is at the top of the list.

I say to people i meet and to others now, make sure the potential friend really wants the job.

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A feeling of elite-ness as not one other person i know (jobs, family or patrons) have ever heard of HN. It's my exclusive ivy-league braggard self worth identity

Help me

For every 100,

Driver gets x Uber cut is y X+y = z

Z ÷??? = 100

Where does the 100 go?

The best example in my stats class on why sampling was used: working for the phone company he had to determine if poles were rotting. Practically speaking he could not use a random sample: he sent a pole climber to an area and while there, climb a few or several in the area. It would not be practical to climb one here, another 3 miles away, etc..

Because of my insight i get to know a group of people barely making it. i do help when i can.

I see absolutely no financial help for the one time and many time needs of this group. Yet there are plenty of people with a lot of money.

If i asked them a question it would be have they considered helping people with tiny gifts. Did u read the article? They made up and answered 10 questions. I made one

A new way to give..a new way to receive... Sometimes i see it simply as a match game of need v supply. Our filter system for need is still pre internet

Those questions seem self asked.

I'd want to know if?they tried or interested in tiny short term gifts to help a person today, right now. We have gofumdme. But no way to give the coworker $200 to fix her car; $35 for gas; $100 till next oay; or one year of Uber so they dont spend 1.5 hrs pay to from work. Some silent gates ambassador who knows help when it's needed

3. Gigster with intent to steal. Absolutely no way to tell lost vs damaged vs misdelivery vs opened & reboxed vs stolen. It just never madr it

I try hard to please all customers. Your phone number is on amazon labels. Often i text when there are issues. Communication is necessary for excellent customer service.

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This. Especially coining of top out of sight-ers and bottom out of sight-ers

Im talking about totally thinking differently, not the current situation.

About having a lot of money saved....after a prosthetic implant i added up stuff. $143,000 spent on insurance since 2005. Part employer part me. Up until the prosthetic less than $5k (if that) on health. $143k is almost 3 years pay. I would have rather had it paid to me. Then i would have spent my money for my healthcare

My thinking. Cab supply and ease.

I work at a retailer where 20-30% more probably) use their phone to get to work. Its affordable and allows taking the job. $5 to get home. Cabs were $11 and importantly unreliable.

Have a phone; get a ride anytime.

And.. A person i work with finishes her shift and turns "on" her Uber driver mode and instantly becomes a cab. Uber is an on/off switch for cab supply. To me that is very different.

Imo before uber one could not even think transportation was easy.

Its not the Pepsi Generation it's the Uber Generation

When i think of disruption i think of uber. Rides where none could happen before.

What will their disruption be?

How about delinking insurance to healthcare. Let me buy healthcare the day i need it. And nothing the day after i dont.

No more having healthy people pay for sick people: no more young pay for the old.

Create something we cant imagine; like uber; like Facebook

Yep. The author gives reasons for Amazon's decisions. I wanted a pricing discussion. My bad

Not this specifically, but with a totally electronic system and no point of sale to anchor there is large opportunity to easily and programatically have dynamic pricing at the known individual level. Supply, time of day, whatever can be instantly baked into a pricing system.

And why not? No humans needed to change pricing. Plus i would think you could scan to get "your" price. Prime member $x. Etc..

I hope i did not imply this was happening now..

My example is strictly NJ based. A different place 4 sure.

I wonder too. I assume they are electronic. So snowstorm- raise milk and bread.

I wish there was a mention that 5 people can buy the same milk and all can each pay a different price (and none know what the other paid either)

I always thought it would be something to charge a wealthy person more since they can afford it. With GO franchise i could charge $20 for milk to the teacher pensioner backed by my tax dollars; $0.50 to the poor mother of 3 kids, and $10k to jeff bezos. Then I could stop subsidising farmers.

Of course my points are extreme but we never had a way to charge different people this easily

Anyone know if prices are on items?

On shelves?

On app screen?

And are the same for each customer?

Examine amazon. I deliver them. Im in a union. I've had a $100+k prosthetic at <$4k out of pocket. Pooled healthcare. Savings is matched and now i have $100k waiting and i did nothing. I have safe conditions to deliver. I get paid if im sick. I have a predictable schedule

Now, if i downloaded the Amazon app and became a delivery dude i would still deliver Amazon. No insurance No savings. Use of my own car. I could do this for amazon for 5 years and i would have nothing.

The union already blazed the way for my salary and benefit package.. So i simply benefited from it.

Amazon and uber workers and drivers have so untapped clout..

This is a great comment. Your point "dont really think that software engineers could benefit much from unionization" I disagree in one respect: hours and time of day worked. If rules exist that mean you dont work weekends or holidays or more than 50 hours in a week you as an engineer could simply cite rules amd say no. Rules could exist for who has to work those times...

Imo union-ism is an attitide and coupled with experience is effective.

Just because you are salaried and "professional" does not mean you collectively do not have extreme clout.

Whatever the hot issues are - say hours worked in a 7 day period - and the desire is to place limits (say 4 twelve hour days amd 1 eight hour day) having a union attitude means your bargained (agreed upon) rules are enforceable. And you carry a right to not work outside your agreed upon scope.

The attitide comes in when you stop work after the last day. It's your right.

People in unions (i am one) are the beneficiaries of years of compromise and abuse But it's fragile.

All the union is is a sturdy frame which everyone stands on. Its sure footed. Otherwise workers - even professionals- have no true security, no true predictable work conditions.

Iz is very unfortunate that union has become such a negative word. If a handful of people got together and simply stopped the management "abuse" i guarantee (!!!!) you you would be surprised how much power even engineer types can have

What are two things uber is scared of?

E.g., for a long distance company fear was the cell phone. ($22B revenue to $8B in a five year stretch)

It says radio tv and papers were it, then.

Having lived pre internet news days i am a minority that can truly describe how it was a different world back then. Our world is so much better because tv radio and newspapers matter so much less. We have to think for ourselves and decide which topics are newsworthy:not have others coax and decide what is important.

Long live the internet