This article is so dumb I'm not even sure where to start. Vice is an outrage generator and they're working overtime on this one.
Seriously, who cares? How many people even knew there was a physical building for über drivers to go into before this was posted? My initial reaction was, "they have a bathroom???" not "omg they segregate them!".
This story shouldn't exist and it certainly shouldn't be on HN.
> That's why we have separate bathrooms and locker room
I've never heard anyone claim this before, do you have any source or evidence to support this? Wouldn't that imply "family washrooms" or co-ed are hot-spots for rape? That seems like hyperbole.
The simplest reason would be for privacy between the sexes and keeping with a tradition of segregating washrooms that dates back to the Victorian Era. Before which, public bathrooms were male only, making things very difficult for women to be about in public. Thus the creation of female public washrooms was to allow them the same rights as men, not to prevent men from assaulting them in co-ed facilities.
I see this comment everytime a post about ride hailing services pops up... but I can't figure out how it's relevant to this discussion this time.
The only word you mentioned that was relevant was safe... So are you suggesting that because they're fighting over costs with lyft, they pay drivers less which reduces reputable drivers and "poorer and more likely to rape" drivers join the app?
Extra points for adding the extremely trivial and also very low cost steps of signing up under a corporate name and removing your personal identity from the account altogether.
Unless you're paying Amazon in bitcoin you're not removing your personal identity from the account.
> If geeks were influential, the “year of the Linux desktop”
I don't see how that's relevant, if I set up or recommend Firefox on my parents computer with ad block they're going to trust me and use it over chrome/safari/edge. If I set up Linux instead of windows they're going to be extremely confused, annoyed and won't let me touch their computer again..
Geeks are extremely influential to their non technical friends but why would you ever impose Linux on them? I don't see how it would benefit them and you'd have to deal with the endless fallout and questions that arise.
The only one that's as good as I remember from childhood is Kinder eggs. That chocolate is amazing and waaaay better than we deserved as kids. Still get one for xmas every year although could do without the plastic toy.
This seems rather off topic and unproductive to the effort of solving the SO ticket. I highly doubt it's a matter of Google spying on developers, more likely a bug or weird interaction with the OS.
> Always-on hotword recognition is a normal thing phones do.
I wouldn't call that normal at all, nor does your theory address the issue of the permissions request being explicitly denied while still gaining access.
Seriously, who cares? How many people even knew there was a physical building for über drivers to go into before this was posted? My initial reaction was, "they have a bathroom???" not "omg they segregate them!".
This story shouldn't exist and it certainly shouldn't be on HN.