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Regarding drivers, I feel there is an upside to the horrible treatment Uber doles out to drivers which is that Uber wants turnover, wants a driver to work for a year or so, and fea…

It's not dark out at night, it's just that the earth has blocked the sun.

I didn't say Lyft was better (though it seems clear from settled lawsuits and FTC fines and police reports that Uber is much worse) the takeaway is that engineers are responsible f…

Drivers have many anecdotes of: + initial bonuses not paid + hourly guarantees not paid New upfront pricing allows Uber to change prices on every single ride (implicit surge) while…

actually it's the drivers that add all the value, the devs are the folks that enable the cheating. Susan Fowler was responsible for keeping the trains running on time.

How many laws does Uber have to break, how many drivers does Uber have to cheat, how many assaults on riders and drivers have to be committed, how much predatory pricing does Uber …

Thanks, very interesting article on how we got there.

Thank god for now that you are in error about that: > That’s the average amount of time, the company said, that users spend each day on its Facebook, Instagram and Messenger platfo…

Q: What are the ethical implications of an engineer taking on employment with Uber given what we know as factual regarding Uber's behavior and given the high demand for software en…

Eric couldn't find a single bankster guilty of anything in the 2008 meltdown, and he wasn't able to find anything wrong with Fast & Furious, so I have to disagree with you, his app…

Laws, minimum wage and ethical treatment of employees are a huge barrier to innovation, and I for one am glad Uber has ripped that barrier down.

Must be nice to be a woke young webdev able to ignore how Uber mistreats the poor, and the POC. How Uber breaks laws. How Uber uses VC money to undermine taxi drivers who are paid …

This thread IS a shitshow. Did Fowler or anyone in this thread apart from jacquesm discuss the massively unethical ways Uber treats drivers and breaks the law and undermines societ…

Did any of you folks talk about the enormously unethical ways you treat drivers? Those folks who are mostly poorer than you who do the actual work that provides value? I find it la…

Can you make it a multiplayer game played on phones, tablets, and watches, tvs, and cars? Okay, maybe not cars.

Yeah, retail, food, healthcare, transportation, maintenance, manufacturing, trash pickup, almost everything really. But nah, hell with anyone whose job ain't yours.

That's not true. Berkeley allows student organizations to invite speakers. Berkeley is not allowed to discriminate against those speakers based on viewpoint. https://www.theatlanti…

In the past 48 hours there have been two threads "about" Dave Winer, and I think they have given us food for thought about the Hacker News Community. https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

“I was literally the only female in this classroom with 30 men,” says Needell. “They open their textbooks and there’s Lena, and all the men start giggling. You just feel like ‘Oh, …

Uh, go read the wiki if you don't know what self-victimization is, or why contemporary feminists are (correctly) accused of it, or how it presents itself in this rah rah look what …