I see what you are saying, but it's also almost the complete opposite of a union shop. The huge differences that you don't have to work outside of 8 hour day (without time and a half pay) and you are also paid more than non-union people, but basically guaranteed pension and job for life if you get in.
The system you just described encourages incompetence. Drag jobs out to as long as possible to force overtime if you need some extra cash. Don't bother putting effort into your work because you are all but impossible to fire. Additionally, refuse to do things just barely outside of your job scope because that falls under a different union worker's responsibility and you are concerned about growing the union, not doing good work.
I just did a distance ride (100 miles per day) on my mountain bike loaded with camping gear on dirt paths. Average pace was 10mph, there are more than just carbon bikes on flat roads...
It's ridiculous. I thought I remember someone saying the iPhone 1/3/4 size was designed to be perfect for the human hand and I agree. It's easier to make things larger, it's hard to make them small, how are we regressing?
I may be wrong, but I doubt the initial laws were setup to protect the cab industry. It solved a problem of safety, reliability, and set prices with cabs. See third world countries where a cab ride can easily mean a kidnapping or robbery at worst, or a fleecing at best. I'm sure once the basic infrastructure was in place cab companies used their lobbies to further entrench, but the basic laws are there for consumer protection.
It seems to be prevalent in Baltimore. I couldn't find the "many" places that hacks are common names for illegal cabs. Chicago, Philadelphia and NYC all use hack to refer to legally licensed cabs and they're all much larger cities/metropolitan areas than Baltimore. I think this is why it is much more common to use "hack" to describe a legitimate taxi driver. Thank you for your input.
In the 1940s, absolutely. I haven't heard it said out loud except to describe a gypsy cab in my life (not including movies.) I have heard it used to describe the license.
I understand that cab drivers have been called hacks, and that of course the term's origin is more general than its current usage. I hear "hack license" but I never hear "hack" as a verb except to refer to doing it illegally.
edit: or as an anything but something before the word "license." You've heard a legitimate taxi driver called a hack lately?
Most areas with speed cameras (local) drivers already know where they are and cause a dangerous sudden braking condition anyway. I do fear that all the automatic nanny's are making people MORE likely to Facebook while driving their 4000lbs death machines though.
I'm suspicious of the "unnamed investors". Has anyone done any fact finding, I'm betting these guys are just looking for PR, and saying they got 1.2m for a "Yo" app is a pretty good way to do it.
>>"unnamed investors"
It's totally possible that these are legitimate, respectable investors, investing on information we aren't aware of. It's also possible (and more likely, in my opinion) that the unnamed investors are a relative of a founder, who invested in this to give them runway to do something else, or to potentially spur interest from other investors or acquirers.
very interesting. I wouldn't have considered this - I mean it's blindingly obvious whether a company you're working at (or supplying services to, etc) is two kids with an app hiring you, or two kids with an app and 1.2m in cash hiring you. So if they're doing this, it's likely they won't be hiring anyone, meeting with any real investors, or spending money on anything. That severely limits the upside of any PR - and that's bold.
On the other hand if they got some money, just not as much as that, then perhaps they could fluff as you suggest. Is this common in your experience? I've heard some reports of other fluffed numbers on HN, ("turned out not to have raised as much as they claimed") but no first-hand experience of anyone doing this.
