Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Ambition

Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by cstejerean on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:05PM (#11257020)

I think it's popular now in the SV circles (and this site) to hate on Uber. I'm not even sure why, but I'm fairly certain it's localized. I have traveled and used Uber all over the country and internationally as well. They seem to be doing just fine.

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by techdragon on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:52PM (#11257295)

For a while, before WW2, it looked like Germany was "doing fine" under Adolf Hitler too. Doing fine doesn't mean anything, you need to look deeper at the reasons people are hating Uber. There is growing evidence of systemic "social issues" that Uber is either amazingly still ignorant of, or more likely are being wilfully ignorant of in an attempt to maximise their profits. People are just reacting to this evidence based on their individual moral compasses.

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by elliotec on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:49PM (#11257429)

Uber == Nazi Germany

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by mattnewton on Thursday March 10, 2016 @12:01AM (#11257456)

That's why you need to use ===

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by AI_Overlord on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:25AM (#11257773)

Fuck me. What does that stand for? I know =,==, but not ===

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by freyr on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:56AM (#11257839)

It's strict equality in JavaScript.

    17 == "17"  // TRUE
    17 === "17" // FALSE

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by beambot on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:32AM (#11257948)

Heh, just looking at the code rather than the text, my first thought was "type error".

JavaScript. Wat? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by jonesb6 on Thursday March 10, 2016 @01:57AM (#11257712)

Despite the comment you replied to having no substance, I honestly wonder if people associate Uber with German and German with something negative.

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by elliotec on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:39PM (#11261648)

Thats a funny point.

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Re:Valley VCs Sit on Cash, Forcing Startups to Dial Back Amb... by loumf on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:03PM (#11261859)

It's not just that "Uber" is a German word, but that it's a word associated with Nazis (via "Deutschland über Alles"). Another association is the Ubermensch:

> The term Übermensch was used frequently by Hitler and the Nazi regime to describe their idea of a biologically superior Aryan or Germanic master race;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch

When I first heard of Uber, it's what I immediately thought of.

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