If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.
If only we had a series of pneumatic tubes connecting all our homes, you could order something online and have it pop up right next to you minutes later.
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What do all the people downvoting it based on the title assume it means?
Any time a company is pushing a change this hard I know it’s not something I want.
Thanks. Alternatively with the NY Mag you can just paste the link into a private browser window and read unlimited articles - just make sure to close and then open a new private window for each one.
So trashy
Like you want the guest list in the title?
I’m a huge fan of both his novels and his blogging.
Yeah I think it’s pretty much just in NYC for now, with a big launch in Minneapolis in progress. Hopefully they get to Denver soon!
How is that different from the usual way of having a password as your way of accessing your phone?
This is one of many reasons you should use a password of some kind that you keep inside of your head to unlock your phone rather than a biometric that people can use to unlock it against your will.
If I were the Iranian leadership I’d want to develop a nuclear arsenal yesterday. It’s the only way to really deter Israeli or American aggression. As an American myself I’d appreciate the resulting reduction in the likelihood of our going to war against Iran.
It has already been done, that’s what the article is about: https://drivers.coop/
Currently based in NYC, but getting ready for a big launch in Minneapolis in response to the incumbent rideshare companies pulling out of the city in protest of increased rideshare regulation. Big opportunity to seize some marketshare without needing that much startup capital if your better financed competitors are removing themselves from that part of the market.
Yeah exactly - the proposal here is to have a driver-owned worker cooperative run the app.
The offshoot running Android would hopefully just be called “Android”
The breakup this is referring to is splitting off the Android operating system from the rest of Google.
Hard to imagine how anyone who’s concerned about climate change could see shutting down a carbon-free energy source as a “green win”.
Sure people talking on the phone can be annoying, but that’s not the main thing people use their phones for - scrolling and texting are the ultimate tools for getting people to sit silently for long periods.
Airlines must be pretty crazy to think not letting people use their phones is going to decrease air rage
Haha probably better to keep the tube closer to the surface of the Earth but otherwise yes.