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New comment by tt in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

tt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:44:46 +0000

ME: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

ChatGPT: Walk

50 meters is basically “parked across the street” distance — you’ll spend more time:

starting the car

pulling out

finding a spot

pulling in

…than you would just strolling over.

Plus you avoid the awkward moment of driving 10 seconds like a cartoon villain.

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ME: You are dumb. I need to have the car with me in order to wash it!

ChatGPT: Fair — I deserved that.

Drive the car to the car wash… and then walk home.

(Just kidding. Yes, obviously drive.)

The Dark Side of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery

tt — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 04:39:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-07/what-instant-delivery-services-could-do-to-cities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29536674

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tt in "Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk"

tt — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:29:35 +0000

Here's San Francisco guidance for school reopening: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/covid-guidance/Preliminary-...

New comment by tt in "Data Shows Shelter-in-Place Is Ending, Whether Governments Want It to or Not"

tt — Sun, 03 May 2020 05:56:35 +0000

Comparing COVID-19 deaths to flu deaths is like comparing apples to oranges. The former are actual numbers; the latter are inflated statistical estimates. See: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

New comment by tt in "Some overwhelmed parents are abandoning at-home schooling"

tt — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 01:31:37 +0000

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_learning_loss

New comment by tt in "Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system"

tt — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:28:27 +0000

The OBD interface is too cumbersome (vehicle owners have to mess with hardware installation, etc...) and is more geared towards aftermarket devices and software. This effort must be at the core of each OEM and be completely seamless to the end-users and even third-party developers.

New comment by tt in "Volkswagen’s plan to create a new car operating system"

tt — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:10:16 +0000

Once an OEM opens up its vehicle data and control to Android (and/or Google Automotive), it's game over for them. The OEM becomes a commodity hardware maker. Plenty of analogy with mobile phones manufacturers. The OEM will not make a dime after the sale of the vehicle while Google will build and strengthen a development platform to enable third-party applications and services and profit from them (something Google knows how to do really well). Think Turo/Getaround, cleaning, refueling, charging, insurance, package delivery, in-car applications, etc.

One way out of this is for the major OEMs to band together and create their own standardized platform that works across OEMs. At minimum, that platform should expose a single standard interface to all third-party service providers.

New comment by tt in "WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company"

tt — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 23:04:25 +0000

Video of our team's analysis on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2RwG7U_GEU

Here’s Why a Freight Company Should Open a Logistics Platform for All

tt — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:04:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.applicoinc.com/blog/why-freight-company-should-open-logistics-platform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18654043

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Are Investors in Scooter Platforms Betting on a Fad?

tt — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.applicoinc.com/blog/why-scooter-startups-are-a-fad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18654041

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Google’s Android System to Power Dashboard Media Display

tt — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-partner-with-biggest-car-alliance-1537243260

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016676

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tt in "Electric scooter companies will require permits in San Francisco"

tt — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 23:03:30 +0000

SF has learned its lessons from Uber (and presumably read up on the bike sharing problems in China).

My take on these scooter startups is that they won't make it very far: https://www.inc.com/alex-moazed/electric-scooter-startups-in...

New comment by tt in "Congrats Dropbox"

tt — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:09:04 +0000

BIG congratulations! What an amazing journey and I look forward to tracking Dropbox and its impact!

New comment by tt in "Soylent’s Next Chapter"

tt — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:00:54 +0000

Never easy to do this. But most founders' mindset is to do whatever is best for the survivability and growth of the company. That's the path I took.

New comment by tt in "Inside Blue Apron’s Meal Kit Machine"

tt — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:11:47 +0000

It comes down to cost. Shipping with FedEx would likely break their unit economics.

Pitch Your Life

tt — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:19:49 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/p/2f170eab933b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7587856

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tt in "Startup Culture Hacks"

tt — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:38:38 +0000

It's immature to "hack" company culture. There's only doing it right. Here's a good article by Zappos' culture coach David Vik: http://bit.ly/Z84nHv

New comment by tt in "Nginx image processing server with OpenResty and Lua"

tt — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:56:35 +0000

I highly recommend http://www.imgix.com/

New comment by tt in "Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83"

tt — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 15:51:55 +0000

His Acoustics class was arguably the best course I took at MIT. His numerous anecdotes about hard work, perseverance, and applying thought process to every challenge we face really stuck with me. The end-of-semester field trip left a long lasting impression. He made me a better person I am today. I'll really miss him.

New comment by tt in "No Email"

tt — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:52:40 +0000

Sounds good, but it will introduce new problems: 1) someone called and said "I sent you that urgent email; didn't you get it?!?" and you had forgotten about the rules you set up for email receipt. 2) Services that send email notifications now have to add another reminder so people may have to check their email rules in addition to the Spam folder in case mail is "lost" there.