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It's a feature that optimizes for short term profit at the expense of the long term: memory of last year served to reduce demand this year, and memory of this y
by yuliyp 12y ago
It's a feature that optimizes for short term profit at the expense of the long term: memory of last year served to reduce demand this year, and memory of this year will serve to reduce supply in the future. Part of me wonders if they didn't tweak the surge multipliers in a misguided effort to appease drivers' expectations.
- didddler 12y agoIt appears that they tweaked surge to appease drivers, here's a conversation between an Uber driver and Uber's head of global operations. http://imgur.com/yG5Ny1Q http://imgur.com/yG5Ny1Q It's all speculative because how they implement surge is opaque.