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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Whoever wrote the Wikipedia page on Ritalin [1] conflates Amphatamine and methylphenidate. "Amphetamine" appears on 24 times on Ritalin's page, 5 times as "amphetamine and methylphenidate" [1] https://en.
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Robert Whitaker makes the case in Anatomy of an Epidemic [1] that psychiatric medications amplify the problems they supposedly treat. [1] http://www.madinamerica.com/product/62043/
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
I don't have a specific source, it's just the impression that I get from having talked to a few people who had trouble with meth amphetamine. One friend's husband brought cocaine home. That was nice, but it got expensive, so
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
> ADHD is a diagnosed medical disorder that affects millions of people in America. Why do we still stigmatize it in the modern age? ADHD is a meaningless psychiatric diagnostic [1] of symptoms, not cause. The diagnosis is used to put mil
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
> The only strategy I can see with the absurd amounts of fundraising is that they are trying to get enough money to sustain the subsidies until they kill all existing competition, at which point they can raise their prices and people wil
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Low wages are more symptomatic of 'economic cancer' than causal. The US economy has been guided by the "trickle down" mentality since the Reagan administration. If money could "trickle up" too, balance could be
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Get an attorney. There are plenty who specialize in auto injuries. As otterley said, many injury lawyers work on contingency. Furthermore, many will help you get medical attention while you're waiting for Uber to cough up money to pa
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Thanks for your comments. There are fundamental problems involved in transporting people from place to place that are not solved by the new entrants to the industry. The only innovation offered by "ridesharing" is having a more fl
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Ride sharing has probably really hurt people who need a ride in the middle of the night. There used to be a whole crew of taxi drivers who preferred working the night shift. They'd make most of their money from the bar traffic. It&#x27
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
People who work for ride-sharing companies are employees because their only way to make money is by making money for the company. Taxi companies frequently use the independent contractor model for their businesses. All of the larger taxi co
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
Glad you liked that, thanks for commenting here. One of the pieces I've drafted but not yet posted is on the subject of "ordinary rendition", and is thematically related to the Lifelines piece. Rusty appeared above and told w
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by taxicabjesus 10y ago
My story, 'Electronic Taxi Dispatch, v1.0' was the last to post. I saved my diaries and stories about my adventures in the taxi, I guess I should buy a domain of my own.
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
The taxi company that I drove for required kids who were less than 12 years old to have a fingerprint-cleared driver, or to be accompanied by someone over 12 years of age. One time I did get a group of siblings who needed to get home from s
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
Most of these companies just 'reinvent the wheel', and do so poorly. The company I used to drive for has taken the 'embrace and extend' approach to respond to the venture capitalists' attack.
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
Earlier successful presidential candidates learned to say what they needed to say to get/trick "billionaires" into supporting them. Donald Trump is already a billionaire, so he has no need to pander to the plutocracy. Instead
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
Taxi companies were using GPS-enabled electronic dispatch systems that were designed before people carried internet-connected mobile computers. They work fairly well, but became obsolete.
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
This is like a hit piece on the taxi industry, who can't subsidize their businesses with venture-capitalists' money. > Traditional courier and taxi companies are so inefficient, you're not going to believe it. They typical
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
I had a passenger who'd been at several of the government's secret bases, in the 1960's. I wrote a diary about him recently: Imaginary Workplaces - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2016/1/2/
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
The taxi company I drove for usually retires its Priuses around 400,000 miles. The Owner-Op whose cab I drove probably had 450,000 miles on it when it got rear-ended - it was still on the fleet because she took good care of it, and had just
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by taxicabjesus 11y ago
This article has some good points. Most of the apologists for 'duper have no idea how the transportation industry is actually regulated. For example, somehow Uber and Lyft found a way to fully comply with New York State's transpor