main competative advantage is just breaking the law

If you’re talking employment law, then yea for sure

If you’re taking laws like those that cap taxis licenses arbitrarily that the Taxi industry pushed for so that bigger companies could buy them all up and establish a monopoly, then I can look the other way on those

That’s a ride hailing app, it’s just another Uber/Lyft. It’s not a taxi.

Fuck Taxis and Uber

An entire industry that’s playing the victim. Stop falling for it and stop romanticizing taxis, the shit they pulled was just as bad, if not worse than what Uber does.

Biggest difference is their drivers were complicit in the shenanigans and primarily targeted their customers. Taking LONG routes because their customer “wasn’t local”, saying a route will “probably be 10$” and then it’s 50 and “the meter says what it says man”.

They literally used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time, 0 innovations, dirty ancient barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours

The taxi industry doesn’t give a fuck about you, they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying. When/If Uber/Lyft dies, I guarantee the Taxi industry will resurge for the worst and take pages out of Ubers playbook. It’s just going to go back to the wait it was before.

Fuck Uber AND Taxis, they both can rot in hell, but I don’t mind seeing taxis get there first.

What mythical app does your local taxis have.

Every single taxi “app” I’ve ever used have been shit. Just last year I tried one out, and the best it did (besides looking like it walked straight outta 2013 UI’s in 2023) was give me an “estimated price range” which again left too much room for the cabbie to fuck with the meter/routes.

And they used those strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time, 0 innovations, dirty ancient barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours

Nah, fuck taxis I’m never going to get in another scammy cab ever again.

It isn’t, they’re both shit.

The taxi industry used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time (and STILL is cash only in many places), 0 innovations, dirty ancient smelly barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours.

Even now they can’t get their head out of their ass to make a proper app in 2024 that just tells you how much you’re going to pay. Last time I tried out one of those taxi “apps” last year:

It wouldn’t tell you where or how long till the taxi got to you

It would only give you an “estimated price range” (FUCK THAT)

It looked like it was from 2013 and they got a “nephew who knows computers” to make it

Fuck Uber, but at least when Uber tells me a price, that’s the price that gets charged (excluding tip). At least I know where the Uber car is and when it’s getting to me. At least the Uber driver can’t screw around with routes and fares.

So really the choices for a taxi-like service are between a shit sandwich and a giant douche. Ugh, I’m just going to start renting cars.

Fuck yea, fuck Taxis

An entire industry that’s playing the victim. People around here are romanticizing taxis, but the shit they pulled was just as bad, if not worse than what Uber does.

Biggest difference is their drivers were complicit in the shenanigans and primarily targeted their customers. Taking LONG routes because their customer “wasn’t local”, saying a route will “probably be 10$” and then it’s 50 and “the meter says what it says man”.

They literally used strict regulations as a shield to hold local monopolies for decades which resulted in terrible downright scammy service, cash only for an unacceptable amount of time, 0 innovations, dirty ancient barely running cars, a dispatch who would constantly say a car “was just around the corner” for 2 hours

The taxi industry doesn’t give a fuck about you, they’re just mad because they didn’t think to do what Uber is doing and now they’re dying.

Fuck Uber AND Taxis, they both can rot in hell, but I don’t mind seeing taxis get there first.

BUT BUT you’ll get 5% fasTEr SpeED!!! And MOrE seCuRiTy!!!

Got pulled into the office for using my own money on that one lol

It was because they had a form you could have filled out and gotten it paid for without any fuss right?..right??

They’re saying that if you time it right, they won’t get/hear the notification that you’ve checked in and you can slide into the right spot. Wait awhile and then you’ll get refunded because you were “waiting so long”

Which it can work TBH, it just won’t be a reliable method by any means

This crowd is exactly who to sell scams and bullshit to.

Everyday it becomes harder and harder to not hawk a bunch of junk like “anti-5G necklaces” to the Trump crowd and make some much needed money

I mean for Facebook, it makes sense. Very early on, even before it expanded out to other colleges, didn’t it start out as a “Hot or not” type thing by ol Zuck?

Probably because of the nukes, if you have a weapons platform in orbit you can do something like launch large metal rods and it’ll have the same destructive force without any of the nasty radioactive fallout

but the wisdom of a toddler.

Sounds like an improvement to me lol

But just barely, it’s just the absolute bare minimum IMO

Today’s word of the day!

Diarize (British form: Diarise)-

intransitive verb

: to keep or write in a diary

diarize for an hour each evening

transitive verb

: to record in a diary

diarize the affairs of the hour

what kind of fucking upgrade is this?

Sounds like pretty standard upgrade to me, NEW, but with less features lol

Oh, I’m stealing this LMAO

Kagis ok, it’s better than Google now, but not the Google of the past and only if what you were looking for is recent and indexed. If not, it just falls back to the same Google results. Good if you want separation and not having Google know what you’re searching for, but beyond that…meh.

Chances are you have an ISP that is doing dynamic IP. Clear cookies and cache on everything you ever touched Reddit with, note what your current IP is (Google “what’s my IP address”), unplug your ISP modem for about 15-20 minutes and plug it back in. You should get a new IP, check with the Google trick again.

Might get tricky if Reddit does something like a hardware ID on your computer or something, but I doubt it.