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by viscanti 8y ago
This doesn't sound right. I've always paid exactly what the app told me the ride would be when I ordered. It looks like Uber covers the delta if the price goes above the quote when you order. https://www.uber.com/r
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by viscanti 8y ago
"It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer". That's been a theoretical basis of the criminal justice system (or at least something it claims to aspire towards). The argument tha
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by viscanti 8y ago
But neither company would pay you as a full time employee when you're jumping between jobs for both in the same hour/shift.
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by viscanti 8y ago
He made some purchases on the old ToS and some on the newer ToS. So he did agree to forced arbitration on the bulk of his transactions. That's not saying that the first transactions should be grouped in (or that forced arbitration shou
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by viscanti 9y ago
> Uber's algorithm is terrible at predicting traffic So how does that rule out that their algorithm is looking at estimated traffic? I usually get an estimated arrival time right after booking and that's generally correct on th
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by viscanti 9y ago
It says the algorithm is based on time and distance. Was there more traffic? Is it possible that the up front pricing algorithm knew that the time portion of the trip would be more than usual and charged more because of that?
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by viscanti 9y ago
Install N apps where N is the number of markets you eventually travel to. If you only ever travel to one other market maybe 2 is fine. If you need to download tens or hundreds of apps that might be a bit much. Not everyone will travel to th
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by viscanti 9y ago
People should be forced to use and own more resources than they want/need. Who cares that 6 individuals or families might have wanted an opportunity to have affordable housing and didn't need a larger personal area (because they c
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by viscanti 9y ago
> Irrelevant. Why would they care which bank the money comes from? I'm sure they're looking for good terms, but being able to secure financing from a more reputable entity is still a signal. If they were some sort or real estat
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by viscanti 10y ago
It's almost like Trump ran a campaign to intentionally try to suppress Democratic turnout and was successful with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/27/do...
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Google's self-driving car unit is losing three key execs(recode.net)
3 points by viscanti 10y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 10y ago
The end result might look fairly different, but I'm not sure that 'forked-and-refactored' is considered 'new' by very many people.
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by viscanti 10y ago
I think the idea is that there's a potentially meaningful part of someone's life outside of their company if what they work on isn't just contained in their company. I don't read it as the OP suggesting it's a preco
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by viscanti 10y ago
That's still a memory leak. It's just caused by a logic error that a compiler couldn't ever catch.
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by viscanti 10y ago
I read it as he's no longer excited about what he's doing. So even the smallest excuse like being slightly tired is enough for him to blow something off. I don't think he's trying to justify that behavior as much as show
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by viscanti 10y ago
It seems like drawing the line between connection or no-direct-connection isn't right here. It seems like helping fund people who have a legitimate case is good. It's hard to see a downside for helping people get justice. But it&#
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by viscanti 10y ago
Is the premise here that Google could already have market ready self-driving car tech that they could be selling but they're going slower to make people comfortable? This is the first time I've heard such an argument. It's ve
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by viscanti 10y ago
But it's more complicated than that right? I see a lot of Uber drivers also using competing apps. I don't see employees in any other industry working for two employers at the same time.
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by viscanti 10y ago
> Would their drivers refuse to undergo them? Refuse is probably a strong word here but I imagine significantly less people are willing to drive in somewhere to give their fingerprints for a background check than just entering a social s
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by viscanti 10y ago
It costs a lot of money to give away rides to millions of people. They're trying to keep the market unprofitable in the hopes that competitors like Uber think the price of subsidization is too high. They want to buy liquidity and make
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by viscanti 10y ago
Except that it's taxable under AMT.
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by viscanti 10y ago
It also pretends all of those would be taxed as income when that would likely be AMT.
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by viscanti 10y ago
What inhabitants were removed? Didn't they move into an unused building?
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by viscanti 10y ago
> But the tax breaks have so far cost the city nearly $40 million. This assumes a world where Twitter (or a Twitter like) company would have moved into what was an effectively abandoned building. They didn't displace $40M of tax rev
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by viscanti 11y ago
I liked this when Uber did it last September. https://newsroom.uber.com/ubercommute/ it's great to see Lyft picking up from a great idea.
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by viscanti 11y ago
The fact that the most important part (reason for closing it) is left out makes it seem like it's just a bad bug report. The final linked comment seems to be Uber asking for steps to reproduce and then there's no follow up. If the
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Uber Is Installing Breathalysers Around Mumbai to Help Drunk People(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by viscanti 11y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 11y ago
Of course the city should do more to help the issue. Turning a blind eye to tents on the street (which are illegal) isn't doing enough. It just makes the issues of a poor mental health system even more obvious. The article is interesti
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by viscanti 11y ago
Hashtags might be great for following along live with an event, but the discoverability is low if you can't see it already on your timeline. I find most hashtags through seeing a number of the people that I follow already using them.
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by viscanti 11y ago
While the fingerprint background checks feel safer, it turns out that they're less accurate and less safe than the checks Uber is doing. They are doing both fingerprints as well as their traditional background check process for all the

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