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The City of Portland has filed suit against Uber Technologies Inc. in Multnomah County Circuit Court, after documenting that the California-based company started operating private-for hire transportation services in the city. The lawsuit seeks declaratory relief that Uber is subject to and in violation of the City of Portland’s Private for Hire Transportation Regulations and Administrative Rules. The City’s lawsuit is asking for a declaration by the court that Uber is subject to the City’s regulations. The lawsuit also asks the Court to order Uber to stop operating in Portland until it is in compliance with the City’s safety, health and consumer protection rules. Transportation Director Leah Treat on Monday morning issued a Cease and Desist Order to Uber. The order was cited in the lawsuit. “I am hereby directing that Uber Technologies Inc…. or any other Uber affiliate entity immediately cease and desist operating within the City of Portland until such time as appropriate permits are obtained and Uber is in full compliance with the requirements of Portland City Code Chapter 16.40,” Treat wrote. “Please alert all Uber-affiliated drivers that they are to cease and desist.” “Our main concern is public health and safety, because the state invested in the cities the responsibility to do that,” Mayor Charlie Hales said. “Beyond that, though, is the issue of fairness. Taxi cab companies follow rules on public health and safety. So do hotels and restaurants and construction companies and scores of other service providers. Because everyone agrees: good regulations make for a safer community. Uber disagrees, so we’re seeking a court injunction.” City Commissioner Steve Novick, who oversees PBOT, said the City is prepared to issue civil and criminal penalties against Uber and its drivers for operating without required permits and inspections. The City of Portland requires permits for drivers and companies that offer taxi or executive sedan service within the city limits.
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The car-service company Uber has allegedly terminated more than a dozen Chicago-based community-support representatives, according to internal emails obtained by the Daily Dot. Four independent sources say that up to 15 people were fired last Friday for sharing an internal discount code for rides. Uber allegedly called it a “breach of policy.” [...] Uber uses a third-party human resources firm, ZeroChaos, to manage contractors. Community-support representatives work for Uber through ZeroChaos, meaning they are employed by the company but don’t receive the benefits that come with being a full-fledged Uber staff member. It was a ZeroChaos representative who sent the Uber contractors their termination notices. The Daily Dot received copies of the emails. Written in Comic Sans, the letters read, “Your assignment at Uber has ended effective immediately 12/5/14. Please log into the system and enter your final timecard.” uber is still evil
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Pinterest Mom posted:The car-service company Uber has allegedly terminated more than a dozen Chicago-based community-support representatives, according to internal emails obtained by the Daily Dot. which, okay, Comic Sans lol, but this is actually super lovely: quote:Four independent sources say that up to 15 people were fired last Friday for sharing an internal discount code for rides. Uber allegedly called it a “breach of policy.”
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A woman in London said she was sexually harassed by an Uber driver who asked if she liked blow jobs and offered to pull down a side street and perform "sucky sucky" on her during her route. The unidentified woman, who shared emails of her exchange with Uber about the incident with Newsweek, described the March encounter as scary. According to Newsweek, she first contacted Uber after the hellish ride telling the company "Driver was very forward and quite creepy. Asked me if I wanted him to go down on me. Not cool." A marketing manager who responded to her complaint via email apologized, referring to the incident with the driver as an "intrusive experience." The marketing manager then told her the company was "already investigating this with [the driver] and I can assure you that the necessary actions will be taken to avoid a similar incident in future." The email she received from the company concluded with a thank you to her from bringing the issue to their attention. "[While] painful to hear, it's the best way for us to address any incidents like this," it stated. She then received another response from a different Uber representative, which said the company was "shocked" to learn about her experience. According to Newsweek, the email stated "while things like this should definitely not happen in the first place, in the unlikely event that they do occur we have the full details of the driver, trip and rider on our systems so that we can immediately investigate any concerns raised." The company then offered her a £20 ($31) credit, signing the email "Sorry again for such an un-Uber experience."
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PuTTY riot posted:our taxi laws require them now but uber doesn't follow our taxi laws lol cool. you got the joke. 
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:for perspective, a hedge fund typically charges 2% for the active management of the sharpest financial minds on earth. lol
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i guess if you define "sharp minds" as "managed to convince people they should be charged 2% to get returns that are worse than the index", that's a defensible statement to make
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FrozenVent posted:uh the money in a hedge fund is also subject to inflation also the bank isn't charging you inflation if you keep money in the bank and earn 0.5% nominal interest, but inflation is 2%, you're effectively being charged ~1.5%. the alternative could be to invest in an index fund and earn 4-5% real return, or buy a risk free inflation protected government bond and earn ~0.1% real return
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Necc0 posted:gonna be pedantic and point out that you're not being 'charged' ~1.5% the word "effectively" is pulling a lot of weight in that sentence
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FrozenVent posted:an adverb doesn't change reality  you deposit 100$ your bank buys a 100$ TIPS after a year, you have 98.5$ in real terms and your bank has 100.1$ you can semantically disagree that you're being "charged" the difference, but i don't know that it's a useful distinction to make. it's money you lost because you left your money in a bank account rather than putting it literally anywhere else
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FrozenVent posted:you lose that money no mater where you put it. mattress, bank account, hedge fund, blueberry futures do you know that: bsd and i are different posters, making similar but not identical arguments? i'm trying to make the narrow point that you should see inflation as a charge when there are alternative investments available that protect you from inflation.
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i don't think that was an actual early-warning thing more of a israel lobby "get notified every time the savages mercilessly attack our people" thing
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Shaggar posted:hell yeah liquefy the bay area
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Carly Fiorina is laying the groundwork for what one ally says is an "imminent" presidential campaign—one that could launch as early as next month. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO, who raised her political profile with a failed run against Sen. Barbara Boxer of California in 2010, has frequently been mentioned as a long-shot contender to seek the Republican presidential nomination. The speculation is driven by equal parts novelty and activity: Fiorina, who paid several high-profile visits to early-nominating states in 2014, acknowledged that she would likely be the only woman in the GOP field. "Look, I think it would be great if we had female candidates—or candidate," Fiorina told National Journal earlier this year. Fiorina is now poised to become that candidate. According to three sources with direct knowledge of the situation, she has authorized members of her inner circle to seek out and interview candidates for two key positions on her presidential campaign: political director and communications director. Notably, the sources said, her associates are aiming to fill both positions with women.
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a swedish voip app has holiday wishes
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this was their original business model. they re-sold excess capacity in totally legal and above-board limo services. and even then
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Bloody posted:Attorneys general Thank you.
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Uber drivers beware: Ottawa bylaw officers will be looking for you. A City of Ottawa official says extra undercover officers will be deployed on New Year’s Eve to crack down on unlicensed taxi drivers who may be trying to make a few extra bucks on one of the busiest party nights of the year. Drivers could face $800 fines for being an unlicensed driver and operating an illegal taxi, said Susan Jones, Ottawa’s manager for emergency and protective services. She said drivers could also be compromising their own insurance policies. Officers will be monitoring the Uber Internet application and booking rides all night long, Jones said. “Drivers may not be aware that they’ve actually driven an officer tonight but we’ll follow up with charges.” Jones said officers are already monitoring Uber “on a daily basis.” She urged Ottawa residents to find another way to get around town. “Be patient. Take advantage of our free transit.”
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qirex posted:Andrew Borovsky, a founder of a design agency acquired by Square who went on to lead product design for Square’s Wallet app, has left Jack Dorsey’s company. Borovsky announced the news on Twitter on Thursday. Borovsky’s departure comes eight months after Square pulled its digital wallet app, Square Wallet, in favor of an order-ahead app called Square Order that lets users place pickup orders at participating coffee shops and cafes. Both products have been part of Jack Dorsey’s mission to score a breakout hit with consumers that would give merchants an extra reason to use Square’s suite of payment processing and business management tools rather than a competitor’s. Square is still looking for that consumer hit. i like the imagine the square execs sitting in a conference room together watching the apple pay announcement, and suddenly a gentle smell of poo poo starts wafting out of the room
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millenials amirite Over the weekend, the young Facebook founder announced that this year he would read a new book every other week. Zuckerberg, whose audacious resolution last year was to learn Mandarin, settled on this new goal after soliciting suggestions from his millions of Facebook followers. On his Facebook page, Zuckerberg created a Facebook group and urged his followers to join his pseudo-book club, which had amassed 137,486 Likes and counting by Monday morning. “I’ve found reading books very intellectually fulfilling,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.”
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WIRED Ones: I need a few minutes of your attention to talk about how we treat the workspace we’ll fully occupy on Jan. 5. We made a big investment in the construction and design of the new floor — more than $3 million over 10 years — to create a home worthy of our ambitions and a place that’s fun to come to in the morning. There are zones to work together, and quiet spots for focused work. There are drawers for personal items, and tons of storage for our materials and technologies. I believe the new 3rd floor will give us every opportunity to do what we do best, which is create content that’s a source of surprise and delight to more than 45 million community members. Unfortunately, too often the place where we do that important work looks, at best, like a dorm room. It’s an embarrassment: coffee stains on walls (and countertops and desks), overflowing compost bins, abandoned drafts of stories and layouts (full of highly confidential content), day-old, half-eaten food, and, yes, I’m going to say it, action figures. Please. WIRED is no longer a pirate ship. It’s the home of world-changing journalism. It’s the West Coast home of Condé Nast. And it’s increasingly a place where we, and our New York colleagues and owners, host artists, founders, CEOs, and advertisers. We all treasure our photos of loved ones. Mementos of personal accomplishment. I encourage you to proudly display a few small items at your desk because our workspace reflects who we are. It reflects our values. But how we treat our workplace is a manifestation of how seriously we take our work. When we stop caring for our shared spaces, we demonstrate a lack of respect for the space and for each other. When you leave stains on countertops, it’s disgusting for your colleagues and embarrassing for visitors. When we take occupancy of the full floor, we’ll walk through the specifics. I think you’ll be delighted to see that we’ve engineered spaces that are designed to get messy, entire rooms for the implements of creative inspiration and expression. The common newsroom and community spaces are not those places. We’re going to see a significant uptick in office visitors next year. Please make every effort to protect the sensitive information you are working on. Do not leave content of any sort on your desk at the end of the day. We have flat files, vertical files, and locking cabinets spread across the entire floor. Please use them. Secure your work. Every day, publicists send us all a lot of promotional, er, uh … crap: books, tchotchkes, sales mailers. If there are DVDs or books you need to do your job, please do make use of them. But make sure the items you don’t need make their way off of horizontal surfaces and into the appropriate recycling or refuse containers at the end of the day, or simply take them home. I love your custom-made/vintage/neon sign/one-of-a-kind lighting appliance. But it’s not right for the design of this new space. Please use the brand-new desk lamp we just purchased for you. And yes, we know there are areas that could use better overhead illumination. Our architects are working on it, I promise. We went to great expense to purchase elevated laptop stands and monitor arms for all desks. Please do customize the setup to optimize your workspace. I want you to be comfortable and productive — we work long hours — but know that the elevated platform is for your laptop, not your phone. Clean your dishes, and please remove the food from your dishes from the sink. Among many things, Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner is infamous for walking through the office handing out demerits and tongue lashings to people with messy desks strewn with half-eaten food, towers of music, and stacks of assorted crap. Martha Stewart once issued edicts about the three types of approved writing instruments allowed at the Omnimedia studios. I’m not going to do any of that — although my OCD can sometimes get the best of me — because I’m confident you’ll understand exactly what I’m saying here and clean it up, not just for me but for all of us. Thank you, Scott
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VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:why would gay men go to a lesbian bar to colonise (lesbian bars own)
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Following the company’s announcement that it would discontinue public sales of the wearable technology, Google officials confirmed Monday that all unsold units of Google Glass would be donated to underprivileged assholes in Africa. “We are committed to positively impacting the lives of poverty-stricken smug pricks by distributing the surplus inventory of Google Glass to self-important fucks throughout sub-Saharan Africa,” a statement released by the company read in part, adding that the program will provide the optical head-mounted technology, as well as professional training sessions, to destitute communities of conceited dicks from Sierra Leone, to Somalia, to Botswana. “This gesture will help tens of thousands of poor and needy men, women, and children across the continent who have never had the opportunity to walk around looking like a pompous jackass all day long. From the moment they turn on their new Google Glass in clear view of others, they’ll immediately start experiencing the undeserved sense of superiority currently lacking in their lives.” At press time, Google confirmed that the first devices had been presented to an indigent family of complete loving jerkoffs from the Republic of Guinea.
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lol, access to health care being linked to employment funny joke
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that paragraph implies uber is worth more than fb
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finance people aren't economists, mostly
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:uber claims to have made $500 million in revenues in san francisco last year. that's $597 per capita. hmmmmmm
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the bay area has a population of 7 million, so maybe that's the correct measure, so you'd be looking at "just" 71$ per capita, which is a lot more reasonable
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triple sulk posted:Ok so I just looked and it's basically dropbox? with the magic words "For The Enterprise" appended next to it
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dropbox made the mistake of focusing on being user-friendly. box is it department-friendly.
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