The link isn't NY Times, but it agrees with you; according to Netflix people tend to binge watch 2-3 episodes a sitting.

It makes sense, that's roughly the length of a movie. http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Unsurprising-Netflix-S...

Where are you getting the 80% number? The drivers I talked to have told me it's much lower.

Maybe they were talking about net[1], or maybe they have a large number of short trips? From memory (from talking with drivers), the formula is:

driverDollars = (fareDollars - 1)*0.8

If a driver is mostly taking people one or two blocks, the fares are going to be in the $3-5 range. That means the $1 "safe ride fee" (or whatever it's called) is already 20-30% of the fare, so Uber's total take on short rides is closer to 50%. It's one of the reasons drivers don't like short rides.

[1] edit: By net I mean after driving expenses, not after Uber's take.

I just talked with a driver. He said the 80% is correct, gross. Because everyone is a contractor the government takes another 30% on top of it. Plus they have to pay their own insurance, repair, gas, etc. so after everything is said and done, he makes about $13/hr. (This is inside San Francisco.)

You just have to pay off the few people who report the results.

I think it's because the article clearly names the two researchers, while WIRED is a faceless organization. It's a lot easier to get mad and blame the one with a face.

> By saying this you are basically saying there was no reasonable alternative method of exposing this.

No, he's saying you need a better argument.

I don't think he was trying to be snarky. I thought the same thing when I first clicked on the link.

Same experience here. Back when I used Telerik they where some of the largest and slowest components I'd ever seen. Even their own homepage was unbearably slow at the time. This was many many years ago.

"It's old and crummy, easily one of the worst designed popular sites on the internet." I love Reddit's design, it's very effective and to the point. You don't visit Reddit to view Reddit, you visit to read posts and comments. The design gets out of the way and lets you do that.

It's funny. It is not an argument to absolve the hackers.

To make it readable, paste this in the console:

    document.querySelector('.date-outer').style.backgroundColor = 'white';