tvjunky

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by tvjunky 6y ago
Agree but this is bigger than an Onstar feature clone. This is data. Now there is always on driving data from everyone with a new ford, not just a Ford AND AA plugged in.
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by tvjunky 6y ago
What about Thumbtack, Angies, Handy, Yelp and HomeAdvisor? What did Homjoy do that these guys aren't? Tidy gave it a shot for a while and has pivoted to SaaS. They also used contactors. (edit: looks like they are still cleaning with co
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by tvjunky 6y ago
Docker and AWS ECS or Fargate are what your're looking for.
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by tvjunky 6y ago
I think you're heavily discounting the "that's the way we always done it syndrome". However, they were willing to give the "kid" a shot.
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by tvjunky 6y ago
Additionally in a court decision from last year, accessing public data is legal. https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping...
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by tvjunky 7y ago
Curious about your food choices. I've been experimenting with IF. More specifically I'd call it more like timed eating because the bulk of my fasting hours and during sleep. I'm down 20 lbs with solid numbers. As a side note
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by tvjunky 7y ago
State specific rules are all trumped by IRS rules when federal withholding is involved (always). The reason companies use contractors is to make the contractor responsible for federal withholding as it provides higher cash flow. There is a
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by tvjunky 7y ago
In my view theft is the same contractor or not. Both has an obligation to the company providing the work. I agree that a happy employee is less likely to try to steal customers but, the ethics gets a bit muddy for some. In those cases (in m
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by tvjunky 7y ago
Then many more business are equally bad. ETF on your phone contract? Why? Because number portability. Lots of other businesses have implemented something similar. WAG has investment to protect on each customer it acquires. Just adding the t
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by tvjunky 7y ago
Lots of mention of disintermediation here. What about the relationship between the customer and the company? There are many ways a company with many employees provides value over the initial "discovery". What if schedules need to
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by tvjunky 7y ago
I see this "match making" idea come up a lot. Why do you consider Wags in the same way as Tinder? If a dog walker (let's call him Bob) was doing well and wanted to scale his business. Bob hires 10 dog walkers by sharing his c
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by tvjunky 7y ago
I think Homejoy failed for more reasons than Disintermediation. One major issue all the early versions of this model missed is that a service like this are not a car ride. One time service volume doesn't cover customer acquisition. Log
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by tvjunky 7y ago
Not trying to be rude, but have a real question. Why do you feel that it's ok for you to cut Rover out of the deal? Disintermediation is always mentioned in these sorts of conversations. I'm interested to understand how people jus
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by tvjunky 7y ago
I agree with everything here, except the implication that this is only related to the self employed or ACA. Health Insurance companies have been pushing these high deducible + HSA plans for 15 years. They also raised the cost of the older l
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by tvjunky 8y ago
This, plus, just start. There are lots of things you won't know, always. You'll need to dig in and figure out what you need to know. Outsourcing is a good option for things if you have the money. However, you need to understand wh
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by tvjunky 8y ago
This is exactly right. I live in a large TX metro area and we're inundated with these "ER in a Box" facilities. We also have at least three major full service hospitals in that 5 mile radius. The majority of these places are
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by tvjunky 8y ago
Going to the ER is a very common thing for many people. Even for cold and flu. So yes, they aren't getting general exams or long term care. They are getting immediate symptom based care in the most expensive way possible. This goes bac
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by tvjunky 8y ago
The "middle class" you're referring to is literally everyone who has insurance. This has nothing to do with income. Non-payment is not the cause of the high prices. The system is broken in a number of ways. Premiums are a cra
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by tvjunky 8y ago
This. "Then" is also capitalized. I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this.
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by tvjunky 11y ago
Yes, this is an interesting question. Watching PathJoy become HomeJoy and then close, I assumed (wrongly I guess) that they had moved from the match making concept into an actual cleaning company that owned the whole process. This BTW is ho
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by tvjunky 11y ago
Sure if you assume HomeJoy as a lead Gen model, loyalty on both sides could be a problem. HomeJoy generally positioned their service like that. However, I don't think that was the intent in the long term. If loyalty is a problem with a
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by tvjunky 11y ago
I think you have this a bit backward. The cleaning business is at it's core, a recurring revenue business. Cleaning at regular intervals keeps the cost down (time) and builds back profit if the first cleaning was discounted. Moving on
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by tvjunky 11y ago
That part of the story is just an example. The point of the story is the argument Uber is using in the lawsuit. Uber maintains it's not a taxi service and therefore not responsible for the drivers actions or the accessibility of the ve
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by tvjunky 11y ago
would you be interested in sharing your setup or pointers toward a good solution with Serilog? I found that something other than a basic setup requires a good chuck of effort to get going. For example, configuration (all code) and IOC.
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by tvjunky 11y ago
I think you're asking about Dapper (ORM) which could be compared to Entity Framework. The two major things to think about if comparing would be simplicity and speed. Dapper is simple to setup and use. It uses standard SQL and it's
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by tvjunky 12y ago
I assume this is intended to promote this project? I have used this for while on a couple of projects and found it to be solid and dead simple. Direct link to source: https://github.com/tobiasahlin/SpinKit
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by tvjunky 12y ago
That sounds like the way all traditionally "scheduled" services work. That's what makes me wonder about this model. A scheduled service is just not the same a ride.
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by tvjunky 12y ago
The billing makes sense but, can you provide any detail about why scheduling is important to you? Is this really an ad-hoc service for you? In my experience with HomeJoy and Exec (now HandyBook), they understand the value of recurring reven
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by tvjunky 12y ago
To my knowledge Oncor is not part of EFH. Though I could imagine they were left with some kind of stake after the split. More specifically though, Oncor is only the delivery side. Basically meaning, meters and maintenance. Retail providers
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by tvjunky 12y ago
This will certainly have no impact on power generation in TX. TXU transitioned all of it's generation / distribution to Luminant / Oncor as part of the buyout. Since TX is deregulated, TXU was a retailer of electricity. I wo

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