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Boltbus is owned by Greyhound so they're union, Megabus is non union AFAIK. So an easy choice really.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:im not even going to try to determine if that is a real thing, because just that phrase in your post made me curl into a ball and cry for a couple minutes. it was, and there's probably equivalents lurking about reddit to this day. they only pulled subreddits like that cause the news started reporting on it
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Uber eats launched here (Philadelphia) with a few competitive advantages having no delivery fee, food was within $1 of the actual menu price, and a much wider delivery range per restaurant. Now it's just habit for me to launch that app when I'm contemplating delivery rather than Caviar, eat24/GrubHub or seamless.
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Gail Wynand posted:Boltbus is owned by Greyhound so they're union, Megabus is non union AFAIK. So an easy choice really. 
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At least on the east coast, with Bolt you can also ride standby for anytime the day the ticket is for.
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I actually wonder if an app based bus could work. One that actually stopped at people's houses and brought them to work like a school bus with routes drawn up by algorithms to split the load evenly each day (and maybe sending vans for the people that would really ruin things)
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Oct 27, 2016 14:21
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I actually wonder if an app based bus could work. One that actually stopped at people's houses and brought them to work like a school bus with routes drawn up by algorithms to split the load evenly each day (and maybe sending vans for the people that would really ruin things) Pretty easily. You just have to get people to accept 1) a long lead time between booking and travel (i.e., no 'Oh my car broke down let me do an UberBus') and 2) variable pricing on tickets based on how people book. It's basically just a traveling salesman problem otherwise.
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Google's adhd strikes againquote:Google Fiber is halting its rollout in 10 cities and laying off staff as its chief executive, Craig Barratt, steps down, dealing a major setback to the Internet giant's ambitions of blanketing the nation in super-speedy Internet.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I actually wonder if an app based bus could work. One that actually stopped at people's houses and brought them to work like a school bus with routes drawn up by algorithms to split the load evenly each day (and maybe sending vans for the people that would really ruin things) Isn't that just uberpool with a bus
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I actually wonder if an app based bus could work. One that actually stopped at people's houses and brought them to work like a school bus with routes drawn up by algorithms to split the load evenly each day (and maybe sending vans for the people that would really ruin things) Like airport shuttle services, or UberPool, but with a harder scheduling/routing problem.
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It doesn't surpise me, wired Internet will eventually go the way of the landline. If Google or anyone else can develop a wireless protocol that allows for speeds comparable to residential wired Internet with no data caps, they stand to make billions.
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Konstantin posted:It doesn't surpise me, wired Internet will eventually go the way of the landline. If Google or anyone else can develop a wireless protocol that allows for speeds comparable to residential wired Internet with no data caps, they stand to make billions. This is why the last gasp will be comcast or some other cable provider working together with at&t or verizon to buy up spectrum to ensure google or Facebook don't get it.
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Wired internet has *already* gone the way of the landline. You get a wireless access point by default whenever you get internet these days. Want a service that doesn't have a box in your house? We have that, it's called a cell tower. This is purely about Google being unable to do long term support on anything.
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Subjunctive posted:Like airport shuttle services, or UberPool, but with a harder scheduling/routing problem. E: yep, in Finland, and they shut it down already: http://citiscope.org/story/2016/why-helsinkis-innovative-demand-bus-service-failed TL;DR: it "worked" but had to be subsidized at like €17/trip, at which point they could've just paid for taxis for everyone. Maybe they could've reached critical mass of ridership with SV-style financing but who knows. Konstantin posted:It doesn't surpise me, wired Internet will eventually go the way of the landline. If Google or anyone else can develop a wireless protocol that allows for speeds comparable to residential wired Internet with no data caps, they stand to make billions. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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computer parts posted:This is purely about Google being unable to do long term support on anything.
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mobby_6kl posted:This probably will happen eventually, but I see no evidence of it occurring in the near future so far. You read occasionally how some researchers transferred some data at 10GBPS over a wireless link but in practice of course we're several generations behind that, and realistically the speeds are even below that. The real challenge seems to be congestion, as there's only so much crap you can fit in the available channels. If they can solve that magically, then great, of course. I think the larger problem is that the various of problems that wireless transfers have due to the limitations of physics are things you just don't have to even consider when you simply beam information down a fiber tube at the speed of light. It's not like laying that tube is even necessarily that complex or expensive when municipal authorities actually have some foresight/funds when performing maintenance on their sewage and electrical grids. There simply is not that high a demand for better wireless alternatives outside of mobiles. Hell, most countries have still not caught up to the capabilities of 4G (this is why some of you might be paying twice as much per GB as you did 5 years ago) and I dread to see what happens if a better method is standardized.
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MiddleOne posted:Hell, most countries have still not caught up to the capabilities of 4G (this is why some of you might be paying twice as much per GB as you did 5 years ago) and I dread to see what happens if a better method is standardized. Yeah, but that is just because "4G" was a mushy term that didn't mean anything. It was just some arbitrary set of specs that some marketing people decided sounded good as a goal for a 4th generation of phones. Actual specific technologies like LTE rolled out just fine and already cover a majority of the countries on earth.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I actually wonder if an app based bus could work. One that actually stopped at people's houses and brought them to work like a school bus with routes drawn up by algorithms to split the load evenly each day (and maybe sending vans for the people that would really ruin things) It might work better in the developing world with somewhat ok smartphone/mobile phone penetration (e.g. South Africa or Kenya) where taking local public transport is also very unsafe and crowded. Basically somewhere with low operating costs and where public transport is poo poo but cars are too expensive. The Finnish Kutsuplus service was ridiculous, you basically had to book it a day in advance which made it completely useless for me, except for early morning trips to the airport, but it only operated during the same hours as normal public transport so... Also, it was expensive. Assuming you can figure out a way to provide such a service without getting shot yourself (the minibus companies in South Africa are basically gangs that resolve competition disputes with guns and the government is too incompetent and corrupt to stop them).
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computer parts posted:It's basically just a traveling salesman problem otherwise. ok whew i was worried it would be something difficult
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Well there goes my chances of being a Vine star. http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13437576/twitter-killing-vine
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:ok whew i was worried it would be something difficult
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The real problem here is that what you're all describing is basically already how public bus systems work in most of the world. The pick-up times and locations are not set at random, they are based on demand- and optimization-models. Once you go above the shuttle size anything less standardized just becomes monstrously in-effective.
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Would it be better to have a few huge buses for popular routes, with the other routes served by on-demand minibuses? You don't need to lay on a 100 seater to take 5 elderly people to the doctors at midday. Huge buses seem to be the default, but they really snarl up traffic in busy conditions. 5 minibuses might be better than one enormous bus, because they wouldn't block a whole intersection when trying to turn. More jobs, too, for drivers.
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MiddleOne posted:The real problem here is that what you're all describing is basically already how public bus systems work in most of the world. The pick-up times and locations are not set at random, they are based on demand- and optimization-models. Once you go above the shuttle size anything less standardized just becomes monstrously in-effective. i assume this is also what google et al did when setting up their buses and why they have discrete pickup/dropoff points rather than going door-to-door and why those stops tend to coincide w/ the muni stops
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BarbarianElephant posted:Would it be better to have a few huge buses for popular routes, with the other routes served by on-demand minibuses? You don't need to lay on a 100 seater to take 5 elderly people to the doctors at midday. most transit systems are trying to reduce operating costs per mile, not increase them
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BarbarianElephant posted:Would it be better to have a few huge buses for popular routes, with the other routes served by on-demand minibuses? You don't need to lay on a 100 seater to take 5 elderly people to the doctors at midday. This is already something that most bus companies do. Well, at least here.  They never go down to the shuttle level though, it just wastes the entire point of having a bus in the first place. I think 24-32 seats is the lowest density.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i assume this is also what google et al did when setting up their buses and why they have discrete pickup/dropoff points rather than going door-to-door They tend to coincide with Muni stops to make connections with Muni easier.
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MiddleOne posted:The pick-up times and locations are not set at random, they are based on demand- and optimization-models. With that data collected and run only once every few years instead of any sort of constant updating.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Would it be better to have a few huge buses for popular routes, with the other routes served by on-demand minibuses? You don't need to lay on a 100 seater to take 5 elderly people to the doctors at midday. These already exist right here in the USA. What do you think those Chevy shortbuses are for? 
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:With that data collected and run only once every few years instead of any sort of constant updating. I'm sorry but you're going to have to motivate how changing more than 2 times a year adds value or even serves a purpose. Predictability and efficiency are the cornerstones of mass transit as most travel is routine and thus changes only incrementally over time, more frequent alteration adds very little while messing with that predictability. Plus, it's not like mass transit doesn't already accommodate for non-routine exceptions like sport events, concerts and festivals.
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MiddleOne posted:I'm sorry but you're going to have to motivate how changing more than 2 times a year adds value or even serves a purpose. Predictability and efficiency are the cornerstones of mass transit as most travel is routine and thus changes only incrementally over time, more frequent alteration adds very little while messing with that predictability. Plus, it's not like mass transit doesn't already accommodate for non-routine exceptions like sport events, concerts and festivals. Why is 2 times a year the exact specific correct answer for all markets? One would think some markets would change way slower than twice a year and it's a waste of funds to even run the data that often while some fast changing city 2 times a year would be painfully slow and unresponsive to demographic shifts. A college town could have a population that changes by 10,000 people week to week on vacations and stuff.
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I wrote 'more than', I don't know how I could be more clear. 
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Doggles posted:Well there goes my chances of being a Vine star. That's going to be a weird conversation in 5 years. "So, what do you do for a living?" "I'm working as a bartender, but a few years ago I was a big deal on a 6 sec video app. I had BILLIONS of views!"
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Doggles posted:Well there goes my chances of being a Vine star. aww, that's too bad. I like vine because it enforces the "get to the point" rule with comedy videos. too many youtubes these days are like 11:00 long with barely any jokes, whereas vine forced you to basically maintain the same level of punch as 5secondfilms.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Why is 2 times a year the exact specific correct answer for all markets? One would think some markets would change way slower than twice a year and it's a waste of funds to even run the data that often while some fast changing city 2 times a year would be painfully slow and unresponsive to demographic shifts. A college town could have a population that changes by 10,000 people week to week on vacations and stuff. A college town changes population on any major scale twice a year. Week before classes start to week after move-out.
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Probably should have thought about this before you know, doing it: https://twitter.com/rus/status/791681274339622913
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I actually wonder if an app based bus could work. One that actually stopped at people's houses and brought them to work like a school bus with routes drawn up by algorithms to split the load evenly each day (and maybe sending vans for the people that would really ruin things) I'm 90% certain there's a traffic engineer in the Traffic Engineering thread who's said that the Florida state government is doing essentially this.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:I'm 90% certain there's a traffic engineer in the Traffic Engineering thread who's said that the Florida state government is doing essentially this. It definitely seems like the sort of thing where there has to be a balence somewhere between totally dynamic routing that would be too silly and having totally static and fixed routes that only change after major investigation by human planners.
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MiddleOne posted:There simply is not that high a demand for better wireless alternatives outside of mobiles. I think you've got this backwards. It's not that there is no demand for greater wireless communication capacity, it's just that there isn't that much inexpensive wireless communication capacity so people use wired communication instead. You are right though--basic physics kind of dictates that wired communication will never go completely extinct. Fibers can carry incredible amounts of data over long distances and I think it's unlikely that wireless technology will be able to replace fiber as the back-bone of our communication network. Wireless may become good enough and cheap enough to connect from hubs to homes though. Arsenic Lupin posted:It also has to do with successful legal tactics to delay Google's access to utility poles and the like. There is a technological problem --which Google may well have solved-- and there's a social/political problem, which they demonstrably have not. That, also, is typical of Google: solving the technology alone. I don't know if Google really created that much technology in that area. I think they discovered that it is way harder to be a company which actually sells real-world and not virtual products and services. The planning and supply chain management for companies which sell real things is like a million times harder than being an internet company which started at around the time the internet really took off. IMO, companies like Amazon and Tesla are way more impressive than Google for this reason. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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