flootch

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by flootch 10y ago
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 fears long term drivers who might have more of a claim to emplo
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by flootch 10y ago
It's not dark out at night, it's just that the earth has blocked the sun.
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by flootch 10y ago
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 for the output of their employers. Engineers used to und
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by flootch 10y ago
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 not paying driver's surge rates The FTC has fined Uber
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by flootch 10y ago
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.
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by flootch 10y ago
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 have to commit, how many labor laws does Uber have to flout
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The state of apps in Google play (a dev finds his gpl'd app stolen repeatedy)(reddit.com)
2 points by flootch 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber Increases Booking Fee and Effective Commission to 40.44%(therideshareguy.com)
2 points by flootch 10y ago|0 comments
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by flootch 10y ago
Thanks, very interesting article on how we got there.
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by flootch 10y ago
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 platforms (and that’s not counting the popular messaging app Wh
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by flootch 10y ago
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 engineers in today's economy? Q: If you do not have
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by flootch 10y ago
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 appointment will certainly provide the best outc
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by flootch 10y ago
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.
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by flootch 10y ago
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 laughable to hear Uber engineers cry about how unfairly Kalani
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by flootch 10y ago
Can you make it a multiplayer game played on phones, tablets, and watches, tvs, and cars? Okay, maybe not cars.
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by flootch 10y ago
Yeah, retail, food, healthcare, transportation, maintenance, manufacturing, trash pickup, almost everything really. But nah, hell with anyone whose job ain't yours.
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Liberalisms' great trick has been to naturalize difficult political contests(youtube.com)
3 points by flootch 10y ago|0 comments
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by flootch 10y ago
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.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017&#
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Ask HN: How it Works: what do the Dave Winer threads tell us about sexism in IT?
6 points by flootch 13y ago|23 comments
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DOE says a dongle joke made on campus and overheard is now punishable(thefire.org)
1 points by flootch 13y ago|0 comments
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by flootch 13y ago
“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, my gosh, this woman is being materialized (in a textbook)…’
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by flootch 13y ago
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 the girl did against all odds and oppression of men account
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by flootch 13y ago
Disagreeing with the nonsense that passes for argument at feminist websites doesn't make me a troll. Quite the contrary, it places me squarely in the majority these days. Figure my life out? Feminism needs to figure out why so many people (
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by flootch 13y ago
Exsqueeze me? Two people disagree with you what the consensus of that discussion was. Both people provide links. You did not. Who is more likely remembering the discussion correctly? The folks that provide links to it, or the person that va
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by flootch 13y ago
Recently we had that female Mozilla employee whose code (for a personal project, no less) was made fun of by three semi-prominent developers on Twitter. The consensus on HN was that there was nothing wrong with her code, but that she was b
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by flootch 13y ago
See http://www.thepowerbase.com/2013/04/github-graciously-helps-... Women aren't frail damsels that need your condescending efforts, or need your overly protective assumptions that are mainly patriarchy disguised as a cape to help them cr
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by flootch 13y ago
Going with your explanation, then what happened is the same as when any kid, boy or girl, whose parent is a well connected, relatively well off scientist, shows up at the science fair with the home made electron microscope, or the genetica
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by flootch 13y ago
Heh, I thought that was your job. If you actually are interested, see this post and all of the comments: http://www.thepowerbase.com/2013/04/github-graciously-helps-... I admit I don't understand the downvotes. danilocampus invited me to
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by flootch 13y ago
“This is a terrific story, and proof that young girls are an untapped resource of innovation,” said Change The Ratio co-founder Rachel Sklar, when we told her the news. It seemed this young woman acted identically to any young individual
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by flootch 13y ago
What ever happened to the developer who lost his job?

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