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Re: Saturday Mobilization |
Mar 3, 2018, 16:15 |
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This was my response to the study on Reddit:
Unlikely. I've read three other studies that put gross revenue at 15 an hour or so, and net at 8ish.
The study has serious methodological problems by comparing net profits with gross revenue, and by counting tax credits against the government's income but doesn't credit it to the drivers. Tax credits exceed expenses, so this is a very bad move on the author's fault.
The worst part is when he defends his own bad methodology by invoking the name of his institution to protect himself. This is usually a clear sign someone is trying to con you. ("How dare you question me? I have 'doctor' in front of my name!")
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Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QSUFSqasfjM9b9UsqBwZlpa8EgqNj6EBfWybFBSHj3o/edit
Average pay: a bit over $15 an hour on Uber and $17 on Lyft.
https://www.ridester.com/how-much-do-uber-drivers-make/
They break it down by city, with the low end around $11/hour and the upper end almost $30 in NYC.
https://www.earnest.com/blog/sharing-economy-income-data/
This is only monthly data, which isn't as useful.
A key point here is that the MIT authors are interested in median net (after tax and expenses) revenue, and then they contrast this against gross (before tax and expenses) revenue, and use this to claim they make worse than minimum wage. This is a very deceptive practice, as if you applied the same process to minimum wage earner, close to 100% of minimum wage earners would earn less than minimum wage! (Almost everyone has unreimbursed expenses related to their job.)
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Sep 14, 2017, 22:07 |
ShakaUVM |
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I've heard of some people punching Nazis.
This is the first time I've heard of someone punching *themselves* in the face, because Nazis. |
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Sep 9, 2017, 20:09 |
ShakaUVM |
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| I really liked Alpha Protocol. It sat on my shelf for years because I'd heard all the negative press about it, but it was actually quite enjoyable. |
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| News Comments > Secret World Legends Launches |
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Re: Secret World Legends Launches |
Aug 1, 2017, 15:57 |
ShakaUVM |
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I tried playing it in 4K. It is unplayable. Uninstalled.
I also have no desire to spend money to support P2W games.
Shame, too. I really liked Secret World. |
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| News Comments > Tyranny: Bastard's Wound Announced |
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Re: I watched more DOOM videos (not all of them [TL;DW]), with a guy's commentaries, from YouTube... |
Jun 14, 2017, 14:35 |
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Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jun 14, 2017, 09:50:
Anyone tried Tyranny? I must not have even noticed it when it was released. Looks kinda interesting.
Ignore the haters, it's actually really good if you like Baldur's Gate style games. (If you don't like reading walls of text and agonizing over what your character will say, then you probably won't like it.)
I have been playing it through on difficult, and the fights are actually really tough. You have to strategize a lot, and mix crowd control with damage and aggro management to not have your characters just get exploded left and right.
The spell crafting system is really really good.
I like the strongholds - they actually do something, unlike in Pillars of Eternity. You can craft items from recipes, upgrade gear, hire trainers to train your skills, etc. You never seem to have enough money to optimize everything you want to do, so you have to think intelligently about your upgrades, since, again, the combats are tough.
Great worldbuilding, great story. Playing an evil character is also a fun change.
My only disappointment with Paradox was that they didn't market it, so a lack of sales means a lack of support for the franchise, but hey look two DLCs. So maybe it's looking up. |
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| News Comments > Brian Fargo to Retire After Wasteland 3 |
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Re: Brian Fargo to Retire After Wasteland 3 |
Mar 24, 2017, 19:24 |
ShakaUVM |
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Torment is actually pretty good. The writing is fantastic, and there is a *lot* of it. It's a game where you actually have to pay really close attention to what the NPCs are saying, as the clues are pretty subtle a lot of times as to which choice is the "right" one.
I guess if you just want to read spoilers for everything or constantly reload until you get the right answer, then you can make do not reading the 1.2M words in it, but, honestly, that's what you're paying for - a text-based story that has some 2D isometric graphics associated with it.
If you don't like reading, you won't enjoy the game, nor will you like it if you don't like the Numenaria setting (which is fair - future fantasy isn't for everyone). But the negative reviews on Steam are unfair - it really is a great game. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
Oct 23, 2016, 21:50 |
ShakaUVM |
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Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Oct 23, 2016, 18:36:
I bought, and then returned, Civ 6. Too much like Civ 5 to be worth the full asking price. All other Civ games felt meaningfully different from their predecessors, whereas this one felt like a Civ 5 expansion pack. A meaty expansion pack, but an expansion pack nonetheless, and I can't justify $60 for a game I already own.
It's different enough to be justified in calling it a new game.
I'm really liking it. And I say this as someone who hated Civ V out of the box. Civ V was a super dumbed down version of the game; Civ VI has all sorts of very interesting options.
There's a few bugs (most irritating when Move Next Unit bugs out and won't select the unit that needs to move, or how hard it is to see improvements in the basic UI), but they are minor enough not to bother me. |
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| News Comments > Stellaris Leviathans Story Pack This Month |
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Re: Stellaris Leviathans Story Pack This Month |
Oct 11, 2016, 04:06 |
ShakaUVM |
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Stallaris was unfortunately very underwhelming, especially the midgame. I'm hoping they'll make it better and I can go back to it, but it was just too boring to waste my time on.
Time to go play some EU4. |
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| News Comments > On Sale |
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Re: On Sale |
Sep 17, 2016, 03:01 |
ShakaUVM |
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I don't think it's really that bad. There's so many different paths through the game that you can probably reach a good ending doing basically any of them.
I took absolutely zero combat skills and did just fine, as the game has alternatives to fighting for basically any mandatory encounter. And then I made a fighting guy who did the exact opposite.
You might not get the ending you want (I didn't realize until literally the last encounter of the game that the messiah ending was impossible for me), but you can get *an* ending basically no matter what you do.
And it's a very replayable game, kudos to them for that as well. There's far more content in it than you can see in a single playthrough. |
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