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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by scarface74 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @05:52PM (#19714791)
Well, everyone that takes a VC subsidized ride on Uber is also having a negative impact on their business. If the business makes rules that are unsustainable for their business, it’s their fault. They could very easily set limits to curb abuse.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by IanCal on Sunday April 21, 2019 @05:57PM (#19714813)
Uber are obviously trying to get people to use their service. If using their service is bad for them, that's their fault because they were deliberately trying to encourage a behaviour that was detrimental to their business.

That is different from finding a way through the rules which is clearly unintended.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by FPGAhacker on Sunday April 21, 2019 @06:20PM (#19714938)
You don't think offering cash back is a way to get people to use their service?
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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by IanCal on Sunday April 21, 2019 @06:25PM (#19714964)
Of course it is. Do you really think that they wanted to pay eighteen thousand dollars for someone to rapidly transfer money back and forth?
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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by scarface74 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:46PM (#19715276)
Hopefully they had the financial wherewithal to model outliers in their profit model.
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