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There are some anecdotes that it also happens on Rideshare, but I don't have a car so I can't verify until Uber allows me to pick up passengers on the handlebars of my bike

I just got a lease on an UberCopter. Runways are too far from restaurants. Hope it works out for me!

https://imgur.com/v4bSD5S I was paid 1 mile, actual distance 3.5-4.0 miles. Previous versions of the app would use the first result returned by Google Directions API, which could h…

The salon article was posted with about 8 hours of data in Google Analytics. Business Insider has more up-to-date numbers, with about 4 days of data from the Chrome Extension.

(b) you can change your tip afterward if your service was not as expected. Just like in a restaurant: maybe your default tip is 25%, but great service bumps that up, and bad servic…

Most spot on (within 0.5 mi), some overpayments. Overpayments are much less frequent than underpayments, and regardless: when someone accepts a trip, who knows if they did it becau…

Because Uber doesn't pretend to pay based on miles traveled for UberEats - they pay on shortest distance. So a GPS tracker is insufficient.

Exactly! That's why it took me (the guy in the article) so many phone calls and emails with Uber before somebody admitted the bug - and I got it on tape (with their consent). Must …

That's my guess - but only sometimes. Most of the time they correctly compute distance traveled. If they consistently did it as a straight line distance, that's that - it's their s…

More details - Is this real? Yeah! Listen to them admit to the bug on tape here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNI2kVAyEQ4 How do I use the extension? Install it, pin it, then fo…

Point is (and I should clarify in the post): qt doesn't document which functions do and don't update the GUI, and you have no guarantees when calling an arbitrary Qt function that …

This URL used to work a few hours ago, but it's broken now: https://www.facebook.com/search/109714185714936/residents/present/union/me/friends/intersect It tells you that you have …

Agreed, I just lost because of improper python syntax. Hardcore C would be more fun, with memsets and frees such that bugs can exist in memory management.