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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Any software from a big company like Uber, Facebook, Google, etc. is far more complex than what you see. There are typically dozens of features and experiments rolled out to some users and not others. There is also a lot of work necessary t
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
It does change it a bit. If one is more efficient than the others and is improving efficiency/utilization faster than others, then eventually that company will eventually be able to compete on price while others are forced to subsidize
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
I read your comment twice. You only mention Uber and not "Waymo and car companies" unless your referring to a different comment of yours than the one I replied to here.
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
I think its a concern, but how is it hubris on Uber's part? It's an allegation not a proven fact based on weak circumstantial evidence. In America you can sue anyone for anything. The fact that they knew about these downloaded fil
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
I didn't say I intentionally keep things from previous employers. I return or delete everything that I know about, but that doesn't mean that I don't occasionally come across stuff that I wasn't aware I was still in po
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
The simplest answer is clicks and ad revenue.
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Because he suggested that people be allowed to choose between privacy and cost? For some people, 20% might be a significant cost and they don't care about medical details leaking.
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
That's not how the law should work. Its frightening that people think this way and it's the reason the US has the largest incarcerated population in the world.
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
It's frightening to see users on a forum now support a bad law like the CFAA because it could be used against a company that they happen to like at the moment. A bad law is a bad law. It doesn't magically become a good law when it
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
And if he downloaded them but never handed them over or never did anything else with them after leaving Google? I think one of the crazy things about all this is that having files from a previous employer is not a smoking gun. I wouldn&#x27
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Define hubris and provide evidence of it. That seems like an odd accusation to levy if someone is trying to be dispassionate and objective in their argument against a business model instead of a particular company.
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
I don't know about Silicon Valley, but I've had such a provision in one previous employment contract because the position was high enough up that I'd be legally liable. The clause was added by my lawyer because he said it was
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
It thickens more. Supposedly Larry Page talked to Levandowski before he left Google: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/uber-wa...
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Schadenfreude aside, I hope others realize how evil this outcome would be. California is a great place because it doesn't enforce anti-employee provisions like non-compete agreements. Seeing maybe the LIDAR efforts suffer a temporary s
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
As someone that worked on Wall Street, most HNers aren't any better than Main Street investors. In many ways I'd say they are worse. Specifically, the level of emotion some people have on HN when it comes to liking or disliking co
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
No company is going to have a monopoly of self driving cars. Uber just needs to get them at the same time as everyone else to with either through build or buy. The main reason for doing as much building now is to have a sizable patent portf
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Everyone is blinded by the large number like $3 billion. That's not the number that matterS. All the companies in this market are subsidizing rides (except maybe the traditional taxis). What matters is how much each ride is being subsi
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Sans self driving cars, Uber's competitors are also losing cash, and they are losing cash faster than Uber https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13772168
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Given Lyft's leaked financials versus Uber's leaked financial, it looks like Lyft (and others) are going to be the ones trying to pay back investors for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13772168 I don&#
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
The longer self driving cars take to completely replace cars, the harder it is for a self-driving only company to compete. You can't run a network with only self driving cars unless you they are all level 5 under all driving conditions
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Largest subsidies by volume or per ride? From what I've seen based on leaked financials, Lyft is outspending Uber by more than 2x in terms of subsidy dollars per ride [0]. Subsidies do not scale, and Uber is subsidizing less per ride t
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
All the companies subsidize rides, including Lyft and Didi. No company would willingly do it if the others didn't do it as well, except maybe to increase market liquidity as the market maker. Why single out Uber when all the companies
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
At this point I think they are trying the Microsoft/Oracle strategy. It looks like they are using a lawsuit and the discovery process are to get enough information to determine which, if any, of their patents may have been infringed an
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Fuel: not Uber's problem. Any solutions/advances benefit all market participants equally. Cars: also not Uber's problem. Any solutions/advances benefit all market participants equally. Salary: very much Uber's probl
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
I can buy that. I think they have things to address, but it doesn't appear to be any worse than at other companies. It just looks like they've received far more scrutiny the same way Apple does. Take their diversity report, for ex
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Completely agree. The second and more important problem is that humans suck worse at legislation and governance. I expect self driving cars to take off in developing countries and forward thinking countries (like Singapore) well before they
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Went down the rabbit whole even further and it turns out Andreessen is the first and largest investor shareholder in PandoMedia/PandoDaily with 8%: https://pando.com/about/ That's the media company that Emil
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
That's editorializing, not blackmail. Here's an alternate account of that conversation by someone else that was at the dinner that suggests that it was a completely different conversation than was portrayed: http://m.hu
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Let's assume for a moment that this previous design bore many similarities to the google design (which could have happened just because the same people built it not solely because stolen files were used), what if the previous design we
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by yawaworht12 9y ago
Please compare the number of upvotes and comments on HN for both stories. I better you the upvotes and comment activity difference between both stories is one if not two orders of magnitude greater.

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