An easy way for uber to police this would probably be to require notification within 5 minutes of a ride ending or something. Then use in app API’s to access the camera and request pictures. NOT from the photo roll. Then require you to mark the car as “clean” before the next ride. It seems that would knock almost all…

If they pass this fee, which basically acts like a tax, then they better get off their ass and actually get that money going back into clean options that people can actually use. Yes they have an awesome deal on solar power (which JUST passed last year) but it’s still $20 to $40k up front or financed and then kick…

And this doesn’t affect that at all, the revenue just isn’t coming from ad rolls on YouTube and instead if coming from the content creators asking that if people like what they make, support it. That’s kinda how it should always work. Not just putting crap out and hoping the sheer number of people using YouTube to…

Remind me again how much money people with less then 1,000 subscribers were making from YouTube? Really the only time I can see someone actually getting “fucked” over by YouTube with that rule is if they had a small channel with almost no viewership, happened to post something, and that went viral and got like 50…

Can the public flag and self police Amazon reviews? Or is it a one way street; person purchases something and then posts a review and then that’s set in stone. Only Amazon had the back end resources to see how often they were purchasing something and reviewing, if the person was part of a trend of reviewing the same…

I think that’s called Facebook, Twitter, etc. This could just be a organized collection which didn’t have to move at the blazing speed of the algorithms that Facebook and Twitter need to live by. In fact, you can design it to slow down or alert when something is getting a million people all at once leaning in the same…

I hardly think Musk is the most powerful person in the world. Further, Wikipedia seems to be doing a pretty decent job and that can be freely edited. Also also, you still have to provide SOURCES. This might be the issue, that people don’t know what a source is and why it’s important. Articles should only be flagged…

Yes, at least much of it could be. I don’t see why a Wikipedia style couldn’t work. There may be occasional errors and it would be nice to have an staff like that of snopes working on it, but in general I think you could have a crowd sourced site. This would at least work for many things that have factual evidence,…

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. I would like to think of it as a snopes, but well funded and for author/blogger/journalist and company in general rather then individual articles. (Which if you haven’t heard, snopes is in financial trouble!)

MoviePass does right now, and only because of the current business model. Showing a movie to 100 people is not more expensive then showing it to 5 people, except because of the current business model where you pay per ticket. Actual cost is the same though. If you change the model to a subscription and profit sharing…

You’re right, the business model isn’t the same, which is why for MoviePass to continue the model with Hollywood (not the theater) has to change.

What if AMC and Regal partnered on this? Now the two largest theater chains directly control the prices and can go to Hollywood and demand they change their pricing model from per ticket fixed cost to subscription based profit sharing. Could you imagine if both Regal and AMC refused to show Avengers Infinity War…

You’re thinking too small. It isn’t that seats are empty and they’re trying to fill them for the theater, they’re trying to fill them for the studios, aka Hollywood. In that sense those seats are $0 added costs. There is no increase in cost to Hollywood to have 100 people in a showing vs 5 people. MoviePass wants the…

Not exactly.... the numbers aren’t far off from working. 56 million members (how many NetFlix has in the US right now) at $14.99/mo (a little more expensive then NetFlix) and MoviePass would be bringing in 85% or the TOTAL box office dollar amount in 2016 in US and Canada. Yes it’s slightly different, but a model…

Does that account for AMC purchasing Carmike? Also, MoviePass could prove if it drives concessions sales or not if a theater chain partnered with MoviePass at all and shared data. Personally I suspect it does drive concessions and MoviePass has commissioned 3rd party surveys which show massive (double and triple…

I still feel like this could work, but that no one wants to partner up or give up any kind of control. The numbers are very close to adding up. [all numbers based on MPAA 2016 data]

That’s not how the article reads... unless these guys are lazy with their writing...

I just fucking love that Elon Musk was researching a twitter joke he was going to make!

I also assume this will be more of a direct group manager rather then Joe down the line that installs seats. If you’re a manager of a section of the line that does XYZ and originally had a couple contractors adjusting automation or specific tooling after each car to improve the process then now is your chance to make…

40,000 employees and you expect the guy that’s overseeing both SpaceX and Tesla to hand pick the contractors? I think but doing this he actually just did what you suggested. He is trusting his employees and empowering them to say “yes, this helps my job. Keep them here!” And if NO ONE on the line can do that, why the…