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Re:The Abundance of Silicon Valley by inglor_cz on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:47PM (#24804335)
Taxi industry had its karma coming. Prior to Uber, ratfuckers would sit behind the wheel and rip off the clients.

Maybe there was some place in the world where taxis were clean and taxi drivers honest, but in my corner of the world they were synonymous with low-key mafia.

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Re:The Abundance of Silicon Valley by chrisweekly on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:52PM (#24804385)
In Prague (in 1997, at least), the taxis were literally run by the (Russian) mob.
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Re:The Abundance of Silicon Valley by inglor_cz on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:01PM (#24804474)
Oh, yeah, I was 19 at that time and I avoided them, they were up to no good. This strange combination of sleazy and menacing at the same time. Precisely the type of people you do not want to join in their car.

Therefore they mostly preyed on international tourists at the airport.

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