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by dventimi 2y ago
At this point I have no idea who's who in this thread anymore. Sorry.
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by dventimi 2y ago
If you're sending it to do errands, you might consider also sending it out to take riders, as a side hustle. Do that, and you're now a taxicab service. Point being, I suspect many people don't want to own any vehicle, whate
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by dventimi 2y ago
If gig work is such a good job perhaps you should consider doing it.
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by dventimi 2y ago
How many cars does each person monitor?
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by dventimi 2y ago
How many someones are there per active vehicle?
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by dventimi 2y ago
Why would that be any different from Uber? Doesn't Uber also want to cut costs?
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by dventimi 2y ago
I've taken 38 Waymo rides so far. Every one of them has been very clean, cleaner than the average Uber ride.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Whether or not there's an etiquette for HN, there's definitely guidelines for HN which among other things encourage commenters not to accuse each other of not reading the articles, and to give each other the benefit of the dou
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by dventimi 2y ago
I'm not saying there's anything necessarily sinister or surprising about its police department. I'm just trying to be more complete. If we say the City just collects bins and runs one school, well that's not really givin
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by dventimi 2y ago
That's one way to put it. Another way to put it is "most". The City has the largest number of financial firms, the largest share of office space, and the largest share of trading volume and assets under management. It's
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by dventimi 2y ago
> The Corporation is a local council, it collects the bins and operates one primary school. Is that all it runs? > There's always this misconception that it's some sort of lawless wild west. I don't view it that
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by dventimi 2y ago
Where is the UK financial services sector concentrated?
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by dventimi 2y ago
That's defensible.
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by dventimi 2y ago
The article title includes "the secret City of London." Without clarification, it's left to readers to decide what that means. It could mean its government actively maintains a cloak of secrecy, it could just mean that it&#x2
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by dventimi 2y ago
Relevance? I haven't said whether I'm talking about the City of London's government or its financial institutions (as if there's a difference). None of which has to do with "secrecy" which is arguably the relev
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by dventimi 2y ago
Hard disagree. A car that has been around for three years is not old.
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by dventimi 2y ago
> It's irritating to be accused of not engaging I can see how that might be irritating. Good thing I haven't done that. > you've twice ignored my main point that expectation of tips lowers the posted price and makes
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by dventimi 2y ago
Did you? You asked a question about Social Security policy, in a thread that's arguably about individual tipping practices. Perhaps you regard the former as an illustrative thought experiment which helps reason about the latter via sha
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by dventimi 2y ago
Non sequitur
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by dventimi 2y ago
Well, from my first comment I have been speaking on micro terms, since I've been speaking for myself, an individual. I'm not speaking on the macro level because as an individual I have little power to make restaurants, say, pay hi
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by dventimi 2y ago
Well. I don't want to speak for other people. If I were an Uber driver I personally would like to make more money rather than less, and if that happened with tips I wouldn't grumble too much about it. Maybe that's just me.
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by dventimi 2y ago
> I know this feels right, but introducing tip culture into a market currently free of it is bad I couldn't possibly agree with this less. My view is that "it depends." Level salaries in San Francisco and I'll cons
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by dventimi 2y ago
I feel that. With about that same frequency, I encounter a vehicle or a driver or driving that's just dreadful. But, I don't report it or even ding the driver because I feel like that's a hard job that I don't wanna do,
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by dventimi 2y ago
Well, you can now, and I do. It's hard enough living in California and especially San Francisco, and I believe being in the service industry here is no picnic. Tipping is the least I can do.
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by dventimi 2y ago
If they expand their supply, I would expect that to lower prices, not raise them.
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by dventimi 2y ago
Also, perhaps it's a consequence of limited supply. If the SF fleet is still just 250 cars that seems quite small to me for a city with a lot of demand for ride services.
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by dventimi 2y ago
> A few years down the line the cars will be old Maybe. Then again, maybe not.
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by dventimi 2y ago
That might be a long wait. There's no particular reason a monopoly need appear in this market. If it does, that will be a matter of public policy at it always is. That would be unfortunate, as it always is, but it would also be larger
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by dventimi 2y ago
Yes because a $3 ride on a public bus is exactly like a $23 ride in a Waymo car.
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by dventimi 2y ago
> you won't have a choice I will have a choice. I will choose one of the competitors. > Same thing that happened when Lyft and Uber when they ran the taxi industry out of business There's still a taxicab industry in San

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