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Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ... by danneu on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:21PM (#12518778) 

    > Building a real time ridesharing engine is not hard - I did it once
You did about 0.01% of the work.
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Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ... by zigzigzag on Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:07AM (#12524689)
Of setting up a global operation like Uber? Of course. My point is that there's no special competitive edge in building that kind of app. It's not like a search engine or another process node improvement in CPU design, where it takes armies of specialists. The hard part of Uber isn't the technology, which anyone can do, it's taking on the regulators.
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Re:Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of ... by LandoCalrissian on Saturday September 17, 2016 @01:35AM (#12519295)
Oh no don't you see he is genius that can do it at any time. Sure he could be rich or do a backflip he just doesn't want to right now.
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