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#uber

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Strypey

"For example, I think Google [NZ] pays out about 95-97% of all the revenue that it earns [in "service fees" to the parent company] ... and FaceBook would be very similar, Uber would be. The percentages vary, but it's most of it, in all cases."

#NickMiller, Tax Justice Aotearoa, 2025

1of200.nz/podcast/1200-s2e160-

1/2001/200 S2E160 - Big Tech, Better Taxes — 1/200We speak with Kate Stone and Nick Miller from the Better Taxes campaign and Tax Justice Aotearoa about the recent report showing that tech giants are making billions of dollars in NZ and using tax minimising practices.
#podcasts#1of200#TaxJusticeAotearoa
s427

1/2

Toujours vaguement fasciné/estomaqué par cet article qui révèle comment #Uber est parvenu à devenir rentable, après plus de dix ans dans les chiffres rouges.

La clé de leur succès : un changement de modèle économique, dans lequel ils annoncent le prix de chaque course à l'avance (au lieu de calculer à la fin). Derrière ça, un algorithme opaque prend en compte de nombreux facteurs, dont les habitudes individuelles des clients et des chauffeurs, pour déterminer :

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)

#Uber has now started doing this insidious thing where they show a longer route to calculate a higher fare, but then use a much shorter route *immediately afterward* for the actual trip. 😠

The app doesn’t let you contest the fare & doesn’t let you connect to a human. 😡

Devin Prater :blind:

In all this bad news and entropy, here's some good news: WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. for discriminating against passengers with disabilities, including those who use service animals and mobility devices such as stowable wheelchairs. Uber is the largest provider of ride-hailing services in the United States. The lawsuit seeks $125 million for individuals who have been subject to discrimination and previously submitted complaints to Uber or the Department.

#accessibility#blind#uber
LilMikeSF

#DOJ finally files #ADA accomodation case in #SanFrancisco against #Uber that most govt entities have ignored and sat on for well over a decade...

In the complaint, the US Dept. of Justice
claimed that Uber drivers “routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with #ServiceAnimals or who use stowable #Wheelchairs."

The complaint also alleged that drivers oft
“insult and demean people with disabilities or ask them inappropriate questions.”

Travis Kalanick debuted so-called #rideshare car & limo service in San Francisco in 2010 claiming it was "revolutionary" idea and unlike regulated #taxis, the #WallStUnicorn has never been in compliance with #disability accomodations since, yet finally gets challenged in 2025 under #Drumpf administration enforcement effort...

Perhaps some #DJT #baksheesh will be forthcoming.to forestall case?

cnbc.com/2025/09/11/uber-doj-l

heise online

Freitag: Klage gegen Uber wegen Diskriminierung, Gmail mit zwei neuen Funktionen

Benachteiligung behinderter Fahrgäste + Gmail für Käufe und Paketverfolgung + Kindersicherheit von Chatbots + Forderungen an E-Patientenakte + Data Act und EHDS

heise.de/news/Freitag-Klage-ge

heise online · Freitag: Klage gegen Uber wegen Diskriminierung, Gmail mit zwei neuen FunktionenBy Frank Schräer
#DataAct#DigitalHealth#EMail
ahimsa

"US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders"

reuters.com/sustainability/soc

"… Uber drivers routinely refuse to serve riders with disabilities, including people who travel with service animals or stowable wheelchairs."

"[Uber drivers] illegally charge cleaning fees for service animals, and cancellation fees to riders who are denied service."

#Uber#Disability#DisabilityRights
Mind Lude

The Justice Department is suing Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities.

It's 2025, and apparently, building an app with AI and advanced algorithms is easier than ensuring basic accessibility and inclusivity. Or perhaps it's just a 'feature' they forgot to implement?

What role should tech companies play in actively building an inclusive world, or does it always take a lawsuit?

#Uber #Accessibility #TechEthics #DisabilityRights #TechNews
techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/just

TechCrunch · Justice Department sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against people with disabilities | TechCrunchIt's the latest in a long line of criticism — and action — against the company's treatment of people with physical disabilities.
Arie van Deursen

"in 500,000 commits in our Go monorepo ... 1.4% of commits affect more than 100 services and 0.3% of commits affect more than 1,000 services.

In other words, every week there are multiple commits to the Go monorepo that affect a large portion of Uber,

and while the changes made in these aren’t in themselves more risky, the large blast radius means that any risk may be amplified significantly."

uber.com/en-AU/blog/controllin

Uber Blog · Controlling the Rollout of Large-Scale Monorepo ChangesAt Uber, we rely on continuous deployment to ensure that changes to thousands of microservices reach production automatically and without human monitoring. This blog explores one of the particularly interesting problems we faced as continuous deployment was adopted across Uber. The problem is summarized as follows: When thousands of services can be changed with a single commit to one of our monorepos, for example, upgrading the RPC library used by virtually every Go service at Uber, how do we minimize the blast radius of a bad change?
#uber#monorepo#microservices
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