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Just use lyft instead. Uber is like the easiest thing to not use.
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Oct 31, 2017 20:51
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It's a pretty big sign of modern American culture. Most people agree that Uber is deplorable... but it is cheap and convenient so they use it anyway.
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Oct 31, 2017 21:12
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Most people have never used Uber and never will.
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Oct 31, 2017 21:15
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Tuxedo Gin posted:It's a pretty big sign of modern American culture. Most people agree that Uber is deplorable... but it is cheap and convenient so they use it anyway. That's the same line people use with Walmart, Nestle, ISPs etc. Something something ethical consumption under capitalism.
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hobbesmaster posted:Just use lyft instead. Uber is like the easiest thing to not use. My wife was taking a lyft home a couple of weeks ago and was propositioned by the driver.
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Oct 31, 2017 21:41
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Lol @ people going, "I don't want to support a scummy business...I know, I'll use taxis instead!"
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Oct 31, 2017 21:54
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Cicero posted:Lol @ people going, "I don't want to support a scummy business...I know, I'll use taxis instead!" Taxis are saintly proletarian heroes compared to Uber, which really goes to show you how loving awful Uber is.
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Oct 31, 2017 22:05
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actionjackson posted:Friend of mine and SV techbro after mentioning to him how bad Uber is with all the culture poo poo By using Uber you are making them lose more money so I guess it could be interpreted as a good thing.
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Lyft has coupons every so often for the next few rides, does Uber do that? I've never gotten the impression it does and I can't imagine that'd help with the money hemorrhaging. Even in my poo poo tier city though there's at least one local company that took note and got itself a decent ride hailing app; people in better cities shouldn't have any excuse for sticking with Uber.
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Oct 31, 2017 22:44
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GEMorris posted:No, no one wants to be personally inconvenienced. Talk is cheap, and therefore in most situations all you get is talk. See also "pray for X" social media posts and changing one's avatar to "support" the cause du jour.
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Oct 31, 2017 22:47
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Cicero posted:Lol @ people going, "I don't want to support a scummy business...I know, I'll use taxis instead!" The point isn't that taxis are some gorgeous, angelic entity. The point is that Uber is a piece of poo poo that is easily bypassed. They don't have a local monopoly (e.g., your lovely ISP or cable company), they aren't basically required for your continued existence (e.g., lovely health insurance companies, gas and oil companies, your lovely local power company), and their lovely practices aren't built into nearly every company in their field (e.g., treatment of agricultural workers supplying your food). It's easy to pick something even marginally better that Uber and nothing preventing it for nearly anyone. Edit: VVVV Yep, it's both a verb and a noun out here. It makes me want to kill people. Sundae fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Oct 31, 2017 |
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Oct 31, 2017 22:50
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Apparently Uber is a verb in SF Also what's the deal with Sam Altman? People seem to worship him but I don't see how he's different than any other startup bro
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So I'm part of this group called the Tech Workers Coalition, that basically fights for worker's rights and solidarity among all workers. Here's a really cool article about us and some other groups and currents in tech that don't get talked about much, about tech and labor, and about who the real voices of tech are. We like to think we do a little more than talk, and you should hit us up on Twitter or email or whatever if you have any thoughts. actionjackson posted:Apparently Uber is a verb in SF I wish I knew, he's just as lovely as the rest and he's toying with a run for governor under this tech policy wonk banner he has somehow and it's awful.
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Nov 1, 2017 00:03
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Ceglowski is awesome especially his haunted by big data talk
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Sundae posted:The point isn't that taxis are some gorgeous, angelic entity. The point is that Uber is a piece of poo poo that is easily bypassed. They don't have a local monopoly (e.g., your lovely ISP or cable company), they aren't basically required for your continued existence (e.g., lovely health insurance companies, gas and oil companies, your lovely local power company), and their lovely practices aren't built into nearly every company in their field (e.g., treatment of agricultural workers supplying your food). Additionally the majority of people never have a need for Uber or a taxi or anything similar. And on the rare occasions it might be useful for them there's usually an alternative.
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actionjackson posted:Ceglowski is awesome especially his haunted by big data talk My unstated goal at my company is to repackage all of his talks and beat my senior leaderships’ heads in with them.
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jre posted:This is the same logical failing you see from small business owners when they go "I can buy a 1TB drive from best buy for $100 why does this 300GB server drive cost $500" And the fact that every interaction on the site is instrumented as gently caress and that the data stays constantly in flight through ETL for analytics and machine learning platforms. Couple that with deals with DMPs and other 2nd/3rd party data that easily run in the tens of millions along with internal targeting and audience platforms and god knows whatever else. The idea that all of twitter engineering consists of the bare minimum for message pub/sub on a static site is ludicrous.
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I have used both uber and lyft and all the lyft drivers had notably better taste in music. I'm still amazed at how much cleaner lyft looks for having just somewhat quietly continued to run an independent contractor taxi service while uber rolls around in a big pile of burning garbage, by which I mean I'm surprised lyft didn't just join Uber in the pile.
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Nov 1, 2017 01:04
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Around here many, maybe most drivers work for both simultaneously.
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Nov 1, 2017 01:11
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Tuxedo Gin posted:It's a pretty big sign of modern American culture. Most people agree that Uber is deplorable... but it is cheap and convenient so they use it anyway. I don't mind it, as long as the people who are using cheap convenient and lovely are willing to support legislating the cheap convenient and lovely business out of business so that nobody can use it.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Shugojin posted:I have used both uber and lyft and all the lyft drivers had notably better taste in music. They almost all drive for both companies, lol
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actionjackson posted:Ceglowski is awesome especially his haunted by big data talk I had missed that one, is is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk
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Time posted:They almost all drive for both companies, lol Yeah it's a sample size of like two drivers from each one and could equally be described as the Baltimore drivers have better taste than the Pittsburgh ones
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Ceglowski is a prophet among men and if you haven't read his Burrito Tunnel story, you're missing out.
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actionjackson posted:Apparently Uber is a verb in SF What has he even done? As far as I know, he’s the tech equivalent of “famous for being famous,” at least Paul Graham both wrote real code and built a real company before going full tech bro.
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Nov 1, 2017 05:44
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actionjackson posted:Ceglowski is awesome especially his haunted by big data talk There's a new unlisted one on his site: http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm quote:Every time we went to the supermarket, my mom would give me a quarter to play Pac Man. As a good socialist kid, I thought the goal of the game was to help Pac Man, who was stranded in a maze and needed to find his friends, who were looking for him.
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Maciej is a friggin hero
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Ruffian Price posted:There's a new unlisted one on his site: http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm This is a pro click. Are there any more good posts like this, on this subject, by other people?
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jon joe posted:This is a pro click. Are there any more good posts like this, on this subject, by other people? idk about other people but every single one of Ceglowski's talks is a pro read
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Sundae posted:It's really pretty pathetic when you run into people like that, given Uber is about as easy to boycott as they get. You don't even have to give up a service; you just have to call a normal goddamned taxi. Lyft is no angel in this space but we use them over cabs or Uber. It's not hard, and my experiences as a consumer have been pleasant.
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That your consumer choice matters is an illusion. Enjoy your organic fair trade coffee.
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Ruffian Price posted:There's a new unlisted one on his site: http://idlewords.com/talks/build_a_better_monster.htm Buried in there is a link to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/chase-ads-youtube-fake-news-offensive-videos.html?_r=0 Best parts: quote:As of a few weeks ago, advertisements for JPMorgan Chase were appearing on about 400,000 websites a month. A 99% reduction in ad "reach" and no change to the metrics.
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Trabant posted:Buried in there is a link to this: What exactly is the implication of this?
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jon joe posted:What exactly is the implication of this? Internet advertisement is going to collapse. YouTube / Instagram millionaires are panicking.
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jon joe posted:What exactly is the implication of this? Yea, what Lote said. It either proves that internet advertising doesn't work at all, or that companies are about to get very specific on what sites they advertise on. Either way, that means the market for internet ads is going to fall apart. It's way overdue really.
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eschaton posted:What has he even done? As far as I know, he’s the tech equivalent of “famous for being famous,” at least Paul Graham both wrote real code and built a real company before going full tech bro. He founded a (even more) failed 4square competitor but is most famous for buddying up to Paul Graham enough to take over YC after he stepped down. YC despite being the "premier" startup accelerator is run by a whole bunch of people that failed at startups beforehand. He's also a co-founded a terrified about evil AI nonprofit with Ol' Musky. So yeah, he's basically famous for being good at networking.
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Trabant posted:Buried in there is a link to this: quote:Of the 400,000 web addresses JPMorgan’s ads showed up on in a recent 30-day period, said Ms. Lemkau, only 12,000, or 3 percent, led to activity beyond an impression. An intern then manually clicked on each of those addresses to ensure that the websites were ones the company wanted to advertise on. About 7,000 of them were not, winnowing the group to 5,000.
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