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0 pointshawkice8y ago0 comments

It's possible he meant game in a deeper, street-philosophy sense, in that the drivers are playing the game and Uber is playing the fool.

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toomuchtodo8y ago

My understanding was that Uber had/has a system called "Hell" that could uniquely identify Lyft drivers based on fiticious rider requests Uber would send, and then use that data to target those Lyft drivers to drive exclusively for Uber.

Uber most definitely wasn't playing the fool.

hawkiceOP8y ago

I'm not saying that's what's happening, I'm just saying there's an idiomatic use of "playing these companies" that doesn't involve betraying a trust.

toomuchtodo8y ago

Fair analysis. Definitely hard to obtain meaning from text alone at times.

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0 pointshawkice8y ago0 comments

It's possible he meant game in a deeper, street-philosophy sense, in that the drivers are playing the game and Uber is playing the fool.

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toomuchtodo8y ago

Uber most definitely wasn't playing the fool.

hawkiceOP8y ago

I'm not saying that's what's happening, I'm just saying there's an idiomatic use of "playing these companies" that doesn't involve betraying a trust.

toomuchtodo8y ago

Fair analysis. Definitely hard to obtain meaning from text alone at times.

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