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by aianus 10y ago
Imagine some guy was hired at $50/h to flip burgers and a few years down the line he gets fired in favor of a cheaper worker. Which part was unfair? The part where he was making $50/h flipping burgers or the termination? Edit: wha
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by aianus 10y ago
But playing golf with your rich white male clients and putting them at ease is a core requirement of this job. You literally can't do your job well as an elite lawyer if you don't have a good rapport with rich old white people.
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by aianus 10y ago
Just FYI, percentile is the percentage of people lower than you not higher. So someone really smart would be in the 99th percentile of IQ and someone really stupid would be in the 1st percentile.
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by aianus 10y ago
The point is they didn't create much of a moat but they did bust the regulations. So competitors are free to pop up and consumers win at the expense of taxi drivers and taxi medallion owners (usually separate people).
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by aianus 10y ago
I don't follow. It only cost $2 a day to take the moto taxi between the office and the Skytrain. What kind of moto can you buy for $60-$120? And that's not taking into consideration parking requirements and the extra time it takes
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by aianus 10y ago
> Or even let them to specify where they want to go. Maybe it's already implemented by someone? Yes this is already implemented by Uber [1]. I have used it several times on my commute home. [1] https://techcrunch.com&#x2F
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by aianus 10y ago
Have you ever been to Bangkok? I can just pay $1, hop on the back of a moto idling outside the skytrain station, and off we go lanesplitting through traffic straight to my office 2km away. It's amazing and would be so illegal on so man
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by aianus 10y ago
In my experience, whenever Uber is surging enough to make cabs cheaper (2.5x in my city), there are no cabs to be found. That or the cabs try to scam you by asking for extra cash off meter (happened to me on New Year's Eve).
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by aianus 10y ago
If we had a DV cert and pinned the DV root then the barrier for an attacker is a lot lower. They just need to jack our DNS and get their own automated DV cert issued quick.
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by aianus 10y ago
They can improve security. We used to pin the EV roots of a couple CAs that we trusted in our mobile apps and in the browser via hpkp. This protected against someone tricking or coercing a lesser CA into issuing a DV cert and MITMing us.
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by aianus 10y ago
How many people can describe an algorithm properly in English? Probably the same set of people that can program a computer.
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by aianus 10y ago
Neither do the external power packs that are currently banned in checked luggage
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by aianus 10y ago
He specifically mentioned that he had a bank account in the EU in the comments
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by aianus 10y ago
The people I know at Uber don't think it's a toxic work environment and I have no reason to distrust them in favor of a couple of accusatory blog posts from disgruntled ex-employees that I've never met.
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by aianus 10y ago
Of course it makes sense, they would be more desperate to hire and you would have less competition from others who have ethical problems with Uber.
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by aianus 10y ago
You're conflating education with credentials. Imagine instead if every single individual could: read and write at a high level, think critically, compare loan options rationally, perform their own limited legal research (tenants'
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by aianus 10y ago
> Estimated costs to make college tuition free for every citizen: $62 billion How? There are ~20 million Americans enrolled in college so $62 billion is only $3,000 per person. In comparison, the US spends about $12,000 per year per high
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by aianus 10y ago
Or the economy is overheating and you're just causing inflation.
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by aianus 10y ago
I know plenty of Indian and Chinese people who moved to Canada despite becoming relatively poorer in goods and services. There is a lot of value in law and order, education, clean air, and political stability.
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by aianus 10y ago
Yes of course. Looking at my records it's something like $0.65/km driven in revenue, which is well over the $0.54/mile quoted by the IRS for all-in vehicle costs.
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by aianus 10y ago
I drive for Uber part time even though it pays literally 8x less than my day job. It's relaxing and gives me an excuse to drive my car while someone else pays for the gas and mileage.
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by aianus 10y ago
They already base my insurance rates primarily on my age and what's between my legs (something I can't control and never could control at all). No outrage. Mining my social data would be a welcome change, honestly. At least they w
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by aianus 10y ago
This is not possible on an https connection and HSTS preloading prevents ISPs from downgrading secure connections.
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by aianus 10y ago
They may or may not have broken the law but asimov_ is trying to present settlements as proof of lawbreaking which is invalid.
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by aianus 10y ago
This is why I'm against company or state pension funds. It's the worst form of the principal agent problem where you can't choose the agent, you're obligated to keep giving him money, and you can't switch to a diffe
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by aianus 10y ago
It's an excellent way to circumvent capital controls. For example if you're a millionaire in China you can set up a mining operation in RMB and get BTC/USD out the other end. It's also the cheapest method to exchange and
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by aianus 10y ago
Settlements are not admissions of guilt.
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by aianus 10y ago
This is not true in Toronto where I am a part time Uber driver. I've never received any sort of incentive or bonus. Uber is still extremely popular with both drivers and passengers. Note, this may be because Uber has no competition her
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by aianus 10y ago
Because I don't want to work somewhere where my pay and likelihood to be laid off is determined almost entirely by my age.
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by aianus 10y ago
There are a lot of people who work in the city but feel they need a house to raise a family. Unless you're making $400k+ a year, that leaves suburbia as the only option in my city.

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