Seriously, I read this elsewhere and it's a lot more believable that people in other corners of the Internet actually think there's a guy with a knob at Uber HQ

Seriously, I read this elsewhere and it's a lot more believable that people in other corners of the Internet actually think there's a guy with a knob at Uber HQ setting the surge price (I'm being only slightly hypberbolic). It's a damn sight more disappointing to see this on HN.