Revenue means little.

You need to look at net income (profit).

But DoorDash is not a charity and has no reason to pay drivers more than what is needed to recruit and retain them.

Tipping is optional. According to Google, 25% of DoorDash customers do not tip.

There are starving children in Africa. If you're doing nothing for them, you probably shouldn't feel too guilty about the DoorDash deliverer.

Not using DoorDash at all is taking away even more money.

Disclaimer: I don't eat restaurant food, so I've never used DoorDash. I use InstaCart for groceries, and tip the default amount.

It is standard marketing psychology.

People will pay X for food and Y for delivery, but won't pay (X+Y) for the food with free delivery.

When people comparison shop, they will compare the food cost but ignore the delivery fee. So it is better to shove some of the cost into tack-on fees.

UberDash wants the tip to come after the customer commits to buy so the cost of the tip isn't factored into the decision.

At the same interest rate, I'd definitely prefer RMB over USD.

RMB is the BRICS currency.

Would you prefer rubles?

It's no worse than "colonel".

Or you can do two at a time with "lieutenant colonel".

The USA is experiencing inflation.

China is experiencing deflation.

So the different interest rates make sense.

The "C" in BRICS is China.

Even worse, harsher penalties will lead to more coverups and less disclosure.

Coupang voluntarily reported the breach. That should be encouraged.

How many components would a human design require?

Is 843 more or fewer? Better or worse?

Is the singularity nigh?

Except for Redfin.com, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Opendoor.com, MLS.com, etc.

According to Google, Zillow has a 44% market share for real estate searches. That's no where near a monopoly.

Well, peak rate of extinction is not the same as "all the glaciers gone."

And, glaciers gone just means that the flow rate will equal the precipitation rate, rather than the precipitation rate delayed until the spring thaw.

Paypal was never prohibited from becoming a bank. They remained not-a-bank because they believed it was a more profitable arrangement. They have now apparently changed their mind, and in my view they're many years late in that decision. Other startup financial services companies have been nipping at their heels harder and faster in the last couple years. Recent politics and are mentioned in the same story but it can not be concluded that these are directly related.

That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.

The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it ;)

I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to :)

I've watched my kids play Roblox for extended periods, and I even join them for an hour every now and then. I didn't see anything particularly alarming, at all. I'm sure it happens but it seems very rare.

I wonder if it will eventually migrate enough to regreen the Sahara. (Regreen, not regret you idiot computer).

Speaking as an old graybeard UI guy.... we have just come up with more and more complex solutions to the same old internet "one weird trick" of putting your information on someone else's computer.

Yeah, I remember "Server Side Rendering"... we called Java Servlets or JSPs or PHP or ASP. There were clear divisions of labors and boundaries were respected.

Even when we had to go to make everything feel like an app, at least RESTful stuff still had those boundaries.

Now that everyone needs the same code running front and back, and JS (I'm not a hater of JS by any means but still) stuff like this is bound to have happened.