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by tmh79 9y ago
maybe the industry should pay young people more for their labor...
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by tmh79 9y ago
this isn't PR spend, the author has been a thorn in uber's side through all the scandals and broken a bunch of big stories. Follow him on twitter @mikeissac
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by tmh79 9y ago
sidecar shutdown long ago and via sold to an israeli company
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by tmh79 9y ago
not necessarily true. Uber is developing relationships with the regulators in all of their markets, a highly local endeavor. It's possible, even likely, that they are going to use these relationships to their own advantage when launchi
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by tmh79 9y ago
> I think uber's in a death spin, not sure it can pull out. that is not evidenced at all in their financials though. Their losses are down and their revenue is up. They are doing exactly what is expected of them if they hope to be p
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Uber Q2 financials(axios.com)
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by tmh79 9y ago
I live in the neighborhood in question. The "nextdoor" group for the neighborhood has a healthy mix of "new comers" and "long timers/latinos". There is a poll in the neighborhood asking "should the bi
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by tmh79 9y ago
> I think it's entirely reasonable to be mad about a lack of community consult There were many, many, many community meetings about the bike share program expansion and ample time for anyone to give feedback. People always cry croco
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by tmh79 9y ago
the salaries are not due to cost of living, they are due to a competetive labor market.
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by tmh79 9y ago
I guess "start up pays delocation bonus that is less than 1/3 of a signing bonus at the big valley companies" is not as complelling.
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by tmh79 9y ago
a "shoddily constructed" building is still a place for people to live.
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by tmh79 9y ago
> but the mad-rush of millennials is making the city more and more unlivable IMO, the problem is the policies of the city that are unfriendly to growth and make housing a zero sum game, the problem isn't than people expressing their
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by tmh79 9y ago
IMO this is a terrible outcome, and its exactly what the NIMBY landowning class in the SFBA wants to happen.
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by tmh79 9y ago
Elon has publicly claimed that he will be able to provide an L5 autonomous car without using lidar in the next few years. AL, another expert in the field, believes that claim is so ridiculous that he must be willingly lying, not just overco
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by tmh79 9y ago
1) CEO/leadership Search 2) Softbank investing in US rideshare market both are large events, and the outcomes of both events will be much worse in the case of an ongoing legal battle between shareholders and founder/ex-CEO.
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by tmh79 9y ago
RE the stroz report: from what I've heard, AL did take a bunch of files, and he planned to use as leverage against google/waymo to get his 120m bonus, and Uber told him more or less "dont let that shit touch anything we do&qu
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by tmh79 9y ago
wonder what this means for the CEO search, softbank funding etc. My assumption is that both parties will settle quickly but I could be wrong. Also not noted in the article is that while travis owns 10% of the equity stake, he has super-voti
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by tmh79 9y ago
> As a general rule of thumb, 10-20 story tall buildings are an eye sore That isn't a rule of thumb at all, just your opinion... I don't think it makes sense to make things denser if it's going to be so ugly that no one wa
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by tmh79 9y ago
denser, 10 - 20 story tall transit oriented development in caltrain and bart station parking lots.
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by tmh79 9y ago
> If we make it easier to quickly travel longer distances in/out of work hubs, the intense demand for housing can be diffused to communities that can handle it. Wow, just wow. Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Cupertino et al can
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by tmh79 9y ago
World leading professional economists tend to disagree with you [0], and our government sponsored research groups tasked with addressing livability also disagree with you [1] but you are free to keep your opinion. [0] http://facu
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by tmh79 9y ago
First of all, let me lead with: I'm a neoliberal democrat type person, I support diversity initiatives, reaching out to and supporting under represented communities, making changing to work culture to help people who haven't succe
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by tmh79 9y ago
The subsidies in ridesharing seems to be shifting or easing due to the scale at which these companies now operate. Subsidizing riders is a lot easier at 100m rides/year then at 1b rides/year or 10b rides/year.
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by tmh79 9y ago
I wonder what that would be broken out by intake mechanism. Heroin can be smoked a few different ways, eaten in brownies, eaten as pills, insufflated, or injected. From what I understand, the addiction mechanism for heroin is more subtle t
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by tmh79 9y ago
Yep, biggest example is marc andreesen himself. His wife a member of the Arrillaga family (old money real estate in the south bay, lots of buildings in stanford and palo alto parks & rec named after them), and they have more land wealth
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by tmh79 9y ago
denser housing and better transit go hand in hand. Its hard to have a good mass transit system when everyone lives on their own 1/3 acre plot of land in a single family home.
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Rents are rising at 5-10% a year in the south bay, and if you don't live in mountain view you don't have renters protections. There is no end in sight for cost of living stabilization for the bottom end of the market without large
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by tmh79 9y ago
The real story here is how the political conditions of the SFBA have prevented growth of the housing supply. The sad reality is that housing here is now a zero sum game, and any broad based increase in wages would pretty quickly be captured
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by tmh79 9y ago
The thing about becoming profitable is that it extends your runway as you do it. So they may have 10 months of runway in q2, and 10 months of runway in q3 and 10 months of runway in q4 and 12 months of runway in q1 '18 and and 16 month
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by tmh79 9y ago
you are truly uninformed. There is so much more to the uber tech stack than this. Delivering rides efficiently, worldwide, at a scale of billions per year is not as easy as swapping out a button on google maps.

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