ESTheComposer

This is such a farce of an article.

"Coinbase has taken an increasingly defiant stance, publicly criticizing the SEC and urging regulators to write new rules for crypto rather than enforce existing ones."

No, they're asking the SEC to provide evidence and the SEC has been ignoring them and trying to have everything be a security.

"The firm has accused the SEC of stifling innovation and has spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress in hopes of bypassing regulators through new legislation."

Again no, they're not trying to bypass regulators whatsoever. Coinbase has posted again and again and again that they want to be properly regulated including by the SEC, but the SEC refuses to work with them.

It's extremely frustrating because people who know what's actually been going on can clearly see the bs, but most people who read this article (including a ton of the anti crypto crowd on HN) will just latch onto this as if it is truth.

Your explanation is trying to insinuate that it’s because they’re black, but they deliver to black neighborhoods inside SF limits, therefore you can’t just say “oh they’re racist”.

If my original example is what we went with, you could because tenderloin is smack dab in SF, and it would be clearly discriminatory to pick up passengers from everywhere in SF except that one neighborhood.

So in your opinion contractors don't exist? Because what you're telling me is if I want to hire a contractor and they say no, and I decide I won't use them again in the future, then I'm all of a sudden an employer.

Maybe I should tell that to half the HVAC guys in my area so they can start collecting health insurance from me

There could be many factors to that though. I mean first thing to ask would probably be did the amount of drivers increase substantially in the last 8-12 months? If so it would be just like any other market force; more available contractors with same amount of fares = cheaper bids required

I mean this proves my point? If you're trying to point out the one part that's blue on that map to the right of 280, I'll point you to the multiple pockets of blue inside their delivery zones

If you're not able to choose and reject tasks (rides), then that would make Uber an employer. The reality is they can (and do), so it goes against this whole quote.

"You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done)."

They tell you "Hey, Joe wants a ride from A to B and we will pay out $X for that, do you accept this job?". They're not telling you "Hey, Joe wants a ride from A to B, you must take it and you must perform it within 15 minutes and you must do x y z"

I'm guessing a lot of people doing uber driving now either never

A. Attempted to be a taxi driver so never saw that system B. Grew up in the Uber generation and has only seen the improved taxi system that happened as a result of ride share C. Never experienced the refusing cards and non white stuff.

It really is looking at it through rose colored glasses. I remember when Uber first emerged on the scene everyone that I talked to thought it was a God send because they were so tired of taxis being garbage and scammy

East of 280 doesn't really denote anything about danger to me, as I don't recall those areas being any more dangerous than the rest of SF. If they deliver to Tenderloin and not there I highly doubt it's for the reason you're alluding to

Except the drivers can reject trips. Uber can just choose not to use them for future assignments, e.g what they're doing with suspending accounts for rejecting too many rides.

They're basically saying they don't want to work with unreliable contractors.

I lived next to it and had to walk through there all the time at night, so I'm pretty aware of the risks there, as well as the demographic. Uber would 100% get labeled racist if drivers never went there.

> Accounts are suspended for repeatedly not driving to dangerous areas.

Do you not see why this is a policy? If you're in SF for example and drivers refuse to pick up anyone from the Tenderloin, and the Tenderloin is predominately one race, it's easy to label Uber as perpetuating racism etc.

Yellen has been intimately involved in the process so I don't think there's too much of a difference right now, especially since they all had a zoom call including hundreds of senators at like 1 in the morning over the weekend.

So why would you not say the same for the folks spearheading their closure? Yellen has gotten multi million checks from banks

"Objective fact" lol please. Not an objective word in this sentence that you can back up with literally anything. Or we can just take your hyperbole and apply it to literally anything that has any negative sides to it.

Sure but you run so many iterations of it it bogs the whole thing down

Your site is spewing an insane amount of confetti like 20 times on the first load of the page

Cool, my hyperbole is 99% of churches are charities. Now what? What is the point of commenting a hyperbole?

Yeah I didn't say anything about the LDS church specifically, just that OP is talking about 99% of churches not being charities

It seems you don't read and are the one that is fucking obtuse. Your link says 25% (not a larger percentage) agree with some "central tenets" of QAnon (as do 16% of the population as a whole), the central tenets that is mentioned in the article being a pedophile ring in the government, which to be quite honest is not that far fetched considered the whole Epstein ordeal, so not surprising to see these stats.

It's easy to see why such a large portion agree with that CENTRAL TENET (capitalizing so you can read it when you skim this).

If you actually go into the study you might even see that compared to the 25% of republicans, 14% of independents and 9% of Democrats are also QAnon believers. So to say that it's solely a Republican issue is disingenuous no matter how the media paints it (even the article you linked over exaggerating its source).

Don't be so fucking obtuse and learn to read past headlines

Citation for that 99% figure? If it's anecdotal then I will give you my anecdote as a non Christian that I see 99% of churches doing charitable works.

Sure, just like all who voted for JFK were right then and there baptized as Catholics

Great to see percentages thrown out without citations, unless you’ve of course spoken to most of them throughout the US personally.

Also I’m not a Republican so

QAnon nuts don't represent all conservatives, just as the people inciting riots and looting during BLM don't represent all liberals. Black and white thinking is stupid in this day and age yet it seems to persist

Wanting to further your own goals !== "bad people". You can want to further your own goals while helping others.

Your HTML to Markdown is pretty off.

<h1>Test</h1>

<h2>Test2</h2>

<h3>Test3</h3>

<ul>

  <li>List1</li>

</ul>

Gets converted to

Test

====

Test2

-----

### Test3

* List1

When it should be

# Test

## Test2

### Test3

• List1

EDIT: Actually looking more into it it seems it's just using more uncommon ways of doing headers. Guess I didn't know about the alternate methods

Pretty sure it originally had FTX and crypto flipped, which is why my reply made sense. At the moment, yes it’s ironic that this happens in crypto even though crypto’s main (and maybe only) strength is that it isn’t beholden to a centralized authority.

No, not even remotely. FTX is a centralized exchange, and is the opposite of what crypto’s original philosophy is

Hey there, installed this as I think it's a pretty nice extension that could help with keeping me engaged in articles.

Found a bug on Firefox. (I'm on Dark mode fyi)

If I click the extension, then click it again, then click it once more, the page's dark mode goes away, and the menu on the right occasionally disappears completely. Seems some kind of internal state is going awry

Love that a large chunk of negative sentiment comments here are from one private equities trader. Pretty telling imo.

Anonymity is not a crime

I’m going to guess since your native country is English speaking, and I’m going to guess you grew up in said English speaking country. If these are the cases, then of course you can’t see why it would matter.

When you come from immigrant families like mine, these things matter more.

But also how is the name of a place any different? If Turkey was a person and asked you to call them Turkiye, would you have the same response? According to you, no. They aren’t asking you to call the US Birlesik Devletleri, they’re asking you to call their own country by what they deem is their proper name