vasametropolis

If you are a subscriber to the Globe I’d honestly report the article. It’s based on skewed evidence and the author had questionable integrity to write it. Investors would almost certainly be better off with more competitive options.

You can’t

You can - the software would have to hook into a background check service. This can absolutely be done.

Profitable for who? The one hosting it foots the bill. If it was federated, all drivers could host their own instance like WordPress and a single app would connect to all instances and all drivers.

Agencies could start up to manage the tech for a negotiable fee if the drivers in the area didn’t want to bother with the tech.

Whether or not it could be profitable entirely depends on the hosting and delivery model. One guy could host the tech stack and charge maintenance fees and be in the green.

If you mean rich, then yeah, nobody would probably be rich. But you can build a small business as a hosting provider no problem, and the drivers would probably get a better deal. Uber employs so many people it requires they charge money. There’s a tipping point when the service provider becomes so large that their sheer operating expenses start to necessitate increased costs. Breaking up provides better value in that case.

Can you say “anti-trust”

He’s not wrong in this case, it’s doable. There are many startups building similar services with arguably fewer starting resources. You should run completely in the other direction, but it’s not impossible.

Credit products, especially virtual, are easier to create than ever thanks to companies that have built out that infrastructure. Chequing can be facilitated and held by a major bank under the hood in most cases.

It might not be his end game, but it’s definitely possible. Now, forgive me while I weep for anyone that uses it if they manage to deliver it.

Honestly just seems like a tee up so the government can “persuade” these people to kill themselves. It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.

Could be a dry run for when life gets so bad in the next few years that people just look for the exit.

Apparently, the Zuck fucks

It has been predicted for years that the Internet would split and I’m all for it at this point.

To be fair, there’s huge demand for a Swift-like language in the space Go operates, since nobody will ever adopt Swift outside of Apple use cases. Rust is excellent, but garbage collection is not awful at all for most Go use cases. I think Go designers made a mistake by not introducing sum types sooner since there are many ergonomic issues that could be solved with them.

This may lead people to argue for JVM-based languages, but Go seems like a leaner and nicer package overall and compiling to static binaries so simply is still a major winning feature. That and I think Go still has performance advantages over JVM and C#.

In many ways I think Swift is better than Go as a language, but we effectively will never have that as an option people freely choose to use so it would be nice for Go to close some ground where it can and where it makes sense to do so. Go is what people already want to use as a starting point, so it makes sense for it to try and modernize a tad.

It has to be satire.

I wouldn’t undercut yourself so much - they have more experience but every situation is different. Inflation in July was largely due to increased mortgage payments (2.4% if you exclude mortgage increases from rate increases). So when the only knob they have can also cause a bigger issue, it’s fair to criticize that they are just going with the flow and praying. If you jump from 0.25 to 5 in such a short time frame, you just worsened inflation on mortgages while improving everything else to the point where it might all cancel out.

They are absolutely flying by the seat of their pants and throwing the average worker under the bus.

Interest rates don’t unilaterally fix inflation though, which the BoC is either too stupid to admit or too reckless to care.

Raising interest rates won’t fix inflation driven by gas prices.

It’s employee hostile so their job is almost impossible.

Every employee should hold the line - if they fire you all they’re fucked.

You’re not entirely wrong on productive assets, but what are they? Stocks? Progress has basically all but stalled in most areas. The new trend is rent-seeking and the market is totally stuck sideways. There is nowhere for money to grow and nowhere to hedge it against inflation. Cryptocurrency is even performing poorly. At least property entitles you to a real thing - land. I’m way more keen on stocks but they’re performing like shit.

Yeah, this seems low. Unless almost nobody has mortgage debt. Because, surprise, most can’t get into the market. So that would be pure student loans and credit card.

The banks have shockingly bad technology and staffing these days, so I’m halfway between thinking the numbers are doctored, or they just have no idea how to pull the data.

Ya, this guy is toast. He just told the world he thinks his product sucks - the sane know he’s wrong at least.

They seem hell-bent on tearing us down at this rate and it’s becoming very hard to not take it personally. Not sure what the endgame is, but I really don’t care what happens to the older generations at this point. I’m very fortunate to have had pretty well paying jobs overall and saved like an absolute mother fucker and eventually got a small ass condo in a desirable area - I’m renewing my mortgage and I have to put down $50K to just keep the same monthly payment. But I won’t give them any more interest than I have to - they can get fucked.

Then they felt it necessary to lay a bunch of us off on top of it to add insult to injury.

To anyone else with less, I seriously don’t know how you put up with this shit. I can barely stand it with what I have - it’s still a far cry from where we want to be.

The pushback is justified I think - compile from source should be the default always for Rust since it works well (even if slower than desired sometimes).

Pre-compiled is kind of nice for scripting languages since the complexity of native dependencies is usually not wanted by those developers. In Node, I prefer pre-compiled as the default. Here, I do not.