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Jerry-NetherlandJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:20pm
So, to be clear, someone is standing in the street in NYC, trying to hail a cab, and an unmarked car pulls over....and they get in?
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  mcgoonJerry-Netherland
  6/17/15 4:22pm
  welcome to nyc post midnight where the need to get in line at a club/lounge is greater than safety.
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  Dave Jerry-Netherland
  6/17/15 4:25pm
  There are stories of people getting into random cars thinking they are their Ubers, so yes, they do. I’ve gypsied (do they call it that?) from time to time but I prefer a clearly marked Yellow cab for my shit faced late night cab rides. (The only ones I take)
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TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Jay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:28pm
The entire purpose of a corporation is to limit the liability of its investors. Uber is simply taking that logic to its natural, perfect conclusion: Uber cannot be held responsible for anything that happens on its watch, but it is always entitled to a cut of the revenue, even if their “contractors” are already taking a loss. Uber is almost a no-risk proposition if you’re a investor.
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  dothedewTRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)
  6/17/15 4:33pm
  Corporations limit the liability of investors but not of the corporation itself. So Uber’s investors can only lose what they put in, but Uber can (theoretically) lose everything it has.
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  TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)dothedew
  6/17/15 4:42pm
  Well, yeah, but from a rational investor’s perspective, there’s no point in crying over spilled milk. If Uber fails, it fails.
  
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Medieval KnievelJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:19pm
I have this idea for an app that arranges for a train to take you from almost anywhere to almost anywhere else in the city for a couple of bucks — and it avoids street traffic by running underground! Visit my kickstarter kiosks!
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  crews200Medieval Knievel
  6/17/15 4:24pm
  Can you guarantee that these suppoossed “trains” will run on time?
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  dothedewcrews200
  6/17/15 4:32pm
  Do you know who else worried about the trains running on time?
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GrilledCheeseonSourdoughJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:12pm
Buying a car to be an Uber driver has to be the most uber dumb thing a person could possibly do.
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  The ever-present football-player rapistGrilledCheeseonSourdough
  6/17/15 4:17pm
  What about having children? They don’t make you any money.
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  solongandthanksforallthephishGrilledCheeseonSourdough
  6/17/15 4:18pm
  I had a cabbie pick me up the other day telling me that I was his last yellow cab fare ever. Uber is going to change his life, loan him the money to buy a car, and he was going to be a wealthy man. He was so anti TLC regulation that I din’t have the heart tell him he was signing a pact for indentured servitude. Plus I didn’t want him dropping me off in the middle of of the 59th st bridge.
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Gary GlitterJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:17pm
New York is a little bubble. Everyone else fucking loves Uber.
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  Snake LipssynkGary Glitter
  6/17/15 4:30pm
  “Everyone else” as long as you don’t count the many jurisdictions where Uber is either banned or being banned or regulated?
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  Gary GlitterSnake Lipssynk
  6/17/15 4:38pm
  Obviously.
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Jay HathawayJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:40pm
That City Paper story is a really good investigation of how much Uber drivers really make, by the way. Definitely worth reading if you haven’t already.
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  Orlandu7Jay Hathaway
  6/17/15 5:00pm
  Relevant part of the article (which is in fact really good):
  
  “And after 100 rides, I felt like I had enough to work with. Over that duration, during which I maintained a 4.83 adjusted rating, high enough to qualify me for Uber’s VIP program, Uber would say I “earned” $17 an hour in gross fares. But subtract the 28 percent that went to Uber and the 19 percent that went to expenses, and I actually made $9.34 an hour (plus a grand total of $16 in tips, $10 of which were for meeting up with a guy who left his Porsche keys in my backseat).
  
  Driving for UberX isn’t the worst-paying job I’ve ever had. I made less scooping ice cream as a 15-year-old, if you don’t adjust for inflation. If I worked 10 hours a day, six days a week with one week off, I’d net almost $30,000 a year before taxes.
  
  But if I wanted to net that $90,000 a year figure that so many passengers asked about, I would only have to work, let’s see ...
  
  27 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
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  DuckOrlandu7
  6/18/15 10:02am
  His math is screwy. He cuts out his “expenses” as if it’s not money earned. I don’t subtract the money I spend on gasoline, clothing and other work related purchases from my “earnings”. Just because I have to buy a new laptop so I can work doesn’t mean I didn’t make that money.
  
  He is confusing net profit with a pre-tax wage.
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hilikusopusJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:31pm
One theory about the uptick in illegal fares, put forth by the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, is that Uber alone isn’t enough for a driver to get by in NYC.

Another theory might be that there aren’t enough taxis to satisfy demand.
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Maxless Suspect VIIJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:19pm
With so many cars confiscated, sounds like NYC should be charging surge impounding rates.
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DarthPumpkinJay Hathaway
6/17/15 4:19pm
In a blog post, the company assured drivers that they’d actually make more money because demand would go up.

Is Uber incorporating time-dilation into its app? The only way this sentence makes sense is if Uber can somehow stretch out a driver’s day into unlimited hours to accommodate all this wonderful demand.

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