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The man didn't want to be tracked, so he went to work for Uber.

by kozak 9y ago

rpeden 9y ago
I definitely understand not wanting to be tracked. In this case, though, it looks like he mostly did it he so he could say he was working (and get paid) while he was actually out playing golf. At least as an Uber driver, he can play golf as much as he'd like! Although he'll now have to choose been playing golf and making money.
- AdamJacobMuller 9y ago
  He gets to choose. That flexibility is very valuable itself.
  - logfromblammo 9y ago
    He didn't want to be a clockwork orange. He preserved his own ability to choose, but then when he chose, he chose poorly. YPTFPSD: Read the book by Anthony Burgess. The exposition character explains the ethics of choice in the context of mechanical fruits. The main thrust of the book is that if you remove the human capacity to choose to do wrong, you also strip the choice to do right of all its virtue. You have to let Alex and his droogs be thugs, or we would all become robots. We'd all be clockwork oranges on a mechanical orange tree, clicking and whirring away with only our pre-programmed gears to guide us.
    - JadeNB 9y ago
      > He didn't want to be a clockwork orange. It had never occurred to me before that, in this phrase, 'clockwork' is the adjective and 'orange' is the noun. I'd always assumed it was the other way around (and wondered idly what it meant!).
    - praneshp 9y ago
      > YPTFPSD I'll bite, please, can you tell me what that means? Googling brings this post up as the only useful result.
      - logfromblammo 9y ago
        You're Posting Too Fast. Please Slow Down. It's what HN tells you whenever you try to write more than about five posts every four hours. I don't know the actual parameters, but they are ridiculously conservative, and very obviously waived for certain accounts. When it happens, the only way to actually provide a meaningful response to someone in a timely fashion is to edit a previous post. Which breaks the expected flow of a conversation, obviously. It's the thing I hate most about HN, without reservation.
        dfc 9y ago
        You can also "provide a meaningful response in a timely fashion" if any of the recent messages get upvoted. It can be a little annoying but the easy solution is to consider how useful your comment is to the community before hitting submit.

The man didn't want to be tracked, so he went to work for Uber.

by kozak 9y ago

The man didn't want to be tracked, so he went to work for Uber.

I definitely understand not wanting to be tracked. In this case, though, it looks like he mostly did it he so he could say he was working (and get paid) while he was actually out playing golf. At least as an Uber driver, he can play golf as much as he'd like! Although he'll now have to choose been playing golf and making money.

AdamJacobMuller 9y ago
He gets to choose. That flexibility is very valuable itself.
- logfromblammo 9y ago
  He didn't want to be a clockwork orange. He preserved his own ability to choose, but then when he chose, he chose poorly. YPTFPSD: Read the book by Anthony Burgess. The exposition character explains the ethics of choice in the context of mechanical fruits. The main thrust of the book is that if you remove the human capacity to choose to do wrong, you also strip the choice to do right of all its virtue. You have to let Alex and his droogs be thugs, or we would all become robots. We'd all be clockwork oranges on a mechanical orange tree, clicking and whirring away with only our pre-programmed gears to guide us.
  - JadeNB 9y ago
    > He didn't want to be a clockwork orange. It had never occurred to me before that, in this phrase, 'clockwork' is the adjective and 'orange' is the noun. I'd always assumed it was the other way around (and wondered idly what it meant!).
  - praneshp 9y ago
    > YPTFPSD I'll bite, please, can you tell me what that means? Googling brings this post up as the only useful result.
    - logfromblammo 9y ago
      You're Posting Too Fast. Please Slow Down. It's what HN tells you whenever you try to write more than about five posts every four hours. I don't know the actual parameters, but they are ridiculously conservative, and very obviously waived for certain accounts. When it happens, the only way to actually provide a meaningful response to someone in a timely fashion is to edit a previous post. Which breaks the expected flow of a conversation, obviously. It's the thing I hate most about HN, without reservation.
      - dfc 9y ago
        You can also "provide a meaningful response in a timely fashion" if any of the recent messages get upvoted. It can be a little annoying but the easy solution is to consider how useful your comment is to the community before hitting submit.