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by hoopd 11y ago
This is a fairy tale. > ...in order to compete in a free market... The entire point of Uber is that the taxi industry is not a free market, therefore the things necessary to compete in a theoretical "free market" are not rele
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by hoopd 11y ago
Those aren't market conditions, they're technological advances.
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by hoopd 11y ago
> instead of being better to keep their business, they just want to keep their business by being the only players, leaving no choice to customers but to use them. At least in the states it's impossible for traditional taxis to compe
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by hoopd 11y ago
You think market conditions will make taxis safer ? Why do you think we have OSHA? Why do you think selling products with lead paint in them is illegal?
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by hoopd 11y ago
? The argument is that there are reasons other than inflating prices to regulate the number of taxis on the road. Cars have externalities that society as a whole pays for, it's reasonable to limit those externalities.
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by hoopd 11y ago
No. The entire point of elected officials is that their decisions aren't based on who has money. If we depend on lobbyists then only companies big enough to afford them get a seat at the table. That's a plutocracy. > Lobbying
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by hoopd 11y ago
> most cities restrict supply of taxis to keep prices high and fix prices as the behest of the taxi industry Why is it always left out that a limited number of taxis is good for society as well? Taxis operate on public roads, pollute pu
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by hoopd 11y ago
But they were actually contractors.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Spoken like a lobbyist. Government administers regulations on behalf of the people. If they're failing to do so then the political process is broken. Lobbyists do not fix broken political processes. > Uber had been working on the
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by hoopd 11y ago
Uber accounts for nearly half of the entire U.S. market of low-cost personal rides. They are not the little guy fighting the power, they are the power.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Isn't that missing the point? The entire argument was that they were demanding rights to use the photographer's work in the future for free. There was a non-commercial clause but its wording was a bit strange (is publicity for a
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by hoopd 11y ago
You're saddened? Why? As you say Rubin gets appropriate credit for her work within her field. Plus she doesn't even believe in Dark Matter, she made a very important contribution but now she's working on a competing theory
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by hoopd 11y ago
Let's just pick one of these at random and peak into it, Ida Tack discovering Technetium. She was one woman on a team with two men who did an unreproducible experiment that "discovered" Technetium[0]. To this day the experim
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by hoopd 11y ago
I'm not saying misogyny is rooted in reason, I'm saying the social justice movement has a habit of misclassifying opposing viewpoints as misogyny in order to dismiss them.
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by hoopd 11y ago
This is why you are part of the problem. It's reasonable to say his personal life should be left out but in your anger you've moved that line to a point where it prevents important information from entering the discussion.
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by hoopd 11y ago
The reason to set a higher bar is this: in a heated debate where core beliefs are being challenged there will always a temptation to decide you're dealing with an idiot or a monster even when you aren't.
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by hoopd 11y ago
Maybe you only speak of the future of discourse because it's a deep sounding insult, but if you actually care I encourage you to read this essay and reconsider your acceptance of namecalling. http://www.paulgraham.com/d
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by hoopd 11y ago
The sad statement about the level of discourse is that you apparently care about it but still think granparent comment qualifies. It even breaks the first two rules of HN commenting guidelines: be civil, don't call people names.
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by hoopd 11y ago
I dislike Pao, the lawsuit, and the surrounding politics but I agree that this is unacceptable.
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by hoopd 11y ago
The argument is that the moderation policies are selectively enforced in order to shape the prevailing ideologies expressed on the website. Reddit's response is that it isn't "safe" and they want to make it that way. If
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by hoopd 11y ago
Given Uber's recent $50bn valuation I'd say "the market" believes they'll keep their market power and resulting profits for some time into the future. (46% definitely means monopoly power but it doesn't mean m
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by hoopd 11y ago
> As Deborah Blum puts it, "I do have sympathy for anyone caught in the leading edge of a media storm. But if we are ever to effect change, sometimes we need the winds to howl, to blow us out of our comfort zones." She's i
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by hoopd 11y ago
Since Uber sets prices for a large portion of the market they operate in they have monopoly power and it's therefore not a free market. Uber's at 46% market share in major U.S. markets[0], since taxi's are regulated locally
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by hoopd 11y ago
In the situation of the shirt a reasonable reaction would be to not hijack the publicity earned by the Rosetta team and to deal with the issue once the mission was at a point where the lead scientist could be pulled aside to talk about his
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by hoopd 11y ago
I agree that the point of removing words is to change the way people think. (Orwell once wrote a popular book on the topic.) It takes some pointed questioning to get people to go from "we're banning words" to "we'r
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by hoopd 11y ago
> Linus Torvalds is the creator and sole arbiter of the Linux operating system Well, yeah, but the first rule of journalism is to know your audience and I'd bet if you asked the readers of Bloomberg to name a few operating systems t
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by hoopd 11y ago
Nothing coerced is voluntary, they're mutually exclusive concepts. Mozilla did not fire him nor was Mozilla the group that forced him to leave, that does not mean he wasn't forced to leave. As far as whether or not he was capable
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by hoopd 11y ago
I can't read enough of the first link to comment, the second one makes me think "you said what to your students??" But then again, that was 1995 and cases like that are part of how language like that became unofficially outla
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by hoopd 11y ago
There are multiple definitions of the word speech and I'm drawing a distinction between expression and action. I think there's enough of a difference between mob-mentality and artistic expression that we can deal with them separat
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by hoopd 11y ago
> The second is that I don't believe that this is actually happening. This article[0] posted elsewhere in this thread reveals a high school principal recently lost his job for saying "He did nothing wrong. He was afraid for his

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