I recently attended a talk about the growth in volume of rides in NYC that Uber has been providing. It was contrasted against a mostly flat (if slightly declining) volume for yellow cabs (remember, they&#x27;re not making any more medallions). He blogged about it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toddwschneider.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-taxi-and-uber-trips-with-a-vengeance&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toddwschneider.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;analyzing-1-1-billion-nyc-ta...</a> - chart here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toddwschneider.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;taxi&#x2F;uber_vs_taxi_pickups_brooklyn.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toddwschneider.com&#x2F;data&#x2F;taxi&#x2F;uber_vs_taxi_pickups_bro...</a><p>He deplores those poor cabbies? I deplore all those poor riders who couldn&#x27;t hail cabs and had to choose between worse and worst options because of the cabbies&#x27; government imposed monopoly. (What do you do when you can&#x27;t hail a cab? Wait for hours? Walk? Ride for hours on public transit that goes everywhere but your destination? Give up on going where you need to go?)<p>Just like (apparently) most others here, I seem to use Facebook mostly to keep in touch with my family and (close?) friends. I unfollow pretty much everyone but my mom and wife. Facebook turned me on to adblock when they kept showing me ads for a degree when I had already earned that same degree from a better local school (and put it in my info on Facebook - so they were basically shamelessly ripping of the advertiser.) Those things make Facebook about a weekly experience now for me. I keep in touch professionally on LinkedIn.<p>For better or worse, I get my news on Hacker News moreso than any other place. I don&#x27;t really even bother with the New York Times or Wall Street Journal any more. Everything in the news lately seems designed to appeal to outrage, and I don&#x27;t want to participate in that anymore.