To how it was before the ACA? Fuck that noise, and fuck off for drinking the fox news kool aid thinking that it’s a good idea.

Smoking hot take, snowflake. It’s as if you know nothing about which you’re speaking.

Oh, yeah, I remember reading something about that. Let’s see if I can find it right here. . .

“invariably white, because they can”

It’s the constant loading and unloading of the differential that breaks stuff. It’s why you can break stuff drag racing a stock car just by getting a bad launch with a lot of wheel hop.

The entire drive-train has inertia. The engine has inertia, the transmission has inertia, the driveshaft has inertia, so does the differential carrier. That inertia allows for the peak instantaneous torque to be much, much higher than the continuous torque.

I don’t have a problem with tanks. I wear tanks, myself. Tanks that are designed to meet only the bare minimum level of coverage to still constitute a shirt are obnoxious as hell. That being said, tanks are not “better” than Ts for working out, and for certain exercises (e.g., heavy back squats) they’re measurably…

You are wrong about the legal definition of employee in the U.S.. The definition is nebulous. The IRS defines employee for tax purposes, others areas of the law may lean on that defintion, but many do not. The definition differs for labor and employment law (think unions and such). The definition of employee differs…

Your lead example has a gigantic flaw:

I generally don’t like taxis in the US. My most frequent “disputes” are with drivers who insist on smoking or drivers who claim not to have change. And the one time I’ve outright fallen victim to a taxi scam was the infamous 5-50 currency switch in Istanbul. In the Former Soviet Union I’m scared to even get into a…

Uber is a mini VC bubble. Even if the top VC funds think its chances of succeeding are slim they have no choice but to get in on the round because of the competitive dynamic of venture capital. Once the top funds are in on a deal other have to be in on it because of the respective pay offs. Imagine a decision tree...

That isn’t a problem with taxis or the general concept of a taxi service, it’s how taxis are run in Boston.

I’m so stuck on that issue.

In Chicago, with our upper and lower streets that are named the same, all those suburbanites that drive for uber invariably get lost. I’ve made a point to not be shy to tell the driver where to go, everyone appreciates it.

In most places in the US, taxi drivers are all independent, too. The company name on the side is the association, which handles things like dispatching (“we have a call for a ride at 123 Main St”) and marketing, and often regulates which vehicles you drive and when they’re replaced (in some places, they own the…

Take a ride in downtown Chicago with a driver unfamiliar with the area as the high rise buildings play hell with GPS reception.

I see where you’re coming from but there are a couple of points that need mentioning.

If you’d read any of the linked articles, you’d have found an answer to your question about independent contractors vs. employees (I guess lunch breaks are short at the Cato Institute). It comes down to the question of whether Uber is a taxi service that employs drivers, or a tech platform that connects “workers” with…

If your goal is to ultimately work “crazy hours” and get paid pennies, and that “the shittier parts of Brazil or Nigeria” is where the bar should be set for worker protections all so some of the most grating people on the planet can be billionaires, well brother, I hope you achieve it.

My (former) taxi company is a 70 year old, driver owned co-op. Are you employing that our business model wasn’t inherently more fair to our drivers?