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Hmm, does that mean they used Greyball in London, or just the known sleazy uses? British regulators, just like CARB, have famously little sense of humour for stuff like that.
> a single _paying_ passenger

Not passengers in general.

Your Hertz terms will clearly say that you're not allowed to use the car to carry paying passengers.
Is the meter connected to a server? If not, i don’t see how that would even count as accounted income.
Uber was kicked out of Hungary, I'm not sure on what pretext exactly but the gist was that the taxi drivers revolted.

(But to be fair, I think at least Budapest has excellent taxi service and didn't need an Uber. It's probably different outside the capital.)
> For wages to grow, people have to be paid more than they're worth as an economic unit.

Or for their worth to rise.
One of the ways this can happen is through Labour scarcity, particularly if their economic output is above their cost, but employers are able to lower wages due to competition for jobs.
Sure, if you live in Zone 2, or live near a tube station and are travelling radially.

If you live further out, getting home at night can be a multi-bus, multi-hour affair. And if you're not going in or out of zone 1, the odds of their being a convenient bus route is slim, and again, diminishes the further out you get.
Great idea, what sites would you suggest?
it depends, on my app I don't use Stripe so can't speak for its sdk, but I do use FB. At start I was using react-native-fbsdk but found that it was very limited and when I submitted a PR and went through the NDA procedure with facebook etc, then they delayed putting my PR which was fixing an issue out. I decided it would be easier for myself to bridge facebook's sdk, and so I did which was helpful as I've added quite more features to it which the react-native-fbsdk isn't providing.

That said it always depends on your usage and if it fits your purpose, but I wouldn't rely on 3rd party devs to solve my issues.
You seem to misunderstand my statement. Let me explain a little further please.

Your coins are not safe/secure while they are with coinbase, and will never be because you do not own the private keys. It does not prevent you from losing your money in the event of worst case scenarios, it just makes it harder for someone to steal your money while it is in the care of coinbase.
You had the wrong default selected in Windows mixer.

Need to select it as default when plugged and whenever it gets replugged it retake its priority. Works as expected with multiple default / temporarily plugged devices.

Interface might need a bit of a clean up though.
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They're required to accept cards and can't make you pay with cash. Just tell them you don't have cash, and they'll make sure their card reader starts working.
I think they are self-employed, and not employed by Uber.
>"While I agree that London has great public transport"

This must be a different London from the one I was in ten years ago.
The tube is fine for the most part but it can be a drag going from the eastern parts of London to LHR directly (or to Paddington or Victoria)
The cost of moving is relatively low compared to the cost of higher wager. The spectrum you suggest is vanishingly narrow.
paying passengers.
The only issue with this idea is that it really ... doesn't tie in with evolution. Because ultimately, the default state of any organism should be to be attempting to reproduce. But I stress "ultimately", because there's nothing which impels us to think that needs to be the case at all times. Idling can be a successful short-term strategy, even if not in perpetuity.
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I take it you haven't ever encountered high level union managers, not the sharpest crayons in my experience.
IMO Royal Mail are the worst drivers, far worse than any cabs.

I sometimes see them racing one another in large lorries, especially around Mount Pleasant. The fact that they have such large vehicles, while also driving unfamiliar routes (i.e. turning down roads that most traffic doesn't) makes them worse.
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However, the article would greatly benefit from more factual information. What "threat to Londoners' safety and security"? Be specific please.
Considering they've been on notice for the last 4 months and are yet to find a compromise, I wouldn't hold your breath.
It doesn't need to be connected to a server if the meter is periodically attached to a computer that downloads the data.

That said I have no idea if that's something they do. I am now going to try to find out.

--edit-- it's not easy to find data on this. So far I have found out that most taxi meters have to be taken in to an office or depot to get the fare-structures updated...
Yes, sure, but executing the query a couple of times on the command line is also something I do
Pre-uber I'd take the night bus, as I'm not paying £50 or £60 for a black cab from town to my home.
Post uber that same journey is now less than £25 and well worth paying for to avoid the occasional horrors on the night bus.
If you transport people commercially – be it as driver for hire, Uber driver, taxi driver, etc, you’ll need a Führerschein Klasse P: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerschein_zur_Fahrgast...

This allows up to 8 passengers. If you want more, you need a license for bus drivers, Führerschein Klasse D.

If the passengers pay you less than, or equal to the costs that you had during driving, you do not require any of this, and it is considered noncommercial (for example, when carpooling and passengers pay for gas)
PulseAudio is the only audio system I have used that can stop recognizing output hardware (on the motherboard!) without a reboot. On the worst of its competitors, you can be assured that once you get it working, it continues to work at least until reboot, and usually until you change config or upgrade the wrong package.
Public transport isn't great - often cramped and with delays. It's expensive - if anything involves bus then tube then for two people Uber Pool is often cheaper. Uber is often faster, and it's widely used and supports a massive amount of employment.

Most people don't order taxis much daily true, but they do widely order Ubers because there's a massive price difference. And on nights out, taxis are often used because until recently we had no night tubes and now we only have a few lines and only on weekends.

I don't want to flame but this post is so wrong it makes me wonder if you're living in a different London.
Addison Lee is a good alternative. Drivers tend to be a bit more professional, prices are not that much higher and cars are generally nice.
Sounds to me like you had some issues with distractions during the day, amplified by working at home.

Other people (like me) prefer to work late at night for the same reason, it also allows for a more social lifestyle (i.e. going out occasionally) than having to be in bed early.
It was never even allowed in the first place. Uber is just regular cabs in Germany.

That being said I've never heard anyone had any problems with German cabs e.g. scams, misleading etc..
Or, the more likely reason - there are NOT people willing to do those jobs.
> In a city, the satellite’s signals reach the receiver both directly and by bouncing off of one or more buildings. The direct signal and any reflections arrive at slightly different times and if they overlap, they add up to form a sort of signal blob. The receiver is looking for the peak of that blob to fix the time of arrival.

> However, L5 signals are so brief that the reflections are unlikely to overlap with the direct signal. The receiver chip can simply ignore any signal after the first one it receives, which is the direct path.

Can someone explain this? Surely the first signal received will always be the direct signal, how could you receive signals from reflections first?
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No, same London as it was ten years ago. You just have no idea what you are talking about.
There are lots of private hire car firms, Addison Lee springs to mind immediately. And practically every street in the city has a minicab firm...
Random minicab businesses do not use Uber’s Greyball to avoid regulatory inspections.
This is an important piece of information missing from the article.

Namely this is not out of the blue.
> a) Anyone who keeps tabs on the news doesn't need a peer-reviewed article to understand that bottling-companies-gone-wild is indeed an issue. These stories are fairly common.

I'm pretty sure not everyone reads the same news sites... in any case, most new reporting is pretty poor. But referencing it, would at least provide a starting point for discussion.

> b) Wrote "sole source of drinking water", not "primary source of water". They're not bathing in Nestle... yet.

If you read the article I referenced the question as asked is "Do you primarily purchase bottled water for your drinking water?". So yes, this is about drinking water. I mistakenly assumed that was clear from the context.

> c) Literally everyone I know goes through a case of the stuff every week. Anecdotal, I know. Sue me.

Yes, this is not useful as a discussion point. If you have a link to a survey or other reference that's useful. It's possible that things have changed since the 2011 article I posted.
Yes - I have a health condition that means I struggle to stay in a sitting position for longer than 4 hours, so I use Oculus Rift and Virtual desktop on the bed, with a split keyboard.

It's "ok" and is quite fiddly to setup with the sensors etc, I'm thinking if replacing the whole thing with a projector,

The hardware is good, it's the software that's lacking, but it's very close!

Anyone with suggestions on alternative setups would be much appreciated!
It's cheaper than Uber though.
I don't believe they use the traditional cold storage methods anymore(Usb/Device in a phyiscal vault or paper in a physical vault etc). They generate the keys offline and split the keys using a secret sharing method among a quorom of keyholders. So they are geographically dispersed and if one subset on keys were to be lost, there's still a possibility of regenerating by obtaining the other sets from the Quorom
> a company that are seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly

Who said anything about them seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly?

They are a cab company, expanding globally. Any other company can do that too, if they want.
> Most people care more about their issues locally (which is in line with human psychology, we weren't meant for these large social networks) but people who sit here and cast stones at people who aren't keeping up with what happens with the Mueller investigation, for example, (which something happens every 2.5 seconds)

The actual context here is someone talking about how they pay zero attention, while mocking people who talk about "the apocalypse" or anything, really. So clearly not people worrying about their local issues.
> I’d like to add that most black cab drivers make out like their card machine doesn’t work.

Weird - every black cab I've taken in the last 3 months (something like 30 of them) has had a working card machine.
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Search for 'velocity of money'. It's a Fed chart and shows what happens when every citizen, business and government is swimming in debt. You printed all that money and gave it to the banks, but you didn't relieve the debt logjam. Oops.
Where does the cost saving vs black cabs come from? Is it from drivers working for less mostly (I have seen example calculations that claim that)?

Then the fundamental innovation of Uber is not to make things more efficient but to eliminate labor laws, workers safe guards and unions.

In my books, your convenience is not really a good argument for getting rid of those.
I'm afraid we're in violent agreement. I never said "Postgres isn't ACID", that's never been in dispute. I said that you can't treat Postgres with a read replica as an ACID database, because as you and I both pointed out, it's then a distributed system (no self respecting, single-node databases is eventually consistent, so my use of that term should have implied a distributed system).
It’s not exactly banned – Uber could return at any time when they ensure that their drivers have insurance that is valid, and a driving license that allows for driving passengers around. In fact, the driving license part was even considered something where the officials would ignore the regulations, if Uber would just comply with the insurance part.

But Uber didn’t want that.
It's more like telling a person with symptoms of depression or PTSD that they should see a therapist to get to the bottom of things rather than just popping pills. In fact, PTSD suffers really should be in therapy instead of on a drug regimen. Many people are wrongly diagnosed with a depressive illness when they have psychological problems better addressed by therapy, so it's actually good advice and can avoid a lifetime of drug dependance that doesn't solve the actual problem.
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This does appear just to be a summary article and a bit more background would be good.

A click on the subject tag gives me some recent political criticism from the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on taxis (who knew such a thing existed?) -

"It stands accused by the police of failing to properly handle serious allegations of rape and sexual assault of passengers.

It had to be dragged through the courts to recognise its responsibility to provide even the most basic rights and protections to Uber drivers. Its business model is based on saturating London's taxi and private hire market to drive its competition off the road."
Oooh my, as a French person, that French accent is unbearable ^^ but it looks promising
I think a better way to phrase it is that judging an engine by the games they've been made with it will give you an incomplete picture: you can only see what is possible, not what is impossible (and even with the possible, you only see what the people use it can do which is affected by their resources and their skills).

It is better to evaluate the engine yourself for the project you are planning to do with the requirements it has (not making the entire project, of course, but if you - say - want to create a huge detailed world you can procedurally place entities in the world and see how the engine copes with that and if it provides tools to address any issues).
Correct me if I'm wrong here: MyTaxi and Gett are solely for black cabs? This makes them a lot more expensive than private hire. Their UX is also slightly behind Uber's offering.

Addison Lee are also overpriced, and are not a company I'm willing to support due to their director's comments about cyclists and public transport.

One service you haven't mentioned here is Green Tomato, which have a tolerable app, but seem to have so few cars on the road that the wait time for a car is often a lot higher than Uber. Potentially this could be an opportunity for them if Uber truly do disappear from London.
Lived here all my life, no idea what you mean, it's always been great, and even when it was run-down it was still better than nearly all other cities at the time.
How does the wage growth is calculated? I work remotely so I have to be employed as a contractor. I doubt I'm included. Significant portion of my colleagues are "permtractors" with companies registered in Channel Islands and other places. Another example is a friend that is paid only half legally.

I don't think the situation is as bad as press is describing.
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> none of these are as convenient or cost effective as Uber.

I disagree, and let me tell you why:

https://i.imgur.com/JITqdiP.png

I have blocked out the location of my home and the identity of my "driver", but this guy shouldn't be driving, let alone driving a passenger. I'm never riding Uber again.

> I can see the night tube getting a lot more use but I know quite a few people who don't like to take it after having more than a few drinks for safety reasons.

If you're too drunk to ride the drunk train/bus, there are cheap hotels all over London. Getting in a stranger's car who might not know how to drive (as I've noted), or worse (see below), is a terrible idea.

* http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/uber-driver-accused-of-raping-w...

* http://q13fox.com/2017/09/21/woman-accuses-uber-driver-of-ra...

* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4815554/Uber-driver-...

* https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4251165/uber-driver-caught-bra...
"Criteria failed: 2) Medical certificates"

That seems an a obvious requirement for the insurance, but Uber aren't complying.

Not everything needs to be seen with a negative (American?) view of government. Uber's competitors, including those with apps, have licenses.
That only seems to work if there is infinite demand.

If workers at company A are producing 10x their cost, then company B could hire them at twice that and still make 5x returns.

But what if there is only enough demand for 20 output units (2 workers) and there are 2 workers in the pool, why would company B ever pay more than company A?
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Public transport in London is ok, not good not bad. Depending...

Buses in London are awful imho, unless you want to go 2 stops. If you want to go more than that then you have to put up with nausea and how slow they are in general getting from A to B.

Underground, its ok for most parts unless its summer... No aircon is a big issue.

Trains... well thats where it gets annoying. I am very biased as I use Southern (the worst train company if you dont know them) which they are totally unreliable.

Thats where uber comes on. As I live in South East london, its either I get an uber on a night out which will take me home with a fair price, or get on a bus spending an average 40 mins more than uber etc. (Not a good experience)

All and all I think TFL's decision sucks, cause its biased on the blackmailing by black cabs. If black cabs want more work etc, they should go out and ask so their faires are lower so people prefer them... Uber takes me £12 to get home, and a black cab is £40 ... I mean seriously what you expect of me to pay the overpriced black cab? I literally don't care that they are buying cars from a specific company and those cars cost a lot etc and their licence takes years to get out etc I don't care. Go out and demonstrate against all that so you can change your job around and become competitive on your prices, don't expect to just drive everyone else out of business.
Also I do know cabbies that are millionaires!
I hope uber wins this case, I use uber etc, I don't like their policies about drivers and how they treat others etc but well at least it fits my purpose of going around.

./rant over
uberX from East London to Heathrow is £45-60.

The equivalent adult single fair is £5.10 or £3.10 offpeak.

> this post is so wrong it makes me wonder if you're living in a different London.

My thoughts exactly
It's an fun point that Capitalism, the system that internally requires competition to work, also externally requires competition to work.
Guardian article from may 2017.

Uber's London licence renewed for only four months

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/26/ubers-lon...
> When I go to the grocery store, I'll look and see what brands are most frequently in carts and what isn't fully stocked on the shelf. I'll then look up the parent company and make a note of it. If I see that brand continually in shopping carts (I peek, I don't ogle or take pictures) then I'll do more reading and buy some shars in their parent companies.

Read something like this in this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Laughing-Wall-Street-Investing-Connec...

Never thought it could be applicable to tech too. Gave me something to think about.
I get tons of recruiters contacting me on linkedin, but they always want to give me crap wages.

When I was trying to hire people a few months back, we got a whopping two applicants, one wasn't good. The other wanted to go freelance for a few months only.

We ended up getting friends recommendation - at way more than what the initial offers were.
My bad. I missed that "paying" word.
I think you've missed my point. I agree with Uber losing their license. They need to be a better corporate citizen. I think they can do that and still offer a lot of benefits.
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In principle, being regulated means you adhere to some sort of code of conduct and are fully accountable for whatever goes wrong on your side, which is seldom the case with do-it-yourself solutions... in the latter case, you are basically on your own and good luck, aka roulette. Many people find it unsafe for several reasons not difficult to figure out.
I'm one of the early birds. I'm awake by about 5 AM without an alarm, regardless of weekday or weekend. That keeps my sleep schedule consistent.

I get to the office between 6 and 6:30 in the morning and take a 30 minute lunch, so I'm out by 3 PM. This gives me several daylight hours in the afternoon before heading to bed around 8 PM to start the cycle over again.
>> Who said anything about them seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly?

They behave as if they are attempting this, IMHO.

>> They are a cab company

I believe, depending on which way the wind was blowing, they might dispute this. Their argument is that they are not a cab company, merely a service for connecting drivers and potential passengers. This is how they avoid pesky things like employment laws.

>> Any other company can do that too, if they want.

Few others have the access to VC money that Uber do - I would consider this reliance on an absolute ton of investment, which allows them to operate at the prices they do, to be something of a market distortion.
Immaterial would be a wrong word. Negligible might be better. Negligible right now would be perfect. Let's not be naive, they have a full advertisement department trying to monetize their platform and increase the revenue. They also tried to compete with Google for six years for the same, but failed in the in-app advertising. They are still trying to expand their advertising in other areas though:

http://searchengineland.com/apple-expanding-successful-searc...
Visual languages have been very successful in other tools (material/shader languages in 3D tools, Blueprints in Unreal Engine has been very successfully used by game designers). I assume that Godot was influenced by this.

Have you ever used a visual language in ernest? I've used Max/MSP and Max4live, which are successfully used by many non-programmer musicians and artist. I don't think many of these people would be successful with (or even bother to use) a textual programming language and I think many designers who love Unreal Engine's Blueprints would similarly not fare so well with textual languages. My experience using Max was that it was a breath of fresh air, in many ways superior to my day-to-day experiences with "real" programming languages (eg for exploratory problem solving, it was amazing, and for games where you likely need to make many little tweaks until it feels right, I can see this being a major advantage). Sadly, Max is rather limited in terms of data structures (can't even have nested lists!), but that's a shortcoming in Max and not in visual programming tools.

So, in summary, I disagree: I don't think its wasted resources at all and think its a great idea, especially to get more non-programmer users[1] and welcome more stuff like this.

[1] From what I've been reading, lots of non-programmer designer/artists are making games with Game Maker and Blueprints and such tools. The more you can do without "real" programming, the better, IMHO.