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joshuaheardtoday at 3:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

America is going in the opposite direction with instant food delivery. Your $11 meal is delivered to your house within 30 minutes. But, there's a service fee of $5, a delivery fee of $6, and a 20% gratuity.


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bee_ridertoday at 3:54 PM

There’s something very weird in the US, it’s like we intentionally set things up to accelerate convergence to obviously dumb local optima and then don’t explore any options to get over those barriers.

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ceejayoztoday at 3:45 PM

(And it's cold.)