As long as I’m spontaneously remarking in things let me spontaneously remark that I am perfectly safe in a well-regulated international airport behind the security lines now and, on balance, quite enjoyed my trip to Singapore.
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Ride sharing apps prevent extortion of foreigners by cab drivers, says the American at Singapore airport spontaneously for no reason in particular.
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In five years of living Singapore - wasn’t once overcharged by a cab. They are awesome there.
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Ride sharing apps prevent extortion of foreigners by cab drivers, says the American living in India spontaneously for no reason in particular. Perhaps one day, my original homeland and my adopted one will be organized as well as Singapore. Until then, there's Uber.
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I’ve been to India about a dozen times. (Kolkata, Chennai) Unless I take Uber or prepay, I almost always get jacked for 4x to 5x more than what the rate should be.
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translates as "I'm scared and alone, please help me"
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And "no reason" might've been they saw you with your phone. Or you're a friendly looking face.
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but so do local laws that have a fixed fee to/from airport
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In Paris a couple months ago at the cab stand the driver denied the existence of fixed price and pulled up some random Android app as his “meter” Laws help to the extent that anybody listens and follows them I guess. Hard to pull that shit with the app based services.
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I said this in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, as I was being ripped off by a cab driver and saw Uber was banned
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With the exit of Uber, ride share apps no longer are consistently cheaper than regular taxis in SG. Also, taxis have to use the meter else they get into trouble.
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Sure, but I heard about the CDC stopping all romaine lettuce at home near SJC in English, but am gonna be simultaneously typing Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and EFIGS for the next week because of it (despite being “american”)
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I don’t follow you
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I don’t follow you on Twitter either?
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Why are you going be typing in those other languages?
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Because I speak those other languages somewhat proficiently?
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I mean why does cdc warning lead to your typing? And how does that connect to taxi overcharging in Singapore? None of my business - if it was just something said for Patrick
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And yet you’re in my mentions about it still? You do mean our esteemed colleague and HN superstar
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Well it wasn’t clear to me that it was a private message so i thought you might want to explain. Sorry.
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Perhaps I’m just not paying as much attention anymore but there used to be a ton of folks that would approach you on the taxi line at JFK offering alternative (scammy) transport that would catch tourists. Don’t see that these days.
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