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Facebook kills clickbait with one simple tweak! Number 6 will blow your mind!

Really though, the clickbait industry is going into a death phase and has been since last year, and with any luck it'll kill the sites. Advertising revenue is drying up, people aren't going to the sites. Some sites have been bleeding views and uniques others have simply stalled and/or entering serious declines (article paywalled)like Buzzfeed which has lost ~32% of it's traffic since last year.. Vice for example has bled ~18% of it's traffic. Huffpo? Laying off. Salon? Laying off. Even sites like Cracked, bleeding traffic and was sold off earlier this year. Lots of stories, lots of sties besides those that live and breath on clickbait are dying. Other publications(like media) that are pushing very specific agendas, are also suffering heavily as people turn away.

Without any sort of explanation as to why his characterization is invalid.

I explained it right after I made the statement.

There's a bill to ban surge pricing in New York.

"The ride-sharing concept is great; who wouldn't want an alternative like this?" Williams asked. "Thereâ(TM)s great benefit to this, especially in metropolitan areas, but nobody wants to be gouged eight or 10 times the normal fare."

You still want to argue it's not gouging?

This is what the parent post said:

The whole point of "surge" pricing is to ensure that people that *really need* something can still get it

Wrong. The whole point of surge pricing is to only offer taxis to those who can afford it, screw the non-rich folks. That's gouging.

I think though you are talking an order of magnitude difference in cost, or more. I would expect that citibikes are relatively cheap in the grand scheme of infrastructure and any modifications to roads will spread across to private cycles as well.

Oh, definitely. Sorry, didn't mean to imply otherwise. The MTA budget is in the tens of billions, while the bikes are in the tens of millions. But the MTA moves 8 million+ per day while citibikes are ridden ~35,000 times per day.

I think Citi foots most of the upfront cost for the bikes but they are far from free to use: https://www.citibikenyc.com/pr...

Compare that to a $3 subway ride.

I am all for people riding their bikes, but a citibank advertisement is no substitute for a proper, functioning mass transit system. But from Citi's perspective, as an brand-awareness advertising campaign, I would be that the bikes are an unquestionable success. I just hope we aren't wasting too much time on a feel-good fix, and not enough on the real needs of the city. ( The MTA is thought to be $30B in debt: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/... )

Anyways, thanks for your links, hope to visit your country someday. Now I know where to bike!

The elimination of racist police tactics is already paying dividends. Shootings and murder are already up over 20%!

http://xkcd.com/552/

The elimination of racist police tactics is already paying dividends. Shootings and murder are already up over 20%!

Good work.