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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by Invictus0 on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:49PM (#18245764)
Yes, you're right. My calculation was 2^50 bytes in a PB / 10^10 trips, which should have been multiplied by 100 to get 100PB.

Which again leaves me wondering why Uber needs 100PB.

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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by buremba on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:08AM (#18248417)
They collect user location during the trip, app launches and every possible user action that may be useful for them while you're using the app.
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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by ddalex on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:45AM (#18246656)
Tinfoil hat: data that they slurp outside trips, like tracking user locations, etc
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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by efrank02 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:50AM (#18246673)
I do forecasting at Uber, we don’t collect data outside of trips.
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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by cr3ative on Thursday October 18, 2018 @05:38AM (#18247061)
Has this kind of thing stopped, then? https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/28/uber-background-location-d...
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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by kk58 on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:41PM (#18249821)
What kind of problems do you work on?
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Re:Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency by compcoffee on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:24AM (#18247660)
>we don’t collect data outside of trips.

And it's not like Big Tech has ever misled people on this subject.

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