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by fstuff 7y ago
I just had a thought, wasn't this accident after the Levandowski thing? I wonder if Uber pulled a bunch of code for fear of infringing on waymo and put in this crappy hacky code. They probably didn't want the Levandowski case to a
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by fstuff 7y ago
Lol, people keep taking about Uber building internal products because 3rd party stuff can't "Uber" scale, I think the real drive to build internal apps is to save on licensing costs. Take chat, hipcat is like 5-10 bucks per m
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by fstuff 7y ago
Before the Susan fowler thing they had a rule that you had 30 days to exercise your options after you leave or separate as they called it. Since the company's value went up so much most people couldn't afford to pay the tax and be
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by fstuff 7y ago
It's weird walking away from 120 million but I think I might get what he was thinking. He was probably over confident with the tech, and thought it was close to roll out. He was also probably thinking the tech was worth billions. I bet
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by fstuff 7y ago
Hmm... If Anthony ends up taking a plea deal I wonder if there might be some details about Uber that might come up. I could totally see Anthony selling out Travis at least
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by fstuff 7y ago
Oh I didn't hear about a snap lawsuit, I knew their stock tanked but I don't know about the lawsuit. I'll Google it. I figured after they put out the ipo perspective it was "buyer be ware".
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by fstuff 7y ago
What the heck could this be about? They just IPO'd and the investors are mad the stock is down? Why would that be a reason to sue... Or I assume sue... Why would this require an investigation? Might be a dumb question
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Law Firm Announces Investigation on Behalf of Uber Technologies Inc Investors
2 points by fstuff 7y ago|4 comments
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by fstuff 8y ago
But as a bicyclist it's deadly. I'm in SF, it happens all the time on second St and on market. I thought they weren't even allowed to drop off on market but it happens all the time. It happens to me like once every 3 months b
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by fstuff 8y ago
Waze and a company called scoop do this
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by fstuff 8y ago
Agreed, if I go on the sidewalk I never go faster than walking speed but only if the sidewalk is clear. I'll walk it if there's people on the sidewalk.
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by fstuff 8y ago
>As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks", I get tired of that. I strongly disagree with this. I've owned an electric scooter for over a year now and I learned real fast that it's super dangero
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by fstuff 8y ago
Yea I've never seen anyone riding with a helmet on these scooters. U see them all over south park bear the ball park. I've rode a personal electric scooter for over a year now and I can say a helmet is a must. The biggest danger
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by fstuff 8y ago
Actually their motto is "Safety third" https://jalopnik.com/safety-third-is-the-running-joke-at-ube...
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Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s(techcrunch.com)
205 points by fstuff 9y ago|124 comments
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by fstuff 9y ago
there's a company testing a remote driver system to take control of self driving cars when they can't handle a problem ahead. https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...
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by fstuff 9y ago
I can understand that, my anecdotal experience with AT&T fiber when they rolled out was that they dug up half the curb in front on my driveway and left a trench covered with a unsecured piece of 2 inch plywood for almost 3 months. They
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by fstuff 9y ago
It's the 100k paid out to this guy included with that number? Just curious
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by fstuff 9y ago
Yea I had uber driver tell me he cleared 100k maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Back then uber only took a 15% i think. They also paid crazy incentives to lure drives. Like earn 1-2k for x amount of rides in a certain period. Now that they have a s
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by fstuff 9y ago
I'm no uber fan but I don't see them ever going away. It may downsize or it may merge with a competitor but I don't see the uber app ever going away. Plus they have a lot of paper assets. 20% of Didi is 10B alone. And they
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by fstuff 9y ago
Most operational staff are hourly workers who don't get paid anywhere near what a engineer gets and hourly works usually don't get RSUs. You have to consider the 1000s people working on city ops, support, their insurance ops teams
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by fstuff 9y ago
If they lose they could be forced shut down they're AV research. I don't think the judge would let them continue using waymo's tech while uber appeals
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by fstuff 9y ago
I think it'll be exodus 2.0. I contracted there until Nov 2016, a few months before the delete uber campaign and Susan Fowler. I kept in contact with some service desk friends and they said after Susan's blog at least 200 people q
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by fstuff 9y ago
You missed a couple steps - hire a PR firm to flood new cities with stories of how g great uber is - build up a huge rider and driver base by offering riders deep discounts and drivers big bonuses - when threaten with regulations email the
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Waymo Seeks 11th-Hour Delay of Uber Trial Over Hidden Letter(bloomberg.com)
2 points by fstuff 9y ago|0 comments
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by fstuff 9y ago
Quote>"Uber now says it had a legal obligation to report the hack to regulators and to drivers whose license numbers were taken. Instead, the company paid hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet. Uber said it b
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by fstuff 9y ago
Lol those conditions almost sound like a silk road darknet market transaction. In that you're making a transaction with stranger and pay the stranger
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Waymo Case Against Uber May See Second Trial Over Software Code(google.com)
1 points by fstuff 9y ago|0 comments
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Uber asks drivers to pay $115 for a shot at extra Halloween earnings(thenextweb.com)
6 points by fstuff 9y ago|1 comments
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SCOTT GALLOWAY: Bad behavior cost Uber $20-30B(google.com)
1 points by fstuff 9y ago|0 comments

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