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I think this revolution will need to start from the bottom, new buyers need to realise that buying an ICE car does not make sense anymore, even if having EVs everywhere would only affect climate change by a small percentage, the benefits every city would get from them are far greater than keep filling roads with ICE vehicles.

Also governments at some point will start forcing their hand (and probably China will do that way before US given the current trend).

I bet you don't believe in climate change either, do you?

The real option is autonomous cars which you can call with a Uber-like app when you need it. That way we would have less cars but we would maximize the utilization rate of the ones we'd keep on the roads.

Except that most non-technical users will never read ProtonMail blog.

Exactly.

I find it embarrassing for the society as whole how many people these days comment on articles or posts by just reading the title.

> Hospitals want you to visit more often

Maybe this is true in the US but not sure it's valid point in Europe where, given how the health system works, most of the time patients are actually a cost for the business hence less patients the better really.

What really kills meal-kit companies is just one thing: churn.

If you look at some published data from a while ago, Blue Apron has 15% user retention after one year, Hello Fresh 11%.

As a consumer, at first might sound a good idea and convenient to order pre-made food you don't have to cook but soon you realise it gets quite expensive compared to just get your groceries delivered and cook.

I don't know in the US, but in Europe for an average family of 3/4 members using meal kit companies is bloody expensive in the long run and you can't even get meals for the entire week.

Also if you get 2/3 meals a week, then you have to shop for the remaining days and you inevitably end up wasting food.

Personally, I don't event think you can compare meal-kit companies with the likes of UberEats or Deliveroo. The latter can reach economies of scale far more easier than the former.

Although it doesn't sound right, on the other hand why would Neumann rent his commercial real estate assets to WeWork competitors?

Maybe the question should be, why the hell Neumann bought properties directly instead of using the WeWork vehicle?

We all know the answer to that I think.

I find it's funny how people these days think the problem is with Facebook.

Literally every company that has access to users' data has in one way or another some kind of business model based on selling that data. Every day I come across 2 or 3 articles from big newspapers giving Facebook some shit about selling user data. But what about Experian? What about phone carriers? They all sell users' data, maybe anonymous maybe not but they are still making profit on people's privacy.

And when some shit goes down, we make a big fuss about it for a few days and then we go back to normal. Equifax anyone?

Honestly, companies in the position of making profit on users' data have been doing it for the better part of 15 years now, I don't understand why we are acting so surprised now.

Surely though that's different from fake likes assuming the advertiser is aware of it.

I feel like YouTube by now is more similar to TV advertising, you take in consideration that people could just have the tv on in the background while doing something else or going around the house. Unless you don't know what you are doing with your advertising budget of course.

dodgy dealings = lobbying. Everyone does it in every industry unfortunately for us consumers.

I'm not the one who said the market is "extremely competitive". For sure is a market with high barriers to entry, very expensive to be in and profit margins are not that high either.

So if you are Ryanair you aim at doing more destinations and paid "extras", if you are Alitalia you aim at doing fewer destinations on a much bigger price mark.