The children ARE forced to work there. They are literally modern day slaves.
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The idea that Uber is creating slaves that have no agency is the typical elitist arrogance, sitting in their ivory towers, picturing all these poor Uber drivers suffering when it’s simply not the case.
In Brazil during their worst recession in decades, they had something like 300k drivers. This dropped the prices to the point where so many more rides occurred that everyone made more money and the customers were happy because the prices were low. That’s what they are going for, not some sort of moat based on raising prices.
“The poor dumb blue collar workers don’t know any better and need to be protected by the smarter elites who did the calculations!”
If you’re an advertiser and you’ve been paying for ads, but 25% of the engagement was fake, you won’t ask for a refund?
If you’re a new advertiser and you find a platform where 25 % of the engagement is bots, will you want to pay full price?
Twitter doesn’t have to be caught in a lie. They can just be caught with having a materially different numbers of fake accounts from their stated numbers.
If 25% of the amount you paid to Twitter for ads went to bots and fake accounts, you don’t think that you deserve a refund? You don’t think advertisers would take advantage of that to get refunds? You don’t think the SEC would be interested in this?
The whole point is Musk’s team is going to dig up stuff that Twitter won’t want to fix because the cost to find and track it will overweigh the amount of money they make probably. But it will have ramifications in terms of things like refunds and customers leaving the platform entirely. It will make them look really bad. It’s inevitable.
If Musk’s team does a deeper dive than Twitter is willing to invest in and determines that the number of bots is material, it calls into question the entire financial model of Twitter. Customers will demand refunds and earnings will have to be restated going back years. It’s going to be a nuclear financial bomb.
So of course Twitter is going to sandbag. They can’t afford to release that data because they know it’s going to be material. Musk knows this and Twitter knows this.
I think Twitter is actually fucked now because their number of accounts will come into question and maybe even the SEC might squeeze them. But Twitter will probably look tough but try to close this chapter as quickly as possible and hope that no one digs deeper into the fake accounts.
So it languished for 6 years with no movement. Trump came in a added it with an executive decision, and it was then that there were legal challenges that were denied. And that’s how we got here.
Like I said, Trump is the worst president of all time but give him his dues when he deserves them. This is one of them.
This is 100% his doing, through executive action. The Dems could have done this but never did. It’s just another example of how neither side of the aisle is truly on your side.
I highly recommend these if you’re into taking this sort of data.
Learning how to play poker is one of the most important skills you can learn in life. It teaches you so many things about life: how to make decisions based on incomplete information and being okay with unfavorable outcomes; knowing how to control your risk and knowing when to push more when the odds are in your favor; learning how to take a bunch of small losses vs less frequent but much larger wins, etc.
Poker really changed my perspective on life and risk management. Being able to fold your hand 80% of the time and seeing those hands going on to win a huge pot, but telling yourself you did the right move because there’s no way you would have known beforehand, is an extremely valuable life skill.
If you look at Uber’s drop in valuation, it’s commensurate with the drop in all tech companies. In fact, the article is seemingly singing the praises of DoorDash but Uber is down roughly 50% since Nov 2022 but DoorDash is down 75%.
And there’s nothing new that this article brings. Same old “Uber shouldn’t exist” meanwhile it’s set to become profitable.
What??? I honestly expect more from HN readers than blatant china-apologists.
OF COURSE it changes the consequences! We tell China to hand over all research and distribute it to scientists around the world so that research doesn’t start from ground 0. If it could have accelerated understanding of the virus by several months, imagine how many lives could have been saved!
Instead China deleted all their files and kept quiet. They literally don’t care about millions of deaths.
While on a low-carb diet I won’t eat until noon, have a soup and eggs, and then a regular low-carb dinner with maybe 1 cup of yogurt.
When I break my diet, I’m constantly and insatiably snacking all the time. The difference is stark and really eye opening.
I suspect your migraine is largely psychosomatic. At 5 years keto, any sugar you eat will be metabolized within hours and your blood sugar levels normalize. Having symptoms well into the next day doesn’t make physiological sense, but I understand where that comes from. I don’t get migraines but a deep sense of shame when my willpower decreases and I eat a delicious but unhealthy dessert.
Sucrose is metabolized in a different pathway than fructose. Fructose is directly metabolized by the liver, which is why things like High Fructose Corn Syrup is devastating for your body. HFCS directly causes fatty liver disease because as the fructose is metabolized by the liver, that’s where the fat accumulated. Fatty liver disease causes things like cirrhosis of the liver which could cause cancer.
I used to drink 6 Cokes a day and my liver blood tests were so high (ALT and AST) that my GP was worried I had liver cancer. I got an ultrasound and I only had fatty liver disease but it was pretty severe. I was overweight but not obese as per BMI. That “scared me straight” and once I started to lose weight my ALT and AST responded instantly.
I have a CGM and when I have cheat days and have Cheetos and a Coke, my blood sugar levels still spike to almost 300 which is diabetic levels but drop back to normal pretty quickly. Food like Cheetos are very quickly turned into blood sugar unnaturally quickly which is why processed carbs are extremely terrible for you and a major cause of pre diabetes.
It’s very interesting and helpful in keeping my blood sugar levels. I’ve been on carb-restriction diet for about a year and it unfortunately hasn’t had any impact on my insulin resistance. I had a “cheat week” recently and my body’s reaction to carbs was extremely disappointing so I guess low carb is what I’ll need to be on for the remainder of my life.
The thing I hate most about CGM like Freestyle Libre 2 is how they purposefully artificially limit the device to keep control over the user and to maximize their profits. I don’t have any data past 90 days, which I didn’t realize so I can’t see my data from before. There’s no reason to not store all my data and it infuriates me. The sensor is limited to 14 days which is also artificial so they are just maximizing their profits. I wish another manufacturer would come out with a cheaper priced one so that more people could benefit from it.
I would love an explanation as to why this persists. Google has now become the place where products go to die and no one at Google seems to care. Nest is another company that hasn’t innovated or added significant new features in years. Same goes with Waze. Apple Maps is now the best navigation app because they have invested in innovation and for some reason Google won’t.