Are things so bad at Uber that they've decided putting a PR guy on HN is a worthwhile investment?
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The truth of the matter is that it simply isn't their business to know, nor is it of those employed by the people she discusses.
If my own experiences are to go by anyway.
Medium != journalism.
Given the current era of hardline identity politics I'm surprised it hasn't amplified though.
If not, I think it'd be hard to say that in the same situation I wouldn't do the same.
An apt caption for the uncertainty in Toronto introduced by Wynne's last desperate attempts to change people's minds on her.
Nothing new here.
What about the fact that we're the only species to hoard way more resources than we'll ever need, to the point where we're quite literally destroying the environment and life around us in order to maintain our over-consumption of resources?
To pivot is to fail, to recognise one's failure, to pick oneself up and try again in another direction. On a personal level it's admirable. On a business level I've no opinion as these pivots are all privately funded.
When the NYT is publishing these weird, poorly written and badly strung together political rants, is it any wonder they're "losing" in the age of new media?
The constant censorship and de-platforming is one thing, the support from otherwise intelligent and rational people (such as those on HN) for these actions is another, and vastly more worrying, thing entirely.
It's unfortunate to see society rapidly devolving to a far more basic, ignorance driven tribal culture driven by identity politics.
Time to go down to the Winchester, have a pint and wait for this all to blow over from a safe distance.
The words of salespeople should really ring hollow.
Tech companies, as a whole, are a social negative. Let's not appeal to them to position themselves as figures of social authoritiey or defender of rights.
The "nazis" who came out in VA recently are a tiny group with little support. One moron carried out vehicular homicide and is being dealt with appropriately by the law. If he hadn't carried out those actions though I'm sure your narrative would be the same.
I hope both groups are suppressed in equal measures, and I hope those carrying the hammer and sickle are dealt with as equally as their comrades carrying swastikas.
Even in an otherwise smart, rational and measured community, in this thread we're seeing appeals to emotion, partisan "outrage" and downvoted being used as a tool of disagreement.
The Obama administration also sent messages but they seem to have been ignored willingly or not. Remember when the intelligence services entered the offices of the free press in the U.K. and forced the destruction of computer equipment?
The warning signs have been here for years. If the loud mouthed Trump is what triggers a movement to change things then so be it.
See: The bulk phone data collection programs instituted by the Patriot Act, the vast expansion of NSA data collection (of us all) under the Obama administration, the straight-to-the-wire tapping of critical internet infrastructure and providers such as Google, Microsoft etc. enabled by the establishment of the secret FISA court which has never denied a warrant, and so much more.
Let's also not forget the persecution endured by the whistleblowers for the above institutions by the Obama regime.
Set your partisan, hyperbolic "outrage" aside.
Commercial fishing has absolutely devastated our oceans. Farmed fish have long been proposed as the "sustainable" solution.
If commercial, open water fishing or fish farming isn't the solution to provide sustainable food, then what is?
I read on the Uber Driver's forums that many (the majority, going by the polls) will now be rating riders lower by default and then increasing the rating after a tip has been received.
I've since basically stopped using Uber. Between the increased prices since legislation was introduced here in Toronto, the drop in driver quality as more of the taxi drivers move to Uber, the forced surge pricing by colluding groups of drivers and now the expectation of tips it has essentially lost all of its appeal to me.
The off-hours public transit, which was once made unattractive by Uber, has returned to being my default go-to for now.
As an entity contracting human driven vehicles? My bet would be yes.
As for its desired autonomous future? There's no telling.
19 people out of a group of 0.3% of the population (self-reported) being murdered is far below the average intentional homicide rate of the general population.
By far I mean it's working out at about 0.2/100,000 compared to the 4.8/100,000 as experienced overall.
Can we not discuss this without leaning on appeals to emotion and hearsay?
The number of people such as yourself who want to censor speech and police thought, however, is frighteningly high. You are the same as those who advocated for book bannings and burnings at other points in history and it is depressing that your point of view has the strength it currently does once again.
That this could ever be written, seriously, points toward how toxic the times we are living in have become.