As it turns out, millions of things happen every day without you being aware of them.

It’s sad that so many people can only see the problems with one party.

Maybe this is just me speaking for myself, but I think dating someone less than half your age is intrinsically creepy.

There are a bunch of winners and a bunch of losers (sometimes the same people win some lose some). As a native NYer, I have many thoughts on this very complex situation. In transparency: I am on the side of no cap. Apologies on the long comment.

Err..:you accuse Uber of lying about the part time gig based concept...except the reason why drivers are virtually all full time drivers in NYC is because of NYC’s unique TLC licensing requirements. You have to have a livery plate from the TLC to drive for an Uber base and that means you have to purchase commercial…

This is the best part. Just because taxi drivers are losing their jobs to better services, I’m supposed to feel bad? Let’s implement redundant and restrictive rules to save other dying jobs. 

Bail out all the dying industries. Coal mining, taxi driving, chimney sweeping, all of them.

I’d just like to point out that this is the entire dealership subplot of Fargo.

I bet this is true because its not like the guy has ever lied about anything big before.

I would way rather take a shitty overpriced cab or walk or bike rather than risk getting in a car with a stranger who has not been vetted or background checked in any way.

This is the story Jalopnik should have focused on instead of targeting Musk’s odd reply. It’s a better story and has a lot more depth.

Fossi is the lawyer and director for Stewart Rahr’s tax avoidance foundation. Rahr made his billion by scamming the American medical system through overcharging for drugs.

It should be noted that Montana Skeptic is one of the trolls that caused Dan Niel to delete his twitter. He even gloated about it.

I have to laugh when anyone points out the former “regulated taxi services” as a noble industry that wasn’t completely corrupt and bordering in useless in most cities. I remember calling cabs in LA and they just simply not show up, or would be an hour past the time they said they’d get there. When you did get a ride,…

This seems like a good policy, and I’ve heard of similar ones being created in other cities (though not sure of the details). When airbnb was relatively new, it was marketed as a way to make some side money renting out your spare room, or your house while you were out of town, or to stay in a local home while…

Denver decided that people were basically running unlicensed and untaxed hotels by renting whole apartments. Now you are only allowed to list rooms in your primary residence. You are not allowed to rent properties or rooms in properties in which you don’t reside. Enforcement seems pretty good so far.

Tesla contracts with Balance Staffing to supply temp workers. Tesla gives Balance Staffing money for their expenses and overhead and profit. Balance Staffing tells the temps that it hired to accept peanuts and interpretive dance in lieu of paychecks. Articles with headlines about “Tesla contract workers pressured to…

Your experience was caused in part by the “tragedy of the commons”. Basically any public resource will be [ab]used and depleted because people act in their own self-interest rather than in the common good. See also “people littering in parks” and “really gross public transportation”.

Bingo. A lot of the budget goes towards obscenely high salaries and just straight up embezzlement. The MTA needs to be completely transparent about where its budget goes, because I can guarantee that a large portion of their money goes nowhere useful.

I disagree. We’re talking about a power dichotomy here, where someone physically larger and stronger applied that force to someone who was smaller and weaker. This isn’t that different from someone who is socially or economically advantaged using that advantage to injure someone who is socially or economically…