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  1. Comment on Nearly two-thirds of Uber customers don’t tip their drivers in ~transport

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    Not in Seattle. There's yellow or orange cab, but you were usually at the whim of who you could hail. You'd be forced to pay cash or if you hailed a cab going the wrong way they'd deny the ride...

    What monopoly? Isn't the competition in the taxi industry incredibly fierce pretty much everywhere?

    Not in Seattle. There's yellow or orange cab, but you were usually at the whim of who you could hail.

    You'd be forced to pay cash or if you hailed a cab going the wrong way they'd deny the ride and speed off. Old dirty cars and aggressive drivers.

    Cities, including Seattle, often have a set number of taxi medallions. That creates a fixed market where competition doesn't really matter. The demand vastly outnumbers the available cabs, allowing them to pull shenanigans or never innovate / improve (i.e. apps). It was funny how fast yellow cab came out with an app once Uber showed up.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Nearly two-thirds of Uber customers don’t tip their drivers in ~transport

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    we needed one to break the taxi monopoly

    dressed up taxi service

    we needed one to break the taxi monopoly

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What are you doing this weekend? in ~talk

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    Help add a wall to a shed, work on some motorcycles, drink some beer

    Help add a wall to a shed, work on some motorcycles, drink some beer

    6 votes

  4. Comment on Joker - Discussion thread in ~movies

  5. Comment on Joker - Discussion thread in ~movies

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    Great acting, cinematography was beautiful, score really punched up the tension, unexpected funny moments, good twists. Yeah it drew from prior movies but it was great. Metal detectors and police...

    Great acting, cinematography was beautiful, score really punched up the tension, unexpected funny moments, good twists.

    Yeah it drew from prior movies but it was great. Metal detectors and police made it more than just a movie, a full experience 👌

    12 votes

  6. Comment on Bill raising Federal minimum wage to $15 heads to US House floor in ~finance

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    Arbitrary threshold, but ok

    "The result is that there is no place in America where a full-time worker who is paid the current federal minimum wage can afford a modest two-bedroom apartment."

    Arbitrary threshold, but ok

    4 votes

  8. Comment on A new "short film" by razor company Gillette has called for men to be the best they can be, sparking a significant backlash in ~life.men

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    My point is that a tax write-off isn't really putting any skin into the game

    My point is that a tax write-off isn't really putting any skin into the game

    1 vote

  9. Comment on A new "short film" by razor company Gillette has called for men to be the best they can be, sparking a significant backlash in ~life.men

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    woo hoo tax write off to boot

    woo hoo tax write off to boot

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes in ~humanities.history

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    your url has some extra text in it that made tildes think it was a different link theirs: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html yours:...

    your url has some extra text in it that made tildes think it was a different link

    theirs: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html

    yours: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html?fbclid=IwAR0qFvQaEkzbnEymOhdoSO1H5qaenLWaJxbnQg1iX9NTxXw3j3DL6u8INxM

    A lot of times you can remove everything after (and including) the ?.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Reddit ban hasn’t stopped Trump fans from calling for murder of Parkland kids, immigrants, and Antifa in ~tech

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    As long as moderators remove the content after it's reported, what else do people expect to happen?

    As long as moderators remove the content after it's reported, what else do people expect to happen?

    2 votes

  12. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~science

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    I heard recently from Jonathan Haidt that girls suicide is up about 70%

    I heard recently from Jonathan Haidt that girls suicide is up about 70%

  14. Comment on 'Suck my dick and balls': Woman blew up her NASA internship before it launched due to vulgar tweet in ~space

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    It didn't end there. The furry brigade went after Hickam until he deleted his twitter account. Example.

    Oh boy, that actually ended a lot better than expected!

    It didn't end there. The furry brigade went after Hickam until he deleted his twitter account. Example.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg raises $1 billion for short-form video venture in ~tech

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    I guess my point was there are already plenty of mature, large audience video platforms. What's going to be the x factor for Katzenburg's platform that any of the others can't adapt to?

    I guess my point was there are already plenty of mature, large audience video platforms. What's going to be the x factor for Katzenburg's platform that any of the others can't adapt to?

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg raises $1 billion for short-form video venture in ~tech

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    and if its a talent thing they all have their top users. and amazon & netflix have tons of licensing, talent purchasing power, and can release an app so easily

    and if its a talent thing they all have their top users. and amazon & netflix have tons of licensing, talent purchasing power, and can release an app so easily

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg raises $1 billion for short-form video venture in ~tech

  19. Comment on KFC taps former 'Seinfeld' star Jason Alexander as new Colonel Sanders in ~tv

  20. Guilty TV pleasures?

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    I like Bar Rescue. There's some ridiculous tv dramatization, a smidge of education (how service businesses work), and I can google what happens a year after the show airs (they all seem to close)....

    I like Bar Rescue. There's some ridiculous tv dramatization, a smidge of education (how service businesses work), and I can google what happens a year after the show airs (they all seem to close). Plus when I go to bars I feel like I can point out what they're doing wrong.

    15 votes