Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps
by viraptor on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @09:43AM
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It's not efficient if you park longer, waiting for someone who's going to pay you, rather than just pull out and let anyone else in. Drivers are being paid explicitly for making the allocation less efficient for everyone apart from the app user. It's the tragedy of the commons again.
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Re:San Francisco bans parking space apps
by danielweber on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @10:02AM
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Closer to racket[1]: causing a problem in order to get paid to fix it