NefariousnessNo484
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdrbtit wrote
Reply to comment by MightyMoonwalker in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
Congrats, you bought into their marketing strategy. Remember when they used to argue rideshares would take cars off the road and reduce emissions through carpooling? People don't even remember why it's called ride-sharing in the first place. They basically lied in order to take over an industry using billionaire funds.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdr2fpn wrote
Reply to comment by MightyMoonwalker in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
The point is that exactly what you think is happening isn't. The rideshare companies are propped up with investor funds. They were only able to capture the market because of unsustainably low pricing. It is not a fair fight at all.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdr12se wrote
Reply to comment by MightyMoonwalker in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
It's pretty much the same deal at any airport I've been to in the past two years. Cabs have been way more efficient for me and sometimes cheaper. The only time I rideshare is when I return from an airport. You can say my experience doesn't matter, but that's a pretty weak argument imo.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdqwxoj wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
When I go to the airport by my house there are tons of taxis just sitting there. I just get in and they take me to my house. The cost is the same or sometimes less than a rideshare.
If I try to do the same thing with a rideshare, I have to wait for 10-20 minutes for it to show up. The drivers are often inexperienced and don't know the shortcuts to get to my house (the area I live in is mapped inaccurately by Google). A lot of them speak zero English and me giving them directions hasn't helped.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdqvzpf wrote
Reply to comment by Rodgers4 in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
You assume no one cares about what happens in Chicago or New York. Pretty typical of the tech attitude. If it doesn't affect CA it doesn't matter.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdphkku wrote
Reply to comment by Adventurous_Job_9555 in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
Lol now Uber and Lyft cost about the same and it's way harder to get a ride than it used to be so I guess tech didn't fix anything at all.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdpc5n6 wrote
Reply to comment by FollowingFeisty5321 in Silicon Valley Elites Are Afraid. History Says They Should Be by Mynameis__--__
Also destroying functional institutions like taxi services and replacing them with unreliable substitutes that lower wages. That and gd Airbnb destroying housing affordability.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jdpbhm0 wrote
Reply to comment by redditknees in Research found after six years spent tracking health outcomes among nearly 925,000 Danish seniors, investigators determined that when a man between the ages of 65 and 69 loses his wife he is 70% more likely to die in the year that follows, when compared with his non-widowed peers by Wagamaga
This is the real answer. Or even if they cook, choosing to make the gd unhealthiest stuff.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_jcpktgd wrote
Reply to comment by suztown in Big tech companies are selling their Silicon Valley campuses amid struggle by McFatty7
Those need special permitting and they usually can't be in spaces designed for offices without a ton of construction. So yes it could be done, but it would be super expensive in an already ass expensive area. It's why a ton of biotechs are moving to Texas.
NefariousnessNo484 t1_j9s5upn wrote
Reply to comment by seaspirit331 in Mice Choose Mating Over Food, Even When Hungry by molrose96
Doesn't that only make sense if you are male and your species has no parental care or difficult gestation period?
NefariousnessNo484 t1_j6sxgo5 wrote
Reply to Long-term exposure to even low levels of multiple ambient air pollutants, association with depression, anxiety by 9273629397759992
Someone post this in r/LosAngeles
NefariousnessNo484 t1_j4oki2o wrote
Reply to New apartment buildings in low-income areas lead to lower rents in nearby housing units. This runs contrary to popular claims that new market-rate housing causes an uptick in rents and leads to the displacement of low-income people. by smurfyjenkins
Um, what about the housing that was destroyed to make the new apartment buildings?
NefariousnessNo484 t1_je2xkvb wrote
Reply to comment by penguished in AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley by nastratin
I didn't realize building the singularity would be so underwhelming.