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Comment Re:Yeah.... (Score 5, Insightful) 193

That's sharing a taxi.

The pre-Uber general characterization of ride-sharing is person 1 is going from A to B, and offers/finds/solicits someone else (Person 2) from around A (or along the path from A to B) and drives with Person 2 further along the path to B or around B, drops off person 2, then Person 1 continues on to B.

Person 2 may give person 1 money and/or sex in exchange for the ride.

It's predicated on Person 1 already wanting to go from A to B.

Uber and Lyft have completely perverted the phrase, using it to refer to taxi rides arranged over the internet, at random prices, while ignoring any taxi regulations.

Comment Re:But why? (Score 1) 634

wtf is the article talking about?

"if the content of the work itself is made more societally meaningful, women will enroll in droves"
"It may be about reframing the goals of engineering research and curriculums to be more relevant to societal needs. It is not just about gender equity — it is about doing better engineering for us all."

designing a building/safe roads/pipeline system that is safe isn't?
design of a sewage treatment plant isn't?
designing/creating software for the healthcare system isn't?

or is it that men have already done all the good stuff, and all that's left for the women are the stupid edge cases?

There are tons of things that could have a huge beneficial effect on society [not just in the West, but globally].

Or is it that all these things haven't been clearly explained to women?
And it also implies that guys don't care about societal benefits [because if it doesn't, that means guys can see how all this stuff works together, and then go into STEM, but women can't, so they don't, which I don't think they want to imply].

Comment Re:Regulation is the enemy of free markets. (Score 1) 54

What are you saying? One side of those trades TOTALLY operated in their own best interest..they totally ripped off the banks by lying to them.

Then the banks operated in their own best interest by demanding large amounts of money directly from the gov't to save themselves from their own greed.

The sad thing is regular people have been tricked into believing that it was all done in our best interest.

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