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deleted Uber blog post about how they use their massive cache of data to tell who likely got post-hookup rides after one-night-stands

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the stretch

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the katamari one

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JUPES

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Three things at Logan today:

- 'At around noon, a woman using the ladies’ restroom in Terminal C reported that a naked man had fallen through the ceiling into the stall area before running out of the bathroom, State Police spokesman Dave Procopio said.

The man, later identified as a 26-year-old Cameron Shenk of Boston, then assaulted an elderly man he encountered upon fleeing from the restroom, according to Procopio.

“He assaulted the elderly man, bit the man on the ear causing laceration to ear, and then began choking the man with [the elderly man’s] own cane,” Procopio said.'

- 'Just a few minutes before, motorists outside Terminal A saw a young woman passenger screaming from inside a vehicle that had just pulled up at the Delta Air Lines entrance, Procopio said. The woman had kicked out one of the car’s windows in distress, Procopio said.

Troopers followed the car into Terminal B at the United Airlines entrance, where a cruiser pulled in front of the car, allowing the woman to leave the vehicle, according to Procopio. The victim, later identified as a 21-year-old Woburn resident, said the driver of the vehicle had punched her in the face after she refused to give him money and would not let her out of the car.

The driver, 52-year-old Anton Hilton of Roxbury, was arrested and charged with assault and battery and kidnapping.'

- 'The incident with Curt Schilling was made public in a series of tweets that began at 7:26 a.m.: “Start your day with this. Going through airport security. Son says “DAD! I think I [left a] fake grenade in my bag.”

Schilling, who did not say which of his sons was involved, later tweeted: “15 TSA agents are on their walkie talkies. Police show up and everyone in line is shooed 50 yards away. Police, TSA could not...have been cooler once they realized what was happening.”'

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String's Copy Shop

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'Amazon — more than any other company, more than Google, more than Facebook, more than Apple — taps into what people desire in a terrifyingly primal way: We want a thing, fast and preferably cheap. Not much else matters. We know Amazon’s not a nice company, and that the people who work there are treated poorly. We don’t always like it, but there is absolutely, definitively, nothing we will do to stop it. We are happily addicted.

That same feeling is there with Uber, except one thing: We know where Amazon has ended up, more or less, but we don’t know where Uber’s going to stop. Maybe, for Uber, it doesn’t stop at all. For Kalanick and his team, the means are the end. There is no greater mission. There is only hunger.

Raw, pure, unbridled ambition is an uncomfortable thing to look at. It’s not that it’s ugly, necessarily. It’s just brutally, shockingly honest. Uber does not pretend to have a glorious philosophy—it wants to make transport easy, but there is no aspiration as lofty as “organize the world’s information” or “make the world more open and connected.” And perhaps that’s the way it should be. After all, would it be more offensive if Uber had a mission beyond itself? It certainly feels like less of a betrayal to know that it just wants to be as big, as powerful, as necessary, as it can be.
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The dick-swinging, the gluttony, the not-quite-lies and the full-on bullshit… All of these things, and in particular the spectacular combination of all of these things, are enough to dislike a company, and even to hate it. But it’s incredibly popular, too, because, man, if people vote with their feet — or in this case their fingers — then they keep voting, again and again, for Uber.

And that, in the end, is the real reason so many people hate Uber: Because whatever we do, we can’t stop ourselves from making it bigger and more successful and more terrifying and more necessary. Uber makes everything so easy, which means it shows us who, and what, we really are. It shows us how, whatever objections we might say we hold, we don’t actually care very much at all. We have our beliefs, our morals, our instincts. We have our dislike of douchebags, our mistrust of bad behavior. We have all that. But in the end, it turns out that if something’s 10 percent cheaper and 5 percent faster, we’ll give it all up quicker than we can order a sandwich.'