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However, Uber doesn't value star-ratings the way she does, so she is wrong.
The open source model, however, allows for incremental improvements, patching, security updates and auditing from the community that the typical closed source model neglects to provide.
Gambling, video game, and internet addictions are real and do ruin lives.
While I don't want to dive into hyperbole territory and don't blame video games for this instance of violence, just this week someone punched and killed their 1 year old child because they lost at a video game[1].
Brains are weird and are easily highjacked by dopamine hits, whether they're obtained from drugs or external stimuli.
[1] https://people.com/crime/dad-allegedly-kills-baby-son-punch-...
Except that feminism actively derides both the gender norms that say mothers are better caregivers and the US court system's bias against fathers in child custody rulings. There is literally decades of literature and other sources on these points.
A old, common talking point and accusation is that feminism is equivalent to female supremacy, and antifeminist groups recruit men who feel emasculated by women[1]:
> A second set of texts presents varieties of the contemporary masculinist response. Like its earlier incarnation, contemporary masculinist response is split between efforts to dislodge women's supremacy in the private sphere and support for men who are "wounded" in the struggle to exude an aura of masculinity in the public sphere.
> Men's challenges to women's perceived parental monopoly come from men's rights groups such as the Coalition for Free Men, Men's Rights International, and Men Achieving Liberation and Equality (MALE), as well as numerous fathers' support groups. These groups often deny that men have power in society, arguing that male supremacy is an illusion, along the lines of the illusion of the chauffeur: "he's dressed in the uniform and he looks like he's in the driver's seat," noted Warren Farrell, "but from his perspective someone else is giving the orders" (cited in Woldenberg 1986, p. 10). Masculinist texts claim that women and men are "equally oppressed" (Baumli 1986) and rail against perceived institutionalized female privileges, such as exemptions from the draft and advantages in alimony, child custody, and child support (Goldberg 1976; Haddad 1979). One critical review of these texts summarized their claims as follows:
> > Men, they say, are emotionally and sexually manipulated by women, forced into provider roles where they work themselves to death for their gold-digger wives, kept from equal participation and power in family life, and finally dumped by wives only to have courts and lawyers give all the property, money, and child custody to the women. (Messner 1986, p. 32)
I'd hope that such studies on sleep control for income, employment, education and what not.
If you had read and comprehended my post, and the post I responded to, you would have seen that the OP was taking offense to the idea that taxi drivers were protesting Uber.
Having read the article, it is clear that the OP is mistaken, because taxi drivers are not protesting.
Hope this helps.
Taxi drivers aren't protesting, it's the ride-share drivers who are protesting. Ride-share drivers have grievances with Uber outside of what's happening to traditional taxi drivers.
The tradition is nepotism and bribes. It's a relatively recent thing for the state to go after the moderately wealthy for doing what they've done for millennia.
> Food is a major mechanism by which people are exposed to pollutants. Diet is thought to account for up to 90% of a person's PCB and DDT body burden.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine_disruptor#Routes_of_...
Only on Amazon do you find listings for headphones with 400 positive reviews for some BluRay version of Harry Potter, where those 400 positive reviews are displayed as if they're for the headphones themselves.
> I don't trust AliExpress not to send me fake items or cheap knockoffs either, but that doesn't stop me from trying sometimes. At least with Amazon you have recourse in my experience.
AliExpress has never given me a reason to distrust them, while Amazon has. I once received a defective item from a seller on AliExpress and I was refunded my money without having to ship the item back. I'm okay with that recourse.
I don't trust Amazon not to send me fake items or cheap Chinese knockoffs. There is absolutely no quality control on Amazon's end. Amazon has the resources to fight fake reviews, yet fake reviews are still rampant. As a result, I cannot trust Amazon's rating system at all.
As in, unless you're interested in working on compilers or web applications that need low-level optimizations on the client-side despite existing WebAssembly compilers, you won't need to "learn" WebAssembly.
I don't see how a homeless person would be able to use an establishment's bathroom more than once without being kicked out. Some places even hired security guards to stand outside of bathrooms and check receipts before allowing you to use them.
Surely those statistics can be verified by, say, the House Committee on Homeland Security without needing to leak the details of specific attempts.
Depends on what your goals are.
If your goal is improved health, any type of exercise that gets your heart rate going is better than doing nothing at all.
If your goal is building habits and routine, getting to a gym and exercising is better than not exercising.
If your goal is increased strength or muscle mass, then you're right.
Their platform is a commodity to both drivers and riders. I haven't met a driver who only drives for Uber. Uber provides no incentives for loyalty to drivers, like actual employment as employees. As a user, I have no loyalty to Uber, either.
This might be a solution for some people, but it's not a long term solution for everyone. As people age, their bodies deteriorate. An injury might put someone out of work temporarily, or forever. Manual labor becomes more difficult, or outright impossible, for people entering their 40s, 50s and 60s.
> In fact, as many as 60% of all communicable diseases and 75% of emerging infectious diseases of people originated with animals.
60% and not 2/3, but that's memory for you.
As someone who often gets secondary bacterial infections from initial viral infections, I often have to fight with well-intentioned prescribers in order to get adequate treatment so I don't end up in the hospital a few days later.