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Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by vvpan on Monday November 30, 2015 @08:21AM (#10649206)
Please don't call things "Uber for X", it's a completely meaningless sentence most of the time. When you say "Uber for banking" to me I have to idea what you mean.
Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by jzwinck on Monday November 30, 2015 @08:44AM (#10649293)
I recently overheard two girls talking about Tinder. One told the other it was "Like AirBnB for dating."

If you think for a minute that's pretty hilarious. Sharing economy indeed.

Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by AndrewKemendo on Monday November 30, 2015 @09:19AM (#10649472)
I interpret "Uber for X" as: Non-Professional people providing professional service X
Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by mcphage on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:01AM (#10650034)
> I have to idea what you mean

Well you see, when you're carrying a lot of cash on your person, then you put your location on a website, so anybody looking for someone with a lot of cash can find you and...

...hmm.

Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by HiLo on Monday November 30, 2015 @11:30AM (#10650182)
Playing devils's advocate, when have people, in all history, carrying large amounts of cash not been strapped?

When I was in Nicaragua for awhile it was kind of known you don't fuck with the cash dealers. From my experience, especially in these lower-income countries where these services are targeted, you're either getting protection or you're providing it; if neither, you'll quickly find yourself needing one of the former.

I'm not sure how this would change with a Silicon Valley style startup, but given Uber drivers don't know each other or have any "loyalties" for lack of a better word, I'm inclined to think you'd be right. However, I can quickly seeing this leading to the "dealers" on this system organizing into a group for self protection. Or a gang, cartel, militia, party, or advocate group, whatever you want to call it. Dudes you don't want to fuck with. And that doesn't sound conducive to a banking revolution, although maybe in the sense that payments are a social system at their core could make this feasible.

Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by aianus on Monday November 30, 2015 @12:04PM (#10650390)
You can just meet at the local bank. Who's going to rob you inside a bank instead of robbing the bank?
Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by d_welsman on Monday November 30, 2015 @10:03AM (#10649700)
Great marketing tool though, and taught to many budding entrepreneurs practicing their 40 second pitch as a way to get their meaning across super fast. Uber for banking means 'crowd-sourced' banking or banking provided by the masses -- was informative for me.
Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by will_brown on Monday November 30, 2015 @10:38AM (#10649892)
It's not completely meaningless, I interpret "Uber for x" to mean a technology company that is the middleman in furtherance of skirting laws/regulations.

Do you know how many Uber drivers have been charged criminally?

Just think of controversial or antiquated laws and build Uber on top to facilitate the transaction. Uber of drug dealing...Uber of prostitution...unlike Uber of banking I bet you know exactly what those mean.

Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by pan69 on Monday November 30, 2015 @03:24PM (#10651500)
I think when people use the "User for X" they refer to the disruption Uber has caused to an industry, not so much the service of Uber itself.
Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by de_Selby on Monday November 30, 2015 @08:41AM (#10649282)
Agreed, airbnb for banking would have been much clearer.
Re:Uber for banking? Coins.ph turns people into ATMs by alttab on Monday November 30, 2015 @10:10AM (#10649748)
None of them make sense. "Crowdsourced via GPS" is the common function.