• Compensation in Tech
    Oct 29 2020

    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Andreas Lindh
    Oct 21 2020

     

     

    Meidner Plan discussed in show

    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/sweden-social-democracy-meidner-plan-capital

    Gothenborg Port Strike

    https://www.portstrategy.com/news101/world/europe/swedish-port-face-more-strikes

    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/swedish-dockworkers-union-social-democratic-party

     

    Typical Fox News take on Swedish response to the corona virus

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/coronavirus-sweden-different-approach-pandemic-larry-elder

     

    Just a note, from Daniel, while I may have some very bitter personal experience with a small handful of members, albeit high profile, of DSA, I wholeheartedly support the organization and the many different types of work its members do.  I didn't want to derail the discussion by personal experiences.  While I may disagree with specific political positions taken by individuals or chapters or tendencies with the org I believe the renewal of a socialist party in this country is one of the most hopefully political signs of my entire adult life.

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    1 hr
  • Thoughts on the Social Dilemma
    Oct 17 2020

     

     

    Long form piece on Amazon culture of internal snitching

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html

     

    Moira Weigels review of Jonathan Haidt's book, illuminating for a perspective on centrism

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/20/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind-review

     

     

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Voting and Volunteering in Elections
    Oct 3 2020
    Jim and Daniel discuss volunteering in the 2020 democratic primaries, why its important to vote this year, what you can do to help now and in the future.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Rideshare Economy
    Sep 25 2020

    Hack Fort Worth security meetup:

    https://twitter.com/hack_ftw

    Coverage of the California ruling on classifying drivers, actually names the case and court, unlike most of the mainstream coverage:

    https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/appellate-court-grants-uber-and-lyft-94727/

    California Federation of Labor on Prop 22, the referendum by Uber, Lyft and Door Dash intended to keep people as contractors:

    https://calaborfed.org/no-on-prop-22-faq/

    Gig Workers Rising, a group organizing gig workers:

    https://gigworkersrising.org/

    Piece on fight over Finger printing of drivers in Texas:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/uber-lyft-return-to-austin-as-texas-fingerprint-rule-dismissed/

    Piece that discusses the changes of the value of a taxi medallion in Chicago:

    https://chicagodispatcher.com/why-you-should-not-buy-a-chicago-taxi-medallion/

    Fine from FTC for Uber for lying about how much drivers would actually make:

    Press release from FTC:

    https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/01/uber-agrees-pay-20-million-settle-ftc-charges-it-recruited

    Article discussing fine:

    https://qz.com/890139/uber-is-paying-the-ftc-20-million-for-misleading-drivers-about-how-much-they-really-make/

    Article on Travis Kalanick, the founder and former CEO:

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought

     

    Uber's court battles in London:

    2019 BBC piece on it

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50544283

     

    Forbes Piece on it from July 2020:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/07/30/uber-vs-london--the-courtroom-battle-the-world-is-watching/

     

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    Greyball 

    Report from the Portland Bureau of Transportation 

    https://www.londonreconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/GreyballAudit.pdf

    New York Times piece breaking the investigation:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html

    Refusal to prosecute by Portland

    https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/372342-256360-no-penalties-for-ubers-efforts-to-evade-regulations

    Uber corporate "update" on Greyball:

    https://www.uber.com/newsroom/an-update-on-greyballing

     

    (Daniel) I somehow still can't find the piece on the head of VW research claiming we might never reach full driverless cars.  Listeners, I am frustrated.

     

    What did Daniel Get wrong in this episode?

    Turns out that the study I started to quote on wages for drivers from MIT was withdrawn under scrutiny. Here is a link discussing that:

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/07/591430857/researcher-says-criticism-is-valid-will-revise-study-finding-low-uber-and-lyft-p

     

     

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    57 mins