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plink commented on Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America share-now.com/ca/en/impor... · Posted by u/kareemm

pjc50 · 6 years ago

I wonder why Chicagoans don't trust the police? Is it "politics", or the problem that the police violence can sometimes be worse than the crime? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...

There are things that can be done, but there's no solidarity and a legacy of racism.

plink · 6 years ago

Also, police are cut from the same cloth as the rest of society. If the social fabric becomes frayed then every facet of the culture is degraded.

plink commented on Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I theguardian.com/books/201... · Posted by u/the-enemy

devindotcom · 6 years ago

Interesting. I wasn't aware Elizabeth I was such an avid translator. Now I'm interested in her work - though I suppose it would be in the contemporary diction, which will make it somewhat less readable than a modern translation. Still, as Philo points out, she's a better Latinist than most today.

plink · 6 years ago

Her translation of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae is not unrenowned.

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plink commented on SoftBank and WeWork Are as Bad as Each Other bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/LordAtlas

ineedasername · 7 years ago

Not only that, but the Creature was rather intelligent and civilized to an extent, it's actions the result of the abandonment by its creator that it suffered at a critical moment. An abandonment cause by horror at a physical appearance, which in turn caused the Creature to be horrible in actions as well as appearance.

I'm not sure I've ever seen it adequately used as a metaphor that rose above the "Oooh, it's a monster!" level.

plink · 7 years ago

In this metaphor, it’s unlikely that either WeWork or Uber could be taken aback by suddenly viewing their reflections in a mirror. The horror is common knowledge to everyone, excepting perhaps the money blinkered investors.

plink commented on Was Etsy too good to be true? vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/... · Posted by u/detaro

plink · 7 years ago

Instead of dreaming about what potential lies in Etsy 2.0, why doesn’t someone build a competing marketplace that takes the advantage by not accepting a shit-ton of corrupting VC investment?

plink commented on California bill could force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees businessinsider.com/uber-... · Posted by u/T-A

briandear · 7 years ago

Are they indentured servants?

plink · 7 years ago

Yup. In Florida, many of them are illegals, many of them are hobos with cars, and others are indentured to crime rings where one vehicle is swapped out with several drivers whose faces apparently all look alike to the rideshare company management. Here’s an example for you: today, Tuesday, MCO is closed, yet the rideshare staging lot has over 25 vehicles in it. Yesterday, Monday, FLL was closed for weather, and the rideshare staging lot had over 55 vehicles parked in it with their homeless drivers sleeping through the hurricane to get first crack at inbound flights once they resumed. Nice work if you can get it.

plink commented on California bill could force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees businessinsider.com/uber-... · Posted by u/T-A

mrosett · 7 years ago

The claim that Uber drivers aren't actually earning money but just engaging in "conversion of stored value in their vehicle into short-term earnings" is based on a clearly flawed study [0]. Even after subtracting out vehicle wear and tear, drivers make a modest (but not great) wage. You can rail about "exploitation" and "starvation wages" but the people I know who have worked for Uber generally thought the wage was decent and the conditions were better than most alternatives. Removing the option to "be exploited" by Uber doesn't leave them working a cushy 6-figure software job; it leads to doing work they like less.

[0]: https://medium.com/uber-under-the-hood/an-analysis-of-ceeprs...

plink · 7 years ago

Drivers who are aquainted with you may make a modest wage, and I’ll wager you know no drivers in Minneapolis nor Orlando, for their mileage rates cause their rideshare labor to be an entirely charitable endeavor.

plink commented on Uber proposes policy that would pay drivers a minimum wage of $21 per hour techcrunch.com/2019/08/28... · Posted by u/docker_up

brexiteer · 7 years ago

This makes sense, Uber should be a premium service, back in my day having a private driver on call was expensive as it should be, the wear and tear om the vehicle is ridiculous, the vehicles are nice. You want a cheap ride, get a cab that someone may have shit in OR innovate in your life and buy your own vehicle.

plink · 7 years ago

You’re being downvoted for what, suggesting people buy their own vehicles? The downvoters conveniently skipped that you mentioned the primary option would be to pay the real costs of a private ride . Rideshare is a swindle against gullible, math-challenged contractors while painting the whole affair as a progressive, environmentally conscientious techno-inevitability.

plink commented on Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (2015) qz.com/571151/the-mast-br... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

plink · 7 years ago

Maybe by Mast Bros’ example there’s opportunity for Elizabeth Holmes to pivot into this field.

plink commented on Why President of Brazil's Comments Matter latinamericareports.com/w... · Posted by u/egusa

plink · 7 years ago

What’s the solution to so many world governments now being led by totalitarian intellectual degenerates, especially since it increasingly negatively affects the whole of humanity? Are we waiting for a vague, benevolent singularity to conquer us stupids? Or are we humans becoming the yeast cells in the brew of our own demise? I seriously posit this for intelligent answers as I’m stumped.

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