The main takeaway from this article has nothing to do with alcohol but actually how taxis seem to be completely unknown to the author or at least irrelevant. As I read along I just couldn't stop asking myself, didn't these guys have taxis before lyft and uber? And judging from the comments here, apparently in many places around the US, probably not (or they would just refuse to give you service). That's absolutely astounding.
I've lived in plenty of towns without public transportation of any kind - including taxis. You might be able to call them from the next town over, but that's probably gonna cost you at least $100 if they'll do it at all
And then in places with Taxis, most were pretty horrible. For example: My car broke once. Called to see about getting a ride to work the next day (There was no bus service, and at least half the trip had no sidewalks). I was told I'd have to call back when I needed it, and the waiting time could be anywhere from 15 minutes to 2 hours after I called. Which basically means that you can't make it to any appointment in an appropriate time frame. Half the time, the taxi was a poorly running car, sometimes dirty. I was not in a place with medallions, these were just poor taxi companies.
I left a startup after 3 months because I felt it was scamming people. But it wasn't even crypto. It was a marketing automation tool and most of the clients were gambling and forex trading apps. The tactics they used were extremely shady and I just got to watch the logs and see the insane amounts of money people would lose with the 'help' of our product.
I took my first offer out of there and it was the best decision I could make. It's always better to work on something that aligns with your beliefs and goals as a developer.
Coincidentally I don't think crypto is a scam. Crypto tech has pretty much been proven to work by now. The speculative products built on crypto could be a scam. But that's not all that different from speculative products overall.
Zuckerberg was never capable of coming up with products. Facebook is arguably not even his idea. He bought the competition when he couldn't innovate. But the competition got smart and they're not selling anymore. They can smell the blood in the water.
I'm just surprised it's taken this long for it to start affecting hard numbers.
I'm sorry, but you don't have complete "freedom" to achieve your own self interests. I once knew someone who was very interested in a car stereo. Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for others who happened to own car stereos, that car stereo was in a car that belong to the police, and he definitely saw an even larger reduction in "freedom" after that.
I didn't know Stanisław Lem was Jewish. Very interesting. "Solaris" was the first sci fi story I read that made me think hard about the nature of humanity and our tendency to believe everything can be modeled with science. Absolutely wonderful book.
