4 ms·
With all due respect, my experience has been the complete opposite of yours. Do you by chance have any evidence for these claims or are they simply your best gu
by jonathan-neil 6y ago
With all due respect, my experience has been the complete opposite of yours. Do you by chance have any evidence for these claims or are they simply your best guess asserted as fact?
- okareaman 6y agoHow many rides have you done as driver? Passenger?
- jonathan-neil 6y agoYou must have missed my question. I'll ask it again and if you answer, I'll gladly answer yours as well. Do you have any evidence for the claims you made, or should we continue to assume its anecdotal nonsense at best, shill lies at worst.
- okareaman 6y agoYou said "my experience." I'd be glad to talk to you if you are a driver. I've done over 2000 rides (not a lot compared to other drivers I know) all over California. My anecdotal evidence isn't nonsense.
- jonathan-neil 6y agoSo your source of information is that you claim to have done 2000 rides? Then yes, in this case your anecdotal "evidence" is not only nonsense, but not even believable. Come back with data and we'll chat.
- Cederfjard 6y agoWhy is that an unbelievable number? Uber has been around for a decade now, surely there’s been ample time?
- jonathan-neil 6y agoThe number of rides isn't unbelievable. What is unbelievable is that 2000 rides by 1 person would render a data set that would scientifically support even a fraction of the claims in his original post.
- Cederfjard 6y agoOK, but we were always talking about anecdotal data in casual conversation right, not hardcore scientific analysis? I think even the original poster acknowledged that.
- jonathan-neil 6y agoNo he did not acknowledge that, please quote him if I missed it somehow. He presented a long list, as fact, and when questioned for a source he dodged the question, then when asked again he claimed he drove a lot one year. But the claims he's making are about other drivers and factors he simply could not determine as a single driver in a limited region. The original post, as it was written is absolute useless ignorance at best and active disinformation at worst.
- ralfd 6y agoYou said to him: > I'll ask it again and if you answer, I'll gladly answer yours as well. You should hold up your end of the bargain.
- okareaman 6y agoI did 2000 rides in a year. That works out to be about 8 rides a day. That doesn't seem so far fetched. You've already made up your mind so I don't know why you bother making comments to me.
- jonathan-neil 6y agoYou also made up your mind so why bother making comments to others? You doing an average of 8 rides per day does not render a data set that can scientifically support even a fraction of the claims in your original post. Your claims are nonsense and you are obviously a paid shill here to spread disinformation. I am here to subvert your efforts! :D
- alickz 6y agoAccusing people of being shills is against the HackerNews guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html >Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
- okareaman 6y agoI'm a retired programmer working in Silicon Valley. I'm like a kid in a candy store in some regards, such as I picked up one of the top VR developers in the world at the San Jose Convention Center and gave him a long ride. He was excited to talk about VR and convinced me to buy what he was working on. I did! I wouldn't be a shill if Uber/Lyft paid me. There's no fun in that. As I mentioned elsewhere, I really like messing around with their algorithms to see how they work. You can't subvert real enthusiasm, but nice try!
- jonathan-neil 6y agoCool backstory.
- viridian 6y ago
- xtracto 6y agoOk tell us about your experience and add to the conversation. These passive aggressive comments do not provide anything and I'm sure they are against this community rules.