Are you talking about Uber/Lyft or completely unregistered/unorganized ones? I have been using uber in SF bay area. You missing one key point, there is an abundant number of drivers for Uber to choose from, and if the drivers/cars are even slightly unsatisfactory, Uber will drop them in a heartbeat and recruit someone else. 1) Their rating gets affected. Uber lays off anyone with less than a 4.5/5 rating. Uber also has a complaint service, you can use to report drivers. The local Yellow cab on the other hand always does this. I have never had an Uber driver take me the long route. 2) This a valid point. It is possible for Uber for take of care of this on the server side. I am not certain they do, but I hope they do. 3) Again, a valid point. I do agree, public transport vehicles should be held to higher standard than other vehicles. I am happy that the car are the cheapest cars, but I do hope Uber mandates regular maintenance. I also doubt they can be any worse than the yellow cabs we have here 4) This only works if the drivers are anonymous. It is absurd to think vetted drivers can get away with this. 5) Uber doesnt allow drivers to refuse rides. If they do, they are fired.
A lot of things need cleaning up. Perspective helps decides which one needs more attention. Doing the right thing is right, selecting which of the right things you need to do first, is the problem.
I did. I said the market can range from legal to illegal, depending on the jurisdiction. Weed is in mine, for example. Everything is illegal somewhere.
Exactly, it requires the delivery person to know that what he does is shady, and can be illegal. This is not possible in a market where both legal (weed is pretty common in these markets and pretty much legal) and illegal stuff can happen.
If a UPS delivery guy delivers a gun (without knowing it is a gun, and it looks like ordinary package), and the gun is used to kill someone. Is the UPS delivery guy an accessory to murder?
Imagine if apple wanted a 30% cut of your ebay or amazon (regular purchases not e-books) purchases made using ebay/amazon app.
I meant additional 30% fee for buying using the ebay app on an ipad/iphone. I do shop and I sell items on ebay often, the paypal fees I pay is 2.9% + 30 cents. eBay final value fee is 10% (more importantly the fee is capped at $250, unlike apple store) and the listing fee is free for first 50 per month (again volume matters). eBay+Paypal fees is much lower compared to Apple, which doesnt happen often.
if eBay where to sell items on their iphone app, they would have to increase their fees by 30%. Making the final value fee as 40% instead of 10%. I for one would not be pleased.
Honestly tough, I've always thought it was a pretty fair trade-off to pay 30% to gan access to many millions of people who already have payment details entered and ready to go at the press of a button.
Depends on your volume. Imagine if apple wanted a 30% cut of your ebay or amazon (regular purchases not e-books) purchases made using ebay/amazon app. I spend a lot on amazon.com, and I would consider that insane. If every middleman wanted a 30% cut, supply chains will completely collapse. Apple should honestly consider having a tired pricing based on volume. Apple is too stubborn to do that (so is google, so they dont have to worry about the competing mobile platforms doing better either), or they would rather have people use iBooks.
I'm pretty sure Comixology will lose far more in sales than they would gain by not giving away 30%
Again depends on their volume and how much amazon pays the content owners.
You mean they decided to take their CDN in-house? Which CDN provider does youtube use? I am really curious which video providers actually use external CDNs, it is pretty expensive and inefficient for video streaming.
A handful of VPS provider's IP are banned. The ones that run popular proxies, and the really huge ones. It is not worth if for them to go after all VPSes. The cost-benefit just doesnt work out.
Everyone already knew it is one of those two. Responding and choosing the easiest option doesnt take courage or make him any more liable. It would actually reduce liability. I agree he is not hiding, but he is being smart. A few words can save him a lot of trouble and lot of pestering by the media. If it was me (and I indeed made a mistake, or I had malicious intentions), I would have done the same. Not because I am courageous or anything, because that is the safest thing to do, right now.
Well, he hasnt admitted to anything. He has two options 1) Admit it was malicious 2) Admit it was a mistake. It doesnt take a genius to figure out 2 is the best option.
If you have money to play with, sure. But dont call it an investment. I have a small amount of my saving that I dont mind if it becomes worth 0 tomorrow (5% of my total saving in an year). I currently am buy bitcoins with it, but I wouldnt consider it an investment at all. Certainly not a good investment.
Not sure why that was moderated as overrated. Just to be clear that was not a joke. If you create paper wallets, and store your bitcoins in them (in whatever denominations you like, I use 1 BTC per wallet), no virus or malware or some e-wallet getting hacked, can get to your bitcoins.
You are free to charge $16 for it. But you may not use the firefox trademark in your ads/product page etc. Dell should move to iceweasel and avoid using mozilla's trademarks. Then again none would pay $16 for installing iceweasel.
Every carries in the USA has a plan with unlimited texts, yes Every carries in the USA has unlimited texts on every plan, no. Text message charges are pure profit.
From what I hear, it is mostly based on how much the city is willing to bend backwards to accommodate a quick rollout. Google doesnt have to work with uncooperative cities.
You can write the most insightful/thrilling/useful article ever in the history of mankind, but if you place it on a site where people get a lot of ads they will still accuse you of treachery.
Read the first line of the post you are responding to "It's difficult to claim "clickbait" when there are no ads! "
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Are you talking about Uber/Lyft or completely unregistered/unorganized ones? I have been using uber in SF bay area. You missing one key point, there is an abundant number of drivers for Uber to choose from, and if the drivers/cars are even slightly unsatisfactory, Uber will drop them in a heartbeat and recruit someone else.
1) Their rating gets affected. Uber lays off anyone with less than a 4.5/5 rating. Uber also has a complaint service, you can use to report drivers. The local Yellow cab on the other hand always does this. I have never had an Uber driver take me the long route.
2) This a valid point. It is possible for Uber for take of care of this on the server side. I am not certain they do, but I hope they do.
3) Again, a valid point. I do agree, public transport vehicles should be held to higher standard than other vehicles. I am happy that the car are the cheapest cars, but I do hope Uber mandates regular maintenance. I also doubt they can be any worse than the yellow cabs we have here
4) This only works if the drivers are anonymous. It is absurd to think vetted drivers can get away with this.
5) Uber doesnt allow drivers to refuse rides. If they do, they are fired.
A lot of things need cleaning up. Perspective helps decides which one needs more attention. Doing the right thing is right, selecting which of the right things you need to do first, is the problem.
I did. I said the market can range from legal to illegal, depending on the jurisdiction. Weed is in mine, for example. Everything is illegal somewhere.
Exactly, it requires the delivery person to know that what he does is shady, and can be illegal. This is not possible in a market where both legal (weed is pretty common in these markets and pretty much legal) and illegal stuff can happen.
If a UPS delivery guy delivers a gun (without knowing it is a gun, and it looks like ordinary package), and the gun is used to kill someone. Is the UPS delivery guy an accessory to murder?
Or remove all the mines from the minesweeper games. Imagine the horror of mine free minesweepers games.
Nope, they can go for 400 pounds or the cheaper version for 270 pounds. http://www.ablogtowatch.com/aa...
Imagine if apple wanted a 30% cut of your ebay or amazon (regular purchases not e-books) purchases made using ebay/amazon app.
I meant additional 30% fee for buying using the ebay app on an ipad/iphone. I do shop and I sell items on ebay often, the paypal fees I pay is 2.9% + 30 cents. eBay final value fee is 10% (more importantly the fee is capped at $250, unlike apple store) and the listing fee is free for first 50 per month (again volume matters). eBay+Paypal fees is much lower compared to Apple, which doesnt happen often.
if eBay where to sell items on their iphone app, they would have to increase their fees by 30%. Making the final value fee as 40% instead of 10%. I for one would not be pleased.
Honestly tough, I've always thought it was a pretty fair trade-off to pay 30% to gan access to many millions of people who already have payment details entered and ready to go at the press of a button.
Depends on your volume. Imagine if apple wanted a 30% cut of your ebay or amazon (regular purchases not e-books) purchases made using ebay/amazon app. I spend a lot on amazon.com, and I would consider that insane. If every middleman wanted a 30% cut, supply chains will completely collapse. Apple should honestly consider having a tired pricing based on volume. Apple is too stubborn to do that (so is google, so they dont have to worry about the competing mobile platforms doing better either), or they would rather have people use iBooks.
I'm pretty sure Comixology will lose far more in sales than they would gain by not giving away 30%
Again depends on their volume and how much amazon pays the content owners.
You mean they decided to take their CDN in-house? Which CDN provider does youtube use? I am really curious which video providers actually use external CDNs, it is pretty expensive and inefficient for video streaming.
A billion here and a billion there, and it begans to add up pretty quickly.
A handful of VPS provider's IP are banned. The ones that run popular proxies, and the really huge ones. It is not worth if for them to go after all VPSes. The cost-benefit just doesnt work out.
Well, it is time to bring back the positive connotations of the word "hackers"
You forgot Democrats and the Independents. Include them, and I partly agree with you.
Everyone already knew it is one of those two. Responding and choosing the easiest option doesnt take courage or make him any more liable. It would actually reduce liability. I agree he is not hiding, but he is being smart. A few words can save him a lot of trouble and lot of pestering by the media. If it was me (and I indeed made a mistake, or I had malicious intentions), I would have done the same. Not because I am courageous or anything, because that is the safest thing to do, right now.
Well, he hasnt admitted to anything. He has two options 1) Admit it was malicious 2) Admit it was a mistake. It doesnt take a genius to figure out 2 is the best option.
If you have money to play with, sure. But dont call it an investment. I have a small amount of my saving that I dont mind if it becomes worth 0 tomorrow (5% of my total saving in an year). I currently am buy bitcoins with it, but I wouldnt consider it an investment at all. Certainly not a good investment.
Because it makes him look interesting. Makes you curious about him. I am sure it is valuable too.
Not sure why that was moderated as overrated. Just to be clear that was not a joke. If you create paper wallets, and store your bitcoins in them (in whatever denominations you like, I use 1 BTC per wallet), no virus or malware or some e-wallet getting hacked, can get to your bitcoins.
Keep a paper bitcoin wallet. It as simple as that.
You are free to charge $16 for it. But you may not use the firefox trademark in your ads/product page etc. Dell should move to iceweasel and avoid using mozilla's trademarks. Then again none would pay $16 for installing iceweasel.
Every carries in the USA has a plan with unlimited texts, yes
Every carries in the USA has unlimited texts on every plan, no. Text message charges are pure profit.
Wonder if he used the right analogy or wonder if he made the right decision?
From what I hear, it is mostly based on how much the city is willing to bend backwards to accommodate a quick rollout. Google doesnt have to work with uncooperative cities.
You can write the most insightful/thrilling/useful article ever in the history of mankind, but if you place it on a site where people get a lot of ads they will still accuse you of treachery.
Read the first line of the post you are responding to "It's difficult to claim "clickbait" when there are no ads!
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