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Not to mention not mess around with cards or cash. No cash is a distant dream for me using non Uber rides. Innovation I do not know but all things you mention work conveniently well in Uber and badly or not at all in most half baked attempts by (for instance the city of Barcelona) taxi service apps.
I find a lot of US faux-'liberals' to be quite bigoted in terms of acting like measures against against illegal immigration from Mexico somehow are racist - implying all Mexicans are illegal immigrants. Similarly the same people speak as if all black people are working class, all white people are middle class, etc., which is also bigoted.
Cool! It would be awesome to see the trains moving in real-time (even if it wasn't "live", and just based on posted schedules).
The gig economy is for people who can decide how much to work, rather than accept how much to work. What you seem to be asking for is merely a functioning social safety net ("benefits"). If you want the government to mandate such things then just get the government to provide them and be done with it.
If you are digital services company then the only regulation you need to follow as those of your home jurisdiction. All relevant EU law is included in those regulations.

Transport services are specific exception to the single market where local jurisdiction can have different regulations and you need to follow the regulations in any jurisdiction your customers are present in.
> I just wonder, what actually has changed to prompt this change in policy of denying everything

The election of credulous anti-science buffoons.
Did you try Edge?
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governance is hard, there's no silver bullet, every system may be tricked.
"good blockchain governance" would rely on gathering the result of multiple "coordination flags" like a user vote, a coin vote, core dev decisions, etc.

Very complete "here are the limitation, in the end, just don't be dumb" article.

About the bribing part:
Could we get rid of it if voting is anonymous (I can't reward you with a bribe),
and we give right to coins that haven't moved for a certain amount of time (I can't ask for your money and your account has to be "old enough")
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> cannot be flagged for follow up or bookmarked for reference

I think one of the best parts of Slack is that the messages can be referenced by simple URL. For example from a ticket.

And searching helps find many old nuggets of information that were in a casual chat.
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It is so bad there's no way to talk with someone real. They have a chat, managed by a bot, who usually point you to some link or suggest you to write an email which will be replied in around 10 business day.

I would like to have more from a company where I'm putting my money on. I accidentally mistaken my referece code 4 days ago and yet I'm not able to know whether or not I'll see that money again...
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But I have no interest in talking to anyone or have essays worth of conversations where to meet and at what time and for what price. Or, like for instance a London competition app and many cab services outside London demand; to book n (even 24 for some) hours in advance.
Taxis earned their plight.

I am still waiting for €50 refund for a pre-paid train station taxi booked through SCNF that never arrived. This whole nasty and violent attitude from French can drivers is also unacceptable. During their protests they actually attacked people with rocks and set cars on fire — while still trying to scheme and cheat passengers whenever possible.

I hope taxis all fail.
Exactly, people conflate "taxi medallions" with "special driver licenses for transporting people for money", and I think Uber is encouraging this confusion. I would happily get rid of the first, which gives established taxi drivers a quasi-monopoly - or at least change how limited taxi rights are distributed, if you find they are necessary. I am very glad that the special driving licenses exist, though.

In Germany for example, we have both requirements. But for years there have (legally) been companies who don't have "taxi rights", and label themselves as "rental cars with driver". They are cheaper than regular taxis, but they are not allowed to park in taxi spots, and you can't hire them from the roadside I think. But the drivers still have to pass the same tests as regular taxi drivers (health tests, background tests, knowledge of the city, ...). I think this is a really good model, it gives the customer a cheaper option if they are a bit more flexible with their pick-up spots.

Uber should do exactly this, but instead they want to skirt the person transport license requirements and hire "untrained" drives. They purposely mix the issues of licenses and medallions, hoping to use people's hate of monopolies and high taxi prices to steer public opinion in their direction.

Also, Uber sometimes claims to be a ride-sharing service. Just private citizens who share their car and get compensated, not professionals. Well, every Uber I have been in, anywhere in the world, was very professional. You can't tell me this is just their side hobby. And if they really wanted to offer just ride-sharing, this exists legally in Germany as well. People can connect on car-sharing websites with strangers, and pay the driver their share of the expenses. It's a popular way to cheaply get around. And if the driver only does it for compensation, not as a job, no license is required.
> In the early days I knew Uber drivers who use to be cab drivers who claimed they made a ton more money than with their cab company. I doubt that's as true anymore

As (one piece of anecdotal) evidence, I was talking with a guy that drives for both Uber and a local cab company. The cab company pays more, but he still prefers driving for Uber as he is put in far fewer sketchy situations by them.
Google maps works offline in most countries. I wouldn’t have survived my International trips without it. I’ve used Google map for public transit in many countries. Most time I get SIM card while travelling just to use Google maps.
Which is another reason why the EU would want to class uber as transport. In switching from PT to Uber you create congestion, which cities will want to regulate.
You know what used to happen if I got upset about a taxi driver driving irresponsibly?

I'd call up. I'd complain. They told me they'd take the feedback onboard, and they'd definitely do something.

And then, of course, they hung up and went back to doing whatever it is they did rather than providing customer service.

I can only assume this is because it wasn't worth it to them to bother, but I also know it's why there's a value proposition that supports uber, at least for my use case.

I don't know if uber drivers earn less than cab drivers, but I do know that uber drivers they tell me they earn more that their former cab jobs. I don't know if uber is a horrible company or not, but I do know that when I complain, they promise I'll never see that driver again.

I know that uber will actually show up to pick me up.

I know that the drivers are held accountable.

That's worth a lot. Worth enough to you? I don't know. Worth enough to me that I'd pay more than the going taxi rate, though.
Same. If Uber were to stop operating in London I would just take the Night Tube home or not go out (weekdays).
Specific passenger insurance the first thing. You don't have that in Uber.
Another special regulation is that taxis pay to the city council to operate. Uber drivers don't do that.
Everyone wants a walled garden for their stuff. So this comes as no surprise. Personally, I struggled for couple of days to get Chrome installed on my Windows 10 laptop. Finally, installed Firefox to avoid Edge.
Many years ago (around '96), a bunch of us used to spend way too much time at the public terminals in university computing centre (SRCE) in Zagreb, Croatia. They had about 10 compatible terminals (VT-220's and IBM-3151's) - and two Sun Sparc workstations that were set up as graphical terminals using CDE.

We had to wait for an hour or two to have one of the text terminals free up (damn MUD players hogged them up all the time, and we IRCers just wanted to chat online!). Getting access to the graphical terminals was nigh impossible unless you were there from the early morning or if you stayed through the night (the place was open 24/7 if you can believe it).

Ah the wonders of graphical Unix! Multiple workplaces! I fondly remember the doplhin wallpaper - my fave. And you could use Mosaic to browse the web (Netscape was running pretty sluggish)! Nevermind one of the workstation had a b/w monitor, it was still an amazing experience.

Fond memories.
Not every technology used in Sci-Fi and mature enough is a big success in real world. But it's not easy to find examples. Maybe Automatic pocket doors from Star Trek?
If the screen is popping up, that condition might be trigerred by a swollen battery.

My iPhone 5 also did that, after a while, it worsened so much that the screen colors became affected. I took it to an apple store, paid the fee and had them replace the battery.

IMHO a swollen battery is a huge risk, and apple should have replaced my phone without charge.

Anyways, be careful and if the battery is swollen, it's time for yet another battery change :)
But compared to tram and train, Uber is much more expensive, is it not?

Maybe it depends on the country you are from.
> they will stay in the low single digit market share.

After the whole "Windows 10" thing i seriously doubt there is anything they can do that would result in them losing much of a market share.
> Try a non-uber taxi in a city without taxi monopoly and it's exactly like uber.

I feel like I'm repeating myself - yes, it is, in 2017.

In 2007 it was nothing like it. It became like it after people started cloning Uber.
"Windows Store apps that browse the web must use HTML and JavaScript engines provided by Windows 10"

Why is this restriction allowed? Isn't this a violation of the browser choice consent decree, or has that expired?

Edit: I see this is "Windows S", which inherits from the failed "Windows RT" the attempt to jam everything into the walled garden of the store. This is unlikely to work and I hope it doesn't; only Apple have succeeded in doing this so far, but a world where every application developer has to give 30% to the platform feudal lord and suffer arbitary restrictions on development is going to have a lot less innovation.
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I love this site. In the UK there are so many old railways no longer in existence that you can find on this site. It's really interesting to see how old tunnels and paths near where you live used to be used.
Sure. I pay twice as much, on average, to get home in a lot less than half the time.

I also support public transport. I pay for a monthly pass, every month. Do I want that to be my only option? No.
That's exactly what taxi companies in germany do as well. myTaxi.com being one provider of such services, for example.

So in comparison, suddenly the only advantage uber has left is being unregulated.
In countries like Morocco, Egypt, China etc EVERYONE is a taxi driver. Stick your finger up and they'll drive you a few km/miles for a few bucks.

Uber incorporated / centralised that. It's not some vague digital enabler marketplace. They know the route, micromanage both the driver and passenger, collect money based on route, unilaterally set prices. How someone can think they're not a taxi company is beyond me.
Edge has ugly font rendering (seems to be common to all Metro apps) and loses all your tabs when you quit (total dealbreaker for me).
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Ideally, passwords are in the heads of users, not accessible from a device. A key would, necessarily, be stored on a device, easily stolen by viruses or by stealing the device.

Also, it takes more discipline and understanding to handle keys than it takes to handle passwords.

Practically, there is no salvation anyway.
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I agree 100%. All this "disruption" thing is mostly about being in a grey zone where you can cut corners, avoid paying taxes and not respect regulations.
The legal system will slowly catch up and the initial advantage will disappear. In the end this is how economy works.

AirBnB is next I guess.
Windows 10 S is competing with Windows 10, so there is a potential for really tiny market share.
It's packaging and delivery for Linux desktop, server, and IoT apps. As elsen mentioned, updates happen automatically and roll back if unsuccessful. Automated review covers most cases and the format is simple yaml, so you can quickly push something up that you can install from anywhere.

Some guides using real world examples if you want to have a poke:
https://docs.snapcraft.io/build-snaps/languages
They’re neither normal employees nor are they independent contractors

They are perfectly well covered by the existing laws, they are simply part time shift workers. But they are employees for tax and benefits purposes. That's the bit that Uber are trying to dodge.
Did cities with monopolies start dropping the monopolies in the last decade? I lived in a city that dropped the monopoly before Uber so I haven't noticed the change in the last decade.
your analogy to card counting is incorrect. You wouldn't hit on 19.
And if something's wrong you can fix it
it could have a massive effect on tech valuations in general. so from a real economy perspective you may be right, but the stock market and VC market might start to see this as an event to re-evaluate everything.
Do you believe it's good to have people bring their personal dramas into a company that you own?

Do you also believe that the company you work for should replace the police or the court?

Do you think it's good to have your company take mob rage for something that happened between your employees and neither you nor your company had anything to do with?
According to this ruling, you support the taxi industry by using Uber in EU

Transportation service, not taxi.
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Whats the point of that ? A miner can confirm non-standard transactions right now when he mines a block but no one would accept it. Point of 51% attack is to surreptitiously double spend and nothing else.
I hope that what I said didn't come across as supporting a lack of regulation. I'm pro-regulation. I'm anti-luddism, though, and sometimes it's hard to figure out where on the line I should stand.

The point is not that uber is good for ignoring regulation, the point is that the current regulations, borne from an age where things such as uber could not have existed, don't quite hold up in the age where things such as uber do exist.

If the choice for me is "behave according to inane regulation", or "break the regulations", or "update the regulations to reflect the reality of the situation" I will, in every case, like to see what's behind door number three.

Phrasing the uber-versus-taxis debate without the third option is just suffering under the yoke of bureaucracy. We can do better.
> is available for the low price of attribution

That depends. The OSM licence requirements depends on what you do. If you don't produce a geo database, then there's only an attribution requirement, otherwise you have to attribute and release changes to the data you made, along with any other data that you mixed in.

It's like BSD for some uses, and GPL for others.
But they're not keeping quiet. Literally hundreds of reports have been made, ex-military willing to testify before US Congress (Disclosure Project), cryptic comments from ex-astronauts that hopefully in future "the truth will come out" (Armstrong or Aldrin IIRC). Governments have investigated, but perhaps if an advanced civilisation doesn't want to make contact and just wants to observe us then it's difficult to get conclusive proof? And then what? Tell your populace "Hi everyone, we can't keep our skies safe, but don't worry, it's probably OK".

There's some odd stuff in some NASA footage you can see for yourself. But now with CGI you probably won't accept any videos you can see on youtube as being real.

But this still isn't enough for you because until you actually see one with your own eyes you aren't willing to accept it. That is excellent scepticism. However, we accept a lot of scientific reports without actually running the experiments ourselves... There seems to be a mismatch there.

Healthy scepticism is healthy, but barring a "smoking gun" that is unavoidable (i.e. an "Independence Day"/"District 9" scenario) you probably will never believe it. I suggest that's due to conditioning and how the US Gov directed Hollywood to ridicule this sort of thing in the past.

If we relax things back to "normal" and view the reports (the volume, quality of sources, corroborating evidence like multiple witnesses, radar confirmation, WW1 Foo fighter reports, etc) then the balance of probabilities seems to lie with "yes, they're here and they've been here a long time", at least for me.

I mean the Mahabarata alone does appear to contain an account of nuclear fallout and diagrams of UFOs, and that was written thousands of years ago.
Do you have public transit in major countries, business listing, up to date open hours, reviews, walking directions, terrain view, My Maps feature, offline maps, offline directions, high quality coverage in dozens of countries, ability to search through other people’s list, street view, high detail satellite view and so on in said services?
To add more advantages to the list: Full price transparency, pre-agreed price so you don't need to worry that you drive in circles, no driver searching for change for several minutes until you let him keep i

The local cab firm that exists only in my small home town has all these "innovations" too.
Where do you get these data? It's great.
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> did you (not) expect bitcoin to succeed in becoming a payment method, displacing paypal and credit cards

And it hasn't displaced anything, has it? I still don't expect it to do anything of the sort.
I'd like EU court to look into Apple iOS and now MS Windows, Google Chromebooks lock the user into a single source of "apps". It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer.
Nope, think we agree with each other :) Just pointing out why the EU would want to be able to deal with Uber as Transport.
"... non-life-threatening illnesses like a broken arm can have waiting times measured in months ..."

It astounds me that people can hear stories such as this and actually believe them. No, of course people don't wait months to get their broken arm taken care of. I broke my foot and had it in a cast that night, and the only reason it took as long as that was because I didn't realize at first that I'd broken it.
They are. Every other company is charging around what it "should" cost. It's just Uber who undercut them all, which was possible because a) they decided laws don't apply to them, so they can save on following regulations, b) they started to subsidize ride costs with VC money even more directly.
> this really does make me worried for OpenStreetMap. If the competition is so powerful and has a moat protecting it that will only grow larger, how can it ever hope to catch up?

When OSM started in 2004 (before Google Maps), the only real place you could get map data was from governments. The idea of everyone walking around with GPSes to make their own map sounds like it'll never work. And yet here we are.

> This isn't a case like Wikipedia where it entered a market that was barely there (e.g. online/software encyclopedias).

The encyclopedia market did exist, for decades, before Wikipedia. I'll bet very few people are buying family encyclopedias now.
> [1] also claims that the Rousselet family blocked a direct rail link between CDG and central Paris (my Uber on that route last week cost 99 EUR)

Well a regular "taxi parisien" between CDG and Paris is 50 € or 55 €: https://www.g7.fr/tarifs-taxis-paris Uber is not always cheaper…
I think where innovation is poor it's typically because there is a monopoly that simply removes incentives of operators to innovate, and a lack of good regulation, such as what the service must provide (payment options, safety, insurance, apps, ...).

If the regulation says "there can only be one company and they can charge cash only if they want" then the regulation is poor. The regulation should say "Anyone who fulfills the criteria on safety/insurance/skill can operate a taxi business. And oh, they must accept credit cards".
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You can always use a window manager and some xterms. It is what I have been using for 20 years.
I also like OSM a lot but it has serious flaws. For example searching for specific addresses or POIs is cumbersome.
> it got almost no use cases

You don't think calling cabs to your location, paying with your stored card, knowing the fixed cost beforehand is a valid usecase?
I googled that and was pleasantly surprised to learn something new.[1]

But if I'm reading that right I would probably want to do both. Because overcommit settings seem to be a memory saving technique. To avoid needing swap by decreasing the allowed overcommit memory.

Anyways, in the many years that I've been changing vm.swappiness I've never had any issues and I've always had a minimum of 8G RAM so I don't think this will be a big issue.

1. http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/virtual_memory_settings_i...
Definitely the most detailed analysis about map readability and features selection over time and in different areas.

We might disagree on some points but his work is truly amazing and always interesting.

I agree with you over his previous blog and about his position at Apple Maps, great to see him doing what he does best.
Quoting some articles does not an argument make. The summary argument:

> Volatility is a feature of Bitcoin, not a bug, and that is in part for reasons that have nothing to do with speculation or bubbliness, but rather follow from the contours of the utility function. It’s that latter point that hardly anyone understands.

I'd argue this is might be correct, but also irrelevant, as many people involved in bitcoin either wanted to use it as a payment method, or are only in it for speculation, or money laundering/covert transferring of wealth.

How useful is a value store where it's very difficult to actually get the value out remains to be seen, or what effect such a realisation will have on the price.
It's a cab company. What's there to understand?
Contrary to popular opinion Thinkpads are not durable as they seem. There are various conditions such as deep coma (when the laptop won't wake from a sleep) or random shutdowns unrelated to heat/any observable cause etc.

I thought my thinkpad x201 was like a tank, but then random shutdowns became more frequent. I disassambled the laptop 4-5 times, replaced thermal paste, checked connections, replaced all software (including BIOS), couldn't find a solution. Then I stumbled upon a 45 page thread at the lenovo support forum. Many people were claiming the existence of the exact problem, but the only solution was to "replace the motherboard".

At least, apple offers world-wide decent for their products. With used thinkpads, you're basically on your own, no matter how tech-savvy you are.

If I were to purchase another laptop for on-the-go usage I will think twice before opting out for a thinkpad for it's durability.

Thinkpads are marvelous machines, but in my experience not all that glitters is gold :).