Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
rogerdonaldson
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
4 ms
·
1.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
barleyworth, I believe the email was written in a humorous way. If it was a serious email, with that sex point in it, then I agree it would have been weird, and wrong. But the whole email right from the first word to the last was written in
2.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
"But in this case the larger problem is that it's (more or less) a single-purpose account for getting into flamewars about Uber. That's not how this site is supposed to be used." So a person cannot give opinion in a civi
3.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
Why do you think so? He is making sound, well-reasoned statements IMHO.
4.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
employee8000 well spoken! Why am I seeing all of the comments employee8000 made down-voted? Again, this is what the world does to Uber -- try to suppress all true and positive facts, and only let media's negative opinions based on 0.00
5.
▲
Uber HR Exec says it's biggest employee problems are pay and pride, not sexism
(usatoday.com)
3 points
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
|
0 comments
6.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
This is pretty much normal for any tech company. In fact, Uber has very little data on their users (it is limited to trips taken on their platform) -- a company with more digital services like Google, Facebook, Apple etc have humongous amou
7.
▲
Uber launches Uber Freight to bring efficiency in the trucking industry
(theverge.com)
11 points
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
|
5 comments
8.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
Note that all companies in the ride-sharing market are doing the same thing, not just Uber. Uber in fact looses less money than Lyft per ride.
9.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
I dont see Uber itself having done it. Levandowski was the one who downloaded the documents when he was a Google engineer. It has not been proven and is very unlikely that Uber asked him to download the documents or knew about it. If Uber d
10.
▲
by
rogerdonaldson
9y ago
Btw, how do they prevent "reverse theft" here? When Google looks at Uber designs, couldnt they learn from them and incorporate the learnings back into their designs? Regardless of whether Uber's design is using some of Waymo&