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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by tiemand on Sunday January 12, 2020 @03:57AM (#22025252)
In my team we called it the "Scunthorpe problem". Scunthorpe is a town in northern England.
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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by daeken on Sunday January 12, 2020 @03:58AM (#22025255)
Tom Scott did a video on exactly that problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZdwX4noCE
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