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I've taken Ubers in at least 7 countries, many of which have had a cash option (India and Vietnam), neither of which I took up. The average uber driver will have considerably less cash on them then the average cabbie.
> No payment is made in the vehicle, so faster exit times.
Only if you pay in cash.
> Uber uses any credit card, so your boss can pay for your ride without the need for separate expensing.
Uber supports having both a business and personal profile, which you can change before or during a ride. Every business uber I take has the receipt sent directly to my work email, and charged to my work CC.
It also has the downside of not allowing employers to avoid hiring people who have committed crimes in relation to their occupation. I might be fine hiring someone who embezzled as a software engineer, but I probably wouldn't hire them as my CFO.
An alternate solution might to give prisoners the ability to open access to their records. Yes, you committed crime X, but the records at the prison show that you kept your head down and did X qualifications.
The reason people don't hire prisoners is that it comes with risk. If we open up information, you can lower that risk.
Mars has no indigenous population, and seems to be plenty big enough for everyone.
The worst bit is that this will cause a reinforcing loop, of more customers flooding to the market leader, causing the market leader to develop better AI, causing more customers, etc etc.
- Eritrea has mandatory indefinite military conscription.
- All local media is state-owned. The Eritrean authorities have reportedly imprisoned the fourth highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world behind China, Egypt and Turkey.
- Since independence in 1993, Eritrea has not had a national election.
It's the cyber equivalent of walking into a business and writing down the names on the name tags.
Complaining about stuff like this gives Australian companies a bad name.
I looked into building my own implementation, but decided against it. I'm not particularly interested in the hardware, just the algorithms that drive it, and the amount of time spent getting the hardware working (not to mention a simulator ) would have been nontrivial.
Perhaps I'll grab a Donkey.
If anyone from AWS is reading, I'd love to buy one!