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I found your argument cogent though without sources to back it up, hard to believe. I do not know why you are being downvoted though.

Would it be possible to include sources around what you are claiming?

Well this just sucks. As a frequent SF visitor, Uber/Lyft used to be my primary way of moving around. I don't drive.

I also don't see who benefits from this. You had a well functioning service for the users that will be disrupted. You had a flexible way to earn for drivers that will be disrupted.

I chat with drivers a lot (to practise my English) and lots of drivers really like chatting too ( A lot of them were recent immigrants as well and perhaps like to practise their English with a non native). Many drivers were doing this as a part time thing. Or doing this before they went on to better things. One for example was studying Architecture. I have even had a Porsche pick me up and the driver just wanted to get out of his house.

A lot of drivers were sure forced to drive for Uber for lack of other alternatives but that is not Uber's problem. They did not add to the problem. Society failed there. This law helps no one and is a clear example of no skin in the game virtue signalling trumping common sense.

Telegram. Now taking off in India as well.

I'd like to add one more

* and also assume that a corporation named something without figuring out what the name meant!

Stop romanticising the past. :) You are certainly having more characters vertically on screen on current environments plus having more horizontally.

It is possible to have a decent caring relationship on top of a commercial one. I have restaurant owners who I have a really warm relationship with. I know about their family, they enquire about mine. They will not give me a free meal and neither do I expect one. Same with some shops that I frequent.

Airbnb is certainly a market. So are restaurants. You do see people supporting their local restaurants in this crisis don't you?

I know your comment is for the majority but I have had meaningful connections with my hosts. Some I am still in touch years later.

If the host reached out to me on their own, I would probably help them. But to have Airbnb guilt trip people into donating is beyond me as well.

I am living in India right now and have never heard about this. It is interesting that you would gather that the majority of us are on some dose of Chloroquinine. Nobody I know, is.

R0 cannot be less than zero, unless a patient can actually cure other patients.

A counterpoint to the article. As a founder in India we have recently started thinking about hiring people from EU, especially the eastern part.

If however the criteria and salary for a good programmer is EUR 42k pa as a comment below suggests, you can earn decently more than that at multiple companies, including mine.

I think my assertion is much more likely than yours that people were in higher paying jobs and moved to Uber/Ola, a lower paying job, so you should give a source for that.

Nevertheless the source is my twice daily ride with Uber and talking to the drivers. Most of the drivers are youngsters from villages with no degrees and no skills now making a living. They also don’t own the car and drive for someone else. The fact that the Uber/Ola commission is able to support the driver and owner should tell you something.

I live in India so I don’t understand what you mean by “Its India”.

No nationalized bank( majority of auto loans) will use a coercive process. Hell no private bank will use one. RBI has clamped on that practice as illegal in 2010. Worse case is the bank repos the car and auctions it.

I see lots of people assuming that the drivers are in a debt trap. Its auto debt. They can just default and go home. The bank will take their car.

I have talked to multiple Uber/Ola drivers. Sure the economics aren't as good now. But they are still better than alternatives. That's the sad truth. Unless people can get them better jobs, Uber/Ola will have to do.

It's auto debt. The car will be taken by the bank. What else can the bank do?

The truth is that cab drivers are making a livelihood, in fact a much better livelihood than they were making without Uber and Ola.

Yes we should freeze everyone's growth and maintain the status quo. Clearly only the Western nations deserve a high standard of living. The others need to make sacrifices for the greater good.

Do you frequently book hotels or travel? Just wondering because the app that you describe is so woefully short of even reasonable expectations, let alone what we have right now.

We are current WeWork tenants. WeWork can’t even provide us an interface to manage and view who used WeWork credits in our org. We asked for a report and got a pdf after 2 days.

Tech my foot. The printer software is an abomination.

Perhaps the poorest have an incentive then to quickly burn fossil fuels to become not poor then. Perhaps that is what is China doing and what India should do.

From my seat, the Western World brought us to this brink and isn't doing enough right now.

But if they do? As a society we ban egregious practices so that society as a whole can be healthier.

Now try doing that with a 4k monitor at 60Hz. You can’t.

All of them? At least every BT keyboard/mouse that I have used does this.

What could be a cite for this. PC builders worldwide like to build their computers and then benchmark them on geekbench. Naturally the top most benches will be the heavily tuned ones.

We are. We are building metros in n>10 cities now.

There there. This is not the place for this discussion.

Can you cite a source for this? This seems like an urban legend imported from Dubai or the UAE, where it may actually make sense. But I have never seen regulations or the 50 C mark being treated as some barometer of extreme heat in India.

This is completely opposite to my experience of living and growing up in India. Overpopulation is considered the root of almost every evil afflicting India.

Poverty. Overpopulation. Corruption. Overpopulation. Poor health. Overpopulation.

It's not just a keyboard preference issue for me. The reliability is shockingly appalling.

I buy computers for my startup and it feels painful to buy a MBP seeing that 50% of newer MBPs that we bought had issues with their keyboard. On a professional machine, a visit to the service centre is time and money wasted.

Also I travel a lot with my computer and just thinking about all the dongles that I will have to carry means that I am going to nurse my 2014 Macbook as long as I have to.

Data is cheap in India.

The headline is a little alarmist. I read the plan and the plan completely acknowledges the one country, two systems principle.

I think you are projecting your bias.

Also my reading is that Bloomberg etc are actually against the trade war and their coverage has been anti trade war. A broken clock is right twice a day and sometimes the Donald can be right as well.