Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft

Re:Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft by polarix on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:28AM (#7197041)

Yes. They've helped us find that: no, once we have a reputation economy, we don't need the government to tell us who we can safely get in a car with.

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Re:Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft by gamblor956 on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:36AM (#7197106)

And as Yelp, eBay, and other reputation sites have shown us, it turns out that reputation economies are useless once everyone rates every transaction/buyer/seller 5 stars.

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Re:Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft by patcon on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:43AM (#7197172)

You've never filtered for the bad reviews? Also, is it possible that you're only seeing the uninteresting storm of 5-stars because the "interesting" merchants don't survive? (I honestly have no idea if this is the case.)

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Re:Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft by patcon on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:42AM (#7197157)

Exactly. Now that we can make informed decision, we can excise the social/financial cost of regulation and its administration, in exchange for accepting the risk (of making our own informed decision).

I'm a progressive liberal fwiw, not a libertarian.

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Re:Atlanta introduces bill to regulate Uber and Lyft by Touche on Friday February 07, 2014 @11:46AM (#7197185)

But "reputation economy" means someone gets to be the guinea pig.

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