Found this piece in which Lyft boasts that they had more driver upon coming back to Austin, and where RideAustin states that their numbers have dropped from 50k weekly rides to 20k rides, which is their minimum number to remain relevant.
Drivers probably signed up again with Lyft/Uber simply because these apps had again a significant volume of business to offer.
Also, I saw on reddit that RideAustin had closed its onboarding office, which seems like the best way to send drivers to their competitors.
While that's true, there is also "antitrust". The Guardian certainly has squandered away most of the trust bonus it may have once had. (I think it was the Guardian making the claims?).
At least you haven't caught me lying before, doesn't that count for anything?
Even most o the journalism prices don't mean much anymore. Here in Germany there was just a scandal of a journalist faking many stories, who had also won lots of prices with them (Claas Relotius). In some articles about him it was also mentioned that by now there is also a kind of "inflation" of journalism prices. I think they also serve the purpose of creating a fake aura of trust.
I don't get it - it seems to be just a list of common false claims about Assange (according to Wikileaks)? How is that "things you can't say"? Surely you can still say them? Or what - will Wikileaks send their hired guns to silence you?
Also I think Assange is not in control of Wikileaks anymore.
How do auto loans and credit card approvals differ? Surely both have some human element to it still?
Maybe the sums involved are different, so giving loans is more risky than approving credit cards?
Also, incentives might be different. Maybe credit card companies want "bad" borrowers, because they make the most money if people go into high debts on credit cards? On the other hand for normal loans there is no such incentive, because the interest rates are fixed and much lower.
most people get auto loans st the dealership with a salesperson (the human element), but get credit cards via online or paper forms (no human involved).
I really want to enable ipv6 on my web site, but then I heard horror stories about connections failing if not all routers between the client and the server have ipv6 enabled.
Apparently at least for a while, browsers would not try the same request again via ipv4, so the site would simply be unreachable.
Perhaps browsers have become smarter about that, but it really makes me wary about enabling ipv6. I have no immediate benefit besides "doing the right thing", and some possible downsides.
Yes, browsers have become smarter about that. You can test it by enabling ipv6 and then drop all ipv6 packets with ip6tables, that has the same effect as if some middlebox dropped them.
Most people don't obsess about rockets. I would find the story more convincing if there were also examples of "talents" who didn't go anywhere. I find it rather likely that people with his talents would always find a way.
Of course there is always untapped potential, for the time being. That is why there are still startups and entrepreneurs, who try to release that potential. But it is not as simple as hiring diverse genders and races.
It is simply a hard problem to enable people to make the most out of their talents and potentials.
The Tom Mueller case seems to illustrate that well. What if there had been no SpaceX during his lifetime. Who would have been to blame? What would there have to be done? Perhaps Tom Mueller would have started his own Space company? Or maybe not. But whose duty would it supposedly be to provide a space company for people like him to work at?
Most people are not even sure how to enable their own children to make the most of their talents (or to develop some talents to begin with) - let alone some strangers. I think that also shows that it is not primarily an issue of diversity. We simply don't know enough about developing talents and making the most out of life yet. So we experiment - sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.
What exactly made Tom Mueller obsessed with rockets? If I want my kids to become rocket scientists, should I send them to lumber jack camps in the summer?
There's a contradiction between your two statements:
> I would find the story more convincing if there were also examples of "talents" who didn't go anywhere.
> I find it rather likely that people with his talents would always find a way.
The latter is basically the just world fallacy. [1] It assumes that the outcomes are correct. If you were offered examples of people who the writer said were talented but didn't go anywhere, I think you'd just just bring the just world fallacy to bear, believing that their bad outcome was proof that they weren't really talented.
I am not the one who wrote an article making claims, so why should the burden of proof be on me? I dnn't think your criticism of my comment is fair at all.
The author made a claim, so they should support it. That has nothing to do with just world hypothesis. Also, he actually provided an example of somebody prevailing against the odds.
The only evidence that talent might be wasted is our feelings that it may be so. That's not enough.
As for contradicting statements, it seems to me my statements both say the same thing. Both are a request for providing evidence of (unfairly) wasted talents.
It wasn't an article. It especially wasn't a scientific study. They were offering a viewpoint and an example.
But if you're right, and people should always offer ironclad proof of claims, please show me the studies that back your claim that "The author made a claim, so they should support it." I will only accept high-n, double-blind studies published in major journals. Thanks in advance.
They are not obliged to provide examples or proofs, but I am also not obliged to believe their claims. If you want, I "offered" my "viewpoint" that the support of their argument was insufficient.
Moreover, I am ENTITLED to having doubts. Isn't that what the modern world (and also the article here) is all about? Entitlement?
In general, more double-blind studies would be a good thing, so what is your point?
All I did was ask for some examples. That's not an absurd, inapplicable standard.
And I am not applying the just-world fallacy. I think it is a completely misguided way to think about the world to begin with.
Of course not everybody reaches the optimal outcome in life. That doesn't make it unfair or an injustice.
Why did nobody inspire me to buy Google stock when I was a teenager? Then I would be a millionaire by now. Other people became millionaires because they bought Google stock.
So unfair! It is such an injustice! Obviously I am entitled to be bestowed millions by society now, because the only reason I am not a millionaire is because society didn't point me towards buying stock as a youth.
Also, I think I am entitled to at least 1000 Bitcoin. Can I send you my address? It is not my fault that society didn't encourage me to become a computer geek who would then experiment with Bitcoin mining in 2009.
So obviously I don't believe in a "just world", because I myself am a living example of it not being just!
While you can frame your view of the world that way, and not rest until everybody in the world is EXACTLY the same (you may also look into genetic engineering, because it won't do that some people are more beautiful than others), I think it is a completely silly approach.
Cognitive biases don't work like that. Yes, you may believe in some fashion that the world isn't just. But that doesn't mean you won't apply the fallacy when it backs some previously held view.
Uh, I think the point is that we need to build fair systems that reward high-performers. This answers all of your questions.
>> What if there had been no SpaceX during his lifetime.
We need a fair and level capitalist system that reduces barriers-to-entry for innovative companies and stops monopolistic practices. This will ensure that good ideas are profitable and make it in investors self-interest to build companies around the Muellers of the world.
>> We simply don't know enough about developing talents and making the most out of life yet.
The point is, we need to build systems that enables geniuses to be discovered regardless of races, resume, age, skintone, college. By-and-large the software industry is already incredibly efficient at this relative to other industries.
Other industries (e.g. healthcare) should adapt or be eaten. Software should double-down on talent speaking for itself (e.g. blind interviews, open coding competitions for all)
"The point is, we need to build systems that enables geniuses to be discovered regardless of races, resume, age, skintone, college."
I was referring to that. It is a hard problem, not simply a matter of hiring more ethnically diverse people. If you just say "we need a better system", frankly I consider it a fluff article. There is no actionable information in it. It would be like saying "we need to create better cancer treatments" - yeah, sure, but HOW?
"We need a fair and level capitalist system that reduces barriers-to-entry for innovative companies and stops monopolistic practices."
I am not convinced our current system is unfair. At least the article doesn't provide any evidence for it, as I said.
It seems to me all sorts of companies are trying to improve opportunities for everyone (YCombinator Startup School, MOOCs come to mind). The lack of opportunities for some people is not because of unfairness, but because we don't know how to do it better yet.
But who is "unfair" here? Again - if nobody would have created a space agency for Tom Mueller to work for, would it have been unfair? And who would have been to blame? I really don't think fairness is the dominant issue here.
"The point is, we need to build systems that enables geniuses to be discovered regardless of races, resume, age, skintone, college."
Which the US did in the 1960s, out of fear that the USSR was gaining. Heavy IQ testing and attempts to identify gifted students. Now it's all about "no child left behind", trying to do something for the losers.
How did that turn out? My impression is we simply don't know enough about creating prodigies yet.
There is the Polgar/Ericsson approach, but it may be too narrow. It may enable us to create, say, chess prodigies - but how do we pick the fields for people to become prodigies in? Also, it might not be economically feasible. I think Polgar educated his kids as a full time job. Can't do that with everybody.
Being a woman or black is not unorthodox, though. And priding yourself for hiring somebody black or female seems odd. It should be a normal thing - if the skills (or whatever unorthodox aspects you fancy) are a match.
I agree with everything you said. I don't pride myself for hiring anybody based on their appearance. However, I dispassionately acknowledge that it is because other firms do not do the normal thing that if I do it, I'm at an advantage to them. It doesn't mean I'm a better person, or I have something to be proud of. It only means that I am more competent than folks who are incompetent.
They never said that. They said unorthodox background that doesn’t fit the pattern matching at a big company. i.e. resume is a bit off but they have potential.
Maybe they meant the actual "diversity" of ideas and personalities. It is just that these days if you say "diversity", it has become synonymous with more women, different racial backgrounds, and for some reason also sexual orientation.
It should be normal but unfortunately it is not. I don't see the problem with applauding people who actually make a difference here. In the future it will be nothing noteworthy but right now, again unfortunately, it is.
I'm not convinced that it is not normal. Disproportionate numbers of females and black people in certain professions are more likely because of different proportions in applications. And perhaps also in different distributions of skills and education.
Indeed. I don’t see anyone wringing their hands over most nurses, K-12 teachers, and child care professionals being female, that a majority of the trades are male (construction, welding, electricians, plumbers, pipe fitters), nor that a majority of professional athletes are people of color. I’ve only seen it in tech (disproportionate gender and race composition) described as a “crisis”.
On a related note, last I tried Cloudflare (a couple of years ago) they also injected JavaScript into my site. The JavaScript was larger than my site.