I missed that part of the article. Want to expand on it?
I think that skyscrapers are fine in Manhattan or LA, but it's reasonable to want to move into a city without skyscrapers, current or future. Or even want to live in a city of single-family houses.
The rules you linked to are stupidly sensible, but, more to the point, the "new" rules TNCs would have to operate under were those taxis already have to. To reiterate: the "new rule" only applies to TNCs because the taxis were already under such rules
restrictions on dynamic (surge) pricing
Yes, the restrictions were that surge pricing be taken into affect during fare estimates, and forbidding surges from taking place immediately preceding and during emergencies affecting the transportation grid (including severe weather). Taxis already do "surge" pricing solely by having extra nighttime flags. Full stop.
geofencing restricting them from providing service to special events
The geofencing provision said they had to work with those events' managment to use common pick-up/drop-off points. For traffic management and safety. Like taxis do.
I suppose it's technically possible an individual event's management could forbid Uber/Lyft, but that would be stupid and probably the case before the bill passed.
a money grab
You mean, the fee that shall be "the total of the fee a taxi company pays [per car] times the number of persons driving"? That fee that is literally what the taxis do?
And that has a special clause that small companies pay even less? And further limits those taxes to 2% of receipts max, even if it would normally be more? I mean, shocker, when using city roads to make money, you pay taxes?
demand social "outreach events"
To specifically recruit drivers who can offer ADA complaint vehicles to passengers. Just like the taxi companies have a minimum % of ADA compliant vehicles.
requirement for access to their customer and user data.
In aggregate. Like, number of trips. Number of trips picked up (by zip code) Number of trips dropped off (by zip code). Requests not fulfilled (by zip code) Information on being handicap accessible. Total gross receipts.
This is already delivered by the taxi companies. It's make sure that minority areas/disabled people aren't being ignored or screwed. Except for the receipts. That's for revenue purposes.
Look, you're not going to find someone more interested in keeping private data private, and this data is so aggregated there's no risk at all.
Hmm... I stand corrected on the Logged In... mostly. You're right, it's better than I thought. But, the summary you linked to differs from the Uber policy. Uber's isn't "logged in", it's "between rides". Which is a subtle difference that may be used to weasel out if the driver has not given a ride yet or most recently rejected a ride.
You're making the assumption that a lottery like method (right place, right time) of finding housing is better than a bidding war. Those are facts very much not in evidence.
or example, from what I've heard Uber now carries commercial insurance for the drivers, does background checks about as good as what taxi drivers get*
Uber carries commercial insurance only when the customer is picked up. They don't bother when the app is just on and they're trolling for business. Which means they are uninsured at that time.
Uber just left Austin because Austin insisted they perform the same background checks that taxi drivers get. Only UberBlack has those checks.
Oh, if they don't use the taximeter, I pay what I think is fair. What are they going to do?
Although, that's a huge boon for cabs over Uber. A cabbie is often willing to work off book, saving me money. Uber won't let them. Just make sure you agree on a price upfront.
Nitpick: Niven's stories had one alien species masterminding fights between humans and a second alien species - in order for the second alien species to become more docile via evolutionary pressure.
Something I forgot to mention in my comprehensive response (above) - There's no reason to assume those 33,000 employees would be anything close to fulltime. They could easily be contractors paid piece rate, or 1/10 time employees.
Huh? That "objective sign" makes it clear there's a shortage of weed in most states. Which, I think, would be a hard case to make.
Prices are higher than the people of SF think they should be because there is a finite resource (houses) being used for two different markets. It's entirely reasonable to want to discourage the use in one market to affect supply in the other.
I mean, the Supreme Court disagrees with you. Burdick v. US says that a pardon is issued with a presumption of guilt, and acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt.
You are right that a pardon wipes away a lot of the ex-felon consequences beyond simply getting you out of jail.
The Government also calibrated each image, so each pixel represented the same location as that same pixel on every other map. So, that was the hard part. The fact it, it was a 3D image (3rd dimension being time) and Google compressed it down to 2D.
Look, I mean, I guess Google doing that is nice. But, given the whole "what's the government ever done" attitude, highlighting when they do the heavy lifting seems important.
I'm not going to shed a tear for twenty-billion-dollar companies running on the "asset light" model to have to internalize the costs of that asset light model. If that means having employees check on the legality when someone registers, that seems like a small price to pay. I mean, a $20B company with 34,000 employees. Stop the Madness!
Of course, they could just assume the risk, or similar.
Going to your objections....
It helps for planning purposes to know how many houses are homes and how many are short term rentals.
We send people to jail for lying on their census, and the census is what is supposed to track this.
The census is every 10 years, and I don't think the data is released house-by-house, even to city governments. If you don't see the difference between that, and precise and up-to-date information, I'd be surprised.
This helps catch people whose lease forbids short-term rentals (e.g. in rent-controlled or subsidized apartments) who are using Air BnB
I highly doubt SF keeps a copy of all leases, and I'm certain none of them are read until they make it to court.
It often wouldn't be SF doing the checking, but landlords (they have a vested interest in catching cheats). And, it would be proof of intentions when a lawsuit about same arises. But SF could definitely check against the "subsidized housing" registry.
People are dodging the taxes associated with (and already in place) for short term rentals
Trying to make money is a shitty reason for legislation. It may be valid, but then SF should be honest and just call it a levy.
Helping to enforce existent tax laws is a fine reason for legislation. Keep in mind, this isn't to collect extra monies they are not entitled to, but to find cheats.
Short term rentals often conflict with long term sustainable housing. Which SF has an issue with already. Limiting the stock of this is an important aspect of city planning.
Registering with the city doesn't change this until the city denies registrations. From what I've read, you hand the city your $50 and some paperwork and you're done. Sound like it limits the stock about the same way the DMV limits how many drivers licenses it hands out.
Registering/gathering data is the first step towards deciding if there is a problem, and what to do about it if there is.
Renting property can be dangerous (there are sleeping/vulnerable travelers there) so being able to involve the government in revoking a license is a good thing. It can also be used to deny people with sufficiently criminal records.
Never seen a landlord banned from renting things out due to a criminal record before, and I know landlords with criminal records that would make you blush (including criminal records for literally being extremely shitty landlords)! What makes you think this will be different?
Because renting apartments is different from short-term rentals. The owners/operators/employees of short-term housing have higher requirements. Including, far stricter liability.
In some cases, lying about rights is most definitely actionable. A hotel that had a giant "NO [MINORITY] ALLOWED" sign would find themselves the subject of a lawsuit, even if they did rent to that minority when they presented themselves.
It's very disingenuous to use the median price for a class of product's warranty in a discussion about a specific product. At least, when you attempt to overrule the published warranty price for that specific product.
/. Requisite Car Analogy: The average price for a BWM 3 Series is like $20k. If I keep bringing that figure up in a conversation about new BWM 3 serieses, you'll look at me like I'm insane. That's because the subset of BWM 3 series members who are new have an average price double the mean of all BWM 3 series cars.
Some good reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
It helps for planning purposes to know how many houses are homes and how many are short term rentals.
This helps catch people whose lease forbids short-term rentals (e.g. in rent-controlled or subsidized apartments) who are using Air BnB
People are dodging the taxes associated with (and already in place) for short term rentals
Short term rentals often conflict with long term sustainable housing. Which SF has an issue with already. Limiting the stock of this is an important aspect of city planning.
Renting property can be dangerous (there are sleeping/vulnerable travelers there) so being able to involve the government in revoking a license is a good thing. It can also be used to deny people with sufficiently criminal records.
I'm sure there are more, but I only had a few moments to consider it. Conversely, the $50, and fill out a form seem like remarkably low burdens to impose. I mean, "I'm suing because this form isn't online" is pretty stupid.
Well this is a simulator of stuff in the sky. So a giant 3D blank space with a few known things being tracked? I'd imagine AI takes over flight long before anything on the ground or waves.
This is a request from a bureaucrat for permission. There's 60 days for the public to weigh in. If you don't like it, instead of bitching on/., call your congressman/submit an opinion through the proper channels.
These shitty clickbait headlines are getting everywhere. Some of us are capable of being interested in things without having to have them directly linked to our own personal wellbeing.
But incapable of not commenting to that effect. Now hold up, I need to go tell someone I don't have a TV.
US government releases new 700 trillion pixel images with fewer clouds. Groups using old US government data (including Google Maps) upgrade to new data.
Nope, you can be pardoned for any crime. A conviction firmly establishes that a crime occurred, but the president can pardon you for any federal offense. See Carter's pre-emptive pardon of all the draft dodgers and Ford's pardon of Nixon, before charges were even filed.
Now, technically, accepting a pardon means that you were guilty of said crime. Hence, why Ford may have thought the pardon of Nixon was an elegant compromise. He admits wrongdoing and had already resigned, and we stop trying to throw him in jail.
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Well, you do pre-register for an in-person appointment. I don't know if that's 5 minutes or 20, but you definitely have an assigned time.
I missed that part of the article. Want to expand on it?
I think that skyscrapers are fine in Manhattan or LA, but it's reasonable to want to move into a city without skyscrapers, current or future. Or even want to live in a city of single-family houses.
The rules you linked to are stupidly sensible, but, more to the point, the "new" rules TNCs would have to operate under were those taxis already have to. To reiterate: the "new rule" only applies to TNCs because the taxis were already under such rules
Yes, the restrictions were that surge pricing be taken into affect during fare estimates, and forbidding surges from taking place immediately preceding and during emergencies affecting the transportation grid (including severe weather). Taxis already do "surge" pricing solely by having extra nighttime flags. Full stop.
The geofencing provision said they had to work with those events' managment to use common pick-up/drop-off points. For traffic management and safety. Like taxis do.
I suppose it's technically possible an individual event's management could forbid Uber/Lyft, but that would be stupid and probably the case before the bill passed.
You mean, the fee that shall be "the total of the fee a taxi company pays [per car] times the number of persons driving"? That fee that is literally what the taxis do?
And that has a special clause that small companies pay even less? And further limits those taxes to 2% of receipts max, even if it would normally be more? I mean, shocker, when using city roads to make money, you pay taxes?
To specifically recruit drivers who can offer ADA complaint vehicles to passengers. Just like the taxi companies have a minimum % of ADA compliant vehicles.
In aggregate. Like, number of trips. Number of trips picked up (by zip code) Number of trips dropped off (by zip code). Requests not fulfilled (by zip code) Information on being handicap accessible. Total gross receipts.
This is already delivered by the taxi companies. It's make sure that minority areas/disabled people aren't being ignored or screwed. Except for the receipts. That's for revenue purposes.
Look, you're not going to find someone more interested in keeping private data private, and this data is so aggregated there's no risk at all.
You know, you just asserted it's "a better way" I think a max capacity on a city is fundamentally a healthy thing.
All your article seemed to say is "but if build more housing, more people can live there."
Hmm... I stand corrected on the Logged In... mostly. You're right, it's better than I thought. But, the summary you linked to differs from the Uber policy. Uber's isn't "logged in", it's "between rides". Which is a subtle difference that may be used to weasel out if the driver has not given a ride yet or most recently rejected a ride.
You're making the assumption that a lottery like method (right place, right time) of finding housing is better than a bidding war. Those are facts very much not in evidence.
Uber carries commercial insurance only when the customer is picked up. They don't bother when the app is just on and they're trolling for business. Which means they are uninsured at that time.
Uber just left Austin because Austin insisted they perform the same background checks that taxi drivers get. Only UberBlack has those checks.
Oh, if they don't use the taximeter, I pay what I think is fair. What are they going to do?
Although, that's a huge boon for cabs over Uber. A cabbie is often willing to work off book, saving me money. Uber won't let them. Just make sure you agree on a price upfront.
It seems easier to have a computer program respect the rules of engagement than a human being with survival instinct encouraging it to shoot first.
Nitpick: Niven's stories had one alien species masterminding fights between humans and a second alien species - in order for the second alien species to become more docile via evolutionary pressure.
Humans were being breed to be lucky.
Something I forgot to mention in my comprehensive response (above) - There's no reason to assume those 33,000 employees would be anything close to fulltime. They could easily be contractors paid piece rate, or 1/10 time employees.
Huh? That "objective sign" makes it clear there's a shortage of weed in most states. Which, I think, would be a hard case to make.
Prices are higher than the people of SF think they should be because there is a finite resource (houses) being used for two different markets. It's entirely reasonable to want to discourage the use in one market to affect supply in the other.
Sometimes they need to check your ID against the ID on the paperwork, or see a copy of your lease, or similar. Things you cannot do over the internet
I mean, the Supreme Court disagrees with you. Burdick v. US says that a pardon is issued with a presumption of guilt, and acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt.
You are right that a pardon wipes away a lot of the ex-felon consequences beyond simply getting you out of jail.
The Government also calibrated each image, so each pixel represented the same location as that same pixel on every other map. So, that was the hard part. The fact it, it was a 3D image (3rd dimension being time) and Google compressed it down to 2D.
Look, I mean, I guess Google doing that is nice. But, given the whole "what's the government ever done" attitude, highlighting when they do the heavy lifting seems important.
I'm not going to shed a tear for twenty-billion-dollar companies running on the "asset light" model to have to internalize the costs of that asset light model. If that means having employees check on the legality when someone registers, that seems like a small price to pay. I mean, a $20B company with 34,000 employees. Stop the Madness!
Of course, they could just assume the risk, or similar.
Going to your objections....
The census is every 10 years, and I don't think the data is released house-by-house, even to city governments. If you don't see the difference between that, and precise and up-to-date information, I'd be surprised.
It often wouldn't be SF doing the checking, but landlords (they have a vested interest in catching cheats). And, it would be proof of intentions when a lawsuit about same arises. But SF could definitely check against the "subsidized housing" registry.
Helping to enforce existent tax laws is a fine reason for legislation. Keep in mind, this isn't to collect extra monies they are not entitled to, but to find cheats.
Registering/gathering data is the first step towards deciding if there is a problem, and what to do about it if there is.
Because renting apartments is different from short-term rentals. The owners/operators/employees of short-term housing have higher requirements. Including, far stricter liability.
In some cases, lying about rights is most definitely actionable. A hotel that had a giant "NO [MINORITY] ALLOWED" sign would find themselves the subject of a lawsuit, even if they did rent to that minority when they presented themselves.
It's very disingenuous to use the median price for a class of product's warranty in a discussion about a specific product. At least, when you attempt to overrule the published warranty price for that specific product.
/. Requisite Car Analogy: The average price for a BWM 3 Series is like $20k. If I keep bringing that figure up in a conversation about new BWM 3 serieses, you'll look at me like I'm insane. That's because the subset of BWM 3 series members who are new have an average price double the mean of all BWM 3 series cars.
Some good reasons I can think of off the top of my head:
I'm sure there are more, but I only had a few moments to consider it. Conversely, the $50, and fill out a form seem like remarkably low burdens to impose. I mean, "I'm suing because this form isn't online" is pretty stupid.
Well this is a simulator of stuff in the sky. So a giant 3D blank space with a few known things being tracked? I'd imagine AI takes over flight long before anything on the ground or waves.
This is a request from a bureaucrat for permission. There's 60 days for the public to weigh in. If you don't like it, instead of bitching on /., call your congressman/submit an opinion through the proper channels.
But incapable of not commenting to that effect. Now hold up, I need to go tell someone I don't have a TV.
Good lord, who wouldn't root their phone if FB was on it?
US government releases new 700 trillion pixel images with fewer clouds. Groups using old US government data (including Google Maps) upgrade to new data.
Nope, you can be pardoned for any crime. A conviction firmly establishes that a crime occurred, but the president can pardon you for any federal offense. See Carter's pre-emptive pardon of all the draft dodgers and Ford's pardon of Nixon, before charges were even filed.
Now, technically, accepting a pardon means that you were guilty of said crime. Hence, why Ford may have thought the pardon of Nixon was an elegant compromise. He admits wrongdoing and had already resigned, and we stop trying to throw him in jail.