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by viscanti 11y ago
Isn't that the whole point of surge pricing? It's attempting to balance supply and demand. On the supply side it's trying to get more drivers where there's more demand. On the demand side, it's trying to see if you
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by viscanti 11y ago
I suppose it depends on your definition of "you" here. They likely have thousands of employees around the world. It sounds like a single employee was careless here. I guess where you see company, I see a collection of individuals
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by viscanti 11y ago
They launched 200+ cities in the past year right? I imagine those all take money to get started. I'd be interested to see the breakdown of their more mature cities.
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by viscanti 11y ago
UberX launched in early 2012, before Lyft. But Lyft, Sidecar and Uber were all likely developing their 'low cost uber' versions at around the same time. After how much success Uber had already had with just Black cars, the idea fo
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by viscanti 11y ago
> I like uber but I think they f*cked themselves over and deserve every bit of scrutiny they are getting. I guess I don't get the vitriol here. If the Uber drivers had any better alternative, wouldn't they do that instead? Isn&
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by viscanti 11y ago
Or is it the 0.86% success rate for getting those licenses that was the limiting factor? http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2015/07/03/uber-annon... It appears that the licensing process is set
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by viscanti 11y ago
Creating laws doesn't make something moral/normative. The fact that a law exists and whether it's "good" are two different things. Breaking a "bad" law might be a crime, but I'm not convinced that it&
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by viscanti 11y ago
The best job opportunity for them is the best job opportunity for them. I wouldn't blame Uber for the fact that their driver jobs might not be some idealized version of the best possible job. For many of the drivers, it presumably is t
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by viscanti 11y ago
Isn't the difference here that a contractor "could" have multiple clients. The fact that some might opt not to do that doesn't seem to have a significant impact on how they should be classified.
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by viscanti 11y ago
But McDonalds employees aren't also choosing to possibly flip a burger for BurgerKing in the same shift. One can quickly see your line of argument is exceedingly thing. The fact that alternatives exist and many drivers do operate for m
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by viscanti 11y ago
It's a different situation though. I've never seen any employee ever working for two companies in the same "shift". I see lots of Uber drivers taking Lyft trips. Riders set the rates with demand based pricing and drivers
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by viscanti 11y ago
The issue isn't that Uber is discriminating. In fact, the subject of the article was a twice weekly user of Uber for two years. A single driver didn't think the wheelchair would fit in the car. It seems like something that should
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Uber reportedly wants to raise $1.5-2B more on a $50B valuation(venturebeat.com)
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by viscanti 11y ago
It doesn't seem an issue of workers negotiating with the individual business. You're redefining "freedom of choice" to mean freedom to negotiate with a company. It's clear that the parent meant freedom to choose whe
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by viscanti 12y ago
This is tricky to pull off. Too much data and it's just creepy. Too little data and it might as well not be there.
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by viscanti 12y ago
As an industry, we do a poor job of distinguishing the good engineer coming up with an elegant solution and the lesser engineer coming up with the complex solution to the same problem.
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by viscanti 12y ago
'Radically Superior' could mean equal quality of education for: 1) Free (or nearly free) 2) Open to anyone 3) flexible to fit anyone's schedule 4) Easier to show the actual work completed (because there is a digital copy). Ge
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by viscanti 12y ago
I think there are two distinct issues here. The first is that it seems like university students select schools and classes based on the academic background of their professors (having a professor from Harvard seems to be more prestigious th
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MOVING TOGETHER ON NEW YEAR'S EVE(blog.uber.com)
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by viscanti 12y ago
Which 20+ stories? The one where a journalist with financial ties to a competitor tried to bait an Uber exec into a hypothetical conversation and then took lines out of context (others at that dinner party said effectively the same thing).
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by viscanti 12y ago
What it does is give a huge incentive to wait if it's possible to wait. On the busiest days of the year, Uber sends out a message to let people know when those busiest times will be, so people who care about the price can plan accordin
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by viscanti 12y ago
It sounds like you might have read a few too many narratives from Uber competitors. They're in an industry where entrenched interests (and new competitors) want to spread as many questionable stories as possible. They're reducing
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by viscanti 12y ago
Sure. You could. But there's a big step between it being possible, and being (what the author implies) a moral obligation. In fact, there's probably a big step between it being possible and it being worth it. If Uber actually got
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by viscanti 12y ago
Except that Lyft apparently doesn't have a listed phone number either. I guess i don't see how that's a downside. It sounds like most of the calls were from people who wanted to book a car in advance. It might not make sense
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by viscanti 12y ago
Especially since it sounds like most of the calls were for people who didn't understand how uber works and wanted to pre-book a ride. I'm not sure that it would ever be worth having a listed phone number just so someone could answ
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Uber files to sell $1.8B of new stock(fortune.com)
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by viscanti 12y ago
There's a difference between "licensed" (where the government only licenses a certain group to create a government granted monopoly) and "insured".
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by viscanti 12y ago
Uber allows people with poor credit scores to purchase a vehicle so they can make a living? That seems fundamentally different than the "subprime crisis" involving mortgages. Are you alleging that all lending to people with poor c
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by viscanti 12y ago
> But that doesn't mean that the people working within this arrangement are good people. Just working within that arrangement doesn't make them good/bad nice/mean. But I see the on-demand events to collect winter clot
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by viscanti 12y ago
Uber has done good for the world. I give that weight when trying to determine if they're good/bad mean/not mean. To me, they clearly care about people (they're trying to make things better for millions of riders and tens

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