Even inside YC. I remember at the YC NYC meetup, the guy on stage in red sweater (forgot his name) was saying "I was so lucky to be born as white male in a middle class family"; I was like, WTH, so born as non-white or female is unlucky?!
Like Louis CK said in a stand-up routine- "I'm not saying white people are better, but being white is clearly better." i.e., you're not likely to ever have an opportunity denied to you in life due to your skin color, or gender.
And the store owners will be able to put on digital price tags and ads, and viewers may click to buy online... next thing you know, you and your friend are "sitting" inside a restaurant on google "store" view and eating the food delivered from that place...
Wait.. you're saying by working in US, you can support yourself here AND support your family back home including hiring a maid!? I wish I could work there with a global pay salary...
> Wait.. you're saying by working in US, you can support yourself here AND support your family back home
Considering that 1 USD is 49.5 INR, why does this come as a surprise to you? For context, 1000 USD will be around 49000 INR at current conversion(it will be less but for argument's sake) which is more than what a software engineer with 3 years of experience makes in a month.
> including hiring a maid!?
I pay my maid 800 INR to do my dishes and clean the house. Manual labor in India is dirt cheap.
> I wish I could work there with a global pay salary...
It's easy. Find a contract job in the US which allows you to work remotely from outside the US, move to a country where the currency conversion makes you rich and cost of living is low. Places like Singapore won't work - currency conversion doesn't buy you much, and cost of living is high.
Ah, the benefits of not making low-pay jobs illegal: the maid _has_ a job, and a middle-class family can afford to hire her for what the work is worth to them.
This in contrast to the USA, where it is illegal to pay her what the work is worth (thanks to "minimum wage" laws), so she doesn't have a job and must be given some form of welfare, which the middle-class family which wants to hire her ends up paying without the benefit of a clean house in return.
My maid does the job because the job is pretty light weight and takes about half an hour on an average day. This setup enables her to work at other places.
Maids aren't paid highly here because there is no welfare, the general income is quite low, and my maid can either make those 800 bucks working for me, or has to find another job. Depending on the situation, it might or might not be working well for her.
I am saying since there is no welfare, and she needs money, she might be going through a job which doesn't pay enough.
I don't know how does the minimum wage calculation work, and it might be more than 800 INR for about half an hour of work(+/- 10 minutes - most of the days I don't cook, so no dishes. Sometimes I use almost every dish in my house) per day.
But consider the minimum wage were much higher and enforced say 5000 INR. I don't need her - I don't cook very often and I can clean the house once in a while. In that case, she would lose the job she has now, and would be eligible for welfare. Depending on the amount, she might be better off with this scenario.
This is all hypothetical though. She does multiple jobs, and works for me because it's convenient for her. She gets some cash for light weight work. That spares her time for her own home and other jobs. A minimum wage and welfare system might result in a scenario where she makes slightly more than she does now, but might prove more demanding in terms of time spent and labor.
The location based reminders use cell phone tower-based location, not GPS. Since your phone is constantly polling cell phone towers anyway, it shouldn't use more battery than usual, unless it forces the phone to poll towers more frequently. (I'm not sure of the implementation details)
I personally have not noticed more battery drain than normal on my 4S.
Yeah - lots of people are saying they're having worse battery performance on the 4S or iOS 5 (lots of people aren't, too), and then lots of those people are claiming lots of different things such as turning off various features (and also not doing anything different at all!) has dramatically helped. In other words, essentially no science is being done and no one to my knowledge can say anything definitively yet, but lots of folk remedies are being tweeted. Assuming there's not a bug in the geofencing code, it shouldn't use too much more battery at all because it only goes out to the GPS when available cell towers—which are being constantly communicated with anyway—change.
