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The parent may agree with you, but they said that in a somewhat obscure way. I believe their point is that companies have many distinct contracts with other companies (good) that contain arbitration clauses, and that employers have a smaller number of distinct contracts with employees (bad) that are duplicated thousands of times over.

I think productivity is better conceived as the first derivative of value wrt. time. So productivity growth is the second derivative. It’s good news if that number is positive at all.

In the context of this particular case, it sounds like the ruling by the majority protects non-citizens from having their property taken by the police, while Justice Thomas’s concurrence would not.

In my opinion, not having your property taken unfairly by the police is more of a basic right everyone should enjoy, rather than a special right afforded to citizens like voting.

Wonder what happened with that profit in Q1 2018. Odd that the article didn’t mention it. Was that Uber proving to investors that they can turn the spigot and generate cash? Or some one-time factor?

And to expand on that a bit:

It seems that transit in the Bay Area serves multiple purposes.

1) Getting you from point A to point B.

2) Mobile climate-controlled shelter for homeless people.

My claim is that purpose 1 is at odds with purpose 2. I’m all for solutions to the problem of not enough shelter. I don’t think the SFMTA is the solution, or if it is, then we should accept that companies like Uber are going to take its market share for purpose 1.

After being assaulted by that stranger I thought about him a lot:

1) He probably has been abused and harmed many times, perhaps in his childhood.

2) He probably expects the worst from people, and thinks that everyone is out to get him.

3) He may be suffering from schizophrenia and literally thought I was attacking him somehow (I was sitting across from him with earbuds in reading a kindle).

4) Becuase there is not enough housing to go around here, the standards are higher, in terms of having an agreeable personality/job skills/overall shit-togetherness to secure a place to live, whether by earning a salary or staying on a friend’s couch or in a homeless shelter.

5) Feedback loops mean that once you are homeless, you suffer a lot and all of the above issues probably get worse.

My personality is such that I end up caring about and loving people that I spend time around or think about a lot. But I’ve learned the hard way that even if you love someone, you need to look out for yourself when trying to help them.

I’m just describing an event that happened to me.

There are a lot of problems with Uber, but one thing it’s not is the cheapest and most convenient climate-controlled shelter for the city’s destitute mentally ill.

UberPool Express has some things in common with the bus, although I’ve still never been slapped in the face by a homeless man in an Uber.

The service Plastiq will send a check to your landlord funded with a credit card for a 2.5% fee. It’s not worth it to buy miles, but definitely worth it to earn a signup bonus where the rewards are worth 10%+ of the minimum spend requirement.