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Comment Re:Bullshit narrative ... (Score 1) 230

they're better at regulating taxi drivers via their technology than local taxi commissions are via paperwork?

Gosh as a profit-making corporation, will they even care at all about regulating taxi drivers? Their shareholders will tell them most emphatically that they need to spend as little as possible on regulation so that they will have maximum dividend payouts.

Comment Re:It's Slashdot that Shits in my Mouth (Score 1) 230

what you are allowed to do with your car

You can do whatever the fuck you want to with your own car on your own property. But when you take it out on government provided roads and engage in commerce with government-supplied currency, you have to play by their rules.

Taxi drivers regularly rape and/or assault passengers.

Do you REALLY assert that the answer to this problem is to have more and more unregulated taxi drivers?

Comment Re: Bullshit narrative ... (Score 1) 230

chicago is a good example, just to be allowed to have your taxi service, you need to buy a medallion for each car, at a cost of around $1M each.

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE

http://chicagodispatcher.com/chicago-taxicab-medallion-prices-p235-117.htm

Multiple medallions were sold in May 2015 for an average price of $242,000

FAIL

Comment Re:Damn you Uber (Score 1) 230

A taxi license in Paris costs 240 000 Euro making taxi rather expensive and affordable only for relatively wealthy. Drop that, and it opens the market for more customers creating jobs.

How do you know it will "create" jobs? If cab drivers are forced to accept lower rates because of increased competition, they are going to have less money to spend and they will spend less money in the community, putting local workers out of work.

Comment Re:Efficient allocation of capital (Score 1) 230

Efficient allocation of capital in the long run benefits society.

If the amount of labor needed to produce one person's worth of goods and services is less than one person's worth of effort, then you are going to have people sitting around doing nothing. So your argument is that our society will do better and better as we have more and more people sitting around doing nothing.

I'd say it's better to efficiently allocate HUMAN capital to maximize our benefit to society.

Comment Re: Here's your chance Slashdot (Score 1) 128

yeah here's the C++ implementation:

#include "my_header.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    DO_IT();
}

My solution is best because it is the most readable and easiest to understand. There is only one line of actual code. All of the details are handled by the preprocessor.

Comment Re:here's a prototype without the camo paint (Score 1) 249

That thing got beat with the nasty end of the ugly stick. I predict they won't sell many just because it's soooo damn ugly, no matter what the underpinnings might be or what kind of range it gets.

You DO understand that the Bolt is just a Chevrolet Spark with an electric drivetrain? Look at the pictures.

And then realize that the identical-looking gasoline powered Spark is actually selling well:

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2015/05/01/chevy-spark-ev-price-cut-appears-to-have-worked-as-april-sales-surge/

so much for "no matter what the underpinnings might be"

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