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Posts posted by Nice Guy Eddie
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Indiana appears to hang their NIT banner as prominently as NCAA Final 4 appearances or Big 10 champs. I believe their NCAA champ banners are set up as individual banners
Read that UCLA replaced their '85 NIT banner when they won the NCAA in '95.
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I think some of you will really take it personally if Uber or Lyft come up with ideas to improve their safety and operations. Perhaps you can organize a boycott.
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Lauren's commentary of blacking out was good camerawork.
I appreciate David calling out the lame goal of making it to the family visit. Obviously that was a ploy to get that group together, but if you absolutely need to see your family, quit. It's fine to look forward to it, but don't claim it as some major goal. The die was cast by that point but the comment was so bad that Eric teed up the ball for David to hit.
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36 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:
Agreed, name of driver, their phone number, exact location, make, model, and license plate should be more than enough for someone not to jump in the wrong car. It really isn't that difficult.
Then why does it apparently happen? Maybe Uber can hire you to educate their riders.
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On 4/2/2019 at 10:18 AM, bad_teammate said:
Question 1: Do you think there is a wealth inequality problem in America?
Question 2: Do you think it is something we have the ability to either solve or, at least, improve?
Question 3: What makes it difficult to talk about or address?
1. Yes.
2. Yes
3. The only way to address wealth inequality is to confiscate the wealth of the extremely wealthy via very high taxes. Which will not happen in the near term.
Ideas like the Giving Pledge are an interesting way for billionaires to not give billions to their children but it doesn't necessarily impact wealth inequality. Sure the kids may not own the wealth but there's a good chance the money could be sitting in a family philanthropic fund that may never distribute the full funds.
Take something the MacArthur Foundation which by all accounts is a fantastic foundation. They reward interesting research that may benefit the public but this Foundation appears to also be collecting tremendous amounts of wealth. The foundation started in '78 with ~1B USD. The Foundation says they've awarded close to 7B over 40 years and still have another 7B in assets. (to be clear, I'm not saying the MacArthur Foundation is bad.)
Now in another 40 years, will they have 50B in assets? Will it be 350B in 80 years? At some point even a foundation shouldn't be hoarding wealth as it pulls more wealth into the "owner" class which creates less opportunity for others. Real estate becomes too expensive for a worker. Everyone becomes a renter, further increasing wealth for owners.
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Someone is faced with public humiliation to return something? Who makes the decision that the person unlawfully took something?
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39 minutes ago, Lobwedgephil said:
Sounds like you got suckered, thanks for giving us the heads up though, very nice.
I got suckered into checking their website so I lost about minute of time. But it educated me to tell people to never bother looking into TXU.
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I'm not a big user of Uber/Lyft but the anecdotal evidence is that they do have a problem with people jumping into the wrong cars. Seems like they should address that operational problem which also improve safety.
I would recommend they create a QR code sticker and place it on the side windows. Then give the rider the OPTIONAL measure to scan it before they get in. It effectively duplicates the process of looking at the license plate.
This doesn't prevent a murderer from pretending to be an uber driver. Which no one is suggesting they can prevent that.
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Weird defense that the cops were overzealous but then again Kraft isn't as worried about the criminal case but rather the NFL.
I still bet that the NFL suspends him got 4-8 games next year*. Which I believe means that he isn't allowed to attend practices or games. I'm not sure if/how the owner is suspended from team decisions during that time. * it could be the following season if he really wants to drag this out.
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We’ve all seen the TXU free nights/solar days commercial. Now they have a commercial/plan where the 7 highest usage days of the month are free. Sounds intriguing, time to check out the details.
Holy shit. These plans are 18¢ per kWh. They estimate that even with the free 7 days, you will still pay >16¢ on average.
There are no name plans where you can pay a flat 10¢. Why in the world should you pay 50% extra. Guess commercials ain’t cheap and they count on gimmicky deals. And dumb people.
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Storage places need to be avoided at almost all costs. Sometimes like the OP you may not have much choice but I imagine most people end up paying more to the storage company that what the crap being stored is worth.
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14 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Is that the actual self-destruct button, or is it the type of button you press that open up to reveal the actual button. It's need more instruction to explain the process.
Seriously is it abnormal for the NTSB to not release more info on this crash? I know there is much less attention given it was a cargo plane, and the 737 Max issues are the focus of the media. The info released so far seems lacking. Seems like they just said what occurred not why or how. And perhaps the pilots' words didn't offer much other than what they attempted.
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It's only been two days but this run feels like late 2017/early 2018 when you couldn't help but have huge gains daily. Even for long term holds, you eventually pocket some gains or roll them into your long term targeted coin. I know the cryptorus guy is big on transferring alt coin gains into more BTC.
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Uber and lyft should want to always help drivers and riders find each other, as well as ensure the right person is in the car. Not only for safety but to make the whole process run faster.
I’m sure that every Uber driver has had the wrong person jump in, and I’m guessing more than 1 has taken off with the wrong person in the car. That screws up the system for the other Uber driver and rider who now have no idea what is going on.
add some operational/security features. Make it optional so that the anti social justice warrior warriors don’t get upset. Then move on.
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One difference about this run is that few alt coins are suffering from btc going up. Many times when btc is up, many alt coins are down. Pretty much everything is up big. It would seem that this is many fiat moving in
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Maybe that started it but there have been false rumors before.
i see last night of one the reasons you can’t time this market. It can jump 5-10% before an alert can wake you.
Regardless it was nice to wake up to my crypto portfolio up 15% with some coins up over 20.
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9 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:
How much easier can you get? They give you the name, make and model of their vehicle, license plate number and a photo of the driver. This is an unfortunate incident but there is absolutely no reason for anyone to get into a car without verifying it is indeed their actual rideshare.
Uber/Lyft is as safe as it gets. It's the customers that can be the ignorant ones.
There are always changes that can make an app better. Once again this is about PR not making people safer.
if I were Uber or Lyft I would be introducing a change before the other one did. Come up with some app or process change. If just 5% of the women customers switched to you, it would be a huge revenue switch.
One problem with the current method is that make/model of the car means nothing to some people especially at night and drunk. License plate is nice but it’s on the back and front of the vehicle. Uber could create a Uber-license card that on the side window to compare to the app.
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30 minutes ago, ztejas said:
How is this in any way on Uber/Lyft as opposed to the dude picking up girls and murdering them in the back seat?
People are so fucking stupid it hurts.
Let’s see. No one is saying that.
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Uber and lyft need to look at changes to make it easier to ID your driver and vice versa. I agree every rider should already check out the license plate but it doesn’t mean that a few changes to the app won’t hurt.
Uber and lyft can’t prevent a psycho from killing people but make the driver info larger on the screen for the rider. Set an easy alert process in the app if you’re in danger. If you miss a ride ( this girl must have missed her actual Uber/lyft ride), an alert goes to pre-determined friends.
Sometimes it’s about doing something to make people feel safer even if they aren’t safer. Businesses do this everyday.
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5 hours ago, Junior Miller said:
He did it at Rutgers but it was once he was coaching in the NFL and having millionaires do it that people got pissed.
He did as a coach of TB against the giants. I saw nothing wrong with it. TB down by 7 and Eli is in victory formation. There’s no rule that you have to accept victory formation from the defensive side. It’s football not golf. Giants got pissed that TB wouldn’t give up in the final minute. An offensive line should be able to protect their Qb who is kneeling. Stop blitzing us!
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Who knows what polls can be believed, but there is evidence that the UK public doesn't support Brexit any longer. Why not hold another referendum now that the public has a bit more understanding what it would look like. I understand that those supporting Brexit don't want another vote as it produces zero benefit for them, except it might end speculation of public sentiment.
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2 hours ago, RamjetFDO said:
Then that probe would probably grind to a full-stop within 5 minutes of beginning operations, because 95% of what is there isn't in the "database".
Don't get me wrong - and again, re-iterating my point, unmanned exploration is not only key, but CRITICAL, to space exploration and should be fully-funded and implemented! There are times, places, and situations where unmanned probes may be the ONLY thing to go (i.e., outer planets, asteroids, areas where after the fact we rule OUT manned exploration because of the data returned by unmanned probes, etc.).But to say (not you, but "Eddie") that there's no reason to send people, once the unmanned probes have concluded or at least made massive inroads in remote sensing to the best of their programming/capabilities, because there's nothing to be added by having a human explorer is ... well ... short-sighted and will be guaranteed to miss those things/opportunities/scenarios that weren't planned for, but could become that "Hey, look, I found a fossil!" moment.
you're just putting words into my mouth. I didn't say there was zero reason to send people but that we could accomplish more with sending unmanned probes. Based on return of dollars, unmanned probes accomplish more. And that's an opinion just like yours.
Of course humans add the ability to pivot in a way that technology alone can't do. But is that worth the trillions to place a man on Mars? Doubtful.
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what a weird story from ESPN
QuoteAfter asking the Knicks in October to help her get the $68,000 from Porzingis, the woman emailed the Knicks a series of text messages that included Porzingis' invitation to visit his apartment the night of the alleged assault. Porzingis told her that he was "drunk," according to the texts. The woman agreed to come to his apartment, responding: "I'm not fancy at all. I'm in flip-flops and a night dress. I'm basic. ..."
In the handwritten letter that she described as a contractual agreement with Porzingis for payment of $68,000 -- a copy of which was obtained by ESPN -- Porzingis' name is misspelled and it is unclear whether the signature belongs to him.
In the alleged agreement, the woman wrote: "This agreement effective February 7, 2018, acknowledges the fact that an unexpected escalated sexual intercourse due to an inevitable physical attraction on the part of Kristap (sic) occurred subsequently, warrants compensation payable towards (the woman's) siblings college tuition in the amount of $68,000. ...
" ... Mr. Kristap (sic) willingly offered several compensations to (the woman) including business investments. (The woman) ultimately settled with Mr. Kristap's (sic) offer of a $68,000 check."
We have no idea if she ever said no, but it's obvious she immediately wanted to get paid to shut up. And she went over to his place knowing what Porzingis wanted.
He should have paid her. This will cost him more than 68K in either a settlement or future lost income as damaged goods. And if he's just going to pay for sex, then perhaps he should have just gone down that route from the beginning.
I'm curious if her story is that she wrote out the contract right after the alleged incident. "I didn't want to do that. Do you have a notebook and pen I could borrow"
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