The server doesn’t know whether you will follow through with a tip when they decide how well to serve you. The information asymmetry goes one way or the other.
Complain though whatever feedback mechanism the app gives you. Same thing you’d do if the food didn’t show up at all. On the other hand, what does the driver do if they go above and beyond to give you great service, but…
Although if drivers hear about this story and find out that some prepaid tips are doing nothing for them, their perceptions of the cash tip may change. I figure they have the ability to give the customer zero stars if…
In the US tipping is standard, not for over-the-top service. In general, higher pay for better quality goods and services is part of a negotiated sticker price. Tipping is the anamoly here. In the DoorDash context, if…
This driver isn’t paid until after the delivery anyway, so that shouldn’t be a factor. When deciding to tip before or after the service is rendered, these are the considerations likely to be weighed: Pros for asking for…
I don’t think it’s fraud. Your money went to the driver, instead of DoorDash’s money. This is exactly how restaurant tipping works in much of the US. As usual, if you want the person you are tipping to keep the money…
I don’t think so - the owner of this issue is the tech lead of Progressive Web Apps at Google according to his LinkedIn. He probably envisions a future where GMail can run as a web app on a mobile phone with zero lag.…
I’m not saying you can instantly change the way your brain works on a dime, but you can make it happen given time. Read a good book about the history of hip hop. Put Warren G’s Regulate album on in the background while…
We’ve never met, but from what you’ve said in this thread, it sounds like you have a low opinion of the people around you. You’re good at finding flaws. That’s a valuable skill, but when you direct that fault-finding…
A public market gives you access to millions of potential buyers, so you get the best price, with minimal fees. That’s liquidity. A private company could try to provide something like that without using the public…
People are constantly constructing internal narratives to explain their actions. From the perspective of the narrator, with a life’s worth of context, those actions fit into the narrative in a perfectly logical way.…
I think this is legally required in the US, if you book directly with the airline. This is a solid reason to never book through the flight aggregators.
Just going to throw out there that I’ve never seen a dev database that was anything other than fake data, or internal dogfood data. Have worked at major public tech companies and late-stage startups.
One could argue that the social value of insurance is to incentivize you to not take risks we know about, while protecting you from risks we don’t know about.
For those billions, Apple links to the Google search results page in Safari when you type a query in the iOS system search field. That page includes Google search ads. According to the 2017 annual report, Google made…
How does that cash end up in somebody’s rent check? Presumably the people selling to the oligarchs are not renters? If the cash was able to get to renters via some kind of trickle-down effect, we’d all be happy with the…
I’m really skeptical of this - my mental model is that when a city is initially settled and developed, large tracts of land are owned by people who end up becoming the local “old money” families who may truly have been…
Are you saying the old landlords were just being nice, changing less than they could, and the new oligarchs are suddenly charging market rate?
I don’t understand how the behavior described in the post raises rents. Clearly demand from investors would raise sale prices, but why would renters pay more to rent in buildings owned by shady oligarchs? Seems like it…
It’s cheaper to use a gas-powered water heater, right? I assume that’s because it’s also more efficient?
Deliveroo isn’t real. Nothing is real. We are all just brains in vats attached to wires with simulations on the other end. The person in charge of maintaining you is a cruel god. Sometimes he injects your brain with an…
It’s complicated. Keeping salaries secret no doubt makes it more tenable to pay people who sit next to one another vastly different amounts. In a knowledge worker job where some people are way more productive than…
Are you sure this is a problem? It’s very common for retailers to offer multiple payment options. As long as they let you check a box to default to the same option in the future, I don’t think users mind.
I am not sure about this, but could imagine it being the case that Amazon has done some analysis and found some fake reviews for counterfeit or legal knock-off items to be in their interest. If the average customer…
What would you think of a candidate who job hops every year or two, but usually gets promoted after finshing a project before hopping to a bigger/better project?
The server doesn’t know whether you will follow through with a tip when they decide how well to serve you. The information asymmetry goes one way or the other.
Complain though whatever feedback mechanism the app gives you. Same thing you’d do if the food didn’t show up at all. On the other hand, what does the driver do if they go above and beyond to give you great service, but…
Although if drivers hear about this story and find out that some prepaid tips are doing nothing for them, their perceptions of the cash tip may change. I figure they have the ability to give the customer zero stars if…
In the US tipping is standard, not for over-the-top service. In general, higher pay for better quality goods and services is part of a negotiated sticker price. Tipping is the anamoly here. In the DoorDash context, if…
This driver isn’t paid until after the delivery anyway, so that shouldn’t be a factor. When deciding to tip before or after the service is rendered, these are the considerations likely to be weighed: Pros for asking for…
I don’t think it’s fraud. Your money went to the driver, instead of DoorDash’s money. This is exactly how restaurant tipping works in much of the US. As usual, if you want the person you are tipping to keep the money…
I don’t think so - the owner of this issue is the tech lead of Progressive Web Apps at Google according to his LinkedIn. He probably envisions a future where GMail can run as a web app on a mobile phone with zero lag.…
I’m not saying you can instantly change the way your brain works on a dime, but you can make it happen given time. Read a good book about the history of hip hop. Put Warren G’s Regulate album on in the background while…
We’ve never met, but from what you’ve said in this thread, it sounds like you have a low opinion of the people around you. You’re good at finding flaws. That’s a valuable skill, but when you direct that fault-finding…
A public market gives you access to millions of potential buyers, so you get the best price, with minimal fees. That’s liquidity. A private company could try to provide something like that without using the public…
People are constantly constructing internal narratives to explain their actions. From the perspective of the narrator, with a life’s worth of context, those actions fit into the narrative in a perfectly logical way.…
I think this is legally required in the US, if you book directly with the airline. This is a solid reason to never book through the flight aggregators.
Just going to throw out there that I’ve never seen a dev database that was anything other than fake data, or internal dogfood data. Have worked at major public tech companies and late-stage startups.
One could argue that the social value of insurance is to incentivize you to not take risks we know about, while protecting you from risks we don’t know about.
For those billions, Apple links to the Google search results page in Safari when you type a query in the iOS system search field. That page includes Google search ads. According to the 2017 annual report, Google made…
How does that cash end up in somebody’s rent check? Presumably the people selling to the oligarchs are not renters? If the cash was able to get to renters via some kind of trickle-down effect, we’d all be happy with the…
I’m really skeptical of this - my mental model is that when a city is initially settled and developed, large tracts of land are owned by people who end up becoming the local “old money” families who may truly have been…
Are you saying the old landlords were just being nice, changing less than they could, and the new oligarchs are suddenly charging market rate?
I don’t understand how the behavior described in the post raises rents. Clearly demand from investors would raise sale prices, but why would renters pay more to rent in buildings owned by shady oligarchs? Seems like it…
It’s cheaper to use a gas-powered water heater, right? I assume that’s because it’s also more efficient?
Deliveroo isn’t real. Nothing is real. We are all just brains in vats attached to wires with simulations on the other end. The person in charge of maintaining you is a cruel god. Sometimes he injects your brain with an…
It’s complicated. Keeping salaries secret no doubt makes it more tenable to pay people who sit next to one another vastly different amounts. In a knowledge worker job where some people are way more productive than…
Are you sure this is a problem? It’s very common for retailers to offer multiple payment options. As long as they let you check a box to default to the same option in the future, I don’t think users mind.
I am not sure about this, but could imagine it being the case that Amazon has done some analysis and found some fake reviews for counterfeit or legal knock-off items to be in their interest. If the average customer…
What would you think of a candidate who job hops every year or two, but usually gets promoted after finshing a project before hopping to a bigger/better project?