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From what I hear, you really only make money doing weekend nights and it's usually only if the rates are high enough in your city. Even then you will only make slightly more than even.
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blackguy32 posted:From what I hear, you really only make money doing weekend nights and it's usually only if the rates are high enough in your city. Even then you will only make slightly more than even. And that doesn't factor in the depreciation of your car, or the fact that if your insurance agency finds out that you're using your normal car as a libertarian taxi cab they'll drop you like you were radioactive. Also, for all the  about drunk driving, the Statesmen had a lovely piece the other day. Turns out the police over-estimated the reduction in drunk-driving incidents after Uber came to town. Instead of the 23% drop they cited initially it was closer to 9-10% when they looked again.
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Made sure to vote NO yesterday, though my precinct in North Austin still went blue.Sir Tonk posted:http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/banking-on-popularity-uber-and-lyft-hit-a-wall-in-/nrJPc/ Not all us 29-year-old Bay Area imports are like that, I swear! ...who am kidding 
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https://twitter.com/georgepbush/status/729333151303012352 Eminently qualified Land Commissioner is very disappointed in us 
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/georgepbush/status/729333151303012352 Dreading P's eventual runs for Governor and President.
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What the hell is progressive about rolling over for big business?
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May 8, 2016 19:47
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Sardonik posted:What the hell is progressive about rolling over for big business? Retro definition of progress where it refers to the industrial revolution and manifest destiny.
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Sardonik posted:What the hell is progressive about rolling over for big business? bending over backwards for the Captains of Industry since they're the only ones who can be relied upon for progress when was the last time government wrote an innovative app, hmm? 
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/georgepbush/status/729333151303012352
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Also something has been really bugging me -- is it that difficult to make an Uber clone app? Do they have patents on anything? I would think that a group of talented software engineers could write an Uber clone in a few weeks
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Also something has been really bugging me -- is it that difficult to make an Uber clone app? Do they have patents on anything? There's some app I've been seeing mentioned on Twitter named GetMe which is similar, but apparently they only have 500 drivers while Uber and Lyft had 10,000 each (in Austin alone).
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GetMe is getting killed on Twitter because of slow and more expensive pick up times. Curiously, their CEO is unknown. As in an anonymous entity.
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May 8, 2016 20:43
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https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/729392605553778688 Looks like they've already got the Lege on board, assuming they don't manage to piss them off like the gun people did last session. Given the campaign they just ran, it's possible they will!
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Badger of Basra posted:Looks like they've already got the Lege on board, assuming they don't manage to piss them off like the gun people did last session. Given the campaign they just ran, it's possible they will! If they only piss them off as much as the gun people did, Uber and Lyft are going to be awful smug come January 1, 2018.
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Also something has been really bugging me -- is it that difficult to make an Uber clone app? Do they have patents on anything? The yellow cabs in Texas already have one. The technology isn't the hard part of running a livery company. Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/729392605553778688 Best part of that is that it's not inconsistent, all the cities have said they have to follow the existing laws.
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duz posted:Best part of that is that it's not inconsistent, all the cities have said they have to follow the existing laws. Well I guess we'll just have to create a state law that says cities can't require Uber/Lyft obey laws.
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It's amazing to me that this is another stupid thing that is becoming partisan.
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blackguy32 posted:It's amazing to me that this is another stupid thing that is becoming partisan. It's about money. Everything is partisan.
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How's everyone's first day in the blasted hellscape that is post-Uber Austin.
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I had to walk the length of 35 from Waco to San Marcos this morning
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zoux posted:How's everyone's first day in the blasted hellscape that is post-Uber Austin. quote:I remember we were trying to get a ride home and we were jumped by a group of guys who punched us in order to steal out cab because it was so hard to get a ride home.
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Automatic Slim posted:GetMe is getting killed on Twitter because of slow and more expensive pick up times. Maybe they will get more drivers during sign ups by the Shell http://rideshareacademy.com/getme-disaster-austin-tx/
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May 9, 2016 16:36
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I drove my vehicle to the airport and paid to park like a normal suburban adult.
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May 9, 2016 16:42
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I drove my vehicle to the airport and paid to park like a normal suburban adult. You monster!
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I drove my vehicle to the airport and paid to park like a normal suburban adult. Things were never the same after that dark day.
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Here's former Austin mayor and current (excellent) state senator Kirk Watson on prop1: Terrible metaphor but he's right on the other stuff. He's probably going to be leading the fight in the Lege vs. any pro-ride sharing legislation.
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Wikkheiser posted:I once did that Austin Bergstrom, and the lot I parked at was adjacent to a large parking structure under construction. When I got back from my trip, my car was covered in dust. Did you get a DUI on the way home?
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zoux posted:Here's former Austin mayor and current (excellent) state senator Kirk Watson on prop1: I honestly think that those politicians talking up a state overturn are just doing it because they see a chance for some free publicity. I would be a bit surprised if it were anywhere close to a priority during the actual session. By the way this is what it looks like in the uber app in Austin now: 
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https://twitter.com/evanbaehr/status/729136390122840064 Anything else we can do to make your SV VC raising for tech bullshit in Austin more difficult, do let us know.
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Shifty Pony posted:I honestly think that those politicians talking up a state overturn are just doing it because they see a chance for some free publicity. I would be a bit surprised if it were anywhere close to a priority during the actual session. Lol what a bunch of passive aggressive babies
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Does that mean you can get a ride from one of the suburbs where Uber operates into Austin?
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Why yes I'm quite happy that I helped poo poo in the VC/Uber punchbowl why do you ask?
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The best thing is that if they'd just have kept their goddamn mouths shut it probably would've passed no problem.
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Badger of Basra posted:Does that mean you can get a ride from one of the suburbs where Uber operates into Austin? Nah, I think they can't operate in Austin at all.
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I really, really, really love that techbros are apparently cognitively incapable of realizing that they are NIMBY objects.
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This is like when the aliens show up at your planet and start to xenoform it to make it hospitable to them. They must be stopped at all costs.
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zoux posted:Here's former Austin mayor and current (excellent) state senator Kirk Watson on prop1: I think that could be a shade thrown at Lee Leffingwell who the rideshare lobby employed for this election.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I drove my vehicle to the airport and paid to park like a normal suburban adult. Go back to Dallas, heathen!
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Joe Pickett, current House Transpo chair and Jonathan Stickland kicker-outer, said he thinks it should be up to cities.
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zoux posted:This is like when the aliens show up at your planet and start to xenoform it to make it hospitable to them. They must be stopped at all costs. A friend who has been in Austin since the 80s compared this to the big watershed fights in the 90s, when we managed to fight Freeeport Mcmoran off and started the Save Our Springs coalition started.
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