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Uber is far larger and growing faster than Lyft(pando.com)
2 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
This has been throughly debunked. Those cancellations were apparently by Lyft drivers who also drove for Uber, and they were trying to recruit more people to drive for Uber. But the 5k cancellations end up being less than one cancellation f
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Uber Strikes Deal to Build New Headquarters in Large Expansion(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
Lyft was allegedly rebuffed by investors over the summer (they apparently tried to raise another round once Uber raised their 1B round). It sounds like Lyft's investors are really pushing Uber for an acquisition ( http://www.
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by viscanti 12y ago
I have a hard time making anything out of the "facts" here from Lyft. Apparently Uber has cancelled about 5k trips over the past year. That ends up being about 1 cancelled trip every 5 days in each Lyft city (I can't imagine
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by viscanti 12y ago
That seems like an incredibly optimistic forecast for when self-driving cars will be viable and plentiful enough (in enough places) to make any kind of dent. But even if the future is self-driving cars, I don't think that takes away fr
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UberEverywhere – 205 cities and counting(blog.uber.com)
2 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Uber's war on Lyft is great news for Lyft drivers(vox.com)
4 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
You need food and water to survive. Transportation is probably not in that same category.
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Lyft's COO Has Left The Company(businessinsider.com)
1 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
According to the infographic, it doesn't look like much of a rivalry. It's a bit embarrassing for Lyft to not be anywhere internationally.
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by viscanti 12y ago
> Biology has evolved to use spikes (across many different species). Perhaps evolution didn't get the memo that non-spiking convolutional neural networks is the only architecture worth building. I think this is representative of a
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by viscanti 12y ago
This is true as long as your definition of "better idea" is the one that goes on to have a larger exit. That doesn't mean that luck wasn't involved in getting there.
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by viscanti 12y ago
In fact, that $5k is probably close to what you'd spend just on parking and insurance in a major city like SF (i.e. your costs if you never used the vehicle but already owned it). If you add in car payments, gas, maintenance there is l
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by viscanti 12y ago
> and wanton abuse of the patent system to stifle competition. Use (or abuse) of the patent system seems entirely orthogonal to privacy/security.
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by viscanti 12y ago
I REALLY like that syntax for the maybe monad.
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Uber is the new Google(fastcompany.com)
2 points by viscanti 12y ago|1 comments
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Uber Seeking $12 Billion Valuation In Latest Funding Round(forbes.com)
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Touring Uber’s Surprisingly Sober New Office.(recode.net)
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Uber: Lunch with the FT: Travis Kalanick(ft.com)
1 points by viscanti 12y ago|0 comments
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by viscanti 12y ago
While being detail-oriented, analytical and trained in systematic problem solving might help in some cases, the bigger benefit is the training/experience in changing levels of abstraction. At the CEO level, you need to be able to quick
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Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration(techcrunch.com)
121 points by viscanti 12y ago|63 comments
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by viscanti 13y ago
While facebook validation is possibly helpful in some cases, I'd imagine it's relatively trivial to create a fake facebook account. Lyft's success so far probably hasn't had much to do with the pre-verification (which is
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by viscanti 13y ago
What do you mean by "whenever you need it"? Are these situations where taxis are unavailable due to demand? If so, that seems to back up Uber's point that raising prices during high demand times creates a reliable transportat
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by viscanti 13y ago
When I sell something on eBay I don't have any expectations that I'm an eBay employee. The Google Play and Apple app store are both apt analogies as well. Selling goods or services on a marketplace often comes at a cost per transa
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by viscanti 13y ago
Have you ridden in a taxi recently? Are you at all familiar with the taxi medallion racket (and why millionaire medallion owners are the only ones who benefit from this)? Have you ever tried to get a taxi to pick you up during rush hour or
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by viscanti 13y ago
That's probably a safe assumption. I'd imagine he was looking for another very senior-level job. In that case, it seems silly to use it as an example for why there might be a shortage of talent for entry-level to mid-level enginee
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by viscanti 13y ago
Do we know what role Acton applied for? I saw the twitter posts about the rejection but never saw what job he was applying for. It's hard for me to generalize about the industry from this one specific case, without even knowing what jo
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by viscanti 13y ago
This sounds like the big win that's promised with type systems.
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by viscanti 13y ago
I think what's lost here is that they're really more of a market place. It's similar to arguing that ebay has a moral obligation to make sure that people selling things there make enough per hour. I'm not sure I'd a

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