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Re:It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:25PM (#32102571)
It's not suprising, he's the same guy who tanked EA's quality
Re:The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:33AM (#32071422)
The worst thing the taxi mafia did to me was force me to use cash instead of card a lot of the time... but that was due to the credit card transacion fee mafia hah
Re:Is the Ride over for Uber? on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:49PM (#31972692)
> How does Uber come out top in that? Surely that self driving software/car makers take the rewards.

There's a lot of variables but the car-makers are probably better positioned espcially when it comes to moving around fleets of self-driving cars and servicing them at a nationwide scale

I'm guessing they may be better at dealing with the legal and regulartory issues that could emerge

Re:Is the Ride over for Uber? on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:08PM (#31972469)
It wasn't bad before the gig-economy middlemen stepped in, in highschool i delievered pizzas and pocketed something like $2 + tips for each delivery (this was 20 something years ago )

it scaled pretty well, I would just take 3-4 orders per-ride depending on distance ended up with a decent chunk of change just from the weekends, and there was a decent amount of downtime and socializing waiting for pizzas to be cooked

with the gig stuff drivers are shuttleing between multiple resturants non-stop in ill-defined areas to random customers and probably walking away with less cash it's a stupid system

Re:Is the Ride over for Uber? on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:04PM (#31972445)
I doubt it, I make a decent amount of money and haven't used their service prices crept up.. $43 usd for $22 usd in fast food burgers is insane
TBH most the concern is overblown - anonymous-ish (there's always something someone can do) be default and easy to toggle off and the source is aviaible

all of the developers i've interacted with at brave have also been pretty chill

there's not as much news about other browsers here because they aren't doing much newsworthy, like this article growing a search engine

Re:Programming in the Apocalypse on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:09AM (#31566574)
The main problem is that shit is to cheap