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It can actually be a lot worse - entire countries will be held ransom when car networks gets compromised. Beyond disabling a countries transportation ability, a remote hacker could weaponize every car to attack passengers and pedestrians.

Sad to see things end this way - Yik Yak was pretty dope at Berkeley. However, I felt like the content got stale and predictable, and met the classic homogenous fate of every upvote/downvote community ever.

While the news makes sensationalist headlines and online outrage, sadly it doesn't seem like consumers care about Uber's behavior.

> Neither of these weaknesses is entirely new, having been discussed (but not addressed) by Monero developers since as early as 2015. Our work provides the first quantitative assessment of the severity of these weaknesses.

What did you think about the empirical analysis from this paper?

Regardless of the veracity of your allegations, this paper is a sound empirical analysis. It's a solid piece of research, and it's not surprising that folks from a competing blockchain would be the first to unveil real problems with Monero.

Meh, the doctor would likely call United's bluff if they tried those threats. Can you imagine the pilot's escalating warnings coming out of the plane's speaker phone?

United should have continued to offer better incentives to voluntarily deplane, until 4 passengers got off.

Legality should be boolean - either you're following the law or you're not. If guilty, however, the penalty should be proportionate to the harm done.

In this particular case, Uber is guilty of breaching Lyft ToS's clause around no data mining. However, this seems like an insignificant infraction, there is likely to be zero legal penalty. Lyft's only recourse is to either shut down Uber's accounts or feed them bogus data.

I don't see how this is nefarious, Uber is scraping data that Lyft is sharing publicly. And based on Lyft's response, my hunch is that they do the same thing.

If anything, this story distracts us from legit nasty business practices - like repeatedly cancelling on Lyft drivers to waste their time and lower their earnings.

w00t w00t, congrats Courtland, this is awesome!

Indiehackers has tons of great content that can seriously help companies using Stripe Atlas. Together, IH+Stripe could helps companies go all the way from incorporation to profitability ;)

That's kind of a strawman argument - what about corn laced with organophosphates vs corn that's been genetically modified to generate organophosphates in the kernels?

I can't tell if krona is trolling. We're exposing people to more insecticides in their diet when the plant itself produces insecticides!

At least spraying puts insecticides on the outside of the plant, which is somewhat washable. Making the kernels of corn that we eat produce insecticides makes it impossible to remove these chemicals from our dinner plates....

Unfortunately, we are routinely exposed to thousands of synthetic chemicals daily, making it impossible to attribute future ailments to particular compounds. It's very sad that there's zero requirement to understand the long term (60 years+) effects of these new chemicals to the human body.

> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

lol

Are these rules posted somewhere? Overall, HN has some really interesting content and insight, mixed in with hateful negativity - seems like talking about the rules would be good, if we wanted to cut out the negative bits

That's a really interesting point! Other complexity in this business is the operational nightmare of efficiently managing a fleet, but if there's one company that has the tech chops to make this happen fast, it's Google.

They can, but unclear how good the margins are, if manufacturing becomes commoditized since so many players are investing in it. Lions share of profit will likely go to whomever owns the customer relationship w consumers

Those are interesting points! Regarding autonomous car technology, since there's so many people working on it, it seems like it may get commoditized soon. If that's the case, being an OEM that supplies the car sharing networks seems like a low margin business, owning the customer relationship is likely to be more profitable. the operational chops to run an efficient fleet might be in shorter supply...

right, uber might have to shutdown its autonomous car program, or it may just settle with google and move on with life...

Uber has a proper license to run in sf again

Uber is absolutely a risky bet. But if they succeed, they may eclipse the car ownership market and get 10x bigger

Also, tsla is neither bigger than uber nor profitable... so it doesn't fall into the categories you brought up earlier

Could you link me to that ample evidence you speak of?

On-demand car sharing is the future, making Tesla's consumer car ownership model outdated. Uber is 5-7 years ahead of Tesla on the operations side of managing and deploying a fleet.

Welp this got downvoted, I guess HN doesn't look kindly at promoting positivity here?!

They'll probably settle and move on with life

Evidence: Uber is already deploying self driving cars in multiple cities as part of the car sharing network.

Uber has made some tremendous progress towards offering self-driving cars, which completely changes the economics of ride sharing.

Lyft might be quietly making moves in this direction too, but I'd worry about their ability to stay competitive without an aggressive self-driving initiative.

More comments like these are needed here!

Cheer up, sounds like you're having a rough day!

Sounds like the issue isn't difficulty, but lack of inspiration. imho op should find a job they're more passionate about.

Very awesome, thanks for the extensive list!

Right on, seems like consumers underestimate how powerful their spending choices are. Would love to see more of this mentality when people decide which companies to support when buying gas, food, medicine, telecom, etc.

any subreddits in particular you recommend?