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ripply commented on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix about.doordash.com/en-us/... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect

tylergetsay · 5 months ago

DoorDash appears very inexpensive when you have their DashPass product, however ive notice that basically every food service business will raise their menu prices, and grocery stores will restrict which items that allow you to buy.

This is really interesting because if you have autonmous drivers, DoorDash doesnt really have a lever to lower prices except removing tipping.

ripply · 5 months ago

It appears inexpensive because raising prices is the only visibility you have into what the restaurant is paying these services for their order flows (~10-30%).

ripply commented on Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/perihelions

simpaticoder · a year ago

I agree. I was an early adopter and have a Framework 13 11th gen intel (batch 4) and have been generally happy with it. Except the keyboard stopped working and I had to replace it, ~100 tiny screws later (and one stripped screw). And the battery drains fast (~24 hours) when suspended. And except that it won't turn on anymore without plugging into a particular USB-C port with a "dumb" USB cable (the basic 5V 900mA type) even with a full battery charge. And there hasn't been a BIOS update for this mainboard since Sep 2022.

I understand that a new company with a new product is going to have issues. But I would have strongly preferred they spent the time and effort (and money) fixing or replacing these 1st gen mainboards rather than branching out into a very non-Framework area like desktop gaming PCs.

ripply · a year ago

I was also an early adopter (batch 2) I ended up buying a m2 macbook air to replace it because the thing overheated and down clocked to 200Mhz (yes megahertz, not gigahertz) constantly and it was unusable. It sits around unused, I can't even give it away to family because I don't want to hear complaints about it being unusable. I just don't trust framework to not have issues.

ripply commented on Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations apnews.com/article/drug-p... · Posted by u/geox

saxonww · a year ago

Are you aware of any health insurance plans in the US which don't have an open enrollment period? I think this is standard across the industry as a check against adverse selection, but most of the information quickly available is ACA-focused, where it's definitely a feature; since open enrollment is extremely beneficial to insurers, I wouldn't imagine them talking up alternatives.

It's true that there is a list of qualifying life events that let you change or acquire insurance outside of open enrollment, but none of them look like "because I don't like my insurer" to me.

ripply · a year ago

There is private (non ACA) insurance you can purchase without an open enrollment period in the states. However they get around it by being able to deny you coverage for preexisting conditions.

ripply commented on General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years nytimes.com/2025/01/16/te... · Posted by u/mmooss

Schiendelman · a year ago

Tesla also states unequivocally that they do not sell user data: https://www.tesla.com/support/privacy

ripply · a year ago

Tesla states a lot of things, like that their second generation 2020 roadster is going to be ready next year (tm). I wouldn't put a lot of faith in anything they say, all it takes is Musk changing his mind down the line and then anything goes.

ripply commented on US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 reuters.com/legal/us-lawm... · Posted by u/thunderbong

shlant · a year ago

> That being said, it’s not fair to single out TikTok.

> The only unique danger with TikTok is that it could be controlled by a foreign adversary, or at least could be more easily than the others.

Isn't that the entire reason given for why they are singling them out? You say it's not fair then give the exact reason why it seems to be.

ripply · a year ago

I think they mean that those should also be banned, but this ban isn't about addictive technology, it's about China owning the addictive technology and being able to exert control over it if they wanted. I also am of the opinion that this addictive technology should be regulated, including domestic.

ripply commented on How long til we're all on Ozempic? asteriskmag.com/issues/07... · Posted by u/thehoff

StefanBatory · a year ago

I was obese myself, and I have different thoughts on that.

For me, it was purely an issue of personal falling and willpower issue. I was obese because of a diet I was indulging in; full of unhealthy things and snacks.

It was due to nobody else but myself.

ripply · a year ago

You don’t place any blame on the people that marketed and created that diet? Or the regulators who allowed that to happen? At a certain point people’s well being and health should come before a mega corporation’s profits. The whole world would be better off if unhealthy food was more strictly regulated. Children grow up not learning healthy eating habits that last into adult hood and some never learn them.

ripply commented on GLP-1 pills are coming, and they could revolutionize weight-loss treatment cnn.com/2024/09/17/health... · Posted by u/paulpauper

globular-toast · a year ago

I find it crazy that they were able to do what they did to cigarettes, essentially marginalising them by banning all marketing etc., but rather than do anything about McDonalds, Kellogs and other junk food companies we have to resort to people injecting or taking pills for life.

ripply · a year ago

It may take another 10-20 years but I think this will eventually happen. I agree it’s criminal to permit marketing of this stuff. It took a very long time to get to this point with cigarettes but also realize that in other countries smoking is still a normal thing particularly Europe. Right now there is still a lot of money being made on producing super addictive junk food and therefore strong lobbying.

ripply commented on Support for U.S. TikTok ban continues to decline pewresearch.org/short-rea... · Posted by u/roncesvalles

raxxorraxor · 2 years ago

I think the popularity of TikTok is already declining and I always question the effectiveness of such propaganda attempts. Investing in education is the best antidote in my opinion, state level blocking of services just opens a few cans of worms.

To make TikTok unpopular more quickly, governments should probably mandate that parents make an account too.

ripply · 2 years ago

Popularity will definitely wane, the social media rise and fall cycle will repeat

ripply commented on AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription fosstodon.org/@altstore/1... · Posted by u/tech234a

sebazzz · 2 years ago

If Apple still has to review everything, why would one publish on an altstore anyway? You aren’t cheaper (still need to pay that $90 per year) and you severely limit your audience.

ripply · 2 years ago

They publish there because they aren't allowed to publish their app on the app store, which is the whole point of the legislation that precipitated this.

ripply commented on German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/DamnInteresting

jiggawatts · 2 years ago

I can tell you’ve either never used floppies, or used them so little that your opinion was formed more by luck than experience.

Floppies are ridiculously unreliable. They were bad, even when they were brand new in a new drive. Failure rates of one in thirty or so wasn’t unusual. Installing large software packages was a gamble because disc 27 of 33 might have a bad sector and ruin your day.

Floppies written with one drive often wouldn’t work in another.

The drives themselves would often collect dust depending on how the fans inside the PC case were set up.

The drive head would often wear out the floppies, especially if they were used daily (e.g.: boot discs).

Keeping them in a hot car in summer could destroy them.

I learned about forward error correction (FEC) in desperation when I was in my early teens because it was the only robust way to retain data on floppies for any length of time. There were a whole bunch of compression formats that could split your data so that any n-of-m floppies could be used to recover your data in case a few failed.

ripply · 2 years ago

Adding to this in Windows 2000 days WinRar had error correcting bits you could enable and make the compressed rar file bigger. I ended up only using that when I would save something to a floppy it was so unreliable.