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Comment Destination chargers (Score 1) 126

Your mentioning having slow chargers at destinations, such as offices, is actually a potential solution to apartments being slow about installing charging capacity, or being too expensive about it.
Have people charge at work, not home, in such cases.
The workplace will probably want reasonable rates, many already cover parking for their employees, and with solar power ever expanding, daytime power might actually become cheaper than nighttime.
For areas with actual parking lots, imagine covering the lot with solar panels. Help keep cars cool and clean, not snow covered, etc... While charging them up.
Might not work as well in the extreme north, but not all of the USA is that far north.

Comment Must not be in the USA (Score 1) 126

I don't remember the last time I visited a gas station in the United States that didn't have pay at the pump available. I'm sure there are some janky stations out there, but not many.

Plus, at least in the USA, refueling one of our 300 mile ranged EVs is only maybe 50% more often than a gasoline vehicle - you don't want to go under 10% in a gasoline vehicle anyways, but while full is not a problem with ICE, with an EV you probably want to stick to around 80% most of the time to avoid the charging slowdown (upcoming tech may change this). 30% is probably closer. IE if you need to fill up 10 times with an ICE vehicle on a trip, with an EV it'd be 13 charging stops.

Plus or minus some accounting for placement of towns and charging/fuel stations.

That's only about 60 miles difference,

Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 64

The reason people will roll their eyes at you over that is that its an incredibly boring debate that ended 30 years ago.

And yet, you jumped into the argument as if it were fresh dung and you were a dung beetle.

Python has plenty of serious problems. But if what you get hung up on is whitespace,

And there it is, you're a dung beetle white space Python fan who can't resist defending your bad decisions.

Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 64

I don't understand the Rust culture, I really don't. You never see this kind of hardline, ultra-orthodox alignment with other languages, at this scale

Swift programmers were worse. It's a crappy language (has all the warts of Objective-C and adds some of its own), but as soon as you say "the enum system makes it easy to write confusing code" you will have all kinds of Swift programmers coming out to insult you and your dog.

Comment Re: Shades Of The 2008 Financial Crisis (Score 1) 38

utter nonsense.

There was no real problem sidelining as many people during the pandemic and similarly the economy even the economics of places like NOVA and DC during government shut downs was not collapse.

Any landlord with sense would have waited to start evictions knowing their usually in good standing tenants who are late this month likely have a temporary reason. State and Locals could have found a way to make food-stamps or something like it availible to ensure groceries got purchased.

It was in no way necessary to bail out the credit market.

Similarity lenders and mortgage services are not unsophisticated, they could have easily run some reports to see which entities were paying more than monthly load payment etc. They could have reached out to those borrowers and offered to match some portion of additional dollars. That would not have required modifying loans that might be parted up or anything, it would have secured cash for current obligations at the cost of profits, but well that is how its supposed to work.

The finance industry got away with fleecing us all because the Treasury, Fed, and POTUS turned out to have a pair testicles between em.

Comment Re:Start paying people normal salaries (Score 1) 181

So you're argument is the current status quo is a backdoor to price discrimination; where social pressure encourages the people who are able to pay more.

You might be right and I don't have a problem with negotiated pricing, or algorithm driven pricing. It is just haggling dressed up. I'd much rather Door Dash us an algorithm to effect this though, like this guy orders deliver a lot, he'll pay...take on %5, or this order is several $100 probably an office paying with company cash, cha-ching... This is food from a N-tier restaurant apply...

You get quoted a price and you accept or don't. There is no opportunity for much actual abuse. The problem now is you have propaganda telling perspective gig workers what a great opportunity Door Dash is - most of these people are probably not the most on top of their personal accounting. I hate to see them get to the end of month and then figure out because they did not make much in tips they actually lost money driving; which I expect is entirely possible..

Again I do believe a free people should be able to make whatever contract they want. I don't think its wrong to 'over charge' someone if you are upfront about the price tag. Sure maybe you are selling at 500% margin, if they want to pay without taking the effort to look around at the market place, so be it. I think it is more abusive though flash that 'add tip' button which may not have been expected after the transaction has been otherwise agreed too, and I think its abusive to sell employees on uncertain comp, I don't like to hear "well our base salary is only X but the bonus here are great" at interviews either. That turns into surprise we had a bad q4 no bonus this year way to easily.

Again not saying we should legislate these practices, but this is where education is key. Usually when a transaction is more complicated than you'll give me X, and I'll pay you $Y for it; that added complication/structure is designed to benefit one party or the other. More people should realize that.

Comment Re: Start paying people normal salaries (Score 1) 181

Nope - I don't like the behavior but if people want to work for Door Dash, and customers want to use it as it operates today, that is their problem.

I would have no interest in being a door dasher and while I might choose to be a consumer, I only do so as long as their the only game in town.

Comment Re:Start paying people normal salaries (Score 1, Informative) 181

I don't know. As a member of the freemarket faithful I think people should see the real costs of everything, obscuring it does not help anybody make more rational choices.

It is like tax withholding - that should not be a thing, people should be made to write a check or setup an ACH for the full amount of their taxes owed. People who are expected to actually owe more than few large, should pay quarterly estimated taxes. I think it would change a lot of peoples opinion about the value of government services. The current system is just a scheme to split the payment up into multiple places so as to obscure what the real bill is.

The expansion if tipping is the same nonsense, now historically couriers have been tipped which is what these people are. However we have gone to the expectation of that being restaurant style tips of 15-20% sometimes more! As if they have been hovering over me keeping my water glass full, and bringing me anything else I might need for the last hour. A tip should be an actual tip - "thanks for being on time, here is some $(candy bar money) for the effort). It should not be 20% of the total just for doing the job in the case of a delivery person. If it needs to be that to make it worth their while, I think yes they should be paid more, and that should be reflected in the quoted delivery fee!

For actual hospitality workers, wait staff, concierge, guides, trainers, etc - sure tipped wages make sense, a lot of what the consumer is paying for is between them and that staff member and has little to do with the house. So tips should be significant and expected when reasonable service is offered. A delivery is not that, the expectation from the outset is item is supposed to be arrive at $place at $time. A door dasher is really not different from the FedEx guy, and I don't think they get many tips. As a consumer my entire relationship with them is "Here is your package", "Ok thanks". Door Dash *should* be paying them enough to make the work worth their time if I tip or don't. I know they don't and I do tip as result, but no it does not make sense for tips to be more than handful of percent of the total comp a delivery person makes.

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