[HN Gopher] Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
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Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
Author : JadoJodo
Score : 31 points
Date : 2024-07-15 17:47 UTC (5 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wired.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
| achristmascarl wrote:
| https://archive.ph/g2DoQ
| justinclift wrote:
| > As a teen, she kitted out her home PC with a terabyte of memory
| ...
|
| Ugh. Wired articles have a reputation for poor accuracy, but
| that's taking the piss.
| paradox460 wrote:
| I used to like wired. A lot. But when Chris Anderson left, you
| could almost see the editorial turn occur. Wired went from a
| magazine about technology and the people who use it to a
| magazine about people who might occasionally use technology.
| Basically GQ but they ask the subject of an article what apps
| are on their iPhone (and they actually did this, years ago)
|
| I got to meet Chris Anderson once, when I was visiting the
| Reddit office back in 2010. I wasn't really able to articulate
| what an impact wired had on me at that point, as I didn't
| really appreciate it then, but we're I to meet him again, I'd
| absolutely make sure to convey it
|
| As for the article in question, I wasn't able to make it past a
| couple paragraphs of purple prose before resorting to a kagi
| summary. In reading said summary, I wasn't missing much. An
| article gushing about a criminal who steals people's identity
| to commit fraud seems a bit on the nose to me
| armada651 wrote:
| Wired basically underwent the same kind of Channel Drift as
| the Discovery Channel. Eventually all niche media will simply
| become mass media as they attempt to appeal to the biggest
| possible audience.
| reaperman wrote:
| "Line must go up" is a very, very tired trope around here
| (and many other places). But it often feels like the
| primary thing which drives soooo much destruction of value.
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| This describes hacker news too.
| BurningFrog wrote:
| Media that does badly will try new things.
|
| But there also many like ESPN who stick to their topic
| decade after decade.
| 6510 wrote:
| Oh but there are many other facinating angles.
|
| 0) The victims of identity theft didn't know or lose
| anything.
|
| 1) The internet was build, a truly crazy amount of code was
| written but you still cant conveniently use anything and
| prove you are you.
|
| 2) Each delivery or taxi service had its own failures. Each
| reinvented the wheel each with their own holes.
|
| 3) Taxi and delivery services profited from being unable to
| id people. The worse they did the more they profited.
|
| 4) She got to keep some of the profit.
|
| 5) The punishment is pointless as it doesn't convince people
| to not eat and not live anywhere. Prison is a resort by
| comparison.
|
| 6) And finally the failure to have this wizard do anything
| useful in a legal way.
| quantified wrote:
| Terabyte of mass storage, not RAM. Some call it "memory".
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| No one with a shred of experience calls drive space memory.
| filoleg wrote:
| Not defending the garbage tech awareness of the writer of
| the article, but tons of non-english speakers do.
|
| Cannot speak for portugese language (which is the
| predominant one in Brazil), but I can confirm that in
| russian if you say "memory" ("pamiat'"), you are talking
| about storage capacity. Not RAM.
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| I don't know what point you're trying to make here, I'm
| sure if you translate and reverse translate a phrase in
| enough languages you can get some sort of synonym back.
|
| You think 'Lauren Smiley' doesn't speak english and auto
| translated this article?
| filoleg wrote:
| > You think 'Lauren Smiley' doesn't speak english and
| auto translated this article?
|
| No. But I think it could be the case that the author
| simply talked to the parents or the subject of the
| article, and then simply translated what they said in
| that part from portugese to english. And as a tech non-
| literate person, she obviously didn't think to ask them
| "are you talking about storage space or RAM?"
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| But it's literally referred to as "secondary memory" in ye
| olde literature (where "primary memory" is the RAM... I
| wonder why the CPU cache never got a place though).
| CyberDildonics wrote:
| Stop the nonsense. Computer manuals from 40 years ago are
| not how anyone refers to things now whether they know
| nothing or are an expert.
| downvotetruth wrote:
| CPU cache has never been sold as an independent upgrade.
| Wonder if a marketing study has ever been done on whether
| products with names that have been anthropomorphized sell
| better than those that have not such as random access
| memory vs storage. Maybe the appeal of being able to buy
| something illegal like human body parts or slave(s)
| [drive(s)] seems like it would have a cool factor for
| some consumers that has some how outweighed the disgust
| by others.
| neilo40 wrote:
| I'm fairly certain L2 caches were external (and could be
| purchased separately) on 486 and earlier systems
| lolinder wrote:
| Back in the day we used to insert "memory cards" into
| cameras in order to store photos on them. You could
| transfer that memory card to a reader that was plugged into
| a PC and it would show up as a drive with files you could
| transfer to your computer's hard drive.
|
| Personally, I usually specify RAM or hard drive/storage
| just to make sure I'm clear, because "memory" is pretty
| ambiguous in my experience.
| filoleg wrote:
| And let's not forget the "Nvidia processor" in the same
| sentence.
| justinclift wrote:
| Good point. :)
| arittr wrote:
| Was just going to say this... what a bummer
| hollerith wrote:
| A shorter explanation of the fraud without as much info on the
| fraudster's personality and personal history:
| https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/p/articleshow/111666866....
|
| TLDR is she stole peoples' identities to make Uber driver
| accounts and then rented those accounts to people that couldn't
| legally be Uber drivers. Made a bunch of money (~750k). got fined
| 20k and 3 years in prison.
| rasz wrote:
| Stealing identity is what they charged her with, but the real
| crime was enabling untraceable people work in a position of
| public trust.
|
| >247 rape reports in 2019
|
| >141 rape reports in 2020
|
| >5981 sexual assault incidents in 2017-2018
|
| >3824 reports of sexual assault from 2019 to 2020
|
| >10000 sexual assault complaints from 2017 to 2020.
|
| > contributing factor is the lack of thorough background checks
| for Uber drivers. While Uber claims to conduct background
| checks on their drivers, there have been instances where
| individuals with criminal records or prior convictions have
| slipped through the cracks. Strengthening the screening process
| and regularly updating the background checks could
| significantly reduce the risk of sexual assault incidents.
|
| I dont care if Uber bleeds $Billion more of VC money on signup
| bonuses for fake new accounts, but I do care about who delivers
| my open container food.
| masjl wrote:
| The title 'Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia' sounds like
| the plot of a thrilling Netflix series! It's fascinating to see
| how individual personalities can dominate and shape the rideshare
| industry. I'm curious about the strategies and challenges faced
| by these so-called 'rideshare mafias.' Anyone else think this
| highlights a darker side of the gig economy, or is it just a
| sensational take on a competitive market?
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