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Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ... by prodigal_erik on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:04PM (#12518013)
In the US, I could always make a phone call asking for a taxi. They would tell me it'll arrive in 90 minutes, and the odds were 50:50 it would never arrive at all. That's not because of any shitty law, that's just gross incompetence in incenting their drivers.
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Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ... by jdminhbg on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:26PM (#12518789)
Well, deliberate undersupply of taxi medallions could be considered a shitty law.
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