I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

Post by eudamoniac » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 3:50 PM UTC

whatever1 wrote: post #289

eudamoniac wrote: post #282

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The IRS mileage cost of 0.70/mi is for a car in a situation that an Uber driver should never be in, that is, an average car with average fuel economy being professionally serviced and maintained, with average depreciation and interest rate. None of those should be the case for anyone driving Uber.

But that was the lure of ridesharing. Bring your own average car, no need to buy special equipment. If you do have to buy a car just for uber, then you would have to consider the interest payments as additional cost (not just the depreciation of the equipment, which will be super brutal for a brand new car). In any case, you are looking at something north of 50 cents per mile. AAA has a nice breakdown: https://www.ac…

Post by kaizenb » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 6:36 PM UTC

mlrtime wrote: post #232

kaizenb wrote: post #104

Greed. There are many ways to do good business, but we constantly push for exploitation. Technology will be blamed as always, not the operators. Humans such a disappointment.

>Humans such a disappointment. Compared to what, and idealized versions of ourselves? Or animals who rip the throats out of other mammals to eat?

Post by RealCodingOtaku » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 8:37 PM UTC

ramsey72 wrote: post #274

RealCodingOtaku wrote: post #140

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Not backing up the claims, but, You don't need to know the account or account number, just need to know the transaction logic, which most backend developer will know of as long as they work in that area. If the product managers keep boasting about their new strategy (which I have seen in almost all companies I have worked for), even the juniors will know what's going on.

Except this is complete bullshit. Money is anonymous. Why would they have some kind of pipeline account that goes directly from the fees to political spend? Why wouldn't the fees just go to a generic revenue account and the lobbying would come out of the same account? This is like claiming someone set up a special account where all their paychecks on rainy days get spent directly on weed. It makes zero sense.

Post by njwi332 » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 6:30 AM UTC

nunez wrote: post #298

resonious wrote: post #297

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I guess a cash tip is the way to go.

No disrespect to you, but this solution is unacceptable. The onus should not be on customers to workaround corporate wrongdoing. DoorDash states that 100% of the tip goes to drivers. They conveniently omit that some of their base wages will be covered by the tip. That should be illegal, and paying drivers under the table gives DoorDash the right to keep acting badly, my convenience be damned. But let's say I was will…

Post by dns_snek » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 9:17 AM UTC

qcnguy wrote: post #243

Tostino wrote: post #212

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I am 95% convinced he was caught because we live in a surveillance panopticon. The McDonald's kiosks could very easily be sharing data with other private companies (e.g. Palantir) who the government contracts with. There are so many other companies jumping in on sharing data like this, why would a company like McDonald's care about selling out customer privacy in exchange for a better bottom line for investors?

He got caught because someone recognized his uniquely bushy eyebrows from the wanted photos. This is all documented, no need for advanced theorizing.