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poty posted:gently caress uber and gently caress richard stallman oh yes very much same on both counts
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i agree, please, somebody gently caress richard stallman
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Jan 2, 2015 17:12
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ultramiraculous posted:there were actual cases of people with bad background checks driving ubers, right? i'm calling bullshit on them even spending the...$50?...to get even a scummy background check. the latest rapist was using his wife's account to drive for uber, so the background checks are unbelievably easy to bypass.
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Jan 2, 2015 17:14
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i agree with almost everything in this article, it just makes me really, really sad particularly this dan lyons posted:Uber will have an earth-shattering IPO. The financials will be great, the growth will be staggering and everyone knows Uber and likes the service so mom-and-pop investors will be clamoring for shares. Home run. Nobody will care about all the bad behavior anymore because money talks and bullshit walks, as Goethe once wrote. Uber haters (and there are many) will go nuts, which will add to the fun. Airbnb and Dropbox will go public too, as Fred Wilson predicts, but Uber will be the sensational deal of the year. he's probably right but ughhhhhh it's going to be really extra sad when uber implodes and mom'n'pop investors are left holding the bag instead of eminently hatable VCs
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Jan 2, 2015 17:15
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i agree with almost everything in this article, it just makes me really, really sad countdown to uber being declared too big to fail
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Jan 2, 2015 17:22
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Luigi Thirty posted:in India they didn't bother at all until after a rash of assaults because the laws said they didn't have to run livery drivers through background checks apparently the laws did (as new delhi's gov has said that uber has to follow adjusted radio taxi regs), but uber believes itself to be a pure IT company like amazon and only subject to regulations like amazon in india uber's no longer banned in new delhi with the gov saying "just follow radio taxi regs" but uber is petulantly saying "nah, you've misclassified us and radio taxi regs are too onerous"
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Jan 2, 2015 17:22
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i agree with almost everything in this article of course, but it's still a piece of poo poo because there's just such a middlebrow "this is just a bump on the road to something great" assumption behind it. quote:I'm running the photo is to make an actual serious point, which is that nobody in this industry ever has any idea what is going to work. god that's just smarmy as hell and his second article is some poo poo about someone getting divorced? who cares what the gently caress
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Condiv posted:the latest rapist was using his wife's account to drive for uber, so the background checks are unbelievably easy to bypass. tbf this is true for taxis too, thats why theres a giant picture of your driver with his license or medallion number in some city's cabs its almost as if all these problems had been dealt with before
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poty posted:gently caress uber and gently caress richard stallman repostin' from rms thread: i was looking at my laser printer the other day and was thinking "oh man it would be great if i could use the fuser to make toast". so ofc then i went to open it up and reprogram one of the paper sizes to toast but when i tried to open it there was just a chip that had hitler and stalin on it that said "lol closed source fucker!" i stumbled outside, fell to my knees, and wailed at the sky and lo did the clouds part and the visage of rms appear. my voice wavered as i made my desperate plea: "rms save me, for i am being oppressed!" his gaze fell upon me, chins rippling beneath the beard of the blessed as he was forced to look downward onto such a lowly creature as i, and the heavens did boom "have you ever thought that maybe the dolphins want it?"
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Jan 2, 2015 17:36
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ughhhh a terrible writer and a terrible article. guess i'm going to have to get my own tech bubble news from now on like this http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/29/can-i-stay-with-you-airbnb/ quote:
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i agree with almost everything in this article, it just makes me really, really sad quote:But you know [a crash is] going to happen. For one thing, there were more IPOs in 2014 than in any year since 2000. Some will remember what happened back in 2000 right after all those companies had all those IPO. Surely it cannot be a good sign when a bunch of money-losing tech companies go racing into the public markets. For the past few years the VCs who claimed there was no tech bubble supported that assertion by pointing out that the crazy valuations were confined to privately held companies. Thus the public wasn't exposed to the risk. But now those companies are going public. Doesn't that mean the public is now exposed?
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FMguru posted:i found this logic compelling wave of IPOs = the bubble is too big to be sustained by private capital markets i don't know how much longer the bubble can go in public markets
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:wave of IPOs = the bubble is too big to be sustained by private capital markets Taibi wrote about the first bubble in Griftopia and made a joke about these IPOs being "watermelon investments," the IPO is a watermelon with a bow tied around it that's been tossed out a window. if your money isn't out by the time it hits the ground, you lose.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:wave of IPOs = the bubble is too big to be sustained by private capital markets seems like it could go for quite a while, the "dot com" bubble was almost all public markets wasn't it?
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Jan 2, 2015 18:18
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As a Millennial I posted:
heh stall man make good joke i laugh long time
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Jan 2, 2015 18:27
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Main Paineframe posted:well that was a weird and completely unnecessary tangent i thnk he was referring to the thing uber did in france where you would be driven around by a hired escort girl
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Jan 2, 2015 18:30
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hobbesmaster posted:presumably trying to say sister in law's brother in law me?
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i went to my uncle's mother's funeral and i'm flabbergasted how many people assume I'm an adult who's lived my entire life in america and somehow never learned the word "grandmother" or would choose an abstruse description of the relationship instead of choosing the words that uniquely identify someone given the assumption that I'm not an idiot
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JawnV6 posted:me? fine, what is the correct term for your wife's sister's husband
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hobbesmaster posted:fine, what is the correct term for your wife's sister's husband james
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hobbesmaster posted:fine, what is the correct term for your wife's sister's husband just plain old "brother in law"
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way back there the reply was someone saying "sister in law's brother" which is likely meant to be either a step brother in law or brother in law yay internet semantics arguments
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Jan 2, 2015 19:41
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weird how marrying someone makes their siblings your siblings in law. kinda implies your spouse is your sibling, which is kinda gross
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if you marry your cousin is your brother your cousin-in-law? is your cousin's brother now your brother-in-law or still your cousin? don't marry your cousin
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Bloody posted:weird how marrying someone makes their siblings your siblings in law. kinda implies your spouse is your sibling, which is kinda gross mormons 
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Bloody posted:weird how marrying someone makes their siblings your siblings in law. kinda implies your spouse is your sibling, which is kinda gross its kind of implying you and your spouse are the same person according to law accordingly, sex inside marriage is legally masturbation
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hobbesmaster posted:fine, what is the correct term for your wife's sister's husband brother-in-law-in-law Bloody posted:weird how marrying someone makes their siblings your siblings in law. kinda implies your spouse is your sibling, which is kinda gross your spouse is your self-in-law
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Jan 2, 2015 19:57
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qntm posted:your spouse is your self-in-law hosed up
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Bloody posted:if you marry your cousin is your brother your cousin-in-law? is your cousin's brother now your brother-in-law or still your cousin? im just trying to do the responsible thing after having so many babies with them a bunch of em were even healthy enough to be born
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Main Paineframe posted:blaming any rapes on a few bad apples i love it when people use this phrase in the completely wrong way like this
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Jan 2, 2015 21:34
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flywheel is taking over so lookout all you überites
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i love it when people use this phrase in the completely wrong way like this maybe they expect the rest of the uber drivers to start raping now that they see how easy it is, making the whole barrel of uber drivers rotten
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infernal machines posted:maybe they expect the rest of the uber drivers to start raping now that they see how easy it is, making the whole barrel of uber drivers rotten you're saying uber drivers would form a culture ... of rape? sounds unlikely
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I like how Ubers response is to try and make passengers more liable for the safety of their person through their magic jitney hailing app your honor the user didn't verify the license plate nor identity of the accused and it is her fault for being drunk and wanting to go home drunk
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Yep, ubers approach to responsibly dealing with risk is to shift more of it on to the customers/drivers.
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Uber is a lovely company. Lyft on the other hand, they're ok.
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