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probably so - he's clearly a dude who read too much sci-fi as a kid and internalized that entire "technology = progress" mindset, and that the most important people in society are the people who invent things except, nothing about express tunnels is a new idea in any way, it's all decades old technology with decades old obstacles to implementation (tunneling is expensive, tunnels are dangerous, you don't need to go really fast if you're not going very far). musk is enthralled with his dipshit idea though because he thinks it is original content do not steal, and because it will solve problems like traffic congestion (it wont). when you're that rich and egotistical though you can ignore every critique about how bad your idea is and just forge ahead anyway, high on the narrative that critics are just jealous and need to be humbled by the bold actions of a wild haired genius the whole hyperloop or vacuum train makes sense in the context of a theoretical martian colony at a high stage of development. but that's decades away, if ever. musk is trying to jam the same concepts into urban mass transit where they are wildly inappropriate for the task at hand, so he's going to fail over and over because he's too focused on the fantasy of success to overcome the real obstacles in the way
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Vegas also built a monorail on the strip, although it doesn't go to the airport. It isn't used much because the casinos hide the stations, they obviously don't want people to leave. If you aren't familiar with it in ends up being a big search for the monorail station, followed by a brief ride, then a 10 minute walk from the monorail station to wherever you actually want to go. They didn't even bother to build a station at the new NFL stadium.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Kobe Bryant figured out a workaround. He wanted to get to Heaven before the surge pricing hit.
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Family Values posted:He probably read The Roads Must Roll or some other sci fi about tunnels and wants to make it real. I think that's where all of his inspiration comes from and he's not even subtle about it (naming various things after The Culture ships, plaid mode, etc. etc.) his consistent praise for the Culture series baffled me until I had the notion that he knows, at least subconsciously, that in a perfect society he would have a slap drone on him
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Platystemon posted:He wanted to get to Hell before the crowds got there.
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I know he’s a rapist. That’s why it was an attempt.
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Peanut Butler posted:his consistent praise for the Culture series baffled me until I had the notion that he knows, at least subconsciously, that in a perfect society he would have a slap drone on him Perhaps he likes the idea of humanity being ruled by super-intelligent BDFLs?
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Peanut Butler posted:his consistent praise for the Culture series baffled me until I had the notion that he knows, at least subconsciously, that in a perfect society he would have a slap drone on him It's because the Culture is sort of a libertarian paradise. You can do almost whatever you want and you're given the tools to do it. Except the sort of people who live in the Culture are usually not sociopathic capitalists.
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Elon Musk completely missing every single point The Culture series makes is hilarious to me, a person who may have read a book or two. It's like that cyberpunk.png. The series is primarily about humans and societies. The technology is never explained in detail, it exists merely as a springboard for stories. Banks had nothing but contempt for people like Musk. How you can read the series and think "I should emulate Veppers" is beyond me.
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Antigravitas posted:Elon Musk completely missing every single point The Culture series makes is hilarious to me, a person who may have read a book or two. Apropos 
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I don't really follow twitter dipshittery, but now I have to know…why did the moron post a red rose there? I'm guessing he's not an advocate of social democracy, so…
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Antigravitas posted:I don't really follow twitter dipshittery, but now I have to know…why did the moron post a red rose there? I'm guessing he's not an advocate of social democracy, so… Roses are ___
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Elon Musk once claimed to be a socialist and well... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209?lang=en
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My understanding of Musk's sense of the world is that he's a genuine utopian socialist in the sense that he wants to get to the post-scarcity end of history like in Star Trek and all his other favorite sci-fi stories. He's a socialist in the way that people used the term before Marx and Engels started writing, and he sees his role in history as a pioneering inventor who gets us one step closer to the Holodeck.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:My understanding of Musk's sense of the world is that he's a genuine utopian socialist in the sense that he wants to get to the post-scarcity end of history like in Star Trek and all his other favorite sci-fi stories. He's a socialist in the way that people used the term before Marx and Engels started writing, and he sees his role in history as a pioneering inventor who gets us one step closer to the Holodeck. he may like the future idea of post-scarcity luxury, but he still forces the employees in his factories back to work during a pandemic and engages in strident union busting. a lot of tech guys idolize the future version of luxury space communism, someday, but if the steps necessary to get there cost them money then they shut down hard. future socialists can't be contemporary capitalists, that's just showing up for your board meetings in a che shirt. he's trying to put a barrier between his ideals and the actual consequences of his actions. it's all a lie, and he's even lying to himself when he tries to reconcile these oppositional aspects of his political identity e: it's my experience that this sort of "i love the IDEA of socialism, but..." kind of thinking is really common among tech bros. it's kind of necessary when you like to hang out with burners and at festivals and stuff where you at least have to pay token deference to the idea of equality and social justice. but underneath the tyedie and beads lies someone who is one bad encounter with an unhomed person away from going full throated social darwinist Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 01:12 on May 18, 2020 |
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Trevor Hale posted:Apropos I saw this earlier but I missed that it was Lilly Wachowski. Good for her!
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The link doesn't show in the tweet preview, but it's absolutely worth the read: https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage indeed!
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Civilized Fishbot posted:My understanding of Musk's sense of the world is that he's a genuine utopian socialist in the sense that he wants to get to the post-scarcity end of history like in Star Trek and all his other favorite sci-fi stories. He's a socialist in the way that people used the term before Marx and Engels started writing, and he sees his role in history as a pioneering inventor who gets us one step closer to the Holodeck. Remember when he said he was a socialist in the vein of Iain Bank's Culture series? Musk looked at that, saw how technology could enable a (kinda, sorta) socialist society, and decided that because he likes technology, that means he's a socialist! There's no deeper analysis here. He doesn't see this as "well, this is the small part of the utopia I can help build." He literally believes that if he builds the technology, we will be the Culture (and that that will be a good thing.)
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oh no that was grubhub hijacking the phone numbers, jfc why doesnt the food NRA wave their dick around and gently caress these techbros, like NRA still bad, but gently caress techbros.
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Karia posted:Remember when he said he was a socialist in the vein of Iain Bank's Culture series? Musk looked at that, saw how technology could enable a (kinda, sorta) socialist society, and decided that because he likes technology, that means he's a socialist! There's no deeper analysis here. He doesn't see this as "well, this is the small part of the utopia I can help build." He literally believes that if he builds the technology, we will be the Culture (and that that will be a good thing.) The smartest thing Banks’ did was start the Culture series with the POV of someone who loving hates the Culture so every subsequent boom you’re like “oh this is fun....wait a loving second here”
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Antigravitas posted:Banks had nothing but contempt for people like Musk. How you can read the series and think "I should emulate Veppers" is beyond me. Musk would want to be Idiran, definitely. A race who genetically engineered their slaves species to feel constant terror and pain.
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I think you are confusing the Idirans with the Affront. The Idirans don't care about lesser creatures, the Affront are just a good ol' boys club who play ping pong with sentient ping pong balls bred specifically for that game, among other fun things to own the culture libs. Banks wasn't exactly subtle, I think.
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My bad. I went looking for them and the Idiran War was the first thing which popped up.
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Uber cuts 3000 jobsquote:As millions of people worldwide stay home during the coronavirus pandemic, Uber is cutting 3,000 more jobs, it said Monday. Along with the 3,700 positions it cut two weeks ago, the San Francisco ride-hailing company is laying off 25% of its staff.
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it was inevitable they'd kill off the freight and self driving projects, this may be just a convenient time to give up on those bad ideas without having to admit they were bad
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Last week they were trying to make an all-stock offer for GrubHub. I think they're getting desperate to head off the inevitable.\ e: https://twitter.com/aaronjschaffer/status/1262433878544957444 Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 18:27 on May 18, 2020 |
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quote:All told, Monday’s actions will reduce Uber’s costs by over $1 billion a year, the company said. Somehow that still wouldn't be enough to make the company profitable! 
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Im surprised Uber has any employees, I thought everyone was a "contractor" amd that extended to the lovely web bros coding the app
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luxury handset posted:uber has to have salaried employees, how else could they justify setting up segregated bathrooms for the full timers and the contractors? Holy poo poo
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Not to revive an old post to be an rear end in a top hat or anything, but I just came across numbers for this:evilweasel posted:Grub hub is profitable because it’s just a middleman and doesn’t deliver food itself. I was just digging through articles and found that Grubhub operated at a loss last year. You do seem to follow financial stuff more closely than I, so I am fully prepared to be reading this incorrectly.
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Just loving Extend the Monorail ... you wankers.
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Konstantin posted:Vegas also built a monorail on the strip, although it doesn't go to the airport. It isn't used much because the casinos hide the stations, they obviously don't want people to leave. If you aren't familiar with it in ends up being a big search for the monorail station, followed by a brief ride, then a 10 minute walk from the monorail station to wherever you actually want to go. They didn't even bother to build a station at the new NFL stadium. Vegas politics is as corrupt as hell, local taxi companies blocked the extension to the airport. Also, it seems, pressured the casinos to do as you say.
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Boot and Rally posted:Not to revive an old post to be an rear end in a top hat or anything, but I just came across numbers for this:
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Last week they were trying to make an all-stock offer for GrubHub. I think they're getting desperate to head off the inevitable.\ So we’re not going to see profits for at least two thousand years. Got it.
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Platystemon posted:So we’re not going to see profits for at least two thousand years. Got it. https://twitter.com/badecontakes/status/1262465781599580160?s=21
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Cicero posted:I think GrubHub used to be just a middleman, but now are trying to be more like UberEats/DoorDash? Now that I am reading through it, they did make money in 2018. The ratio of revenue to operations and also sales costs is going down, which I guess is good. All of their income appears to be eaten up by Technology (exclusive of amortization), General and administrative, Depreciation and amortization. I dunno how General and administrative is different from "Operations and support".
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