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Don’t be fooled, Uber deserves all the bad publicity and negative bias it gets.

> There’s a long way to go, so please give feedback Please don't ask for my Gmail account.

> Why not apply for a permit and stay on the safe side? When did Uber obey the law? Why would they start now? Edit: Apologies for my tone, but Uber has demonstrated quite a few tim…

I just noticed it today, 241 days after I created my account, and probably more than a year since I started reading HN.

Isn't this how most people use the "upvote" button already anyway?

Do you think it would make sense if forums like hackernews/reddit/etc.. would have two sets of upvote/downvote buttons? The first set would be used as a "contributes to discussion …

Does anyone know the history behind "this"? Is there any other language that uses "this" to denote "current context"?

Cool, thanks for clarifying!

I am not disagreeing with what you say, but "charged" as it was used in the GP comment, it might have lead someone to believe that VULTR charge for usage per month.

Looks like it is abandoned; first commit was June and last September.

Yep, it is insane if you only had 1 $5 instance. Maybe a bug in their billing software or something...

> you will be automatically charged 500% of your regular usage You are not being "charged" per se. The amount is transferred to your account and is there as credit until you spend …

How many instances did you have at the time you received the email? Usually, when I receive an email like this, the amount is equal to the monthly bill of the instances I have acti…

> Is there such thing as right and wrong? Yes. > And if so, how does one know what is right and what is wrong? It all boils down to life and death. Right is anything that promotes …

Yeah, the recent news are really worrying. You should switch to your own domain and a different provider for any email that you care about.

> That being said, I think tech journalism overstates the amount of control which either Google and Facebook can actually exert over their users. That's how they win, by being unde…

The sad part is that people were warning about FB years before that only to be mocked. Pretty much the same way people are warning about Google today but get ignored. Pleas stop us…

Time for ToR/VPN https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setu...

Ooops. Thanks :D