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Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more

Democratic Gov Tim Walz, who vetoed a bill last year that would have boosted pay for Uber and Lyft drivers, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he was concerned because so many depend on those services, including disabled people.

I get the sentiment, but relying on private for-profit companies to provide basic transportation services in a city is stupid. That's how Minneapolis got in this situation.

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Data is a bad man

He's also been regularly compromised by sketchy backdoors placed by the manufacturer in his firmware and remote code execution exploits.

But to be fair, anybody on the bridge who knows how to work the consoles could kill everyone aboard if they wanted.

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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR

This is more bark than bite, imo. They're just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:

  • Europe's a big market and profit focused companies aren't going to give that up just to make a point
  • Those that do will just encourage European competition to step up and fill whatever gaps might appear, which is just fine by the EU.

So... go right ahead. Let's see how this really plays out.