If you assume a driver’s wage is at least the Seattle minimum wage of $15 per hour, add nominal fulfillment and delivery costs of $5 per order (the contractor’s fuel, car etc.) and nominal sales and marketing and general administration costs of $5 per order, Amazon needs to fulfill close to eight minimum order ($35) deliveries per hour to breakeven just on the variable costs
Across 25 associates, the average number of orders was only 3.
There's a third option for how this service survives: increase adoption so that:
- variable SG&A drops from $5 per order
- stops are closer so delivery costs drop from $5 per order
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Opendoor | Software engineers, data scientists | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME
At Opendoor, we’re on a mission to make it simple to buy and sell homes. The traditional process is broken, with an average home taking over 90 days to sell and costing thousands of dollars. We make buying and selling a home stress-free and instant. We’ve built an exceptional team, have raised over $300 million from top-notch investors and are growing fast, buying and selling more than $100 million of homes per month.
We use golang, python, ruby, and elixir. If you're interested, send us your resume! We're hiring across a bunch of different teams. https://www.opendoor.com/jobs
Tim Cook says he's never read a bill of materials that was anywhere close to accurate. I believe it- the last time I got an iPhone replaced, I asked what they were doing with the old unit and the person said they were probably going to reuse the touch id sensor since that was one of the most valuable parts.
- Lawrence Weschler - Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. A quality biography of Robert Irwin based on interviews over decades, and helps you learn to appreciate minimalist art to boot.
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
- Burton G. Malkiel - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah. Saw myself in several of these characters
- Nikos Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek
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Also good:
- Jack London - John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs. Illustrates all of the interesting ways in which a person is tempted to drink: when someone else buys you one, when it's cold outside, ...
- Danny Bowien - The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook. Lots of stories between the recipes.
- David Byrne - How Music Works
- Meg Jay - The Defining Decade
- Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
- Magdalena Droste - Bauhaus 1919-1933
- Arimasa Osawa - Shinjuku Shark
- Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind
- Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Haruki Murakami - The Strange Library. A fifteen minute read.
- Tim Ferriss - The Four-Hour Workweek. Good tactics for saving time; bad business advice.
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 exists if I ever want to return to those days.
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 exists if I ever want to return to those days.
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 exists if I ever want to return to those days.
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 exists if I ever want to return to those days.
There are rough corners, but there's also room for improvement:
"Now Herman Miller, the firm that, however unintentionally, started the shift to cubicles, is trying to reshape the office yet again. The “Living Office” is a new attempt to combine the best of private and social space. It looks rather like a fancy hotel: open-plan but with desks set in friendly clusters and separated by low, clear partitions. Workers can also perch at a counter-top next to the coffee station, or lounge on sofas in a plaza or café-style seating in a courtyard. Benches nicknamed “landing strips” are placed outside conference rooms to encourage post-meeting chats. Pods are available for concentrated work, and even for relaxation. Everywhere there are glass-encased meeting rooms and a few solo spaces. About 30% of the staff have no permanent desk.
Light streams in and sound is controlled with dividing walls and “pink noise”—white noise focused on the frequencies of human speech, which can reduce the distance at which a conversation is audible from 50 feet to 12-16 feet. The result, the firm says, is greater focus, accuracy and short-term memory."
If you're interested in doing this yourself, the book associated with Python's Natural Language Toolkit has a pretty good introduction to identifying gender in the chapter on text classification [1].
It doesn't address the real gender discrimination issues, but having gender-balanced HR departments could have helped Kim O'Grady. Currently, if you include your photo in your resume, being a beautiful (rather than average-looking) woman seems to lower your chance of getting an interview [1].